CHILDREN'S SINGING GAMES - SECOND SERIES
Written by Alice B. Gomme. Illustrated by Winifred Smith.
Stock no. 1325631
Published by David Nutt. 1894. Good condition.

Square format. Grey cloth, black illustrations and titles. Contains music, words and decorations to many popular rhymes. 70 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn, covers grubby. Creases to free-endpapers. Large tear to inner margin of page 17/18. Contents are slightly grubby (well fingered).

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THE WATER BABIES
Written by Charles Kingsley. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
Stock no. 1325629
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st thus 1938. Good condition.

Hodder & Stoughton's Colour Books series. Grey cloth, red titles and vignettes. 12 colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Spine browned and foxed. Damp/splash marks and a few small pen marks to front cover (see picture). Name plate to front pastedown and inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Creases to last few pages. Light foxing. Plates clean.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1946 - THE NEW RUPERT BOOK
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1325626
Published by Daily Express. 1946. Very good condition.

Colour pictorial card wraps - Rupert looking out through a window. 1st story - Rupert on Coon Island. 120 pages. 9.5 x 7 inches. This annual has not been reproduced in a facsimile edition. Some slight rubbing to cover edges and a few very small, light marks to covers but otherwise covers are lovely and bright. NOT price-cut or inscribed. Minimal foxing to textblock. Puzzle pages are clean. A super copy of this scarce annual.

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MRS. STRANG'S ANNUAL FOR GIRLS
Written by Mrs. Herbert Strang; Phillippa Francklyn; Thora Stowell; Dorita Fairlie Bruce; Winifred Darch; et al. Illustrated by Howard K. Elcock; Mary Strange Reeve; M.D. Johnston; M.A. Peart; et al..
Stock no. 1325625
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. Circa 1924. Almost very good condition.

Cloth spine with pictorial onlay of girl in yellow dress, pictorial front cover shows two girls, one playing a whistle(?). 6 colour plates and b/w illustrations. 168 pages. First story is 'The Sea-Eagle' Nest' by Francklyn. Spine and corners bumped. Covers edge worn. Onlay to spine is a little sunned. Crease to corner of front free-endpaper. Heavy foxing.

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MRS STRANG'S ANNUAL FOR GIRLS
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce; Brenda Girvin; Thora Stowell; Lilian Holmes; Winifred Darch; et al. Illustrated by Mary S. Reeve; Grace Lodge; Florence Harrison; C.E. Brock; H.R. Millar; et al..
Stock no. 1325624
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1923. Very good condition.

Pictorial front cover shows three girls sitting on grass, one reading a book. First story is "The Influence of Anne" by D.F. Bruce. 6 colour plates, b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Cover edges worn. Some slight chipping to edges of onlay to spine. Name plate to front pastedown. Endpapers browned. Foxing and some fingering to page edges and margins.

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MRS STRANG'S ANNUAL FOR GIRLS
Written by Mrs. Herbert Strang; M.I.K. Carruthers; Dorita Fairlie Bruce; Brenda Girvin; Barbara Euphan Todd; et al. Illustrated by Florence Harrison; M.D. Johnston; C.E. Brock; et al..
Stock no. 1325622
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1925. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

7th year. Brown cloth spine with pictorial onlay showing girl with holly. Pictorial front board shows same girl walking dog. First story is "Black Into White" by Carruthers. Also includes "Biddy's Bright Idea" by D.F. Bruce. 6 colour plates including frontis by Harrison. B/w illustrations. Spine slightly bumped, top edge of pictorial onlay on spine is slightly worn. Lower edge of front cover is rubbed. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Light browning to endpapers and heavy foxing to textblock and page margins else contents clean. Scarce dustwrapper is edge worn and torn with some tape repairs on verso. Small hole to base of wrapper spine.

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MRS STRANG'S ANNUAL FOR GIRLS
Written by Mrs. Herbert Strang; Angela Brazil; Christine Chaundler; et al. Illustrated by C.E. Brock; Wal Paget; et al..
Stock no. 1325621
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. Almost very good condition.

Cloth spine, pictorial front board showing girl on a gondola. First story "The Night Riders" by Esmee Rhoades. 168 pages. Colour plates, b/w illustrations to text. Brazil story is 'Sylvia's Saturday Tea-Party'. Spine bumped. Covers are edge worn with surface paper loss to edge of front cover. Browning to endpapers. Foxing to contents.

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MRS STRANG'S ANNUAL FOR GIRLS
Written by Mrs. Herbert Strang; Dorita Fairlie Bruce; Christine Chaundler; et al. Illustrated by Grace Lodge; C.E. Brock; Helen Stratton; C.E. Brock; et al.; et al.; et al..
Stock no. 1325620
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. Fair condition.

Cloth spine. Pictorial front board showing girl playing tennis. Includes "A Horrible Fix" by D.F. Bruce. Colour plates, b/w illustrations. Spine bumped and worn with splits. Covers edge worn. Scuffing to covers. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Name in pencil to front pastedown and some green crayon marks to front free-endpaper. Pencil scribbles to margins of a couple of plates. Biro mark to margin of a text page. Pencil doodles to rear endpapers. Heavy foxing and fingering. Pages 46/7 have large brown marks (from something which was pressed between the pages.

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MRS STRANG'S ANNUAL FOR GIRLS
Written by Mrs. Herbert Strang; Winifred Darch; Dorita Fairlie Bruce; et al. Illustrated by C.E. Brock; Florence Harrison; Mary Strange Reeve; et al..
Stock no. 1325618
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1926. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Cloth spine. Pictorial front and spine, front shows girl feeding doves. Includes "Captain Betsy" by Dorita Fairlie Bruce. 6 colour plates. 160 pages. Spine bumped. Covers slightly edge worn. Inscription in ink (partially faded) to front pastedown. Endpapers lightly browned. Foxing and some fingering to page margins. Scarce dustwrapper is grubby and edge worn, tear to top of spine tape repaired on verso, rear panel has large section of loss to top edge and some smaller pieces of loss at other edges.

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THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK
Written by Lewis Carroll; Michael Rosen. Illustrated by Jeffrey Fisher.
Stock no. 1826047
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2010. Slightly better than very good condition.

Pictorial boards. An agony, in Eight Fits. Blue cloth spine with gilt title, pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Introduction by Rosen. Based on the Penguin Books edition first published in 1967 and reprinted with revisions in 1974, with minor emendations. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which has a few light marks and is lightly scuffed.

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THE SHEEP-PIG
Written by Dick King-Smith. Illustrated by Mary Rayner.
Stock no. 1325616
Published by Victor Gollancz. 1984. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Charming story of a pig which thinks it's a sheepdog. B/w text illustrations. Winner of the Guardian Childrens's Fiction award 1984 and made into the film "Babe". Blue boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0575033754. Third impression of the first edition. Spine very slightly bumped with a little fading to top of spine. Some foxing to textblock else contents clean. Dustwrapper is very slightly faded to spine.

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LITTLE WHITE HEN
Written by Hajime Kijima. Illustrated by Setsuko Hane.
Stock no. 1325614
Published by Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of a little white hen who outwits the fox and his cunning tricks. Colourful pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0356025039. Slight rubbing to spine and corners. A few light foxspots else contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn with a tiny patch of surface paper damage to front panel.

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