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SONGS FOR YOUTH
Written by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by Leo Bates.
Stock no. 737879
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Almost very good condition.

From collected verse by Kipling. Red cloth, black titles. 243 pages. 8 tipped-in colour plates. Spine and corners bumped. Spine and cover edges faded. Small dent to lower edge of front cover. Endpapers lightly browned. Light foxing to contents. Lower 2" of front joint may have been nibbled by bookworm(?), rear joint just a little cracked. Contents generally clean.

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THE JOY OF THE LORD
Written by J.R. Miller. Illustrated by Norman Price.
Stock no. 583849
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Slightly better than good condition.

Grey boards, gilt titles. Colour pictorial onlay to front. Colour plates. Contents very good. 1" missing from backstrip.

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SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
Written by Oliver Goldsmith. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
Stock no. 734024
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Very good condition.

Beautifully decorated green cloth covers, gilt title to spine. Illustrated endpapers. 25 super tipped-in colour plates. B/w text illustrations. 197 pages. 10.5 x 8". Spine mottled and gilt rubbed. Otherwise covers are bright and clean. Name in ink to verso of frontis page. Some top page corner tips very lightly creased. All plates present and in fine condition. In original tissue wrapper and box. Box is in several pieces. FRAGILE

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SNATCHED
Written by Nicholas Fisk.
Stock no. 426123
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 3rd 1987. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Roughly snatched from the London Embassy, Mo and Gemma are driven to a remote cottage where they are held captive...Black boards, silver title to spine. ISBN: 0340284552. SIGNED by author, with inscription on title page. Light bumping to top and tail of spine.

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CELEBRATING CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN EDUCATION
Written by Geoff Fox.
Stock no. 425601
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1995. Slightly better than very good condition.

A selection by Geoff Fox. Card wraps. This unique collection of articles celebrates 25 years of the internationally renowned journal Children's Literature in Education. ISBN: 0340618639. SIGNED by Geoff Fox to half-title page.

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BY ITALIAN SEAS
Written by Ernest C. Peixotto. Illustrated by Ernest C. Peixotto.
Stock no. 680176
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1907. Very good condition.

Brown cloth. B/w illustrations. Top edge gilt. A tour around Italy. Corners lightly bumped and rubbed. A few foxspots to front endpapers. Rear joint very slightly cracked.

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DYNAMIC EUROPE
Written by C.F. Strong.
Stock no. 655839
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1945. Very good condition.

Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. A Background of Ferment and Change. B/w maps. Name in ink to front endpaper.

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THE NOVELS, TALES AND SKETCHES OF J.M. BARRIE
Written by J.M. Barrie.
Stock no. 573011
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons; Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1896. Almost very good condition.

8 volumes. Green cloth, gilt titles. Gilt decoration to spines. B/w frontis to each volume. Spines browned. Boards slightly marked. Three spines have small patches of wear. Contents in general very good.

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LITTLE PETER
Written by Lucas Malet. Illustrated by C.E. Brock.
Stock no. 317514
Published by Henry Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton. 1910. Very good condition.

A Christmas Morality. Pretty cream pictorial boards. Gilt titles. 8 colour plates mounted on grey captioned card. 175 pages. 8.75 x 6.5". boards a little grubby and bumped. Some browning and foxing. Otherwise a lovely copy.

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FARM BABIES
Written by Cecil Aldin. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 811762
Published by Henry Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1909. Good condition.

Large format. Green cloth boards, front cover shows puppy and ducklng with orange title. Cream pictorial endpapers. 24 colour plates. Told from the point of view of Decimus Duckling who goes out to explore the world at large. 'F' in 'Farm' on front cover title is dulled. Inscription in ink to half-title page partly crossed out. One page detached. All plates present. Light offsetting to text pages from the plate opposite. A few fox spots present. Hinges pulled, some cracked. Front hinge cracked, first folio section detached at lower half. One page (VIII) has a closed horizontal tear with no loss. Still a charming copy.

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LIFE OF GARFIELD
Written by William M. Thayer.
Stock no. 614936
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1884. Very good condition.

From Log-Cabin to Whitehouse. The story of president Garfield.

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