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TURN AGAIN LANE
Written by Gwendolen Mary Evans. Illustrated by Gwendolen Mary Evans.
Stock no. 448920
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1929. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth spine. Colour pictorial boards. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. Stories and verse. Contents very good indeed. Corners worn. Boards marked.

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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. 384797
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Very good condition.

R. Caldecott's Picture Books. Oblong format. Colour pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. 22 pages. Top of spine is just a little worn. Contents clean.

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THE KITTEN'S GARDEN OF VERSES
Written by Oliver Herford. Illustrated by Oliver Herford.
Stock no. 384322
Published by Bickers & Son. 1st 1911. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue paper boards, black titles & vignette to front cover. Delightful b/w illustrations accompanying poems. 59 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Endpapers are lightly browned and foxed. Some hinges slightly pulled. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is torn at corners with some slight loss.

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MY WORLD
Written by Kilmeny Niland. Illustrated by Kilmeny Niland.
Stock no. 446976
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1981. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

A delightful book for young children, depicting elements of a baby's world. Each superb painting is accompanied by a simple and charming verse describing the child's-eye view of familiar surroundings. Green boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0340266260.

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A PAIR OF SINNERS
Written by Allan Ahlberg. Illustrated by John Lawrence.
Stock no. 446618
Published by Granada. 1st 1980. Fine condition.

Full title on title-page of book: 'The history of A Pair of Sinners forgetting not their Ma who was one also'. Cream pictorial boards. Pictorial endpapers. Colour and b/w illustrations to verse throughout. ISBN: 0246113251.

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RIDE A-COCK HORSE TO BANBURY CROSS & A FARMER WENT TROTTING UPON HIS GREY MARE
No author listed. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 445314
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1884. Fair condition.

R. Caldecott's Picture Books. Oblong format. Colour pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. Covers almost detached and nearly in two pieces. Also has large closed tear. Grubby marks to pages internally. String binding pulled.

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JACK THE TREACLE EATER
Written by Charles Causley. Illustrated by Charles Keeping.
Stock no. 381169
Published by Macmillan Children's Books. 1st 1987. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A book of poems for children. Brown boards with gilt title to spine. B/w and colour illustrations. 96 pages. ISBN: 033342963X. Spine bumped and slightly worn. Light finger creases to page margins else contents bright and clean. Price-cut wrapper is slightly edge worn, sunned to spine and has a light stain to top front corner.

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EXCELSIOR
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Illustrated by Alice Price; F. Corbyn Price.
Stock no. 381158
Published by Meissner & Buch. Almost very good condition.

A poem. Grey cloth spine, pictorial front board. 7 full page chromolithograph illustrations, b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers grubby. Endpapers browned. Some page browning and foxing (particularly to inner margins) else contents clean.

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A BOOK OF BABY BIRDS
Written by B. Parker. Illustrated by N. Parker.
Stock no. 380992
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Red boards with black title and vignettes to front cover. Superb full page b/w plates of 12 different birds, verses with b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped and worn. Covers just a tiny bit grubby. Tiny booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Staples rusty. Some light spotting and fingering but contents generally clean. Rear free-endpaper is missing, damage to edge of last few pages (margins only).

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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. 380802
Published by Hodder & Stoughton; Henry Frowde. 1911. Very 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 with slight rubbing. Name in ink to front pastedown. Joints just starting to crack. Corner of grey frontis mount is creased. Foxing throughout (some heavy). A nice copy of an attractive book.

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THE BALLAD OF BEAU BROCADE
Written by Austin Dobson. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
Stock no. 438622
1st 1892. Almost very good condition.

Cream cloth with gilt title to spine. Large paper limited edition of 250 copies (For England). Tissue-guarded illustrations. Numbered copy 75 of 250 copies. Spine is very browned. Some bumping and wear to corners, with a little chipping. Some grubby marks and brown stain to bottom edge of front cover. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Name and date inscription in ink of previous owner to front pastedown. A few light margin marks, but contents are still very good and nice and tight.

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THE ORIGINAL POEMS AND OTHERS
Written by Ann Taylor; Jane Taylor; Adelaide O'Keeffe. Illustrated by F.D. Bedford.
Stock no. 598917
Published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co.. 2nd 1905. Very good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt/white decorations. Colour frontis & title page and other b/w plates. xl and 210 pages. Edited by E.V. Lucas. Spine and corners are bumped and worn. Rubbing to cover edges. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and some page margins.

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