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ARTEMIS FOWL THE OPAL DECEPTION
Written by Eoin Colfer.
Stock no. 1330438
Published by Puffin Books; The Penguin Group. 1st 2005. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Evil pixie Opal Kobi is planning world destruction... Light blue pictorial glazed boards. 343 pages. Orange endpapers. ISBN: 0141381647. Minimal bumping to spine. Tiny mark to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is very slightly edge rubbed.

ARTEMIS FOWL AND THE LOST COLONY
Written by Eoin Colfer.
Stock no. 1330437
Published by Puffin Books; The Penguin Group. 1st 2006. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Silver boards with metallic red decoration to spine and front cover. Black endpapers. 376 pages. ISBN: 9780141382685. Minimal bumping to spine. Pale page browning else contents fine. Dustwrapper is very slightly edge rubbed.

ARTEMIS FOWL
Written by Eoin Colfer.
Stock no. 1330436
Published by Viking. Circa 2001. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

12 year-old Artemis Fowl is a brilliant criminal mastermind but even Artemis doesn't know what he has taken on when he kidnaps a fairy... Black boards with gilt title to spine. 277 pages. ISBN: 0670899623. 7th printing. Pages lightly browned else contents clean. Dustwrapper is sunned to spine and lightly edge rubbbed.

ARTEMIS FOWL
Written by Eoin Colfer.
Stock no. 1330435
Published by Viking. 1st 2001. Good condition.

12 year-old Artemis Fowl is a brilliant criminal mastermind but even Artemis doesn't know what he has taken on when he kidnaps a fairy... Black boards with gilt title to spine. 277 pages. ISBN: 0670899623. Spine and corners bumped. Covers scuffed and marked. Contents browned but otherwise clean. Crack between half-title page and title-page but binding tight.

A HISTORY OF THE COUNTRYSIDE
Written by Margaret Potter; Alexander Potter. Illustrated by Margaret Potter; Alexander Potter.
Stock no. 1830570
Published by Penguin. 1st 1944. Almost very good condition.

Oblong format. Puffin Picture Book no. 37. Colour pictorial paperwraps with white border and red title to front. Colour lithographs and b/w drawings. Puffin Picture Book No. 37. Last title of Puffin Picture Books to inside front cover is 39. Famous Ships; 5 Baby Puffin Books also listed. Covers are foxed, browned and worn at corners, small closed tear (no loss) to top front edge. '195' stamped to lower rear edge. A few foxspots and marks to contents. Corners creased.

AMONG US CATS
Written by W.E. Hill. Illustrated by W.E. Hill.
Stock no. 1330432
Published by Harper & Bros. 1st 1926. Good condition.

Cat conversations and illustrations in b/w. Red cloth, black title to spine, large pictorial onlay to front. Tipped in colour frontis 'Au Magazin du Chic Chat'. B/w illustrations throughout. Front joint starting to crack and hinge between frontis and title-page is cracked, as a result the first section is loose. Other sections pulled/split at hinges so binding is a little fragile. Glued spine is disintegrating. Grubby fingermarks to endpapers and some page margins. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Covers slightly grubby. A good copy of a scarce book.

A SLENDER REPUTATION
Written by Kathleen Hale. Illustrated by Kathleen Hale.
Stock no. 1330426
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1994. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An Autobiography of the creator of Orlando the Marmalade Cat. Black boards with gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0723237972. Covers are slightly damp(?) spotted. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is just slightly edge rubbed.

THE COLD MOONS
Written by Aeron Clement. Illustrated by Jill Clement.
Stock no. 1330424
Published by Kindredson Publishing. 1st 1987. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A tale of a group of badgers. Blue boards with gilt titles to spine. B/w text illustrations. 322 pages. 9 X 5.5". ISBN: 0951299808. Spine bumped. Textblock is slightly dusty. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased with pale browning to spine.

IN SEARCH OF THE WALLYPUG
Written by G.E. Farrow. Illustrated by Alan Wright.
Stock no. 1330420
Published by C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.. 1st 1903. Very good condition.

Green cloth with gilt titles and vignettes to front cover and spine. 205 pages, all edges gilt. B/w illustrations. SIGNED by the author to front free-endpaper (inscribed "author's autograph copy G.E. Farrow"), small stick partially removed to same page which looks like a prize award sticker. Ghosting due to page browning to front fly-leaf. Browning to rear fly-leaf. Foxing, mainly to prelims. Covers are browned to spine and slightly dulled with some very light spotting to front cover. Spine and corners are bumped and rubbed.

WISH ON PIG
Written by Barbara Ward. Illustrated by Shirley Hughes.
Stock no. 1330419
Published by Collins. 1st 1966. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Story about a dog called Nipper. Green boards, silver title to spine. B/w text illustrations. 159 pages. Minimal bumping to spine. Light foxing to textblock and top of textblock slightly grubby. Some light marks to front free-endpaper from pencil erasure. Dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at corners and just a little grubby to rear panel.

INKHEART
Written by Cornelia Funke.
Stock no. 1330417
Published by The Chicken House. 1st PB 2004. Very good condition.

Mo has the amazing ability to breathe life into characters from stories. Years ago he accidentally released a merciless villain from a book called Inkheart...Red cardwraps. B/w chapter headers and tails. 544 pages. ISBN: 1904442218. SIGNED by the author to title-page. Text-block is very slight grubby with a few small foxspots.

OPEN THE DOOR
Written by Margery Fisher; Eleanor Farjeon; Charles Kingsley; Leila Berg; et al. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Stock no. 1330415
Published by Brockhampton Press. 1st 1965. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Red cloth, gilt vignette to front cover plus gilt title label to spine. Red bookmarker ribbon. B/w illustrations. Jacket designed by Edward Ardizzone. Margery Fisher's own choice of stories from books by famous writers of today and yesterday. ISBN: 0340037091. Covers are slightly edge rubbed. Contents are clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn, faded to spine and has a few felt-tip pen marks to front panel.