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THE FEUD IN THE FIFTH REMOVE
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer. Illustrated by Ellis Silas.
Stock no. 1208801
Published by R.T.S.; The Girl's Own Paper Office. Circa 1934. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Brick red cloth, blue titles in borders. Colour frontis. 222 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. A few small marks to covers. Slight foxing to prelims. Rear endpapers a little grubby. Occasional foxspots to contents. Pictorial wrapper is worn at edges with very slight loss, strengthened with tape at top and tail of spine on verso and grubby to rear.

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A SONG OF THE ENGLISH
Written by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1208800
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1915. Almost very good condition.

Published for the Daily Telegraph by Hodder & Stoughton. Large format. Cream cloth with dark blue titles and vignettes. 16 tipped-in colour plates mounted on brown stiff paper with decorative border. 11 x 8.5". Spine darkened, covers slightly soiled. Spine and corners bumped. Front joint cracked. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers, title page and some page margins browned. Plates fine.

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OLD FRENCH NURSERY SONGS
Written by Horace Mansion. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 1208799
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1915. Very good condition.

Green boards, blue cloth spine. Large pictorial onlay to front cover. Beautiful colour plates. Music by Horace Mansion. All plates present. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Corners worn. A few very small scuff marks to onlay. Endpapers browned. Some foxspots to contents. Two pages have small closed tear at lower margin. Plates clean and bright.

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TOM MERRY'S SCHOOLDAYS
Written by Frank Richards; Martin Clifford.
Stock no. 1609765
Published by Howard Baker Press. 1st thus 1976. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Greyfriars Book Club Volume No. 5. Collectors edition limited to 400 copies. Facsimile of The Gem issue nos. 1-15 of 1907. Green simulated leather. Gilt titles. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0703000934. Copy number 202 of 400 limited editions. SIGNED by Publisher. Original glassine wrapper is still present but torn at spine, and creased. Contained in red slipcase which is bumped to edge of spine, and rubbed at corners.

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THE CHUMMY BOOK - SEVENTH YEAR
Written by Edwin Chisholm; Dorothy Russell; Ethel Talbot; Angela Brazil; et al. Illustrated by Lawson Wood; Mabel Lucie Attwell; S.B. Pearse; Anne Anderson; et al..
Stock no. 1609756
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. 1919. Good condition.

Cream cloth spine. Pictorial front board shows boy and girl giving rabbit a carrot. 320 pages. Colour plates plus b/w text illustrations throughout. Corners and board edges worn with some surface loss. Boards scuffed, with some marks and fading. Some scattered foxing.

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THE PRIZE FOR GIRLS AND BOYS 1906
No author listed.
Stock no. 1814727
Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co.. 1906. Good condition.

Red cloth spine. Red and yellow boards with an onlay of winter scene of family with horse and carriage approaching. Adverts to rear cover. 13 colour plates and b/w illustrations. 164 pages. 9.5 x 7.25". Boards browned, edges rubbed, corners worn. Front joint cracked and weak. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few margin marks.

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BETSY-GO-LUCKY OF THE FOURTH
Written by Jessie Leckie Herbertson. Illustrated by Gordon Browne.
Stock no. 1814725
Published by Jarrolds Publishers. Circa 1928. Almost very good condition.

Blue pictorial cloth. 284 pages. Colour frontis, 4 b/w plates. Boards lightly marked. Joints weak but binding tight. Prize bookplate to front endpaper. Scattered foxing.

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MORE PRAYERS AND GRACES
Written by Allan M. Laing. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.
Stock no. 1814724
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1957. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Second Little Book of Unusual Piety. Blue boards, gilt title to spine; vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. Slight browning to top & tail of spine. Price-cut yellow pictorial dustwrapper is slight faded to spine, edge-worn and grubby, small piece of loss to rear panel.

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NONSENSE NONSENSE!
Written by Walter Jerrold. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 1814723
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1902. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine. Pictorial boards and endpapers. One of Robinson's rarest illustrated books. Edges rubbed, corners worn. Scattered foxing throughout and a few grubby marks.

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THE WATER BABIES
Written by Charles Kingsley. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 1814722
Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack Ltd.. 1924. Very good condition.

Cream cloth with brown titles and pictorial onlay to front cover. Blue illustration to endpapers. 12 colour plates. 180 pages. Boards slightly grubby. Endpapers browned with a few minor marks. Scattered foxing mainly to half-title page and text block. All plates present.

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DOCTOR VANE ANSWERS THE CALL
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1814721
Published by Latimer House Limited. 1st 1950. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Brilliant criminologist, Dr. Vane was not averse to using criminal methods to foil the enemies of his country... Blue cloth, black title to spine. 205 pages. Fading to top and tail of spine. Previous owner's address label to front pastedown (hidden by the front flap of dustwrapper). Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn and torn with slight loss.

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MOPS VERSUS TAILS
Written by Kathleen Ainslie. Illustrated by Kathleen Ainslie.
Stock no. 1814717
Published by Castell Brothers Ltd.; Frederick A. Stokes Company. 1st 1907. Very good condition.

The Great Hockey Match (and how the Mops and the Tails bury the hatchet forever)! Small oblong format. Picture to front board. Lovely colour illustrations, including a wonderful double-spread at the centre. Boards scuffed and creased. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Joints a little worn but not split. Binding tight.

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