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GROWLTIGER'S LAST STAND AND OTHER POEMS
Written by T.S. Eliot. Illustrated by Errol Le Cain.
Stock no. 1325034
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

With: The Pekes and the Pollicles and The Song of the Jellicles. Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Superb colour pictures throughout. A brilliant new interpretation of three favourite poems from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. ISBN: 0571138829. Foxing to contents. Dustwrapper is price-cut.

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THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN
Written by Robert Browning. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1325014
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1939. Very good condition.

Cream pictorial wraps. Colour frontis and b/w illustrations. Originally published in 1934 with 4 colour plates (this edition only has a colour frontis). Covers are foxed, small tear to top edge of front cover. Foxing to page edges. Contents are bright and clean.

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THE SLY CORMORANT AND THE FISHES
Written by Aesop; Brian Patten. Illustrated by Errol Le Cain.
Stock no. 1325013
Published by Kestrel Books. 1st 1977. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Adaptations into poetry of the Aesop Fables. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. Blue endpapers. Superb colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0722653603. Spine slightly bumped. Pale page browning else contents fine. Dustwrapper is very lightly browned.

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WONDERFUL DAYS
Written by Austin Latham. Illustrated by Muriel Dawson.
Stock no. 1325008
Published by Cecil Palmer. 1st 1929. Good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. Children's verse. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Pencil scribbles to rear cover, some light marks to front cover. Foxing and fingering throughout. Evidence of heavy pencil writing to front free-endpaper (partially erased).

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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
Stock no. 1324901
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. Circa 1910. Fair condition.

Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Large pictorial onlay to front. Decorated endpapers. 12 colour plates with tissue-paper guards. Numerous b/w text illustration. Top edge gilt. Covers are very worn and badly dampstained. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Name in ink to front pastedown. Inscription in ink to half title-page. Endpapers lightly browned. Front joint cracked between endpaper and half-title, showing webbing beneath. Some light fingering but contents generally clean.

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MR MISTOFFELEES WITH MUNGOJERRIE AND RUMPELTEAZER
Written by T.S. Eliot. Illustrated by Errol Le Cain.
Stock no. 1324628
Published by Faber & Faber Limited. 1st 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An exuberant interpretation of two poems from Eliot's classic "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats". Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 057115347X. Minimal bumping/rubbing to corners. Foxing to endpapers. Some fingermarks to page margins. Dustwrapper is just a little rubbed at corners.

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I ONLY HAVE TO CLOSE MY EYES
Written by Kenneth Williams. Illustrated by Beverlie Manson.
Stock no. 1324349
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1986. Very good condition.

Accompanied by his cat, a small boy dreams up wonderful worlds in which he plays many roles - among them the king of the castle, an explorer in a jungle and the ringmaster of a circus. Glazed pictorial boards. Blue endpapers. Large colour illustrations with smaller b/w text illustrations. ISBN: 0460061755. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Barcode label stuck to rear cover.

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GOODY O'GRUMPITY
Written by Carol Ryrie Brink. Illustrated by Ashley Wolff.
Stock no. 1824384
Published by North-South Books. 1st thus 1994. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Children come from far and near to taste Goody O'Grumpty's wonderful spice cake. A classic poem of colonial times. Easy-to-follow-recipe at the back. Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 1558583270. SIGNED by the illustrator with a personal dedication to half-title page. Contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly worn at top of spine.

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FLORA
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Pamela Bianco.
Stock no. 1323932
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1919. Almost very good condition.

"This volume grew out of an exhibition of the picture of Pamela Bianco (aged 12) which was held in 1919, they are accompanied by exquisite poems that De La Mare was inspired by them to write". Beautiful colour and b/w pictures. Large format. White boards with grey titles and illustration to front cover. This edition has the small image to page 43. 43 pages. Heavy bumping to spine and corners. Spine bumped and some browning to edges. Endpapers browned. Foxing to contents.

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FLORA
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Pamela Bianco.
Stock no. 1323730
Published by J.B. Lippincott Company; William Heinemann. 1st 1919. Almost very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

"This volume grew out of an exhibition of the picture of Pamela Bianco (aged 12) which was held in 1919, they are accompanied by exquisite poems that De La Mare was inspired by them to write". Beautiful colour and b/w pictures. Large format. White boards with grey titles and illustration to front cover. This edition has the small image to page 43. 45 pages. Spine and corners bumped, small dents to lower edges. Some browning to cover edges. Heavy foxing and some browning to contents. Some top edges remain untrimmed from the binding process. Dustwrapper is very worn (as usual) with some loss. Spine is browned and torn with white sticky paper reinforcements to verso.

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PEACOCK PIE
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Stock no. 1323713
Published by Faber & Faber Limited. 1st thus 1946. Almost very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Yellow cloth, red title to spine and black vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations to text. Covers are grubby at edges and slightly spotted. Spine slightly bumped and browned. Endpapers are foxed. Pencil erasure mark to front free-endpaper else contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is edge chipped with loss, browned to spine and edges. Loss to spine as well.

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A CHILD'S DAY
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Carine Cadby; Will Cadby.
Stock no. 1323710
Published by Constable and Company Ltd.. 1st 1912. Very good condition.

A book of rhymes. B;ue cloth with dark blue titles and pictorial onlay to front. 56 numbered pages. Lovely b/w tipped-in photography plates of a young girl in different poses. Printed on grey paper. Spine and corners bumped, spine slightly darkened. Rear cover is partly discoloured with a few small pink marks. Small mark to pictorial onlay. Front cover is slightly warped. Some light foxing to the plates and light browning to the endpapers.

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