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SPRING SONGS WITH MUSIC
Written by Cicely Mary Barker. Illustrated by Cicely Mary Barker.
Stock no. 696770
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Good condition.

Grey boards with blue titles, pictorial onlay to front. Blue cloth spine. 12 poems with music by Linnell, each has accompanying colour tipped-in plate. A beautiful book! A few small marks to covers. Corners worn. Spine rubbed. Joints cracked. Plates in excellent condition. Foxing to endpapers.

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LITTLE ANN AND OTHER POEMS
Written by Jane Taylor; Ann Taylor. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 606453
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1st 1882. Slightly better than very good condition.

Olive green spine and corners, cream pictorial boards. Yellow endpapers. Blue edges. 64 pages. 9.25 x 6". Printed by Edmund Evans. Very very slight light foxing to prelims otherwise a nice clean copy.

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OUR SIDE OF THE PLAYGROUND
Written by Tony Bradman. Illustrated by Kim Palmer.
Stock no. 403526
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1991. Fine condition.

Are girls and boys really that different? This challenging collection of poems will get you thinking. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w text illustrations. ISBN: 0370315820. SIGNED with inscription by author on title page.

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THE VOYAGE OF THE ARCTIC TERN
Written by Hugh Montgomery. Illustrated by Nick Poullis.
Stock no. 403534
Published by Synapse Gb Ltd.. 1st 2000. Very good condition.

An epic tale of seamanship told in verse. Red cloth spine. Gilt title to spine. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. (A rare edition, published prior to the trade edition). ISBN: 0953915905. SIGNED with inscription by author on title page, Also SIGNED by various people mentioned in the acknowledgements by the author. Corners bumped. Title-page and foreword pages detached (due to binding error). A really nice copy.

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A PAIR OF SINNERS
Written by Allan Ahlberg. Illustrated by John Lawrence.
Stock no. 231357
Published by Granada. 1st 1980. Very good 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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THE BUNNY-BOOK
Written by J.B.A.. Illustrated by J.B.A..
Stock no. 703546
Published by James Nisbet. 1st 1902. Very good condition.

Cream cloth, gilt title and vignette to front cover. Full page b/w illustrations. Cloth slightly grubby, especially to rear. Contents bright.

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DOROTHY Q
Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Illustrated by Howard Pyle.
Stock no. 712241
Published by Gay and Bird. Very good condition.

Together with A Ballad Of The Boston Tea Party and Grandmother's Story Of Bunker Hill Battle. Black cloth, silver titles and vignettes. B/w illustrations. Top edge silver. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Some light foxing and fingering to prelims. A nice copy.

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CHILDREN IN VERSE
Written by Thomas Burke. Illustrated by Honor C. Appleton.
Stock no. 713246
Published by Duckworth & Co.. 1st 1913. Almost very good condition.

50 songs of playful childhood. Blue cloth, gilt title and vignette to spine, embossed title and vignette to front cover (signifying 2nd issue). 8 beautiful tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. A few grubby spots to covers. Old booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Some light foxing. A desirable copy of the second issue of first edition (no gilt stamping to front cover).

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CHILDREN IN VERSE
Written by Thomas Burke. Illustrated by Honor C. Appleton.
Stock no. 805720
Published by Duckworth & Co.. 1st 1913. Almost very good condition.

50 songs of playful childhood. Blue cloth, gilt title and vignette to spine, embossed title and vignette to front cover (signifying 2nd issue). 8 beautiful tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Bookplate to front pastedown. Endpapers foxed. Second issue of the first edition (no gilt stamping to front cover).

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SONGS FOR YOUTH
Written by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by Leo Bates.
Stock no. 720827
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1924. Very good condition.

From collected verse by Kipling. Red cloth, black titles. 243 pages. 8 tipped-in colour plates. Spine slightly bumped and faded. Foxing to outer page edges. Endpapers browned. Some slight surface paper damage to front pastedown.

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MORE JUMBO STORIES
No author listed. Illustrated by Harry Neilson.
Stock no. 719550
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Good condition.

Large format. Blue pictorial cloth, cream titles. Full-page colour illustrations and b/w pictures to text. Story in verse. Corners worn. Covers grubby. Inscription in pencil to front pastedown. Name and address in belongs to box. colouring to first couple of b/w illustrations. Some light fingering else contents clean.

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MY OWN BOOK OF SHORT VERSES IN SHORT WORDS
No author listed.
Stock no. 724440
Published by David Ogilvy. Fair condition.

Small format, 4.75 x 6". Grey decorated cardwraps. B/w illustrations throughout with short verses on opposite pages. Covers worn and creased with a few small tears, spine covered with brown tape. Contents restitched (including some tears to pages). Some brown spots and fingering to pages. Still a decent copy of a scarce book.

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