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THE WATER-BABIES
Written by Charles Kingsley. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1308562
Published by Constable & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1915. Almost very good condition.

A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Rebound with white cloth spine and gilt title, red cloth covers. Grey endpapers. 8 colour plates, numerous b/w illustrations. 319 pages. Spine bumped and slightly grubby, some slight fading to top edge of rear cover. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Front joint (between fly-leaf and frontis) cracked. Foxing and some fingering throughout. Erased crayon name to verso of frontis.

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A FAIRY GARLAND
Written by Charles Perrault; Madame D'Aulnoy; et al. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 2108586
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. 1st 1928. Very good condition.

Being nine Fairy Tales from the Old French. Blue cloth covers, gilt title to spine. 12 superb colour plates throughout. 251 pages. 9.5 x 7". Light bumping and wear to spine and corners. A few marks to covers. Foxing to outer page edges, prelims and some page margins.

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HOLIDAY BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 1806559
Published by Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

What the children did on their holidays. Pictorial paperwraps. Colour illustrations throughout. Some of the pictures are offset with colours from printing process. Otherwise a nice, clean copy.

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ANIMAL ANTICS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1806558
Published by The Children's Press. Slightly better than very good condition.

Yellow pictorial card wraps. Large colour illustrations to each page with text below. 6 pages. Light browning otherwise a nice copy.

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HOLIDAY BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 1806554
Published by Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

What the children did on their holidays. Pictorial paperwraps. Colour illustrations throughout. Rear cover slightly grubby. Last picture offset by printing process.

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ANIMAL ANTICS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1806553
Published by The Children's Press. Very good condition.

Yellow pictorial card wraps. Large colour illustrations to each page with text below. 6 pages. Browning to margins else a fine copy.

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RUPERT ADVENTURE SERIES No. 30 - RUPERT AND THE MERMAIDS' COTTAGE
Written by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1308486
Published by Daily Express. 1956. Very good condition.

Pictorial card wraps. Second story is Rupert and the Secret Holiday. Colour illustrations. Slight rubbing to cover edges. Seashore puzzle completed in pencil (and partially erased).

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TROUBLE AT TOWNSEND
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Lunt Roberts.
Stock no. 1308471
Published by Transatlantic Arts Ltd.. 1st 1945. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The story of two city children sent to stay on a farm where they thought nothing ever happened. They soon changed their minds. The story was also filmed on Malcolm Saville's farm in Hertfordshire. Brown cloth, blue title to spine. B/w illustrations. 128 pages. Spine and corners bumped, some light marks to covers. Name and address in ink to front endpaper. Some browning and fingering to page margins. A couple of small pen marks to front endpaper. Dustwrapper is edge chipped with slight loss.

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THE BELL OF THE FOUR EVANGELISTS
Written by Violet Needham. Illustrated by Joyce Bruce.
Stock no. 1308469
Published by Collins. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Base of spine faded. Shadow from dustwrapper design to front cover and spine. Front joint just starting to crack. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge chipped with loss to lower edge of rear panel and base of spine.

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RAINBOWS AND RAILINGS
Written by Lucie B. Dufty. Illustrated by L.M. Dufty.
Stock no. 1706689
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. Circa 1936. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

284 pages. Silver titles and borders. B/w illustrations. Bookplate to front endpaper. Wrapper grubby and chipped to corners.

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THE GIFTED BEAR
Written by Rosemary Hammond. Illustrated by Rosemary Hammond.
Stock no. 1706677
Published by Geoffrey Cumberlege; Oxford University Press. 1st 1946. Very good condition.

Small format. Green pictorial card wraps. A delightful story of a little bear with many talents. Cute colour illustrations and text in script. Covers browned.

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THE EVEN MORE AMAZING SCIENCE POP-UP BOOK
Written by Chris Oxlade.
Stock no. 1401104
Published by Franklin Watts. 1st 1997. Slightly better than very good condition.

A 3-Dimensional Exploration by Jay Young. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Contains a working gravity-clock, binoculars, scales, telephone, phenakistoscope and abacus. ISBN: 0749625600. All parts present. Sand in the timer doesn't flow freely but everything else working. Crease to top of phenakistoscope.

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