BIRD, BEAST AND FLOWER
Written by Ian Parsons. Illustrated by Marie Angel.
Stock no. 2112600
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1980. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue boards, gilt titles. Watercolours by Angel. Poems chosen by Parsons. ISBN: 0701124113. Wrapper is a bit edge-creased, with a few grubby marks.

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THE LOVE FOR THREE ORANGES
Written by Frank Corsaro. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 1808214
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1984. Slightly better than very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Stone cloth with gilt title to spine and brown/red vignette to front cover. Colour illustrations and endpapers. The Glyndebourne Version. ISBN: 0370305779. 'D' inked to vertical edge of text block but no damage inside seen. Top edge of text block a little dusty. Contents fine. Clear acetate wrapper has loss to top and bottom (possibly the reason for the 'D').

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LOUD LAUGHTER
Written by C. Errington Pegler. Illustrated by G.L. Stampa.
Stock no. 1311447
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1907. Good condition.

Humorous drawings illustrating "Easy French Exercises" with verses by Pegler. Pictorial boards. 8 colour plates. Spine professionally rebacked with red cloth. Corners worn, edges rubbed. Covers a little grubby and marked. Joints cracked and endpapers slightly torn. A couple of small margin tears (including 1 plate). Heavy foxing and fingering to contents.

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THACKERAYANA NOTES AND ANECDOTES
Written by William Makepeace Thackeray. Illustrated by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Stock no. 2112160
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1880. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial cloth, gilt title to spine and gilt/black vignettes to front cover. Depicting Humorous Incidents in his School Life, and Favourite Scenes and Characters in the Books of his Every-day Reading. B/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; chipping to cover edges. Some fraying to cloth at edges. Some foxing and page browning. Page edges are 'scraggy', where some pages have been uncut - but have been 'cut', but not neatly - some tears to these pages.

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THE YEAR-END GOAL'S IN SIGHT AT LAST - A PAUSE THAT'S MIGHTY GOOD
No author listed. Illustrated by Lawson Wood.
Stock no. 1108948
Almost very good condition.

Paperwraps. Fold-out sheet with full colour Lawson Wood illustrations. Appears to have been given to employees of Continental Auto Salvage Co. at the end of the year. Large tear to one crease. A few marks.

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THE SPRINGTIDE OF LIFE
Written by Algernon C. Swinburne; Edmund Gosse. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1108627
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1918. Very good condition.

As the close of his life approached, Swinburne often expressed his desire to extract from his various volumes those poems addressed to children. He died without doing so. Edmund Gosse has brought together this collection of Swinburne's poems which are concerned with infancy. Rackham's delicate and romantic illustrations are a perfect complement to the text. 8 colour plates plus b/w text decorations. Dark green cloth with gilt titles and vignette to front cover. Green/white decorated endpapers. 133pp. cr 4to. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. A few small marks to covers. Crossed out inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing; mostly to endpapers. All plates present.

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THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN
Written by William Cowper. Illustrated by Ronald Searle.
Stock no. 1108611
Published by Chiswick Press. 1952. Very good condition.

Limited to 1600 copies. Showing how he went farther than he intended and came safe home again. Grey pictorial paper covered card-wraps. B/w illustrations in typical Searle style. Uneven browning and foxing to covers. A little creasing to corners. Foxing also to endpapers, contents are very nice.

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BADOLI THE OX
Written by Myles Bourke. Illustrated by Stella Bailey.
Stock no. 1401911
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.. Very good condition.

Large format. Green cloth. Tipped-in, tissue-guarded colour plates. Spine bumped and browned with fraying to top and bottom. Corners bumped and rubbed. Splash marks to front cover and scratch marks to rear. A little foxing, otherwise contents are bright and clean.

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WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS
Written by Christopher Morley. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1709035
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1925. Very good condition.

Gissing lived alone on the Canine Estates, had an income of 1000 bones a year but was not happy... A story about dogs. 4 unusual colour plates and 16 b/w line drawings. Bright blue cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front cover and spine. Blue and white pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt. 227 pages. Top and tail of spine slightly worn with a couple of small nicks. Corners rubbed. Faint damp marks to corners of some pages. Otherwise covers and contents beautifully bright and clean.

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PRAYERS AND GRACES
Written by Allan M. Laing. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.
Stock no. 1501537
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1944. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A little book of extraordinary piety. 30 full page b/w illustrations. 63pp. Blue cloth covers, gilt vignette to front. Spine and corners a little worn. Spine slightly darkened. Ink inscription to front endpaper. Some browning/foxing alongside spine in places otherwise contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge chipped, spine is faded as are edges of panels alongside spine.

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HORSE LAUGHTER
Written by Will H. Ogilvie; George Denholm Armour; Guy Paget. Illustrated by G. Denholm Armour.
Stock no. 1310801
Published by Duckworth. 1st 1938. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Few sports offer so many opportunities for humour as hunting. Cream pictorial boards. 87 pages. B/w illustrations. Introduction by Paget. Spine very slightly bumped, some very slight darkening to cover edges. Name plate to front endpaper. Endpapers browned and some light foxing at page edges. A few margin marks. Top of a couple of pages roughly opened resulting in a small closed tear and small piece missing from top of one page. Dustwrapper is very grubby with a few small stains and is price-cut.

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FRIENDSHIP'S MEMORIES
Written by F.E. Weatherly. Illustrated by F. Weatherley.
Stock no. 1310799
Published by Ernest Nister; E.P. Dutton & Co.. Very good condition.

An album for Autographs and Original and Selected Verses. Oblong format. White spine with green title, grey cloth covers with gilt title to front, floral decoration to front as well. Pretty colour illustrations, plenty of space for autographs. Verses by well-known poets Spine and corners bumped, front cover and spine are a bit grubby. A couple of small old tape(?) marks to front endpapers. Front joint just starting to crack. Light foxing throughout. Most (if not all) of the spaces for autographs have been neatly filled in with names. Staples rusty.

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