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HANS ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES
Written by Hans Christian Andersen. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 2134281
Published by Folio Society. 1999. Slightly better than very good condition.

Red cloth, gilt titles and decorations. 16 gorgeous colour plates plus b/w illustrations. Top edge red. 6th printing. Slip case is very good - a few marks and scuffs.

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THE PUFFIN BOOK OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHILDREN'S STORIES
Written by Judith Elkin. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 1320483
Published by Viking. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. Cream endpapers. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0670820563. Spine and corners bumped. Evidence of some pencil erasure and also a label removed from front free-endpaper. Light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed, sunned to spine.

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LITTLE PLAYS FOR LITTLE PEOPLE
Written by Mrs. Chisholm.
Stock no. 2134263
Published by Bell and Daldy. 1st 1872. Almost very good condition.

With Hints for Drawing-Room Performance. Green cloth with gilt title to front cover. 3 lithographic illustrations. Contains: The Hunchback; The Prince With the Nose and The Fairy. Uneven mottling to covers - possibly has been damp at some point. Foxing to outer page edges and some internal pages.

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JOCK OF THE BUSHVELD
Written by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick. Illustrated by E. Caldwell.
Stock no. 1320480
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1st 1907. Very good condition.

Green cloth, gilt titles and vignettes. Colour frontis. B/w plates and text illustrations. 474 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Some slight scuffing to cloth. Name and address in ink to half title-page. Endpapers browned. Page 35/6 has lower corner torn off (slight loss to margin illustrations only, not text). A few light foxspots to contents. A nice copy of the first issue of the first edition (first issue points present: dung beetle is shown to be pushing dung with front legs on pgs 65, 337 & 457 and horse is being dragged up a vertical cliff on pg 316).

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NORGY IN LITTLELAND
Written by Freda Hurt. Illustrated by Elizabeth McIntyre.
Stock no. 1320477
Published by The Epworth Press. 1st 1955. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, red title to spine and vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. 125 pages. Spine bumped. Prize inscription in blue biro to front pastedown, name of which has been scribbled out with black biro. Price-cut dustwrapper is torn and creased with tape repairs on verso, rear panel is a bit grubby.

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DEEP WOOD
Written by Elleston Trevor. Illustrated by David Williams.
Stock no. 1320475
Published by Gerald G. Swan. 1st 1945. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A friendly sort of book, about Old Stripe (the badger) and his home beneath the Beech Tree, his friends, Potter, Scruff the Fox, Skip Squirrel, and other animal folk who live among quiet woodland paths, old gnarled trees, grassy banks, and the rippling stream. Green cloth. Gilt titles. B/w illustrations. 160 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Some light browning to top and tail of spine. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Small brown mark to rear pastedown. Dustwrapper is edge worn with tape repairs on verso, some creases and rear panel slightly grubby.

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TROUBLE ON THUNDER MOUNTAIN
Written by Russell Hoban. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stock no. 1320462
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1999. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The O'Saurus family rebuild Thunder Mountain with the aid of their friends... Pictorial glazed boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0571193595. Spine slightly bumped. A lovely copy contained in a slightly edge worn dustwrapper that has a couple of small tears along the bottom edge.

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CORNELLI
Written by Johanna Spyri; Elisabeth P. Stork; Charles Wharton Stork. Illustrated by Maria L. Kirk.
Stock no. 1320461
Published by J.B. Lippincott Company. Circa 1920. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth with gilt titles, black illustration to front cover. Illustrated endpapers. 8 colour plates. 274 pages. Translated by E. Stork, introduction by C. Stork. Spine bumped and slightly faded. Foxing throughout.

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AMONG ANIMALS
Written by Manfred Kyber; Olive Fishwick.
Stock no. 1320459
Published by Centaur Press Ltd. 1st thus 1967. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The collected animal stories of Kyber, 1880-1933. Green boards, gilt title to spine. 206 pages. Translated from the German by Fishwick. ISBN: 0900000007. Spine slightly bumped. Dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine with a few small tears at edges.

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BO-BO THE CLOWN
Written by Porter. Illustrated by Chollick.
Stock no. 1320458
Published by Capitol Publishing Co.. 1948. Almost very good condition.

A Capitol Wiggly Playbook. Moving clown to front cover. Colour and b/w lithographs throughout. Staples rusty. Front cover is slightly grubby. Some scratch marks to rear cover. Clown still complete and moving. Contents clean.

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DICK AND DOT
No author listed.
Stock no. 1320457
Published by Bairns Books Ltd.. Circa 1940. Good condition.

Oblong format. Pictorial front board showing Dick and Dot carrying large balls. 4 pop-up scenes accompanying 4 short stories. Printed on stiff paper. Professionally rebacked with red cloth spine. Covers grubby. Inscription in blue biro to inside front cover. First page is a little grubby. Corner tips of covers and pages slightly worn.

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NIBS
Written by Grace James. Illustrated by Mary Gardiner.
Stock no. 1320453
Published by Frederick Muller Ltd.. 1st 1951. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Pale blue boards, black title to spine. B/w text illustrations. 191 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Endpapers lightly browned. Dustwrapper is edge worn with some slight loss to spine and corners, rear panel is a little grubby.

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