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THE WATER-BABIES
Written by Charles Kingsley. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1308562
Published by Constable & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1915. Almost very good condition.

A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Rebound with white cloth spine and gilt title, red cloth covers. Grey endpapers. 8 colour plates, numerous b/w illustrations. 319 pages. Spine bumped and slightly grubby, some slight fading to top edge of rear cover. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Front joint (between fly-leaf and frontis) cracked. Foxing and some fingering throughout. Erased crayon name to verso of frontis.

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MIXED GAUGES
Written by J.B. Snell.
Stock no. 2108600
Published by Camden Miniature Steam Services. 1st 2007. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Travels in the years of steam. Large oblong format. Colour photos. ISBN: 9780954713164. A few small marks to covers. Corner creasing to front endpaper. Wrapper is edge-creased with a couple of nicks to corners and closed tear to rear panel.

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MAVERICK AIRMAN
Written by Michael J. Partridge.
Stock no. 2108593
Published by Eastbourne College. 1st 2010. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The extraordinary life of Frederick Frank Reilly Minchin. B/w photos. ISBN: 9780955494017. SIGNED by author to front endpaper. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few small marks. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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A FAIRY GARLAND
Written by Charles Perrault; Madame D'Aulnoy; et al. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.
Stock no. 2108586
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. 1st 1928. Very good condition.

Being nine Fairy Tales from the Old French. Blue cloth covers, gilt title to spine. 12 superb colour plates throughout. 251 pages. 9.5 x 7". Light bumping and wear to spine and corners. A few marks to covers. Foxing to outer page edges, prelims and some page margins.

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OUR SENTIMENTAL GARDEN
Written by Agnes Castle; Egerton Castle. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 2108585
Published by William Heinemann. 2nd 1915. Very good condition.

Green cloth covers, gilt vignette and titles to front and spine. Endpapers are illustrated. 8 beautiful guarded colour plates and many b/w text illustrations throughout. 304 pages. Darkening to spine. Corners and spine are a little bumped, with wear. A few marks to covers. Foxing to pages. All plates present.

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THE EGYPTIAN THEATRE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1799-1882)
Written by P.C. Sadgrove.
Stock no. 1706800
Published by Ithaca. 1st 1996. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

ISBN: 0863722024. Wrapper spine faded.

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HOLIDAY BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 1806559
Published by Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

What the children did on their holidays. Pictorial paperwraps. Colour illustrations throughout. Some of the pictures are offset with colours from printing process. Otherwise a nice, clean copy.

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ANIMAL ANTICS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1806558
Published by The Children's Press. Slightly better than very good condition.

Yellow pictorial card wraps. Large colour illustrations to each page with text below. 6 pages. Light browning otherwise a nice copy.

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HOLIDAY BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 1806554
Published by Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

What the children did on their holidays. Pictorial paperwraps. Colour illustrations throughout. Rear cover slightly grubby. Last picture offset by printing process.

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ANIMAL ANTICS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1806553
Published by The Children's Press. Very good condition.

Yellow pictorial card wraps. Large colour illustrations to each page with text below. 6 pages. Browning to margins else a fine copy.

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THE LIFE OF MANSIE WAUCH
Written by Mansie Wauch; D.M. Moir. Illustrated by Charles Martin Hardie.
Stock no. 1603733
Published by T.N. Foulis. 1911. Very good condition.

Stiff card wraps covered with green suade. Gilt title to spine. 16 tipped-in colour plates. The story of a tailor in Dalkeith. 355 pages plus adverts. Spine browned, suade is a little scuffed and overlaps the card boards at edges. Approximately 1cm loss of suade at top of spine with a couple of edge tears. inscription to half-title page. Contents very good indeed, all plates persent.

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BORDER PINKS
Written by Richard Bird.
Stock no. 2108502
Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd.. 1ST 1994. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Colour photos. ISBN: 0713470607. A couple of marks to covers and edges. wrapper is a little edge-creased.

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