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THE WIND IN THE WOOD
Written by BB. Illustrated by BB.
Stock no. 1326011
Published by Hollis & Carter. 1st 1952. Very good condition.

A collection of fairy-stories illustrated by 12 glorious colour plates plus b/w chapter head and tail decorations. 143 pages. Blue boards, silver titles. Spine bumped. Fading to spine and cover edges. Foxing to covers. Endpapers are lightly browned. Foxing to textblock and some page margins. There is a light musty smell to the contents (old book smell).

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THE ADVENTURES OF TINKER THE HOLE-EATING DUCK
Written by Patrick Woodroffe. Illustrated by Patrick Woodroffe.
Stock no. 1826672
Published by Dragon's World. 1st 1976. Slightly better than very good condition.

Anyone can make a hole, Tinker did something very different... he ate them! Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0905895444. Boards slightly grubby, ligth rubbing to top & tail of spine, slight fading. Belongs to box is clean. Title page lightly creased else contents clean.

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ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
Written by Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1326009
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1907. Almost very good condition.

With a Proem by Austin Dobson. Limited edition of eleven hundred and thirty copies, of which 1100 were for sale and the remaining 30 copies were reserved for presentation. Large format. White cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front. Brown and white pictorial endpapers. 13 tipped in colour plates plus b/w illustrations. xi and 161 numbered pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn, fraying to cloth at top and tail of spine and a small section of the front edge starting to split (but hasn't yet). Spine is grubby/sunned with grubby marks to covers are well (see photos). Endpapers are browned. Rear joint is cracked (possibly very neatly repaired). There is a light crease to one of the plates, all others are present and in fine condition. Light page browning and fingering to contents and some light foxing. A small brown spot affects the margins of pages 105 to 113. Overall this is still a very decent copy of the scarce limited edition Rackham Alice.

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THE GARDENS OF DORR
Written by Paul Biegel; Gillian Hume. Illustrated by Eva Johanna Rubin.
Stock no. 1826638
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1st thus 1975. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Dorr was once a good city but is now under the evil spell of a witch who has also turned the gardener's boy to stone. The princess has roamed the earth to try to set him free and now returns to Dorr. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. 240 pages. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0460058886. Foxing to top edge of text block with just a slight amount of bleeding to top of page margins. A few minor foxspots to vertical edge of text block. Light browning to endpapers. Small name in ink to top of front endpaper. Contents are otherwise clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is grubby, heavily browned to verso.

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THE CHALET SCHOOL AND ROSALIE
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer.
Stock no. 1826634
Published by Armada. 1st thus 1987. Very good condition.

Pictorial card wraps, White spine. ISBN: 0006928498. Rear cover a little grubby and sticky. Contents browned with age and with a few brown margin marks.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 2016
Written by Stuart Trotter; Mara Alperin; et al. Illustrated by John Harrold; Alfred Bestall; Stuart Trotter; et al..
Stock no. 1326003
Published by Egmont Uk Limited. 2016. Fine condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Front cover shows Rupert and friends on the water, with picnic baskets. First story is 'Rupert and the Iceberg' from the 1986 annual. ISBN: 9781405283519. SIGNED by the author (Trotter) to the title-page, includes a laminated 'followers of rupert' card dated 2016.

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GOBLINS! A SURVIVAL GUIDE AND FIASCO IN FOUR PARTS
Written by Ari Berk. Illustrated by Brian Froud; Wendy Froud.
Stock no. 1326002
Published by Pavilion Books. 1st 2004. Fine condition.

Analyzed and Interpreted by Berk, 3-D Goblinizations by Wendy Froud. Large format, pictorial padded boards. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 1862056846.

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THE NOW-A-DAYS FAIRY BOOK
Written by Anna Alice Chapin. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
Stock no. 1325994
Published by J. Coker & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1933. Good condition.

6 beautiful colour plates. Pictorial boards, blue cloth spine. Large format. Front cover shows two children, one asleep by a sundial. Covers are edge worn and scuffed. Rear cover is grubby. Spine is bumped and rubbed at top and tail. Inscription in ink to half title-page. Beauty and the Beast plate has ragged edges and a tape repair on verso. There is colouring to the small b/w illustration on the title-page. Foxing, fingering and some margin tears to contents.

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BILLY BUNTER AT BUTLIN'S
Written by Frank Richards. Illustrated by C.H. Chapman.
Stock no. 1325989
Published by Cassell & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1961. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Red boards, dark titles to spine and front cover. Colour frontis + b/w illustrations. 217 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Fading to cover edges. Foxing else contents clean. Dustwrapper is worn and chipped with slight loss, foxed on verso.

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I ONLY HAVE TO CLOSE MY EYES
Written by Kenneth Williams. Illustrated by Beverlie Manson.
Stock no. 1826627
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1986. Very good condition.

Accompanied by his cat, a small boy dreams up wonderful worlds in which he plays many roles - among them the king of the castle, an explorer in a jungle and the ringmaster of a circus. Glazed pictorial boards. Blue endpapers. Large colour illustrations with smaller b/w text illustrations. ISBN: 0460061755. Spine lightly faded, worn to top & tail with slight loss to surface paper, boards appear slightly scuffed. Corners lightly rubbed.Endpapers a little rubbed. Contents otherwise clean.

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EAGLE ANNUAL No. 10 (1961)
Written by Clifford Makins.
Stock no. 1325981
Published by Longacre Press. 1961. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Green cloth spine, red, yellow and black decorated covers. Endpapers by Thelwell. Colour and b/w illustrations. 173 pages. Crossword done in ink. Covers edge rubbed and worn at corners. Contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn and creased with loss to top and tail of spine.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1950 - ADVENTURES OF RUPERT
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1325978
Published by Daily Express. 1950. Fair condition.

Annual format returns to hardback with this issue but is much thinner than earlier hardbacks. Pictorial boards - Rupert riding a huge seashell. 1st story Rupert's Silver Trumpet. 120 pages. 10x7 ins. Backstrip missing. Cover edges worn. Covers slightly grubby and foxing to rear cover, small patch of surface paper damage to top corner of front cover. Inscription in ink in belongs to box. Price NOT cut. Foxing and a black mark to textblock. Some fingermarks to page margins.

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