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THE CHILDREN'S SONG BOOK
Written by Alfred W. Tomlyn. Illustrated by Lawson Wood; Harry Rountree; A.E. Jackson; et al..
Stock no. 1312273
Published by Andersons-Edinburgh-Limited. Very good condition.

Brown decorated material covers. Title in gilt to front cover. 8 colour plates by Lawson Wood and others. Spine and corners bumped. Ink address stamp (bookseller?) to front endpaper. Endpapers lightly browned, contents clean.

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FARM FRIENDS
No author listed. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham; Cecil Aldin; Anne Anderson; et al..
Stock no. 1312271
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial front cover. Full-page colour and b/w illustrations. Covers are edge worn. Loss to base of spine and a few marks to rear cover. One b/w illustration has been coloured in with pink pencil. Contents generally clean.

Price: £54.00 £40.50.

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THE SNOB
Written by Walter Emanuel. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1312270
Published by Laurence and Bullen. 1904. Fair condition.

Some episodes in a Mis-spent Youth. Green pictorial boards with typical Aldin full page illustrations. Covers are edge worn, scuffed with 8 d tape marks across the spine/covers (see photos). Spine covering is chipped with loss. 8 old tape marks across the joints of the books which have browned and affect the prelims and last few pages. There is also sticky fabric reinforcing the joints. Staples are rusty. Joint between frontis and title-page is cracked. Contents are foxed, grubby and lightly browned. Not as bad as it sounds! Still a decent copy.

Price: £58.00 £43.50.

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THE ENCHANTED DOLL
Written by Mark Lemon. Illustrated by May Gladwin.
Stock no. 1312269
Published by David Nutt. 1907. Almost very good condition.

A Fairy Tale for Little People. White stiff card wraps with yellow to front cover. 38 pages. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers slightly grubby. Spine covered with clear tape, clear tape also used to reinforce the joints inside. Some hinges cracked/pulled causing contents to be a little loose but still tightly bound.

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THE MYSTERY OF CABBAGE-PATCH HOUSE
Written by Ernest A. Aris. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris.
Stock no. 1312267
Published by Partridge. Good condition.

Small format, 6 x 5". Brown boards with large onlay to front cover. 4 colour plates, b/w text illustrations. Spine worn and chipped. Corners bumped and rubbed. Some fading to edges of rear cover. Small booksellers label to front pastedown. Foxing to contents. "The butterfly" written in child's hand underneath text illustration on last text page. Margin tear to inside margin of frontis. Child's name written in biro a couple of times to title-page (with some doodles as well).

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YOUNG JOHNNIE BIMBO
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Lunt Roberts.
Stock no. 1312262
Published by John Murray. 1st 1956. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A Michael and Mary Story. Mike and Mary and their friend Vicky are spending a holiday on the Grand Union Canal. Pale blue boards, red titles. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. A few tiny foxspots and a couple of small, light marks to textblock else contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is edge chipped with some loss, section of loss to top of spine and creases at wrapper edges.

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POLONIUS PENGUIN AND THE FLYING DOCTOR
Written by Anthony Abrahams. Illustrated by Hilary Abrahams.
Stock no. 1312261
Published by Dobson Books Ltd.. 1st 1966. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Polonius Penguin and his friend Petronella Puffin were bored... Large format. Pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Spine bumped, corners rubbed. Foxing to endpapers, prelims and last couple of pages, a few very faint fingermarks else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and torn with white sticky labels on verso as reinforcements. Verso of wrapper is lightly foxed.

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THE TALE OF SQUIRREL NUTKIN
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1312249
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. 1st 1903. Almost very good condition.

Small format. Dark blue boards. Pictorial onlay to front cover. 84 numbered pages. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Spine slightly darkened. Some purple paint(?) marks and a biro scribble to front cover. Child's pencil writing to front pastedown and address in ink to endpaper. Child's drawings and writing to four of the blank pages. Grubby fingermarks to contents. This is the third printing of the first edition.

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THE FIRE ANIMAL
Written by Gerda Rottschalk; Elvira Bonfield. Illustrated by Gerhard Preuss.
Stock no. 1312221
Published by Richard Sadler Ltd.. 1st UK 1973. Very good condition.

Set in China some 400,000 years go, vividly portraying primitive man's daily life and habits. White glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Translated from the German by Bonfield. ISBN: 0085410096. Spine and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. Contents clean.

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TEDDY TAIL'S BOOK OF CHILDREN'S SONGS
Written by T.J. Hewitt. Illustrated by Lunt Roberts.
Stock no. 1312188
Published by Ken Publications. Almost very good condition.

Large format, red card wraps. Popular nursery rhymes set to music. Illustrated throughout with two-colour illustrations surrounding music/text. Covers slightly grubby and edge rubbed. Page corner tips lightly creased throughout.

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BRITANNIA'S CALENDAR OF HEROES
Written by Kate Stanway.
Stock no. 1710582
Published by The Naval & Military Press Ltd.. Fine condition.

A facsimile reproduction. Card wraps. ISBN: 1845742389.

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THE MOTOR CAR 1765-1914
Written by Anthony Bird.
Stock no. 1710577
Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd.. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth, gilt title to spine with small vignette of steering column to front. B/w illustrations and photos. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Wrapper edge-torn and creased.

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