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RUPERT ANNUAL 1968
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 738976
Published by Daily Express. 1968. Very good condition.

Colour pictorial boards - Rupert & chums watching large ball coming down from the sky. The last Rupert annual to include Magic Paintings. 10 x 7 inches. 115 pages. No facsimile produced for this year. Spine and corners bumped and just slightly worn with small split to top of spine. Previous owner's name in ink to belongs to box. price-cut. Colouring (not water) to two of the magic paintings, the rest are untouched, top corner of last magic painting page torn out. Light foxing to outer page edges. One hinge pulled.

Price: £54.00 £40.50.

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REAL FAIRIES
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 590889
Published by J. Saville & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1923. Very good condition.

Brown cloth, gilt titles to front cover and spine. A book of poetry. Small format. Enid Blyton's second book. Corners bumped. Endpapers very lightly browned. Page 23 has skillfully repaired closed tear.

Price: £130.00 £91.00.

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NOW WE ARE SIX
Written by A.A. Milne. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard.
Stock no. 738899
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1927. Very good condition in a poor dustwrapper.

Red cloth, gilt titles, vignette and border. Top edge gilt. Pink pictorial endpapers. Delightful b/w illustrations throughout. 103 pages. Spine bumped and slightly rubbed to head and tail, spine has faded patches to centre and base. Lower edge of rear cover is very slightly faded. Covers generally bright and clean. Previous owner's name in ink to half-title page. One hinge cracked. A few very light finger marks to page margins. The book itself is a nice, clean copy. Original wrapper is in two halves (detached along rear edge of spine), spine is browned and has 2.5" loss at top, 1" loss at centre and slight loss at base, also patch of loss to top corner of rear panel. The wrapper looks as though it was originally too small for the book (0.5cm too small along top edge).

Price: £240.00 £168.00.

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MOSS AND BLISTER
Written by Leon Garfield. Illustrated by Faith Jaques.
Stock no. 738777
Published by Heinemann. 1st 1976. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Garfield's Apprentices Series. Green pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 043494033X. Wrapper is very lightly foxed on verso. A super copy.

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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrated by Henriette Willebeek Le Mair.
Stock no. 738815
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1931. Very good condition.

Large oblong format. Brown cloth spine, brown pictorial boards. Pretty colour plates. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Cover edges very very slightly grubby. Large but light foxspots throughout. One plate was detached, now reinserted but with slightly ragged edges. A nice copy of the first edition.

Price: £150.00 £105.00.

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THE COMING OF MAMMALS
Written by Melvin Berger. Illustrated by Robert Cremins.
Stock no. 590670
Published by Child's Play (International) Ltd.. 1st UK 1986. Very good condition.

A New World, In Three Dimensions. Large oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Pop-ups. Some of the largest and most unusual mammals of the past. ISBN: 0859532186. Front cover a little bowed. Some foxing. All pop-ups are very good.

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RUPERT FUN
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 590532
Published by Express Newspapers Ltd.. 1988. Fine condition.

Blue glazed pictorial boards. Colour pictures throughout. ISBN: 0850791782.

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SIR TOADY CRUSOE
Written by S.R. Crockett. Illustrated by Gordon Browne.
Stock no. 738737
Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1905. Good condition.

Blue pictorial cloth. B/w plates and text illustrations. 406 pages. Top edge gilt. Spine and corners bumped, covers a bit grubby. Front free-endpaper removed. Front joint slightly cracked. Rear endpaper browned. Contents clean.

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REVOLVING PICTURES
Written by Ernest Nister.
Stock no. 590328
Published by Collins. 1979. Fine condition.

A reproduction from an Antique Book by Ernest Nister. Original published in 1892. Pictures changed by moving the tab. Glazed boards. ISBN: 0001956477. All revolving pictures are in excellent working order.

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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.

Price: £140.00 £98.00.

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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.

Price: £60.00 £45.00.

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