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THE WATER-BABIES
Written by Charles Kingsley. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1814880
Published by Constable and Company Ltd.. 1st 1915. Very good condition.

Cheap Edition (no plates present). A Fairy-tale for a Land-Baby. Dark blue cloth spine with gilt titles. Lighter blue boards, black titles and illustration to front cover. B/w illustrations. Top edge blue. Gilt to spine faded. Corners of boards rubbed. Musty odour present. Contents clean. A nice copy.

Price: £58.00 £43.50.

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JACK ROBINSON
Written by J. Keir Cross. Illustrated by John R. Parsons.
Stock no. 1316944
Published by Peter Lunn. 1st 1945. Very good condition.

Oblong format. Yellow cloth, red titles and vignette to front. Superb colour illustrations throughout. Slight bumping to spine and corners. Some light marks to covers. Contents are very clean. The dustwrapper has been neatly inserted at the back of the book (minus the rear flap).

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IN THE WILDERNESS
Written by Derek McCulloch. Illustrated by Septimus E. Scott.
Stock no. 1609809
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 8th 1951. Very good condition.

by 'Uncle Mac' of the BBC. Illustrated boards. Full page colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. name in ink to front endpaper. Surface paper split and lifting along rear joint.

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THE BRUINS IN CHINA
Written by Dick Hill.
Stock no. 1609776
Published by Juvenile Productions Ltd.. Very good condition.

Card wraps. Colour and b/w illustrations. 12 pages. A little scattered foxing.

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MRS WEBER'S DIARY
Written by Posy Simmonds. Illustrated by Posy Simmonds.
Stock no. 1814820
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1979. Very good condition.

Mrs Wendy Weber and her friends as glimpsed in the Guardian. Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0224017195. Reprint in the first year of publication. Covers grubby. Contents clean.

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THE ANNE ANDERSON PICTURE BOOK
Written by Hans Christian Andersen; Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 1814807
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. Good condition.

Orange/brown cloth spine. Large format. Pictorial boards. Numerous coloured and b/w illustrations by Anne Anderson, illustrating Hans Andersen and Grimms' Fairy Tales. Boards scuffed and edge-worn. 'Angela' written in pencil to rear board. Front hinge starting to split (between frontis and title page. Most top margin corners have loss or surface paper damage... perhaps the book had been exposed to damp which caused the top corners to stick together and they have then been prised apart? Clear tape repair to first page of Hansel and Grethel.

Price: £84.00 £63.00.

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THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE
Written by Daniel Defoe. Illustrated by A.E. Jackson.
Stock no. 1814790
Published by Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

"The Sunshine Series". Pictorial boards, cloth spine. 16 colour plates. 128 pages. 10 x 7.25". Tape marks and surface paper damage to lower spine and gutter edgesx. Corners worn. Spine browned.

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THE WEATHER
Written by Francis Wilson. Illustrated by Philip Jacobs.
Stock no. 1316914
Published by Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.; Purnell. 1st 1987. Slightly better than very good condition.

BBC Weatherman Francis Wilson explains the mysteries of the world's weather and reveals the secrets of forecasting in this colourful action pop-up book. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. A unique 3-d pop-up book. Paper Engineering by Paul Wilgress. ISBN: 0361075162. Slight bumping and rubbing to spine and corners. Slight fading to spine. Contents fine.

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KINDERRYMPJES: HANDJE_PLAK
Written by N. Bodenheim. Illustrated by N. Bodenheim.
Stock no. 1814784
Published by A.W. Sijthoff. 1979. Very good condition.

Dutch language nursery rhymes. Matt white boards with black silhouettes. Colour illustrations and silhouettes. ISBN: 9021826798. Boards a little grubby.

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THURSDAY RIDES AGAIN
Written by Michael Bond. Illustrated by Beryl Sanders.
Stock no. 1814771
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1968. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The second book about Thursday the orphan mouse. Pale green boards, blue title to spine and vignette to front cover. 128 pages. B/w text illustrations. ISBN: 0245593403. Possibly a proof copy as there are three pages with ink corrections to spelling, these three pages are listed on the front flap of dustwrapper. Light browning to horizontal edges of boards. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed & worn, and tape mark to tail of spine and gutter edges.

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OLD FRENCH NURSERY SONGS
Written by Horace Mansion. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 1208893
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1915. Almost very good condition.

Dark grey boards, blue cloth spine. Pictorial onlay to front cover. Beautiful colour plates. Music by Horace Mansion. Songs in French. All plates present. Spine bumped, corners worn. Wear to lower edges. Covers scuffed. Name in ink to front pastedown. Closed tear to lower margin of page 15. Contents clean.

Price: £74.00 £55.50.

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THE ADVENTURES OF WONK - FIREWORKS
Written by Muriel Levy. Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe.
Stock no. 1208884
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 7th 1947. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 417. Red boards with colour vignette and titles. Also contains: THE DIAMOND RING AFFAIR. Spine and corners slightly bumped, slightly torn at base of spine. Writing erased from front endpaper and book list at rear. A couple of small margin marks else contents clean. Wrapper is worn at folds with slight loss at corners and closed tears at spine and rear fold.

Price: £64.00 £48.00.

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