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BABY'S OWN ANNUAL 1936
No author listed.
Stock no. 1108859
Published by The Amalgamated Press. 1936. Good condition.

Large format. Stiff cardwraps. Nursery rhymes, ABC, reading primer. Covers grubby and worn at edges. Inscription in ink to top of verso of front cover. A few pencil scribbles. Contents have a generally grubby appearance.

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ADVENTURES BY LEAF LIGHT
Written by Moyra Caldecott. Illustrated by Lyn Teeple; Bill Teeple.
Stock no. 1108858
Published by Green Tiger Press. 1st 1978. Very good condition.

A Star & Elephant Book. Pictorial card wraps. Delightful colour tipped in plates throughout. Large format. 46 pages. Covers scuffed, edge-worn and a little grubby. Contents clean. Small creases to corners of a couple of plates.

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FOR TODAY
Written by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell.
Stock no. 1402099
Published by Valentine & Sons, Limited. Very good condition.

A Golden Thoughts booklet. Small format. Pictorial paperwraps. Ever so cute chubby children and rhymes. Covers a little grubby. Small split to top of spine. Inscription in ink to verso of front cover. Pale page browning to some page edges and margins otherwise contents are bright.

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THE PEDALLING MAN AND OTHER POEMS
Written by Russell Hoban. Illustrated by Lillian Hoban.
Stock no. 1108841
Published by World's Work Ltd.. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Poems about animals, people, both big and small, and about those things and those moments in life that are worth holding on to. Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w text illustrations. 33 pages. ISBN: 043746704X. SIGNED with dedication by the author to free front endpaper (For The Creators of Tindlebaum, Unlimited, from a Very Grateful Russ). Contents clean. Pictorial wrapper is grubby and unevenly faded.

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MR POPPLECORN & FOUR LITTLE HENS
Written by Margaret Musson. Illustrated by Kathleen Burrell.
Stock no. 1108840
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1946. Very good condition.

How Mr Popplecorn pretended he was a boy again by keeping hens and collecting their eggs. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. Full-page colour and two-tone text illustrations. Edges rubbed, corners worn. Contents clean.

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SMILES AND DIMPLES: HAPPY HOURS FOR LITTLE PETS
Written by J.D..
Stock no. 1108838
Published by S.W. Partridge & Co.. 2nd 1892. Very good condition.

Second Edition. Pictorial glazed boards show a young girl in a high chair with title banner and cat looking up at two butterflies. First story is 'A Lesson in Kindness'. 4 Colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 70 pages. Cracking to laminate at spine edge with some loss of surface paper. Corners worn. Boards bowed. Contemporary inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. A few marks to contents but generally a lovely copy.

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PEDRO AND ANGELIQUE
Written by Gaye Knowles. Illustrated by Gaye Knowles.
Stock no. 1108833
Published by Brockhampton Press. 1st 1950. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Small format. Pedro was a market boy who grew vegetables for a living. Angelique was his little donkey, and they were very happy together until one day... Blue paper boards. Colour illustrations. 48 pages. Boards clean and bright. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Minor foxing to endpapers and a few margin marks else contents clean. Price-cut pictorial wrapper is lightlly worn at edges with small chips, heavily foxed.

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LADY PORKS
Written by Anthea Bennett. Illustrated by Anthea Bennett.
Stock no. 1108831
Published by Edmund Ward Ltd.. 1st 1953. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A story and pictures by Anthea Bennett (Aged 10). Blue boards, gilt titles and vignette. B/w illustrations to each page with easy to read text below each illustration. 128 pages. 7.5 x 5". Minor foxing and grubby margin marks present. Pink wrapper is edge-worn and grubby, faded at spine and chipped to top & tail with slight loss.

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NOSEY AND THE SLIPPER
Written by Robert Hartman. Illustrated by Robert Hartman.
Stock no. 1108824
Published by Morrison & Gibb Ltd.. Very good condition.

The fourth Buffin Book. Blue pictorial covers. Colour pictures. Small format. The tale of Mr. and Mrs. Proboscis Mouse and their son Nosey. Edges rubbed, corners lightly worn. Contents lightly fingered but clean.

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THE ADVENTURES OF LARRY THE LAMB - PISTOLS FOR TWO
Written by S.G. Hulme Beaman. Illustrated by Ernest Noble.
Stock no. 1402094
Published by George Lapworth & Co Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Toy Town Series No. 3. Pictorial paper wraps. B/w illustrations throughout. 18 pages. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Small tears to top and bottom of spine. Corners a little creased. Horizontal crease across middle of book. Covers are grubby. A little foxing and some grubby marks to contents,

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HUBERT LE PETIT COCHON
Written by S.G. Hulme Beaman. Illustrated by S.G. Hulme Beaman.
Stock no. 1402087
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Very good condition.

Out of the Ark series. Small format. White pictorial cardwraps. B/w and colour illustrations. Translated by Suzanne Christoflour. French version of "Grunty the Pig". Edge of covers a little worn. Covers a little grubby. Contents clean.

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THE SECOND TERM AT ROCKLANDS
Written by Elsie J. Oxenham.
Stock no. 1501786
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. circa 1939. Almost very good condition.

Orange cloth, black titles, borders and vignette of girls playing hockey. 128 pages. Colour frontis. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Spine is browned. A few marks to covers. Damage to rear joint but is being held in place by endpapers. Erased pencil writing to front pastedown. Presentation inscription to half title page. Some page browning and foxing especially to prelims and page edges.

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