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WELL DONE SECRET SEVEN
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by George Brook.
Stock no. 1328745
Published by Brockhampton Press Ltd.. 1st 1951. Good condition.

Green and dark cream pictorial boards showing Seven holding hands.. Two-tone & b/w illustrations. 126 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Front cover is slightly grubby. Child's name in heavy pencil to front pastedown. Front free-endpaper has been removed. Heavy foxing to endpapers, prelims and textblock. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins.

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GOOD WORK SECRET SEVEN
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Bruno Kay.
Stock no. 1328744
Published by Brockhampton Press Ltd.. 1st 1954. Very good condition in a poor dustwrapper.

Red and yellow boards showing children holding hands. Two-tone and b/w illustrations. 124 pages. Spine and corners bumped with some fading to top and tail of spine. Foxed/marked to textblock. Price-cut dustwrapper is in two pieces (torn at front spine edge) with large sections missing to front panel and spine. Rear panel is slightly grubby with some slight loss to top corner.

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SECRET SEVEN WIN THROUGH
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Bruno Kay.
Stock no. 1328742
Published by Brockhampton Press Ltd.. 1963. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Pale blue boards with dark blue 'SS' symbols. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0340038187. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Pale foxing to prelims and outer page edges. Dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at edges and slightly foxed on verso.

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THE STORY OF THE LITTLE RED ENGINE
Written by Diana Ross. Illustrated by Leslie Wood.
Stock no. 1328723
Published by Faber & Faber. Circa 1945. Good condition.

Buff and red pictorial boards. Wonderful colour and b/w illustrations, some double page spreads. Oblong format, 7.25 x 9.5". Unpaginated. Spine is damaged with loss of title-strip. Corners are bumped and worn. Covers slightly grubby. Front free-endpaper is missing. There is foxing throughout and a slight musty smell else contents clean.

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ANGUS LOST
Written by Marjorie Flack. Illustrated by Marjorie Flack.
Stock no. 1328722
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1933. Fair condition.

Angus is a Scottish Terrier. Oblong format. Matt pictorial boards. Yellow pictorial endpapers. Colour & b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers slightly grubby and foxed. Front joint is broken but stitches are holding it together. Some light foxing and a light musty smell to contents. Small mark to title-page.

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ANGUS AND THE CAT
Written by Marjorie Flack. Illustrated by Marjorie Flack.
Stock no. 1328721
Published by The Bodley Head. 4th 1945. Very good condition.

Angus is an inquisitive Scottie dog who now has a cat living in his home - a cat who boxes Angus's ears and takes his food and sits in his sunshine... Oblong format. Pictorial boards. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Foxing to contents and light foxing to covers.

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THE BIRD TALISMAN
Written by Henry Allen Wedgwood. Illustrated by Gwen Raverat.
Stock no. 1328719
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd.. 1946. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

An Eastern Tale. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Endpapers browned. Foxing to textblock. Price-cut wrapper is torn, has loss at edges, is browned to spine and foxed.

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THE ITALIAN SPRING
Written by Gillian Avery. Illustrated by John Verney.
Stock no. 1328713
Published by Collins. 1st 1964. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Maria Henniker-Hadden's (the delightful heroine of The Warden's Niece) adventures in Italy spring of 1877. Blue mottle boards, silver title to spine. 256 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Name, date and old price in ink to front free-endpaper. Some light foxing. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and slightly grubby to rear panel.

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THE ELEPHANT WAR
Written by Gillian Avery. Illustrated by John Verney.
Stock no. 1328710
Published by Collins. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

The fourth story of the Smith family, beginning with a misunderstanding (like many wars before and since). Red boards, silver title to spine. 256 pages. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Light tape mark to front cover. Name in ink and also evidence of removal of a label to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is edge worn, chipped with slight loss, a bit grubby to rear panel and has a large tear across front panel which has been tape repaired on verso and is not very noticeable to front.

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KATJE THE WINDMILL CAT
Written by Gretchen Woelfle. Illustrated by Nicola Bayley.
Stock no. 1328709
Published by Walker Books. 1st thus 2001. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A heroic tale inspired by a true story that took place over 500 years ago. Oblong format. Glazed decorated boards. Wonderful colour illustrations. ISBN: 0744580161. Minimal rubbing to wrapper edges.

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ONE WORLD
Written by Michael Foreman. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 1328708
Published by Andersen Press. 1st 1990. Nearly fine condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. One sky, one sun, one moon, one world and a little girl. ISBN: 0862642892. Very slight fading to spine. Contents fine.

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IRISH FAIRY TALES
Written by James Stephens. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1828994
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1920. Very good condition.

A book in which Rackham broke new ground in the illustration of Irish literature. Stephens had attempted to create an Irish equivalent of The Arabian Nights in his own poetic retelling of the stories which existed in the oral tradition. Rackham rose to the occasion and produced 37 memorable illustrations including 16 in full colour. Green cloth, gilt decoration to front cover and spine. 318 pages. Spine browned and thus gilt to spine is faded. Corners rubbed and a little worn, lower rear corner has tiny nibble to cloth at edge. Text block and endpapers browned. Gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. All plates present, pale foxing to plate edges, tissue guards browned. Plate facing page 214 has slight surface paper damage to margins where tissue-guard was stuck. Contents clean.

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