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HURRY HOME CANDY
Written by Meindert Dejong. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 1316693
Published by The Children's Book Club. circa 1962. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Children's book club edition. Green boards with black titles to spine. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Light musty smell to contents. Dustwrapper is foxed on verso, showing on white rear panel and is slightly worn to spine.

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CHALLENGE TO ADVENTURE
Written by M.E. Atkinson. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.
Stock no. 1507348
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1942. Slightly better than good condition.

A story of the Locketts family. Red cloth. B/w illustrations. Covers grubby and spine faded. A little bumping to spine and corners. 7 in pen to front pastedown. Ink name and writing to verso of front endpaper. Foxing, mainly to text block. Many of the illustrations have been neatly coloured in.

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PROBLEM PARTY
Written by M.E. Atkinson. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.
Stock no. 1507346
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1945. Almost very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

A story of the Lockett family. Peach cloth, green title to spine. B/w illustrations. 214 pages. A little bumping and wear to spine and corners. Fading to some cover edges. Name in pen to half-title page otherwise contents clean. Pages a bit wrinkled (binding error), Top 1" and bottom half of dustwrapper spine missing, edge worn with some small pieces of loss. Panels and spine browned. Name in pen to top of front flap.

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ELLEN'S BIRTHDAY
Written by Gillian Avery. Illustrated by Krystyna Turska.
Stock no. 1507345
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1971. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Passionately angry that villagers were no longer allowed to gather firewood from the Earl's wood Ellen decided to take matters into her own hands. Pictorial covers. B/w illustrations. 86 pages. ISBN: 0241020891. Base of spine bumped. Front and rear endpapers MISSING. Erasure mark to top corner of half-title page. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn, slight loss from top of spine. Laminate lifting in places.

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THE NEST OF THE SCARECROW
Written by M.E. Atkinson. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.
Stock no. 1406791
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1944. Slightly better than good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

An exiting adventure involving a remote and lonely bungalow and a cruel sea. Dark red cloth, black titles to spine. Blue pictorial endpapers, b/w illustrations. 214 pages. Bumping to spine and corners. Boards damp stained and a little bowed. Some pink staining to bottom of front pastedown where colour has seeped through from cloth. Name and date to front endpaper. Rear endpapers browned. A little foxing mainly to page edges. Pages are wrinkled. Dustwrapper is edge worn with some tears and small area of loss to top and bottom of spine. Spine and top of rear panel browned. Rear panel is grubby.

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THE CIRCUS OF ADVENTURE
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.
Stock no. 1406787
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1952. Almost very good condition.

Cream pictorial cloth, blue titles. B/w illustrations. 316 pages. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Foxing to spine and boards. Slight paper damage plus small piece of clear tape to front pastedown. Light browning to endpapers. A few margin mark otherwise contents generally clean.

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THE WISHING WELL
No author listed.
Stock no. 2123271
Published by Ward, Lock & Co. Limited. 1967. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations.

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IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN
Written by Maurice Sendak. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 2123265
Published by Harper & Row. Circa 1970. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Cream cloth with circular pictorial onlay to front. Full-page colour illustrations. A Caldecott Honor book. American edition. Wrapper is faded to spine with a couple of closed edge-tears. Reprint.

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A DREADFUL OF DRAGONS
Written by Peggy Blakeley. Illustrated by Frank Francis.
Stock no. 2123242
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st 1975. Very good condition.

Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. And other collections of creatures and people and things put together for fun. Colour illustrations. Very little text. ISBN: 0713615559. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. A few marks to covers. Uneven browning to covers.

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MORE ANT AND BEE
Written by Angela Banner. Illustrated by Bryan Ward.
Stock no. 2123232
Published by Kaye & Ward Ltd.. 1973. Almost very good condition.

An Alphabetical Story, companion book to "Ant and Bee". Colour pictures on every page with new words printed in red. Green glazed boards. 110 pages. 3.75 x 4.75". ISBN: 0718200322. Spine is faded. Corners are bumped. Book has been covered with clear adhesive film. A few margin marks. One hinge pulled.

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THE WATER-BABIES
Written by Charles Kingsley. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1406768
Published by Constable & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1915. Slightly better than good condition.

A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Green cloth, gilt titles & vignettes. 8 colour plates, numerous b/w illustrations. 319 pages. Bumping to spine and corners. Spine and cover edges darkened. Gilt on spine is dulled. Large score mark to rear cover. Newspaper cuttings have been stuck to front endpaper. Small booksellers label and small patch of newsprint to front pastedown. Front joint beginning to crack. Browning to endpapers and tissue guard to frontis. Name and numbers (Isa 14/20) written in ink on front endpaper. Foxing to prelims and page edges. Some fingering. Plates all present.

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APPLEY DAPPLY'S NURSERY RHYMES
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1208652
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1975. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Grey boards, green titles, onlay to front board. 34 numbered pages. Small format. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0723206139. Base of spine just very slightly bumped. Dustwrapper is slightly marked and creased.

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