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WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS
Written by Christopher Morley. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 738540
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1922. Almost very good condition.

Gissing lived alone on the Canine Estates, had an income of 1000 bones a year but was not happy... A story about dogs. 4 unusual colour plates and 16 b/w line drawings. Blue cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front cover and spine. Blue and white pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt. 227 pages. Spine and corners bumped with a little wear. Covers slightly grubby and spotted. Name plate to front pastedown. Front joint cracked at top (between pastedown and endpaper) and at base (between free-endpaper and half-title page). Foxing to prelims. Some light fingering to page margins. Contents generally clean.

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THEM BONES
No author listed. Illustrated by Ian Dicks.
Stock no. 590104
Published by Tango Books. 1st 1993. Fine condition.

A Fabulous Four-Foot, Fold-Out, Pull-Out Skeleton. Glazed pictorial boards. Paper Engineering by David Hawcock. ISBN: 1857070224. Massive pop-up is in excellent condition!

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THE PEDALLING MAN AND OTHER POEMS
Written by Russell Hoban. Illustrated by Lillian Hoban.
Stock no. 738505
Published by World's Work Ltd.. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Poems about animals, people, both big and small, and about those things and those moments in life that are worth holding on to. Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w text illustrations. 33 pages. ISBN: 043746704X. SIGNED by author with inscription to Peggy Moway on front endpaper. Spine slightly bumped. Endpapers, prelims and outer page edges lightly foxed. Green wrapper is slightly edge torn, grubby with tiny brown spots to spine and edges.

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PLAYTIME & COMPANY
Written by E.V. Lucas. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard.
Stock no. 738506
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 2nd 1925. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth spine. Green pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. Rhymes for children. Corners worn, covers browned and slightly grubby. Slight chipping to title label on spine. Top page corner tips ever so slightly creased. Contents clean.

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MY ANIMAL ABC
Written by Mary Shillabeer. Illustrated by Mary Shillabeer.
Stock no. 738511
Published by Oxford University Press. Circa 1938. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Oblong format. Red pictorial boards. Decorated endpapers. Large illustrations and bold type. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Small dent to cover edges. Bottom of boards a little rubbed. "Fishponds Training College Bristol" stamp to title-page and rear pastedown. Some light foxing to contents, a couple of hinges slightly pulled. Wrapper is edge worn and slightly grubby.

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BARKIS
Written by Clare Turlay Newberry. Illustrated by Clare Turlay Newberry.
Stock no. 738512
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1939. Almost very good condition.

Barkis is a gorgeous little brown puppy dog. Oblong format. Pale green pictorial boards. Delightful colour illustrations. SPine and corners worn. Covers a bit grubby with previous owner's name in ink written to front board. Previous owner's name in ink (twice) to front endpaper. One picture has been coloured on (long green teeth added to picture of girl). Some fingermarks to page margins. Contents generally clean.

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RIDERS AND RAIDS
Written by M.E. Atkinson. Illustrated by Sheila Rose.
Stock no. 589991
Published by The Children's Book Club. 1956. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Yellow boards. B/w illustrations. A Fricka story. Bumping to a couple of corners. Foxing/browning to endpapers and outer page edges. Pictorial wrapper is a little grubby, with some creasing and edge-chipping with a few small edge-tears.

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AMELIARANNE GOES TOURING
Written by Constance Heward. Illustrated by S.B. Pearse.
Stock no. 589994
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1959. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Colour pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Wear to cover edges. Browning to top and tail of spine. Foxing to endpapers and a couple of internal pages. Pictorial wrapper is price-cut, browned, with a few grubby marks and has a couple of closed edge-tears.

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PRINTED KATE GREENAWAY A CATALOGUE RAISONNE
Written by Thomas E. Schuster; Rodney K. Engen. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 589966
Published by T.E. Schuster. 1st 1986. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

A fully comprehensive reference book listing over 600 major items with hundreds of variants within each heading. Covering published books, greetings cards, periodicals, ephemera and spinoffs. Green cloth, gilt titles. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0951175203. SIGNED by T.E. Schuster on front endpaper. A great copy!

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NODDY'S ARK OF BOOKS
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 589971
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co.. Circa 1952. Very good condition.

Five small format paperwrap books contained in shaped pictorial slipcase with opening door at front. Story books are: Noddy and the flying elephant; Big-ears loses some jewels; Noddy and the 3 bears; Noddy's car rides in the air; Noddy and the big balloon. B/w illustrations. Noddy and the flying elephant - this has some extensive damage to covers - looks like they've been 'nibbled' around the edges and to centre of front cover. Some light edge-wear to covers of other titles. Overall still very good - in original slip-case that is a bit worn at edges.

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A FLY-TRAP FOR LITTLE FOLK
No author listed.
Stock no. 589973
Published by Darton & Co.. Circa 1845. Fair condition.

The Royal Nursery Library. Pictorial paperwraps. B/w illustrations. Covers are very grubby and damp marked. Contents are dampmarked also. Spine is split for a few inches. A working copy only.

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THE CHILDREN'S WORSHIP
Written by Phyllis Graham. Illustrated by Elsie Anna Wood.
Stock no. 589883
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1st 1938. Very good condition.

Blue card wraps. Colour illustrations. In slightly edge-chipped orange dustwrapper.

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