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THE EXTRAORDINARY TUG-OF-WAR
Written by Letta Schatz. Illustrated by John Burningham.
Stock no. 1328680
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st UK 1969. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Pictorial boards. Oblong format. Full page colour illustrations. Hippopotamus tugged and Elephant tugged. The rope grew tighter - but nothing happened! ISBN: 0370015037. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Foxing to textblock but contents clean. Dustwrapper is worn with large tears and slight loss.

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RUBY
Written by Michael Emberley. Illustrated by Michael Emberley.
Stock no. 1328669
Published by Little, Brown and Company. 1st 1990. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Ruby is a small but determined mouse in a red cloak and she sets out to deliver a batch of triple-cheese pies to her granny... Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0316888591. Spine and spine edges of wrapper are sunned.

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BORKA THE ADVENTURES OF A GOOSE WITH NO FEATHERS
Written by John Burningham. Illustrated by John Burningham.
Stock no. 1328662
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st thus 2013. Slightly better than very good condition.

50th Anniversary Edition. Large format. Green cloth with gilt titles and vignette to front cover. Colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9780857550835. Some light/faint spotting to covers. Contents fine.

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ROMANY WOOD
Written by Beshlie; David Walser. Illustrated by Beshlie.
Stock no. 1328644
Published by Hart-Davis Educational Limited. 1st 1974. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Beshlie lives the life of a gypsy, roaming the countryside in a caravan and studying nature at first hand. She transfers her observations into pictures which are an absolute delight. Pale green boards. Unpaginated. 10 x 7.5 ins. ISBN: 029812047X. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Pale browning to page edges. Dustwrapper is faded to spine.

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ALWAYS AND FOREVER
Written by Alan Durant. Illustrated by Debi Gliori.
Stock no. 1328626
Published by Doubleday. 1st 2003. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. In their hears and their memories and their laughter, Fox was still there...always and forever. ISBN: 038560503X. Minimal rubbing to spine and corners. Spine of wrapper is sunned.

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THE CAT NEXT DOOR
Written by Birsa Shepard. Illustrated by Pelagie Doane.
Stock no. 1328601
Published by The Children's Book Club. 1946. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth spine, blue boards with black titles. B/w illustrations. 64 pages. Mollie rescues some kittens! Spine slightly bumped. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is grubby and foxed, wear with minimal loss to spine and some fading.

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APPLEY DAPPLY'S NURSERY RHYMES
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1328544
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. 1st 1917. Very good condition.

Small format. Green boards with red lettering. Pictorial onlay to front cover. 52 numbered pages. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Inscription in ink to half title-page. Some light page browning, fingering and other marks to generally clean contents.

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THE TALE OF LITTLE PIG ROBINSON
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1328539
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1930. Very good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt title, brown vignette and lettering. Pictorial endpapers. 6 colour plates plus b/w drawings. Larger format than the other "Tales". 96 pages. Spine browned and worn at ends. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Light foxing to textblock.

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BABAR'S FAIR
Written by Laurent De Brunhoff; Olive Jones.
Stock no. 1328502
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1969. Very good condition.

First published under the title 'La Fete de Celesteville'. Translated from French by Jones. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0416933807. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Slight cracking to spine edges. Contents clean.

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GOLD GORSE COMMON
Written by Mollie Kaye. Illustrated by Margaret Tempest.
Stock no. 1328479
Published by Collins. 1st 1945. Very good condition.

Yellow cloth spine, pictorial boards. The Potter Pinner series. Text in script with pretty colour illustrations to text. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Spine darkened. Heavy pencil pricing to front free-endpaper. Pencil name to belongs to box (attempt has previously been made to erase it).

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THE MAGIC PUDDING
Written by Norman Lindsay. Illustrated by Norman Lindsay.
Stock no. 1328416
Published by Angus & Robertson. 1968. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Jubilee Edition of 2000 copies. Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. 171 pages. Colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Faint damp stains to covers. A few foxspots to endpapers. Some slight page wrinkling to first 20 pages at lower margins. Unfortunately there are damp stains at the lower inner margins of the colour plates (the actual illustrations are not affected). Damp damaged dustwrapper has large piece of loss to lower edge of front panel, is edge worn, torn and creased and is price-cut.

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THE GREAT MENAGERIE AN ADAPTION OF THE ANTIQUE POP-UP BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 1328390
Published by Kestrel Books; Penguin. 1979. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. 6 pop-up pages. ISBN: 0722656483. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Colour from the small cloth tabs has transferred to the pages.

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