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BIGGLES FLIES TO WORK
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1330687
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. Circa 1963. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Some unusual cases of Biggles and his Air Police. Red boards. 184 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Small mark to front panel. Contents are well browned with a slight musty smell else clean. Front joint is just starting to crack. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed and a little grubby to rear panel.

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BIGGLES' SECOND CASE
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1330686
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1951. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black titles and vignette to front. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. The case of the pirate U-Boat. Spine slightly bumped, light mark to centre of spine. Front free-endpaper has been neatly removed. Damage (and slight loss) to lower margins of pages 97 to 126. No loss of text. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn and slightly chipped with old tape repairs on verso (old glue marks showing on front flap), rear panel is slightly grubby.

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RUPERT ADVENTURE SERIES No. 23 - RUPERT AND THE SNOW SPORTS
Written by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1330684
Published by Daily Express. 1955. Very good condition.

Title story Rupert And The Snow Sports. Also includes Rupert And The Vanishing Pet. 24 pages. Pictorial card wraps. Colour illustrations. Small, light mark to top corner of front cover. Some minor page edge creases else contents clean.

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ROSAMUND'S TUCK-SHOP
Written by Elsie J. Oxenham.
Stock no. 1330676
Published by Girls Gone By. 1st thus 2002. Very good condition.

The 25th title in the famous Abbey series, originally published in 1936. Complete and unabridged. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour frontis. 183 pages. ISBN: 190441706X. Spine is faded and spine edge of rear cover. Creasing to spine edges where the covers have been held open to read the book. Light marks to textblock else contents clean.

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ECOCRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDREN'S TEXTS AND CULTURES
Written by Nina Goga; Lykke Guanio-Uluru; Bjorg Oddrun Hallas; Aslaug Nyrnes.
Stock no. 1330674
Published by Palgrave Macmillan. 1st 2018. Very good condition.

Critical Approaches to Children's Literature series. This volume presents key contributions to the study of ecocriticism in Nordic children’s and YA literary and cultural texts, in dialogue with international classics. Pictorial boards. 209 pages. ISBN: 9783319904962. Joint between colophon and contents is cracked else contents fine. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed.

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THE FEMININE SUBJECT IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Written by Christine Wilkie-Stibbs.
Stock no. 1330673
Published by Routledge. 1st 2002. Very good condition.

Proposing a new paradigm of readership - irrespective of the sexual identity of the actual reader - that is deeply informed by the consciousness and unconsciousness of language, and demonstrates how feminist analysis can open bold new textual possibilities for children's literature. Pictorial boards. 201 pages. ISBN: 0415929962. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Contents fine.

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HALF HOURS WITH A NATURALIST: RAMBLES NEAR THE SHORE (THE HALF HOUR LIBRARY)
No author listed.
Stock no. 1209001
Published by James Nisbet & Co. Limited. Circa 1911. Good condition.

The Half Hour Library of Travel, Nature and Science for Young Readers. Full olive green calf leather binding with Heath Mount Hampstead vignette to front, burgundy title block with gilt title and 5 raised bands to spine. Marbled endpapers and text block. B/w illustrations. xii and 340 pages. Spine is lightly browned and has a few patches of loss to leather. Heavy dampstaining affecting boards, prelims to page 1, and lower edge of last few pages. Prize inscription to front fly leaf dated 1911.Front joint split between fly leaf and half-title page but binding still tight. Some light top corner creasing. Contents otherwise generally clean.

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PEACOCK PIE: A BOOK OF RHYMES
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1330672
Published by Constable and Company Ltd.. 1st 1916. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth boards, gilt illustration and titles to front (also cream/gilt illustration 'He told me his dreams'). Colour frontis, numerous b/w text and full page illustrations throughout. 178 pages. Illustrated pastedowns. Spine and corners bumped. Spine very slightly darkened. Light stain to rear cover. Endpapers and textblock slightly browned. Some light foxing to contents. Scarce original wrapper is slightly edge worn with slight loss to spine and corners and darkened to spine.

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REALMS OF TOLKIEN IMAGES OF MIDDLE EARTH
Written by J.R.R. Tolkien. Illustrated by John Howe; Alan Lee; et al..
Stock no. 1330671
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 1996. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Black cloth, gilt title to spine. The follow on from 'Tolkien's World', this new collection of stunning full-colour illustrations inspired by the works of J.R.R. Tolkien promises to be as beautiful as its predecessor. ISBN: 026110344X. Spine and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is just very slightly edge creased. A lovely copy.

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FAIRY TALES AND FANTASTIC STORIES
Written by Terry Jones. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 1330670
Published by Chrysalis Children's Books. 1st thus 2003. Slightly better than very good condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Originally published by Pavilion Books in 1997. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 184365055X. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Contents fine.

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MICHAEL HAGUE'S FAVOURITE HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN FAIRY TALES
Written by Hans Christian Andersen. Illustrated by Michael Hague.
Stock no. 1330669
Published by Methuen Children's Books. 1st 1981. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth with silver titles to front and spine. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0416220800. Spine and corners bumped. Slight fading to cover edges. Some foxing and light browning to endpapers. Dustwrapper is edge browned.

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NOTHINGMAS DAY
Written by Adrian Mitchell. Illustrated by John Lawrence.
Stock no. 1330667
Published by Allison & Busby. 1st 1984. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A book of poems for children combined with irresistible woodcuts. Black boards, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. ISBN: 0850315328. SIGNED by the author with an elephant doodle and dedication to Heather(?). Slight bumping to spine and corners. Dustwrapper is a little edge creased and a little sunned at rear edges.

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