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NANCY TO THE RESCUE
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Illustrated by Gordon Browne.
Stock no. 380357
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1929. Very good condition.

Red cloth with black title to spine and blind title and vignette to front cover. Colour frontis and four b/w illustrations. 191 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Small black spot to front cover. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some very slight bookworm damage to endpapers. Contents clean.

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SALE'S SHARPSHOOTERS
Written by Harold Avery. Illustrated by Rosa C. Petherick.
Stock no. 380350
Published by T. Nelson & Sons. 1st 1903. Good condition.

Burgundy pictorial cloth with gilt titles. 316 pages with booklist to rear. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers rubbed and slightly soiled on rear. Inscription in ink to front fly-leaf. Page browning to endpapers. Front joint cracked. Foxing throughout with some grubby fingermarks to page margins. Some hinges cracked.

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IN GRANDPA'S HOUSE
Written by Philip Sendak. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 599236
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st UK 1986. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Brown cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0370307445. Some light wear to wrapper.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1998
Written by Ian Robinson. Illustrated by John Harrold.
Stock no. 598688
Published by Pedigree Books Limited. 1998. Fine condition.

No. 63. Glazed pictorial boards. Front cover shows Rupert with plate of cakes. ISBN: 1874507198. SIGNED by John Harrold to front endpaper. Belongs to Box is clean. NOT price cut. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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MEET MY FOLKS!
Written by Ted Hughes. Illustrated by George Adamson.
Stock no. 380156
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1961. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The authors first book for children. Yellow and red pictorial boards. Full-page b/w illustrations. 42 pages. Spine and corners just a little worn. Tiny dent to lower edge of front cover. Light foxing to endpapers and contents (mainly to page edges). A couple of faint marks to prelims else covers and contents clean). Dustwrapper is edge worn and grubby with foxing and large damp stain to top edge of rear panel. Minimal loss to top and tail of spine, some closed tears which have been repaired with magic tape on verso.

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THE BOY'S STORY OF LINDBERGH THE LONE EAGLE
Written by Richard J. Beamish.
Stock no. 380157
Published by The Boy's Own Paper. 1st 1928. Very good condition.

Green cloth, gilt title to spine and large pictorial onlay to front cover. 320 pages. B/w photos. The story of the first man to fly from New York to Paris. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Large but neat inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins but contents generally clean.

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DON'T BE SILLY, MR. TWIDDLE!
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Hilda McGavin.
Stock no. 380160
Published by George Newnes Limited. 1967. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial card wraps priced at 2'6. B/w illustrations to text, 79 pages. Covers lightly creased, lower corner tip of rear cover torn off. Light page browning and foxing throughout. One page has a light blue mark to the margin else contents clean.

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FILIDA AND CORYDON, WITH OTHER STORIES
Written by Gwendolen Forwood. Illustrated by Gwendolen Forwood.
Stock no. 380164
Published by J.J. Keliher & Co. Limited. 1902. Good condition.

Written and illustrated by a child for Children. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. 32 pages. Colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. Covers edge worn with some paper loss to spine edge of rear cover. Covers stains to covers. Foxing and fingering throughout but generally contents clean. Both joints have been neatly repaired with white paper. 1" closed tear to top of title page.

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IT'S A DOG'S LIFE
Written by J.G. Marash. Illustrated by Gwendoline Perkins.
Stock no. 437795
Published by Edwards The Printers Limited. 2nd Good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Large format. Pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. Just over half an inch of backstrip missing to base of spine; smaller piece missing to top of spine. Some long splits to spine. Corner cut from top of front endpaper. Contents are very good. Pictorial wrapper is very torn and chipped, with pieces of loss and marks.

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MUM'S PLACE
Written by Reginald Ottley.
Stock no. 598121
Published by Collins. 1st 1974. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A children's book about the emotional struggle between a man and boy in a rundown Australian community. Wrapper slightly edge-chipped.

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THE ADVENTURES OF BOBBY COON
Written by Thornton W. Burgess. Illustrated by Harrison Cady.
Stock no. 437540
Published by Little, Brown and Company. 1945. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The Bedtime Story-Books Series. Red cloth spine with black title. Pictorial colour boards. 8 colour plates. Bumping to corners and spine. Foxing to outer page edges. Pictorial wrapper is foxed to flaps and edge-chipped, with a couple of tear and a little loss.

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THE ROVER BOOK FOR BOYS 1938
Written by Leslie Grant; C.L. Spiers; Alan Drake; et al.
Stock no. 437520
Published by D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd.. 1938. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial covers and spine. Front cover shows a cowboy having his tooth pulled out with a rope! Colour frontis + 3 other colour plates. First story is 'How Lee Perry Played the Juice' by Grant. Cover edges are bumped and worn, with some chipping. Score mark to top of front cover. Chipping along edges of spine. Some tears to paper on spine which appear to have been repaired with glue. Browning to pages internally. A few grubby finger marks. All colour plates are present. Couple of b/w illustrations have been coloured in.

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