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A FLOWER FAIRY ALPHABET
Written by Cicely Mary Barker. Illustrated by Cicely Mary Barker.
Stock no. 1328598
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Blue pictorial boards with colour illustrations throughout. Covers edge worn. Light marks to contents and some light creases to pages. Dustwrapper is lightly edge worn and creased, lightly browned to spine and edges.

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A FLOWER FAIRY ALPHABET
Written by Cicely Mary Barker. Illustrated by Cicely Mary Barker.
Stock no. 1328542
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1950. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Small format. Brown chequerboard design with colour onlay to front. 24 colour plates. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Slight foxing to lower cover edges. Very neat inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Some foxspots to textblock. Price-cut wrapper is slightly worn at spine and corners with minimal loss, small closed tear to top corner of front panel.

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TANKALPHABET: THIRTY TANKA
Written by James Kirkup.
Stock no. 1828563
Published by The Old School Press. 1st 2001. Slightly better than very good condition.

A series of thirty tanka baed around the letters of the alphabet. Limited to 190 numbered copies. Tall, slim format. Printed on cream hand-made paper. Loosely inserted concertina style contents of which there are 5 sections, contained in a red ribbon-tied folder. ISBN: 1899933093. Number 137 of 190 numbered copies. A lovely example.

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BIBLE ALPHABET
No author listed. Illustrated by Ambrose Dudley; et al..
Stock no. 1327762
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Cream pictorial cardwraps. Colour illustrations throughout depicting the alphabet and Bible characters/scenes. Covers are slightly edge worn and grubby. A couple of small patches of surface damage to rear cover. Page corner tips very slightly creased else contents clean. Tiny booksellers sticker to inside front cover.

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ALPHABET OF MAP READING (CONVENTIONAL SIGNS)
Written by David A. Croll.
Stock no. 1827261
Published by Gale & Polden, Ltd.. Very good condition.

Folded cardwraps creating 6 pages including title page. Black title to front. Colour pictograms are those in use in Great Britain. Annotation to top of front cover (neat). Covers a little grubby. Pictogram of Electric Transmission Line added to 'Notes' page in blue ink (neat). An interesting item.

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KATE GREENAWAY'S ALPHABET
Written by Kate Greenaway. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1326670
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Circa 1920. Very good condition.

A miniature book 2.75 x 2.5". Yellow pictorial boards. All edges olivine. Illustrated letter to each page. Later printing. Front cover very slightly grubby. Some light foxing else contents clean. A nice copy of a scarce little book.

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COUNTING, TELL THE TIME AND ALPHABET BOOK
Written by Roger Hargreaves. Illustrated by Roger Hargreaves.
Stock no. 2140560
Published by BHS. 1st thus 1984. Very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 3 titles in one. 'Count Worm'; 'Grand Father Clock' and 'Albert The Alphabetical Elephant'. ISBN: 0340267186. Light bumping to corners.

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A FOUR-TONGUED ALPHABET
Written by Ruth Brown. Illustrated by Ruth Brown.
Stock no. 2135469
Published by Andersen Press Ltd.. 1st 1991. Very good condition.

An alphabet in four languages: English, Spanish, French and German. Yellow glazed pictorial boards, vivid colour illustrations. ISBN: 0862643279. Spine is faded. A few light marks to covers. Contents are lovely and bright!

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ABC AND ALL THAT
Written by Gladys M. Rees. Illustrated by Gladys M. Rees.
Stock no. 1319692
Published by Robert Hale Limited. Circa 1948. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

In addition to a new rhyming alphabet, the nursery child's first introduction to numbers, coins, measure, time, the days, months and seasons and even some first prayers. Black pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations. 86 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped, cover edges slightly worn. Some light foxing. A light musty smell to contents. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed, slight loss of surface paper to top corner of rear panel.

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NOUVEL ALPHABET DES METIERS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1319309
Published by Bernardin-Bechet. Circa 1860. Good condition.

Blue cloth spine, yellow paper boards. 72 pages. Several alphabets in different fonts, short stories and fables in French text. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners worn, edge rubbed. Covers grubby. Pastedowns are browned. Foxing and some page browning to contents. Inscription in ink to rear pastedown.

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ABC IN LIVING MODELS
No author listed.
Stock no. 2130170
Published by Bookano Strand Publications Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Bookano Series. A book in which all the letters of the alphabet stand up in life-like form when the pages open. Blue cloth spine, pictorial boards. Scuffing and marks to covers. Bumping to corners and spine. A bit of fading to spine. Vertical tear to the 'A' on pop-up one. Margin marks.

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OISEAUX & REPTILES ALPHABET SYLLABAIRE
No author listed.
Stock no. 2128625
Published by Imagerie D'Epinal. Very good condition.

Paperwraps. Colour illustrations. A Syllabary - written symbols that represent the syllables or moras which make up words. In French. Serie A. Some corner creasing.

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