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TOBY AT TIBBS CROSS
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Illustrated by Margaret Horder.
Stock no. 1318096
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1944. Very good condition.

Cream cloth with green title to spine and vignette to front cover. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 192 pages. An exciting story with a background of farm life in wartime. Spine and corners bumped with a small nick to top of spine. A few light marks to rear cover. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Pale foxing and some light page edge browning.

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SIMPLE SUSAN
Written by Maria Edgeworth; Louey Chisholm. Illustrated by Olive Allen.
Stock no. 1318091
Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack. Good condition.

Retold by Louey Chisholm. "Told to the Children" series edited by Louey Chisholm. Yellow boards, pictorial onlay to front. 8 colour plates. 111 pages plus 4 page booklist to rear. 5.75 x 4.75". Covers are worn and grubby. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Some page have been roughly opened causing ragged page edges. Light page browning and some grubby fingermarks to contents.

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THE VICAR OF NIBBLESWICKE
Written by Roald Dahl. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stock no. 1318085
Published by Century Publishing. Circa 1991. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Written in the last months of Dahl's life for the benefit of The Dyslexia Institute. Blue boards with gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w illustrations to text. ISBN: 071265013X. Minimal bumping/rubbing to spine and corners. Minmal rubbing to edges of dustwrapper. 3rd printing.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1974
No author listed. Illustrated by Alex Cubie.
Stock no. 1318084
Published by Daily Express. 1974. Very good condition.

Pictorial laminated boards - Rupert in the snow holding a chick made of snow. 1st story Rupert and the Iron Spade. The first cover design and endpapers by Alex Cubie. Spine and corners slightly bumped. No names, NOT price-cut. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins. A couple of small tears at inner margins. One page has creases to top corner.

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A FIDDLER FOR THE ABBEY
Written by Elsie J. Oxenham. Illustrated by Margaret Horder.
Stock no. 1318082
Published by Frederick Muller Ltd.. 1st 1948. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A story about the Hamlet Club and Abbey friends. Brown cloth, light blue title to spine. B/w illustrations. 200 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Small dent to lower edge of front cover. Name in biro and crayon to front pastedown. A few small brown spots to textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly edge chipped and a little grubby and foxed.

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THE SCHOOL IN THE WOODS
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Illustrated by G.M. Anson.
Stock no. 1318081
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1st 1940. Good condition.

Cream cloth, blue title and vignette to spine and blue vignette to front cover. Colour frontis plate plus 5 b/w illustrations. 256 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Covers slightly grubby. Spine browned. Front free-endpaper has been removed. Light foxing to contents. A couple of hinges are cracked. Inscription in ink to verso of frontis.

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THE STORY OF HIAWATHA
Written by Edith L. Elias. Illustrated by Willy Pogany.
Stock no. 1318077
Published by George G. Harrap & Co.. 1st 1914. Very good condition.

Small format, pictorial boards. Fold-out panorama with 14 colour illustrations including 2 double-page. Pictures one side, text the other. Most unusual. Covers are grubby, name in ink to front. Corners worn and edges rubbed. Some marks to contents. Some foxing and light fingering.

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MARGARET'S BOOK
Written by H. Fielding-Hall; Alfred H. Miles. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 1318046
Published by Hutchinson & Co.. 1st 1913. Good condition.

Red cloth, elaborate gilt decorations. All edges gilt, 12 mounted colour plates with tissue-guards & numerous b/w/ illustrations. 283 pages. Pale blue illustrated endpapers. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Spine and cover edges faded. Some small marks to covers. Inscription in ink and a blank name-plate to verso of frontis page. Heavy foxing to contents and some light fingermarks to page margins.

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RED SNOW AND OTHER PARABLES FROM NATURE
Written by Mrs. Alfred Gatty.
Stock no. 1318038
Published by Bell and Daldy. 1862. Good condition.

Third Series. Small format (5 x 3.5"). Blue embossed cloth with gilt title to front cover. 187 pages plus publication list to rear. B/w plates. Covers are grubby, worn at spine and corners. Joints cracked. Textblock is a little grubby.

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THE DAISY; OR, CAUTIONARY STORIES IN VERSE
Written by Elizabeth Turner.
Stock no. 1318037
Published by John Harris. Circa 1900. Good condition.

Small format, 5 x 3.75". Cardwraps. 30 b/w engravings on wood. 66 pages plus publication list. Facsimile of 1807 edition. Adverts to rear of the book dated 1899-1900. Covers are grubby and edge worn. Tiny booksellers sticker inside front cover. Front joint is reparied with white paper. Contents are browned. Contained in custom made blue cloth covered box.

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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY AND BLUE BEARD
Written by Walter Crane. Illustrated by Walter Crane.
Stock no. 1318036
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1914. Almost very good condition.

Small format, 14 x 11cm. Grey/green pictorial boards. Full-page colour plates. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Covers a bit grubby. A couple of hinges are slightly cracked. A few small foxspots else contents clean.

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IN ARCADY
Written by F.E. Weatherly. Illustrated by Harriett M. Bennett.
Stock no. 1318035
Published by Hildesheimer & Faulkner. Very good condition.

Small format (5 x 4"). White pictorial cardwraps. Chromolithograph illustrations. All edges gilt. Covers slightly grubby. Some light page browning/foxing else contents clean. Tiny booksellers sticker to inside front cover.

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