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THE LOST THIMBLE
Written by Mrs. Musgrave.
Stock no. 802737
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1907. Good condition.

A collection of short stories for children. Dark blue pictorial cloth, black titles. 96 pages plus 12 page booklist. Covers darkened, spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers browned. Pencil scribbles all over half-title page.

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FATHER'S WIFE AND OTHER STORIES
Written by Cicely Fulcher.
Stock no. 803073
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Good condition.

Green pictorial boards. B/w frontis. Spine and corners bumped. Rear board marked with crayon. Boards browned. Inscription in ink to verso of frontis. Crayon marks to couple of pages, other pages have grubby marks.1 hinge pulled.

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FAMOUS DISCOVERIES BY LAND AND SEA
No author listed.
Stock no. 804810
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1943. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth with gilt title to spine and blind decoration to front cover. 4 colour plates. Spine bumped and faded. Inscriptions in ink to front endpaper. Name stamp to half-title page. Price-cut wrapper is torn with chipping and grubby.

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THE BINGO BOOK
Written by Ken Harrow.
Stock no. 805190
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1951. Very good condition.

Cream cloth spine. Pictorial front boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. Rear board grubby with a couple of ink marks. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Endpapers browned.

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A COUNTESS FROM CANADA
Written by Bessie Marchant. Illustrated by Cyrus Cuneo.
Stock no. 989735
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1930. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Beige cloth, brown titles and borders. 4 b/w plates. vi + 360 pages. Reprint (The first edition of this book was in 1910, but this copy dated about 1930 by the Angela Brazil titles advertised on the rear of the jacket.) A very few foxspots to outer page edges. A superb copy in bright original wrapper.

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WHEN LONDON BURNED
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by J. Finnemore.
Stock no. 987834
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Blue and gilt pictorial cloth. Grey endpapers. 12 b/w plates. 388 pages plus 32 page booklist. A Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire. Undated but pre 1910. Corners worn. All plates present.

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THE TRANSPORT PROBLEM
Written by C.D. Foster.
Stock no. 679782
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1963. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An assessment on economic grounds of the internal road-rail problem in Great Britain. Name in ink to front endpaper. Wrapper spine a little sunned.

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SPRING SONGS WITH MUSIC
Written by Cicely Mary Barker. Illustrated by Cicely Mary Barker.
Stock no. 696770
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Good condition.

Grey boards with blue titles, pictorial onlay to front. Blue cloth spine. 12 poems with music by Linnell, each has accompanying colour tipped-in plate. A beautiful book! A few small marks to covers. Corners worn. Spine rubbed. Joints cracked. Plates in excellent condition. Foxing to endpapers.

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IN DOORS AND OUT
Written by Clifton Bingham; Mrs. Percy Dearmer. Illustrated by W.H.C. Groome; Louis Wain; et al..
Stock no. 326269
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Slightly better than good condition.

'Pictures and stories for little folk'. Red pictorial boards, large format. Grey endpapes. Packed with colour, two-tone and b/w plates and text illustrations, including one b/w doggy illustration by Wain. First story is 'The Snow Man'. Boards worn with pencil marking to rear board. Spine and corners bumped. Contents a little spotted. One colour plate badly creased and tape repaired. One joint cracked. Some colouring to a couple of illustrations. A nice reading copy.

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THE LUCK OF LEDGE POINT
Written by Dorothea Moore. Illustrated by Charles Horrell.
Stock no. 722929
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1910. Almost very good condition.

A tale of 1805. Green pictorial cloth. Colour frontis and 4 b/w plates. 254 pages. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Small mark to front cover. Rear cover very lightly rubbed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light foxing to contents.

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MORE JUMBO STORIES
No author listed. Illustrated by Harry Neilson.
Stock no. 719550
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Good condition.

Large format. Blue pictorial cloth, cream titles. Full-page colour illustrations and b/w pictures to text. Story in verse. Corners worn. Covers grubby. Inscription in pencil to front pastedown. Name and address in belongs to box. colouring to first couple of b/w illustrations. Some light fingering else contents clean.

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AN OCEAN OUTLAW
Written by Hugh St Leger.
Stock no. 721366
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1935. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Adventures in the Good Ship Margaret. Red cloth, black titles and decorative borders. B/w frontis. The Peak Library series. Spine slightly bumped. Inscription in ink and small bookseller's sticker to front pastedown. Contents and covers clean. Pictorial dustwrapper has a couple of closed edge-tears, is slightly grubby to rear and the spine is faded.

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