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FIVE ON KIRRIN ISLAND AGAIN
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Eileen Soper.
Stock no. 1325109
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Red textured boards with black title to spine. Blue and black pictorial endpapers. Two-colour and b/w illustrations. Colour frontis. Spine and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. Some light foxing and page browning else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn, grubby to white spine and rear panel, large tear across front panel has been neatly repaired on verso (so hardly noticeable on front now).

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HANS ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES
Written by Hans Christian Andersen. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1325108
Published by Constable & Co. Ltd.. 1917. Good condition.

Red cloth with black titles and vignettes. 16 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. B/w text illustrations. 288 pages. Top edge red. Spine and corners bumped. Spine faded. Covers marked. 2 plates are creased and 1 other has a tiny corner crease. Foxing to text pages and some margins of plate mounts. Tissue-guards are browned/foxed. Textblock is foxed and slightly stained at top edge.

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CAVE BABY
Written by Julia Donaldson. Illustrated by Emily Gravett.
Stock no. 1325104
Published by Macmillan Children's Books. 1st 2010. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Colour pictorial boards. Colour illustrations to every page. ISBN: 9780230743083. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is just a little edge creased and has a small nick to rear edge of spine.

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THE CREATURE CHOIR
Written by David Walliams. Illustrated by Tony Ross.
Stock no. 1325103
Published by Harper Collins Childrens Books. 1st 2019. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A delightfully wonderful story about doing what makes you happy and being loud about it! Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 9780008262198. Spine bumped. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed/creased.

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MICHAEL FOREMAN'S MOTHER GOOSE
Written by Iona Opie; Michael Foreman. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 1325102
Published by Walker Books. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Foreword by Iona Opie. Blue oblong boards with gilt title to spine. Beautiful colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0744507758. SIGNED by the artist to half title-page. Spine and corners bumped. Some light fingermarks to prelims else a clean copy. Price-cut wrapper is slightly faded to spine and ever so slightly rubbed at spine and corners.

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THE MOTOR CAR
No author listed.
Stock no. 1325101
Published by Valentine & Sons Ltd.. Good condition.

A small, shaped book. 13 pages told in verse how a group of children take a motor car. Heavy vertical crease to front cover. Covers rubbed and otherwise lightly creased. Child's name and address in heavy pencil inside front cover. Centre pages are detached but still present. Some grubby marks to pages (small ink splodge to one page).

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THE OXFORD ANNUAL FOR SCOUTS 8TH YEAR
Written by Herbert Strang; Harold Markham; Major J.T. Gorman; et al. Illustrated by K.W. Coales; Ellis Silas; Savile Lumley; et al..
Stock no. 1325097
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. Circa 1926. Good condition.

Pictorial boards, spine shows totem pole and front shows two scouts on a bouy. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations and plates. First poem is The Shining of the Sun by Markham. Covers are edge worn and a bit grubby, some fading to rear cover. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Heavy foxing to textblock. Small sticker to top margin of page 97 ("April 14 to 19. Easter. House Parties. Worthing & Bexhill").

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THE OXFORD ANNUAL FOR TINY FOLKS 23RD YEAR
Written by Mrs. Herbert Strang. Illustrated by Grace Lodge; M. Sankey; Lilian A. Govey; Molly Brett; et al..
Stock no. 1325095
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. Almost very good condition.

Light pink boards with large pictorial onlays to front cover and spine. Front onlay shows picture of a young girl with bobbed blonde hair in a pink dress. Colour frontis. B/w and three-tone text illustrations. First story is "The Middle of the Night". Spine bumped, onlay to spine worn and chipped with slight loss. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Heavy foxing.

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THE OXFORD ANNUAL FOR TINY FOLKS 17TH YEAR
Written by Mrs. Herbert Strang; et al. Illustrated by Enid Warne Browne; Lilian A. Govey; Angusine Macgregor; Florence Harrison; E. Dorothy Rees; et al..
Stock no. 1325094
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1930. Good condition.

Pictorial front board illustrated by M.D. Johnston, illustration shows three young children feeding the birds with a puppy at the feet of the children. Colour plates and illustrations, b/w text illustrations. First story is "The Orange Umbrella". Covers are edge worn, spine has splits to front edge. Inscription in ink to belongs to box. Frontis is detached but still present. Foxing to textblock and to page margins, also some slight page browning.

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BLACKIE'S BOYS' ANNUAL
Written by Richard Bird; Percy F. Westerman; et al. Illustrated by Thomas Henry; Ernest Prater; Warwick Reynolds; et al..
Stock no. 1325091
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1925. Very good condition.

Front cover shows man in a canoe going down the rapids. First story is 'All's Well' by Bird. Colour and b/w plates. Covers are slightly edge rubbed and corners slightly worn. Spine bumped. Name plate to front free-endpaper. Heavy foxing to contents. Inscription in ink to verso of frontis.

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BLACKIE'S BOYS' ANNUAL
Written by Olaf Baker; Percy F. Westerman; C. Bernard Rutley; et al. Illustrated by H.R. Millar; Alfred Sindall; Gordon Browne; et al..
Stock no. 1325090
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Cream cloth spine with black title and rugby player vignette. Front board shows cowboy on horseback. 4 colour plates. B/w text illustrations throughout. First story "Prairie Boy" by Baker. Covers are slightly edge worn. Spine a bit grubby. Name plate and small booksellers sticker to front free-endpaper. Heavy foxing to textblock and some grubby fingermarks to page margins.

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FIVE GO TO BILLYCOCK HILL
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Eileen Soper.
Stock no. 1825391
Published by Brockhampton Press. 1972. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The sixteenth book about the Famous Five in which they all become involved in peculiar happenings around their camp on Billycock Hill. Watch out for the pet pig! Red boards, black lettering, black & white pictorial endpapers. 182 pages. ISBN: 0340033657. Third Impression. Boards nice and bright. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is unusually bright, light creasing to top edge and slightly grubby to rear panel, else very clean.

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