NICOLA BAYLEY'S BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES
No author listed. Illustrated by Nicola Bayley.
Stock no. 2113886
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1975. Good condition.

Nicola Bayley's first book. Favourite nursery rhymes illustrated by glorious full-colour pictures. Proof copy in paperwraps. ISBN: 0224011731. Contents detached from covers. Browning and a little creasing to paperwraps spine.

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NICHOLAS CATCHES THE CROOKS
Written by Kitty Styles. Illustrated by Mary Kendal Lee.
Stock no. 1502385
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. circa 1956. Slightly better than good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Nicholas Book No. 7. Red pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Split to top of spine. Wear to corners and top and bottom of spine. Belongs to box completed in pencil. Illustrator's name underlined in blue on title page. Odd grubby fingermark and fox spot to contents. Dustwrapper is edge worn, torn and creased. Also grubby with a few spots of surface paper damage.

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PRINCE PRIGIO AND PRINCE RICARDO
Written by Andrew Lang. Illustrated by BB.
Stock no. 2113793
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1st thus 1961. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Children's Illustrated Classics series. Illustrated by D. Watkins-Pitchford (BB). Cream and orange decorated cloth. 4 colour plates and numerous line drawings. Foxing to outer page edges and some page margins. Wrapper is a bit damp, with some edge-creasing and a few chips and nicks.

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INTO THE NIGER BEND
Written by Jules Verne.
Stock no. 2113780
Published by Arco Publications. 1st 1960. Good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Volume 1 of The Barsac Mission. Translated from the French by I.O.Evans. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. 192 pages. Ex-lib. with usual markings; also rear panel of wrapper is stuck to book. Foxing and heavy page browning. A reading copy.

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GETTING TO KNOW DOGS
Written by Cynthia Harnett. Illustrated by Vernon Stokes.
Stock no. 2113775
Published by Collins. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

All the necessary information and guidance for the boy or girl who is bent on acquiring the best friend and comrade a human can have outside his own kind. Beige cloth, green titles. Beautiful colour and b/w illustrations. Light bumping to spine and corners. Name in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing and page browning. Small piece of sticky label to front endpaper, with surface paper damage, where rest has been removed. Wrapper is edge-torn and chipped, with creasing and foxing; some long tears have repairs to verso; loss to a few corners and top of spine.

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THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF EMMA
Written by Dorothy Ann Lovell. Illustrated by Irene Hawkins.
Stock no. 1502365
Published by Faber & Faber Limited. 4th 1944. Slightly better than good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Emma is a royal doll. She tires of life in a museum and tries to escape. Yellow cloth, black picture and titles. B/w illustrations. 163 pages. Bumping to spine, corners and cover edges. Covers are grubby with some stains. Marks/grubby fingermarks to endpapers and contents. Pages are lightly browned and there are a few fox spots. Book leans to one side a little. Dustwrapper has a large area of loss from the front panel and loss from the top of spine area. Grubby and edge chipped..

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BETTY'S LAMB
Written by Lawson Wood. Illustrated by Lawson Wood.
Stock no. 1402428
Published by Valentine & Sons Ltd.. Very good condition.

Pictorial cardwraps. Small format. Top of book is shaped like the lamb's head and back. Full colour illustration to middle pages. Two tone illustrations. Unpaginated A little wear to cove edges. Small split to top of spine. New staples. Small piece of tape stuck to inner margin of a couple of pages. A little foxing to page edges, otherwise contents are generally clean.

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THE GIPSY CHILDREN
Written by Christine Pullein-Thompson. Illustrated by Janet Duchesne.
Stock no. 1402424
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1962. Slightly better than good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The story of Ana and Georgie, gipsy children and their adventures after they crept away from their family one moonlit night on an errand of mercy. Pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. A Reindeer book. 112 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Board edges a little browned. Front endpaper creased. Library stamp to rear endpaper. Some hinges are cracked. A few small tears to bottom of pages. Foxing and some grubby marks to cntents. Pictorial wrapper is edge worn and chipped. Spine is faded. A little browning to edges and verso. A couple of grubby marks.

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DAMIEN, THE LEPERS' FRIEND
Written by John R. Milsome. Illustrated by Charles Keeping.
Stock no. 1402418
Published by Burns & Oates. 1st 1965. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The story of Father Damien, whom Robert Louis Stevenson was to call 'one of the world's heroes and exemplars'. Pale grey boards with man riding a pony in red. Red titles to spine. B/w illustrations. 125 pages. Spine and corners bumoed. A little foxing / browning to board edges and spine. Foxing to top of text block otherwise contents are clean. Dust wrapper is edgeworn with a couple of small nicks. Spine is darkened and wrapper is grubby.

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NO MAGIC CARPET
Written by Phyllis Matthewman.
Stock no. 1402415
Published by E.J. Arnold & Son Ltd.. 1966. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Merrill - Merry to her friends - is hoping to go abroad with her school but for financial reasons it looks as if she won't be going. Merry is determined to raise the money herself. Light blue boards with white titles to spine and front board. B/w illustrations. 156 pages. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Small bumps to bottom of boards. Name in pencil to top of front pastedown. A little browning to endpapers otherwise contents are clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and rubbed with loss to top of spine. Rear panel and spine are browned.

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THREE LITTLE VAGRANTS
Written by F. Spenser.
Stock no. 1402414
Published by Robert Culley. 1st 1901. Very good condition.

The story of three children who runaway from home to try and find a better life. Blue pictorial cloth. Gilt titles to front and gilt title block to spine. B/w frontis and text illustrations. All edges gilt. 128 pages with 16 page illustrated book catalogue to rear. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Presentation plate to front pastedown. A few marks otherwise contents generally clean.

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THE WIND
Written by Nicky Young. Illustrated by Kate Gartner.
Stock no. 1312315
Published by Vantage Press. 1st USA 1987. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The charming story of Philip and Elizabeth, a little prince and princess who find their way to the enchanted world of Fairyland on the mystical wind. Burgundy boards, gilt title to spine. 31 pages. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0533071151. Spine and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. Contents fine. Pink dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed with a few small, light marks.

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