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THE CATS' ARABIAN NIGHTS OR KING GRIMALKUM
Written by Abby Morton Diaz. Illustrated by Various.
Stock no. 1328692
Published by D. Lothrop & Company. Circa 1900. Very good condition.

Green pictorial cloth. 227 pages. B/w illustrations throughout by Francis, Boz, Palmer Cox and others. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Slight browning to spine. Name in ink on small label to front free-endpaper (this has caused a small patch of browning on opposite pastedown and the label is now partially removed). Light page edge browning.

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MAISIE IN LONDON
Written by Aileen Paterson. Illustrated by Aileen Paterson.
Stock no. 1328690
Published by Byway Books. 1st 1985. Fine condition.

The adventures of the famous kilted kitten. Oblong format. Cardwraps. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0907448143.

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THE ALMOST ALL-WHITE RABBITY CAT
Written by Meindert Dejong. Illustrated by H.B. Vestal.
Stock no. 1328689
Published by Lutterworth Press. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A story about a remarkable cat and the remarkable people who lived in her apartment building; a happy book written by a master storyteller. Orange boards, gilt title to spine and vignette to front. Full page b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0718819985. Spine bumped. Foxing to endpapers and a musty smell to contents. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and foxed on verso.

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THE EASTER CAT
Written by Meindert Dejong. Illustrated by Mary Dinsdale.
Stock no. 1328688
Published by Lutterworth Press. 1st UK 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 110 pages. Family tensions interwoven with Millicent's longing for a cat of her own. ISBN: 0718818776. Spine and corners bumped. Foxing to prelims and to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed, grubby to rear panel and has a "Lutterworth Children's Author" sticker to front panel.

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FOUR FRIENDS IN OAKAPPLE WOOD
Written by Jenny Partridge. Illustrated by Jenny Partridge.
Stock no. 1328685
Published by World's Work Ltd.. 1st 1984. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. Decorated endpapers. Colour illustrations to text throughout. Unpaginated. 6.5 x 9.5". ISBN: 0437661857. A couple of light foxspots to front endpapers. Dustwrapper is lightly browned to spine and half of front panel, top front corner of wrapper is lightly creased.

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SCRUFFY THE LITTLE BLACK HEN
Written by Cicely Englefield. Illustrated by Cicely Englefield.
Stock no. 1328683
Published by John Murray. 1st 1948. Almost very good condition.

White pictorial boards. Lovely colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Covers are a bit grubby and marked, spine browned and rubbed. Price cut from lower corner of front free-endpaper. Contents clean.

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THE EXTRAORDINARY TUG-OF-WAR
Written by Letta Schatz. Illustrated by John Burningham.
Stock no. 1328680
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st UK 1969. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Pictorial boards. Oblong format. Full page colour illustrations. Hippopotamus tugged and Elephant tugged. The rope grew tighter - but nothing happened! ISBN: 0370015037. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Foxing to textblock but contents clean. Dustwrapper is worn with large tears and slight loss.

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WINNIE-THE-POOH A POP-UP BOOK
Written by A.A. Milne. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard; Chuck Murphy.
Stock no. 1328678
Published by Methuen Children's Books. 1990. Very good condition.

Winnie-the-Pooh in pop-up form with decorations after the style of Ernest H. Shepard adapted by Chuck Murphy. Blue pictorial glazed boards. First story is Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees. Paper engineering by Keith Moseley. ISBN: 0416498809. Foxing to contents else clean. Pop-ups and moveable parts all complete and working. Pale browning to spine and front cover.

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WHAT MADE TIDDALIK LAUGH
Written by Joanna Troughton. Illustrated by Joanna Troughton.
Stock no. 1328677
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 2nd 1986. Nearly fine condition.

A lively legend from Australia, retold by Troughton. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Second edition (first published 1977). ISBN: 0216904315.

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THE CAT WHO CAME TO STAY
Written by Lesley Fotherby. Illustrated by Lesley Fotherby.
Stock no. 1328675
Published by Michael O'Mara books Limited. 1st 1992. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Glazed pictorial boards. Delightful colour illustrations. ISBN: 1854791060. Foxspots to last couple of pages. Dustwrapper is slightly worn at top of spine with some foxing on verso.

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LASS
Written by Roland Gebauer. Illustrated by Cheri Bladholm.
Stock no. 1328674
Published by Thomas Nelson Inc.. 1st 1997. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A story for children based on the best-selling book "Lessons from a Sheepdog" by Phillip Keller. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0849914493. Old price-sticker (yellow) to front pastedown. Wrapper is faded to spine.

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THE NATIONAL TRUST BOOK OF FAIRY TALES
No author listed. Illustrated by Ian Penney.
Stock no. 1328673
Published by The National Trust. 1st 1995. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. An enchanting collection of fairy tales, with paintings by Ian Penney linking the stories to National Trust properties. ISBN: 0707801885. SIGNED by the artist to title-page. Spine and spine edges of wrapper are faded.

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