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HARRY HEDGEHOG OF BUTTERCUP BANK
Written by Winifred Hunt. Illustrated by Joan Rickaby.
Stock no. 1320442
Published by Blandford Press Ltd.. Circa 1947. Good condition.

Small, oblong format. Red cloth spine, green pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations. 47 pages. Covers are edge rubbed. Spine slightly bumped. Prize plate to front pastedown and some ink writing. Joints were broken and have been repaired with masking tape. First page (frontis) is badly creased and torn with slight loss at lower edges (and a tape repair). Some light foxing to contents. Contents are well fingered with light marks at margins.

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BIRTHDAYS FOR ROBIN
Written by Helen Sewell. Illustrated by Helen Sewell.
Stock no. 1320438
Published by Robert Hale Limited. 1st 1947. Almost very good condition.

Robin wants a dog for his birthday.... Pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations to every page. A picture book for small children. Covers are edge rubbed and a bit grubby. Light page browning and a very light musty smell to contents.

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LET'S HAVE A BITE! A BANQUET OF BEASTLY RHYMES
Written by Robert L. Forbes. Illustrated by Ronald Searle.
Stock no. 1320433
Published by Overlook Duckworth. 1st USA 2010. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, black titles. Colour illustrations throughout. Find the mouse in each illustration! ISBN: 9781590204092. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Light evidence of erased pencil to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is slightly browned and edge rubbed. Remains of a sticky label to rear panel.

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MRS ARMITAGE AND THE BIG WAVE
Written by Quentin Blake. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stock no. 1320430
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1997. Nearly fine condition.

Mrs Armitage and Breakspear the dog go surfing! Pictorial glazed boards. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0224046292. Minimal rubbing to spine and corners. A tiny indentation to rear cover. Contents fine.

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FAVOURITE NURSERY TALES
No author listed. Illustrated by Frank Adams.
Stock no. 1320429
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1935. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Illustrated boards, cloth spine. Colour plates and b/w text illustrations depicting well known nursery tales. First story - Dick Wittingham, last story - The Little Match Girl. Unpaginated. 10.25 x 8". SPine and corners bumped and worn. Stain to rear cover. Some foxing to page margins.

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THE STORY OF MR KORAH
Written by Christabel Aberconway. Illustrated by Rex Whistler.
Stock no. 1320428
Published by Michael Joseph. 1st 1954. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Grey cloth with red spine. Gilt vignette to lower front corner. Delightful tipped-in colour plates and b/w drawings. How Mr. Korah is taken captive by an octopus but lives to tell the tale. Spine and corners bumped. A few light foxspots to textblock. Faint whiff of tobacco to contents. Dustwrapper is just a little grubby.

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TEN TALES WITHOUT A TITLE
Written by Edith Carrington. Illustrated by W. Weekes.
Stock no. 1320425
Published by Griffith Farran & Co.. Good condition.

Cloth spine, pictorial front board showing a variety of animals looking at Raven on fence. 10 colour (chromolithograph) plates plus b/w text illustrations. 212 pages. Professionally re-backed, new spine bumped at head and tail. Covers are worn and grubby, some surface paper loss. New endpapers. Grubby fingermarks and foxing to contents. Lower corner of last page torn off (no text missing).

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THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK MINGO
Written by Helen Bannerman. Illustrated by Helen Bannerman.
Stock no. 1320378
Published by Nisbet & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1940. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Pink cloth, black titles. Colour illustrations. Covers are faded at spine and edges. Name in ink to front pastedown. Dustwrapper is grubby, browned to spine with slight loss at top of spine.

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THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK QUASHA
Written by Helen Bannerman. Illustrated by Helen Bannerman.
Stock no. 1320377
Published by Nisbet & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1940. Good condition.

Small format. Yellow cloth. Colour illustrations to every other page. Pages not numbered. Spine bumped, covers a little grubby. Child's name in crayon to front pastedown. Foxing and grubby fingermarks to contents. Dustwrapper is foxed, grubby and edge worn with loss to spine and corners.

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THE PEEK-A-BOOS' HOLIDAY
Written by Tom Preston. Illustrated by Chloe Preston.
Stock no. 1320360
Published by Henry Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1912. Good condition.

Large oblong format. Red cloth spine with gilt title. Delightful 'chubby' children illustrations! Edges are worn. Spine faded. Some damp marks and general grubbiness to covers. New endpapers. Pages are lightly browned but illustrations are bright. A little damp staining to some page edges.

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THE FOREST OF BOLAND LIGHT RAILWAY
Written by BB. Illustrated by BB.
Stock no. 1320341
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1st 1955. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A quite enchanting story of a colony of gnomes who live in the vast Forest of Boland, quarrying in their mines for precious metals with the aid of the Boland Belle of the Forest Light Railway. One day a mischievous leprechaun leads a band of followers in an attempt to break up the railway... Humour and excitement is captured with ingenious detail in BB's superb b/w illustrations and colour frontis. Blue pictorial boards. 127 pages. Spine slightly bumped with browning/foxing, small brown spot to front cover and some slight discolouration to rear cover. Foxing to textblock and endpapers. A few small marks at page margins. Price-cut wrapper is chipped at edges with loss, grubby and foxed on rear panel.

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THE LEPRECHAUN COMPANION
Written by Niall Macnamara. Illustrated by Wayne Anderson.
Stock no. 1320337
Published by Pavilion Books Limited. 1st 1999. Very good condition.

Looking at the link between leprechauns and the other faery folk of Ireland, and at their cousins in neighbouring countries - brownies, boggarts, piskies, spriggins, kobalds and many more. Large format. Cream pictorial padded boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 1862051933. Spine slightly faded. Small nicks in covers to front edge of spine.

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