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EAGLE ANNUAL No. 10 (1961)
Written by Clifford Makins.
Stock no. 1507258
Published by Longacre Press. 1961. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Green cloth spine, red, yellow and black decorated covers. Endpapers by Thelwell. Colour and b/w illustrations. 173 pages. A little wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Covers scuffed. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn, torn, creased and chipped, very little loss. Slightly grubby, verso of spine browned.

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THE CHILDREN AT HAPPY HOUSE
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Kathleen Gell.
Stock no. 1507248
Published by Shakespeare Head Press. 1st 1946. Very good condition in a poor dustwrapper.

Cream cloth with green titles and vignette to front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Red, green, black and white plus b/w illustrations throughout. 65 pages. Base of spine worn, looks like been wet at some stage. Covers slightly grubby to edges. Contents very good. Dustwrapper is very creased and torn, front flap detached and top half missing. Some other small pieces of loss, also grubby, pencil marks to rear panel.

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THE TROUBLESOME THREE
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Leo.
Stock no. 1507247
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.; Pleiades Books Ltd.. 1st 1955. Almost very good condition.

An Enid Blyton adventure colour story book. Illustrated boards. Colour illus throughout. Told in strip form. Unpaginated. 10 x 7.5". Bumping and wear to spine and corners. A couple of tiny spots of surface paper damage to front cover. Belongs to box on pastedown completed in pen. Pages lightly edge browned. Contents clean.

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TIMMY THE TUG
Written by Ted Hughes; Jim Downer. Illustrated by Jim Downer.
Stock no. 1507246
Published by Thames and Hudson. 1st 2009. Nearly fine condition.

Large oblong format. Blue boards. Colour pictorial onlay to front. Super colour illustrations. Story in verse. ISBN: 9780500514962. Tiny amount of wear to ends of spine. Rear cover ever so slightly grubby. Contents fine.

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THE LITTLE CAT BABY
Written by Allan Ahlberg. Illustrated by Fritz Wegner.
Stock no. 1507244
Published by Puffin. 1st 2003. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Oblong format. Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0670912867. Dustwrapper is very slightly grubby on rear panel.

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THE TIDE KNOT
Written by Helen Dunmore.
Stock no. 1609132
Published by Harpercollins Publishers Ltd. 1st 2006. Very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Dark secrets of the ocean unleashed... ISBN: 9780007204892. SIGNED on title page by author. Heavy bump and small split to lower edge of front board. Light page browning.

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RHYMES OF OLD TIMES
No author listed. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant.
Stock no. 1406741
Published by The Medici Society. 1st 1925. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Cream cloth, dark green titles and decorative peach border to front cover. Beautiful mounted colour plates and two-tone text illustrations. 108 pages. Bumping to spine and corners. Inscription in ink to half title page which has been partially covered in black ink, some of which can be seen on next page. Light brown marks to prelims which correspond with ink marks. Some page browning. Fingering to some pages. Edges of pages 25 - 32 have been roughly trimmed. Dustwrapper is edge worn and creased with some tears. Loss to bottom of spine. Spine is browned. Wrapper is grubby.

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THE ST. JIM'S CHRISTMAS BARRING-OUT
Written by Martin Clifford; Frank Richards.
Stock no. 1406737
Published by Howard Baker. 1st thus 1984. Slightly better than very good condition.

Greyfriars Book Club Volume No. 54. Collectors edition limited to 400 copies. Facsimile of The Gem issues 776-784, 1923. Simulated green leather, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0703005589. SIGNED by publisher, copy no. 23. Spine and corners bumped. Spine a little scuffed at top. Contents are very good. Contained in a slip case that is edge worn and browned at the edges.

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THE FIRST BOYS PAPER OMNIBUS
Written by Frank Richards.
Stock no. 1406711
Published by Howard Baker Press. 1st thus 1981. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Greyfriars Book Club Volume 41. Collectors edition limited to 400 copies. A unique collection, chosen from among the best of boy's pre-war story papers and magazines. Includes The Penny Marvel, Young Britain, The Champion, The Triumph, The Thriller, Dick Turpin, Boys Cinema, The Popular, and Scoops. Simulated green leather, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 070300221X. Copy no. 62 SIGNED by the publisher. Cellophane wrapper is a little marked. Contained in a grey mottled slipcase that is a little bumped at corners with a little foxing to spine.

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ST. JIM'S FOREVER
Written by Martin Clifford; Frank Richards.
Stock no. 1406702
Published by Howard Baker. 1st 1980. Slightly better than very good condition.

Greyfriars Book Club Volume No. 32. Collectors edition limited to 500 copies. Facsimile of The Gem issue nos. 729-751, 1922. Simulated green leather, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0703001949. Copy no. 57. SIGNED by publisher. Book has a musty smell. COntained in green mottled slipcase which has bumping to corners and one edge.

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FFANGS THE VAMPIRE BAT AND THE KISS OF TRUTH
Written by Ted Hughes. Illustrated by Chris Riddell.
Stock no. 1507203
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A wildly inventive fantasy with splendidly exuberant illustrations. Black boards, silver title to spine. ISBN: 0571138411. Surface paper damage alongside spine on two pages, looks like they have been stuck together at some stage. A nice copy otherwise. Dustwrapper is very slightly edge worn.

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THE ADVENTURE OF THE FOUR WONDER CHICKENS AND THE AEROPLANE
Written by B. Kok. Illustrated by B. Kok; R.V. Looy.
Stock no. 1507201
Published by Arthur Barron Ltd.. circa 1948. Almost very good condition.

Miss Rooster and her Four Wonder Chickens No. 3. Oblong format. Cream cloth spine, pictorial front board. Colour illustrations. Unpaginated. Wear to corners and cover edges. Covers grubby with a few marks. Ink name, address and date to front pastedown. Foxing, mainly to title page. Just an odd mark to contents.

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