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TREASURE AT AMORYS
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Terence Freeman.
Stock no. 2108800
Published by Newnes. 1st 1964. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards with gilt titles and Lone Pine vignette. B/w illustrations. Top edge blue. The 15th Lone Pine adventure. Light bumping and wear to top and tail of spine. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is faded to spine, with a few grubby marks; edge-creased with a few small nicks.

Price: £95.00 £71.25.

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SYLVIE AND BRUNO CONCLUDED
Written by Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by Harry Furniss.
Stock no. 2108799
Published by Macmillan & Co.. 1st 1893. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth, gilt title to spine, gilt vignettes and borders. 46 b/w illustrations. All edges gilt. Spine is faded, with a little chipping to cloth at top and tail. A little cracking to joints. Gilt still bright. Wrapper is browned, with some edge-tears and chips; a bit of loss to spine and corners. Creasing next to spine down front panel.

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GAMES FOR PLAYTIME & PARTIES
Written by Stanley V. Wilman. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant.
Stock no. 1308598
Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack Ltd.. Circa 1920. Good condition.

With and Without Music. Large format. White cloth spine, white pictorial front board. Tipped-in colour frontis, colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. 82 pages. 12" x 9". Corners worn. Spine bumped. Covers a bit grubby. Child's name in ink to front pastedown. Book opens to verso of frontis so possibly free-endpaper is missing? Some light fingering to contents and a couple of corners lightly creased. Slight surface paper damage to title-page and a small tear at base of margin. A decent copy of a scarce book.

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THE WATER-BABIES
Written by Charles Kingsley. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1308562
Published by Constable & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1915. Almost very good condition.

A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Rebound with white cloth spine and gilt title, red cloth covers. Grey endpapers. 8 colour plates, numerous b/w illustrations. 319 pages. Spine bumped and slightly grubby, some slight fading to top edge of rear cover. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Front joint (between fly-leaf and frontis) cracked. Foxing and some fingering throughout. Erased crayon name to verso of frontis.

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A FAIRY GARLAND
Written by Charles Perrault; Madame D'Aulnoy; et al. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 2108586
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. 1st 1928. Very good condition.

Being nine Fairy Tales from the Old French. Blue cloth covers, gilt title to spine. 12 superb colour plates throughout. 251 pages. 9.5 x 7". Light bumping and wear to spine and corners. A few marks to covers. Foxing to outer page edges, prelims and some page margins.

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HOLIDAY BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 1806559
Published by Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

What the children did on their holidays. Pictorial paperwraps. Colour illustrations throughout. Some of the pictures are offset with colours from printing process. Otherwise a nice, clean copy.

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ANIMAL ANTICS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1806558
Published by The Children's Press. Slightly better than very good condition.

Yellow pictorial card wraps. Large colour illustrations to each page with text below. 6 pages. Light browning otherwise a nice copy.

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HOLIDAY BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 1806554
Published by Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

What the children did on their holidays. Pictorial paperwraps. Colour illustrations throughout. Rear cover slightly grubby. Last picture offset by printing process.

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ANIMAL ANTICS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1806553
Published by The Children's Press. Very good condition.

Yellow pictorial card wraps. Large colour illustrations to each page with text below. 6 pages. Browning to margins else a fine copy.

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RUPERT ADVENTURE SERIES No. 30 - RUPERT AND THE MERMAIDS' COTTAGE
Written by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1308486
Published by Daily Express. 1956. Very good condition.

Pictorial card wraps. Second story is Rupert and the Secret Holiday. Colour illustrations. Slight rubbing to cover edges. Seashore puzzle completed in pencil (and partially erased).

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TROUBLE AT TOWNSEND
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Lunt Roberts.
Stock no. 1308471
Published by Transatlantic Arts Ltd.. 1st 1945. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The story of two city children sent to stay on a farm where they thought nothing ever happened. They soon changed their minds. The story was also filmed on Malcolm Saville's farm in Hertfordshire. Brown cloth, blue title to spine. B/w illustrations. 128 pages. Spine and corners bumped, some light marks to covers. Name and address in ink to front endpaper. Some browning and fingering to page margins. A couple of small pen marks to front endpaper. Dustwrapper is edge chipped with slight loss.

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THE BELL OF THE FOUR EVANGELISTS
Written by Violet Needham. Illustrated by Joyce Bruce.
Stock no. 1308469
Published by Collins. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Base of spine faded. Shadow from dustwrapper design to front cover and spine. Front joint just starting to crack. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge chipped with loss to lower edge of rear panel and base of spine.

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