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THE BIG BOOK FOR TINIES
Written by Mrs. Herbert Strang. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby; Enid Warne Browne; B. Butler; et al..
Stock no. 1503943
Published by Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press. circa 1932. Slightly better than good condition.

Matt pictorial paper boards entitled 'Baby's Play Time' to front depicting small girl pulling doll in trolley, dark red titles. Pictorial endpapers. Colour plates, two tone and b/w illustrations. First story is Mrs Brown Hen. Large print text. Edited by Strang. Spine is bumped and worn with some loss of surface paper at either end also slightly faded and marked. Corners and cover edges worn. Covers a bit grubby and scuffed. Front joint cracked next to frontis. Rear joint and some hinges also cracked. Browning to endpapers and prelims, heavy foxing to contents. Small dated inscription to prelims. One plate detached and has large corner crease. Creasing to title page.

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DIMSIE HEAD GIRL
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Illustrated by Mary Strange Reeve.
Stock no. 1503792
Published by Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press. 1st 1925. Good condition.

Green covers with black title and decoration to front cover and spine. Colour frontis plus 4 b/w illustrations. 280 pages. Covers are damp stained. Top of spine bumped. Wear to corners. Front cover slightly bowed. Prize plate to front endpaper. Top of text block grubby. Some foxing. One hinge cracked. Contents generally clean.

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TIM'S FRIEND TOWSER
Written by Edward Ardizzone. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Stock no. 1314218
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1962. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format, Pink pictorial boards, blue spine. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Ex-Lib (school) with a couple of ink library stamps to front free-endpaper. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Light musty smell to contents and some grubby fingermarks to page margins. Dustwrapper is price-cut with new price sticker above, slightly edge worn with small piece of loss to base of spine.

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LITTLE PIG BARNABY
Written by Ursula Hourihane. Illustrated by Judith Brook.
Stock no. 1503553
Published by Geoffrey Cumberlege; Oxford University Press. 1st 1952. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

10 bedtime stories, featuring Little Pig Barnaby, Peggotty the Horse, Angus the Scottie Dog and others. Cream cloth covers with red title to spine and vignette of pig to front cover. B/w text illustrations. 109 pages. A little bumping to spine and corners. Light foxing to spine. Small bookseller's sticker to front pastedown. Foxing, mostly to endpapers. Page 55 has craypn marks to margin, crayon also to text block. Rest of contents very good. Dustwrapper is edge worn, torn and chipped but with very little loss. Rear panel grubby, crayon line to rear flap.

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SURVEY OF THE HONOUR OF DENBIGH 1334
Written by Paul Vinogradoff; Frank Morgan.
Stock no. 1713086
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1914. Very good condition.

Dark red cloth, gilt title to spine. cxxiv + 347 pages. Small nick to base of spine. Spine faded. Name in ink to front endpaper.

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YVETTE IN VENICE & TITANIA'S PALACE
Written by Nevile Wilkinson.
Stock no. 2114790
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1923. Very good condition.

Beige cloth with red titles and decorations. 28 b/w and colour plates. 111 pages. Some foxing to pages and outer page edges. Inscriptions in ink to half-title page.

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NEW PLAYS FROM OLD STORIES
Written by Hermon Ould. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris.
Stock no. 1402702
Published by Oxford University Press. 1924. Slightly better than good condition.

Contains three stories (Peter the Pied Piper, The Princess in the Sleeping Wood, Rip van Winkle) adapted into plays. Black boards with gilt titles to front and spine and vignette to front cover. Colour plates. 96 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Fading to gilt on spine and some of gilt on front cover. Front endpaper is MISSING. Browning to endpapers which are also a little grubby. Some foxing and a few margin marks.

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THE DARLING BOOK
Written by Natalie Joan. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby.
Stock no. 1109461
Published by Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press. Circa 1923. Almost very good condition.

Paper boards. Embossed feel illustration to front board in colour depicts two young girls picking tulips. Full page colour illustration accompanied by a verse on facing page. Back strip worn with loss. Foxing to pictorial boards. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Browning to endpapers. Scattered foxing throughout.

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JUST FOR A CHANGE
Written by May Byron. Illustrated by Rosa C. Petherick.
Stock no. 1710935
Published by Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press. Circa 1910. Almost very good condition.

A little girl changes places with her doll... Small format (4.75 x 3.75"). Blue boards with white title and colour vignette to front cover. Colour illustrations and b/w vignettes throughout. Spine has a small repaired crack to base and has small chips to top and tail.

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SONS OF THE STEPPE
Written by Hans Baumann. Illustrated by Heiner Rothfuchs.
Stock no. 1808855
Published by Oxford University Press. 1966. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of how the Conqueror Genghis Khan was overcome. White boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Text block a little grubby. Corners bumped. Contents fine. Pictorial wrapper is covered with publishers clear laminate and has a small '65p' written in ink to lower edge of front flap.

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IN STRANGE QUARTERS
Written by Edwin Hodder.
Stock no. 2114292
Published by Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press. 1919. Very good condition.

New Edition. Green cloth with white titles. Onlays to spine and front cover. 4 colour plates. Some darkening to spine. Bumping to corners. A few grubby marks. Bookplate to front endpaper. Page edge browning.

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A PICTORIAL GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT
Written by Salim Ali; S. Dillon Ripley. Illustrated by John Henry Dick.
Stock no. 1808830
Published by The Bombay Natural History Society; Oxford University Press. 1994. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. Map to front endpapers. ISBN: 0195616340. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge-creased and faded at spine.

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