JOSEPHINE KEEPS SCHOOL
Written by Mrs. H.C. Cradock. Illustrated by Honor C. Appleton.
Stock no. 1405180
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. circa 1935. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Large format, cream cloth spine. Beige boards with pictorial onlay to front. 8 pretty colour plates. B/w text illustrations. A little bumping to spine and corners. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Browning to page edges. Small tears to bottom of some pages. Top corner of page 11/12 missing. Stain to bottom of page 44 and margin of plate opposite, also affects a few pages before. Couple of hinges pulled leading to bottom of a couple of plates being detached. Contents generally clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with some tears, creases and several small areas of loss. Wrapper is grubby with a few marks. Some browning to verso.

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MY BOOK OF PICTURES
No author listed. Illustrated by Albert Kaye; C.E.B. Bernard; Ruth Cobb; Greenup.
Stock no. 1405178
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. circa 1940. Slightly better than good condition.

Cloth spine with black titles. Pictorial front cover shows two children on cushion reading a book, white dog beside them. Colour plates and three-tone illustrations. 2 illustrated alphabets, one cats and one pixies, puzzles, second half of book is mostly train related. Spine bumped and a bit grubby. Corners bumped and very worn. A few scratches to front cover. Writing and pencil marks to rear board. Board is rubbed with damp stain at top. Board edges rubbed. Inscription in ink and small booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Joints are beginning to crack. Light browning to endpapers. Pencil marks to several pages. Puzzles have been attempted. Tear to the top of one plate and another plate is creased.

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OBLIVION
Written by Anthony Horowitz.
Stock no. 1505671
Published by Walker Books. 1st 2012. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The Power of Five: Book Five. The chilling conclusion to the epic supernatural series. Black boards with white titles and vignette. 667 pages. ISBN: 9781844286232. Light bump to base of spine. A little whitening to edges from dustwrapper (?). Light fox spots, mainly to text block. Dustwrapper is just slightly edge worn.

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THE CHUMS
Written by John Hassall. Illustrated by John Hassall.
Stock no. 1405170
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons. Slightly better than good condition.

An account of the sports of Reggie Wynne and Billy Grove for one year. Red cloth spine. Red pictorial front board with cream titles. 'TNS' logo on rear board. Full page colour illustrations opposite a page of text. Spine bumped. Corners bumped and worn. Front board is scratched. Some bubbling to paper on rear board and rear pastedown. Small patch of paper missing on rear board affecting some writing. Boards are generally grubby. Rear joint badly cracked. Small blind stamp to rear endpaper. Some black spotting and browning to endpapers. Transfer of colour from some colour illustrations to opposite page. Some foxing and fingering.

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RUPERT AND THE WONDERFUL BOOTS
Written by Mary Tourtel. Illustrated by Mary Tourtel.
Stock no. 1811957
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1946. Almost very good condition.

"Telling you how the Wonderful Boots take Rupert Little Bear flying over villages and castles and into many adventures with Brigands and an evil Ogre". Large format card wrapped book. A Tourtel story reprinted in colour. An advert for the next in the series on last page but no copy has been traced. 14 x 9.25". Staples rusty. Top of spine split and lower spine starting to split. Covers a little grubby. A few margin marks and a little bleeding from rusty staples. Generally contents are very nice.

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WILL IT LIFT? THE STORY OF A LONDON FOG
Written by J. Jackson Wray.
Stock no. 1208349
Published by James Nisbet & Co. Limited. Circa 1906. Almost very good condition.

Blue pictorial cloth. Black titles. B/w frontis. 228 pages + booklist at rear. Spine and corners rubbed and slightly worn. Covers scuffed. Inscription in ink on front pastedown. Foxspots to a few page edges, contents generally clean.

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LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER
Written by Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1607965
Published by Constable & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1917. Almost very good condition.

Deluxe edition, limited to 525 numbered and signed copies. Bound in light grey cloth with gold pictorial spine. Gold pictorial white label to front cover. Top edge gilt, others uncut. 13 tipped-in colour plates and 43 b/w drawings. Mauve on white pictorial endpapers. 250pp. 12 x 9.5". SIGNED by Rackham. Limited edition: this is copy number 352 of 525. Spine and corners bumped, with some wear to the cloth. Some marks to boards. Cracking ans splitting to front joint. Endpapers browned. Bookplate pasted to half-title page. All colour plates present: last plate is corner creased but all others are in fine condition. A few scattered foxspots. Contents generally clean and bright, but pages 248-9 are browned.

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NODDY GOES DANCING
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Beek.
Stock no. 1505644
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1954. Slightly better than good condition.

Small oblong format. Pictorial paperwraps. Colour illustrations. A Noddy Strip Book. Wear to spine and cover edges. Nick to top edge of front cover. A couple of tiny tears/creases and some browning to cover edges. Pencil inscription along top edge of title page. Light page edge browning otherwise contents clean.

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NODDY THE CRY-BABY
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Beek.
Stock no. 1505642
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co.. 1st 1954. Almost very good condition.

Small oblong format. Pictorial paperwraps. Colour illustrations, 3 per page. A Noddy Strip Book. A little wear to spine and cover edges. Light browning to some cover edges and pages. Colouring to last illustration otherwise contents clean.

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JUNK, THE PUPPY
Written by Vernon Stokes; Cynthia Harnett. Illustrated by Vernon Stokes; Cynthia Harnett.
Stock no. 1315705
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1937. Very good condition.

Large format. Pictorial paperboards showing puppy in dog kennel. B/w illustrations of cute little pup. Spine bumped, faint pink title written to spine. Covers slightly grubby and corners worn. Tiny patch of surface paper damage to rear cover. Some light foxing and some grubby fingermarks to page margins. Erased pencil writing to front free-endpaper.

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THE SILVER SHIP
Written by Cynthia Asquith; Angela Thirkell; Flora Klickmann; et al. Illustrated by A.H. Watson; H.M. Brock; A.K. MacDonald; et al..
Stock no. 1811946
Published by Putnam. 1st 1932. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

New Stories, Poems & Pictures for Children collected by Asquith. Large format. Light blue cloth, green titles. Colour plates, black and white illustrations. Rear board damp mottled and top of rear edge nibbled. Name in belongs to box. Damp staining to vertical margin of last few pages and pastedown. A few grubby marks to contents. Dustwrapper is heavily dampstained to rear panel and grubby to front panel with some slight loss at edges.

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BILL THE MINDER
Written by W. Heath Robinson. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1405141
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. circa 1928. Almost very good condition.

Dark yellow cloth with black titles to spine and front cover and black and blue vignette to front cover. 16 beautiful tipped-in colour plates, with captioned page guards before them. Small b/w illustrations to text. 254 pages. Spine and corners bumped and a little worn. Couple of marks to covers. Both joints and some hinges are cracked. Foxing especially to endpapers, prelims and page edges. Contents otherwise clean. Plates all present and in very good condition. Contained in a slip case in very good condition.

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