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JAPANESE CHILD LIFE
Written by Alice Calhoun Haines. Illustrated by Alice Mar.
Stock no. 732629
Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company. 1st 1905. Very good condition.

Stories and verses with full-page colour plates. Large format. 12.5 x 10". Green cloth spine. Pictorial boards. B/w decorative borders to text. Cover edges worn. Spine slightly frayed at top and tail. Covers a little grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Margin tear on two plates have been neatly repaired. Some light fingering to page margins. A nice copy of this attractive book.

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MR NOAH AND THE SECOND FLOOD
Written by Sheila Burnford. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 732651
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1973. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

"Mr and Mrs Noah, true descendants of the original Noah, live on an isolated mountain-top. They are visited once a year by their Bank Manager who brings them a gold bar, a years supply of The Farmers Monthly, and a cake from Mrs Bank Manager wrapped up in an old Sunday Newspaper". Oblong format. Burgundy boards with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0575015667. A lovely copy.

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MONSTER RUPERT 1934
Written by Mary Tourtel. Illustrated by Mary Tourtel.
Stock no. 575808
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1934. Almost very good condition.

Orange boards and spine. Front cover shows Rupert and his friend Peter in a room with two barrels and a trunk. Coloured picture of Rupert on spine. 6 stories, first one is 'Rupert at the Seaside'. Colour frontis as cover. 50mm thick. 9 x 6". Unpaginated. Cover edges and sides of spine worn. Slight surface paper loss at top and tail of spine. Rear cover a little scuffed. Covers unusually bright and clean with very little wear to spine. Foxing to endpapers. Some neat colouring to contents. Two closed tears, one approximately 4" and repaired, the other 1". Both have old tapemarks. A couple of pulled hinges, some small closed margin tears, one page has corner tip missing. Otherwise the contents are bright and clean with no foxing. A nice copy. REDUCED FROM £750!

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SNATCHED
Written by Nicholas Fisk.
Stock no. 426123
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 3rd 1987. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Roughly snatched from the London Embassy, Mo and Gemma are driven to a remote cottage where they are held captive...Black boards, silver title to spine. ISBN: 0340284552. SIGNED by author, with inscription on title page. Light bumping to top and tail of spine.

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THE LAND WHERE SERPENTS RULE
Written by Samantha Lee. Illustrated by Pat Hannah.
Stock no. 575753
Published by Arlington Books. 1st 1980. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0851403301.

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NATHAN'S SWITCH
Written by Pat Moon.
Stock no. 426036
Published by Orchard Books. 1st 1995. Slightly better than very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. McKay's automatic time dial has amazing powers. It can switch Nathan back into the past.... ISBN: 1852139021. SIGNED by author, with inscription on title page. Corners bumped. Contents fine.

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ERIC'S ELEPHANT
Written by John Gatehouse. Illustrated by Marc Vyvyan-Jones.
Stock no. 426065
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1988. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. A Cartwheels book. Eric longs ot have a pet of his own - but winning an elephant in the church jumble sale is not what he had in mind! ISBN: 0241122929. SIGNED by illustrator, with inscriptions and drawings on title page. Spine faded and bumped. Covers have a few grubby marks. Few scratch marks to covers. Contents lovely and bright with only light margin marks to a few pages.

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PIE MAGIC
Written by Toby Forward. Illustrated by Ken Brown.
Stock no. 426075
Published by Andersen Press. 1st 1995. Nearly fine condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. Bertie hates being fat....then he discovers a shop keeper that has a potion to make Bertie lose weight.... ISBN: 0862645468. SIGNED by illustrator, with inscription on verso of front endpaper and by author on half-title page opposite. Light bumping to base of one edge.

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TOTTIE PIG'S SPECIAL BIRTHDAY
Written by Vivian French. Illustrated by Clive Scruton.
Stock no. 426086
Published by Walker Books. 1st 1990. Nearly fine condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. When Mother Pig tells Tottie that the new baby may arrive on her birthday, she is not at all impressed...! ISBN: 0744515106. SIGNED by author, with inscription on title page. Very light indentation marks to covers.

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RETURN OF SQUONK
Written by Julia Jarman. Illustrated by Jean Baylis.
Stock no. 426105
Published by Heinemann. 1st 1995. Nearly fine condition.

A Banana Book. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Jessica waves goodbye to Squonk at the airport...but at the last minute Jessica decides to go with him... ISBN: 0434972398. SIGNED by author, with inscription on dedication page. D.J.Blanch in pen on front endpaper.

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JULIE AND ME...AND MICHAEL OWEN MAKES THREE
Written by Alan Gibbons.
Stock no. 426106
Published by Dolphin Books. 1st 2001. Nearly fine condition.

Pictorial card wraps. It's been a year of goals for Terry and his life as he knows it is about to change... ISBN: 1842550489. SIGNED by author, with inscription on title page.

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THE WORST CHILD I EVER HAD
Written by Anne Fine. Illustrated by Clara Vulliamy.
Stock no. 426110
Published by Hamish Hamilton. Circa 1991. Fine condition.

A Gazelle Book. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. Mrs. Mackle claims she had the very worst child of all! ISBN: 0241130891. SIGNED by author, with inscription on title page. A lovely copy!

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