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THE GOLDEN BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES
Written by T.C. Micklem.
Stock no. 621843
Published by Blandford Press. Circa 1955. Good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Front cover shows blackbirds in a pie. Cloth spine has 1" tear to one side at centre height. Boards scuffed and scratched. Corners bumped and worn. Front and rear joints cracked. Pencil writting to front endpaper. Inscription in ink to verso front endpaper. A little colouring to page 42.

MY PICTURE STORY BOOK
Written by Watty Piper. Illustrated by Eulalie; Victor G. Becker; Arthur O. Scott.
Stock no. 564336
Published by Platt & Munk. Circa 1941. Very good condition.

Red cloth spine. Colour pictorial front cover shows a family of pigs. Colour illustrations. Corners rubbed. Light foxing to endpapers.

A PECK OF PEPPER
Written by Brian Alderson. Illustrated by Faith Jaques.
Stock no. 603813
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1974. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Text taken from a copy of Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation. Postscript by Brian Alderson. ISBN: 0701150432.

THE TODDLERS' PICTURE BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 662623
Published by Promak Ltd.. Very good condition.

Fun for the Youngsters stories and rhymes. One of Uncle Wadman's celebrated childrens books. Brown card wraps. Pictorial onlay to front cover of young girl with puppy dog. Colour and two-tone illustrations. Name in ink inside front cover. A nice copy.

DULCE DOMUM RHYMES AND SONGS FOR CHILDREN (OLD & NEW)
Written by John Farmer.
Stock no. 803517
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. Circa 1893. Very good condition.

Maroon cloth with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Contains 134 rhymes and songs for children, including the score music and verse that now may be forgotten! Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers a little scuffed and rear cover has a grubby 'splash' mark. Name in ink to front pastedown. Front joint a little cracked. Endpapers are browned, but rest of contents lovely and clean, apart from very occasional margin mark.

THE NURSERY SONG BOOK
Written by H. Keatley Moore. Illustrated by May Sandheim.
Stock no. 619989
Published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd.. Circa 1906. Good condition.

Original blue pictorial cloth. 3 colour plates, numerous b/w illustrations. 63 pages. Front cover slightly bowed, spine & corners lightly rubbed, front cover lightly marked. Name in ink to verso of frontis plus inscription in pencil to half-title page. Joints and some hinges cracked. One colour plate detached with ragged edges. A few grubby marks and some light damp stains to margins but generally contents are clean.

THE PET BUBBLE BOOK
Written by Ralph Mayhew; Burges Johnson. Illustrated by Rhoda C. Chase.
Stock no. 557364
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1917. Almost very good condition.

The sixth Bubble Book. Small format. Pictorial paperboards. 3 rhymes with accompanying gramophone records. Colour illustrations. All records present and complete but untested. Covers grubby. No tears.

THIRD BUBBLE BOOK
Written by Ralph Mayhew; Burges Johnson. Illustrated by Rhoda C. Chase.
Stock no. 557366
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1918. Very good condition.

Small format. Pictorial paperboards. 3 rhymes with accompanying gramophone records. Colour illustrations. Covers slightly grubby. Bookplate to front pastedown. All records present, complete but untested. Split to side of two of the record pockets otherwise contents very good.

BYGONE DAYS
Written by Leonard De Vries.
Stock no. 805235
Published by Chancellor Press. 1st thus 2002. Fine condition.

Illustrations, Stories and Poems from Years Gone By. Matt pictorial boards. ISBN: 0753707209.

PAWS AGAIN
Written by Maureen Melvin. Illustrated by Geoff Crook.
Stock no. 691368
Published by Chapmans. 1st 1991. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Anthology of verse by Abigail a seven year old King Charles Spaniel. Delightful b/w illustrations. Burgundy boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 1855925613. Wrapper just very slightly rubbed at top corners.

ODD CREATURES
Written by Captain Kendall. Illustrated by George Morrow.
Stock no. 315690
Published by Constable and Company Ltd.. 1st 1915. Very good condition.

21 humourous verses. Delightly b/w text illustrations throughout. Blue pictorial cloth. Browning to endpapers otherwise a nice clean copy.

GREAT GRANDMOTHER GOOSE
Written by Helen Cooper. Illustrated by Krystyna Turska.
Stock no. 327183
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

80 rhymes from medieval sources. Brown mottled boards with brown cloth spine. Gilt titles to spine. B/w illustrations ISBN: 0241895502. Some very light browning to endpapers. Dustwrapper slightly creased at edges.