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BIGGLES DELIVERS THE GOODS
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1324029
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1946. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth, black titles. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations. 182 pages. Spine and corners bumped, a few light marks to covers and slight darkening to cover edges. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn with brown paper tape repairs/reinforcements to edges on verso.

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BIGGLES SWEEPS THE DESERT
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1324028
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1950. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black titles. Colour frontis and 8 b/w illustrations, 2 double page spreads. 208 pages. Third impression. Lower corner of rear cover is bumped. Small spot to centre of rear cover and some light dustiness to covers. Prize plate to front pastedown, name and address in ink to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is edge worn and torn, slightly faded to spine and a little grubby to rear panel.

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JANE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer.
Stock no. 1324017
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1st 1964. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Blue covers, gilt title and stripes to spine. B/w frontis. 211 pages. Minimal bumping to spine and a small patch faded to top of front cover. Prize plate to front endpaper. Some light foxing to page edges, very pale page browning to endpapers. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins but generally contents are clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn, torn and creased to front panel.

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AIRCRAFT OF TO-DAY: BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED IN COLOUR
No author listed.
Stock no. 1824413
Published by Thames Publishing Co.. Almost very good condition.

Oblong format. Cloth spine. Colour paper boards. Full page colour illustrations with facing page of facts. Text in blue. 63 pages including contents page at rear. Board edges worn, boards scuffed, spine worn at edges. Name & address in ink to front pastedown (small). Contents browned. Hinges pulled but binding holding.

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DEIRA JOINS THE CHALET SCHOOL
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer; Caroline German.
Stock no. 1323997
Published by Girls Gone By. 1st 2010. Slightly better than very good condition.

Motherless from birth, fifteen-year-old Deira O'Hagan is suddenly plucked from her tiny day-school and sent overseas to become a boarder at the Chalet School. Pictorial cardwraps. 281 pages. B/w frontis. ISBN: 9781847450968. Slight rubbing to cover edges. Some light marks to textblock.

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BURGLARS IN THE YARD
Written by Sheila K. Mccullagh. Illustrated by Ray Mutimer.
Stock no. 1323980
Published by Arnold Wheaton. 1st 1983. Nearly fine condition.

A Tim Paperback. Slight rubbing to cover edges. 127 pages. B/w text illustrations. ISBN: 0560014007. Minimal rubbing to corners of covers. Contents fine. Neat barcode sticker to rear cover (attempt has been made to remove it).

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THE BETTANYS OF TAVERTON HIGH
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer; Helen Barber.
Stock no. 1323969
Published by Girls Gone By. 1st 2008. Very good condition.

How Madge and Joey pull together in the face of adversity is the theme of this much-awaited forerunner to the Chalet School series. Pictorial cardwraps. 303 pages. ISBN: 9781847450548. Slight rubbing to corners of covers. Some slight wrinkling to covers and pages. Neat barcode sticker to rear cover.

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THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM
Written by Rob Ryan. Illustrated by Rob Ryan.
Stock no. 1824389
Published by Hutchinson. 1st 2013. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Large format. This is a story about a prince. He lived in a palace that seemed to have been specially designed to make someone who already felt small feel even smaller. This book is about a small boy, a big imagination and learning to be your own person. First title in a trilogy. ISBN: 9780091944438. A few minor marks to endpapers. Contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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PIETER PLUNKER FLYING TAILOR
Written by Peter Dennis. Illustrated by Peter Dennis.
Stock no. 1824387
Published by Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.. 1st 1983. Very good condition.

The true story of the beginnings of flight and how a simple tailor beat the Wright Brothers by four hundred years... Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour comic strip story. ISBN: 035607904X. Boards corners lightly rubbed. Contents clean.

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THE MIAMI GIANT
Written by Arthur Yorinks. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 1824386
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 1995. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large square format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0062050680. Spine and corners lightly bumped. Contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly worn at spine & corners, small red ink mark to rear panel, a few small closed edge-tears, repair to verso with clear tape.

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GOODY O'GRUMPITY
Written by Carol Ryrie Brink. Illustrated by Ashley Wolff.
Stock no. 1824384
Published by North-South Books. 1st thus 1994. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Children come from far and near to taste Goody O'Grumpty's wonderful spice cake. A classic poem of colonial times. Easy-to-follow-recipe at the back. Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 1558583270. SIGNED by the illustrator with a personal dedication to half-title page. Contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly worn at top of spine.

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THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL AFRICAN HIPPOPOTAMUS RACE
Written by Morris Lurie. Illustrated by Richard Sawers.
Stock no. 1824383
Published by Collins. 1st UK 1969. Almost very good condition.

Eight year old Edward Day, the hippo, trains for the greatest river race of them all - the annual African hippopotamus race. White glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Ex-library with usual library marks. Spine browned, boards a little discoloured. A few grubby marks to contents.

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