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THE PLAY'S THE THING!
Written by Enid Blyton; Alec Rowley. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1102900
Published by The Home Library Book Company; George Newnes Limited. 1st 1927. Very good condition.

12 musical plays for children aged 8 to 15. 24 full-page b/w drawings by Alfred Bestall and music by Alec Rowley. Very large format. Russet cloth, gilt title and decorations to spine. Pictorial endpapers. 240 pages. Corners are bumped. Inscription in ink to front endpaper.

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THREE LITTLE DUTCH GIRLS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1102877
Very good condition.

Pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. Title of first story is 'Little English Betty'. Split to base of spine for 2". Covers grubby. Some foxing. Colour illustrations are bright.

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BOSIGRAN AND THE NORTH COAST
Written by Ed. Hart. Illustrated by Cliff Fishwick.
Stock no. 1702191
Published by Climber's Club. 2nd 1978. Very good condition.

Cornwall-West Penwith. Card wraps. B/w diagrams. ISBN: 0901601446.

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THE KIDDIES' ANNUAL
Written by Fanny Hurrell; et al.
Stock no. 1102855
Published by The Epworth Press. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Front cover shows two children and a dog bursting out of a typed page. Cloth spine. First story is 'One of the Clan' by Fanny Hurrell. Wrapper is edge-torn with some loss.

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WINGED PRINCESS
Written by Anne Kennington. Illustrated by C. Conway Gordon.
Stock no. 1102851
Published by Nicholson & Watson. 1st 1945. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Brown pictorial boards. Brown and white text illustrations. 40 pages. SIGNED by author, with dedication. A few marks to covers. Wrapper has a few marks and is edge-chipped.

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DO LOOK OUT, NODDY!
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by R. Tyndall.
Stock no. 1102837
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.; The Richards Press Ltd.. Circa 1970. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Noddy book no. 15. Red pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Colour title to front cover, spine and title page. ISBN: 0361004168. Covers and corners are bumped and worn. Foxing to prelims. Wrapper is creased with half inch loss to top of spine.

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THE CHALLENGE A CORNISH STORY
Written by William Andrew.
Stock no. 1202069
Published by The Covenant Publishing Co. Limited. 1st 1946. Slightly better than very good condition.

Stiff card covers with pictorial wrapper.

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HOLIDAY RAMBLES IN CORNWALL AND PLACE NAMES OF LLANDYSILIO-GO-GO
Written by H. Tobit Evans.
Stock no. 1202067
Published by Carmarthan Journal. 1st 1901. Nearly fine condition.

Two books bound in one volume. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Holiday Rambles In Cornwall 48 pages with b/w photo frontis. Place-Names 23 pages with b/w photo frontis. Book: Inscription in ink to front endpaper.

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OUT OF IRAQ
Written by Lewis Alsamari.
Stock no. 1801760
Published by Bantam Press. 1st 2007. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The terrifying true story of one man's escape from the harshest regime of the modern era. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour plates. ISBN: 9780593058237. SIGNED by the author to title page. Base of spine lightly bumped, contents fine. Pictorial wrapper lightly rubbed at corners.

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THE BIG BOOK OF ANIMAL STORIES
Written by Margaret Stuart Lane. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris; Allan Carter; et al..
Stock no. 1302567
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928. Very good condition.

The Big Books series edited by Herbert Strang. Pictorial boards and spine (monkey to spine). 4 colour plates, b/w text illustrations. First story is "Sai the Panther". Spine and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. Rear cover is just a tiny bit grubby. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Foxing to page edges else contents clean.

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A PECULIAR GIFT
Written by Lance Salway.
Stock no. 1801717
Published by Kestrel Books. 1st 1976. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Nineteenth Century Writings on Books for Children. Selected and Introduced by Lance Salway. Beige/olive cloth boards, purple title to spine. B/w illustrations. 572 pages including index. ISBN: 0722651406. A nice, clean copy in a price-cut pictorial wrapper.

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THE WIDOW WOMAN
Written by Charles Lee. Illustrated by C.E. Brock.
Stock no. 1202028
Published by James Bowden. 1899. Very good condition.

Red cloth, gilt titles. A Cornish Tale. 2nd edition. Book: Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Spine faded.

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