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BAGGY BROWN
Written by Mick Inkpen. Illustrated by Mick Inkpen.
Stock no. 1813873
Published by Hodder Children's Books. 1st 2007. Very good condition.

No.1 bear is priceless, the first of a thousand special bears made to celebrate the first birthday of the daughter of the King and Queen of Thingland, and the only bear to be presented to the Princess. But when the big red teddy bear machine at Better Bears Ltd chews him up and spits him out he takes a very different route to the Palace, and along the way finds his real name. Large format. Matt pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 9780340932308. A few spots on each page but still a nice copy.

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THE GOLDEN AGE
Written by Kenneth Grahame. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard.
Stock no. 1813869
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1945. Slightly better than very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Beige cloth, gilt title to spine, black title and illustration to front cover. B/w illustrations to text. 166 pages plus adverts to rear. Boards clean. Minor foxing to text block else contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is browned at spine, split in two at front spine edge and just slightly grubby.

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TIGER TIM'S ANNUAL 1932
No author listed. Illustrated by Herbert Foxwell; H. Mccready; et al..
Stock no. 1507147
Published by The Amalgamated Press. 1932. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth spine. Red pictorial front cover. Two-tone and colour illustrations. A little bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Surface paper damage to top edge of rear cover. Rear endpaper browned, some foxing to both endpapers and text block. Contents very good, just a few small marks.

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RAINBOW ANNUAL 1924
Written by Mrs. Bruin. Illustrated by Herbert Foxwell; et al..
Stock no. 1507145
Published by The Fleetway House. 1924. Good condition.

The first Rainbow Annual. Blue cloth spine, pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations. 72 pages. Edited by Mrs. Bruin. Bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Covers grubby with darkening to edges and a few light scratches, loss of surface paper from top corner of rear cover. Both joints and one hinge cracked. Top of front endpaper detached. Belongs to box completed in pencil, partially erased. Some marks/fingermarks to contents but most pages are clean.

Price: £58.00 £43.50.

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LET'S PRETEND
No author listed. Illustrated by I. Bennington Angrave.
Stock no. 1813857
Published by Nelson. Almost very good condition.

16 colour plates with one line of text to each. Blyton liked these plates so much that she used them in the copy of her book of the same name. Large format. Stiff cardwraps. Spine rubbed, boards browned and rubbed at corners. One or two grubby marks to contents. A hard to find copy.

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BROOD OF THE VULTURE
Written by George E. Rochester. Illustrated by Stanley Orton Bradshaw.
Stock no. 1813852
Published by John Hamilton Ltd.. 1st 1936. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

The 'ACE' Series. Beige cloth boards with black title to spine. 4 b/w plates. Boards bowed. A few minor foxspots presesnt. Some hinges pulled. Frontis part detached. Name ink to half-title page. Price-cut dustwrapper is edge-creased and worn with loss at edges.

Price: £75.00 £56.25.

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WINGS OVER AFRICA
Written by David Lindsay.
Stock no. 1813851
Published by John Hamilton Ltd.. Circa 1936. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, black title to spine. Part of the 'Ace' Series. B/w plates. Light browning to text block. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed and worn. Cigarette odour present.

Price: £65.00 £48.75.

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WAR IN THE AIR
Written by Major Helders; Claud W. Sykes.
Stock no. 1813849
Published by John Hamilton. 1935. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth with black titles and sundial vignette to spine. Part of the "Ace" series. 8 monochrome plates. Second impression. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is taped to book with now yellowed tape. Dustwrapper is marked to spine and has tape across top and bottom. Text block browned. A few hinges pulled but binding is tight. Cigarette odour present.

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ARCADIAN BALLADS
Written by James Reeves. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Stock no. 1406638
Published by Heinemann Educational Books. 1st thus 1978. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Tall format. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 48 pages. ISBN: 0435147722. Erased pencil mark to top of front endpaper. A little foxing to edge of text block. Contents very good. Spine of dustwrapper a little faded and rubbed.

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ST. GEORGE FOR ENGLAND
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by Gordon Browne.
Stock no. 1406635
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Slightly better than good condition.

A tale of Cressy and Poitiers. Dark green pictorial cloth, gilt title block and picture to spine, gilt title to front cover. 8 b/w plates. 352 pages. All edges green.. All page edges olive. Purple endpapers. 8 b/w plates including frontis. 352 pages, 32 pages of adverts. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Board edges rubbed. Gilt to title dulled. Couple of marks to rear board. Front joint and hinges cracked. Inscription to front pastedown. Frontis and front endpaper partially detached. Fingering to page margins including margins of some plates. Some wear to olive covering of page edges. Undated.

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ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S EVE
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by Herbert J. Draper.
Stock no. 1406634
Published by Blackie & Son. Very good condition.

Dark green pictorial boards. 12 b/w plates plus map of France. 384pp plus Blackie's Book List. A Tale of the Huguenot Wars. Early reprint. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Foxing especially to endpapers and booklist pages. Ticks to illustration list. Plates all present and in very good condition.

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AN EDWARDIAN SEASON
Written by John S. Goodall. Illustrated by John S. Goodall.
Stock no. 1406630
Published by Macmillan London Limited. 1st 1979. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The fourth of Goodall's excursions into the Edwardian era follows the course of the London 'Season'. An enchanting evocation of a vanished age. Double-page colour spreads say it all without the need for text. Maroon boards, gilt titles and border. 5.5 x 7". ISBN: 0333264584. A little bumping to spine and corners. Light mark to top of rear board. End papers lightly browned. Contents very good. Dustwrapper is a little edge worn. Spine and folds sunned. Red mark to top of rear panel on verso which corresponds to mark on rear panel.

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