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THE OOJAH ANNUAL 1937
Written by Flo Lancaster. Illustrated by H.M. Talintyre.
Stock no. 2131183
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. 1937. Good condition.

Pictorial paper boards depicting Oojah and his band. Illustrated endpapers. Colour plates. B/w illustrations to text. 124 pages. 9.5 x 7.5". Splitting to sides of spine, with chipping; some loss to top and tail. Wear and scuffing along cover edges. Front endpaper appears to have been very neatly removed! Foxing. Ink to illustration on page 75.

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THE TALE OF THREE BAD PUPS
Written by Gladys Davidson.
Stock no. 2130451
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1957. Almost very good condition.

Blue boards with pale blue title to spine and small vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. Large easy-to-read text. Marks and wear to covers. Prize plate to front pastedown. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.

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CHURCH MICE AND MRS CLUCKABIDDY'S FRIENDS
Written by C.B. Nelson. Illustrated by C.B. Nelson.
Stock no. 2130431
Published by Figurehead. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Brown slip case with pictorial onlay containing two volumes. Books have cream p/w with pictorial onlays, and b/w illustrations throughout. 9 x 6". Staples to both bindings have rusted, so that covers have come away from contents. Original glassine wrappers are still present, with brown marks from rusting staples; chipping to edges. Slip case is good; grubby with couple of splits at edges.

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MY BOOK OF ANIMALS
No author listed.
Stock no. 2129672
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1907. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine. A Picture-Book For Little Folk. First animal is 'The Wolf', last animal looked at is 'The Whale'. Some scuffing to covers. Wear to spine; small nicks to top and tail of spine. Bookplate to front pastedown. Joints are partially cracked. Some foxing throughout.

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WHERE'S MY BABY?
Written by H.A. Rey. Illustrated by H.A. Rey.
Stock no. 2125250
Published by Chatto & Windus; Jarrold & Sons. Circa 1950. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial boards, spiral bound. Large open-out colour illustrations with small paragraph of text opposite. A lovely learning book for children. Scuffing and wear to corners and edges of covers. A few marks also to covers. Light foxing to some pages. Illustrations are still lovely and bright.

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ZOO
Written by Anthony Browne. Illustrated by Anthony Browne.
Stock no. 1815453
Published by Julia MacRae Books. 1st 1992. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A family spend a day at the zoo looking at the animals... or are the animals looking at them? Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour pictures throughout. A verbal and visual experience! ISBN: 1856812324. Matching pictorial dustwrapper is a little scuffed.

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FIRESIDE AND FARMYARD
No author listed.
Stock no. 1316966
Published by Dean's Rag Books. Good condition.

A rag book with 12 cloth pages (including covers). No. 252. Each page has a colour illustration with short description below (Billie Goat, Pretty Puppies etc). Grubby and creased pages.

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OUR LITTLE ONES' ANIMAL PICTURE BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 1316429
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. circa 1920. Good condition.

Large format. Green pictorial cardwraps. 4 large colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. Animals featured include Horses, Donkeys and Zoo animals. Covers have been leant on for writing. Splits to spine causing pages to be split at inner margin. Contents lightly browned with some grubby fingermarks but generally clean.

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AN ARTIST'S MODELS
Written by Cecil Aldin. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1316213
Published by H. F. & G. Witherby. 1st 1930. Very good condition.

SIGNED/LTD edition of which 300 copies are for sale. Not a collection of lovely ladies but a collection of even lovelier dogs! 20 superb full-page sketches depicting models the artists has known in various doggy poses. White boards, gilt titles. Plates have captioned tissue-guards. 80 pages, top edge gilt others untrimmed. SIGNED by Aldin to limitation page. This is copy no. 46. Spine and corners bumped. Some foxing and slight grubbiness to covers. Evidence of removal of a name plate to front pastedown. Some pale foxing else contents clean.

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BABAR AND THE OLD LADY
Written by Jean De Brunhoff. Illustrated by Jean De Brunhoff.
Stock no. 1315679
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1969. Almost very good condition.

Little Babar Books. Pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 7.5 x 6". ISBN: 0416034306. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Names scored into front cover (Oliver and Hannah) and a small biro mark to umbrella of the old lady. Contents clean.

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THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
Written by Dr. Zwanziger.
Stock no. 1404720
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1914. Almost very good condition.

Illustrated in 27 coloured plates containing several hundreds of species. Large format. Pictorial front board. Red cloth spine. Translated form the original German text by Gerard K. Gude. Spine bumped and worn with a small hole in the cloth at the top and a few small marks. Corners bumped and worn. Board edges are scuffed. Front joint cracked showing webbing beneath in places. Light damp stain to bottom of prelims and visible on several other pages. Some foxing and page browning otherwise contents generally clean.

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BIG ANIMAL RAG BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by A.E. Kennedy.
Stock no. 1315000
Published by Dean's Rag Book Co. Ltd.. circa 1939. Very good condition.

Rag Book 344. Very large, oblong format (11.5 x 14.5"). 14 cloth pages with colour illustrations of animals. The book has been folded in half for a period of time causing it not to sit flat. Corner tips lightly creased. Contents clean. A nice copy of a very scarce rag book. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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