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BROOMSTICKS AND OTHER TALES
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Bold.
Stock no. 2140154
Published by Constable and Company Ltd.. 1st 1925. Very good condition.

Cream/beige cloth spine with title label and gilt titles. Grey boards. Limited edition to 278 Numbered and Signed copies. B/w woodcuts. SIGNED by author to verso of half-title page. This is Copy No. 51.Spine is browned and worn. Title block is a bit faded and worn. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.

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THE LORD FISH
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Rex Whistler.
Stock no. 2140153
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1933. Almost very good condition.

Contains: The Lord Fish, A Penny A Day, The Jacket, Dick and the Beanstalk, Hodmadod, The old Lion, Sambo and the Snow Mountains. Purple cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. 4 full-page b/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; some scuffing. Brown marks to covers. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing and browning to outer pages edges.

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THE STORY OF BABAR THE LITTLE ELEPHANT
Written by Jean De Brunhoff; Merle S. Haas. Illustrated by Jean De Brunhoff.
Stock no. 2140116
Published by Random House Children'S Books. 1st thus 2002. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Glazed pictorial boards. Babar with signboard. Orange pictorial boards with blue spine. Large format. Translated from the French by Haas. Colour illustrations. Type-text (not original handwriting style). ISBN: 9780394805757. Wrapper is edge-creased with one small tear to top of front panel.

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ZLATEH THE GOAT AND OTHER STORIES
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 2140115
Published by Longman Young Books. 1st UK 1970. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

"The seven tales in this book had their beginnings in middle-European Jewish folklore and legend...". Brown cloth with gilt title to spine and decoration to front cover. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0582155231. Light bumping and wear to spine and corners. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing and browning to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is creased with edge-tears and chips; foxing and marks; a little loss.

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SARAH'S ROOM
Written by Doris Orgel. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 2140113
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A pocket-sized picture book with delicate drawings by Sendak and rhyming text. Yellow pictorial boards. ISBN: 0370011384. Bookplate to front pastedown. Wrapper is faded and worn to spine; large stain to front panel and front flap; some white tape repairs to verso.

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DEAR MILI
Written by Wilhelm Grimm. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 2140110
Published by Viking Kestrel. 1st thus 1988. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A previously unknown tale discovered in 1983. The story of Mili who is sent into the forest by her mother to save her from a terrible war. She is given shelter by an old man and serves him faithfully for what she thinks are three days but are in fact thirty years. Large oblong format. Grey cloth with gilt title to spine and embossed vignette to front cover. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0670801682. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Slight odour to book. Wrapper is edge-creased with some grubby marks - pen to rear panel.

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WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH A SHOE?
Written by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 2140108
Published by Margaret K. Mcelderry Books. 1st USA 1997. Very good condition.

Questions and wonderfully silly, laugh provoking answers in a game played by a little girl and boy. White pictorial boards with cloth spine. Oblong format 11.25 x 6". Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0689812310. Spine is a bit faded. Marks and foxing to covers. Foxing to outer page edges.

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BABAR'S FAIR
Written by Laurent De Brunhoff; Olive Jones.
Stock no. 2140106
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1969. Very good condition.

First published under the title 'La Fete de Celesteville'. Translated from French by Jones. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0416933807. Some small nicks and wear to spine and corners. Musty odour to book.

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BABAR LOSES HIS CROWN
Written by Laurent De Brunhoff. Illustrated by Laurent De Brunhoff.
Stock no. 2140102
Published by Collins and Harvill. 1st 1968. Almost very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Beginner Books Series. Colour illustrations throughout. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Fading to spine. Small yellow glue sticker mark to front cover. Front endpaper has 1-2" tear to base next to spine, front endpaper is also creased. Page edge browning.

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BABAR'S CHILDHOOD
Written by Jean De Brunhoff. Illustrated by Jean De Brunhoff.
Stock no. 2140100
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1969. Very good condition.

Little Babar Books. Pictorial boards. Colour pictures. ISBN: 0416034209. Bumping to spine and corners; some wear. Browning to outer page edges; some page corner creases.

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BABAR'S CORONATION
Written by Jean De Brunhoff.
Stock no. 2140099
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1969. Very good condition.

Little Babar Books 3. Yellow spine and rear cover. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0416034403. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Light creasing to a few pages.

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THE PRINCESS OF THE CHALET SCHOOL
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer.
Stock no. 2140079
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title and stripes to spine. 304 pages. Spine is faded. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and wrapper flaps. Grubby marks and more foxing to rear panel of wrapper, which also has some nicks and chips

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