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A LITTLE CHAFF
Written by Margaret Lavington. Illustrated by Helen Urquhart.
Stock no. 737072
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1919. Almost very good condition.

A cheerful little book of rhymes based on the farm and its animals. Green pictorial boards, cloth spine. 3 colour plates and 2-tone (black and yellow) illustrations to contents throughout. Cover edges rubbed, corners worn. A few small dents to cover edges. New endpapers front and rear (which are lightly foxed). Contents clean.

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PILLICOCK HILL
Written by Herbert Asquith. Illustrated by A.H. Watson.
Stock no. 431022
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st 1926. Almost very good condition.

Maroon cloth with gilt title and vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. Corners are a little bumped and worn. Foxing and grubby marks to some internal pages.

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TWO MERRY MARINERS
Written by John Brymer. Illustrated by Stewart Orr.
Stock no. 736486
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1902. Almost very good condition.

Large oblong format. Red cloth spine. Colour pictorial boards. Colour plates. Story in verse. Covers edge worn with slight loss of surface paper to corners. Spine bumped and slightly grubby. Inscription in ink to half-title page. Some light fingering and foxing but contents generally clean. A nice copy.

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SYCAMORE SQUARE AND OTHER VERSES
Written by Jan Struther. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard.
Stock no. 584504
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1932. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth, gilt titles. Gilt vignette of tradesman to front cover. B/w illustrations. Poetry for children from Punch. Book: name in ink to front endpaper. Covers a little unevenly faded. Wrapper spine browned with 1" missing from base.

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THE MIGHTY SLIDE
Written by Allan Ahlberg. Illustrated by Charlotte Voake.
Stock no. 584542
Published by Viking Kestrel. 1st 1988. Fine condition.

Stories in verse about a mighty slide, a couple of baby-skinners, a thing that lived under a school and more... B/w pictures throughout. Glazed boards. 96 pages. 8 x 5". ISBN: 0670816779.

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BLUEBEARD
No author listed. Illustrated by Walter Crane.
Stock no. 429082
Published by George Routledge & Sons. Almost very good condition.

Walter Crane's Toy Books Series. New Series, no. 113. Pictorial card wraps. Colour illustrations. Some splitting and chipping to spine. A few marks to rear cover. Contents are detached from covers. Some foxing to contents, but colours of pictures are still bright.

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MY MOTHER
No author listed. Illustrated by Walter Crane.
Stock no. 429085
Published by George Routledge & Sons. Almost very good condition.

Walter Crane's Toy Books Series. New series, No. 103. Pictorial card wraps. Colour illustrations. Couple of inch split to base of spine. Rear cover marked. Contents are detached from covers. Some light foxing to contents.

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MY MOTHER
No author listed.
Stock no. 733729
Published by McLoughlin Bros.. Very good condition.

Mother's Series. Small format (6 x 5 inch) pictorial paperwraps. 8 pages with 7 colour half-page illustrations. A verse to "My Mother" with "The Mother's Reply". Light rubbing to spine. A couple of tiny holes penetrate the whole book (so small that they do not detract from the overall condition of the book).

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CATS
Written by Tabitha Grimalkin. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 577483
Published by Sands and Co.. Circa 1901. Good condition.

Large format. Blue pictorial cloth, red title to front. Verses by Grimalkin. Full-page super b/w illustrations by Wain. 47 pages. REDUCED FROM £580. Corners rubbed. A few marks to covers. Name in ink to front endpaper. Rear joint starting to crack. Some hinges pulled. Page 37 has 2.25 inch loss from lower edge, not affecting text or illustration. A few grubby marks to contents but generally a bright clean copy.

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TALES OF WAYBEYOND
Written by Eileen Hunter. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
Stock no. 733189
Published by Andre Deutsch. 1st 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, green title to spine. B/w illustrations, 87 pages. ISBN: 0233970843. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn and sunned to spine.

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A LITTLE CHAFF
Written by Margaret Lavington; Helen Urquhart.
Stock no. 576950
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1919. Very good condition.

Green cloth spine. Glazed pictorial boards. Two-tone illustrations. Children's poetry about animals. Book: Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Corners rubbed.

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A PAIR OF SINNERS
Written by Allan Ahlberg. Illustrated by John Lawrence.
Stock no. 576783
Published by Granada. 1st 1980. Fine condition.

Full title on title-page of book: 'The history of A Pair of Sinners forgetting not their Ma who was one also'. Cream pictorial boards. Pictorial endpapers. Colour and b/w illustrations to verse throughout. ISBN: 0246113251.

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