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THE WISE GRASSHOPPER
Written by Constance Barnes.
Stock no. 1505959
Published by Art & Educational Publishers Limited. 1st 1946. Almost very good condition.

Whilst missing her spaniel who has disappeared in the garden, Jane is astonished to find fairies. Through them, she meets the Wise Grasshopper who helps her to learn how fairies and human kindness work together to solve many human problems. Blue cloth spine. Blue pictorial paper boards. Full page colour illustrations plus b/w text illustrations. 38 pages. Bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Light crease to front cover. Some light browning and foxing to covers. Sunday School present label to front endpaper with address in ink below. Two margin tears to bottom edge of page 13/14. One hinge starting to crack at top. Just an odd fox spot to contents.

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ROUND THE YEAR STORY BOOK
Written by Alan Hyder; Berta Lawrence; Vivien Batchelor; et al. Illustrated by Rene Cloke; Lunt Roberts; Neave Parker; Eileen Soper; et al..
Stock no. 1505917
Published by P.R. Gawthorn Ltd.. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Red cloth spine. Pictorial front board shows children playing each with a month on them. First story is 'The Girl Who Liked Fairy Tales. Pretty colour plates and two-tone text illustrations. 163 pages. Base of spine bumped. Minimal wear to spine and corners. A couple of hinges starting to crack. Just a odd fox spot otherwise contents clean. Dustwrapper is badly torn around bottom half of spine and along rear fold and into rear panel, with creasing but very little loss. Small tears and creasing to top of spine. A few other chips and tears to edges.

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JANE AND JEREMY
Written by Anne Rochester. Illustrated by Anne Rochester.
Stock no. 1505094
Published by Standard Art Book Co. Ltd.. Slightly better than good condition.

A Puck Book. Pictorial stiff card wraps 9.5 x 7". Pretty, full page, colour plates with minimal text below. Damage to card covering spine, quite a bit missing. Wear to corners and cover edges. Creasing to both lower corners. Covers slightly grubby. Puck book symbol on title page has been scribbled over. Illustrations are still bright and pages are clean. Small brown spot inside rear cover.

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THE FAIRY WASHING PAINTING AND STORY BOOK
Written by Dorothy Marsh. Illustrated by Chow.
Stock no. 2118352
Published by Blackfriars Press. Slightly better than very good condition.

Paperwraps. Storybook, with different scenes depicted on opposite page with a larger picture to colour in (to copy from smaller picture). Pages are browned. Drawings are NOT coloured in.

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THE FAIRIES' WEDDING
Written by Bassett Green. Illustrated by Ray Foster.
Stock no. 1314927
Published by The Mercian Publishers. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

An illustrated fairy tale for children of all ages. Black cloth spine, cream pictorial boards. Lovely colour illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Endpapers lightly browned/foxed. SIGNED by the author by means of an inscription in ink to front endpaper - "Paula with love from the Author". Contents bright and clean. Dustwrapper is slightly grubby, has loss to base of spine, lower front corner and top spine corner.

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THE GREEN FIDDLER
Written by George Kalkar. Illustrated by Louis Moe.
Stock no. 2117988
Published by Thomas De La Rue & Co. Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Large oblong format. Black cloth spine, white pictorial front board. Delightful colour and b/w illustrations featuring fairies. The Green Fiddler is a cricket. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Some scuffing to cover edges. Grubby marks with some erased pencil marks to covers. Title page has small margin tear and is browned, with a little foxing. Colour illustrations are in beautiful condition - nice and bright, just a few foxspots to page margins. Last page (which is a plate page) has a large repaired tear.

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SUMMER SONGS WITH MUSIC
Written by Cicely Mary Barker; Olive Linnell. Illustrated by Cicely Mary Barker.
Stock no. 2115451
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Beige paper boards with green titles. Green cloth spine. Pictorial onlay to front board. 12 poems with accompanying tipped-in colour plate and music by Linnell. Bumping and wear to spine and cover edges. Red marks to cloth spine. Some scuff marks and indentation marks to rear cover. Foxing to outer page edges and some page margins.

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SUMMER SONGS WITH MUSIC
Written by Cicely Mary Barker; Olive Linnell. Illustrated by Cicely Mary Barker.
Stock no. 1713072
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1926. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Beige paper boards with green titles. Green cloth spine. Pictorial onlay to front board. 12 poems with accompanying tipped-in colour plate and music by Linnell. Light foxing to prelims. Wrapper chipped and grubby with odd short closed tear.

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OFF TO FAIRYLAND
No author listed.
Stock no. 1711823
Published by Ernest Nister; E.P. Dutton & Co.. Circa 1899. Good condition.

And all the way back. Cloth spine. Pictorial front board. Nister no. 438. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. Corners bumped and worn. Rear cover grubby. Front joint cracked. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Pages browned.

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YVETTE IN VENICE & TITANIA'S PALACE
Written by Nevile Wilkinson.
Stock no. 2114790
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1923. Very good condition.

Beige cloth with red titles and decorations. 28 b/w and colour plates. 111 pages. Some foxing to pages and outer page edges. Inscriptions in ink to half-title page.

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LUCIE ATTWELL'S TALES FOR ALL TIMES
Written by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell.
Stock no. 1710684
Published by S.W. Partridge & Co.. Circa 1922. Almost very good condition.

Beige/brown boards with pictorial onlay to front cover - shows girl with two dolls and three birds sat on a branch. Pictorial endpapers. 4 colour plates. Spine edge chipped. A few marks to covers. Front joint a little weak. Belong to box completed. Endpapers browned.

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CLOTILDA
Written by Jack Kent. Illustrated by Jack Kent.
Stock no. 1808863
Published by Random House. 1st thus 1978. Almost very good condition.

Tommy doesn't believe in a fairy godmother's magic so he gets a donkey's head while his sister gets the fairy godmother and three wishes... White cloth spine with blue title, cream paper boards with blind fairy vignette. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0394939115. Boards are grubby, corners worn. A few marks to contents.

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