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BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP
No author listed. Illustrated by Will Kidd.
Stock no. 1315010
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. 1st 1904. Almost very good condition.

Square format (9.75 x 9.75"). Cloth spine, pictorial boards. Full-page colour illustrations throughout with a well-known nursery rhyme opposite each. Printed on green paper. Corners worn, covers edge rubbed. Some loss of surface paper to lower front edge of spine. Contents clean. Stitching is slightly pulled. A nice copy of a scarce book.

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NURSERY RHYMES
No author listed. Illustrated by Alec Buckels.
Stock no. 1314987
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. circa 1930. Very good condition.

A large format board book with cloth spine. Bright colour pictures every page. Spine and corners worn. Covers slightly grubby and foxed. Foxing and some light fingermarks else contents clean.

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THE BIG BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES
Written by Walter Jerrold. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 1505036
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1903. Slightly better than good condition.

A fantastic collection of nursery rhymes! Dark red boards with gilt decorations and titles. Gilt page edges. Colour frontis piece. Many two tone colour plates. B/w text illustrations throughout. 320 pages. 10 x 7.5". Spine bumped and worn with small splits to top and bottom edges, also a little faded and gilt dulled. Corners worn, especially bottom corners. Darkening to covers and rear cover is marked, front less so. Front joint just starting to crack, a few hinges cracked. Light red stain to edge of prelims, grubby mark to margin of frontis Marks and fingermarks to contents and some light foxing but many pages are clean.

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UNCLE'S ANIMAL BOOK
Written by G.E. Studdy. Illustrated by G.E. Studdy.
Stock no. 1404566
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. circa 1923. Slightly better than good condition.

Large format. Green cloth spine. Pictorial front cover. Written in rhyme. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Board edges rubbed. Boards grubby. Bottom corner of front endpaper torn off. Small booksellers label to rear pastedown. Some hinges cracked. Browning to endpapers. Large inner margin tear to one page. Foxing and some marks to contents.

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ALADDIN AND HIS WONDERFUL LAMP IN RHYME
Written by Arthur Ransome. Illustrated by Thomas Mackenzie.
Stock no. 2118013
Published by Nisbet & Co. Ltd.. Good condition.

Green/grey pictorial cloth with red/brown titles. B/w pictorial endpapers. 12 tipped in colour plates with captioned tissue guards. B/w illustrations. Top edge gilt. Heavy bumping and wear to spine and corners. Uneven fading and some scuffing to covers. Front endpaper and prelim text page are detached, with chipping and creasing, but loosely inserted. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing. A few grubby margin marks. All plates are present - some tissue-guards are creased/detached. A reading copy.

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THE GOLDEN BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES
Written by T.C. Micklem. Illustrated by J.R. Carlton.
Stock no. 1504824
Published by Blandford Press Ltd.. circa 1955. Slightly better than good condition.

Cloth spine, pictorial front board shows blackbirds flying out of pie. Illustrated endpapers. Words and music score with colour and b/w illustrations. 48 pages. Spine bumped and slightly faded. Top corners bumped. Wear to corners and cover edges. Rear cover slightly scuffed with couple of spots of surface paper damage. Top 2" of rear joint broken, next 2" cracked. Contents generally clean. Light page edge browning.

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DAME WIGGINS OF LEE AND HER SEVEN WONDERFUL CATS
Written by John Ruskin. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1314808
Published by George Allen. 1st thus 1885. Very good condition.

A Humorous Tale Written Principally by a Lady of Ninety. Dark green cloth, gilt vignette & title to front. 22 woodcuts in b/w taken from the hand coloured edition of 1823, 4 of the illustrations are by Kate Greenaway. 20 pages. Plain endpapers. Spine and corners bumped, small splash mark to lower edge of rear cover. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers lightly browned. Foxing and fingermarks to contents but generally they are clean. Joints are cracked but binding still tight.

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TEAPOTS AND QUAILS AND OTHER NEW NONSENSES
Written by Edward Lear. Illustrated by Edward Lear.
Stock no. 1314793
Published by John Murray. 1st 1953. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Edited and introduced by Angus Davidson and Philip Hofer. Previously unpublished verses found 65 years after Lear's death. Brown pictorial boards. B/w drawings to text. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Endpapers slightly foxed. A few light fingermarks to pages else contents clean. Dustwrapper is foxed and edge chipped with minimal loss and tape repairs on verso.

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THE HOLE AND CORNER BOOK
Written by B. Parker. Illustrated by N. Parker.
Stock no. 1404293
Published by W. & R. Chambers. Almost very good condition.

Oblong format. Pictorial boards show family of rabbits peeping from covers. Brown & white illustrations. Animal rhymes. Heavy bumping and wear to corners. Spine bumped and worn. Board edges rubbed. Front board is a little bowed. Rear cover scuffed with a couple of small holes. Creasing to front board. Browning to endpapers. Some light fingering, otherwise contents generally clean. Page corner tips are slightly bent.

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SARAH'S ROOM
Written by Doris Orgel. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 2117196
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1972. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A pocket-sized picture book with delicate drawings by Sendak and rhyming text. Yellow pictorial boards. ISBN: 0370011384. Light bumping along a couple of cover edges. Contents are excellent. Wrapper is browned to spine, with some foxing and edge-creasing.

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THE FIVE BLACK COUSINS
Written by J. Murray Allison. Illustrated by John Austin.
Stock no. 1504459
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1924. Very good condition.

And Other Bird Rhymes. White cloth covers with gilt vignette and titles to front cover. 7.75 x 5.5". Small b/w illustrations. 63 pages. Some page edges uncut. SIGNED by author to front endpaper, with dedication and date. A little bumping and wear to spine and corners. Covers slightly grubby with light stains along top edge of front cover. Endpapers browned. Some foxing and a very odd fingermark to contents.

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OLD NURSERY RHYMES
No author listed. Illustrated by Jack Orr; Mabel Sims; et al..
Stock no. 1314660
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Large format, pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations to inside covers, colour illustrations throughout. 14 pages. Covers edge rubbed and very slightly grubby. There is a small crayon mark (old price?) to top of front cover. Contents clean.

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