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SNAKEHEAD
Written by Anthony Horowitz.
Stock no. 1202800
Published by Walker Books. Circa 2007. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Alex Rider bites back! Black boards with silver title to spine and snake head vignette to front cover. 397 pages. ISBN: 9781406309355. 5th printing. Wrapper is edge-creased.

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STEPNEY THE BLUEBELL ENGINE
Written by Rev. W. Awdry. Illustrated by Gunvor Edwards; Peter Edwards.
Stock no. 1104387
Published by Edmund Ward Ltd.. 1st 1963. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Railway Series No 18. Blue boards, white title and vignette to front board. Small, oblong format. Colour illustrations. Corner cut from front wrapper flap. Wrapper has large closed tears with edge-creasing.

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GIRL, 15 CHARMING BUT INSANE
Written by Sue Limb.
Stock no. 1104264
Published by Bloomsbury. Circa 2004. Slightly better than very good condition.

Paperback edition. Like any self-respecting girl her age Jess wants to be devastatingly gorgeous, popular and intelligent... ISBN: 0747571856. SIGNED by author, 'for Tilda', best wishes to title page. Light wear to cover corners. 2nd printing.

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A BOOK OF CHILDREN'S VERSE
Written by Mabel Quiller-Couch; Lilian Quiller-Couch. Illustrated by M. Etheldreda Gray.
Stock no. 1303561
Published by Oxford University Press. 1911. Very good condition.

A huge selection of delightful children's verse. Green cloth, gilt title and vignette. 4 Colour plates. 336pp. 9 x 6.5". Spine and corners bumped. Covers are slightly grubby. Both joints have been repaired. Some foxing and light page browning. Hinges cracked. The mount for the plate opposite page 82 has a small closed tear to the lower margin. A nice copy.

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THE IMPOSSIBLE PREFECT
Written by Nancy Breary. Illustrated by Leo Bates.
Stock no. 1303471
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. circa 1964. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. 304 pages. Spine slightly bumped. Light damp staining to lower edges of front cover and spine. Name in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers partly browned. Light foxing to outer page edges. Dustwrapper is just a little bit edge rubbed.

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WHEN SANTA CLAUS WAS YOUNG
Written by Helen Reid Cross. Illustrated by Helen Reid Cross.
Stock no. 1303379
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. Very good condition.

Pictorial card wraps. Pictorial onlay to front cover. Binding is tied up with ribbon. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. Covers are a little bit grubby and edge rubbed. Silk tie is also a little grubby and worn. Foxing to insides of covers and to page edges.

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THE ADVENTURES OF LARRY THE LAMB - MR. NOAH'S HOLIDAY
Written by S.G. Hulme Beaman. Illustrated by Ernest Noble.
Stock no. 1303363
Published by George Lapworth & Co Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial paper wraps. B/w text illustrations throughout. Toy town series number 4. 18 pages. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Covers are grubby. Staples rusty. Small tear to margins of rear pages beside top staple. Some light foxing to contents.

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BARNABY LEE
Written by John Bennett. Illustrated by Clyde O. De Land.
Stock no. 1303352
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Good condition.

Blue decorated cloth with gilt titles. 454 pages. B/w plates. Top edge gilt. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers are slightly scuffed and marked. Joints cracked. Foxing to endpapers, contents clean.

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TRYLLA AND OTHER SMALL FRY
Written by Gunnar Gunnarsson. Illustrated by Raymond Sheppard.
Stock no. 1104093
Published by Hutchinson's Books for Young People. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black titles. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. Corners are bumped. Tape marks to endpapers. Price-cut wrapper is torn with loss and some tape repairs.

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LAND, SEA AND AIR
No author listed.
Stock no. 1303154
Published by The Alexandra Publishing Co.. circa 1925. Very good condition.

'Untearable'. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. 6 full-page colour illustrations and brief histories of all kinds of transport. Name and date (July 1925) in ink to top margin inside front cover. Staples are rusty. Some very light rubbing to cover edges.

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THE LOST TREASURE OF WALES
Written by James Roose-Evans. Illustrated by Brian Robb.
Stock no. 1303149
Published by Andre Deutsch. 1st 1977. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An Odd and Elsewhere story. Burgundy cloth, gilt title to spine. Charming b/w illustrations of the two bears. ISBN: 0233967842. SIGNED by author with red ink dedication to front endpaper (although the author hasn't actually signed his name it is dedicated to M from J and we have another book which is dedicated with the same hand writing to Martha from James). Small number '7' written in blue ink to top corner of front endpaper. Dustwrapper has a tiny closed tear to top edge of front panel.

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GRANNY BEAK COMES TO STAY
Written by Minter-Kemp. Illustrated by Minter-Kemp.
Stock no. 1802247
Published by Tom Dickins Fine Art. 1st 2002. Slightly better than very good condition.

Ponk is the head of the Duckins family and a master brewer by trade. He wants Messrs Mall & Lard to sell his new beer in their swanky emporium. But Ponk has not reckoned on the assistance of the eccentric Granny Beak... Glazed pictorial cream boards. Superb colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0954306708. SIGNED by Minster-Kemp to half-title page. Corners lightly rubbed, lower rear corner worn with slight loss of surface paper. Contents fine.

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