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THE BETTY BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 322589
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. Good condition.

Pictorial boards with cream cloth spine. 6 delightful colour plates. A lovely collection of very short stories written by Betty, Betsy & Bess. 11 x 9". Unpaginated. Covers are grubby and worn, crease to lower corner of front cover. Wear to spine and corners. Contents are grubby and fingered, especially lower margins and corner. Name in ink in belongs to box and ink message to bottom corner of rear pastedown. A few small margin tears. All plates present, a couple have light creases.

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FLOWERS OF DELIGHT
Written by Leonard De Vries.
Stock no. 323560
Published by Dennis Dobson. 1st 1965. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Culled by De Vries from the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. An agreeable Garland of Prose & Poetry for the Instruction and Amusement of little Masters and Misses and their distinguished Parents. Large format. Brown decorated boards with gilt title to spine. Embellished with some 750 elegant woodcuts and Engravings of which upwards of 125 are coloured. 232 pages. Spine slightly bumped. Pictorial wrapper is price-cut and very slightly grubby.

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NIGHTS WITH UNCLE REMUS
Written by Joel Chandler Harris. Illustrated by F. Church.
Stock no. 323760
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1st UK 1884. Almost very good condition.

Blue pictorial cloth, gilt title to spine. Floral decorated endpapers. B/w plates. 300 pages plus adverts to rear. Spine rebacked with blue cloth with original spine laid on. Hinges reinforced. Corners a little worn. Small closed tear to one page. Contents clean. A nice, professionally repaired copy of this timeless classic!

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THE BIG NODDY BOOK
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Beek.
Stock no. 324135
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.; The Richards Press Ltd.. 1979. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Green glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. First story is "The Little Clockwork Car". Third Noddy Book. ISBN: 0361045638. neat inscription to front endpaper and belogns to box. Small tear to front endpaper with slight loss to corner. Contents a bit grubby.

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GOOD WIND AND GOOD WATER
Written by Nancy Cabot Osborne; Alice Cushing Gardiner. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese.
Stock no. 324483
Published by The Viking Press. 1st 1934. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Red boards. B/w full page and text illustrations. 248 pages, maps for endpapers. Contents lightly foxed. Otherwise an excellent copy. Dustwrapper edge worn and slightly grubby. Slight loss to edge and spine.

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THE ONE I KNEW THE BEST OF ALL
Written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated by Reginald Birch.
Stock no. 324643
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. 1st 1893. Slightly better than good condition.

Blue pictorial boards with gilt. Numerous b/w text illustrations. 292 pages. Spine a little darkened. Boards edge worn with some grubby marks to rear board. Neat inscription to front endpaper. Front joint slightly cracked. Front prelims a bit sfoxed and pencil marked. Small 1" closed tear to title page. Rear free endpaper missing leaving last page of adverts browned and rear joint cracked. A nice copy overall.

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MRS NIBBLE FINDS A NEW HOME
Written by Lawson Wood. Illustrated by Lawson Wood.
Stock no. 325402
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Circa 1953. Almost very good condition.

The "Mrs" series. Small square format. Pictorial paperwraps. Colour and two-tone pictures. Mrs Nibble is a mouse! Clear tape to spine, covers slightly grubby. Contents clean.

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THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Illustrated by Helen Mason Grose.
Stock no. 325526
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. Circa 1947. Very good condition.

Red cloth covers with blue decoration and title to spine and pictorial onlay to front. Colour frontis and plates and many b/w text illustrations. 378 pages. 8.5 x 5.5". Spine a little faded.Neat writing to front endpaper. Contents bright.

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PRINCE RABBIT AND THE PRINCESS WHO COULD NOT LAUGH
Written by A.A. Milne. Illustrated by Mary Shepard.
Stock no. 325571
Published by Edmund Ward. 1st thus 1966. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

First story is about a clever rabbit who wished to become heir to the throne... Second story is about a lovely princess who never laughed. Pictorial boards. 10 x 8". Colour and b/w illustrations. Boards a little edge worn. Neat inscription to front endpaper. Browning to endpapers. Contents clean. Dustwrapper price-cut and edge worn with one closed tear to rear.

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LOTS OF FUN
Written by J.H. MacNair; et al.
Stock no. 325728
Published by Lewis's Ltd.. Good condition.

Pictorial boards with blue cloth spine. First story 'There is no place like home'. Some colour paltes and many b/w text illustrations. Boards edge rubbed and a bit grubby. Spine bumped. Inscription to front endpaper. Contents browned. A lovely reading copy.

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THE WORLD'S BEST STORIES FOR CHILDREN
Written by Winifred Biggs. Illustrated by Honor C. Appleton.
Stock no. 325758
Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack Ltd.; T. Nelson & Sons. Very good condition.

Green pictorial boards with gilt titles. Colour frontis, b/w text illustrations throughout. 624 pages. Boards and spine worn and rubbed. Contents clean.

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BUTTERFLIES AND BIRDS
No author listed.
Stock no. 325792
Published by Dean. Very good condition.

...That sit on your fingers and flap their wings. Cut-out story book. Large cardwrap format. Large colour cutouts and instructions to contents. Complete and clean.

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