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THE OUTSIDER
Written by Monica Edwards. Illustrated by Geoffrey Whittam.
Stock no. 2124861
Published by Collins. 1ST 1961. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards. B/w illustrations. Small fade mark to top of spine. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few chips and nicks; piece of loss to top corner of spine.

Price: £68.00 £51.00.

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DIMSIE HEAD GIRL
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce.
Stock no. 2124847
Published by Geoffrey Cumberlege; Oxford University Press. Almost very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Australian Edition. Red cloth, black titles. Uneven fading to spine. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Page browning. Wrapper is price-cut and badly torn in places with some tape repairs; some pieces of loss.

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AMELIARANNE GIVES A CHRISTMAS PARTY
Written by Constance Heward. Illustrated by S.B. Pearse.
Stock no. 2124834
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1938. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

reddish brown cloth spine with black title. Red pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Spine is unevenly faded. Wear to cover edges. Name in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper has bottom 3" of spine MISSING; smaller piece of loss to top of spine. Horizontal, repaired tear across full width of front panel; some other chips and tears with small bits of loss.

Price: £58.00 £43.50.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1945 (FACSIMILE) - A NEW RUPERT BOOK
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1317284
Published by Pedigree Books Limited. 1997. Nearly fine condition.

Collector's Limited Edition Facsmile of the 1945 soft cover Rupert Annual. Pictorial card wraps. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 1874507945. Top rear corner is slightly worn else a fine copy. Copy no. 5142. Foxspots to slipcase and some wear to lower edge.

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SNUGGLEPOT AND CUDDLEPIE ON BOARD THE SNAG
Written by May Gibbs. Illustrated by Noela Young.
Stock no. 1815923
Published by Angus & Robertson Publishers. 1988. Very good condition.

Original characters created by May Gibbs, redrawn by Young. Adapted by David Harris. Large format, glazed pictorial boards. Blue endpapers. Colour illustrations. Young Australia series. ISBN: 020713264X. Reprint. Light creasing to prelims. One or two foxspots to margins.

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QUEEN OF THE FALLS
Written by Chris Van Allsburg. Illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg.
Stock no. 1815922
Published by Andersen Press. 1st 2011. Nearly fine condition.

Annie Taylor, a short, plump and fussy sixty-two-year-old widow resolves to find fame and fortune by being the first person to go over the thundering waters of Niagara Falls in a barrel... Large format. Matt pictorial boards. Illustrations throughout. ISBN: 9781849392723.

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JOLLY OLD SPORTS
Written by Frank Adams. Illustrated by Frank Adams.
Stock no. 2124745
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1922. Good condition.

Large format. Blue cloth spine with light blue/green boards; colour pictorial onlay to front cover. With 36 full-page colour illustrations. Splitting to cloth spine, with some fraying at edges. Fading/browning to cover edges. A few scuff marks and some indentation marks to covers. Heavy foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Illustrations are beautifully bright. Just a few small page margin tears and marks, otherwise contents are very good indeed!

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THE CHILDREN AT GREEN MEADOWS
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Grace Lodge.
Stock no. 1815826
Published by Lutterworth Press. 1955. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A story about a family. Green boards, dark blue titles. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. Pale green stain to a few pages at gutter edge mostly. Minor foxing to text block and prelims. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed with a few small chips and closed tears.

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STANLEY BAGSHAW AND THE MAFEKING SQUARE CHEESE ROBBERY
Written by Bob Wilson. Illustrated by Bob Wilson.
Stock no. 2124598
Published by Hamish Hamilton. Circa 1985. Nearly fine condition.

Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. In his third adventure Stanley foils an attempted jewel robbery with the help of a banana! ISBN: 0241112303. SIGNED by author - 'For David, Have fun!' on title page. Tiny patch of surface lifting to rear pastedown at top.

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STORIES FROM HANS ANDERSEN
Written by Hans Christian Andersen. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 2124594
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1927. Very good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. 14 colour plates tipped onto brown card and then tipped onto pages, each with a captioned paper guard. 195 pages. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Some uneven darkening to covers. Inscription in ink to front endpaper; creasing to front endpaper. Some page browning and foxing. Frontis has a little surface paper damage to page where it has been mounted - looks like it has come away and been remounted.

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NICE STORIES
Written by Angela Brazil; Maud E. Sargent; et al. Illustrated by George Morrow.
Stock no. 2124563
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine. Pictorial front cover shows a young girl reading a book, with the help of pixies/fairies! Angela Brazil Story is 'The Slap-Bang Boys'. Bumping and wear to spine, corners and some cover edges; chipping along cover edges. Damp mark to corner of rear cover. Front endpaper is MISSING. Biro to page 29 and to contents page. Some foxing. 4 colour plates.

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THE OSBORNE COLLECTION OF EARLY CHILDREN'S BOOKS 1566-1910 A CATALOGUE
Written by Judith St. John; Edgar Osborne.
Stock no. 2124560
Published by Toronto Public Library. 1966. Very good condition.

Reprint edition, with Minor corrections. Green/blue spine and covers, gilt title. Bumping to corners. Some uneven fading to cover edges and some page edges internally.

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