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STUDYING INSECTS
Written by John Clegg. Illustrated by E.C. Mansell.
Stock no. 705640
Published by Bruce & Gawthorn Limited. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Wonderful World of Nature series. Blue boards, black titles. 8 colour plates. B/w photos and line drawings. Wrapper is price-cut.

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SONG DEVICES AND JINGLES
Written by Eleanor Smith. Illustrated by Florence Young; S.B. Pearse; Kathleen Nixon.
Stock no. 706341
Published by Waverley Book Company Ltd.. Very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine with black title. Paper boards with large pictorial onlay to front. Delightful colour plates. Words and music. Boards worn to edges, pictorial onlay to front is slightly scuffed. Writing on spine faded. Front joint beginning to crack. All eight plates are present. Some fingering to contents. Still a nice copy.

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THE PERVERSE WIDOW AND THE WIDOW
Written by Richard Steele; Washington Irving. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 707167
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1909. Very good condition.

Two short stories in one volume. 3 tipped-in colour plates mounted on brown card plus b/w text illustrations. Small format. Brown boards with onlay to front. Spine bumped. Name to front pastedown. Slight browning to contents. A nice copy.

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MRS PERKINS'S BALL
Written by M.A. Titmarsh.
Stock no. 708171
Published by Chapman & Hall. 1898. Very good condition.

Many humourous hand-coloured plates including one fold-out illustrations. Modern binding of blue leather spine with gilt title, leather corners, blue marbled boards. Hand-coloured plates. Rebound in 3/4 blue morocco with marbled boards. Boards edge-worn. Front board slightly grubby with title to spine rubbed. Rear board has pink discolouration. Contents nice and clean.

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WELL DONE NODDY!
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Beek.
Stock no. 708250
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.; C.A. Publications Ltd.. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Orange pictorial boards, colour pictures throughout. Noddy Book No. 5. Spine and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. Inscription in ink to belongs to box. Contents fine. Orange pictorial wrapper is grubby with loss to head of spine and reinforcements with white labels to rear. An early reprint.

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THE VILLAGE WATCH-TOWER
Written by Kate Douglas Wiggin.
Stock no. 708721
Published by Gay and Bird. 1st UK 1895. Very good condition.

Beige cloth, green titles and decoration. 230 pages plus 32 page publication list to rear. Slight marking to cloth. Endpapers browned. Some light foxing. A couple of joints partly cracked.

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LET'S DO IT
Written by Marcia Lane Foster. Illustrated by Marcia Lane Foster.
Stock no. 708760
Published by Collins. 1st 1938. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Sketches of Children. Very large format. Red cloth, black title to spine. Colour plates and b/w illustrations throughout. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light foxing, mainly to endpapers and outer page edges. Cream pictorial wrapper is edge-torn with some small pieces missing and grubby, with a couple of small splash marks. A very nice copy.

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INFANTILLA THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE NURSERY
Written by Arnold L. Haskell; Min Lewis. Illustrated by Stanley Lewis.
Stock no. 709079
Published by Dennis Dobson. 1st 1971. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Telling in drawings and text the history of perambulators, feeding bottles, and rattles. A fascination for anyone who has ever been pushed in a pram! Superb b/w illustrations. Cream mottled cloth. Bookplate to verso of front endpaper. Orange illustrated wrapper very slightly grubby to rear with spine sunned and small nick to top.

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THE BOOK OF SIMON
Written by A.S.M. Hutchinson. Illustrated by A.H. Watson.
Stock no. 709560
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1930. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Cream cloth with gilt titles. Colour portrait frontis, full-page b/w plates plus text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Slight browning to endpapers and prelims. White pictorial wrapper is worn and torn at edges with extensive tape repairs and grubby.

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THE JUNGLE SCHOOL OR DR. JIBBER-JABBER BURCHALL'S ACADEMY
Written by S.H. Hamer. Illustrated by Harry Neilson.
Stock no. 710177
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. 1900. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth spine, pictorial boards. Colour plates and b/w text illustrations. Corners worn. Boards grubby. Bottom board edges a little scuffed. Contents browned at edges. One plate detached with slight creasing at margins. Front joint beginning to crack. Couple of hinges cracked.

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IN THE GRIP OF THE SPANIARD
Written by Herbert Hayens. Illustrated by Wal Paget.
Stock no. 710276
Published by T. Nelson & Sons. 1st 1899. Good condition.

Green pictorial covers with gilt titles. 7 b/w plates. 421 pages, top edge gilt. Spine and corners worn. Covers grubby. Spine faded. Endpapers lightly browned. Inscription in ink to verso of frontis. Some marking to a few pages. A few hinges are pulled. Contents otherwise clean.

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REGGIE AND I
Written by Edward Shirley. Illustrated by John Hassall.
Stock no. 710375
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons. Circa 1912. Very good condition.

Large format. Red cloth spine, pictorial boards. 64 pages. Illustrated with colour plates. Spine bumped, corners worn. A few small dents to board edges. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers lightly browned. Foxing to prelims and outer page edges. Top corner of first page has been torn out (not affecting text). Generally a very nice copy.

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