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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THE BALLAD OF BEAU BROCADE
Written by Austin Dobson. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
Stock no. 438622
1st 1892. Almost very good condition.

Cream cloth with gilt title to spine. Large paper limited edition of 250 copies (For England). Tissue-guarded illustrations. Numbered copy 75 of 250 copies. Spine is very browned. Some bumping and wear to corners, with a little chipping. Some grubby marks and brown stain to bottom edge of front cover. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Name and date inscription in ink of previous owner to front pastedown. A few light margin marks, but contents are still very good and nice and tight.

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BABAR'S FRIEND ZEPHIR
Written by Jean De Brunhoff. Illustrated by Jean De Brunhoff.
Stock no. 806914
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1937. Almost very good condition.

Yellow cloth spine, blue pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Large format Edges worn, lower edges have some surface paper loss to boards. Front joint just starting to crack. A few fingermarks to margins else clean.

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BABAR AT HOME
Written by Jean De Brunhoff. Illustrated by Jean De Brunhoff.
Stock no. 806915
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1938. Almost very good condition.

Maroon pictorial boards, light blue cloth spine, wonderful colour illustrations throughout. Blue/grey pictorial endpapers, Very large format. 40 pages. Covers scuffed & scratched with a small patch of surface paper loss to front cover. Edges worn. Top & tail of spine slightly frayed. One or two margin marks else clean and bright.

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A COUNTRY HOLIDAY
Written by Arthur Davenport. Illustrated by John Morton-Sale.
Stock no. 806931
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1933. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth. 4 colour plates and 12 b/w illustrations. Bookplate to front pastedown. Contents clean. Small closed tear to the top inner margin of one plate not affecting illustration. Price-cut pictorial wrapper is edge-worn and chipped with loss, grubby.

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CALIBAN'S HOUR
Written by Tad Williams.
Stock no. 438320
Published by Legend Books. 1st 1994. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A stunning return to the magnificent isle of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Red boards with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0099263610. SIGNED by author on title page. Pictorial wrapper is edge-creased, with some light wear.

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THE FINISHING SCHOOL
Written by Pamela Brown.
Stock no. 438220
Published by John Goodchild. 1st 1985. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Rosemary Langford was born in Singapore but was sent to school in England. Just before she was due to return to school in the Autumn of 1939 she had to spend three weeks in hospital in Singapore. War was declared and Rosemary's mother said she could go to finishing school in Switzerland when the war was over. The author's last book. Green boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0863910580. Some light page browning to pages internally.

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DRAGON QUEST
Written by Allan Baillie. Illustrated by Wayne Harris.
Stock no. 438229
Published by Scholastic. 1st 1996. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Oblong format. Colour illustrations. Be a hero and great warrior - hunting the last dragon! ISBN: 1863881190. SIGNED by author - 'Cheers Rebecca, good luck in finding the dragon!' with small knights helmet illustration. Spine and corners are bumped and worn, with a little chipping. A few indentation marks to covers. Binding is starting to come a little loose in places.

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SUMMER IS A FESTIVAL
Written by Pamela Brown.
Stock no. 438200
Published by Brockhampton Press. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

White boards, metalic red title to spine. For Bethany and the other students at Broomfields, the hightlight of the holidays was to be their performance at Camelyeard's Summer Festival... ISBN: 0340158379. Bumping along a couple of cover edges, with a little browning. A few pages internally have corner creases. Pictorial wrapper is bright with a little edge-creasing and a few wear marks to rear panel and corners.

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JEREMY'S DAY IN THE COUNTRY
Written by A.J. Macgregor; W. Perring. Illustrated by A.J. Macgregor.
Stock no. 438207
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Series 401. Buff boards with square pictorial onlay to front and titles. Bumping along couple of cover edges. Some light green pencil colouring to front endpaper. Free front endpaper has an extensive ink drawing of a person to it. Some of the b/w illustrations above text to text pages have the characters tails coloured with biro. Ink tick and cross marks to other ladybird titles page to rear of book. Pictorial wrapper has ink underlining to titles on rear flap, edge-tear to front flap, and a few other smaller edge-tears and nicks. Name in pencil written across front of front panel. A few other smaller marks to wrapper. Overall, still a good copy of this scarce item.

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DAYS IN CATLAND
Written by Arthur Burnaby. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 627756
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1912. Good 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. Concertina folds worn leading to two pages being detached and last page fold fragile but holding. Edges rubbed. All figures present and in place. Light page bronwing. Colour illustrations and figures nice and bright.

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THE MASTER OF MARYKNOLL
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Alice Bush.
Stock no. 806406
Published by Evans Brothers Limited. 1st 1950. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

An exciting story set in Ludlow and Hereford. Blue boards, gilt titles. Colour frontis, b/w text illustrations. Endpapers are maps. 223 pages. Bumping to a couple of corners. Some browning along cover edges. Foxing to outer page edges and a few page margins. Inscription in ink to verso of frontis plate. Pictorial wrapper is edge-torn and chipped, with a couple of small pieces of loss, to top of front panel and top and tail of spine. Grubby marks to rear panel; edge-creasing.

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