NISTER'S HOLIDAY ANNUAL 1903
Written by Alfred J. Fuller; Clifton Bingham; L.L. Weedon; et al. Illustrated by E. Stuart Hardy; K Street.
Stock no. 1404714
Published by Ernest Nister; E.P. Dutton & Co.. 1903. Slightly better than good condition.

Grey cloth with pictorial front board showing children walking on stepping stones. Colour and b/w plates.First story is Our Pantomime by L.L. Weedon. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Board edges rubbed. Covers grubby and marked. Front joint cracked showing webbing below. Inscription in ink and previous owners address label to front pastedown. Name and address in ink (name has been crossed out and written in again) to front endpaper. Small tape mark to top of front endpaper. Hinges beginning to crack. Foxing and some marks throughout book. Plates all present but are foxed at margins. Some small margin tears.

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NISTER'S HOLIDAY ANNUAL FOR 1899
Written by George Manville Fenn; Alfred J. Fuller; L.L. Weedon. Illustrated by Ernest Nister; Edith Taylor; et al..
Stock no. 1404712
Published by Ernest Nister; E.P. Dutton & Co.. 1899. Good condition.

Brown pictorial spine with pictorial front board showing three children and a bike. Pictorial endpapers. 6 colour plates. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Board edges rubbed. Scratches and marks to covers. Previous owners address label to front pastedown. Small strip of browned tape to top of front endpaper. Joints and several hinges cracked. One gathering of pages loose. Half title page detached, frontis partially detached. Tears to inner margins of some pages. Some closed tears mended with tape which has now browned. Page edges browned. Some marks to margins. 3 colour plates missing

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TIMMY AND HIS FRIENDS
No author listed. Illustrated by G.D. Rowlandson.
Stock no. 1505156
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. circa 1920. Almost very good condition.

Small oblong format. Green cloth spine. Cream paper boards. Colour and b/w illustrations of Timmy and his puppy friends. Warne's Cosy Corner series. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers browned, grubby and rubbed in places. A few hinges cracked. Some grubby fingermarks to prelims. Light foxing to contents but otherwise generally clean.

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CYMBELINE AND OTHER STORIES
Written by E. Nesbit; Hugh Chesson. Illustrated by Frances Brundage; M. Bowley.
Stock no. 1404705
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons. Almost very good condition.

"The Gem Shakespeare Library". Light brown paper boards, colour onlay to front board. Colour frontis plate, b/w text illustrations. Includes three shakespeare stories: "Cymbeline", "All's Well That Ends Well" and "Much Ado About Nothing". 64 pages. 6.5 x 4.5". Spine and corners bumped and worn. Spine browned. Couple of small pencil marks to rear cover. Covers a little grubby. Couple of hinges a little cracked. Foxing to endpapers otherwise contents generally clean.

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THE BIG BOOK OF FABLES
Written by Walter Jerrold. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 1505140
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1912. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Red cloth with super gilt titles and vignettes of animals to front cover and spine. Green pictorial endpapers. 28 colour plates plus numerous b/w text illustrations. 293 pages. Spine bumped and faded with a little wear, spine feels stiff so possibly some glue applied to verso. Corners worn, lower front corner bumped. 1.5" abrasion to rear cover with slight loss of cloth. A few other small marks to covers. Joints cracked, showing webbing. Name in ink to half-title page. Light foxing to endpapers, prelims and a few fox spots throughout. A few marks to contents but generally clean. All plates present.

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NISTER'S HOLIDAY ANNUAL - 26TH YEAR
Written by Alfred C. Playne; M.A. Hoyer; et al. Illustrated by Rosa C. Petherick; Dora McLaren; E. Stuart Hardy; et al..
Stock no. 1404699
Published by Ernest Nister. 1913. Slightly better than good condition.

Green cloth with gilt titles to front and spine and pictorial onlay to front. Full page colour illustrations and b/w illustrations throughout. First story 'When daddy's ship came home' by L.L.Weedon. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Some marks to covers. Half of pictorial onlay on front missing. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Rear joint and some hinges beginning to crack. A few tears to inner margins and a couple to page edges. Foxing and some marks to contents.

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HERE COME THE TWINS
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Eileen Soper.
Stock no. 1315160
Published by The Brockhampton Press Ltd.. 1st 1953. Very good condition.

'Little' Books series No. 13. Small format. Pictorial card wraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. Covers edge rubbed. Staples rusty. Name in ink and in inscription in ink to top margin of title-page. Pale page browning else contents clean.

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NODDY GOES TO TOYLAND
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Beek.
Stock no. 1404689
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1949. Slightly better than good condition in a good dustwrapper.

The very first Noddy book, in which Big-Ears discovers the little nodding man who has run away from Old Man Carver and takes him back to Toyland. Red pictorial covers with rounded spine. 61 pages. 7.5 x 5.5". Spine and corners bumped and worn. Rear spine split almost from top to bottom. Small split to front. Top of front corner creased. Board edges grubby. Some hinges cracked. Name in belongs to box. Foxing and some marks throughout. Text block edges grubby. Dustwrapper is edge worn, creased and torn. Areas of loss to top and bottom of spine and to top of front panel and bottom of rear panel. Wrapper is grubby.

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THE HIDDEN YEARS
Written by John Oxenham. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant.
Stock no. 1404686
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1st 1931. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth, gilt title to spine. 14 colour plates. Stories of Jesus. A little bumping to spine and corners. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Browning to endpapers. Foxing throughout mostly to margins, including plate margins. Brown mark to top of pages 240/241 where possibly something has been pressed. Contents otherwise generally clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with some small tears. Wrapper is grubby and foxed.

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THE AFFECTIONATE PARENT'S GIFT
Written by Henry Sharpe Horsley.
Stock no. 1315143
Published by Thomas Kelly. 1st 1827. Good condition.

Small format. 3/4 leather binding with gilt title and vignettes to spine, marble-effect boards. Containing a Series of Poems and Essays on Natural, Moral and Religious Subjects... To Which is Prefixed and Affectionate Address on the Duties and Obligations They Owe to God and Their Parents. Illustrated with upwards of 150 b/w engravings. xxxviii + 224 pages; 192 pages + 3 page plate list plus 1 page booklist. This is volume 1 only, volume 2 is "The Good Child's Reward". Spine and corners worn. Covers are very scuffed. Joints are cracked but binding is firm. Some page browning, grubby fingermarks and light foxing.

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ADVENTURE ON THE MOON
Written by Nina Carroll. Illustrated by Nina Carroll.
Stock no. 2118564
Published by Hutchinson's Books for Young People. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Written & illustrated by 12-year-old Nina Carroll. 6 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. Blue cloth boards with blue title to front. Cup ring stain to front cover. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and a few page margins. Wrapper is edge-torn and chipped, with a few bits of loss; creased and grubby.

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CHILDHOOD A COLLINS ANTHOLOGY
Written by Penelope Hughes-Hallett; et al.
Stock no. 2118548
Published by Collins. 1st 1988. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Through her skilful choice of extracts, from memoirs and letters to poems that echo through the generations, the author draws us into the child's own vision of things, be it the humble pleasures of travelling by pram or the more stately progress of the young Queen Victoria. Green boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0002177951. Wrapper is faded to spine, with some light edge-creasing and small nick to one corner.

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