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TRADING AND TRAVELLING
Written by E.H. Dance. Illustrated by C.F.G. Viner; H.A. Bennett.
Stock no. 1709658
Published by Longman. 1965. Very good condition.

Man's Heritage Series. Card wraps. B/w illustrations. 60 pages. Spine faded. Name in ink to first page.

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MERRY MOMENTS PICTURE BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by H.G.C. Marsh Lambert.
Stock no. 1501870
Published by Ward Lock & Co Ltd.. Very good condition.

A Rainbow Picture Book. Pictorial front board shows small boy playing with toy horse, small girl stood beside him. Tan coloured spine and rear cover. Sixteen plates in full colour and many other illustrations. A few rhymes and lines of text. Spine, corners and cover edges bumped and worn. Grubby marks to rear cover. Front cover lightly scuffed. Endpapers browned. Both hinges just starting to crack at towards top. One hinge cracked. A few marks and a little foxing but contents generally clean.

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TEDDY EDWARD GOES ON A PICNIC
Written by Patrick Matthews; Mollie Matthews.
Stock no. 1501869
Published by Purnell. Very good condition.

Green glazed pictorial boards. Colour photos of the cute bear and his friends. ISBN: 0361026331. Spine bumped, heavily at top. A few small indentations to covers. Contents clean. A nice copy.

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THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT
Written by A.E. Bonser; Sidney Woolf; E.S. Bucheim. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1311334
Published by Cassell & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1907. Fair condition.

A collection of stories and illustrations which originally appeared in "Little Folks" between 1896 and 1902, during which period most of the numbers of the magazine contained some of Rackham's drawings. 36 tinted line-drawn plates and text illustrations. Green cloth gilt titles and decoration to front cover. 144 pages. 11 x 8.5". One of the more unusual Rackham items. Spine bumped, worn and browned. Covers are bowed and discoloured, rubbing to rear cover. Light spotting and page browning with some light fingering but generally contents clean.

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THE EVERYDAY FAIRY BOOK
Written by Anna Alice Chapin. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
Stock no. 1311333
Published by J. Coker & Co. Ltd.. circa 1929. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth spine, black title. Pictorial front board showing little boy peeping behind a curtain into a christmas scene. 7 colour plates. 159 pages. 11.5 x 8.5". Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to contents else clean. Dustwrapper is grubby and edge worn/torn with slight loss to top of spine.

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TINKER THE STORY OF A PUPPY
No author listed.
Stock no. 1501867
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. circa 1948. Very good condition.

A Tuck Book. Oblong format. Pictorial stiff card covers. 10 full page colour illustrations and 4 pages of text. Corners are bumped, bottom corners of pages are creased. Wear to spine and corners. Covers grubby with a few small marks. Ink inscription to inside of front cover. Staples are rusty. Contents very good.

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FUNNY PECULIAR
Written by Barbara Sleigh. Illustrated by Jennie Garratt.
Stock no. 1311317
Published by David & Charles. 1st 1975. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Tales of weird and wonderful beings and happenings. Purple boards, gilt title to spine. 176 pages. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0715368168. Spine slightly bumped. Some pale foxing and page edge browning else contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is very slightly edge rubbed and has a small mark to top corner of rear panel.

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RIP VAN WINKLE
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by Julian Wehr.
Stock no. 1501858
Published by The Pilot Press Ltd.. 1st UK 1947. Slightly better than good condition.

Blue pictorial paper boards. Spiral bound. Move the tabs and watch the characters move. Colour & b/w illustrations. Corners and cover edges worn, some scuffing and foxing. Neat name to front pastedown. Tab from first moveable has been torn off but still works. Tabs to all moveables are creased. Finally moveable is broken. A few pages have small tears or creasing to margin of bottom edge. A few fingermarks but generally clean.

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THE CAPTAIN, OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
Written by T. Payten Gunton. Illustrated by L Thorpe.
Stock no. 1501856
Published by The Grant Educational Co. Ltd.. 1952. Slightly better than good condition.

Adventures in Animal Land series. Blue cloth covers with yellow titles and large vignette of frog in Captain's outfit on front cover. Colour plates and b/w text illustrations. 214 pages. Ex-lib with stamps etc. and ticket pocket on front endpaper. Fraying to cloth around edges of covers. Spine worn, covers a little grubby. Small ink numbers stamped near title. Pen mark to title page otherwise contents generally clean.

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POPCORN - THE STORY OF A NONSENSE HORSE
Written by Minka Varda.
Stock no. 1501855
Published by Faber & Faber Limited. 1st 1944. Very good condition.

The story of a vain horse called Popcorn who joins the circus. Beige cloth with blue titles to spine and large vignette to front cover. 48 pages. Colour illustrations. Some bumping to spine and corners. Covers grubby. A few fox spots, mainly to endpapers. A couple of small margin tears and grubby marks to contents.

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ACTING GAMES
Written by Freda Collins. Illustrated by Helen Jacobs; et al..
Stock no. 1311306
Published by University of London Press Ltd.. 1948. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Revised and Enlarged edition. 14 little plays for any number of children to take part. 160 pages. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. A few small foxspots to page edges. Dustwrapper is edge worn and torn, section to lower edge of front panel almost torn off.

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THE MAGIC CHESTNUT
Written by E.E. Ellsworth. Illustrated by Hilda Boswell.
Stock no. 1311293
Published by Lutterworth Press. 1st 1961. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

The Squirrel series. When Janet held the magic chestnut she could understand what the birds and animals were saying. Green boards, black title to spine. Colour frontis. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Name and address in green biro to front endpaper. Some slight surface paper damage to pastedowns else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with slight loss to top and tail of spine.

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