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THE RESCUE OF BABAR
Written by Laurent De Brunhoff. Illustrated by Laurent De Brunhoff.
Stock no. 2127384
Published by Methuen Children's Books Ltd.. 1st 1993. Very good condition.

Very large format glazed boards with red cloth spine. Delightful elephant pictures in colour. ISBN: 0416189334. Spine is faded. Contents are excellent. Stain to rear cover.

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THE VICTORIAN NURSERY BOOK
Written by Antony Miall; Peter Miall.
Stock no. 2127365
Published by Spring Books. 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Cream boards, with brown titles and decorations. Some photographs and illustrations internally. ISBN: 0600562883. Wear and scuffing to cover edges. Wrapper is edge-creased.

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THE QUOKS
Written by Luxor Price. Illustrated by Luxor Price.
Stock no. 2127324
Published by W. & R. Chambers. 1st 1925. Very good condition.

Stiff pictorial card covers. Large format. 6 wonderful colour plates and numerous b/w full- page drawings. Each text page surrounded by a decorative border. Highly imaginative and amusing! Heavily browned to spine and cover edges. Some rust showing through from staples beneath binding.Some creasing to cover corners. Some foxing and grubby marks. Small stain/damp mark to front cover. A few marks to endpapers and outer page edges. Last page has small amount of colouring to b/w illustrations. All plates present.

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THE KIPLING BIRTHDAY BOOK
Written by Rudyard Kipling; Joseph Finn.
Stock no. 2127320
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1896. Very good condition.

Small format. Pale green cloth with dark green decorations, gilt title to spine. Quotes for each day of the year to one side of page, with blank section opposite to enter birthdays you want to remember. B/w illustrations. Spine is bumped and a bit faded. Some entries in ink to some days.

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DROP DEAD
Written by Babette Cole. Illustrated by Babette Cole.
Stock no. 2127319
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1996. Nearly fine condition.

Or how we grew from one-year-old bald wrinklies into eighty-year-old bald wrinklies. Laminated boards. Colour text illustrations throughout. Very simple text. 10 x 10". ISBN: 0224045512. SIGNED by author to title page. Some page edge browning.

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THE SHOEING OF JERRY-GO-NIMBLE AND OTHER DIALECT POEMS
Written by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe; et al. Illustrated by Fred Lawson.
Stock no. 2127301
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1926. Almost very good condition.

Dark yellow/orange cloth with black titles. B/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Some fading to rear cover. Bookplate and tape marks to front pastedown. Some foxing.

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NAUGHTY NIGEL
Written by Tony Ross. Illustrated by Tony Ross.
Stock no. 2127298
Published by Andersen Press. 1st 1982. Fine condition.

Naughty Nigel pretends to be deaf so that he can play tricks on his parents. However Nigel is taught a less by a strange little man from Nightland who is similarly hard of hearing. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 086264027X.

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MARY IN BEASTIE ISLAND
Written by Frank Egan. Illustrated by J.P. Sayer.
Stock no. 2127278
Published by Denis Archer. 1st 1933. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth, black title to spine. B/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Spotting to covers. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.

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MRS BEAK-DUCK AND HER FRIENDS IN THE WOOD
Written by Ernest A. Aris. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris.
Stock no. 2127277
Published by S.W. Partridge & Co.. 1933. Good condition.

Small format. Reissue. Boards have strips and circules, with colour pictorial onlay to front cover. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. Top 1" of spine is MISSING; splits to base of spine. Browning also to spine. Inscription in ink to verso of frontis. Creasing to some pages. Grubby marks and foxspots etc. to contents.

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PUGWASH ALOFT
Written by John Ryan. Illustrated by John Ryan.
Stock no. 2127232
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1958. Good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Colour pictorial boards. Colour and two-tone illustrations. Some fade marks to spine, which also has 1" loss to top and smaller chips and nicks to base. Joints have been strengthened with white paper tape. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few grubby marks to endpapers. Foxing to outer page edges. Binding/stitching is starting to come loose, so that binding is now weak. Wrapper is very torn and chipped with loss, but picture to front panel is still complete.

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WANDA GAGG'S STORY BOOK
Written by Wanda Gagg.
Stock no. 2127231
Published by Coward-McCann Inc.. Circa 1932. Almost very good condition.

Oblong format. Beige cloth, black and orange titles and silhoueets to front cover. B/w illustrations. Compliation of 3 of the author's stories: Milliions of Cats; The Funny Thing; Snippy and Snappy. Light bumping to spine and corners. A few grubby marks to covers. Half-title page is MISSING. Front endpaper is detached and has large tape repairs to tears. Contents are still very good.

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BILLY WINKS
Written by Cicely Englefield. Illustrated by Cicely Englefield.
Stock no. 1816409
Published by John Murray. 1st 1934. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The story of an impertinent lizard and how he lost his tail. Fuschia and green pictorial boards. Delightful woodcuts throughout. 41pp plus booklist. 6.75 x 5". Light rubbing to board edges. Fading to top and tail of cloth spine. Blue pencil crayon scribble to front board. Contents clean. Matching pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn with a few chips which affect 'Bil' of the title to spine (missing).

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