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ALMANACK FOR 1928
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1323504
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1928. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Very small, slime format. Peach and cream pictorial boards, brown cloth spine. Colour illustrations. Minimal rubbing at corners. Endpapers have been professionally replaced (I think). Contents fine. Tissue-paper dustwrapper is slightly edge chipped. Very scarce in wrapper.

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ALMANACK FOR 1926
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1323503
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1926. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Very small format. Black cloth spine, pictorial boards. Pretty colour illustrations. Minimal rubbing at corners. Contents fine. Tissue-paper wrapper is very slightly edge chipped and creased. Scarce in wrapper.

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ALMANACK FOR 1925
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1323502
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1925. Very good condition.

Very small oblong format. Yellow cloth spine, pictorial boards. Colour illustrations (originally appearing in the 1887 Almanack). Some slight browning/discolouration to covers. Endpapers lightly browned. Some small marks to page margins but generally contents clean.

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THE TALE OF THE FAITHFUL DOVE
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Marie Angel.
Stock no. 1323464
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st thus 1971. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Beatrix Potter wrote this tale in 1907, basing it on a true story. She never did illustrate it and the manuscript did not come to light until after her death, when a small edition was published. Now re-issued with beautiful colour illustrations by the noted artist Marie Angel whose work has been favourably compared to Potter. White pictorial boards. 47pp. 6.5 x 5". A charming little book. ISBN: 0723213364. Small indentation to lower edge of front cover. Endpapers are partly browned. Dustwrapper is lightly browned with a couple of small foxspots.

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ALMANACK FOR 1927
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1323442
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1927. Very good condition.

'The coloured illustrations are the actual first printing of the 1891 Almanack, the text for the year 1927 is now inserted'. Very small format. Yellow cloth spine, pictorial boards. Pretty colour illustrations. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper.

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BRITISH PYRALID AND PLUME MOTHS
Written by Bryan P. Beirne. Illustrated by S.N.A. Jacobs.
Stock no. 1824127
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1952. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front. Wayside and Woodland series. 216 colour specimens, 16 plates. 207 pages. Boards clean and bright. Scattered foxing, mainly to prelims and endpapers. Text block browned. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed, scuffed, closed tear to top rear edge of spine.

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FLIES OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by Charles N. Colyer; Cyril O. Hammond.
Stock no. 1824126
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1951. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Burgundy cloth, gilt titles and fly vignette to front. Colour & b/w illustrations. Wayside and Woodland Series. 383 pages including index. A few small marks to boards. Gilt is still bright. Text block browned. A few scattered foxspots to contents and a few grubby marks e.g. page 15 (see photo). Contents generally very nice. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed, lightly faded to spine, lightly scuffed, front flap has had tape on it at some point which has stained the flap vertically with some loss of surface paper.

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LAND AND WATER BUGS OF THE BRITISH ISLES
Written by T.R.E. Southwood. Illustrated by H.D. Swain; P. Entwistle; H.M. Entwishle; T.R.E. Southwood; Dennis Leston.
Stock no. 1824125
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1959. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Wayside and Woodland Series. Green leather-look covers with gilt and black titles. With 32 coloured plates by Swain. 31 b/w plates and 153 text figures by Entwistle and the authors. Text block mottled green. Boards bright. Text block browned. Small pencil erasure mark to front endpaper. Contents clean. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is grubby and edge-worn with a few closed tears and slight surface paper loss, tape mark to lower spine.

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THE SLY OLD CAT
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1323398
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1971. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

An intriguing tale of an unusual tea party, where the hostess is a sly old cat and the guest an unassuming rat. Beatrix Potter wrote and illustrated this story in 1906 and now for the first time it appears as a book. White pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 34 pages. ISBN: 0723214204. Minimal bumping to spine. Small bookseller's sticker to front pastedown. Endpapers lightly darkened else contents fine. Dustwrapper has a few small creases to front panel.

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RAGS, M.D.
Written by Lewis Dutton. Illustrated by Edgar Norfield.
Stock no. 1323392
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1933. Good condition.

The charming story of two young dogs and their irrepressible spirits! B/w illustrations throughout with 2 delightful full page colour plates. Illustrated end papers. Peach boards with red title strip. 95 pages. 8.5 x 6.5 inches. Spine bumped. Corners worn. A few marks to covers. Inscription in ink to front pastedown and ink spots to endpapers. Foxing to contents.

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THE STRONG-TAIL
Written by Lawson Wood. Illustrated by Lawson Wood.
Stock no. 2140949
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Circa 1920. Very good condition.

How he jumped onto the moon. Part of the Rummy Tales series. Small format, 4.5 x 3.25". Pictorial paperwraps. Colour and two tone illustrations. Staples to spine have rusted, so brown marks to pages near them. Some cover creasing. A few marks. Illustrations and contents are still nice and bright!

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TEDDY BEAR POSTMAN
Written by Phoebe Worthington; Selby Worthington.
Stock no. 2140508
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1981. Very good condition.

Oblong format (7.5 x 9.5"). Red glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Simple text. ISBN: 0670807982. Some fading to spine. Musty odour to pages. Light foxing to a couple of pages and outer page edges.

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