AESOP'S FABLES
Written by Aesop. Illustrated by Ernest Griset.
Stock no. 2127858
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1893. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth with gilt and brown titles and decorations. Popular Edition. B/w illustrations. With text based chiefly upon Croxall, La Fontaine, and L'estrange. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; top edge of spine has some small splits and chips; a little fraying to cloth. Bookplate to front pastedown. Joints are cracked and browned. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Some foxing and margin marks.

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FLORA'S FEAST A MASQUE OF FLOWERS
Written by Walter Crane. Illustrated by Walter Crane.
Stock no. 2125939
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1890. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial paper boards. Blue cloth spine. Floral decorated endpapers. Beautiful colour illustrations to every page, decorative text. 40 pages. 10 x 7.5 inches. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; small tear hole to spine, with a little fraying of cloth. Chipping along cover edges; a few grubby marks. Name in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to outer page edges and page margins.

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CASSELL'S CHILDREN'S ANNUAL
Written by Enid Blyton; Barbara Todd; Ethel Talbot; et al. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris; Florence Harrison; Harry Rountree; et al..
Stock no. 2124954
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1927. Good condition.

Large format. Blue cloth spine, with pictorial onlay. Front cover shows colourful birds sitting on a perch. First story is 'Nimble-Gnome and the Fairy Baby'. Some chipping to onlay on spine. Covers are bumped and worn. Surface paper damage to front cover; with some loss, which has been 'coloured in'. Foxing and grubby margin marks. Lengthy inscription in ink to front endpaper.

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THE CHILDREN'S BOOK OF PANTOMIMES
No author listed.
Stock no. 1815752
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. Good condition.

Containing six pantomime stories and a complete model theatre and three scenes and model characters. Large format. Blue cloth spine, pictorial front board, rear cover acts as proscenium window. Colour frontis. Some b/w text illustrations. Board edges rubbed and worn. Snail damage to rear board edges and prelims. Cut-out characters and half of the curtain to the rear are missing. A few foxspots and grubby marks to contents.

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THAT TROUBLESOME TERM
Written by E.E. Cowper. Illustrated by Elizabeth Earnshaw.
Stock no. 2123989
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1ST 1926. Good condition.

Grey cloth with dark blue titles and borders and pictorial onlay to front cover. Colour frontis & 3 b/w plates. Endpapers are MISSING. Some foxing and page browning. A reading copy.

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HENRIETTA RAE (MRS. ERNEST NORMAND)
Written by Arthur Fish.
Stock no. 2123877
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. Very good condition.

With 8 reproductions in colour and 32 other illustrations. Brown cloth with gilt titles. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Small nick to bottom of front edge. Some foxing.

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BILLY BUNTER'S BENEFIT
Written by Frank Richards. Illustrated by R.J. Macdonald.
Stock no. 1208883
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1950. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Light blue boards with dark blue titles. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 236 pages plus booklist. Cover edges browned, loss of colour at top edge of front and rear covers. Some faint marks to prelims and a few foxspots to egde of textblock. Contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is badly soiled with loss at corners and closed tears repaired on verso.

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THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Stock no. 2123621
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1889. Very good condition.

A Winter's Tale. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, black title and vignette to front cover. Floral decorated endpapers. 332 pages plus publication list to rear. Some bumping and wear to spine and corners. Spine is browned, with a couple of marks. Small pencil inscription to front endpaper. Foxing throughout. Cassell's publication list to rear has a code of 7.89, which is believed to stand for July 1889.

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BILLY BUNTER'S FIRST CASE
Written by Frank Richards. Illustrated by R.J. Macdonald.
Stock no. 1406926
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1953. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black titles. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations. 254 pages. Slight bump to top of spine. Small mark to bottom of text block. Contents are excellent. Dustwrapper is edge worn with a small chip at top of front panel. Spine id faded. Rear panel is marked.

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THE BRITISH GIRL'S ANNUAL
Written by Dorothea Moore; Violet M. Methley; Elsie J. Oxenham; Ethel Talbot; May Wynne; et al. Illustrated by C.E. Brock; T.H. Robinson; Norman Sutcliffe; et al..
Stock no. 1506883
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. circa 1924. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt titles. Pictorial onlay to front cover shows girl in red hat behind a tree, with what looks like a snow ball in her had. First story is Mistress Cinderella by Moore. Oxenham story is Peggy Plays a Part. 4 colour plates and b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Spine slightly browned. A couple of small marks to covers. Joints and a few hinges cracked. Ink inscription to front pastedown. Small bookseller's stamp to front endpaper. Some foxing to contents but generally clean otherwise. 1 plate is MISSING.

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A WESTMINSTER CHILDHOOD
Written by John Raynor. Illustrated by Dennis Flanders.
Stock no. 2122454
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1973. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

When John Raynor, composer of nearly 700 song settings, died so tragically in a road accident in 1970, he left behind not only his lifetime's musical work, but the manuscript of this enchanting account of the years of his childhood. ISBN: 0304291838. A few marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with a little edge-creasing.

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BILLY BUNTER'S FIRST CASE
Written by Frank Richards. Illustrated by R.J. Macdonald.
Stock no. 2121424
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1953. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black titles. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations. 254 pages. Bump to base of spine. Light damp mark to front pastedown. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper has 7/6 original price to front flap; has edge-creasing and tears and chips; a few small pieces of loss; grubby to rear panel.

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