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THE WISE BOOK
Written by Githa Sowerby. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby.
Stock no. 1325916
Published by J.M. Dent & Co.. Circa 1909. Almost very good condition.

Small format. Cream pictorial boards. Pretty colour pictures accompany children's verse. Corners bumped. Foxing to covers. Spine has been relaid with glue, glue marks to spine edges. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to endpapers.

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THE HAPPY BOOK
Written by Githa Sowerby. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby.
Stock no. 1325915
Published by Hodder & Stoughton; Henry Frowde. Good condition.

Cream pictorial boards. Pretty colour pictures accompany children's verse. Covers are worn and a bit grubby. Spine chipped with slight loss and browning from old tape which is no longer present. Stitching pulled causing contents to be slightly loose. A few light marks to pages.

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THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK
Written by Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by Henry Holiday.
Stock no. 1325908
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1924. Almost very good condition.

The 'Miniature' edition. Small format, 6.25 x 4". Red cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front. 9 b/w illustrations. Spine faded. Lower edge of front cover stained. Name and date in ink and an embossed address stamp to front free-endpaper. Endpapers browned. Contents clean.

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FABLES AND SATIRES
Written by Harold Morland. Illustrated by Helen Kapp.
Stock no. 1325821
Published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1945. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Salmon pink cloth, black titles. 80 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Endpapers lightly foxed. Contents clean. White dustwrapper is grubby and edge chipped with small tape repairs on verso.

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THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK
Written by Lewis Carroll; Michael Rosen. Illustrated by Jeffrey Fisher.
Stock no. 1826047
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2010. Slightly better than very good condition.

Pictorial boards. An agony, in Eight Fits. Blue cloth spine with gilt title, pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Introduction by Rosen. Based on the Penguin Books edition first published in 1967 and reprinted with revisions in 1974, with minor emendations. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which has a few light marks and is lightly scuffed.

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THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN
Written by Robert Browning. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1325612
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Circa 1974. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. 10 x 8.5". ISBN: 0723205868. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Contents fine. Price-cut wrapper is slightly edge worn and has an edge tear to rear panel.

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THE DICKIE-BIRDIE BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 1325538
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. Circa 1916. Very good condition.

A book of poems about birds. Off-white cloth with green title and pictorial onlay to front. 12 beautiful colour plates. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Covers slightly browned at spine and edges. Endpapers lightly browned and foxed.

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UNDER THE WINDOW PICTURES AND RHYMES FOR CHILDREN
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1325428
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Circa 1900. Fair condition.

Dark green cloth spine, pictorial boards. Green endpapers. 64 pages, colour illustrations throughout. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Some slight loss of surface paper to spine corners of front cover. Cover edges worn. Hinges are pulled causing binding to be loose. Some page margin tears and light stains.

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PEACOCK PIE
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Claude Lovat Fraser.
Stock no. 1325414
Published by Constable & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1924. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt title to spine and peacock vignette to front. 127 numbered pages. 16 colour plates. Spine and corners bumped. Covers slightly rubbed and marked. Endpapers lightly browned. Foxing else contents clean.

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BLACKIE'S CHILDREN'S DIARY FOR 1920
Written by Lilian Holmes. Illustrated by Honor C. Appleton.
Stock no. 1325407
Published by Blackie And Son Limited. 1920. Good condition.

Small format. Beige cloth with large colour only to front. 6 colour plates with verses on the rear. Spaces for each day of the year plus other sections at rear. Covers warped. Joints and hinges cracked but binding still tight. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Contents unused but foxed.

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THE HUTCHINSON TREASURIES OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE & POETRY
No author listed.
Stock no. 1325405
Published by Hutchinson Children's Books. 1st thus 1998. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Two volumes packed full with colour illustrations. This set containes "The Hutchinson Treasury of Fairy Tales" instead of Literature. Spine and corners of the books are bumped and rubbed. Dustwrappers are creased at edges. Both volumes have a name in ink to front free-endpapers. The box is bumped at corners.

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NOW WE ARE SIX
Written by A.A. Milne. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard.
Stock no. 1325394
Published by E.P.Dutton & Co.. 1st thus 1950. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

"Reprinted from new plates and engravings, type entirely reset. Light green decorated covers. B/w text illustrations throughout. 102 pages. Cr 8vo. Spine bumped. Price-cut wrapper is faded to spine with minimal wear/loss to top and tail.

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