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YOU CAN'T CATCH ME
Written by Joan Kahn. Illustrated by Elizabeth Bridgman.
Stock no. 1108746
Published by Harper & Row. 1st 1976. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Dark pink pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0060230886. Wrapper is price-cut with fading to spine; some foxing and grubby marks; large closed tear with chipping to front panel.

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IT WAS REALLY CHARLIE'S CASTLE
Written by William Sansom. Illustrated by Eric Hobbs.
Stock no. 1108745
Published by The Hogarth Press. 1st 1953. Very good condition.

Colour pictorial boards. Colour frontis and b/w illustrations. Some scuffing to covers; bumping and wear to corners. Creasing to page corners.

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COCKLE BUTTON, COCKLE BEN
Written by Richard Phibbs. Illustrated by Gladys M. Rees.
Stock no. 1501772
Published by Robert Hale Limited. circa 1942. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Cream cloth covers with small illustrations. Six coloured plates, five black and white plates and other text illustrations. 95 pages. 10 x 7.5". Blue pictorial endpapers. A little bumping to spine and corners. A couple of grubby fingermarks to covers. Ink inscription to half title page. Small bookseller's sticker to rear pastedown. Pencil scribble to last colour illustration, mostly to silhouetted figures so not too noticeable. Dustwrapper is edge worn and torn with some loss to top and bottom of spine and rear panel. Flaps are grubby. Tape repair on verso.

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THE BUCKINGHAMS AT RAVENSWYKE
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Alice Bush.
Stock no. 1108716
Published by Evans Brothers Limited. 1st 1952. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A thrilling story set in and around Whitby and the moors of North Yorkshire. Blue boards, gilt titles and author signature vignette to front. Endpapers are maps. B/w illustrations. 216 pages. Some uneven browning to spine and cover edges. Page edge browning and a few marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is faded to spine; with edge-tears and chips - some pieces of loss along edges; tape repair to base of spine.

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DUNCTON TALES
Written by William Horwood.
Stock no. 1108709
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 1991. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

All is not well in Duncton Wood. Moledom is dangerously complacent about the spread of zealots from Caer Caradoc, continuing perhaps the finest imaginative journey of our time. Grey boards, gilt title to spine. B/w frontis. ISBN: 0002236761. Foxing and a few marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is faded to spine, with some sticker residue to rear panel.

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DUNCTON RISING
Written by William Horwood.
Stock no. 1108708
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 1992. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Volume 2 of The Book OF Silence. Blue boards, gilt to spine. ISBN: 0002239418. A few small marks to outer page edges; some page browning. Wrapper is faded to spine.

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DAUGHTER OF WYEDEAN AND KERNOW: NOTES FROM A WEST COUNTRY CHILDHOOD
Written by Jessie M. Stonham.
Stock no. 1808100
Published by Thornhill Press. 1st 1978. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Autobiography. The author's childhood in Ross on Wye, her move to Weston Under Penyard, her visits to the Forest of Dean. Her long periods in Cornwall. ISBN: 0904110648. Name in ink to front endpaper else contents fine. Green wrapper is grubby and worn at corners.

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CARDIFF YESTERDAY No. 5
Written by Stewart Williams.
Stock no. 1808095
Published by Stewart Williams. 1st 1982. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. ISBN: 0900807520. A few indents to board edges. Contents clean. Pictorial wrapper is faded to spine and lightly edge-worn.

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100 YEARS IN BLACK AND WHITE
Written by Horace Jefferies.
Stock no. 1808091
Published by Hughes Griffin Press. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Cross Keys (Monmouthshire) Rugby Football Club. B/w photos. Dustwrapper is a little scuffed and lightly edge-worn with a closed tear repaired to verso with tape.

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WILLIAM THE FOURTH
Written by Richmal Crompton. Illustrated by Thomas Henry.
Stock no. 1808079
Published by George Newnes Limited. 3rd 1924. Almost very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Red cloth with black titles to front and spine. 250 pages and 2 pages of adverts to rear. B/w illustrations. Third impression. Uneven fading to top edge of boards. A few hinges pulled. Scattered foxing throughout. Top edge of text block grubby. Pictorial wrapper is torn with loss and faded.

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MO'S ADVENTURE
Written by Robert Hartman. Illustrated by Robert Hartman.
Stock no. 1402061
Published by Arthur Barker Ltd.. 1st 1947. Slightly better than good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

The ninth Buffin book. Blue boards, gilt title and vignette to front cover. Colour illustrations. Mo is a duckling. Spine and corners bumped. Small tear and bump to top of front board which is faded to grey. A little fading to bottom of front board. A little surface paper damage to top of front endpaper. Some browning to endpapers and prelims. Stitching is loosening but contents are still firmly attached. Dustwrapper is edge worn and rubbed with a few small tears, which have been taped on verso. Front panel is creased. Verso of wrapper is foxed.

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THE ABBEY GIRLS AT HOME
Written by Elsie J. Oxenham.
Stock no. 1808066
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. Circa 1941. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Ninth Abbey Girls story. Orange cloth with silver titles to spine and front cover. Colour frontis. 276 pages. Minor uneven fading to covers. Silver titles nice and bright. Minor foxing to outer page edges. Price-cut pictorial wrapper is edge-worn with a few closed tears and small chips, lightly faded to spine and slightly grubby to rear panel. Overall a nice copy.

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