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THE CIRCUS OF ADVENTURE
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.
Stock no. 1830025
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1952. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The seventh book of Enid Blyton's popular "Adventure" series. Cream pictorial cloth, blue titles. B/w illustrations. 316 pages. Mark to rear board, spine slightly faded to top & tail of spine, front board just very slightly grubby. Tape marks to endpapers. Text block lightly browned with some minor foxing. A few foxspots to a few pages else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is worn at corners and top & tail of spine with some loss, spine is faded.

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SAUCERS OVER THE MOOR
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Bertram Prance.
Stock no. 1830022
Published by George Newnes Ltd.. 1st 1955. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A gripping and fast-moving adventure story about the Lone Pine Club set on Dartmoor. Cream boards, red titles. Endpapers show sketch of the Moor. B/w illustrations. 244 pages. Boards a little browned. Text block foxed. Front endpaper browned. Some foxing to contents. Two small pieces of tape repair to gutter of last page and verso of rear endpaper. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper has a tape mark to front flap, is edge-worn iwth a small tape repair to front lower edge, and is grubby to rear panel.

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THE BROTHERS GRIMM - POPULAR FOLK TALES
Written by Brothers Grimm; Brian Alderson. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 1329879
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1978. Nearly fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w throughout. Illustrated endpapers. 192 pages. 10 x 7". ISBN: 0575024461. SIGNED by the artist to title-page. Spine very slightly bumped. Slight evidence of some pencil erasure to verso of front free-endpaper.

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FAIRY STORIES AND RHYMES
Written by Cicely Mary Barker. Illustrated by Cicely Mary Barker.
Stock no. 1329875
Published by Ted Smart. Circa 2000. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Containing The Lord of the Rushie River; Simon the Swan; Old Rhymes for All Times; The Fairy Necklaces. Larger format than the small Flower Fairy books. Blue pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. 144 pages. Some light/pale foxing to endpapers. Contents fine. Dustwrapper has some very light marks to edges.

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THE LILAC FAIRY BOOK
Written by Andrew Lang. Illustrated by H.J. Ford.
Stock no. 1329874
Published by Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd.. 1st 1910. Good condition.

Lilac covers with gilt titles and vignette to spine. Embossed decoration to front cover. 6 coloured plates and numerous illustrations. xv and 369 pages. 7.5" x 5". All edges gilt. Covers have faded to white (a normal problem with this volume!). Gilt still bright. Covers grubby and spine bumped. Both free-endpapers are missing. There is some foxing to the prelims and the last couple of pages. The b/w plate opposite page 6 has been coloured in neatly. All other plates are present and untouched.

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THE TOLKIEN DIARY 2000
Written by J.R.R. Tolkien. Illustrated by Ted Nasmith.
Stock no. 1329872
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 1999. Slightly better than very good condition.

Colour pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Includes quotations from Tolkien's famous books. ISBN: 0261103903. Spine sunned and corners slightly bumped. Contents unused.

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THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE
Written by Bret Harte. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1329871
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. 1955. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Cream pictorial cloth, colour onlay to front cover. 64 pages. Colour illustrations throughout. All edges green. Very slight mottling to cloth else a lovely, bright copy. Dustwrapper is price-cut by publisher (with 'new' price sticker), is very slightly edge rubbed, lightly foxed and very lightly browned to spine (it is a nice dustwrapper!).

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AMELIARANNE AT THE CIRCUS
Written by Margaret Gilmour. Illustrated by S.B. Pearse.
Stock no. 1329870
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1931. Very good condition.

Buff boards, pictorial onlay. Charming colour illustrations throughout. Spine and corners bumped. Foxing, mainly at endpapers. Page margins are lightly fingered and a couple of margins have small marks.

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TEN-MINUTE TALES
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 1329869
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 10th 1943. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

29 varied stories for children. Small format. Grey cloth, red title to spine and vignette to front cover. 185 pages. Minimal shelf buming to spine and corners. Circular nameplate to front pastedown is covering an inscription (some of which has been tippexed over). Contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn with minimal loss to spine and corners and some slight creasing to front flap.

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THE SLY OLD CAT
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1329868
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1971. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An intriguing tale of an unusual tea party, where the hostess is a sly old cat and the guest an unassuming rat. Beatrix Potter wrote and illustrated this story in 1906 and now for the first time it appears as a book. Foreword by Leslie Linder. White pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 34 pages. ISBN: 0723214204. Foxing to covers and dustwrapper and also to some page margins. White dustwrapper is slightly browned.

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HOME TO WITCHEND
Written by Malcolm Saville.
Stock no. 1329867
Published by Armada. 1st 1978. Very good condition.

Armada paperback edition. A Lone Pine Adventure. This title originally published in paperback - the hardback edition was published a year later. ISBN: 0006914772. Slight rubbing to cover edges. Light page browning else contents clean.

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ENSIGN CAREY
Written by Ronald Welch.
Stock no. 1329855
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1976. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Orange boards, silver title to spine. 175 pages. ISBN: 0192713868. Spine and corners bumped. Small indentation to top edge of front cover. Dustwrapper is lightly browned, there is a barcode label to rear panel.

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