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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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LITTLE FOLKS
No author listed.
Stock no. 588153
Published by Cassell & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1889. Fair condition.

Large format. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Picture to front cover shows a mother and young girl walking on a path. First rhyme is 'Up a Tree'. Cover edges are a bit worn. Frontis and prelims are missing, other plates are present. Tape to front and rear pastedowns. Some page browning and small margin tears.

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BINGO AND BABS
Written by Alan Wright. Illustrated by Alan Wright.
Stock no. 588165
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1921. Very good condition.

A Picture Story. With 12 colour plates and other illustrations by Wright. Large format. Pale blue cloth spine, with grey boards, dark title to top of front cover and colour pictorial onlay. Some grubby brown marks to covers. Inscription in ink in belongs to box. Browning and foxing to endpapers and some to pages throughout book.

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CHILDREN'S PLEASURES
Written by Anthony Burton.
Stock no. 588107
Published by V. & A. Publications. 1st 1996. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Books, Toys and Games From the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood. Red boards, blue metalic title to spine. Illustrations and photographs. ISBN: 1851771743. Pictorial wrapper has some creasing to it.

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FRIENDLY MATCHES
Written by Allan Ahlberg. Illustrated by Fritz Wegner.
Stock no. 737796
Published by Viking. 1st 2001. Fine condition.

A book of poems about school football matches. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations to text. ISBN: 0670889938. Tiny nick to side of spine else a fine copy.

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FRIENDLY MATCHES
Written by Allan Ahlberg. Illustrated by Fritz Wegner.
Stock no. 737797
Published by Viking. 2001. Fine condition.

Uncorrected proof with green cardwraps. B/w text illustrations. 86 pages. Tiny bump to top of spine. Contents fine. Full colour front/back cover loosely laid in.

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PAM'S SECRET-HOUSE
Written by Natalie Joan. Illustrated by S.B. Pearse.
Stock no. 587891
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1927. Almost very good condition.

Paperboards, colour pictorial onlay. Colour illustrations of Pam and her dollies. Colour pictorial endpapers. Small format. 0.5" missing from top and bottom of backstrip. Corners rubbed. Contents very good.

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THE SCOUTER 1951
No author listed.
Stock no. 587808
Published by The Boy Scouts Association. 1951. Very good condition.

Vol 45. Large format. Green cloth. B/w photos. Contents near fine. Corners bumped and rubbed.

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BOBBY BEAR'S ANNUAL 1931
Written by Kitsie Bridges. Illustrated by Meg.
Stock no. 587773
Published by Daily Herald. 1931. Slightly better than good condition.

Thin pictorial card wraps. 64 pages. Two tone and b/w illustrations. Painting competition coloured in. Crossword has a few entries.

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OUT OF TOWN
Written by F.E. Weatherly. Illustrated by Linnie Watt.
Stock no. 737615
Published by Hildesheimer & Faulkner. Circa 1907. Almost very good condition.

Green pictorial boards with green cloth spine. Delightful chromolithograph illustrations to almost every page. 64 pages. 9 x 7". Spine bumped, corners worn. Covers a little scratched. Inscription in ink to top margin of half-title page. Front free endpaper missing. Light foxing and fingering to contents. One page has a small ink mark to margin.

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