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THE FIRELIGHT BOOK OF NURSERY STORIES
No author listed. Illustrated by John Hassall.
Stock no. 1312639
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Very good condition.

Fairy tales for Little Folk. Cloth spine. Pictorial front board. Full page colour and b/w text illustrations. First story is Puss in Boots. Spine and corners bumped, slight rubbing to cover edges. Contents bright and clean.

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TWO MERRY MARINERS
Written by John Brymer. Illustrated by Stewart Orr.
Stock no. 2114541
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Large oblong format. Red cloth spine. Colour pictorial boards. Colour plates. Story in verse. Book has been rebacked, with new spine and endpapers. Scuffing to covers; chipping and bumping to edges. Some grubby margin marks and foxin. Damp mark to bottom corner of some pages, next to spine.

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PICKLES BY THE SEA
No author listed. Illustrated by Frederick Spurgin.
Stock no. 1312489
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. circa 1950. Very good condition.

Grey paper rear board and spine with colour pictorial front board. Colour plates to pastedowns. Two-tone illustrations to each page with short sentence of text below. Some very slight rubbing to corners. Pale browning to last page and small brown mark to inner margin of title-page.

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THE MYSTERY OF THE MOATED GRANGE
Written by Angela Brazil. Illustrated by W. Lindsay Cable.
Stock no. 1312412
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1942. Good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Red cloth, black titles to spine and front cover. 4 b/w plates. 271 pages. Spine and corners bumped and cover edges slightly rubbed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Textblock is slightly grubby and there are some grubby fingermarks to page margins but contents generally clean. Chipped and torn wrapper is grubby and has loss to spine and corners and also sticky white label repairs on verso.

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SPRING SONGS WITH MUSIC
Written by Cicely Mary Barker. Illustrated by Cicely Mary Barker.
Stock no. 2114228
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1929. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

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! Some light wear to corners. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. A few light margin marks. Wrapper is grubby with edge-tears and chips/nicks, with a little loss in a couple of places.

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FARM FRIENDS
No author listed. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham; Cecil Aldin; Anne Anderson; et al..
Stock no. 1312271
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial front cover. Full-page colour and b/w illustrations. Covers are edge worn. Loss to base of spine and a few marks to rear cover. One b/w illustration has been coloured in with pink pencil. Contents generally clean.

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THE LEADER OF THE LOWER SCHOOL
Written by Angela Brazil. Illustrated by John Campbell.
Stock no. 1311749
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. circa 1922. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Green pictorial cloth, cream titles. Colour frontis plate, 4 b/w plates. 7 x 5". 256 pages. Spine bumped, corners slightly rubbed. Endpapers partly browned. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is very grubby with loss at top and tail of spine.

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A PAINTING BOOK OF LITTLE DUTCH FOLK
Written by Walter Chapman. Illustrated by Ethel Parkinson.
Stock no. 1207995
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1915. Slightly better than good condition.

Large oblong format. Beige boards with large colour pictorial onlay to front. White cloth spine. Colour illustrations with b/w pictures to paint. Verses by Chapman. Some pictures coloured in with mixed ability! Corners worn. Boards a little grubby.

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JOSEPHINE'S PANTOMIME
Written by Mrs. H.C. Cradock. Illustrated by Honor C. Appleton.
Stock no. 1207953
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1939. Very good condition.

Large format. Cream cloth spine. Beige boards with pictorial onlay to front. 8 colour plates. B/w text illustrations. Browning to endpapers. Plates bright.

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TWO MERRY MARINERS
Written by John Brymer. Illustrated by Stewart Orr.
Stock no. 1402298
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Good condition.

Tiny Tots series. A story told in verse. Tiny Tots Series. Small oblong format. Brown boards, chequered squares to corners of covers. Pictorial onlay. Colour illustrations. Blue pictorial endpapers. Corners and board edges bumped and rubbed. Covers are worn and scuffed. Backstrip missing from spine. Back cover has been torn in two and is mended with clear tape. Small ink mark to front cover. Rear endpaper is missing. Front and back joints are beginning to crack. Some foxing and a few grubby marks to contents. Reprint.

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JOSEPHINE GOES TRAVELLING
Written by Mrs. H.C. Cradock. Illustrated by Honor C. Appleton.
Stock no. 1207913
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1940. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Cream cloth spine. Beige boards with large pictorial onlay to front. 8 attractive colour plates. B/w text illustrations.

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BABY BALLADS
Written by Ruth Cobb. Illustrated by Ruth Cobb.
Stock no. 1402173
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Good condition.

Brown boards with red titles and picture of a girl with her teddy bear to front board. Short rhymes on one page with colour illustration opposite. Paper covering boards is split at spine and is coming off both front and back boards. Spine and corners are bumped and rubbed. Covers a bit grubby. Small cracks to top of front and rear joints, Grubby marks to some pages. Browning to verso of endpapers. Front endpaper is lightly creased.

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