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OLD JOE
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by C.T. Nightingale.
Stock no. 1322956
Published by Basil Blackwell. Good condition.

Black cloth with green titles and pictorial onlay to front. 29 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped, light vertical crease in cloth to rear cover. Name in pink ink to front free-endpaper. Light foxing and fingering to contents. Erased pencil doodles to front pastedown.

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MISS JEMIMA
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Alec Buckels.
Stock no. 1322954
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1st 1925. Good condition.

'The Jolly Books'. Cream and blue decorated boards. Colour frontis, 3 b/w full-page illustrations. Minimal bumping to spine. Covers are browned at edges. Pages have been roughly opened after the binding process causing ragged edges and tears. Large piece of page 15/16 has been neatly reinserted. Small booksellers sticker to rear pastedown.

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OLD JOE
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by C.T. Nightingale.
Stock no. 1322953
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1st 1927. Very good condition.

Grey boards with pictorial onlay to front. 29 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Small booksellers sticker to rear pastedown. Original tissue-paper wrapper is edge worn and creased and lower half of spine is missing.

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LUCY
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Hilda T. Miller.
Stock no. 1322952
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1st 1927. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Grey boards with orange title and colour onlay to front. 40 pages. B/w illustrations. Minimal bumping to spine. Some pale page browning and a small booksellers sticker to rear pastedown else contents clean. Original tissue-paper wrapper is slightly browned.

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TOLD AGAIN
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by A.H. Watson.
Stock no. 1322909
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1st 1927. Very good condition.

Traditional tales told by de La Mare. Blue cloth, gilt titles and vignette. 8 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 320 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Small dent to edge of rear cover. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Endpapers are browned. Some foxing to contents.

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THE ARISTOCRACY IN ENGLAND 1660-1914
Written by J.V. Beckett.
Stock no. 1322415
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Grey boards, silver title to spine. 512 pages. ISBN: 0631133917. Spine bumped. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly creased at edges.

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WIDDY-WIDDY-WURKEY
Written by Rose Fyleman. Illustrated by Valery Carrick.
Stock no. 1321764
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1st 1934. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Nursery Rhymes from many lands. Beige decorated cloth. B/w illustrations. Translated by Rose Fyleman Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Some evidence of pencil marks erased from front free-endpaper. Foxing to contents. Dustwrapper is edge worn, torn and foxed.

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TRAINS AND RAILWAYS
Written by Philip Gagg. Illustrated by Harold Sheild.
Stock no. 2128777
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1971. Good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blackwell's Learning Library No. 38. Pictorial boards. Colour plates, b/w text illustrations. ISBN: 063106740X. Ex-lib. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; a few marks to covers. Normal library stamps etc. Wrapper has some browning and chips to corners and spine; minimal loss.

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THE BABE'S BOOK OF VERSE
Written by Madeleine Nightingale. Illustrated by C.T. Nightingale.
Stock no. 1816752
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1924. Very good condition.

Slim format. Grey paper boards with onlay to front board. 44 pages. B/w woodcuts. Reprint. Boards browned. Fading inscription in ink to front pastedown. A few grubby fingermarks to contents.

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THE CAROLINGIAN EMPIRE
Written by Heinrich Fichtenau.
Stock no. 1815113
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1968. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Studies in Mediaeval History No. 9. This book is more concerned with the strains and stresses in Carolingian society and the conflicts that arose from then than with a systematic enumeration of all the known details. Orange cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0631053409. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Dustwrapper is grubby, has a closed tear to top front edge and remains of price label to rear flap.

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A THING TO BE EXPLAINED
Written by Laurence Housman. Illustrated by C.T. Nightingale.
Stock no. 1506925
Published by Basil Blackwell. Almost very good condition.

Jolly Books series. Blue patterned covers with white title block. Colour frontis plus b/w illustrations. 29 pages. Minimal bumping and wear to spine and corners. Browning to spine and some cover edges, damp stian to base of spine and lower edge of rear cover. Some light browning and foxing to contents but otherwise pages are clean. Line of surface paper damage to frontis, looks like it has been stuck to title page. Book has a smell of smoke.

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THE SECRET MOUNTAIN
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Harry Rountree.
Stock no. 1506112
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1st 1941. Good condition.

The third story of the strange adventures of the Secret Island children. Green cloth, black title to spine. Colour frontis and b/w illustrations. 192 pages. 8.25 x 6". 2nd Printing. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Browning to edge of spine. Covers a bit grubby. Front joint badly cracked showing webbing. Rear joint and a couple of hinges cracked. Name in ink to creased front endpaper. Endpapers are marked with some light browning. A few marks to contents. Poor condition front panel and spine of dustwrapper present but have been stuck to stiff card.

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