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THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
Written by Kenneth Grahame.
Stock no. 1327742
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1932. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

"The Gateway Library". Blue cloth, gilt title to spine and front cover. Top edge gilt, bottom edge uncut. 302 pages, General Literature catalogue to rear (8 pages). 7 x 4.5". 39th edition. Spine and corners bumped. Inscription in ink to front fly-leaf. Endpapers lightly browned. Foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is foxed and lightly browned to spine.

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BOBBY ROBIN AND THE WORM
Written by Robert Hartman. Illustrated by Robert Hartman.
Stock no. 1327741
Published by Arthur Barker Ltd.. Very good condition.

One Shilling Buffin Books series. Pictorial cardwraps. 28 pages. Colour illustrations. Minimal rubbing to cover edges. Staples starting to go rusty. Pencil name erased from top margin of title-page.

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MR. BUFFIN AND HIS GREY MARE
Written by Robert Hartman. Illustrated by Robert Hartman.
Stock no. 1327739
Published by Arthur Barker Ltd.. Very good condition.

One Shilling Buffin Books series. Green pictorial cardwraps. 30 pages. Colour illustrations. Slight rubbing to cover edges. Name in ink to top margin of title-page (erased pencil scribble through the name). Staples starting to go rusty. Contents clean.

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THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
Written by Kenneth Grahame. Illustrated by John Burningham.
Stock no. 1327734
Published by Kestrel Books. 1st 1983. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A handsome new edition with the characters sensitively portrayed and the action evocatively and faithfully depicted by the 1963 winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal. Colour plates plus b/w line drawings. Pale green boards. Gilt title to spine. 240 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. ISBN: 0722657463. Spine slightly bumped. Some light finger creases to first few pages and a couple of page margins are slightly creased. Dustwrapper rubbed/creased at top edge (where it has been moved in and out of the slipcase), small tear to top of spine. Slipcase has a few very small marks at top edges.

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UNCLE AND CLAUDIUS THE CAMEL
Written by J.P. Martin. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stock no. 1327689
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A succession of fantastic adventures lead to the awesome moment when Uncle (the elephant) is chained and helpless and at the mercy of the Badford Crowd in Beave Hateman's Chamber of Horrors... Turquoise boards, gilt title to spine. Orange pictorial endpapers. B/w text illustrations throughout. 192 pages. ISBN: 0224616439. Spine slightly bumped and cover edges lightly rubbed. Book leans to one side very slightly. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Light foxing to top edge of text block and a small mark to contents page else contents clean. Dustwrapper is just slightly rubbed/nicked at spine and corners.

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UNCLE CLEANS UP
Written by J.P. Martin. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stock no. 1327688
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1965. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Uncle (the elephant) is ignominiously captured by the Badfort crowd at a banana sale... Blue boards, gilt title to spine. Yellow pictorial endpapers. B/w text illustrations. 176 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Book leans to one side a little. Inscription in ink and a name and address in ink to front free-endpaper. Contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn and torn with slight loss to corners, repaired tear on verso.

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ENID BLYTON'S LITTLE BOOKS NO. 1 - BRER RABBIT
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Alfred E. Kerr.
Stock no. 1327649
Published by Evans Brothers Limited. Circa 1942. Very good condition.

Small format. White pictorial card wraps. B/w illustrations. Covers ever so slightly grubby/browned. Contents clean.

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BILL BADGER AND THE SECRET WEAPON
Written by BB. Illustrated by BB.
Stock no. 1327617
Published by Methuen Children's Books. 1st thus 1983. Almost very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Big Ginger and his gang of robber cats have found a secret weapon which endangers all canal travellers. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations throughout. 138 pages. First published in 1961 by Hamish Hamilton as Bill Badger's Finest Hour. ISBN: 041626770X. Ex-Lib with ink stamps to front pastedown colophon page and removal of front free-endpaper. Slight bumping to spine and corners. Small and faint mark to top edge of front cover. Dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine with a small mark to base of spine (from an old sticker, no longer present), creasing to top and tail of spine.

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UNCLE AND HIS DETECTIVE
Written by J.P. Martin. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stock no. 1827904
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1966. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Uncle (the elephant) is trunkdeep in trouble again! Bright yellow boards, silver title to spine. Green pictorial endpapers. B/w text illustrations. 172 pages. Vertical crease to spine, lower edges lightly rubbed, boards just a little grubby. Spine slightly cocked. Text block lightly browned. Name in ink to top edge of front endpaper. Contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-worn with a few tiny chips and closed tears, light browning.

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THE UGLY FIVE
Written by Julia Donaldson. Illustrated by Axel Scheffler.
Stock no. 1327532
Published by Alison Green Books. 1st 2017. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A picture book celebrating real-life 'Ugly Five' animals in Africa (Wildebeest, Warthog, Hyena, Vulture and Marabou Stork. Oblong format. Pictorial boards. Full-page colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 9781407174198. A fine copy in dustwrapper which is just a little rubbed at corners.

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THE INQUISITIVE HARVEST MOUSE
Written by Noel Barr. Illustrated by P.B. Hickling.
Stock no. 1827759
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 1st 1949. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird series 497. Cream boards with square pictorial onlay to front and titles. B/w pictorial endpapers. Colour illustrations throughout. Boards a little grubby, corners lightly rubbed. Browning to endpapers. A few marks to contents. First gathering a little loose, hinge pulled. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-rubbed with tiny amounts of loss mainly to corners, and a little scuffed.

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RAJA THE ELEPHANT (WILD LIFE STORY READERS)
Written by C. Bernard Rutley. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.
Stock no. 1827756
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

A School reading book with exercises to rear. This is the cloth lined edition. The story of an Indian elephant. Blue pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. Undated. Covers a little grubby, corners are rubbed. '3' written in pencil to inside front cover. Text block browned. Creased to lower gutter edge. Contents generally clean.

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