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WARNE'S PLEASURE BOOK FOR CHILDREN
Written by Vera Bowyer; Doris Twinn; et al. Illustrated by Various.
Stock no. 1328022
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1940. Fair condition.

A nice selection of stories, well illustrated b/w and 4 colour plates. Pictorial boards. 10 x 7.5". Includes "Five Little Nigger Boys" Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers edge rubbed. Light pencil mark to front cover. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Contents are browned. Remains of dustwrapper (large amount of loss to lower edge of front panel) is worn, torn and creased.

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BEETLES OF THE BRITISH ISLES (TWO VOLUMES)
Written by E.F. Linssen.
Stock no. 1828261
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1959. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Wayside & Woodland Series. Maroon leatherette covers with gilt titles and vignettes. First series - comprises The Superfamilies Caraboidea, Palpicornia, Staphylinoidea and Diversicornia. Second Series - comprises - The Superfamilies Clavicornia, Heteromera, Lamellicornia, Phytophaga and Rhynchophora, and Including the Strepsiptera. Colour and b/w plates with numerous text figures and diagrams. Speckled text block. Series two has a minor knock to lower front board. Top edge of text block lightly browned. Front endpaper of both volumes has an 'Acc no' written in ink to top (neat). Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrappers are edge-rubbed with a few small splits, slight fading to spines, slight grubbiness to rear panels. Overall, a lovely set.

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THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF WILD ANIMALS OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by W.J. Stokoe.
Stock no. 1327916
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1949. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Observer's Book No. 5. Describing 69 species with 72 illustrations, 46 of which are in full colour. Spine and corners bumped. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with loss to top and tail of spine, tear to top corner of front panel and price-cut with 'new' price-sticker above.

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THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF FRESHWATER FISHES OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by A. Laurence Wells.
Stock no. 1327915
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1946. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Observer's book No. 6. Describing 82 species with 76 illustrations, 64 of which are in full colour. Spine and corners bumped. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is worn and slightly grubby, large split to rear edge of spine which has an old tape repair on verso (tape has browned).

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KATE GREENAWAY'S BOOK OF GAMES
Written by Kate Greenaway. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1327749
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Good condition.

Blue/green pictorial boards. Plain endpapers. Colour illustrations. Traditional games. Covers are edge worn. There is some slight chipping to the paper covering at front edge of spine. Rear edge of spine is darkened. Spine is slightly browned and worn. Old tape repairs to a few pages. Some hinges pulled causing contents to be slightly loose. Damp stains to top edges of last couple of pages. Name in ink to front free-endpaper.

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THE HILLS OF LAKELAND
Written by W. Heaton Cooper. Illustrated by W. Heaton Cooper.
Stock no. 1827990
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 2nd 1946. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Second Edition. Grey cloth boards with burgundy titles. 16 colour plates and 36 b/w plates, 2 maps. Top edge burgundy. Top & tail of spine slightly worn else boards clean. Text block browned. Gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is heavily browned, edge-worn with a few chips, front panel is detached from spine edge and clumsily fixed with brown tape to verso, couple of water stains to spine, minor foxing to rear panel.

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THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF THE LAKE DISTRICT
Written by John Parker.
Stock no. 1827944
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Observer Series No. 74. With 8 Colour plates and 67 Black and white photographs. ISBN: 0723215707. Minor fading to lower edge of boards. Text block browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is browned, red title to spine faded to orange. A nice copy.

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THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF KITCHEN ANTIQUES
Written by John Woodforde. Illustrated by Trevor Aldous.
Stock no. 1827943
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1982. Very good condition.

Observer book No. 97. Laminate boards. Illustrating and describing of 230 household objects from the 17th century to the 20th century. ISBN: 0723216371. Spine lightly browned and red title to spine faded to pink. Lower corners lightly bumped. Edges of pastedowns are grubby. Text block and endpapers lightly browned. Contents clean.

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THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF HERBS
Written by Mary Page. Illustrated by Norman Barber.
Stock no. 1827942
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1980. Very good condition.

Observer Series No. 85. Laminate Boards. With 10 b/w and 63 colour illustrations. ISBN: 072321610X. Boards browned. Some minor foxing present. Contents otherwise clean.

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THE GIRLS OF GWYNFA
Written by Elsie J. Oxenham. Illustrated by Nina K. Brisley.
Stock no. 1327262
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1924. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth, gitl title to spine, embossed title and decoration to front cover. Colour frontis. 310 pages, top edge dyed blue. Spine and corners bumped. Some slightly darkened, a few small and light marks to covers. Front free-endpaper has been removed. Foxing else contents clean.

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THE GIRLS OF GWYNFA
Written by Elsie J. Oxenham. Illustrated by Nina K. Brisley.
Stock no. 1327252
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Circa 1945. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

The Bedford Library. Blue cloth, brown titles to spine and brown title labels to front cover (also brown decorative lines). B/w frontis. 310 pages. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Prize plate to front pastedown, name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing, mainly to prelims and textblock. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn and torn with some loss to top and tail of spine.

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PATCH AND A PAWN
Written by Elsie J. Oxenham.
Stock no. 1327050
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1940. Good condition.

Orange cloth, black titles. B/w frontis. 250 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Covers a bit grubby. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing and some grubby fingermarks to contents.

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