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THE PANORAMA OF EUROPE; OR, A NEW GAME OF GEOGRAPHY
Written by Barbara Hofland.
Stock no. 1310973
Published by A.K. Newman and Co.. 1st 1813. Good condition.

Printed at the Minerva Press. Plain brown boards. 240 pages, edges untrimmed. Pull-out b/w frontis of The Empress of Russia's Travelling Equipage. Covers are worn with some chipping of surface paper. Joints cracked but binding still tight. Name in ink to top margin of title-page. Preliminary pages are grubby, there is some foxing to the contents. Considering the age of the book the contents are reasonably clean. This is a decent copy of a very scarce item.

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THE TALKING THRUSH AND OTHER TALES FROM INDIA
Written by W.H.D. Rouse; W. Crooke. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1310971
Published by J.M. Dent & Co.. 1st 1899. Good condition.

Green pictorial cloth. Collected by W. Crooke and retold by Rouse. Indian folk-tales. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Covers grubby and marked, red ink marks to front cover. Child's red ink writing to front endpaper. Endpapers browned, foxing to page edges. Front joint cracked. Lower corner of rear free-endpaper torn off (only a small piece).

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THE SNOWMAN
Written by J. Havenhand. Illustrated by A. Saul.
Stock no. 1310967
Published by E.J. Arnold & Son Ltd.. circa 1964. Slightly better than very good condition.

Swallow Books series. Oblong format. Blue cardwraps. Two-tone illustrations to each page with easy to read text. Staples rusty else fine.

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THE SNOWMAN
Written by J. Havenhand. Illustrated by A. Saul.
Stock no. 1310966
Published by E.J. Arnold & Son Ltd.. circa 1964. Very good condition.

Swallow Books series. Oblong format. Blue cardwraps. Two-tone illustrations to each page with easy to read text. Very small mark top top edge of front cover. Staples rusty. Contents fine.

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THE STORY OF SAINT JOAN
Written by Margaret R. Keary.
Stock no. 1310965
Published by A.R.Mowbray & Co. Ltd. 1st 1925. Almost very good condition.

Blue pictorial cloth, gilt titles. 130 pages. Rear endpapers are a map of Northern and Central France. 9 b/w plates plus a plan of Orleans. Spine and corners worn, spine and rear cover rubbed. Name in heavy pencil to front endpaper. Foxing and fingering else contents clean. Endpapers discoloured.

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THE CAPTAIN'S YOUNGEST PICCINO AND OTHER CHILD STORIES
Written by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Stock no. 1310962
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Almost very good condition.

Brown decorated cloth. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and very slightly worn. Front endpapers replaced. Lower corner of page 39/40 is slightly damaged with some loss (no text lost). Light foxing and fingering else contents clean.

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THE FOLK DOLL OF SION
Written by Joan Smith. Illustrated by Prudence Seward.
Stock no. 1310961
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Hamish Hamilton Antelope Book. Orange pictorial boards. 87 pages. B/w text illustrations. ISBN: 024102398X. Cover edges very slightly rubbed. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is just slightly faded to spine and ever so slightly edge creased.

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WOODLEIGH HOUSE OR; THE HAPPY HOLIDAYS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1310955
Published by T. Nelson & Sons. 1869. Almost very good condition.

Embossed red cloth with gilt titles. 228 pages. B/w plates (with tissue-guards) and text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped, covers a bit grubby and marked. Foxing throughout. Hinges pulled. Tissue-guards browned.

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THE ADVENTURES OF OTAIL AND THE JOLLY HOLLYBOYS
Written by Anne Hope. Illustrated by Gertie Breary.
Stock no. 1310953
Published by J. Salmon. 1st 1976. Very good condition.

Green pictorial cardwraps. Blue text. Colour illustrations. Spine is slightly creased/rubbed. Small mark to top corner of front cover. Light crease to lower corner of front cover. Contents clean.

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AN OLD STORY OF BETHLEHEM
Written by Elizabeth Charles.
Stock no. 1310927
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. circa 1884. Almost very good condition.

"One link in the Great Pedigree". The story of Ruth and Naomi. Cream cloth with decorated front cover. Floral decorated endpapers. 32 pages, all edges red. Chromolithograph plates. Covers are grubby and slightly worn, spine browned with small tear to lower 2". Name in pencil to front pastedown. There is some very slight damage to the plates in that small pieces of paper from the facing pages has stuck to them.

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PRAYERS AND GRACES
Written by Allan M. Laing. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.
Stock no. 1501537
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1944. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A little book of extraordinary piety. 30 full page b/w illustrations. 63pp. Blue cloth covers, gilt vignette to front. Spine and corners a little worn. Spine slightly darkened. Ink inscription to front endpaper. Some browning/foxing alongside spine in places otherwise contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge chipped, spine is faded as are edges of panels alongside spine.

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THE STORY OF MR SOMMER
Written by Patrick Suskind. Illustrated by Sempe.
Stock no. 1310906
Published by Bloomsbury. 1st 1992. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A boy's village childhood with all the traditional attributes, an enchanting story about growing up. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Unusual colour illustrations. ISBN: 0747513082. Spine of book and wrapper both slightly bumped. Some light foxing to top of textblock.

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