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GOOD AFTERNOON, CHILDREN
Written by Columbus. Illustrated by John Morton-Sale.
Stock no. 703842
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st Very good condition.

Wireless stories and plays from The Clildren's Hour. Edited by Columbus. Yellow cloth, grey titles and decorations. 4 Colour plates and many b/w illustrations. 267 pages. 9.5 x 6". Spine and corners bumped. Covers very slightly grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper partly erased, name to belongs to box. Page-edge foxing.

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PECKER THE SUPER BIRD
Written by Reuben Lincoln.
Stock no. 704289
Published by Serjeants Press. 1948. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Join Pecker & friends in the house that turns into a ship, a teap arty with Alice & lots more! Orange cl. Col frontis. Charming b/w plts. 150pp.Cr.4to. Spine bumped and slightly worn. Top corners bumped. Contents bright and clean. Pictorial wrapper edge-worn and torn with tape repairs to verso and grubby.

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POLLYCON
Written by E.F. Stucley. Illustrated by Hugh Chesterman.
Stock no. 704921
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1st 1933. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A book for the young economist. Green cloth with red titles and illustrations to front. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Some slight foxing. White pictorial wrapper is a little foxed and edge-worn with minimal loss.

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THE GOLDEN AGE
Written by Kenneth Grahame. Illustrated by R.J. Enraght-Moony.
Stock no. 705452
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st thus 1915. Good condition.

Large format, grey cloth, red titles and ship decoration. Green and white pictorial endpapers. 19 colour plates. Top edge red, others uncut. Lower corner nibbled. Endpapers partly browned. Contents bright and clean.

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SINTRAM & HIS COMPANIONS
Written by La Motte Fouque. Illustrated by E.J. Sullivan.
Stock no. 705549
Published by Methuen & Co.. 1st thus 1908. Good condition.

Green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine. 21 striking b/w plates. Page edges uncut. Spine and corners bumped. Spine worn to head and tail. Covers marked. Prizeplate to front endpaper. Some slight foxing. Some light creasing to page corners.

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SUMMER ISLAND
Written by Renee Sidney. Illustrated by Achoy.
Stock no. 705563
Published by Lutterworth Press. 1st 1944. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Yellow cloth, green titles and vignette. Colour and b/w illustrations. Rose Mary was a little sick girl who found sunshine on Summer Island. Spine and corners a little bumped. Lower edges slightly worn. Name to front endpaper. Some slight foxing. Dustwrapper is worn with 2" loss to head of spine and small section missing from top corner of front flap.

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STUDYING INSECTS
Written by John Clegg. Illustrated by E.C. Mansell.
Stock no. 705640
Published by Bruce & Gawthorn Limited. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Wonderful World of Nature series. Blue boards, black titles. 8 colour plates. B/w photos and line drawings. Wrapper is price-cut.

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SONG DEVICES AND JINGLES
Written by Eleanor Smith. Illustrated by Florence Young; S.B. Pearse; Kathleen Nixon.
Stock no. 706341
Published by Waverley Book Company Ltd.. Very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine with black title. Paper boards with large pictorial onlay to front. Delightful colour plates. Words and music. Boards worn to edges, pictorial onlay to front is slightly scuffed. Writing on spine faded. Front joint beginning to crack. All eight plates are present. Some fingering to contents. Still a nice copy.

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WELL DONE NODDY!
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Beek.
Stock no. 708250
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.; C.A. Publications Ltd.. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Orange pictorial boards, colour pictures throughout. Noddy Book No. 5. Spine and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. Inscription in ink to belongs to box. Contents fine. Orange pictorial wrapper is grubby with loss to head of spine and reinforcements with white labels to rear. An early reprint.

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THE VILLAGE WATCH-TOWER
Written by Kate Douglas Wiggin.
Stock no. 708721
Published by Gay and Bird. 1st UK 1895. Very good condition.

Beige cloth, green titles and decoration. 230 pages plus 32 page publication list to rear. Slight marking to cloth. Endpapers browned. Some light foxing. A couple of joints partly cracked.

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LET'S DO IT
Written by Marcia Lane Foster. Illustrated by Marcia Lane Foster.
Stock no. 708760
Published by Collins. 1st 1938. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Sketches of Children. Very large format. Red cloth, black title to spine. Colour plates and b/w illustrations throughout. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light foxing, mainly to endpapers and outer page edges. Cream pictorial wrapper is edge-torn with some small pieces missing and grubby, with a couple of small splash marks. A very nice copy.

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INFANTILLA THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE NURSERY
Written by Arnold L. Haskell; Min Lewis. Illustrated by Stanley Lewis.
Stock no. 709079
Published by Dennis Dobson. 1st 1971. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Telling in drawings and text the history of perambulators, feeding bottles, and rattles. A fascination for anyone who has ever been pushed in a pram! Superb b/w illustrations. Cream mottled cloth. Bookplate to verso of front endpaper. Orange illustrated wrapper very slightly grubby to rear with spine sunned and small nick to top.

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