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TICK TICK
No author listed. Illustrated by H.G.C. Marsh.
Stock no. 1322240
Published by Dean's Rag Book Co. Ltd.. Circa 1914. Good condition.

Rag Book no. 174. 12 cloth pages with colour illustrations. Clock to front has metal hands. Covers and pages are grubby. Metal clock hands although stiff and rusty do still turn. A good copy of a rare rag book.

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A SONG OF THE ENGLISH
Written by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1322239
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1915. Very good condition.

Published for the Daily Telegraph by Hodder & Stoughton. Large format. Cream cloth with dark blue titles and vignettes. 16 tipped-in colour plates mounted on brown stiff paper with decorative border. 11 x 8.5". Covers slightly grubby and spine lightly browned. Endpapers lightly browned and foxed. A few foxspots to textblock. Plates fine.

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TITUS IN TROUBLE
Written by James Reeves. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Stock no. 1322237
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1959. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial paper boards with yellow spine. Colour illustrations throughout. 48 pages. Covers are edge worn and slightly foxed, small splits to top and tail of spine. Some foxing to contents.

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CHRISTOPHER'S RAINY DAY BOOK
Written by Merula Salaman. Illustrated by Merula Salaman.
Stock no. 1322232
Published by Pleiades Books Ltd.. 1st 1945. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Oblong format. Red cloth spine, white pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations accompany text. Slight wear to corners. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge chipped and torn with tape repairs on verso and also a bit grubby.

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THE OTHER SIDE
Written by G.G. Desmond. Illustrated by Percy Billinghurst.
Stock no. 1322220
Published by Grant Richards. 1st 1903. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial board. 4 Colour plates and other b/w illustrations. 196 pages, top edge gilt. Spine and corners bumped. Some grubby marks to front cover. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Endpapers foxed and browned. Some fingermarks to page margins. A few leaves have been roughly opened causing some slight ragged edges.

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THE PROWLERS
Written by F. St. Mars. Illustrated by Warwick Reynolds.
Stock no. 1322219
Published by James Nisbet & Co. Ltd.. 1913. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt titles and vignette. 8 tissue-guarded, mounted plates. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Some light marks to covers. Front joint is starting to crack. Heavy foxing to contents.

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THE OLD CHIMNEY CORNER
No author listed.
Stock no. 1322217
Published by Renwick of Otley. Very good condition.

Pictorial paperwraps. Colour and b/w illustrations, including a colour double-spread to centre pages. 10 pages. Rear cover is slightly grubby. Light page browning else contents clean.

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KITCHEN CAPERS
No author listed. Illustrated by Jeff Cook.
Stock no. 1322216
Published by Renwick of Otley. Almost very good condition.

A Walker Toy Book, Dinky Series No. 75. Pictorial paperwraps. 10 pages. Colour and b/w illustrations, including a colour double-spread to centre pages. 1" split to base of spine. Rear cover is slightly grubby. Contents are lightly browned but otherwise clean.

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JOY BELLS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1322215
Almost very good condition.

Small, thin format. Pictorial cardwraps. 4 full-page colour illustrations, two with b/w illustrations opposite the same to be coloured in. 16 pages. Covers are slightly grubby. Staples are slightly rusty. Contents lightly browned.

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AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS
Written by Gian-Carlo Menotti; Frances Frost. Illustrated by Roger Duvoisin.
Stock no. 1322213
Published by Andrew Dakers Limited. 1st 1953. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A narrative adaptation preserving the exact dialogue of the opera. A tender and beautiful Christmas story, warm and humorous about a crippled shepherd boy who entertains the Wise Men on their way to Bethlehem. Blue boards with black titles to spine and black vignettes to front cover. Colour and b/w illustrations. 86 pages. Slight wear to base of spine and light marks to cover edges. Light foxing to textblock and foxing to first few and last few pages too. Name in ink to half title-page else contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn and torn and just a little grubby.

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ANIMAL STORIES
Written by Walter De La Mare.
Stock no. 1322207
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd.. 1st 1939. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A selection of stories and rhymes chosen, arranged and in some part rewritten by Mare. Red decorated cloth with gilt title and vignette to spine. B/w text illustrations. 420 pages. Spine bumped. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn and grubby, browned to spine with some loss at top of spine.

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JANE LEAVES THE WELLS
Written by Lorna Hill. Illustrated by Eve Guthrie.
Stock no. 1322162
Published by Evans Brothers Limited. 1st 1953. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

The fifth story in the Sadler's Wells ballet series. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Covers damp spotted. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is edge chipped with slight loss to top and tail of spine, rear panel is a bit grubby and browned.

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