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DAYBREAK
Written by Jean Ure.
Stock no. 1502580
Published by Ian Henry Publications. 1976. Very good condition.

It was a bad time of year for hitching, she had been travelling for nine hours and still had three hundred miles to go so when a sports cars stopped she threw away her suspicions and jumped into the passenger seat. Blue covers with gilt titles to spine. 174 pages. ISBN: 0860250571. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. A few small marks to covers. Contents very good.

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THE MAN WHO KNEW BETTER
Written by Tom Gallon. Illustrated by Gordon Browne.
Stock no. 1502579
Published by D. Appleton And Company. 1st 1901. Slightly better than good condition.

A Christmas Dream. A striking romance of hard-hearted worldliness redeemed by bitter experience, and the lessons of love and sympathy which it teaches will thrill and touch every reader. Brown cloth covers with dark green decoration and gilt titles. B/w illustrations. 224 pages. Wear to spine and corners with a little fraying at top of spine. A few marks to covers. Joints and a few hinges cracked. Front endpaper is possibly missing. Red mark to frontis. Some foxing and page edge browning but contents generally clean.

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THE LITTLE WOODEN HEADS AND OTHER STORIES
Written by Madeleine Collier. Illustrated by Evelyn Simpson.
Stock no. 1402557
Published by Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1938. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Includes The Little Wooden Heads who became clothes - pegs, the Lawn that wanted to grow Dandelions, the adventurous Sonny Bunny and the Whiz who wenr faster into Nonsense Land. Light green cloth with dark blue titles and vignette to front cover. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations. Spine and corners are bumped. Front board is faded and board edges are browned. Name to front endpaper. Some marks mainly to page margins. Two illustrations are neatly coloured and a third is partially coloured in. Couple of hinges are cracked. Dustwrapper is edge worn and torn with small areas of loss. Small patch of surface paper damage to front panel. Wrapper is grubby.

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FINDING THE GREEN STONE
Written by Alice Walker. Illustrated by Catherine Deeter.
Stock no. 1502564
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1991. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Johnny lives in a town where everyone has a glowing green stone. Johnny has one too - until his mean-spirited behaviour causes him to lose it. Large format, purple paper boards with green cloth spine. Colour illustrations. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0340513632. Slight bumping and wear to spine. Dustwrapper is a little edge creased with a small stain bottom of front panel, more visible on verso.

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GIRL ANNUAL No. 7
Written by Marcus Morris.
Stock no. 1710770
Published by Hulton Press Ltd.. 1959. Very good condition.

Large format. Green cloth spine, red pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. 173 pages. Corners worn, covers scuffed. Belong to box completed in pencil.

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THE ART OF MAURICE SENDAK
Written by Selma G. Lanes. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 1312475
Published by Harry N. Abrams. 1st 1980. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Sendak's life and work are explored in affectionate detail in this charming fun-filled book. 94 full-colour illustrations and more than 165 b/w illustrations. Large oblong format. Pictorial cloth showing scene from "Where The Wild Things Are". ISBN: 0810916002. A few very light scartch marks to the heavy plastic original dustwrapper.

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A SONG OF THE ENGLISH
Written by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1312474
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1915. Very good condition.

Published for the Daily Telegraph by Hodder & Stoughton. Large format. Cream cloth with dark blue titles and vignettes. 16 tipped-in colour plates mounted on brown stiff paper with decorative border. 11 x 8.5". Spine bumped. Covers slightly grubby. Endpapers browned, heavy name in pencil to front endpaper has been partially erased. Pale page edge browning. Plates all present and in fine condition. Includes "National Bands" - a speech by Rudyard Kipling, delivered at the Mansion House on Jan 27 1915.

Price: £70.00 £52.50.

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A SKETCH OF THE SERVICES OF THE BENGAL NATIVE ARMY TO THE YEAR 1895
Written by F.G. Cardew.
Stock no. 1710748
Published by Picton Publishing. 1992. Very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Facsimile of the 1903 edition ISBN: 0948251689.

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COMPLETE VERSION OF YE THREE BLIND MICE
Written by John W. Ivimey. Illustrated by Walton Corbould.
Stock no. 1312442
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. circa 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Oblong format. Pink pictorial boards. Delightful colour and b/w illustrations. Spine slightly bumped, some very slight fading to cover edges. A few large but light foxspots to contents. Light musty smell to contents. Dustwrapper is price-cut by publisher with 'new' price sticker above and is just a little grubby.

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LUCIE ATTWELL'S ANNUAL 1972
Written by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell.
Stock no. 1312419
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. 1972. Very good condition.

Copyright date is 1972. Pictorial glazed boards showing two children with big umbrella. ISBN: 0603070051. Spine and corners bumped. Margin tear to one page. Name in belongs to box. One small margin tear. Browning to contents but otherwise clean, puzzles untouched. 1972 written in heavy pencil to top corner of front pastedown.

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WHY WEEPS THE BROGAN?
Written by Hugh Scott. Illustrated by Hugh Scott.
Stock no. 1710737
Published by Walker Books. 1st 1989. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

ISBN: 0744512808.

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THE MYSTERY OF THE MOATED GRANGE
Written by Angela Brazil. Illustrated by W. Lindsay Cable.
Stock no. 1312412
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1942. Good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Red cloth, black titles to spine and front cover. 4 b/w plates. 271 pages. Spine and corners bumped and cover edges slightly rubbed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Textblock is slightly grubby and there are some grubby fingermarks to page margins but contents generally clean. Chipped and torn wrapper is grubby and has loss to spine and corners and also sticky white label repairs on verso.

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