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WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS
Written by Christopher Morley. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1709035
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1925. Very good condition.

Gissing lived alone on the Canine Estates, had an income of 1000 bones a year but was not happy... A story about dogs. 4 unusual colour plates and 16 b/w line drawings. Bright blue cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front cover and spine. Blue and white pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt. 227 pages. Top and tail of spine slightly worn with a couple of small nicks. Corners rubbed. Faint damp marks to corners of some pages. Otherwise covers and contents beautifully bright and clean.

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MOPS VERSUS TAILS
Written by Kathleen Ainslie. Illustrated by Kathleen Ainslie.
Stock no. 1311059
Published by Castell Brothers Ltd.; Frederick A. Stokes Company. 1st 1907. Almost very good condition.

The Great Hockey Match (and how the Mops and the Tails bury the hatchet forever)! Small oblong format. Picture to front board. Lovely colour illustrations, including a wonderful double-spread at the centre. Spine and corners bumped and worn, covers edge rubbed. Rear cover is grubby/marked. Endpapers are lightly browned and there is some light foxing, otherwise contents are clean. This is a decent copy of a very scarce book.

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THE PRINCES FIRE-FLASH AND FIRE-FADE
Written by Mrs T.H. James.
Stock no. 1311032
Published by The Kobunsha. Very good condition.

Japanese Fairy Tales Series No. 14. A crepe paper book. Small format. Colour illustrations throughout. Front cover slightly worn and foxed. Small mark to bottom corner of 4 pages otherwise contents clean. A nice copy of a scarce little book.

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REAL FAIRIES
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 1311026
Published by J. Saville & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1923. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Brown cloth, gilt titles to front cover and spine. A book of poetry. Small format. Enid Blyton's second book. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Endpapers lightly browned, some foxing to contents else clean. Very scarce pictorial wrapper is edge worn with several sections of loss, small red pen mark to slightly grubby rear panel.

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THE GREEN GOBLIN BOOK
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Gordon Robinson.
Stock no. 1807692
Published by George Newnes Limited. Circa 1935. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth, black titles. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 10" x 7.5". 120 pages. Light marks to front cover. New free front endpaper expertly inserted. Scattered foxing throughout. A few grubby margin marks. Hinges pulled. Pictorial wrapper is nice and bright, worn at corners with chipping, strengthened to verso with clear tape. Wrapper spine is faded but otherwise wrapper is a very nice, bright example.

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THE COMPLETE ANGLER'S VADE-MECUM
Written by Capt. T. Williamson.
Stock no. 1807687
Published by Payne And Mackinlay. 1st 1808. Almost very good condition.

...Being A Perfect Code of Instruction on the Above Pleasing Science: Wherein are Detailed, A Great Variety of Original Practices and Inventions; Together With All That Can Contribute to the Sportsman's Amusement and Success. Paper boards. 10 b/w engraved plates to rear. xi and 316 pages. Expertly re-backed with matching modern paper, board edges also expertly repaired to match boards. Ink stamp to front pastedown. Deckled edges. Page 9-16 have loss to top margin corner. A few grubby finger marks to margins. Some slight bleeding of text. All plates present. A good working copy for the books age of over 200 years old.

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THE PANORAMA OF EUROPE; OR, A NEW GAME OF GEOGRAPHY
Written by Barbara Hofland.
Stock no. 1310973
Published by A.K. Newman and Co.. 1st 1813. Good condition.

Printed at the Minerva Press. Plain brown boards. 240 pages, edges untrimmed. Pull-out b/w frontis of The Empress of Russia's Travelling Equipage. Covers are worn with some chipping of surface paper. Joints cracked but binding still tight. Name in ink to top margin of title-page. Preliminary pages are grubby, there is some foxing to the contents. Considering the age of the book the contents are reasonably clean. This is a decent copy of a very scarce item.

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THE TALKING THRUSH AND OTHER TALES FROM INDIA
Written by W.H.D. Rouse; W. Crooke. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1310971
Published by J.M. Dent & Co.. 1st 1899. Good condition.

Green pictorial cloth. Collected by W. Crooke and retold by Rouse. Indian folk-tales. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Covers grubby and marked, red ink marks to front cover. Child's red ink writing to front endpaper. Endpapers browned, foxing to page edges. Front joint cracked. Lower corner of rear free-endpaper torn off (only a small piece).

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ROMNEY A BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAY WITH A CATALOGUE RAISONNE OF HIS WORKS (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Humphrey Ward; W. Roberts.
Stock no. 2111890
Published by Thos. Agnew & Sons. 1st 1904. Very good condition.

Large format. Blue leather spines with gilt titles and intricate decorations. Blue cloth covers with gilt titles. Captioned, tissue-guard plates. Limited edition to 350 copies. These volumes are copy no. 20. Spines are faded; now look green. Some bumping and wear to cover edges and corners. A little brown spotting to covers. Bookplates to front pastedowns. Names in ink to front endpapers. Page browning; some foxing. The books appear to have been restitched at one time - bindings are nice and tight.

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READING THE PORTRAITS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH I
Written by Elizabeth W. Pomeroy.
Stock no. 2111887
Published by Archon Books; The Shoe String Press. 1st 1989. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth, gilt title to spine. Colour plates. Using 10 works of art, 9 in colour Pomeroy explores the border-lines between disciplines to shed new light on the portraits of Elizabeth I. She combines ideas from cultural anthropology, semiotics, literary theory, social history and the psychology of perception to create a web of meanings and harmonies, centering the paintings of the Queen in a new, complex environment. ISBN: 0208021892. Wrapper is a little browned, with a few marks.

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ADVENTURES AT HAMPTON COURT
Written by Violet Needham. Illustrated by Will Nickless.
Stock no. 1310873
Published by Lutterworth Press. 1st 1954. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Burgundy boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Neat gilt school stamp to centre of front cover. Spine and corners bumped. Endpapers partly browned/foxed. Foxing to textblock. Prize plate to half-title along with a name in ink below. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped with slight loss.

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DOCTOR DOLITTLE IN THE MOON
Written by Hugh Lofting. Illustrated by Hugh Lofting.
Stock no. 2111628
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1929. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Grey cloth, purple titles and borders. Pictorial endpapers. Colour frontis and b/w illustrations. Spine is browned, with some damp marks to edges. Chipping and fraying to cloth, especially to bottom edge of front cover. Some foxing and page browning, but contents are generally very good. Wrapper is very browned and marked; some damp stains, chipping, with a little loss and tears/creasing.

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