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BONZO
Written by G.E. Studdy. Illustrated by G.E. Studdy.
Stock no. 1305095
Published by Hachette. Very good condition.

Red spine, yellow pictorial boards. Colour and two-tone illustrations to each page with text (in French) besides them. 16pages. Slight wear to spine and corners. Top edge of rear cover is grubby. Contents lightly browned otherwise clean. Top corners are very slightly creased.

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BONZO VA A LA CHASSE
Written by G.E. Studdy. Illustrated by G.E. Studdy.
Stock no. 1305094
Published by Hachette. Good condition.

Red spine, yellow pictorial boards. An average of 6 colour illustrations to each page with text (in French) besides them. 16pages. Covers are edge worn with loss of surface paper to spine. Covers grubby. Remains of white label to front cover. Contents are fingered and a little grubby generally.

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WELSH SCENERY (CHIEFLY IN SNOWDONIA)
Written by T.G. Bonney. Illustrated by Elijah Walton.
Stock no. 1703843
Published by W.M. Thompson. 1875. Good condition.

Large format. Gilt and black titles and decorations. 20 tipped-in paper guarded chromolithograph plates. Some wear to cloth mainly to corners, with a little fraying. Front and rear joints cracked. All plates present but with some foxing. 1 plates has paper-guard missing. Another plate appears to have been re-inserted, but in the wrong place. The paper guards have a fair amount of damage with some pieces missing.

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BLACKIE'S CHILDREN'S ANNUAL 23RD YEAR
Written by Madeline Barnes; Will H. Ogilvie; Jessie Pope; Evelyn Smith; et al. Illustrated by Frank Adams; Warwick Reynolds; Harry Rountree; et al..
Stock no. 1305091
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. circa 1926. Good condition.

Orange cloth spine, front cover shows girl & boy reading a book on floor. Colour plates. Two-tone & b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn, some scuffing to front cover, rear cover slightly grubby and spine slightly darkened. Name and address in pencil in belongs to box. Some grubby fingermarks and light foxing to contents.

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OUT OF TOWN
Written by A.A. Thomson. Illustrated by Jennetta Vise.
Stock no. 1305053
Published by Herbert Jenkins. 1st 1935. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. Blue boards, black title to spine. A book of poetry. Spine slightly bumped. Some foxing to covers. Name and date in ink to front pastedown. Endpapers lightly browned. Dustwrapper is a bit grubby with a couple of small edge tears, 'offered at 1/-' sticker to front panel.

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MARY
Written by Mrs. Molesworth. Illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke.
Stock no. 1305040
Published by Macmillan & Co.. 1893. Very good condition.

A nursery story for very little children. Orange cloth with black decorations, gilt title to spine. 180 pages plus catalogue to rear. 7 full-page b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. A few small marks to covers, spine slightly browned. Endpapers lightly browned. Lower corner of front free-endpaper torn off. Tissue-guard to frontis is foxed. Contents clean.

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THE THIN GREY MAN
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Desmond Knight.
Stock no. 1305037
Published by MacMillan. 1st 1966. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Crown Books Series. Grey/blue/black pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Light browning to half title-page and last text page else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge chipped with some small tears and some slight loss, mainly top and tail of spine, there is a vertical crease to front flap.

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PRAYERS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
No author listed. Illustrated by Alison Cummings.
Stock no. 1804317
Published by Whitman Publishing Company. Circa 1962. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A tell-a-tale book. Cream boards with green titles and vignettes. Brown and white pictorial endpapers. Colour illustrations every page. Boards slightly grubby. Contents fine. Two prayers written in ink to verso of rear endpaper. Blue wrapper is edge-rubbed and grubby.

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MAGICIAN'S CIRCLE
Written by Peter Haining.
Stock no. 1804254
Published by Souvenir Press. 1st 2003. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Spellbinding stories of Wizards and Wizardry by authors such as Pullman, Wilson, Dahl, etc. Edited by Haining. Black boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0285636812.

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SNUFFLES FOR SHORT
Written by Christine Chaundler. Illustrated by Honor C. Appleton.
Stock no. 1304999
Published by Nisbet & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Black cloth, silver title to spine. Colour frontis. 6 b/w plates. Spine and corners bumped, a few light marks to covers. Light foxing else contents clean. Joint between front endpaper and half title-page is cracked. Dustwrapper is edge worn and marked, very small patch of surface paper damage and a large closed tear (repaired on verso) to front panel, tape repairs using masking tape on verso.

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A CHILD'S BOOK OF HOURS
Written by Constance Irving; Noel Irving.
Stock no. 1703716
Published by Oxford University Press. Circa 1935. Good condition.

13 full-page coloured illustrations, many other illustrations to text. Printed on thick card, linen-hinged. Tall folio measuring 15 x 9.5". Cloth backed pictorial boards. Delightful rhymes featuring the hours of the day from morning to school-time, dinner time etc. Beautifully illustrated and unusually bound. Corners bumped. Edges worn. Some scuffing to covers. Front endpaper MISSING. A little foxing.

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FROM ELIZABETH I TO VICTORIA
Written by Brynmor Pierce Jones.
Stock no. 1703707
Published by Newport Corporation. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The government of Newport (Monmouthshire) 1550-1850. B/w illustrations. Wrapper price-cut and foxed. Foxing to outer page edges.

Price: £80.00 £60.00.

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