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ONE MORE SUMMER
Written by Aubrey De Selincourt. Illustrated by Guy De Selincourt.
Stock no. 1309283
Published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1944. Very good condition.

Green cloth with brown title to spine and vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. 266 pages. Spine and corners bumped, slight rubbing to edges. Date in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and page edges.

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THE FAR ISLAND
Written by M. Pardoe. Illustrated by R. Turvey.
Stock no. 1309281
Published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1936. Good condition.

Green cloth, brown titles and vignettes to spine and front cover. B/w illustrations. The authors first book. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. A few small marks to covers. Frontis has been coloured in with felt-tip pens. Heavy foxing throughout. Contained in photocopy wrapper.

Price: £80.00 £60.00.

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THE STORY OF THE TREASURE SEEKERS
Written by E. Nesbit. Illustrated by Gordon Browne; Lewis Baumer.
Stock no. 1309246
Published by T. Fisher Unwin. 10th 1917. Good condition.

Being the adventures of the Bastable children in search of a fortune. Red cloth with gilt titles and vignettes. B/w frontis and 16 other plates. 296 pages plus publication list to rear. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Covers are worn and unevenly faded, gilt dulled. Small booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Hinges pulled. Contents are well fingered.

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THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA
Written by Kerry Lee Spencer. Illustrated by Kerry Lee Spencer.
Stock no. 1401362
Published by Thomas C. Lothian Pty. Ltd. 1st 2004. Slightly better than very good condition.

How do you know if a princess is real? Glazed pictorial boards. Pictorial endpapers. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 073440672X. Spine and corners a little bumped. Faint grubby mark to rear endpaper else contents are clean.

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THE HISTORY OF WHITTINGTON AND OTHER STORIES
Written by Andrew Lang. Illustrated by H.J. Ford; G.P. Jacomb Hood.
Stock no. 1309231
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1892. Almost very good condition.

Based on the tales in the "Blue Fairy Book". Blue cloth, silver titles and vignettes. 160 pages. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Some slight rubbing to cover edges. Inscription in ink to front pastedown and ink name stamp (small) to front endpaper. Front joint is cracked at to 3". Foxing to contents else clean.

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WINKIE-WEE'S SPRING CLEANING
Written by Christine Chaundler.
Stock no. 1309228
Published by Museum Press Limited. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Winkie Wee Series Book 3. Pictorial boards. 47 pages. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped and worn. Name in ink to front endpaper. Some slight marking to endpapers. A couple of hinges are pulled. Price-cut (by publisher) wrapper is edge torn with some loss and grubby on rear panel.

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THE GOAT WITH THE TAR-BRUSH BEARD
Written by Percy G. Griggs. Illustrated by Edward Lander.
Stock no. 1309221
Published by Medallion Press Limited. Very good condition.

A Medallion Pop-out Book. Open the book and see the goat pop out! Oblong format (5 x 7.75"). Blue cardwraps. Colour illustrations inside covers (at rear is goat that pops out when book is opened), b/w text illustrations. Light rubbing to cover edges. Staples rusty. Light damp stain to lower edges of contents. Pages are lightly browned/foxed.

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STORIES FROM CHAUCER
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer; Janet Harvey Kelman. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1309216
Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack. circa 1907. Almost very good condition.

Told To The Children series. Small format. Green cloth, gilt titles and decoration. Pictorial onlay to front. 8 colour plates. 114 pages. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Spine and corners bumped. Spine slightly browned and covers very slightly mottled. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers and margins of plates are slightly browned. There is some very light fingering to page margins. One page has a small piece torn from margin (no text affected).

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NURSERY RHYMES AND PROVERBS
Written by Marjory Hood. Illustrated by Marjory Hood.
Stock no. 1309208
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. Very good condition.

Large format. Blue cloth spine, blue and yellow pictorial boards. Beautiful colour plates. Spine bumped and rubbed, corners worn. Light mark to top edge of front cover. Endpapers lightly browned and a couple of small glue spots to both pastedowns. Some foxing else contents clean.

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THE WATER BABIES
Written by Charles Kingsley. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
Stock no. 1309185
Published by Dodd, Mead & Company. Very good condition.

Modern three-quarter dark green leather binding with gilt lettering and decoration on spine; marbled boards. 12 colour plates by Jessie Willcox Smith plus two-colour text illustrations. 362 pages Corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Wear to edges of preliminary pages. Large crease to top corner of page 19/20. Page edges lightly browned and fingered. Some pale marks to the edges of some pages, including some plates.

Price: £145.00 £101.50.

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THE ROYAL PROGRESS OF KING PEPITO
Written by Beatrix F. Cresswell. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1207760
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1st 1889. Almost very good condition.

Brown pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Book: inscription in ink to front endpaper. Free endpapers browned. Marks to pastedowns which may be the glue showing through. Some foxing mainly to page edges. Corners and board edges worn. Boards grubby.

Price: £54.00 £40.50.

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NIGHT LIGHT STORIES
Written by Sibyl B. Owsley. Illustrated by Chris G. Temple.
Stock no. 1207758
Published by John F. Shaw & Co Ltd.. Circa 1932. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth spine. Colour pictorial boards showing two children sitting under a tree watched by birds and rabbits. 4 colour plates. B/w illustrations. 9.75" x 7.5". Book: name in ink to front endpaper. Verso of frontis lightly browned. Wrapper: slightly edge-chipped.

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