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HOLIDAY FRIENDS
Written by Leslie Kennedy. Illustrated by A.E. Kennedy.
Stock no. 1505967
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. Very good condition.

Dean's Fireside Books. No. 4. Stories and rhymes. Cloth spine, pictorial front cover shows three children with horse pulling boat. 4 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 10 x 7.75". Spine bumped. Corners worn. A couple of small marks to covers. Some foxing. All plates present.

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THRILLS OF THE SKYWAYS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1208366
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. Circa 1936. Very good condition.

A collection of short stories. Pictorial boards. Red cloth spine. Colour frontis, b/w plates and illustrations. 124 pages. Spine bumped and slightly faded. Corners worn. Rear cover scuffed. Front cover bright and clean. Pages lightly browned else clean.

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GRAN'POP'S ANNUAL
Written by Arthur Groom. Illustrated by Lawson Wood.
Stock no. 1315512
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. Good condition.

First story Toby To The Rescue. Front cover shows Gran'pop riding on a pair of roller skates with a piglet pulling him. Covers are worn with slight loss of surface paper at edges. Spine is bumped and grubby. Name in ink has been mostly erased from belongs to box. Frontis is detached at lower half. Some grubby fingermarks to pages and a few small margin tears.

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BOBBY BEAR'S ANNUAL 1933
Written by Aunt Kitsie.
Stock no. 1811478
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. 1933. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth spine. Colour pictorial front cover. Front cover: BB up ladder pasting on title, while Maisie Mouse and Ruby Rabbit spill paste pot. 'Makes another splash!'. B/w and Colour illustrations. Cloth spine a little worn at edges. Board edges rubbed and worn at corners. Rear board a little scuffed. Faint pencil inscription to front pastedown. White paper repair to top and tail of front joint. Some puzzles done. Grubby marks to contents.

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FOR CROSS OR CRESCENT
Written by Gordon Stables.
Stock no. 2119452
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. Circa 1936. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Days of Richard the Lion-Hearted. Red cloth, black titles and borders. Colour frontis. 247 pages. Bumping to spine; darkening to cover edges. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and some page margins. Inscription in ink to half-title page. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few chips and nicks.

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KIDDIEWIDDIES STORY BOOK OR THE TWINS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1315099
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. Good condition.

Title is "The Twins" on front cover which features a boy and girl (girl holding doll). Cloth spine, pictorial boards. B/w illustrations throughout. Covers edge worn. Rear cover grubby. Joints partly broken. Page browning and grubby fingermarks to page margins.

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BONNIE LITTLE PEOPLE
Written by Helen Gray Cone. Illustrated by Maud Humphrey.
Stock no. 1315031
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. circa 1893. Good condition.

Large format (14 x 11"). Cloth spine, pictorial front cover shows two girls, one with a fan. 6 beautiful colour illustrations plus brown and white illustrations in outline. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers slightly grubby. Joints cracked. Endpapers lightly foxed and pastedowns lightly browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light grubby fingermarks to page margins but generally contents clean.

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BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP
No author listed. Illustrated by Will Kidd.
Stock no. 1315010
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. 1st 1904. Almost very good condition.

Square format (9.75 x 9.75"). Cloth spine, pictorial boards. Full-page colour illustrations throughout with a well-known nursery rhyme opposite each. Printed on green paper. Corners worn, covers edge rubbed. Some loss of surface paper to lower front edge of spine. Contents clean. Stitching is slightly pulled. A nice copy of a scarce book.

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FILM LOVERS ANNUAL
No author listed.
Stock no. 1810608
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. Very good condition.

Verso of front endpaper shows Gary Cooper and Marion Davies. Red cloth spine. Pictorial boards. Book: Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Free endpapers lightly foxed. Spine faded. Corners worn.

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BONZO'S ANNUAL 1951
Written by G.E. Studdy; Christine E. Bradley. Illustrated by G.E. Studdy.
Stock no. 1503215
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. 1951. Almost very good condition.

Front cover shows Bonzo as a cowboy. Red cloth spine. Spine bumped, worn and marked. Wear to corners and cover edges. Lots of pin holes to front cover, ink marks and drawing to rear cover. Belongs to box completed in pen and crossed out, date above. Pencil drawings to rear endpaper. Light browning to endpapers. Just one or two small marks to contents.

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WINNING HIS SPURS
Written by G.A. Henty.
Stock no. 1313680
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Dean's Classics series. Red boards, black title to spine. B/w frontis. Spine very slightly bumped. Contents are browned but otherwise clean. Dustwrapper is just a little edge rubbed with evidence of removal of a small label to top corner of front panel.

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PUSSYCATS AND BOW-WOWS
No author listed. Illustrated by Gilbert Haldane Dodd.
Stock no. 1313583
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. circa 1915. Good condition.

Untearable pages, mounted on cotton cloth. Large format. Green cloth with gilt title and pictorial onlay to front cover. Colour illustrations plus multi-colour text and text illustrations. Includes the rhyme "Three Little Kittens" and a story "The Dog's Party". Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers slightly grubby. Endpapers replaced. Inscription in ink to title-page. Title-page and first text page separated at lower corner, some page creases and grubby marks to contents.

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