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PLAIN SAILING FOR LITTLE LEARNERS
Written by Violet Harford. Illustrated by Violet Harford.
Stock no. 592613
Published by Valentine & Sons Ltd.. Very good condition.

Large format. Blue pictorial card wraps. Colour illustrations. Counting, spelling and telling the time rhyme book. Name in ink to first page. Exercises very neatly completed.

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CHILDHOOD
Written by Githa Sowerby. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby.
Stock no. 377898
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1907. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth spine, gilt title. Blue boards with gilt title and vignette to front. Colour plates. B/w illustrations to text. A book of poems. Spine bumped and rubbed. Corners worn. Damp stains to rear cover and slight rubbing to edges of front cover. Foxing to contents and a few small fingermarks. A corner tip of one plate has been creased (not affecting actual picture). Contents are generally clean.

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TO NURSERY LAND WITH LOUIS WAIN
Written by Clifton Bingham; et al. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 626882
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1915. Very good condition.

Edited by Edric Vredenburg. Father Tuck's "Golden Gift" Series. Red cloth spine with black title. Pictorial boards show dozing mother cat with rocking cradle of three kittens in front of a fireplace. Colour frontis plus b/w and two tone illustrations of cats and some of dogs throughout. REDUCED FROM £460. Top of boards and frontispiece damp stained. Edges rubbed, corners worn. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Slight margin loss at top of title page and next four pages. A few grubby marks to last page else contents lovely, clean and bright. A nice copy of a scarce title.

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MUSIC IN PUSSYTOWN
No author listed. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 626888
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. Circa 1920. Almost very good condition.

Father Tuck's "Wonderland" Series. Pictorial cardwraps. 4 full page colour illustrations plus two tone illustrations of Wain's anthropomorphic cats. Accompanied by rhyme. Oblong format. Backstrip missing. Base of spine to first stitch is split and therefore contents a little fragile. Vertical crease in centre of book. Small patch of surface paper loss to front spine edge corner. Light browning to contents else lovely and bright. A nice copy of an exceptionally rare Louis Wain title.

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DAYS IN CATLAND
Written by Arthur Burnaby. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 626891
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1912. Poor condition.

A Father Tuck's Panorama. Oblong format. 4 plates in concertina form that fold out to create a large panorama with 14 numbered card figures of cats, and corresponding numbered slits in the panorama to insert the cat figures. On the reverse is a rhyme by Arthur Burnaby with b/w illustrations also by Wain. Each plate has now separated (the spine has completely gone) so that four individual plates are left. Plates are nice and bright. Six of the fourteen cat figures are missing. One cat figure is missing the head. Some figures a little creased. Rear cover grubby and torn where pocket flap was (pocket flap missing).

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RUN-ABOUT'S HOLIDAY
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Lilian Chivers.
Stock no. 592213
Published by Lutterworth Press. 1st 1955. Very good condition.

Blue boards, dark blue titles. Colour frontis. B/w text illustrations. Browning to spine. A few brown marks to covers. Corners a bit bumped. Foxing to outer page edges and a few to page margins.

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ZEBROLOGY
Written by H.A. Rey. Illustrated by H.A. Rey.
Stock no. 739991
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1937. Very good condition.

Small oblong format. Cream pictorial card wraps. A story without words showing how the zebra came to be. 8 delightful colour pictures. Author's first English title. 1" to front side of spine is slightly browned. A few very light scuff marks to covers but generally clean. Ever so slight creases to top page corners. Contents very clean. A nice copy of this rare story without words.

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RUPERT ADVENTURE SERIES No. 23 - RUPERT AND THE SNOW SPORTS
Written by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 739972
Published by Daily Express. Circa 1955. Very good condition.

Title story Rupert And The Snow Sports. Also includes Rupert And The Vanishing Pet. 24 pages. Pictorial card wraps. Colour illustrations. Some light rubbing to cover edges. Some light foxing to rear cover (inside and out). Top page corners lightly creased. A nice copy.

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FLY THE SPACE SHUTTLE
Written by Carole Stott.
Stock no. 991161
Published by Dorling Kindersley. 1st 1997. Fine condition.

Complete 32 page book plus separate spectacular 3-D space shuttle model to make. ISBN: 0751356255. Model unused and still in its polythene bag.

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THE FARM
No author listed. Illustrated by Claire Henley.
Stock no. 991141
Published by Thunder Bay Press. 1st 1994. Fine condition.

Open out a three-dimensional farm. Glazed pictorial boards. Orange ribbons. ISBN: 1571450238. In fine condition.

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HAGAR AND THE BASILISK
Written by Dik Browne. Illustrated by Dik Browne.
Stock no. 434195
Published by Egmont Publishing Limited. 1st 1977. Very good condition.

Large format. Pictorial card wraps. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0416052207. Covers are a little edge-creased and worn. Name in ink to inside front cover. Foxing to outer page edges.

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SIR TOADY CRUSOE
Written by S.R. Crockett. Illustrated by Gordon Browne.
Stock no. 434153
Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd.. 1905. Very good condition.

Blue pictorial cloth. B/w plates and text illustrations. 406 pages. Top edge gilt. Spine and corners are bumped and worn, with some chipping and a little fraying of cloth. Browning to cover edges. Some grubby marks to endpapers and outer page edges.

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