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THE FEUD IN THE FIFTH REMOVE
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer. Illustrated by Ellis Silas.
Stock no. 739544
Published by The R.T.S. Office. 1st 1932. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Green cloth, gilt title to spine and black title to front cover. Colour frontis. 222 pages. REDUCED from £180. Spine and corners bumped, slight fading to top and tail of spine. Foxing to prelims and outer page edges. Wrapper is edge chipped with loss, large closed tear to front panel, some tape repairs on verso and grubby on rear panel.

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MONSIEUR LE BARON
Written by Julie Borius.
Stock no. 591736
Published by Librairie Hachette. Good condition.

Bibliotheque Des Ecoles Et Des Familles. Red boards, elaborate gilt titles and decorations. Colour & b/w illustrations. Text in French. Contents very good but detached from covers. Staples rusted. Corners worn.

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PAYSAGES DE FRANCE TOME 2
No author listed. Illustrated by Charley.
Stock no. 591737
Published by Ch. R. & Cie. Very good condition.

Large oblong format. Pictorial card wraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. Colouring book with picture captions in French. Unused. Cover edges slightly browned.

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BEASTS ROYAL
Written by Richard Patrick Russ; Patrick O'Brian. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
Stock no. 591740
Published by Putnam. 1st 1934. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, white titles. Colour frontis. 8 b/w plates. Written when Russ was 19 years old, he later wrote under the pseudonym of Patrick O'Brian. Superb Tunnicliffe illustrations. REDUCED PRICE. Top and tail of spine slightly faded. Spine slightly bumped. Last few pages lightly foxed else contents fine. Original brown wrapper with pictorial onlay is price-cut and very slightly nicked at top and tail of spine. A lovely copy of this rare title.

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CAPTAIN BAYLEY'S HEIR
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by H.M. Paget.
Stock no. 591704
Published by Hurst & Co. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

A Tale of the Gold Fields of California. Purple pictorial cloth with black title to front cover and gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Top of spine has a small nick. Some marks to endpapers. Wrapper has most of spine missing and top corner of front panel and a few other pieces of loss along edges.

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OUR DARLINGS
Written by Ravenor Bullen; et al. Illustrated by Louis Wain; Ernest A. Aris; et al..
Stock no. 739451
Published by John F. Shaw & Co Ltd.. Circa 1914. Very good condition.

Red cloth spine with black title, pictorial front board shows a girl at the seaside listening to a shell. Green pictorial endpapers. 24 colour plates mounted on brown paper (2 cat plates by Wain and 5 plates by Aris), numerous b/w text illustrations throughout (including many non-cat illus by Wain). 288 pages. Spine and corners bumped, corners worn, edges rubbed. A couple of scratch marks to front cover and covers slightly grubby with foxing on rear cover. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. One colour plate (of a teddy) is lightly creased and one Wain plate has a light corner crease. Contents are clean.

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STRANGE SCAVENGING CREATURES
Written by Ken Hoy. Illustrated by Isabel Bowring.
Stock no. 591671
Published by Brown Wells & Jacobs Ltd.. 1994. Very good condition.

Dare to Find Out About series... Glazed pictorial boards. A nature pop-up book. Realistic illustrations combine with an informative, and sometimes surprising, text to bring these creatures to life as never before. ISBN: 1873829582. Bumping to a couple of corners. One leg broken on the Cockroach pop-up. Light foxing throughout.

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ALBERT IN SCOTLAND
Written by Alison Jezard. Illustrated by Margaret Gordon.
Stock no. 591605
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 64 pages. ISBN: 0575003685. Corners are a bit bumped. Pictorial wrapper has a few edge-tears to it and some edge-chips and is price-cut.

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THE HOPPING BASKET
Written by Paul Jennings. Illustrated by Gerald Rose.
Stock no. 591637
Published by Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.. 1st 1965. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. Pictorial wrapper has 1" tear to top of spine and a couple of other small edge-tears and chips. Spine is browned. Contents are fine. A lovely copy!

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BOXER AND OTHER STORIES
Written by C.T. Stoneham; et al.
Stock no. 591638
Published by The Bruce Publishing Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

A collection of popular stories. Red cloth spine, pictorial boards. Colour frontis & b/w illustrations. 156 pages. Spine is faded. Edges are worn. Light foxing.

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THE TIP TOP BOOK 1949
No author listed.
Stock no. 591649
Published by The Amalgamated Press. 1949. Very good condition.

Green cloth spine, pictorial front cover. Colour frontis. Two-tone and b/w illustrations throughout. Spine and corners are worn. Maze puzzle has been completed. A couple of corners of pages are creased. Some foxing.

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ANIMAL LIFE IN FACT, FANCY AND FUN
Written by S. Louis Giraud.
Stock no. 990859
Published by Daily Sketch & Sunday Graphic Ltd.. Slightly better than good condition.

Bookano Living Models Series. Large oblong format. Colour pictorial boards. 6 colour pop-ups and numerous b/w illustrations. All pop-ups in good working order, except giraffe pop-up which needs minor repair. Page-edge browning and some childish colouring. Cover edges and corners worn. Title and first page have cuts at lower edge. Rear joint cracked exposing webbing.

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