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SMILES AND DIMPLES: HAPPY HOURS FOR LITTLE PETS
Written by J.D..
Stock no. 1108838
Published by S.W. Partridge & Co.. 2nd 1892. Very good condition.

Second Edition. Pictorial glazed boards show a young girl in a high chair with title banner and cat looking up at two butterflies. First story is 'A Lesson in Kindness'. 4 Colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 70 pages. Cracking to laminate at spine edge with some loss of surface paper. Corners worn. Boards bowed. Contemporary inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. A few marks to contents but generally a lovely copy.

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PEDRO AND ANGELIQUE
Written by Gaye Knowles. Illustrated by Gaye Knowles.
Stock no. 1108833
Published by Brockhampton Press. 1st 1950. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Small format. Pedro was a market boy who grew vegetables for a living. Angelique was his little donkey, and they were very happy together until one day... Blue paper boards. Colour illustrations. 48 pages. Boards clean and bright. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Minor foxing to endpapers and a few margin marks else contents clean. Price-cut pictorial wrapper is lightlly worn at edges with small chips, heavily foxed.

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LADY PORKS
Written by Anthea Bennett. Illustrated by Anthea Bennett.
Stock no. 1108831
Published by Edmund Ward Ltd.. 1st 1953. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A story and pictures by Anthea Bennett (Aged 10). Blue boards, gilt titles and vignette. B/w illustrations to each page with easy to read text below each illustration. 128 pages. 7.5 x 5". Minor foxing and grubby margin marks present. Pink wrapper is edge-worn and grubby, faded at spine and chipped to top & tail with slight loss.

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NOSEY AND THE SLIPPER
Written by Robert Hartman. Illustrated by Robert Hartman.
Stock no. 1108824
Published by Morrison & Gibb Ltd.. Very good condition.

The fourth Buffin Book. Blue pictorial covers. Colour pictures. Small format. The tale of Mr. and Mrs. Proboscis Mouse and their son Nosey. Edges rubbed, corners lightly worn. Contents lightly fingered but clean.

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THE ADVENTURES OF LARRY THE LAMB - PISTOLS FOR TWO
Written by S.G. Hulme Beaman. Illustrated by Ernest Noble.
Stock no. 1402094
Published by George Lapworth & Co Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Toy Town Series No. 3. Pictorial paper wraps. B/w illustrations throughout. 18 pages. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Small tears to top and bottom of spine. Corners a little creased. Horizontal crease across middle of book. Covers are grubby. A little foxing and some grubby marks to contents,

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HUBERT LE PETIT COCHON
Written by S.G. Hulme Beaman. Illustrated by S.G. Hulme Beaman.
Stock no. 1402087
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Very good condition.

Out of the Ark series. Small format. White pictorial cardwraps. B/w and colour illustrations. Translated by Suzanne Christoflour. French version of "Grunty the Pig". Edge of covers a little worn. Covers a little grubby. Contents clean.

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THE SECOND TERM AT ROCKLANDS
Written by Elsie J. Oxenham.
Stock no. 1501786
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. circa 1939. Almost very good condition.

Orange cloth, black titles, borders and vignette of girls playing hockey. 128 pages. Colour frontis. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Spine is browned. A few marks to covers. Damage to rear joint but is being held in place by endpapers. Erased pencil writing to front pastedown. Presentation inscription to half title page. Some page browning and foxing especially to prelims and page edges.

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SUGAR AND SPICE
No author listed.
Stock no. 1709390
Published by Ernest Nister. Circa 1905. Good condition.

Small format (3.75 x 3.25"), Green cloth spine with cream pictorial front board. 4 colour illustrations (chromolithographs) and a few b/w text illustrations. Contents almost detached from covers, only held in by bottom staple.

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THE PEDLAR'S PACK
Written by Mrs. Alfred Baldwin. Illustrated by Charles Pears.
Stock no. 1402073
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. Very good condition.

Brown illustrated cloth covers. 9 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 397 pages. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Browning to endpapers. Some page browning and foxing, including to margin of plates, otherwise contents are clean. A couple of hinges are cracked.

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MORE ABOUT FRANCESCA
Written by Annemarie Norden; Christine Hyatt. Illustrated by Ruth Von Hagen-Torn.
Stock no. 1108798
Published by Burke Books. 1st 1974. Slightly better than very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Pink and white line drawings to contents. Translated by Hyatt. ISBN: 0222002999. Spine is faded. Light foxing to outer page edges.

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MISS ANNE'S SURPRISE
Written by Grace Pettman.
Stock no. 1108793
Published by The Book Society. Circa 1940. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth with black titles and borders/decorations. Colour plates. Some grubby margin marks. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-torn and chipped, with some loss to top of spine and top edges of panels; creased and grubby in places.

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THE MANOR HOUSE SCHOOL
Written by Angela Brazil. Illustrated by Arthur A. Dixon.
Stock no. 1108784
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1922. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Green pictorial cloth, colour frontis and 4 b/w plates. 256 pages. Prize plate to front pastedown. Some page browning and foxing. Wrapper is grubby and browned, with tears and a little loss to corners and top and tail of spine.

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