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THE HISTORY OF SAM THE SPORTSMAN (FROM AN OLD CHAP BOOK)
No author listed. Illustrated by Frank Adams.
Stock no. 1207810
Published by Blackie And Son Limited. Circa 1910. Very good condition.

Large format. Red cloth spine. Green boards with large colour pictorial onlay to front. 12 colour plates. Pages printed on one side only. Book: all plates present. Two small repaired edge-tears. Some slight foxing. Professionally recased in original binding with front and rear joints repaired (not obvious!)

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SONGS WITH MUSIC FROM A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant.
Stock no. 1402266
Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack. circa 1918. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Music by Rev. Thomas Crawford. Cream boards, pictorial onlay to front cover. 10.5 x 8". Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Board edges a little rubbed and browned. Dated inscription in ink to front pastedown. Endpapers a little browned. Some finger marks to page edges. First few pages have small closed tear to top edge. Dustwrapper is edge worn with tears. Slight loss to rear panel which also has 4 small holes. Spine is browned. Rear flap is creased. Front panel is a little grubby.

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THE DAISY; OR, CAUTIONARY STORIES IN VERSE
No author listed.
Stock no. 1311585
Published by John Harris. circa 1840. Good condition.

Small format, burgundy mottled boards. 30 b/w engravings on wood. 66 pages plus publication list. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Small booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Contents are worn and a bit grubby/foxed with paper repairs. Stitching is pulled causing contents to be loose but binding still holding.

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BIRD, BEAST AND FLOWER
Written by Ian Parsons. Illustrated by Marie Angel.
Stock no. 2112600
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1980. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue boards, gilt titles. Watercolours by Angel. Poems chosen by Parsons. ISBN: 0701124113. Wrapper is a bit edge-creased, with a few grubby marks.

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TOMMY TICKLE
Written by Clifton Bingham; et al. Illustrated by E. Heatly.
Stock no. 1311457
Published by T. Fisher Unwin. circa 1911. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Red stiff cardwraps with silver title and vignettes to front. Red, black and white and b/w illustrations. Covers faded at edges with some light damp staining. Inscription in ink to inside front cover. Contents detached at top staple, lower staple weak and may not hold for much longer.

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A BOOK OF CHILDREN'S VERSE
Written by Mabel Quiller-Couch; Lilian Quiller-Couch. Illustrated by M. Etheldreda Gray.
Stock no. 1311385
Published by Hodder & Stoughton; Henry Frowde. 1920. Good condition.

Blue cloth with elaborate gilt decorations and titles. 20 beautiful colour plates mounted on grey card with captions below. Verses arranged by Mabel and Lilian Quiller-Couch. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Gilt to spine has dulled. Name in ink to front endpaper. Joint between fly-leaf and title-page is cracked causing frontispiece to be missing in this copy. Page edges are ragged from rough opening during binding process.

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CHILDHOOD
Written by Githa Sowerby. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby.
Stock no. 1311253
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1907. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth spine, gilt title. Blue boards with gilt title and vignette to front. Colour plates. B/w illustrations to text. A book of poems. Spine and corners bumped. Covers faded and damp stained, old tape mark to edge of rear cover. Spine slightly darkened. Inscription in ink and small booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Foxing to contents and some light fingering else clean.

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FOR TODAY
Written by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell.
Stock no. 1402099
Published by Valentine & Sons, Limited. Very good condition.

A Golden Thoughts booklet. Small format. Pictorial paperwraps. Ever so cute chubby children and rhymes. Covers a little grubby. Small split to top of spine. Inscription in ink to verso of front cover. Pale page browning to some page edges and margins otherwise contents are bright.

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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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THE MOTHER'S BOOK OF SONG
No author listed. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 1310972
Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co.. circa 1902. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations to spine and front cover. B/w illustrations. 216 pages. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Spine very slightly browned. A few light marks to covers. Lower corner tips creased to preliminary pages. Some light foxing else contents clean.

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