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THE STORY OF SNIPS
Written by Angusine MacGregor. Illustrated by Angusine Macgregor.
Stock no. 1309804
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Fair condition.

Red cloth spine. Grey pictorial boards. Oblong format. Lovely colour illustrations. Pages uncut and printed on one side only. Cover edges are worn. Spine is grubby. Front joint is completely broken, front free-endpaper torn and creased. Rear joint is cracked but not broken and free-endpaper chipped/torn. Staples rusty. Booksellers sticker to rear pastedown. Contents are grubby and foxed but generally good.

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HAPPY PLAYHOURS
Written by L. Haskell; Helen J. Wood; et al. Illustrated by W. Rainey; et al..
Stock no. 1309802
Published by Ernest Nister. circa 1902. Very good condition.

Green cloth spine. Pictorial front cover showing two children on a sledge. Blue floral patterned endpapers. Chromolithograph frontis, two-tone and b/w illustrations throughout. Spine bumped and slightly rubbed. Corners worn. Some light scuffing/marks to rear cover and a small piece of surface paper damage to top edge of rear cover. A few tiny dents to cover edges. Prize plate to front pastedown. Contents browned and fingered, some hinges cracked.

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A SONG OF THE ENGLISH
Written by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1309776
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1909. Very good condition.

Deluxe, limited to 500 copies. Large format (32 x 26cm). White vellum binding with gilt titles and vignettes. 30 lovely tipped-in colour plates mounted on cream card with green decorative borders and captioned paper guards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. SIGNED by the artist, this is copy no. 304. Spine and corners are slightly bumped and slightly grubby. Ties missing. Name plate to front pastedown. There is slight bookworm or silverfish damage to the front endpaper and some slight foxing to contents but generally a very nice copy.

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THE SCHOOL IN THE WOODS
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Illustrated by G.M. Anson.
Stock no. 1309768
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1st 1940. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Gold cloth, red title and vignette to spine and red vignette to front cover. Colour frontis plate plus 6 b/w illustrations. 256 pages. Spine bumped and slightly darkened. Light foxing else contents clean. Later dustwrapper (lists a Dimsie book published in 1942 and is a few mm too short for the book!) is price-cut with a few small tears at edges, minimal loss to base of spine. Wrapper is also just a little grubby.

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THAT BOARDING-SCHOOL GIRL
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Illustrated by R.H. Brock.
Stock no. 1309762
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1926. Fair condition.

Pretty pictorial boards with wraparound picture by Sybil Tawse. Colour frontis and b/w illustrations. 160 pages. 8.25 x 6.25". Spine worn with old tape marks to spine and also to edges of covers. Corners worn. Covers scuffed, small patch of surface paper damage to rear cover. Prize plate to front endpaper. Small splash marks to margins of pages 90 & 91, contents are well fingered with light foxing. A decent copy of a very early reprint.

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MISSEE LEE
Written by Arthur Ransome. Illustrated by Arthur Ransome.
Stock no. 1401472
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1941. Very good condition.

Green cloth, gilt title to spine and embossed title to front cover. Pictorial endpapers of Miss Lee's Islands. B/w illustrations. 335 pages. Spine and corners bumped and a little rubbed. Name in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers browned. Small closed tears to bottom of a couple of pages. Light foxing.

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INDIAN SUMMER
Written by BB. Illustrated by BB.
Stock no. 1501276
Published by Michael Joseph. 1st 1984. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

BB, in his personal Indian Summer, records his own vivid impressions of summer's end. Green boards, gilt title to spine. Exquisite scraperboard illustrations. 183 pages. ISBN: 0718123670. Very little bumping to spine and corners. Hinge starting to crack between pages 182 and 183. One or two fox spots. Dustwrapper has a little edge creasing and a small mark to rear flap crease.

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HANUKKAH!
Written by Sara Freedland. Illustrated by Sue Clarke.
Stock no. 1401456
Published by Robson Books. 1991. Slightly better than very good condition.

The story of Hanukkah is illustrated with coloured three dimensional collages. Glazed pictorial boards. ISBN: 0860517446. A little bumping to spine and corners. Spine is faded. Contents are fine except for box used to make dreidl which is a little creased.

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RENAISSANCE AND SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
Written by Joseph Anthony Mazzeo.
Stock no. 2110179
Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1st 1964. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Two groups of essays. The first are concerned with problems of metaphor and style and treat two important eras in literary history. The second group are concerned with Machiavelli and Maciavellism. 211 pages includes index. A few marks to covers. Wrapper a little grubby to rear.

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A BOOK OF OLD BALLADS
Written by Beverley Nichols. Illustrated by H.M. Brock.
Stock no. 1309709
Published by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. 1st 1934. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Brown cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front. Brown and white pictorial endpapers. 16 superb colour plates. Poems that are 'the very essence of the British spirit' selected and introduced by Nichols. Spine and corners bumped. Small mark to front cover. Inscription in ink to front fly-leaf. Heavy foxing to prelims and to page edges.

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MR. BUNNILUMP'S ADVENTURES
Written by Nicolas Bebbington. Illustrated by Rosalind M. Turvey.
Stock no. 1309708
Published by Marcus Harris & Lewis Ltd.. Good condition.

Mr. Bunnilump is an elephant. Large format. Blue cloth, black titles. Colour and b/w illustrations. 70 pages. Covers are marked. Spine and corners slightly bumped and worn. Some colouring to contents and erased doodles to rear endpapers. Erased pencil writing to top edge of title-page.

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MORE FAIRY TALES
Written by Marjory Bruce. Illustrated by Nora Fry; Honor C. Appleton.
Stock no. 1309707
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1934. Good condition.

Pictorial front board. Red cloth spine. Four colour plates by Appleton. B/w illustrations by Fry. 120 pages. Large format (10 x 7.5"). Covers are edge worn. Split to rear edge of spine has been repaired with glue. Spine edge of front cover is torn and creased but has been repaired. Heavy pencil writing partially erased to front pastedown. Light foxing and fingering but contents generally clean.

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