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LARKY LEGENDS
Written by Norman Hunter. Illustrated by James Arnold.
Stock no. 319562
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1938. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, red titles and decorations. Illustrated endpapers. Numerous b/w text illustrations. 220 pages. 8.5 x 7". Spine a little bumped. Some foxing, mostly to endpapers, prelims and page edges. Contents otherwise bright and clean. Dustwrapper a little edge worn, with chipping to spine - neatly tape repaired to rear. An excellent copy of the first edition.

Price: £98.00 £73.50.

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YVETTE IN THE U.S.A. WITH TITANIA'S PALACE
Written by Nevile Wilkinson.
Stock no. 320267
Published by Nisbet & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1960. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Green boards with gilt vignette to front and title to spine. B/w plates throughout. 207pp. 8 x 5.5". Writing on front endpaper. Otherwise the book is bright and clean. Dustwrapper bright but a little chipped to edges.

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BEARS
Written by Rose Fyleman. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.
Stock no. 321510
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. 1st 1935. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Orange boards. Colour frontis piece, b/w illustrations throughout. 102pp. 7.5 x 5". Dustwrapper spine faded. A little edge worn. Generally a VG copy.

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CALAMITY
Written by Camilla Ashforth. Illustrated by Camilla Ashforth.
Stock no. 321576
Published by Walker Books. 1st 1993. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Pictorial laminated boards. A sweet simple story with delightful water colour illustrations throughout. 10 x 9". ISBN: 0744525780. Dustwrapper ever so slightly bumped to corners.

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WITH RUPERT THE BRAVE
Written by Sheila E. Braine. Illustrated by E. Stuart Hardy.
Stock no. 321813
Published by E.P.Dutton & Co.; Ernest Nister. Very good condition.

Brown boards with black pictorial decorations and gilt titles. Chromo. frontis piece. B/w text illustrations. 160pp. 7.5 x 5". Contents a little browned. Otherwise a delightful copy.

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DON'T BE SILLY, MR. TWIDDLE!
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Hilda McGavin.
Stock no. 322228
Published by George Newnes Limited. Very good condition.

Pictorial card wraps priced at 2'6. B/w illustrations to text, 79 pages. Small remains of sticker to title-page otherwise a nice, bright copy.

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THE HONEST THIEF
Written by Val Biro. Illustrated by Val Biro.
Stock no. 322383
Published by Brockhampton Press. 1st 1972. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Hungarian folk-tale. Colour pictorial boards. Green endpapers. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0340164522. Ex-lib with just one stamp to title-page, otherwise a fine copy. price-cut dustwrapper.

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THE BETTY BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 322589
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. Good condition.

Pictorial boards with cream cloth spine. 6 delightful colour plates. A lovely collection of very short stories written by Betty, Betsy & Bess. 11 x 9". Unpaginated. Covers are grubby and worn, crease to lower corner of front cover. Wear to spine and corners. Contents are grubby and fingered, especially lower margins and corner. Name in ink in belongs to box and ink message to bottom corner of rear pastedown. A few small margin tears. All plates present, a couple have light creases.

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FLOWERS OF DELIGHT
Written by Leonard De Vries.
Stock no. 323560
Published by Dennis Dobson. 1st 1965. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Culled by De Vries from the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. An agreeable Garland of Prose & Poetry for the Instruction and Amusement of little Masters and Misses and their distinguished Parents. Large format. Brown decorated boards with gilt title to spine. Embellished with some 750 elegant woodcuts and Engravings of which upwards of 125 are coloured. 232 pages. Spine slightly bumped. Pictorial wrapper is price-cut and very slightly grubby.

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NIGHTS WITH UNCLE REMUS
Written by Joel Chandler Harris. Illustrated by F. Church.
Stock no. 323760
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1st UK 1884. Almost very good condition.

Blue pictorial cloth, gilt title to spine. Floral decorated endpapers. B/w plates. 300 pages plus adverts to rear. Spine rebacked with blue cloth with original spine laid on. Hinges reinforced. Corners a little worn. Small closed tear to one page. Contents clean. A nice, professionally repaired copy of this timeless classic!

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THE BIG NODDY BOOK
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Beek.
Stock no. 324135
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.; The Richards Press Ltd.. 1979. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Green glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. First story is "The Little Clockwork Car". Third Noddy Book. ISBN: 0361045638. neat inscription to front endpaper and belogns to box. Small tear to front endpaper with slight loss to corner. Contents a bit grubby.

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GOOD WIND AND GOOD WATER
Written by Nancy Cabot Osborne; Alice Cushing Gardiner. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese.
Stock no. 324483
Published by The Viking Press. 1st 1934. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Red boards. B/w full page and text illustrations. 248 pages, maps for endpapers. Contents lightly foxed. Otherwise an excellent copy. Dustwrapper edge worn and slightly grubby. Slight loss to edge and spine.

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