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THE UNKNOWN ISLAND
Written by Dudley Charles Hoon. Illustrated by Brenda Sheldon.
Stock no. 1402462
Published by Pongo Books. Very good condition in a poor dustwrapper.

The Adventures of Pongo the Pup. Brown cloth. Title and vignette of Pongo on front board. Two-tone illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Small piece of bottom corner of front endpaper missing. Creasing to rear endpaper. Small booksellers sticker to rear pastedown. A few foxspots and a couple of grubby marks otherwise contents are generally clean. Dustwrapper is worn and torn with areas of loss at bottom of spine, top of rear panel and bottom of rear flap. Creasing to both panels and flap. Couple of pen marks at bottom of front flap. Grubby marks to rear panel.

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GETTING TO KNOW DOGS
Written by Cynthia Harnett. Illustrated by Vernon Stokes.
Stock no. 2113775
Published by Collins. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

All the necessary information and guidance for the boy or girl who is bent on acquiring the best friend and comrade a human can have outside his own kind. Beige cloth, green titles. Beautiful colour and b/w illustrations. Light bumping to spine and corners. Name in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing and page browning. Small piece of sticky label to front endpaper, with surface paper damage, where rest has been removed. Wrapper is edge-torn and chipped, with creasing and foxing; some long tears have repairs to verso; loss to a few corners and top of spine.

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BONZO'S ANNUAL 1949
Written by G.E. Studdy. Illustrated by G.E. Studdy.
Stock no. 1312287
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. 1949. Good condition.

Red cloth spine. Pictorial paperboards, front cover shows Bonzo with peashooter. 124 pages. Colour frontis, two-tone illustrations throughout. Covers are edge worn, light spot to rear cover. Inscription in blue biro to front pastedown. Foxing throughout, pages 52 and 53 lightly marked some fingermarks to page margins but generally clean.

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THE SNOB
Written by Walter Emanuel. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1312270
Published by Laurence and Bullen. 1904. Fair condition.

Some episodes in a Mis-spent Youth. Green pictorial boards with typical Aldin full page illustrations. Covers are edge worn, scuffed with 8 d tape marks across the spine/covers (see photos). Spine covering is chipped with loss. 8 old tape marks across the joints of the books which have browned and affect the prelims and last few pages. There is also sticky fabric reinforcing the joints. Staples are rusty. Joint between frontis and title-page is cracked. Contents are foxed, grubby and lightly browned. Not as bad as it sounds! Still a decent copy.

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BONZO'S ANNUAL 1952
Written by G.E. Studdy. Illustrated by G.E. Studdy.
Stock no. 1402349
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. 1952. Very good condition.

Green cloth spine. Pictorial front board shows Bonzo holding onto a firework rocket, with the moon smiling in the background. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Board edges are rubbed. Name and address in ink to belongs to box. Name in ink to front endpaper. Name & numbers in pencil to front pastedown. Partially erased doodle to rear endpaper. Few light marks otherwise contents are clean.

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MR BUMSTEAD
Written by BB. Illustrated by BB.
Stock no. 1311844
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1st 1958. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Mr Bumstead is a spaniel, with a gift for getting into scrapes. Red boards, blue title and black vignette to spine. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. A few foxspots and a light stain to edge of textblock. Dustwrapper is edge chipped and rubbed with minimal loss and is a little grubby on rear panel.

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DANNY TRAINS HIS PUPPY
Written by Lenore Soresby. Illustrated by Henry Major.
Stock no. 1502161
Published by The World Publishing Company. 1st 1946. Very good condition.

A Rainbow Junior. Pictorial orange paper boards with red spine. Purple illustrated pastedowns. Colour and b/w illustrations. Unpaginated. Corners and cover edges worn. Small split to paper near base of spine. Rear cover slightly grubby. A few page corner tips creased. Page edges lightly browned.

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GETTING TO KNOW DOGS
Written by Cynthia Harnett. Illustrated by Vernon Stokes.
Stock no. 1402327
Published by Collins. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

All the necessary information and guidance for the boy or girl who is bent on acquiring the best friend and comrade a human can have outside his own kind. Beige cloth, green titles. Beautiful colour and b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Covers a little faded at edges. Top edges are a little foxed. Inscription to front endpaper. A little foxing to endpapers otherwise contents are clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and creased with several tears. Small piece missing from spine which is browned. Panels are grubby. Couple of tape repairs to verso plus a couple of white labels at spine, one which covers the missing piece.

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THE PODGY-PUPPY BOOK
Written by Clara G. Dennis. Illustrated by Alan Wright; Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 1207965
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. Circa 1920. Very good condition.

A story for children. Brown cloth spine, pictorial front board shows Podgy Puppy with a chewed slipper! B/w text illustrations and colour plates. Printed on one side of the page only - one page of text facing one colour plate. Free endpapers lightly browned.

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BONZO IN DER SOMMERFRISCHE
Written by G.E. Studdy; George Jellicoe. Illustrated by G.E. Studdy.
Stock no. 1402136
Published by Artur Wolf. Almost very good condition.

Small format. Pictorial cardwraps. Text in German. Translated by Helga Kundt. Bonzo in the Summer. Covers are creased and worn. Spine is rubbed. Rear cover is grubby. Split to top and bottom of spine. Browning and light foxing to pages. Contents split at bottom of spine to first staple. Contents are detached.

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TINKER THE STORY OF A PUPPY
No author listed.
Stock no. 1501867
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. circa 1948. Very good condition.

A Tuck Book. Oblong format. Pictorial stiff card covers. 10 full page colour illustrations and 4 pages of text. Corners are bumped, bottom corners of pages are creased. Wear to spine and corners. Covers grubby with a few small marks. Ink inscription to inside of front cover. Staples are rusty. Contents very good.

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ROCKY GOES RACING
Written by K. Hatchwell. Illustrated by Raffray.
Stock no. 1311291
Published by Litor Publishers Ltd.. Very good condition.

Tots' Tale Series. Small format. Red pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Covers edge rubbed with 2" split to spine. Staples pulled inside covers causing contents to be nearly detached from covers. Pale page browning.

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