JOLLY DAYS
Written by Olive Chandler; Eleanor Farjeon; et al. Illustrated by E. Dorothy Rees; Anne Anderson; et al..
Stock no. 1312301
Published by The Children's Press. circa 1930. Good condition.

Pictorial boards, cloth spine. Contains numerous short stories, b/w illustrations throughout, 4 colour plates. Spine rebacked with blue cloth (not very professionally as it is coming away from the front board). Covers are edge worn and there is a damp stain to the edge of the rear cover. Inscription in ink to half-title. Front joint has been neatly repaired.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1963
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1312297
Published by Daily Express. 1963. Almost very good condition.

Laminated pictorial boards showing Rupert sitting on a rock having just caught a Merchild in his fishing net. 1st story Rupert and the Birthday Present. 115 pages. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Price cut. Name and address in biro in belongs to box. Some page corners and corner tips lightly creased. Centre pages of magic paintings (pages 65-68) are missing, the rest of the magic paintings have been neatly completed.

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A SONG OF THE ENGLISH
Written by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1312289
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Large format, 9.75 x 7.5". Blue cloth, gilt titles and green decorations. 16 tipped-in colour plates. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Some hinges cracked. Endpapers lightly browned. Some foxspots else contents clean. All plates present and in fine condition. Dustwrapper has slight loss to top and tail of spine (and a slightly larger section of loss to top of front panel beside spine edge. Very scarce in dustwrapper.

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THE ADVENTURES OF SQUIRREL FLUFFYTALE
Written by Dolores McKenna.
Stock no. 1402406
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1951. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

The story of Brownie Squirrel's journey to a party. Green boards with gilt title. Black & white pictorial endpapers. 6 colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. 37 pages. Spine and corners a little bumped. Browning to endpapers. Pencil erased from top of verso of front endpaper. Colour plates all present but not in right order. They may have been reinserted into book. One plate has ragged edges and is a little detached from the book and has a couple of shiny marks (?glue).Pictorial dustwrapper is edgeworn and torn with a little loss. Front panel is creased. Wrapper is grubby.

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BONZO'S ANNUAL 1949
Written by G.E. Studdy. Illustrated by G.E. Studdy.
Stock no. 1312287
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. 1949. Good condition.

Red cloth spine. Pictorial paperboards, front cover shows Bonzo with peashooter. 124 pages. Colour frontis, two-tone illustrations throughout. Covers are edge worn, light spot to rear cover. Inscription in blue biro to front pastedown. Foxing throughout, pages 52 and 53 lightly marked some fingermarks to page margins but generally clean.

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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. 1312284
Published by Putnam. 1st 1932. Very good condition.

New Stories, Poems & Pictures for Children collected by Asquith. Large format. Light blue cloth, green titles. Colour plates, black and white illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Small dent to lower edge of front cover. Prize plate to front endpaper. Foxing to contents otherwise clean.

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THE MAGIC APPLE AND OTHER STORIES
No author listed. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1312279
Published by George Newnes Limited. Good condition.

Large format. Brown paper wraps with black illustrations. B/w illustrations throughout. Covers are worn at spine and corners, page corner tips also slightly worn. Staples rusty and a couple of small marks to covers. A few small marks to page margins else contents clean.

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A TALE OF WHOA
Written by Muriel Cooke; Sherman Cooke. Illustrated by Muriel Cooke; Sherman Cooke.
Stock no. 1312278
Published by Hutchinson. Very good condition.

Whoa is a Hobby Horse. Large oblong format. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Foxing and light fingering to contents which are generally clean. There is a light glue(?) mark to edge of front cover and the covers are very slightly grubby. Corners slightly worn.

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THE NINE LIVES OF CRUSOE - HIS THIRD LIFE
Written by Margaret Alleyne. Illustrated by Jennetta Vise.
Stock no. 1502317
Published by Herbert Joseph Limited. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

White pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. 47 pages. Spine bumped. Wear to corners and cover edges. Grubby fingermarks to rear panel. Erased pencil writing to front endpaper. Partial light browning to endpapers. A couple of margin marks otherwise contents clean. Book leans to one side a little. Price-cut dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped, panels grubby.

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THE CHILDREN'S SONG BOOK
Written by Alfred W. Tomlyn. Illustrated by Lawson Wood; Harry Rountree; A.E. Jackson; et al..
Stock no. 1312273
Published by Andersons-Edinburgh-Limited. Very good condition.

Brown decorated material covers. Title in gilt to front cover. 8 colour plates by Lawson Wood and others. Spine and corners bumped. Ink address stamp (bookseller?) to front endpaper. Endpapers lightly browned, contents clean.

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FARM FRIENDS
No author listed. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham; Cecil Aldin; Anne Anderson; et al..
Stock no. 1312271
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial front cover. Full-page colour and b/w illustrations. Covers are edge worn. Loss to base of spine and a few marks to rear cover. One b/w illustration has been coloured in with pink pencil. Contents generally clean.

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THE SNOB
Written by Walter Emanuel. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1312270
Published by Laurence and Bullen. 1904. Fair condition.

Some episodes in a Mis-spent Youth. Green pictorial boards with typical Aldin full page illustrations. Covers are edge worn, scuffed with 8 d tape marks across the spine/covers (see photos). Spine covering is chipped with loss. 8 old tape marks across the joints of the books which have browned and affect the prelims and last few pages. There is also sticky fabric reinforcing the joints. Staples are rusty. Joint between frontis and title-page is cracked. Contents are foxed, grubby and lightly browned. Not as bad as it sounds! Still a decent copy.

Price: £58.00 £43.50.

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