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THE JOKER AND JERRY AGAIN
Written by Eleanor Helme; Nance Paul. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 2135781
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. Circa 1941. Good condition.

Grey cloth, red title to spine. Two-tone frontis and b/w illustrations. Front cover is a bit bowed. Staining to covers with other grubby marks. Bookplate with name in ink to front endpaper. Foxing and some margin marks to pages. A reading copy.

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HUMBERT MISTER FIRKIN & THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON
Written by John Burningham. Illustrated by John Burningham.
Stock no. 2135706
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1969. Very good condition.

The story of a scrap-iron dealer and his working horse, Humbert. Large format. Matt pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 022460726x. Bumping and wear to covers. Foxing also to covers. A few foxspots also to endpapers, prelims and outer page edges.

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SHETLAND PEG
Written by Joanna Stubbs. Illustrated by Joanna Stubbs.
Stock no. 1321613
Published by Faber & Faber Limited. Very good condition.

Peg was a Shetland pony that liked to jump. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0571083226. Early reprint without a date (assume it is not 1968 as it has a 10 digit ISBN which did not come into use until 1970). Spine and corners slightly bumped. Contents clean. Covers lightly browned.

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THE RED PONY
Written by John Steinbeck. Illustrated by Wesley Dennis.
Stock no. 2134380
Published by The Viking Press. 1st thus 1945. Very good condition.

Grey cloth, blue title label and gilt title to spine, pictorial onlay to front cover. Superb colour illustrations. Top and tail of spine slightly rubbed. A lovely clean copy contained in blue slipcase which is worn and repaired with clear tape.

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BLACK HUNTING WHIP
Written by Monica Edwards. Illustrated by Geoffrey Whittam.
Stock no. 1319346
Published by Collins. 1st 1950. Almost very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Mrs Thornton acquires an old house in which Dion finds a diary of a boy telling the story of the Black Hunting Whip. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 256 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Some fading and foxing to covers. Book leans to one side. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn and chipped with loss at spine and corner, foxing to verso of wrapper.

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JERRY THE STORY OF AN EXMOOR PONY
Written by Eleanor Helme; Nance Paul. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1819642
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1930. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth. Black title to spine. B/w drawings. Two-tone frontispiece. Map to endpapers. Second Impression. Spine faded, covers lightly marked. Foxing to endpapers and a little to text block. First and last hinge cracked. Name in ink to top edge of first blank pate. Hinges pulled but binding tight. A few light marks to contents.

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THREE JAYS LEND A HAND
Written by Pat Smythe. Illustrated by Keith Money.
Stock no. 2131621
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. 1st 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The seventh adventure of the Three Jays. Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Bumps to top and tail of spine. Foxing to outer page edges and wrapper, which is also edge-creased with nicks to corners.

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LITTLE MAGIC HORSE
Written by Peter Ershoff; Tatiana Balkoff Drowne. Illustrated by Vera Bock.
Stock no. 2130166
Published by The Macmillan Company. 1st thus 1942. Good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A Russian tale translated by Drowne. Blue cloth, black title to spine. Pink and white pictorial endpapers. Colour illustrations. SIGNED by translator, with dedications on half-title and title page. Damp marks and spotting to covers. Numbers in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is torn with uneven fading; some loss.

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LITTLE HORSE, LITTLE HORSE
Written by Edith Lowe.
Stock no. 2125119
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. Circa 1948. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A Father Tuck Little Book. Small square format. Small chips to base of spine. Wear to corners. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Home made 'library ticket' stuck to front endpaper. Crease to front endpaper. Wrapper is grubby and creased with tears and chips and a little loss.

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LEONARDO'S HORSE
Written by Jean Fritz. Illustrated by Hudson Talbott.
Stock no. 2123887
Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1st 2001. Very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Shaped book. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0399235760. Bumping and scuffing along bottom edges of covers.

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TROUBLE AT PONYWAYS
Written by Judith M. Berrisford. Illustrated by Elisabeth Grant.
Stock no. 2123862
Published by White Lion Publishers Limited. 1974. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ponyways is a country house owned by the top-flight show-jumper Mike Dashmore who is the hero of all teenagers who come to stay there as riding guests... Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0856860735. Page browning. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few marks.

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PROMISE AND THE MONSTER
Written by Babette Cole. Illustrated by Babette Cole.
Stock no. 1814589
Published by Collins. 1st thus 1988. Fine condition.

When Fergus McHeap's monster is stolen by a travelling circus, Promise the pony devises a cunning plot to save him. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations cartoon strip style. ISBN: 0001840347.

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