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NOW WE ARE SIX
Written by A.A. Milne. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard.
Stock no. 1325642
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 3rd 1927. Good condition.

Red cloth, gilt titles, vignette and border. Top edge gilt. Pink pictorial endpapers. Delightful b/w illustrations throughout. 103 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Spine slightly faded. Front cover is lightly mottled (damp?). Tiny booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Browning and pencil name/date to half title-page. Some hinges pulled. Foxing to textblock. A decent copy of an early edition.

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CHILDREN'S SINGING GAMES - SECOND SERIES
Written by Alice B. Gomme. Illustrated by Winifred Smith.
Stock no. 1325631
Published by David Nutt. 1894. Good condition.

Square format. Grey cloth, black illustrations and titles. Contains music, words and decorations to many popular rhymes. 70 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn, covers grubby. Creases to free-endpapers. Large tear to inner margin of page 17/18. Contents are slightly grubby (well fingered).

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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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MOTHER GOOSE OR THE OLD NURSERY RHYMES
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1325426
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1st 1881. Good condition.

2nd issue of 1st edition. Pink cloth spine. Green lattice to cream cloth covers. Upside Down 'G' to Goose on front cover. Olive green endpapers. 2nd issue of the first edition. Covers are grubby with bumping to spine and corners. Name in ink (partially erased) to front free-endpaper. Hinges are cracked and pulled (showing stitching beneath) but the binding is still generally tight. Some pages are slightly grubby.

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DAME WIGGINS OF LEE AND HER SEVEN WONDERFUL CATS
Written by John Ruskin. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1325425
Published by George Allen. 1st 1885. Good condition.

A Humorous Tale Written Principally by a Lady of Ninety. Brown cloth, gilt vignette & title to front. 22 woodcuts. With new illustrations by Greenaway. 3rd issue of first edition. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers scuffed and marked. Front joint is cracked, hinges pulled showing stitching beneath but binding still tight. This is a well loved edition and the pages are quite grubby in places.

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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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FUN AND NONSENSE
Written by Willard Bonte. Illustrated by Florence Harrison; Willard Bonte.
Stock no. 1325402
Published by H.M. Caldwell Company. Good condition.

Green cloth spine, pictorial boards (illustrated by Harrison). A book of rhymes, each with a colour illustration opposite and borders to the rhymes. Covers are edge worn. Joints cracked. Grubby marks to page margins, some foxing and margin tears.

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MICHAEL FOREMAN'S MOTHER GOOSE
Written by Iona Opie; Michael Foreman. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 1325102
Published by Walker Books. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Foreword by Iona Opie. Blue oblong boards with gilt title to spine. Beautiful colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0744507758. SIGNED by the artist to half title-page. Spine and corners bumped. Some light fingermarks to prelims else a clean copy. Price-cut wrapper is slightly faded to spine and ever so slightly rubbed at spine and corners.

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FAMILY RHYMES
Written by Lucian Stephens. Illustrated by Kathleen Atkins.
Stock no. 1325030
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1943. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

For Children, Parents and all those who find it easier to grow old than to grow up! Green cloth with dark green titles and vignette. B/w text illustrations. Spine slightly bumped. Foxspots to contents which are otherwise clean. Dustwrapper is faded at edges with a couple of small tears, rear panel is slightly grubby.

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NURSERY RHYMES
No author listed. Illustrated by Lawson Wood.
Stock no. 1325027
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. Circa 1930. Very good condition.

"A Look With Mother Book". Oblong format. A board book. Each page has a colour picture and nursery rhyme. Covers edge worn and a little grubby. Some foxing but contents otherwise clean.

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A TREASURY OF KATE GREENAWAY
Written by Kate Greenaway. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1824950
Published by Robert Frederick Ltd.. 1st thus 2003. Slightly better than very good condition.

A collection of extracts from favourites by Greenaway (including Apple Pie, Mother Goose, Under the Window etc). Large format. Title to boards is A Treasury of Kate Greenaway Stories. White pictorial glazed boards. Colour illustrations throughout. 265 pages, printed on yellow paper. ISBN: 0907789137. Two or three pages has a tiny closed tear to lower margin. Else a fine copy.

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OLD ENGLISH NURSERY SONGS
Written by Horace Mansion. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 1324627
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1928. Almost very good condition.

Music by Horace Mansion. 8 quite charming colour plates plus b/w drawings illustrate this selection of nursery rhymes. Includes musical score for voice and piano. Buff boards with blue pictorial onlay to front cover. 11 x 8.5". 88 pages. Spine and corners bumped, top corner of rear cover quite badly worn. Scuffing to front cover edges. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. One of the plates is loose with ragged edges. Grubby fingermarks to page margins and some foxing to contents.

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