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HANSEL AND GRETTEL AND SNOW-DROP
No author listed. Illustrated by John Hassall.
Stock no. 630360
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

stiff cardwraps. Pictorial front cover. Colour & b/w illustrations. Edges worn. Covers creased. Belongs to box completed in ink. Illustration on pastedowns starting to separate from covers.

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THE KING WITH THE SEVEN CROWNS AND OTHER STORIES
Written by Edmund Lee. Illustrated by Ernold A. Mason.
Stock no. 383115
Published by James Clarke & Co.. 1st 1894. Very good condition.

Stories told to relieve a little girl of the tedium of a sick bed. Red pictorial cloth with gilt titles. 117 pages. Floral decorated endpapers. 3 full-page b/w illustrations. Spine bumped and very slightly faded. Covers are ever so slightly grubby. Heavy foxing to first few and last few pages. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. A few light fingermarks but contents generally clean. A nice copy of a very scarce Victorian children's book.

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GAMBLE GOLD
Written by Edward Abbott Parry. Illustrated by Harry Furniss.
Stock no. 444237
Published by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. 1st 1907. Almost very good condition.

Red pictorial binding. Gilt titles and decorations. All edges gilt. B/w illustrations. Spine faded. Corners are bumped. Front cover unevenly faded, but gilt bright. Joints have been strengthened. Foxing throughout. Inscription in ink to front endpaper.

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PUSS IN BOOTS
No author listed. Illustrated by R. Andre.
Stock no. 816683
Published by McLoughlin Bros.. 1st 1888. Almost very good condition.

Young Folks Series. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. 6 full page chromolithographs. 14 pages. Book has been affected by damp so that the covers and pages are lightly crinkled. Spine is rubbed and worn. Vertical edges of cover has slight surface paper loss. Heavy foxing to text. Chromoliths are beautifully clean and sharp. A lovely copy of a scarce title. REDUCED from £100.

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LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER AND OTHER TALES
Written by Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 440800
Published by Constable & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1917. Almost very good condition.

Adds 40 more stories to the 60 which Rackham already illustrated several years earlier. The violence and grotesqueries have been toned down conveying instead a wealth of humour and charm throughout. 12 beautiful tipped-in colour plates plus 43 b/w drawings. Large format. Green cloth, gilt titles and vignette. Pictorial endpapers and title page. 250 pages. Top corner/edge of front cover had semi-circular piece missing (depth 8mm, width of 22mm). Covers a little marked. Bumping to corners. Browning to endpapers. Some page edges uncut. Frontis has light corner creases. All plates present.

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THREE LITTLE PIGS
Written by Walt Disney. Illustrated by Walt Disney.
Stock no. 381790
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st UK 1934. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

From the Walt Disney Silly Symphony. Large format. Pictorial boards. Full-page colour and b/w text illustrations throughout. Slight rubbing to cover edges. Light foxing to endpapers. Contents bright and clean. Dustwrapper is edge browned and chipped with some loss to top edges and top of spine and tape repairs on verso.

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A FAIRY GARLAND
Written by Charles Perrault; Madame D'Aulnoy; et al. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 806195
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. 1st 1928. Very good condition.

Being nine Fairy Tales from the Old French. Blue cloth covers, gilt title to spine. 12 superb colour plates throughout. 251 pages. 9.5 x 7". Spine and corners are bumped and worn. Browning to spine, with a little fraying/chipping to cloth to top and tail. Some browning marks/scuff marks to covers. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Foxing to outer page edges, endpapers, title pages and a few page margins internally. All colour illustrations are present and bright.

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THE KINGS AND THE CATS
Written by John Hannon. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 379626
Published by Burns & Oates. 1st 1908. Good condition.

Munster Fairy Tales For Young And Old. 3 stories. Red Cloth, gilt title and border. Attractive b/w plates, some cats but not in Wain's usual anthropomorphic style. xiii + 78 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers soiled. Foxing throughout, mainly to endpapers. Erased child's pencil writing to front endpaper. Initial 'F' in ink to margin of page 2. Some grubby marks to pages and to rear side of some plates but generally contents still clean. A desirable copy of a very scarce Wain item.

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MY POP-OUT BOOK OF SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS
No author listed.
Stock no. 594526
Published by Purnell. 1970. Very good condition.

Fairytale Pop-outs Series. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. 4 pop-out scenes with text pages in between. ISBN: 0361014872. Spine and corners are a bit bumped and worn, with little chipping to laminate. All pop-ups are in very good working order - 1 has a tiny tear to it.

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THE STORY OF DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT
Written by Muriel Levy. Illustrated by Evelyn Bowmar.
Stock no. 378830
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 9th 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 413. Illustrated buff boards. Full-page colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins else contents clean. Dustwrapper is price-cut, edge rubbed and creased with a 1" tear to lower corner of rear panel.

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I CAN READ FAIRY TALES
No author listed.
Stock no. 594083
Published by Purnell. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Pictorial card wraps. Delightful colour and b/w illustrations. Light page-edge browning. Small piece chipped from corner of first page.

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PUSS IN BOOTS
Written by Christopher Logue. Illustrated by Nicola Bayley.
Stock no. 991684
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1976. Slightly better than very good condition.

Wonderful full-colour pop-ups. Glazed pictorial boards. ISBN: 0224013009. All pop-ups in excellent working order. Corners rubbed.

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