LOUIS WAIN'S BABY'S PICTURE BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 593893
Published by James Clarke & Co.. 1st 1903. Almost very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards with picture of cute kitten on the front cover. B/w illustrations throughout, many of cats. REDUCED FROM £450. Edges rubbed, corners worn, backstrip worn with loss to bottom. Covers a little grubby. Front and rear joints cracked. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. A few repaired margin tears, slight margin loss to last two pages. A few marks present.

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A LITTLE SILK APRON
Written by Dorothy Richards. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris.
Stock no. 435131
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 474. A Tasseltip Tale. Pictorial paper boards. A few patches of sticky tape residue to rear cover and small patch of surface paper damage. Corners are bumped and worn. Contents are tight, bright and clean. Pictorial wrapper is badly torn to rear cover and spine and has been messily put back together; alot of creasing to rear panel, patch of surface paper damage to top of front panel. Large closed repaired tear also to front panel.

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MR. MOLE'S HOUSE WARMING
Written by Dorothy Richards. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris.
Stock no. 435133
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 2nd 1947. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A Tasseltip Tale. Ladybird Series 474. Pictorial paper boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Spine is bumped. Light wear to cover edges and corners. Pictures are lovely and bright. A couple of light margin marks. Pictorial wrapper is a bit creased, edge-torn and chipped, with 1" loss to base of spine, 1.5" loss to rear flap and a large repaired tear to rear panel.

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GUM TREE BROWNIE AND OTHER FAERIE FOLK OF THE NEVER-NEVER
Written by Tarella A. Quin. Illustrated by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.
Stock no. 378493
Published by Robertson & Mullens Ltd.. 1925. Good condition.

Oblong format. Pink cloth spine, patterned boards. B/w illustrations throughout by Ida S. Rentoul. Spine and corners bumped with wear to corners. Edges rubbed. Covers a bit grubby. Tiny booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers lightly browned, foxing to contents. Quite a number of the illustrations have been very neatly coloured in. A very scarce book.

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TINY TADPOLE AND OTHER TALES
Written by Frances Freeling Broderip. Illustrated by Thomas Hood.
Stock no. 378399
Published by Griffith and Farran. 1st 1862. Almost very good condition.

Embossed green cloth with gilt titles and vignettes. 176 pages, all edges gilt. 6 hand-coloured plates with tissue-guards. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. A few small marks to covers and gilt dulled on spine. Inscription in ink to front pastedown and name in ink to endpaper. Front joint cracked. A few small closed tears to page margins and some corner tips creased (including one plate). Grubby fingermarks to some margins and a couple of pages creased. Still a nice copy of this Victorian children's book.

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THE ADVENTURES OF WONK - GOING TO SEA
Written by Muriel Levy. Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe.
Stock no. 434700
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 3rd 1943. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Series 417. Blue boards with colour vignette and titles. Also contains: THE NEW FISHING NET. Spine is a little bumped and browned. One hinge internally is slightly pulled. Contents are lovely and bright. Pictorial wrapper is foxed and browned to verso; also has small tape repairs to verso; some chipping to edges and a few small patches of loss to top and tail of spine, also has tear hole to spine in middle, with a little loss. Small patch of loss also to top of front panel. Still a nice copy of this rarer item.

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PROFESSOR BRANESTAWM'S TREASURE HUNT
Written by Norman Hunter. Illustrated by James Arnold.
Stock no. 593036
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1937. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

A terrific treasure hunt with unexpected perils. The Professor's inventions include invisible glass and an expandable house that can be enlarged at will to contain extra guests! Yellow cloth, black title to spine and illustration to front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Colour frontis. B/w text illustrations throughout. 230 pages. The first in the series to be illustrated by James Arnold. Spine slightly faded with darker patch at base. Small foxspots to endpapers, prelims and edge of textblock. A few foxspots to contents but generally near fine. Scarce original dustwrapper is in two halves, browned, and torn at edges with loss to top 1/3 of spine and to lower rear corner. Reduced from £120.

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SILVER AND GOLD
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Lewis Baumer.
Stock no. 592635
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. 1st 1925. Very good condition.

Small format, pink cloth, black titles and vignettes. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations. A charming book of poetry. Endpapers lightly browned. Spine a little faded. Covers bright.

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TO NURSERY LAND WITH LOUIS WAIN
Written by Clifton Bingham; et al. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 626882
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1915. Very good condition.

Edited by Edric Vredenburg. Father Tuck's "Golden Gift" Series. Red cloth spine with black title. Pictorial boards show dozing mother cat with rocking cradle of three kittens in front of a fireplace. Colour frontis plus b/w and two tone illustrations of cats and some of dogs throughout. REDUCED FROM £460. Top of boards and frontispiece damp stained. Edges rubbed, corners worn. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Slight margin loss at top of title page and next four pages. A few grubby marks to last page else contents lovely, clean and bright. A nice copy of a scarce title.

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MUSIC IN PUSSYTOWN
No author listed. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 626888
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. Circa 1920. Almost very good condition.

Father Tuck's "Wonderland" Series. Pictorial cardwraps. 4 full page colour illustrations plus two tone illustrations of Wain's anthropomorphic cats. Accompanied by rhyme. Oblong format. Backstrip missing. Base of spine to first stitch is split and therefore contents a little fragile. Vertical crease in centre of book. Small patch of surface paper loss to front spine edge corner. Light browning to contents else lovely and bright. A nice copy of an exceptionally rare Louis Wain title.

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DAYS IN CATLAND
Written by Arthur Burnaby. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 626891
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1912. Poor condition.

A Father Tuck's Panorama. Oblong format. 4 plates in concertina form that fold out to create a large panorama with 14 numbered card figures of cats, and corresponding numbered slits in the panorama to insert the cat figures. On the reverse is a rhyme by Arthur Burnaby with b/w illustrations also by Wain. Each plate has now separated (the spine has completely gone) so that four individual plates are left. Plates are nice and bright. Six of the fourteen cat figures are missing. One cat figure is missing the head. Some figures a little creased. Rear cover grubby and torn where pocket flap was (pocket flap missing).

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ZEBROLOGY
Written by H.A. Rey. Illustrated by H.A. Rey.
Stock no. 739991
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1937. Very good condition.

Small oblong format. Cream pictorial card wraps. A story without words showing how the zebra came to be. 8 delightful colour pictures. Author's first English title. 1" to front side of spine is slightly browned. A few very light scuff marks to covers but generally clean. Ever so slight creases to top page corners. Contents very clean. A nice copy of this rare story without words.

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