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THE FORBIDDEN FOREST
Written by William Pene Du Bois. Illustrated by William Pene Du Bois.
Stock no. 1330559
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Lovely colour pictorial covers. Full colour illustrations throughout, many double page spreads. 56 pages. Large format. Slight rubbing to spine and corners. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed, small foxspot to front flap and tear to top edge of rear panel.

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JALOPY THE TAXI-CAB CAT
Written by Louise Cochrane. Illustrated by Elizabeth Jackson.
Stock no. 1330492
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1957. Very good condition.

Jalopy is a rather scruffy cat who longs to see life. The discovery of an old, unwanted taxi gives him the chance of excitement. Pink pictorial boards, with flaps like a dustwrapper. Colour and b/w illustrations. 32 pages. Covers are edge rubbed, slightly marked and faded. Musty smell to contents and some light foxing, else clean.

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PUSS IN BOOTS
No author listed. Illustrated by Karen Avery.
Stock no. 1330410
Published by Chatto & Windus. Circa 1975. Very good condition.

A Peepshow Book. 360 degree book, use the ties to display. Pink glazed pictorial boards. ISBN: 0701121426. Slight wear to spine and corners. Cotton ties and hanging knot a little grubby. Contents in good working order. Remains of a small sticky label to rear cover.

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ALADDIN AND THE MAGIC LAMP
No author listed. Illustrated by Linda Griffith.
Stock no. 1330256
Published by Chatto & Windus. Circa 1979. Very good condition.

A Peepshow Book. Glazed pictorial boards. Book and pictures open out 360 degrees - to show the entire story. With ties and hanging string. ISBN: 0701124164. Spine and front cover edges faded. Tiny nick to laminate to front cover (by Aladdin of title). Contents clean and in working order.

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THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
No author listed. Illustrated by Karen Acosta.
Stock no. 1330255
Published by Chatto & Windus. Circa 1977. Very good condition.

A Peepshow book, opens 360 degrees. Yellow glazed pictorial boards. 5 pop-up scenes. ISBN: 0701122242. Spine slightly sunned, tiny dent to front edge of spine. Contents clean and in working order.

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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby.
Stock no. 1329911
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1926. Very good condition.

12 very pretty colour plates plus b/w decorations. Blue cloth, gilt titles and decoration to front cover. Pictorial endpapers. 125 pages. 8.5 x 6.25". A New Edition. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. A few small 'bubbles' in the cloth to front cover. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Endpapers browned. Light foxing to contents, mainly at textblock. Front joint is cracked at lower 3". A nice copy of an early reprint.

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THE SPIDER'S PALACE AND OTHER STORIES
Written by Richard Hughes. Illustrated by George Charlton.
Stock no. 1829503
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st thus 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A book of modern fairy tales. Yellow pictorial paper boards. B/w text illustrations. 166 pages. Top & tail of spine lightly rubbed else boards clean and bright. Text block lightly browned with minor foxing to top edge. Browning to half-title page else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby and has a couple of minor closed tears to edges.

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O FOR A MOUSELESS HOUSE
Written by Ursula Moray Williams. Illustrated by Ursula Moray Williams.
Stock no. 1329241
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1964. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. SIGNED by the author with dedication to title-page. Endpapers lightly browned. Top edge of textblock is a bit dusty. Top of spine is bumped and split. Dustwrapper is slightly browned and foxed with damage to top of spine.

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THE STORY OF SAMBO AND THE TWINS
Written by Helen Bannerman. Illustrated by Helen Bannerman.
Stock no. 1329137
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1981. Very good condition.

Small format. A new adventure of Little Black Sambo. Blue pictorial boards, white titles. Full page colour illustrations to every other page. 90 pages. 5.5 x 4". ISBN: 0701100249. Some light fingering to page margins.

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HENRY HARE'S BOXING MATCH
Written by Dorothy Clewes. Illustrated by Patricia Turner.
Stock no. 1329133
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1950. Almost very good condition.

A Brown Burrows book. Small format. White pictorial boards. 63 numbered pages. Colour and b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Covers very slightly grubby. Contents clean.

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YESTERDAY'S CHILDREN
Written by Githa Sowerby. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby.
Stock no. 1328896
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1908. Good condition.

A book of verses illustrated with beautiful colour plates. Red cloth, gilt titles. Pictorial onlay to front cover. White endpapers with gold vignettes. Green and white text illustrations throughout. 47 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Some rubbing/scuffing to covers and a marks to edge of rear cover. Small hole to rear edge of spine. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Lower corner of browned frontis tissue-guard has been torn off. Endpapers are lightly browned. Some light foxing and some grubby fingermarks to page margins but generally contents clean.

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THE DONG WITH A LUMINOUS NOSE
Written by Edward Lear. Illustrated by Edward Gorey.
Stock no. 1328382
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st thus 1969. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

6 x 9 ins. Yellow boards with black illustration to front board. Illustrated endpapers. Wonderful b/w drawings illustrate Edward Lear's Nonsense Rhyme. Originally published by Lear in 1847. ISBN: 0701116439. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Damp stain to lower edges of covers. Inscription in ink to verso of front free-endpaper. Price-cut wrapper is damp stained and edge rubbed.

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