RUPERT ANNUAL 1938 - THE NEW RUPERT BOOK
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1328701
Published by Daily Express. 1938. Good condition.

The third Rupert annual. 1st story Rupert and the Daffodils. Colour pictorial boards. Red cloth spine. 126 pages. 10x7.5". Covers are edge worn, a bit grubby and there is a light circular mark (cup mark?) to centre of front cover. Spine is worn at top and tail with fraying of cloth and is grubby and faded. Name and date in ink in belongs to box. Heavy foxing throughout. Hinges pulled and cracked showing stitching beneath.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1968
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1328700
Published by Daily Express. 1968. Very good condition.

Colour pictorial boards - Rupert & chums watching large ball coming down from the sky. The last Rupert annual to include Magic Paintings. 10 x 7 inches. 115 pages. No facsimile produced for this year. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Name in belongs to box has been erased. Price NOT cut. First magic painting has been neatly completed, a couple of others have a tiny bit of colour to them, the remaining ones are untouched. Page edges are browned but contents are generally clean.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1972
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1328699
Published by Daily Express. 1972. Nearly fine condition.

Pictorial glazed boards - Rupert and chums enjoying a picnic. 1st story Rupert's Deep Sea Adventure. 115 pages. 10 x 7 inches. NOT inscribed or price-cut. A copy which has been carefully stored since the day of purchase. Would be perfect except that the pages were creased at hinges during the binding proces and there is a small blue mark on pages 8 and 9, a printing fault.

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MARTIN PIPPIN IN THE APPLE-ORCHARD
Written by Eleanor Farjeon.
Stock no. 1828990
Published by W. Collins Sons and Co. Ltd.. 1924. Very good condition.

Blue cloth boards, red titles. Not illustrated. xviii and 369 pages plus 'The Spring-Green Lady' music score to rear. Fifth impression. Spine slightly faded with wear to top & tail. Corners lightly worn, small patch of bleached cloth to top front edge. Endpapers and text block browned. Contents clean.

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KATE CRACKERNUTS
Written by K.M. Briggs.
Stock no. 1828989
Published by Kestrel Books; Penguin Books Ltd. 1st thus 1979. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Revised edition. The story of Kate 'Crackernuts' is moving and dramatic - steeped in the folklore and politics of 17th century Scotland, amid witch hunts and religious argument, inter-family disputes and the wars between Royalists and Parliamentarians. The story of the timeless struggle of personal convictions of truth against powerful forces of opposition. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 223 pages. ISBN: 0722655576. Browning and foxing to top edge of text block. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased and lightly browned to spine. Musty odour present.

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THE GOLDEN BIRD (PROOF)
Written by Edith Brill. Illustrated by Jan Pienkowski.
Stock no. 1828988
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This is a rough and uncorrected proof. Polish folk tales. This book grew out of stories told to the author as a child by her Polish father. Orange cardwraps. 8 striking full-colour plates plus silhouette illustrations. 151 pages. ISBN: 0460057510. Minor damp stain to top rear corner. Text block browned with some foxing/marks. Tiny damp stain to top corner tip of contents. Otherwise contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn, torn to top rear corner (small), front flap is staple to front panel at top edge, a few damp stains to verso (not visible to front).

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PERRAULT'S COMPLETE FAIRY TALES
Written by Charles Perrault. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1828986
Published by Longman Young Books. 1970. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Translated from the French by A.E. Johnson and others. Contains 14 tales. Blue boards with gilt titles to spine and vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. 183 pages. ISBN: 0582152682. Third impression. A nice, clean copy. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased across top edge, lightly faded to spine and just a little grubby to white rear panel.

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THE LITTLE WHITE BEAR
Written by Enid Marx. Illustrated by Enid Marx.
Stock no. 1328698
Published by Faber & Faber Limited. 1st 1945. Good condition.

Oblong format. Pictorial boards. Each page is illustrated in colour with text over printed (not all pages have text). Covers slightly grubby. Small name in ink to top corner of front cover and also to front free-endpaper. First couple of pages are almost detached. Last couple of pages have small brown tape reinforcements to the margin.

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THE VEGETABLE THIEVES
Written by Inga Moore. Illustrated by Inga Moore.
Stock no. 1328697
Published by Andersen Press Ltd.. 1st 1983. Slightly better than very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Des and Letty (two mice) gain a family! ISBN: 0862640474. Some slight browning to top half of rear cover.

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MY KITTEN BOOK
Written by Sheena Morey. Illustrated by Kippy.
Stock no. 1328695
Published by Childhood Publications Limited. Very good condition.

Black pictorial boards. Cute colour pictures printed on black paper. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Contents clean.

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TIMOTHY
Written by Elizabeth Ramal. Illustrated by Irene Hawkins.
Stock no. 1328694
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd.. 1st 1943. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Yellow cloth, blue titles and vignette. Illustrated endpapers. Lovely colour and b/w lithograph illustrations throughout. 47 pages. 8.5 x 6.25". Spine and corners bumped, some fading to spine. Wrapper is well worn and a bit grubby, most of wrapper spine is missing, what remains is very fragile.

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ONE DAY ON BEETLE ROCK
Written by Sally Carrighar. Illustrated by Eileen Mayo.
Stock no. 1328693
Published by Pleiades Books Ltd.. 1st 1946. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

What happens to the whole animal community of Beetle Rock, in the High Sierra, during one typical day. Blue cloth, gilt titles. 152 pages. B/w plates. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Pencil writing to front free-endpaper has been erased. Dustwrapper is edge worn, torn and chipped and a little grubby.

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