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CUBBY IN MOTHER BROWN'S PANTRY
Written by Thornton W. Burgess. Illustrated by Nina R. Jordan.
Stock no. 1313798
Published by Whitman Publishing Company. circa 1929. Almost very good condition.

A Cubby Bear story. Small oblong format (4.5 x 5"). Pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Covers are edge worn and rubbed. Light foxing and page browning else contents clean.

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A FRIGHTENED BABY
Written by Thornton W. Burgess. Illustrated by Nina R. Jordan.
Stock no. 1313797
Published by Whitman Publishing Company. circa 1929. Very good condition.

A Cubby Bear story. Small oblong format (4.5 x 5"). Pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Covers are edge worn and just a little grubby. Light foxing to contents.

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TWENTY TEATIME TALES
Written by Rose Fyleman.
Stock no. 1712879
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1929. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A selection of 20 short stories of fun, fantasy and fact. Small format. Beige cloth with black titles and decoration to front cover. 135 pages. Foxing to prelims and outer page edges. Wrapper has 1" damp mark to base of spine and some foxing and generally grubby to rear panel.

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DO LOOK OUT, NODDY!
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Robert Lee; Robert Tyndall.
Stock no. 1313739
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.; Dennis Dobson Ltd.. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red pictorial boards. Colour illustrations and pictorial endpapers. Noddy Book 15. Spine bumped, spine and corners rubbed. Inscription in ink (blue biro) to front pastedown. Name and date in biro to belongs to box and rear endpaper. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn, price-cut with new price printed beside, this is the last title listed on rear flap.

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THE CHIVALROUS FIFTH
Written by Christine Chaundler. Illustrated by Anne Rochester.
Stock no. 1606208
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Jane's mother kept a secondhand shop. Some of the form decided that this must not be held against Jane, but not everyone in the school agreed with them. Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 192 pages. Spine and board edges bumped, some darkening at edges. Endpapers browned. price-cut wrapper is edge chipped with areas of loss, especially to top of front panel and spine.

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UNOWNED
Written by Elizabeth Kew.
Stock no. 1403002
Published by The Epworth Press. 1st 1930. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Green cloth with black titles to front and spine and black wreath vignette to front. Colour frontis. 268 pages. Spine and corners a little bumped and rubbed. Light browning to bottom of boards. Small booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Foxing throughout, especially to page edges. Dustwrapper is torn with several small areas of loss. Panels and spine are grubby. Front flap is price cut.

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THE GIRLS OF ST. BRIDE'S
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Illustrated by Henry Coller.
Stock no. 1503316
Published by Girls Gone By. 1st thus 2002. Fine condition.

Complete and unabridged. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour frontis, 4 b/w illustrations. 222 pages. ISBN: 1904417019. Light score mark to front cover. A nice copy.

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MRS FLANNAGAN'S TRUMPET
Written by Catherine Cookson. Illustrated by Margery Gill.
Stock no. 1402982
Published by Macdonald and Jane's. 1st 1976. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Eddie Morley and his sister Penny go to live with their 'Gran Flan'. Eddie becomes caught up in strange happenings and learns alot about the inhabitants of the house. Pale green boards with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 144 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Slight bump to bottom of front board. Name in ink to top of front endpaper. Slight crease to top of first two pages. A few light foxspots to page edges otherwise contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edgeworn with a little chipping and a couple of tears. White label to verso to cover a tear.

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DEMON ISLAND
Written by Cecil R. Baldock. Illustrated by W. Bryce Hamilton.
Stock no. 1402968
Published by George Newnes Limited. 1st 1946. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

The Bannister twins know how to look after themselves and they need all their resourcefulness when they are kidnapped and taken to Demon Island . Light brown boards, black titles. B/w illustrations. Tower House Series. 128 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Board edges browned. Crease to bottom of first few pages. A little foxing to page edges. Dustwrapper is edge worn and creased with some tears, Patch of surface paper damage to front panel. Wrapper is grubby.

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FAL THE DRAGON HARPER
Written by Peter Patterson. Illustrated by Johannes Steuck.
Stock no. 1809621
Published by The Hawthorn Press. 1st 1992. Nearly fine condition.

An adventure story, a magical tale, a fantasy and a metaphor for life. Cardwraps. B/w chapter footers. ISBN: 1869890434. Corners lightly rubbed. Text block slightly grubby. Contents fine.

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A DOZEN DINOSAURS
Written by Richard Armour. Illustrated by Paul Galdone.
Stock no. 1809615
Published by World's Work. 1975. Very good condition.

Dinosaurs in verse. Glazed boards. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0437240010. Minor grubby marks to boards. Name in pencil to front pastedown. A few marks to contents but generally clean.

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THE MOUSEWIFE
Written by Rumer Godden. Illustrated by William Pene Du Bois.
Stock no. 1313728
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, red vignette of mouse and title to front. Superb b/w text illustrations throughout. 37 numbered pages. 9 x 6.5". Ink school stamps to pastedowns and to title-page. Endpapers lightly browned. Light musty smell to contents. Dustwrapper is price-cut by publisher (with new price printed above), is slightly edge rubbed with small chip to top of spine.

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