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RUPERT ANNUAL 1949
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1330578
Published by Daily Express. 1949. Fair condition.

Last Rupert annual issued in card wraps - Rupert carol singing. 1st story Rupert & Ninky. 120 pages. 9.5x7 ins. Lower half of backstrip is missing. Covers creased and edge rubbed. Tear to inner margin of rear cover. Biro marking to RUP of the title on front cover. Neat name to top and tail of last puzzle page. Belongs to box completed with heavy biro and biro spots to same page. Price NOT cut. Page corner tips lightly creased. Textblock is slightly grubby but otherwise contents are generally clean.

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PRINCE CASPIAN
Written by C.S. Lewis. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
Stock no. 1330575
Published by Ted Smart. 1997. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Book four of The Chronicles of Narnia. Blue boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. Spine bumped. Foxing and light page browning else contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed.

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RIP VAN WINKLE
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1330568
Published by William Heinemann. 1919. Slightly better than good condition.

Frontis and 50 superb colour plates, tissue-guarded and mounted on green card at rear of book. 62 text pages. Green cloth, green titles and vignette to front cover. Spine bumped, worn and browned with small splits to the cloth. Top corners badly bumped with top rear corner almost split. Bumping to bottom corners. Bottom board edges bumped and rubbed. Covers a little grubby. Book plate to front pastedown. Browning to front endpapers and some of the mounts for the plates. Inscription in ink to half title page. Some hinges are cracked. Some fingering. Creasing to a couple of plates. Top of book is bowed.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1966
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1330567
Published by Daily Express. 1966. Almost very good condition.

Dark blue laminated boards. Front cover shows Rupert and chums in a flying saucer. First story - Rupert and the Magic Ball. Includes Magic Paintings. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. A little chipping to top and tail of spine. Slight surface paper damage to top of front endpaper. Inscription in ink to belongs to box. NOT price-cut. Dot-to-dot has been completed in ink to pages 32/33. Magic Paintings are DONE! Couple of small margin tears/nicks to these pages. Wrinkling to margins of some pages - especially magic paining pages and ones near to them. Foxing and browning to outer page edges. Illustrations are still lovely and bright!

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1965
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1330566
Published by Daily Express. 1965. Almost very good condition.

Glazed boards. Front cover shows Rupert carrying a Christmas tree. 1st story Rupert & Gaffer. Magic Painting pages. 115 pages. 10 x 7 inches. Spine and corners bumped and worn with slight loss of backstrip to top of spine. Pencil name in belongs to box. Price NOT cut. Some small margin tears. Magic paintings DONE. Some marks to page margins. There is a printing error to pages 72 and 73 where the black ink appears to have run out (text still readable).

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THE ADVENTURES OF TINKER THE HOLE-EATING DUCK
Written by Patrick Woodroffe. Illustrated by Patrick Woodroffe.
Stock no. 1330565
Published by Dragon's World. 1st 1976. Very good condition.

Anyone can make a hole, Tinker did something very different... he ate them! Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0905895444. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Small black mark and a barcode sticker to rear cover. Contents clean.

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BOM GOES ADVENTURING
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by R. Paul-Hoye.
Stock no. 1330563
Published by The Brockhampton Press Ltd.. 1st 1958. Very good condition.

Bom Book 3. Pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed, cover edges rubbed. Name in ink in belongs to box. A few light foxspots and other marks to margins else contents clean.

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JENNINGS' LITTLE HUT
Written by Anthony Buckeridge.
Stock no. 1330561
Published by Collins. 1960. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black lettering. Top edge red. Colour frontis. 255 pages. Jennings and Darbishire are now in their third term at Linbury Court School and are occupying their leisure time in hut-building... Spine bumped. Endpapers partially browned, light page browning throughout else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with slight loss to spine and corners.

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RHYME STEW
Written by Roald Dahl. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stock no. 1330560
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1989. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Hare likes a flutter, the Tortoise cheats, and they're racing for right of veto on a vegetable patch; the Emperor's new ski clothes tickle the court ladies but leave him cold on the slopes... Blue boards, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. 79 pages. ISBN: 0224026607. Very slight rubbing to cover edges. Couple of small dents to top edges. Foxing and a few grubby marks to page margins. Dustwrapper is foxed to flaps and slightly edge rubbed.

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THE FORBIDDEN FOREST
Written by William Pene Du Bois. Illustrated by William Pene Du Bois.
Stock no. 1330559
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Lovely colour pictorial covers. Full colour illustrations throughout, many double page spreads. 56 pages. Large format. Slight rubbing to spine and corners. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed, small foxspot to front flap and tear to top edge of rear panel.

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THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA
Written by C.S. Lewis. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
Stock no. 1330558
Published by Ted Smart. 2000. Fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

2 Volume set - comprising of TWO of the Narnia stories; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Magician's Nephew. Colour pictorial boards. Illustrated endpapers. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0007658397. Books are fine. Wrappers are slightly edge rubbed. Contained in pictorial slipcase which is slightly sunned to spine.

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CASSELL'S CHILDREN'S ANNUAL 1923
Written by Enid Blyton; Marjorie Seymour; Walter Copeland; Agnes M. Miall; et al. Illustrated by Hilda Cowham; Florence Mary Anderson; E. Dorothy Rees; Mabel Lucie Attwell; Harry Rountree; Anne Anderson; et al..
Stock no. 1330557
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1923. Very good condition.

Green cloth spine with dark titles and vignette. Front cover shows three children in a canoe. First story Tom's Pigs by Marjorie Seymour. Illustrated endpapers by Anne Anderson. Colour plates, colour and b/w illustrations. 200 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn, cover edges rubbed. Slight scuffing to front cover, rear cover slightly grubby. Light foxing to textblock and some page margins.

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