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SNUFFLES FOR SHORT
Written by Christine Chaundler. Illustrated by Honor C. Appleton.
Stock no. 1705693
Published by Nisbet & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, silver title to spine and small vignette to front cover. Colour frontis. 6 b/w plates. Wrapper edge-worn and grubby.

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WARNE'S STORY BOOK OF ANIMALS
Written by Aunt Louisa.
Stock no. 1107061
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Cloth spine. Pictorial front cover shows children giving a dog a bath. With 8 plates in colour. Light bumping and wear to spine and corners. 'Property Room' ink stamp to verso of frontis (publishers file copy). Some page browning. Wrapper is price-cut with large tear to base of spine and some creasing; also grubby.

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CLARA'S COUNTRY YEAR
Written by Ralph Whitlock. Illustrated by Shirley McLaughlin.
Stock no. 1107041
Published by Frederick Warne. 1st 1981. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Beige boards, red title to spine. B/w illustrations throughout. 127 pages. ISBN: 0723227667. Some indentation marks to covers and wrapper panels. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper spine is faded with small tear hole to front panel.

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D.B. KABALEVSKY'S JOEY THE CLOWN (THE COMEDIANS)
Written by Keisuke Tsutsui; Ann King Herring. Illustrated by Saburo Watanabe.
Stock no. 1107035
Published by Frederick Warne. 1st 1974. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Oblong format. Pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Fantasia Pictorial Series - Stories from Famous Music. ISBN: 0723217831. Some light bumping and wear to spine and corners. Wrapper is price-cut; some edge-creasing.

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MR PRIDE'S UMBRELLA
Written by Eve Bunting. Illustrated by Maggie Ling.
Stock no. 1107019
Published by Frederick Warne. 1st 1980. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0723227039. 'Property Room' ink stamp to front endpaper (appears to be a publisher file copy). Wrapper is lightly browned.

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MORE PRAYERS AND GRACES
Written by Allan M. Laing. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.
Stock no. 1107009
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Second Little Book of Unusual Piety. Blue boards, gilt title to spine; vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. Some uneven fading to covers. Foxing to pages. Wrapper is unevenly faded with some foxspots and edge-nicks.

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ARCADIAN BALLADS
Written by James Reeves. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Stock no. 1307512
Published by Heinemann Educational Books. 1st thus 1978. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Tall format. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 48 pages. ISBN: 0435147722. Minimal rubbing to wrapper edges.

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NICOLA BAYLEY'S BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES
No author listed. Illustrated by Nicola Bayley.
Stock no. 1307490
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1975. Very good condition.

Nicola Bayley's first book. Favourite nursery rhymes illustrated by glorious full-colour pictures. Dark blue glazed pictorial boards. ISBN: 0224011731. Spine and corners bumped. Some erased pencil writing to top margin of title-page. Some very light foxing. Contents clean.

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A DANGEROUS GAME OF FOOTBALL
Written by Barbara Spencer.
Stock no. 1805509
Published by Ryelands. 1st 2008. Nearly fine condition.

Jack's best mate, Saleem, fails to return after a visit to his home. Jack is drawn into a journey to a land ruled by sun and peopled with tyrants, sorcerers and giant crows. Now he must find Saleem, coach a team of boys for a football match - and stay alive!... which might just prove rather difficult if your only ally is a cantankerous camel! Red pictorial cardwraps. ISBN: 9781906551001. SIGNED by the author with dedication to title page.

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LAUGHS! SCREAMS!! YELLS!!!
No author listed.
Stock no. 1307388
Published by McCorquodale & Co. Ltd.. Fair condition.

The Flip-Flap Series. Over 2,500 funniosities. Contents are in 3 sections, you can turn each section to make funny animals/people. Top 2 sections are no longer attached with rusty staples, but held in with some stitching. Covers grubby and creased.

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THE GRANDMOTHER STONE
Written by Margaret Greaves.
Stock no. 1805506
Published by Methuen. 1st 1972. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A finely perceived drawing of adolescent love against a turbulent background of witch-craft and passion. Green boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0416660606. SIGNED by the author (with dedication) to front endpaper. Pictorial wrapper is faded to spine.

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HELLO NELLIE AND THE DRAGON
Written by Elizabeth Lindsay. Illustrated by Nick Sharratt.
Stock no. 1805505
Published by Back To Front. 1st thus 2003. Fine condition.

Nellie loves Gertrude the dragon who lives in her shed but she is always having to get her out of trouble! What would you do if your dragon friend burnt her bottom on a hot air balloon, stole a mattress and broke your stilts? Yellow cardwraps. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 190452902X. SIGNED by the author (with dedication) to title page.

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