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THE PEDALLING MAN AND OTHER POEMS
Written by Russell Hoban. Illustrated by Lillian Hoban.
Stock no. 1108841
Published by World's Work Ltd.. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Poems about animals, people, both big and small, and about those things and those moments in life that are worth holding on to. Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w text illustrations. 33 pages. ISBN: 043746704X. SIGNED with dedication by the author to free front endpaper (For The Creators of Tindlebaum, Unlimited, from a Very Grateful Russ). Contents clean. Pictorial wrapper is grubby and unevenly faded.

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OUT OF TOWN
Written by F.E. Weatherly. Illustrated by Linnie Watt.
Stock no. 1108600
Published by Hildesheimer & Faulkner. Circa 1885. Very good condition.

Green pictorial boards with green cloth spine. Delightful chromolithograph illustrations to almost every page. 64 pages. 9 x 7". Bumping and wear to spine and corners and cover edges. A few scuff marks to covers. Inscription in ink to half-title page. Some grubby marks and foxing to pages.

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REAL FAIRIES
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 1311026
Published by J. Saville & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1923. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Brown cloth, gilt titles to front cover and spine. A book of poetry. Small format. Enid Blyton's second book. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Endpapers lightly browned, some foxing to contents else clean. Very scarce pictorial wrapper is edge worn with several sections of loss, small red pen mark to slightly grubby rear panel.

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PRAYERS AND GRACES
Written by Allan M. Laing. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.
Stock no. 1501537
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1944. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A little book of extraordinary piety. 30 full page b/w illustrations. 63pp. Blue cloth covers, gilt vignette to front. Spine and corners a little worn. Spine slightly darkened. Ink inscription to front endpaper. Some browning/foxing alongside spine in places otherwise contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge chipped, spine is faded as are edges of panels alongside spine.

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LITTLE UNA
Written by Isa J. Postgate.
Stock no. 1310626
Published by The Art Lithographic Publishing Co.; The Artistic Lithographic Company. Very good condition.

A poem. Small format. Cream card wraps. 10 pages (unpaginated). Chromolithograph illustrations to text and full-page. Covers very slightly foxed and grubby. Name in ink inside front cover. Contents clean.

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NONSENSE SONGS
Written by Edward Lear; Dudley Glass. Illustrated by Edward Lear.
Stock no. 1310444
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. circa 1949. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Set to music by Glass. Large format. Cloth spine, orange boards. 23 pages. B/w text illustrations. Foxing and browning to endpapers and prelims. Light crease to lower corner of front endpaper. Dustwrapper is grubby and torn at edges with slight loss.

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HAPPY THOUGHT AND OTHER POEMS FOR CHILDREN
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson; Victor Gad. Illustrated by Victor Gad.
Stock no. 1807453
Published by Midway. 1st 1988. Very good condition.

Poems selected and illustrated by Gad. Square format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 1" closed tear to lower edge of title page, else contents fine.

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DROLL DOINGS
Written by The Cockiolly Bird. Illustrated by Harry Neilson.
Stock no. 1310267
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. circa 1900. Good condition.

Animal tales in verse. Large format. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. Full-page colour illustrations. Spine has been professionally rebacked. Corners worn, covers scuffed. New endpapers. Inscription in ink to verso of frontis. Contents are foxed and lightly fingered. Musty smell to contents.

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AN ELEGY ON THE GLORY OF HER SEX MRS. MARY BLAIZE
Written by Oliver Goldsmith. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1310234
Published by George Routledge & Sons. Very good condition.

R. Caldecott's Picture Books. Oblong format. Pictorial card wraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. 22 pages. Covers just a little grubby. Small piece chipped from lower edge of rear cover. Foxing to contents else clean.

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AN ELEGY ON THE GLORY OF HER SEX MRS. MARY BLAIZE
Written by Oliver Goldsmith. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1310209
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. circa 1900. Very good condition.

Oblong format. Grey boards, green title and pictorial onlay to front. 6 tipped-in colour plates mounted on beige paper. B/w illustrated endpapers and text illustrations. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Very pale browning to endpapers. A nice, clean copy.

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TOY-TUNES AND OTHER VERSES
Written by May Belben.
Stock no. 1310064
Published by W. Mate & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1927. Very good condition.

Grey boards with gilt titles. 113 numbered pages with book list to rear. Illustrated with b/w photographs taken by the author. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Name and date in ink to front endpaper. Centre hinge pulled but stitching still holding.

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CHILD VERSES FROM 'PUNCH'
Written by George Greenland; Eleanor Farjeon; Ethel Talbot; et al. Illustrated by Phyllis Chase.
Stock no. 1501308
Published by J. Saville & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1925. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Brown cloth, gilt titles. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners lightly bumped and rubbed. Slight fading to top and bottom of spine. Small white mark to rear cover. Endpapers browned. Name and date to front endpaper. Small red stain to top corner of a few pages. Some foxing and marks to contents. Very scarce dustwrapper is edge worn and creased with a little loss at top and bottom of spine and corners. Spine is a little faded and marked. Crease to front flap.

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