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MISS JEMIMA
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Alec Buckels.
Stock no. 1322954
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1st 1925. Good condition.

'The Jolly Books'. Cream and blue decorated boards. Colour frontis, 3 b/w full-page illustrations. Minimal bumping to spine. Covers are browned at edges. Pages have been roughly opened after the binding process causing ragged edges and tears. Large piece of page 15/16 has been neatly reinserted. Small booksellers sticker to rear pastedown.

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OLD JOE
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by C.T. Nightingale.
Stock no. 1322953
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1st 1927. Very good condition.

Grey boards with pictorial onlay to front. 29 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Small booksellers sticker to rear pastedown. Original tissue-paper wrapper is edge worn and creased and lower half of spine is missing.

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LUCY
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Hilda T. Miller.
Stock no. 1322952
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1st 1927. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Grey boards with orange title and colour onlay to front. 40 pages. B/w illustrations. Minimal bumping to spine. Some pale page browning and a small booksellers sticker to rear pastedown else contents clean. Original tissue-paper wrapper is slightly browned.

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FOUR TO FOURTEEN
Written by Kathleen Lines; Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Harold Jones.
Stock no. 1322951
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1950. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A library of books for children compiled by Lines, introduction by De La Mare. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Foxing else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge faded and chipped with minimal loss.

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THE DUTCH CHEESE
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop.
Stock no. 1322949
Published by Alfred A. Knopf. 1st USA 1931. Very good condition.

Green cloth, gilt title to spine and front cover, embossed vignette to front. Colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 75 pages. Spine slightly bumped. Fading to spine and cover edges. Light foxing to textblock. Contents clean.

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THE STORY OF MISS JEMIMA
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Nellie H. Farnam.
Stock no. 1322947
Published by Grosset & Dunlap. 1st USA 1940. Good condition.

Blue cloth spine, yellow pictorial boards. 55 numbered pages. Colour and b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Child's pencil writing to front free-endpaper. Some light fingermarks at page margins else contents clean.

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NURSERY RHYMES FOR CERTAIN TIMES
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Elinor Darwin; Moyra Leathem.
Stock no. 1322946
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st thus 1956. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

The most completely satisfying book of nursery rhymes and jingles that have ever been published! Grey cloth. Two-tone line drawings throughout (coloured by Leathem). Introduction by De La Mare. 124 pages. Spine slightly bumped. Slight fading to cover edges. Endpapers browned. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is lightly foxed, edge chipped with loss to top and tail of spine.

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JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by William Stobbs; Brenda Stobbs.
Stock no. 1322945
Published by Hulton Press Ltd.. 1st 1951. Fair condition.

Fairy Tales in Pictures Number One. Oblong format, 8 x 5.5 inches. Two colour pictures and text below to each page. Unpaginated. Contents very loose, front joint broken but cover still attached to contents. Child's name in ink in belongs to box and a couple of small ink stamps below. Covers are edge worn and grubby, spine covering is missing.

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SNOW-WHITE
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by David Walsh.
Stock no. 1322944
Published by Hulton Press Ltd.. 1st 1952. Fair condition.

Fairy Tales in Pictures Number Three. Small oblong format. Matt pictorial boards. Two colour illustrations to each page with text below. One hinge pulled/almost broken, causing contents to be loose. Covers are edge worn, covering of spine is missing. Rear cover is grubby.

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CINDERELLA
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Ionicus.
Stock no. 1322942
Published by Hulton Press Ltd.. 1st 1952. Very good condition.

Fairy Tales in Picture Number Four. Small oblong format. Matt pictorial boards. 2 Colour illustrations per page with text below. Spine and corners slightly worn. Some light scuff marks to covers. Some light foxing to contents. One hinge pulled causing contents to be slightly loose.

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AN ELEPHANT IN THE GARDEN
Written by Michael Morpurgo. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 2139571
Published by The Book People Ltd.. Circa 2010. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Elizabeth, Karli and their mother are avoiding the Russian troops which would be hard enough to do, even if they didn't have an elephant to look after! Glazed pictorial boards. 232 pages. B/w illustrations. Bumping to spine and corners. Page edge browning. Some edge-creasing to wrapper.

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AND GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD
No author listed. Illustrated by Fred Hug; Margaret Hug.
Stock no. 2139562
Published by Oliver and Boyd. 1st 1963. Very good condition.

The story of the Creation. Very large oblong format. Orange cloth spine, pictorial front board. Colour illustrations throughout. Spine bumped, corners worn. A few small marks to covers. Name and date in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean.

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