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MY COLOURED PICTURE STORY BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 737965
Published by The Religious Tract Society. 1st 1884. Good condition.

Large format. Grey pictorial cloth with gilt title blocks. Floral decorated endpapers. 64 coloured plates and vignettes. The colour plates have plain paper guards. Spine and corners worn with slight fraying of cloth. Covers a little grubby and darkened. Joints have been repaired with magic tape. Inscription in ink to verso of front free-endpaper. One plate has a large closed tear to lower margin. One hinge is cracked. Contents have grubby fingermarks to page margins but plates are still bright. A nice copy of this rare antiquarian children's book.

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FUR COATS AND FEATHER FROCKS
Written by Clifton Bingham; Edith E. Cuthell; Edric Vredenburg; et al. Illustrated by W. Foster; et al..
Stock no. 737967
Published by Ernest Nister. 1st 1892. Very good condition.

Contains short stories and verse about animals. De-Luxe Edition with red pictorial cloth and gilt title to front cover. 24 chromolithograph plates, b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Covers ever so slightly grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing to contents, mainly to margins and some grubby fingermarks but generally contents are clean.

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THE GIRLS' BOOK OF SPORTS
Written by Winifred Norling; et al.
Stock no. 588343
Published by Birn Brothers Ltd.. Very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine. Colour pictorial front board shows girl and puppy. B/w illustrations. First story Christmas At Conifers. Most of the b/w illustrations have been neatly coloured in.

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THE TIP TOP BOOK 1952
No author listed.
Stock no. 588345
Published by The Amalgamated Press. 1952. Slightly better than good condition.

Large format. Red cloth spine. Colour pictorial front board shows Red Indians and Cavalry soldier. Colour frontis. Two-tone illustrations. Corners worn. Endpapers foxed. One hinge split.

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THE MODERN WORLD BOOK OF HOBBIES
No author listed.
Stock no. 588346
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine. Pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. Corners worn.

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THE RETURN OF ARAMINTA
Written by Margaret Ryder.
Stock no. 588284
Published by The Regensteiner Corporation. Circa 1926. Slightly better than very good condition.

Colour pictorial paperwraps. Colour and blue-and-white illustrations. Araminta is a doll.

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WINGS AND STINGS
Written by A.L.O.E..
Stock no. 588285
Published by T. Nelson & Sons. 1875. Very good condition.

Red decorative cloth, gilt title blocks. Colour frontis. 6 b/w plates. A Tale For The Young. Endpapers lightly foxed. Corners bumped and rubbed.

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HONEYMAID AND OTHER POEMS
Written by F.E. Weatherly. Illustrated by St. Clair Simmons.
Stock no. 588286
Published by Hildesheimer & Faulkner. Very good condition.

Brown pictorial stiff card covers. Sepia illustrations. Verses. Corners lightly rubbed. Number in ink to front cover. Contents nice and bright. Not dated but 19th century.

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SUNSHINE POEMS
Written by Florence Coombs.
Stock no. 588298
Published by A. Wheaton & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1938. Very good condition.

Light brown pictorial card wraps. Two-tone illustrations. Poetry for children. White label and inscription in ink on inside of front cover.

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UNDER DRAKE'S FLAG
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by Gordon Browne.
Stock no. 737867
Published by Blackie & Son. Good condition.

A tale of the Spanish Main. Green pictorial cloth with gilt titles and bevelled edges. 12 b/w plates. 368 pages, 32 page booklist to rear. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Illustration to front cover rubbed, and title/decoration to spine rubbed away. Slight loss to top corner of front pastedown. Small repaired tear to lower margin of title-page. Contents foxed and fingered but generally clean.

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SONGS FOR YOUTH
Written by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by Leo Bates.
Stock no. 737879
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Almost very good condition.

From collected verse by Kipling. Red cloth, black titles. 243 pages. 8 tipped-in colour plates. Spine and corners bumped. Spine and cover edges faded. Small dent to lower edge of front cover. Endpapers lightly browned. Light foxing to contents. Lower 2" of front joint may have been nibbled by bookworm(?), rear joint just a little cracked. Contents generally clean.

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THE 'AFTER YOU' STORY BOOK
Written by Agnes Grozier Herbertson; Fay Inchfawn; et al. Illustrated by H.G.C. Marsh Lambert; Hilda Cowham; W. Heath Robinson; et al..
Stock no. 588143
Published by Ward Lock & Co Ltd.. 1st 1921. Good condition.

One of a series of four story books, each with 6 colour plates and scores of illustrations. This one has very pretty pictorial boards showing a little boy peeping from behind a tree at a little girl sitting eating an apple. Pictorial endpapers by W. Heath Robinson. Front endpaper shows characters from fairy tales, rear endpaper characters from nursery rhymes. Red cloth spine with black titles. 10x8". Spine is a little grubby. A few scuff marks to covers. Corners are bumped and worn. Foxing to outer page edges. A few closed margin tears. One hinge pulled. Five of six colour plates missing. 4 b/w illustrations have been coloured in.

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