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SEA SCOUTS OF THE 'PETREL'
Written by Percy F. Westerman.
Stock no. 808311
Published by A. & C. Black Ltd.. 1st 1914. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth with pictorial front cover and spine. 8 full colour plates. 292 pages + catalogue to rear. Boards scuffed and worn. Couple chips with a little fraying to top and tail of spine. Corners bumped. Name in ink to front endpaper. Frontis has been reinserted. All plates present.

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RUPERT ADVENTURE SERIES No. 30 - RUPERT AND THE MERMAIDS' COTTAGE
Written by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 808229
Published by Daily Express. Very good condition.

Pictorial card wraps. Second story is Rupert and the Secret Holiday. Colour illustrations. A little chipping to top and tail of spine. Grubby marks to covers and to some pages internally. Small chip to top corner of rear cover.

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RUPERT ADVENTURE SERIES No. 24 - RUPERT AND THE BIRTHDAY SURPRISE
Written by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 808232
Published by Daily Express. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial cardwraps. Also includes story 'Rupert and The Crooked Jug'. 22 pages. Colour illustrations. Grubby marks to covers, with a few small damp marks to rear cover, also affecting a couple of page margins internally. Grubby margin marks.

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RUPERT ADVENTURE SERIES No. 25 - RUPERT AND THE FRENCH POODLES
Written by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 808234
Published by Daily Express. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial cardwraps. Second story is 'Rupert and the New Jersey'. 22 pages. Colour illustrations. 2.5" repaired closed tear to front cover. A few small glue repairs to spine. Contents are very good indeed - very bright and nice and clean.

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CAPTAIN CAIN
Written by Percy F. Westerman.
Stock no. 808244
Published by Nisbet & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1924. Slightly better than good condition.

An adventure story for boys. Red cloth, black titles and vignette to front of one man punching another. 6 b/w plates, 284 pages plus four pages of publisher adverts to rear. Evidence of damp lifting cloth of front cover (a large bubble to spine edge). Spine faded. Corners lightly worn. Small nick in cloth at front vertical edge. Rear joint cracked, front joint just starting to crack at base. A few foxspots present.

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ANNESLEY'S DOUBLE
Written by Percy F. Westerman.
Stock no. 808246
Published by A. & C. Black Ltd.. 1st 1926. Very good condition.

A story for boys. Red cloth, black titles. Colour frontis. 245 pages. Black's Boys' Library. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Hinges lightly pulled. Contents clean.

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THE YOUNG CAVALIER
Written by Percy F. Westerman. Illustrated by Gordon Browne.
Stock no. 808248
Published by C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.. Circa 1925. Good condition.

A story of the civil wars. Blue cloth, black titles and illustration to front cover and spine. 8 b/w plates. 222 pages. Spine slightly faded, a few foxspots to covers, a couple of bumps to edges. Foxing throughout. All plates present.

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ALAN CARR IN THE NEAR EAST
Written by Percy F. Westerman. Illustrated by E. Boye Uden.
Stock no. 808204
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1942. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The story of a Cadet's life and adventures aboard the S.S. Golden Venture during the World War. Red cloth, black titles. 4 b/w plates. 256 pages. Top corners bumped. All plates present. Pictorial wrapper is edge-rubbed & worn with slight loss at corners and a little grubby to rear panel.

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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. 380802
Published by Hodder & Stoughton; Henry Frowde. 1911. Very good condition.

Blue cloth with elaborate gilt decorations and titles. 20 beautiful colour plates mounted on grey card with captions below. Verses arranged by Mabel and Lilian Quiller-Couch. Spine and corners bumped with slight rubbing. Name in ink to front pastedown. Joints just starting to crack. Corner of grey frontis mount is creased. Foxing throughout (some heavy). A nice copy of an attractive book.

Price: £140.00 £98.00.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1997
Written by Ian Robinson. Illustrated by John Harrold.
Stock no. 808085
Published by Pedigree Books Limited. 1997. Fine condition.

No. 62. Tall format, glazed boards. Front cover shows Rupert in his special pond skates. ISBN: 1874507856. Belongs To Box is clean. NOT price cut

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THE MYSTERY OF THE CUPBOARD
Written by Lynne Reid Banks. Illustrated by Piers Sanford.
Stock no. 807916
Published by Collins Lions. 1993. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The third in the triology of the adventures of Omri, Patrick, Little Bull and Boone. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0001855042. Some light marks to covers, with a little bumping along top and tail of spine and a couple of cover edges. Pictorial wrapper is lightly edge-creased.

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A GALLERY OF CHILDREN
Written by A.A. Milne. Illustrated by Henriette Willebeek Le Mair.
Stock no. 807680
Published by Stanley Paul. 1925. Nearly fine condition in a poor dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, gilt titles. Pictorial pastedown to front cover. 12 stories each with a beautiful full-page colour plate. 105 pages. 12 x 9". Spine and corners lightly bumped and rubbed else an exceptionally bright grubby. Wrapper is grubby with approximately half of rear panel missing and has been pasted on to a piece of white card. Reprint in year of first publication. 6th edition. Reduced from £150.

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