THE WATER BABIES
Written by Charles Kingsley. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
Stock no. 1405010
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. circa 1930. Almost very good condition.

Orange pictorial cloth. Black titles. Top edge yellow. Decorated endpapers. 12 delightful tipped-in colour plates. B/w text illustrations. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 305 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Spine faded. Covers marked and grubby. Front joint and some hinges cracked. Endpapers browned. A little bubbling to front pastedown. Stain affecting top margin of about half the book. Text is not affected nor are plates. Some foxing.

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BILL THE MINDER
Written by W. Heath Robinson. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1505543
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st thus 1982. Almost very good condition.

Facsimile edition of this classic children's tale. Large format. Blue boards, gilt titles and vignettes. Blue endpapers. 15 colour plates and numerous b/w illustrations. 254 pages. ISBN: 0340277327. Spine faded. Lower corners lightly bumped. Mark to lower edge of text block. Contents clean. All plates present. Contained in original glassine wrapper which has small patch of loss from top edge of rear panel, chipping to base of spine and folds, 2" tear to front panel. Original price sticker to rear panel.

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PICKLES
Written by Cecil Aldin. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1315489
Published by Henry Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1909. Almost very good condition.

Telling the story of Pickles the puppy who is always getting into a pickle! Large format. Brick red cloth spine, with gilt title. Green cloth covers with orange and gilt titles. 24 delightful colour plates. Recased in original covers, joints professionally repaired and rear free-endpaper backed as some loss to edges. Some pages and plates slightly worn to edges where they were loose before repairs. Some creases to pages. Light browning mainly to margins of text pages, plates bright and clean. Inscription in ink and small newspaper clipping (about Peter the lost Budgerigar!) fixed with white tape to verso of front-endpaper. Musty odour to contents. Still a decent copy of a scarce title, now in sound binding.

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PRINCESS BADOURA
Written by Laurence Housman. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 2119790
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1913. Very good condition.

White cloth beautifully decorated in pale green and gilt to front cover. Pale green endpapers. 10 tipped-in paper-guarded richly coloured plates. A tale from The Arabian Nights retold by Housman. Spine is browned. A little bumping to spine and corners. A few marks to covers. Bookplate to front pastedown. Some light page finger markings. All plates present.

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RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
Written by Omar Khayyam; Edward Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 1404947
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. circa 1920. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Red cloth with gilt title to spine and elaborate peacock and elephant design to front cover. 20 superb colour plates, tipped onto cream card with decorative border and each with a tissue-guard. Spine and corners bumped. Uneven fading to spine and boards. Dated inscription in ink to front endpaper, the imprint of which can be seen on the half-title page. Some page browning and foxing with many pages being clean. Plates are in fine condition.

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WINGS AND THE CHILD
Written by E. Nesbit. Illustrated by George Barraud.
Stock no. 1505374
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1913. Very good condition.

Or The Building of Magic Cities. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine, black titles and vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations and photographs. 197 pages. Spine lightly browned and a little bumped and worn. A little wear to corners and rear corners bumped. Just a couple of light marks to covers. Name and 1/-, both in pencil, to front endpapers. A couple of hinges cracked. Endpapers lightly browned. A little foxing. Just an odd mark to contents.

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A SONG OF THE ENGLISH
Written by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1315250
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1909. Very good condition.

Large format. Dark blue cloth, gilt titles and decoration to spine and front cover. 30 stunning tipped-in tissue-guarded colour plates, mounted on card with green decorative borders. Numerous b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Some very light rubbing to covers. A few foxspots/fingermarks else contents clean. All plates present, 2 have corner creases.

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MOTHER GOOSE
No author listed. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
Stock no. 1315243
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. circa 1922. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Red cloth with black titles and colour vignettes to front cover and spine, colour pictorial onlay to front cover. 12 colour plates mounted onto plain captioned paper. B/w text illustrations throughout. 159 pages. Spine bumped, some fading and browned at base. A few tiny nicks to cover edges. Name plate and small sticker (J.6.) to front pastedown. 1st colour plate (frontis) is missing, 11 remaining. Light foxing and fingering else contents clean. Closed tears to the bottom of a couple of pages.

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THE WATER BABIES
Written by Charles Kingsley. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
Stock no. 1315173
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st thus 1938. Good condition.

Hodder & Stoughton's Colour Books series. Grey cloth, red titles and vignettes. 12 colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped with small splits to top and tail of spine. Spine foxed and lightly browned. Covers slightly grubby. Inscription in ink to belongs to box (and below). Remains of a small sticker to centre of half-title page. Two plates have tears at top, worst is 2". Foxing and fingering to contents.

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PRINCESS BADOURA
Written by Laurence Housman. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 1505035
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1913. Almost very good condition.

White cloth beautifully decorated in pale green and gilt to front cover. Pale green endpapers. 10 tipped-in paper-guarded richly coloured plates. A tale from The Arabian Nights retold by Housman. Spine browned, bumped and worn with small nicks to cloth at either end. Corners worn. Covers grubby and marked. Small bookseller's label to front pastedown. A couple of hinges cracked but binding still firm. A little foxing and browning. Fingering to contents but generally clean. All plates present and in very good condition.

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THE POOR DEAR DOLLIES
Written by May Byron. Illustrated by Rosa C. Petherick.
Stock no. 1404567
Published by Henry Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton. circa 1910. Almost very good condition.

Brown boards with red titles. Green cloth spine. Colour and b/w illustrations. Spine re-backed. Corners bumped and worn. Board edges rubbed. Some small indents to rear board. Small bump to top of rear board which also affects internal pages. Boards are grubby. Small red mark to top of front board. Name and date to front endpaper. Front joint beginning to crack. One hinge cracked. Erased writing and slightly sticky residue possibly from removal of label to front endpaper which is a little grubby. Some foxing and fingering to contents.

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DRUSCILLA
Written by Clarice England. Illustrated by Lynley Dodd.
Stock no. 1606737
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1980. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The story of Druscilla, spirited, sensitive and eloquent, a fascinated observer of the grown-up world flowing around her. Set in New Zealand. Dark orange boards with white title block to spine. Colour and b/w illustrations. 91 pages. ISBN: 0340256915. Spine and corners bumped. Name in ink to front pastedown. Wrapper is scuffed with surface damage to front panel, and some small chips at corners etc.

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