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A LEADER IN THE CHALET SCHOOL
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer.
Stock no. 1325689
Published by Armada. 1st PB 1985. Very good condition.

Pictorial card wraps, White spine. ISBN: 0006925065. Light vertical creases to spine and some minimal rubbing to corners. Pale page browning. Name in belongs to box else contents clean.

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HERBERT STRANG'S ANNUAL 19TH YEAR
Written by Herbert Strang; Charles Mason; Gunby Hadath; L.R. Brightwell; Charles Turley; Major J.T. Gorman; et al. Illustrated by Alfred Sindall; C.E. Brock; Marcia Lane Foster; Ellis Silas; Otway M'Cannell; et al..
Stock no. 1325686
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1926. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth spine and boards. 6 colour plates. B/w illustrations throughout. 208 pages. First story is "Cannon Balls" by Mason. Spine and corners bumped, covers edge rubbed. Slight chipping to pictorial onlay on spine. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Heavy foxing.

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HERBERT STRANG'S ANNUAL 1915
Written by Herbert Strang; Captain Charles Gilson; Frank H. Mason; Leslie Beresford; et al. Illustrated by Cyrus Cuneo; Frank H. Mason; Stanley L. Wood; C.E. Brock; et al..
Stock no. 1325682
Published by Hodder & Stoughton; Henry Frowde. 1915. Good condition.

Beige cloth with gilt titles, pictorial onlays to front and spine of sailing ships. First story is "The Last Post" by Gilson. 8 colour plates mounted on brown paper, b/w illustrations throughout. 208 pages. Spine and corners bumped, covers slightly grubby. Pictorial onlay to spine partially removed. Joints cracked. Endpapers browned. Foxing to contents.

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THE BOY'S OWN ANNUAL - VOLUME 42
Written by Charles Gilson; H. Mortimer Batten; et al. Illustrated by Gordon Browne; T.H. Robinson; Harry Rountree; et al..
Stock no. 1826144
Published by The Boy's Own Paper. 1920. Good condition.

Large format. Maroon pictorial cloth. 12 colour and b/w plates. Boards lightly scuffed, spine lightly faded and lightly creased. Front hinge is broken and therefore prelims to page ix are loose/detached. Otherwise binding is tight. Folding frontis is torn in two along fold. Page edge browning and a few scattered foxspots. All plates are present. A working copy only.

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THE BOY'S OWN ANNUAL - VOLUME 48
Written by Dillon Wallace; Harold Avery; Robert Baden-Powell; May Wynne; et al. Illustrated by Gordon Browne; Alfred Pearse; Arch Webb; et al..
Stock no. 1826143
Published by The Boy's Own Paper. 1926. Very good condition.

Volume 48 1925-26. Large heavy format. Green pictorial cloth. Colour plates (some of which fold-out) and b/w illustrations. Rear board lightly scuffed. Top & tail of spine a little grayed, spine edges rubbed. Lower edge of boards rubbed, lower corners worn through cloth to boards. Front board is lovely and bright. Minor foxing and browning to endpapers. Front joint just starting to crack from bottom. A few scattered foxspots to contents. Mostly clean.

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LITTLE PEOPLE'S ANNUAL
Written by Edric Vredenburg; Norman Gale; Agnes Grozier Herbertson; et al. Illustrated by Chloe Preston; Joyce Mercer; Louis Wain; Phyllis Cooper; et al..
Stock no. 1826140
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. Circa 1923. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth spine with black titles and vignette of children reading. Pictorial front board showing children with balloons. Colour plates plus b/w and two tone illustrations by many illustrators. 112 pages including book list. First story is Birds and Bubbles. Board edges rubbed & worn. Boards scuffed and scratched. Cloth spine faded but title still bold. Browning to contents. Bookplate to front pastedown. Inscription in ink dated 1923 to free front endpaper. Plate facing page 56 is detached. Colouring, and pencil scribbles to some b/w illustrations. Hinges pulled, binding is worn but holding. Musty odour present.

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RUPERT PAINTING AND TRACING BOOK
Written by Mary Tourtel.
Stock no. 1325679
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. Good condition.

Red and yellow paper wraps. 10 b/w pictures to colour and trace including the Wise Goat, Dapple the pony and Princess Annabel. 8 x 9.25". Top corner tip of front cover has been torn off. Colouring to the Rupert illustration on front cover. Staples rusty. The tracing pages have been used and there is colouring to two of the illustrations.

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DADDY CAT
No author listed. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 1325677
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1915. Fair condition.

Cloth spine, dark green paper boards with pictorial onlay to front. 35 colour illustrations including half-title page and title page. All about 'Daddy Cat'. Covers are worn with some creasing and some slight surface paper damage. Spine bumped and rubbed. Contents are well fingered with creases and some small tears. Tiny patch of surface paper damage to lower margin of frontis (doesn't actually affect the illustration). Overall a good reading copy of a scarce Wain book.

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GARTH ENNIS PRESENTS BATTLE CLASSICS VOLUME 2
Written by Garth Ennis.
Stock no. 1826136
Published by Titan Comics. 1st thus 2016. Very good condition.

From 1975 to 1988, the weekly war comic Battle featured work by some of the greatest names in British comics. Here, Garth Ennis selects and introduces some of his favourite stories from Battle's heyday. This volume includes Fighting Mann and War Dog. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w comic stories. ISBN: 9781782767947. Head and foot of text block grubby/stained. Else contents clean.

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THE BANISHING OF BILLY BUNTER
Written by Frank Richards. Illustrated by C.H. Chapman.
Stock no. 1826120
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. 1st 1956. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Story no. 19. Red boards, black titles. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 223 pages. Boards clean. Text block browned. A few foxspots present, mainly to prelims. Pictorial dustwrapper is worn and torn at corners with slight loss, scuffing to front and rear panel (grubby), minor pen mark to top edge of front panel (above title), minor damp stain to vertical edge of rear panel.

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GULLIVER'S TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD
Written by Jonathan Swift. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1826115
Published by The Temple Press. 1st thus 1937. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth, dark titles to spine and front cover. 12 colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. 291 pages plus booklist to rear. Spine faded and scuffed, lightly frayed to top. Light rubbing to edges or boards. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Text block browned. A few minor foxspots present. All plates present.

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PIXIES' PLAYTIME
No author listed.
Stock no. 1826113
Published by The Children's Press. Very good condition.

Red pictorial paperwraps. Welcome to Pixieland. Full page colour illustrations, with two lines of text below. 8 pages including covers. Staple binding. Spine & corners lightly rubbed. Covers a little scuffed. Contents browned but pictures bright.

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