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THE ANNE ANDERSON PICTURE BOOK
Written by Hans Christian Andersen; Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 2134634
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. Almost very good condition.

Orange/brown cloth spine. Large format. Pictorial boards. Numerous coloured and b/w illustrations by Anne Anderson, illustrating Hans Andersen and Grimms' Fairy Tales. Spine is faded. Bumping/some scuffing/wear to cover edges and a couple of corners. Surface paper damage to edge of rear cover. Page edge browning, but contents are still very good.

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THE HISTORY OF SANDFORD AND MERTON
Written by Thomas Day; Richard Johnson.
Stock no. 1821831
Published by J. Wallis. Circa 1795. Almost very good condition.

Second Edition. Abridged from the original by Richard Johnson. Entertaining and practical lessons in manners, masculinity, and class politics. Small format. Green leather spine, marbled boards. 4 b/w engravings. Boards are heavily scuffed and edge-worn with loss of surface paper at edges. Spine is creased. Contemporary inscription in ink to free front endpaper dated 1803. Large dampstain to endpapers. 'Cooper' handwritten to title page. Binding tight. Contents browned with age.

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RURAL SCENES: OR, A PEEP INTO THE COUNTRY. FOR YOUTH
Written by Ann Taylor.
Stock no. 1821826
Published by R. Yorke Clarke And Co.. 8th 1948. Almost very good condition.

Small format. Eighth edition. A book of childrens rhymes. Green cloth boards, gilt titles and vignette to front. 87 b/w engravings. Covers browned and stained. Contemporary inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents browned and a few grubby marks.

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FIFTY FABLES OF LA FONTAINE
Written by Jean De La Fontaine; Norman R. Shapiro; Sarah Bakewell. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stock no. 1821639
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2013. Nearly fine condition.

Translated by Shapiro, introduced by Bakewell. Green goatskin leather binding with gilt titles. Limited edition of 1000, each copy numbered and signed by Quentin Blake. Colour illustrations. Top edge gilt. Copy 180 SIGNED by Quentin Blake. A fine copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is a little scuffed.

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JUST WILLIAM
Written by Richmal Crompton. Illustrated by Thomas Henry.
Stock no. 1320872
Published by George Newnes Limited. 6th 1923. Almost very good condition.

Original publisher's burgundy leather binding with gilt titles and vignettes, top edge gilt. Green marble-effect endpapers. 248 pages, 4 page adverts at rear. B/w illustrations. 6th impression of the first edition. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Front edge of spine is starting to split. Foxing to contents. A nice copy with very scarce binding.

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LITTLE BOOKS FOR LITTLE PEOPLE
No author listed.
Stock no. 1320558
Published by Castell Brothers. Circa 1900. Very good condition.

Small box (11.5 x 9cm) containing 6 small rhyme books: Three Blind Mice, Little Blue Boy, Bo-Peep, The Man in the Moon, Baa! Baa! Black Sheep and Little Miss Muffett. Each book has pictorial cardwraps. Chromolithograph text illustrations. 3 of the books are lightly foxed on the covers. The box is just a little edge worn and lightly foxed.

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THE GOLLIWOGG IN WAR!
Written by Bertha Upton. Illustrated by Florence Upton.
Stock no. 1320555
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1st 1899. Good condition.

Red cloth spine, pictorial front board. Oblong format. 8.5 x 11". Wonderful colour illustrations throughout. Covers are edge worn with slight loss of surface paper at corners. Covers grubby with a pink mark to top edge of front cover. Spine bumped and slightly rubbed. Tiny booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Joints cracked. Small margin tears to some pages. Grubby fingermarks to page margins.

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ROBINSON CRUSOE, THE CLEVER CATS, & C.
No author listed.
Stock no. 1320522
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons. Circa 1880. Almost very good condition.

Coloured picture book for the nursery. 11.5 x 8.5". Blue decorated cloth. 16 colour illustrations. Printed one side on untearable paper. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Light damp stain to top 2" of rear cover. Endpapers browned. New front free-endpaper. Foxing and some grubby fingering, showing mainly on unprinted sides of pages. Small ink mark to one page (unprinted).

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ANIMAL PLAYTIME
No author listed. Illustrated by Louis Wain; Harry B. Neilson; J.A. Shepherd; et al..
Stock no. 1320518
Published by James Clarke & Co.. 1st 1908. Very good condition.

Pictorial boards. Front cover shows Fox with cockrel. B/w illustrations throughout. Some cats by Wain. Spine and corners slightly bumped and worn. Front cover illustration is still bright. Some slight chipping of paper covering to spine. Small binding error of crease in paper to rear cover. Inscription in ink to verso of title-page (dated 1909) and one name crossed out and replaced with another. Some slight foxing and fingering to contents. Light tobacco smell to contents.

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RIP VAN WINKLE
Written by Washington Irving. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1320489
Published by Peter Hansens Forlag. 1st 1905. Very good condition.

Text in Danish. Limited edition. Large format, green cloth with gilt titles and vignettes. Each of the 51 tipped-in colour plates are mounted on a separate sheet of heavy brown paper with captioned tissue guards. Except for the frontis, the plates are all bound together after the text. This is copy NO. 180 with prineted signature of Arthur Rackham. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Covers slightly edge rubbed. Ink writing to front free-endpaper. Joints cracked. Browning to contents.

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JOCK OF THE BUSHVELD
Written by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick. Illustrated by E. Caldwell.
Stock no. 1320480
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1st 1907. Very good condition.

Green cloth, gilt titles and vignettes. Colour frontis. B/w plates and text illustrations. 474 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Some slight scuffing to cloth. Name and address in ink to half title-page. Endpapers browned. Page 35/6 has lower corner torn off (slight loss to margin illustrations only, not text). A few light foxspots to contents. A nice copy of the first issue of the first edition (first issue points present: dung beetle is shown to be pushing dung with front legs on pgs 65, 337 & 457 and horse is being dragged up a vertical cliff on pg 316).

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DEEP WOOD
Written by Elleston Trevor. Illustrated by David Williams.
Stock no. 1320475
Published by Gerald G. Swan. 1st 1945. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A friendly sort of book, about Old Stripe (the badger) and his home beneath the Beech Tree, his friends, Potter, Scruff the Fox, Skip Squirrel, and other animal folk who live among quiet woodland paths, old gnarled trees, grassy banks, and the rippling stream. Green cloth. Gilt titles. B/w illustrations. 160 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Some light browning to top and tail of spine. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Small brown mark to rear pastedown. Dustwrapper is edge worn with tape repairs on verso, some creases and rear panel slightly grubby.

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