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MR QUACK - HIS VOYAGE TO LONDON
Written by Lawson Wood. Illustrated by Lawson Wood.
Stock no. 1318034
Published by F. Warne & Co.. Pre 1919. Almost very good condition.

Roughly 4" x 4". Pictorial paperwraps. Colour and two-tone illustrations. The 'Mr' Books series. Spine split to lower half. Staples rusty. Covers just a little gubby, contents clean.

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HECTOR PROTECTOR AND AS I WENT OVER THE WATER
Written by Maurice Sendak. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 1318026
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st UK 1967. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Two nonsense nursery rhymes wonderfully illustrated by full-page colour pictures. 7.5 x 8.5". Unpaginated. ISBN: 0370007743. Spine bumped. Light page browning throughout. There is a small damp mark to textblock (but it doens't affect the actual pages). Dustwrapper is lightly browned and is grubby and edge rubbed.

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THE THREE BAD DUCKLINGS
Written by Ernest A. Aris. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris.
Stock no. 1318024
Published by S.W. Partridge & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

Small format. Boards with pictorial onlay to front cover. 8 colour plates plus some b/w text illustrations. Spinea and corners bumped and worn. Browning and foxing to contents, ink stamp of printers to rear pastedown (Bradshaw Central Printing Works).

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THE HAPPY ANNUAL
Written by Cecil Aldin; John Hassall. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin; John Hassall.
Stock no. 1318020
Published by William Heinemann. 1907. Almost very good condition.

Very large format (14 x 10"). Pictorial paperwraps showing Miss Muffet with cobweb and spider. Colour illustrations throughout. SIGNED by Cecil Aldin on small piece of white paper which has been tipped onto the title-page. Cover edges are slightly worn, splits to spine. There is some loss to the top edge of the rear cover. Some light stains and creases to covers. Some light fingermarks to page margins and some light foxspots but generally contents are clean.

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THE MONGREL PUPPY BOOK
Written by Cecil Aldin. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1318012
Published by Henry Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1912. Almost very good condition.

Beige cloth with orange titles, illustration of 3 puppies to the front (one sitting on cushion). 12 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. Life and adventures of a mongrel pup! Spine and corners bumped and worn, split to lower 2" of rear edge of spine. Some grubby marks to front cover. Name, date and a couple of initials in ink to front free-endpaper. Light damp stain to top of inner margins of front endpapers and to top corner of rear free-endpaper. Some light foxing and a few grubby fingermarks to contents.

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THE JOLLY PICNIC
Written by C. Nelson. Illustrated by Walter Trier.
Stock no. 1317988
Published by Sylvan Press. Almost very good condition.

Oblong format. Cloth spine, cream pictorial boards. Bright colour pictures throughout. Once a year, in the spring, Farmer Jolly had a picnic... Covers are grubby with vertical creases at centre, lower front corner creased, slight loss of paper covering to corners and an old tape mark to lower edge of front cover. Front joint is partially cracked at lower 2". Neat name in ink to top margin of title-page. There is light foxing to the contents. One page has a tear and crease at top edge.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1967
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1317986
Published by Daily Express. 1967. Good condition.

Colour pictorial boards - Rupert on snow-covered hill pulling a dog on a sledge. 1st story Rupert and the Lost List. Magic Painting pages. No facsimile produced for this year. Spine and corners are bumped and worn. No names and price NOT cut however, magic paintings messily completed with transfer of colours to facing pages. A few small marks to textblock. Rear free-endpaper is torn and tape repaired.

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CHARLIE AND THE GREAT GLASS ELEVATOR
Written by Roald Dahl. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stock no. 1317984
Published by Viking. 1st thus 1995. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards with silver title to spine. B/w text illustrations througout. 189 pages. 9.5 x 6". ISBN: 067085249X. Spine bumped. Pale page browning and some foxspots to textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn.

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GRANDMOTHER DEAR
Written by Mrs. Molesworth. Illustrated by Walter Crane.
Stock no. 1317965
Published by Macmillan & Co.. 1895. Good condition.

Blue cloth with dark blue title to spine and decorations to front cover. Gilt title to front. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Spine and cover edges browned. Front free-endpaper is missing. Foxing and grubby fingermarks to contents.

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THE GRAPHIC STORY READER BOOK 1
No author listed. Illustrated by Louis Wain; Cecil Aldin; et al..
Stock no. 1317963
Published by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

Brown pictorial cloth. 144 pages. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. 2 full page colour illustrations by Louis Wain. Numerous illustrations by Cecil Aldin and others. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Grubby fingermarks to contents and endpapers lightly browned.

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THE STEADFAST GABRIEL
Written by Mary Howitt.
Stock no. 1317960
Published by William and Robert Chambers. Good condition.

A tale of Wichnor Wood. Small format. Red cloth with gilt title to spine and small gilt vignette to front cover. 215 pages. Frontis is a map of Wichnor Wood and Grublow. Spine bumped and worn. Covers are worn and grubby. Joints cracked. Contents are browned and grubby. Inner corners of pages are creased.

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PETITE SUZANNE
Written by Marguerite De Angeli. Illustrated by Marguerite De Angeli.
Stock no. 1317952
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Square format. Colour pictorial boards. Yellow endpapers. Lovely colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Minimal rubbing to spine and corners. Endpapers are partly browned else contents are fine. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed and browned to spine.

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