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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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ABC BRAINS TRUST
Written by Bruno Frost. Illustrated by Bruno Frost.
Stock no. 1108628
Published by The Conrad Press Ltd.. Circa 1949. Very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine. A Picture Puzzle in English and French. A little bumping to corners. Some wear to spine. Pale page browning and light foxing.

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AN ALPHABET OF ANIMALS
No author listed. Illustrated by Carton Moorepark.
Stock no. 1307920
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1899. Almost very good condition.

Magnificent b/w plate for each animal along with a paragraph of text on each. Large format. Green boards and spine, front shows a pair of shire(?) horses. Spine rebacked with green cloth keeping most of the original title-strip. Corners worn and some slight scuffing to covers. Endpapers professionally replaced. Some light fingering else contents clean.

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ABC DRAWN AND COLOURED
No author listed. Illustrated by T. Pym.
Stock no. 1306139
Almost very good condition.

Small format (6.5 x 5.75"). Red cloth spine, red pictorial boards. Two letters of the alphabet illustrated in colour with a small rhyme opposite featuring words beginning with that letter. A scarce ABC book. Spine slightly bumped, corners worn and edges rubbed. Some slight scuffing to covers. Staples are rusty with small marks to endpapers. The tissue-guards are lightly browned with a couple of them being slightly edge chipped. One page detached.

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A NURSERY COMPANION
Written by Iona Opie; Peter Opie.
Stock no. 1301028
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1980. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This volume, the celebration of an epoch, brings together the contents of more than a score of early 19th century children's booklets including classics such as 'Dame Wiggins Of Lee', 'House That Jack Built' etc. Hundrens of illustrations throughout - many in colour. Grey boards, red title to spine. Red endpapers. 12 x 8". 128 pages. ISBN: 0192122134. Corners bumped. A few tiny dents to cover edges. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine and has a little wear to spine and corners.

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TINY TOT'S FIRST BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by E.e. Houghton; et al..
Stock no. 1301041
Published by Nister & Co.. circa 1929. Very good condition.

No. 3812. Blue cloth spine. Pictorial front board showing mother on a bench with little boy and girl reading Tiny Tot's First Book. Contains ABC, Alphabet in writing letters, counting, telling the time, rhymes, short stories etc. B/w text illustrations and a few full-page colour illustrations. Slight wear to top and tail of spine, corners slightly bumped. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Page edge browning else contents clean. Small tear to lower edge of rear free-endpaper.

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THE Z WAS ZAPPED
Written by Chris Van Allsburg. Illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg.
Stock no. 822858
Published by Houghton Mifflin and Company. 1st USA 1987. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

American Edition. The Alphabet Theatre Proudly Presents a Play in Twenty-Siz Acts. Large format. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0395446120. Light rubbing to wrapper corners.

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ALPHAMAGNETS
Written by Eugenie Shields; Robert Lostutter. Illustrated by Barbara Feldman.
Stock no. 447652
Published by Somerville House Publishing. Circa 1997. Very good condition.

A Terrific Trip to a Zany Zoo. Canadian Edition. 36 magnetic letters and a metal play board built into the book! ISBN: 1895897963. Some wear to cover edges. Contents are detached from book.

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THE TINIES' ABC
No author listed.
Stock no. 814694
Published by R.A. Publishing Co. Ltd.. Nearly fine condition.

Cloth lined ABC. No. 234 in series. Small format approx 5.25" x 5". Front cover shows teddy holding three balloons, A, B, and C with two yellow ducklings below. A lovely copy!

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THE A-B-SEA BOOK TO TEACH YOU HOW TO SPELL
No author listed.
Stock no. 381343
Published by E.M.N. Ltd.. Very good condition.

"Also suitable for colouring paints". Small format (5.25 x 3.5"). Yellow pictorial paperwraps. Full page colour illustrations plus full-page b/w illustrations to paint. An A-Z of sea life. Some very light creases to covers and pages. Colouring pages NOT used. A nice copy of an unusual ABC.

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LITTLE FOLKS ABC
No author listed.
Stock no. 380016
Published by Margo. Good condition.

A fold-out alphabet book. Colour pictorial boards. 2 letters with little rhymes to each page, colour illustrations. Spine and corners worn. Vertical crack to rear board. Covers grubby. Light crayon marks to a few of the letters and some pages have light vertical creases. Contents generally clean.

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I SPY THE LIFT-THE-FLAP ABC BOOK
Written by Colin Hawkins; Jacqui Hawkins. Illustrated by Colin Hawkins; Jacqui Hawkins.
Stock no. 991287
Published by Walker Books. 1st 1989. Very good condition.

Large oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0744505410. Inscription erased from half-title page leaving erasure mark. Boards slightly browned.

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