BEST FRIENDS
Written by Mary Bard. Illustrated by Hellmuth Weissenborn.
Stock no. 1328716
Published by Hammond, Hammond & Company Ltd.. 1st 1955. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

From the moment Suzie and Co Co became best friends life became exciting. Green boards, black title to spine. 191 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine slightly bumped. Foxing else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge chipped with some tiny loss to top edge of front panel and slight fading to spine.

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THE MAGIC SEA-SHELL
Written by Margaret J. Baker. Illustrated by Marjorie-Ann Watts.
Stock no. 1328715
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1959. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Flying Foal Books. Blue boards, black title to spine and mermaid vignette to front cover. 95 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine bumped, some slight discolouration to cover edges. Endpapers lightly browned. Hampshire Education Committee ink stamp to front free-endpaper ('staffroom copy' written in ink below). Foxing to textblock. One page incorrectly cut during binding process resulting in a crease to the lower corner tip and also the page is a little larger than the rest. Price-cut wrapper is worn and torn with some pieces of loss, rear panel is a bit grubby.

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THE ITALIAN SPRING
Written by Gillian Avery. Illustrated by John Verney.
Stock no. 1328713
Published by Collins. 1st 1964. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Maria Henniker-Hadden's (the delightful heroine of The Warden's Niece) adventures in Italy spring of 1877. Blue mottle boards, silver title to spine. 256 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Name, date and old price in ink to front free-endpaper. Some light foxing. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and slightly grubby to rear panel.

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JAMES WITHOUT THOMAS
Written by Gillian Avery. Illustrated by John Verney.
Stock no. 1328712
Published by Collins. 1st 1959. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Without the influence of his eldest brother, Thomas, James comes into his own as the hero of the Christmas holidays. Purple cloth, silver title to spine. 255 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine slightly bumped. Light mark to front cover. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is grubby to rear panel and has tears to rear spine edge and to top corner of rear panel.

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TO TAME A SISTER
Written by Gillian Avery. Illustrated by John Verney.
Stock no. 1328711
Published by D. Van Nostrand Company. 1st USA 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

In summer 1875 Margaret had the chance to escape to her cousins in the country, she hardly knew whether to be delighted at the prospect of mingling with artists and poets or to be apprehensive of the inevitable misdeeds of her brothers. Yellow boards, blue title to spine. B/w illustrations. 256 pages. Spine slightly bumped. Name and date in pencil to front free-endpaper. Price-cut wrapper is just a little edge rubbed/chipped and slightly browned to top edge of rear panel.

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THE ELEPHANT WAR
Written by Gillian Avery. Illustrated by John Verney.
Stock no. 1328710
Published by Collins. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

The fourth story of the Smith family, beginning with a misunderstanding (like many wars before and since). Red boards, silver title to spine. 256 pages. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Light tape mark to front cover. Name in ink and also evidence of removal of a label to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is edge worn, chipped with slight loss, a bit grubby to rear panel and has a large tear across front panel which has been tape repaired on verso and is not very noticeable to front.

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KATJE THE WINDMILL CAT
Written by Gretchen Woelfle. Illustrated by Nicola Bayley.
Stock no. 1328709
Published by Walker Books. 1st thus 2001. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A heroic tale inspired by a true story that took place over 500 years ago. Oblong format. Glazed decorated boards. Wonderful colour illustrations. ISBN: 0744580161. Minimal rubbing to wrapper edges.

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ONE WORLD
Written by Michael Foreman. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 1328708
Published by Andersen Press. 1st 1990. Nearly fine condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. One sky, one sun, one moon, one world and a little girl. ISBN: 0862642892. Very slight fading to spine. Contents fine.

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IRISH FAIRY TALES
Written by James Stephens. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1828994
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1920. Very good condition.

A book in which Rackham broke new ground in the illustration of Irish literature. Stephens had attempted to create an Irish equivalent of The Arabian Nights in his own poetic retelling of the stories which existed in the oral tradition. Rackham rose to the occasion and produced 37 memorable illustrations including 16 in full colour. Green cloth, gilt decoration to front cover and spine. 318 pages. Spine browned and thus gilt to spine is faded. Corners rubbed and a little worn, lower rear corner has tiny nibble to cloth at edge. Text block and endpapers browned. Gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. All plates present, pale foxing to plate edges, tissue guards browned. Plate facing page 214 has slight surface paper damage to margins where tissue-guard was stuck. Contents clean.

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JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH
Written by Jules Verne; William Butcher; Michael Crichton. Illustrated by Grahame Baker.
Stock no. 1828993
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2001. Slightly better than very good condition.

Translated by Butcher, Introduced by Crichton. Pictorial boards. Full page colour plates to contents. xxviii and 230 pages. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed.

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BILLY BUNTER AFLOAT
Written by Frank Richards. Illustrated by C.H. Chapman.
Stock no. 1328703
Published by Cassell & Co. Ltd.. 2nd 1961. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Billy Bunter book no. 21. Green boards, black titles. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 223 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Foxing throughout and to lower edges of covers. Dustwrapper is a bit grubby, edge rubbed and foxed on verso.

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THE RIVER OF ADVENTURE
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.
Stock no. 1328702
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1955. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The eighth in the Adventure series. Cream pictorial cloth. B/w illustrations. 277 pages. Spine bumped. Some slight scuffing to cover edges. Old tape to pastedowns (also to wrapper flaps), browning to endpapers and light foxing to textblock. Section missing to lower corner of front pastedown (hidden beneath wrapper flap). Dustwrapper is edge rubbed with slight loss to top of spine and has old tape marks to edges and tape to edges of flaps (as mentioned previously).

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