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OLD FRENCH NURSERY SONGS
Written by Horace Mansion. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 1401869
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth with white titles and borders. Cheap edition. B/w illustrations to song headings. Music by Horace Mansion. Songs in French. Spine and corners a little bumped. A little browning to endpapers else contents are clean and bright. Price cut dustwrapper is edge creased with a small closed tear to spine. Front panel has a vertical crease. A little grubby at spine and folds.

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THE DISINHERITED LITTLE PRINCE
Written by Chieton Chalmers.
Stock no. 1501548
Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

Blue cloth covers with black title to spine. Lined border and title to front cover. 123 pages with 4 page publication list to rear. 3 colour plates. B/w chapter headers and tailpieces. Approx, 6.5" x 5.25". Spine, corners and cover edges worn. Some bumping to spine and corners. Browning to front cover and spine. Front joint cracked. Star stamp and pencil numbers to front endpaper. Last plate is slightly off register. Odd margin mark and fox spot but contents generally clean.

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THE AVENUE
Written by Violet Needham. Illustrated by Joyce Bruce.
Stock no. 2111935
Published by Collins. 1957. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black title to spine. 221 pages. B/w illustrations. Light bumping to cover edges. Presentation plate to front pastedown. Some page browning and foxing; mostly to outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with edge-creasing and chipping; a little loss.

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PECK'S BAD BOY AND HIS COUNTRY COUSIN CYNTHIA
Written by George W. Peckham. Illustrated by Walter McDougall.
Stock no. 1310981
Published by Stanton And Van Vliet Co.. circa 1907. Good condition.

Peck's ingenuity is taxed to originate new pranks for Cynthia, but honors are about even. Very large, oblong format (16.5 x 11"). Cardwraps with colour illustration to front. Printed on one side of the page only, short stories told in comic format. Binding repaired with new red spine covering. Front cover quite badly creased and edge worn. Wear to page edges of first few pages. Lower corner tips (at inner margins) torn off before restoration, no text/pictures affected. Some foxing and pale page browning else contents clean.

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THE PANORAMA OF EUROPE; OR, A NEW GAME OF GEOGRAPHY
Written by Barbara Hofland.
Stock no. 1310973
Published by A.K. Newman and Co.. 1st 1813. Good condition.

Printed at the Minerva Press. Plain brown boards. 240 pages, edges untrimmed. Pull-out b/w frontis of The Empress of Russia's Travelling Equipage. Covers are worn with some chipping of surface paper. Joints cracked but binding still tight. Name in ink to top margin of title-page. Preliminary pages are grubby, there is some foxing to the contents. Considering the age of the book the contents are reasonably clean. This is a decent copy of a very scarce item.

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THE TALKING THRUSH AND OTHER TALES FROM INDIA
Written by W.H.D. Rouse; W. Crooke. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1310971
Published by J.M. Dent & Co.. 1st 1899. Good condition.

Green pictorial cloth. Collected by W. Crooke and retold by Rouse. Indian folk-tales. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Covers grubby and marked, red ink marks to front cover. Child's red ink writing to front endpaper. Endpapers browned, foxing to page edges. Front joint cracked. Lower corner of rear free-endpaper torn off (only a small piece).

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THE SNOWMAN
Written by J. Havenhand. Illustrated by A. Saul.
Stock no. 1310967
Published by E.J. Arnold & Son Ltd.. circa 1964. Slightly better than very good condition.

Swallow Books series. Oblong format. Blue cardwraps. Two-tone illustrations to each page with easy to read text. Staples rusty else fine.

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THE SNOWMAN
Written by J. Havenhand. Illustrated by A. Saul.
Stock no. 1310966
Published by E.J. Arnold & Son Ltd.. circa 1964. Very good condition.

Swallow Books series. Oblong format. Blue cardwraps. Two-tone illustrations to each page with easy to read text. Very small mark top top edge of front cover. Staples rusty. Contents fine.

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THE STORY OF SAINT JOAN
Written by Margaret R. Keary.
Stock no. 1310965
Published by A.R.Mowbray & Co. Ltd. 1st 1925. Almost very good condition.

Blue pictorial cloth, gilt titles. 130 pages. Rear endpapers are a map of Northern and Central France. 9 b/w plates plus a plan of Orleans. Spine and corners worn, spine and rear cover rubbed. Name in heavy pencil to front endpaper. Foxing and fingering else contents clean. Endpapers discoloured.

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THE CAPTAIN'S YOUNGEST PICCINO AND OTHER CHILD STORIES
Written by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Stock no. 1310962
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Almost very good condition.

Brown decorated cloth. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and very slightly worn. Front endpapers replaced. Lower corner of page 39/40 is slightly damaged with some loss (no text lost). Light foxing and fingering else contents clean.

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THE FOLK DOLL OF SION
Written by Joan Smith. Illustrated by Prudence Seward.
Stock no. 1310961
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Hamish Hamilton Antelope Book. Orange pictorial boards. 87 pages. B/w text illustrations. ISBN: 024102398X. Cover edges very slightly rubbed. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is just slightly faded to spine and ever so slightly edge creased.

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WOODLEIGH HOUSE OR; THE HAPPY HOLIDAYS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1310955
Published by T. Nelson & Sons. 1869. Almost very good condition.

Embossed red cloth with gilt titles. 228 pages. B/w plates (with tissue-guards) and text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped, covers a bit grubby and marked. Foxing throughout. Hinges pulled. Tissue-guards browned.

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