THE MAN WHO KNEW BETTER
Written by Tom Gallon. Illustrated by Gordon Browne.
Stock no. 1502579
Published by D. Appleton And Company. 1st 1901. Slightly better than good condition.

A Christmas Dream. A striking romance of hard-hearted worldliness redeemed by bitter experience, and the lessons of love and sympathy which it teaches will thrill and touch every reader. Brown cloth covers with dark green decoration and gilt titles. B/w illustrations. 224 pages. Wear to spine and corners with a little fraying at top of spine. A few marks to covers. Joints and a few hinges cracked. Front endpaper is possibly missing. Red mark to frontis. Some foxing and page edge browning but contents generally clean.

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WHEN SANTA CLAUS WAS YOUNG
Written by Helen Reid Cross. Illustrated by Helen Reid Cross.
Stock no. 2113320
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. Very good condition.

Pictorial card wraps. Pictorial onlay to front cover. Binding is tied up with ribbon. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. Some creasing to cover edges. Small tear to base of spine. Some browning. Foxing; mostly to prelims.

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THE CHURCH MICE AT CHRISTMAS
Written by Graham Oakley. Illustrated by Graham Oakley.
Stock no. 2112845
Published by Macmillan Children's Books. 1st 1980. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Another delightful tale in the Church Mice series. Large oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0333305493. Bookplate to front pastedown. Tape marks to very edges of pastedowns. Inscription in ink to title page, which also has large crease. Some page edge browning. Wrapper is price-cut with tape marks to flaps; a little faded to spine.

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IRENE'S CHRISTMAS PARTY
Written by Richard Hunter. Illustrated by Ruth Cobb.
Stock no. 1311179
Published by Grant Richards. 1st 1904. Very good condition.

The Dumpy Books For Children series no. 33. Small format (5 x 3"). Green cloth with darker green lines and titles. Colour illustrations. 103 pages, printed on one side of the paper only. Spine and corners bumped. A few pale marks to covers. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Hinges cracked. Name and address in ink to rear endpaper and small booksellers sticker to pastedown. A nice copy of a scarce little book.

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LOUIS WAIN'S FATHER CHRISTMAS
No author listed. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 1309075
Published by John F. Shaw & Co Ltd.. Very good condition.

Green cloth spine. Grey decorated front board with pictorial onlay which shows portrait of a ginger cat with green background. Rear cover is blank. 5 tipped-in colour plates (one duplicating the onlay to front cover) plus b/w text illustrations throughout. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Rear cover slightly browned. Endpapers lightly browned and light page edge browning throughout.

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ALISON'S CHRISTMAS ADVENTURE
Written by Sheila Stuart. Illustrated by Gervase.
Stock no. 1706472
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1948. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth. B/w frontis and 3 other plates. Cream titles. Possible a first edition, war economy edition so pre 1949. White erase fluid over inscription to front endpaper. A little foxing Wrapper edge-chipped and grubby, slight foxing.

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WHEN SANTA CLAUS WAS YOUNG
Written by Helen Reid Cross. Illustrated by Helen Reid Cross.
Stock no. 1303379
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. Very good condition.

Pictorial card wraps. Pictorial onlay to front cover. Binding is tied up with ribbon. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. Covers are a little bit grubby and edge rubbed. Silk tie is also a little grubby and worn. Foxing to insides of covers and to page edges.

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THE BIRD TREE
Written by Frans Van Anrooy. Illustrated by Jaap Tol.
Stock no. 822057
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1967. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Christmas for Mark at Grandma's house was going to be a drab affair with no money to decorate the Christmas Tree until the birds came to help. A picture book for children. Large format. White cloth spine with no title, white pictorial paper boards with black title to front. Colour illustrations throughout. Minimal text. Covers clean and bright as are the contents. Pictorial wrapper is lightly edge-worn and grubby.

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RUPERT'S CHRISTMAS CAROLS
Written by Mick Wells. Illustrated by Mick Wells.
Stock no. 817788
Published by Beaverbrook Newspapers Limited; Michael Stanfield Holdings Ltd.. 1975. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Pictorial card wraps. First page, on inside front cover shows the countdown to Christmas. With 18 Christmas carols. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0860320103. Contents are detached from covers. Spine split upto first staple. Small patch of surface paper damage to front cover. Covers creased. Contents are bright and clean of this rarer title.

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THE HOODEN HORSE AN EAST KENT CHRISTMAS CUSTOM
Written by Percy Maylam.
Stock no. 815214
1st 1909. Very good condition.

Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xv and 124 pages. 303 copies privately printed. Covers lightly scuffed. Top and tail of spine a little worn. Inscription in coloured pencil to front endpaper. One or two margin marks but generally a nice copy.

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THE MANGER BABE
Written by Isabel C. Byrum. Illustrated by Margaret Evans Price.
Stock no. 379982
Published by Stecher Litho. Co.. 1916. Almost very good condition.

Large format (35 x 19.5cm). White pictorial cardwraps. 12 pages. Lovely colour and b/w illustrations. SPine and corners bumped and worn. Covers grubby and lightly foxed, small patch of surface paper damage to centre of rear cover. Staples rusty. Some light foxing and fingering, one illustration has a few tiny red paint spots and a light grey paint streak (not too obvious), contents otherwise clean.

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CHRISTMAS IN OTHER LANDS
No author listed.
Stock no. 589053
Published by Review Of Reviews Office. Poor condition.

Books for the Bairns series. Paperwraps. B/w illustrations. Covers are missing - all contents appear present. Tape to where spine should be. Some chipping to page edges. Colouring to illustrations to contents.

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