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"WHAT A WAR!" (2ND SERIES)
Written by Gilbert Wilkinson. Illustrated by Gilbert Wilkinson.
Stock no. 1827263
Published by Odhams Press Limited. Very good condition.

Small format. Oblong paperwraps. Green pictorial covers. Staple binding. 2 b/w cartoons with accompanying text per page. 128 numbered pages. Covers lightly browned. Text block browned. Contents clean.

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"WHAT A WAR!"
Written by Gilbert Wilkinson. Illustrated by Gilbert Wilkinson.
Stock no. 1827258
Published by Odhams Press Limited. Almost very good condition.

Small format. Oblong paperwraps. Red pictorial covers. Staple binding. 2 b/w cartoons with accompanying text per page. 128 numbered pages. Covers bronwed, a couple of minor edge tears. Top of spine worn with 1" tear, base of spine chipped. Staples rusty and therefore cover is just holding on to the contents but contents are tightly bound. Contents lightly browned else clean.

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KING ROLLO AND SANTA'S BEARD
Written by David McKee. Illustrated by David McKee.
Stock no. 1826900
Published by Andersen Press Ltd.. 1st 1990. Slightly better than very good condition.

Anotther irresistible story in this popular series which was shown regularly on BBC television and in over 30 countries around the world. Square format. Blue glazed pictorial boards. Full of colourful illustrations. ISBN: 0862642868. Top & tail of spine and corners lightly rubbed. Boards lightly scored but nice and bright. Contents clean.

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GILES ANNUAL 1947 (FACSIMILE)
Written by Giles. Illustrated by Giles.
Stock no. 1323659
Published by Pedigree Books Limited. 1995. Slightly better than very good condition.

Oblong format. Pictorial card wraps. B/w illustrations. Facsimile of the 1947 Giles No. 2. Collectors Limited Edition. ISBN: 1874507554. Book is fine. Slipcase is edge worn/rubbed and slightly creased.

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TOM AND THE PRETTY PERSIAN
No author listed.
Stock no. 2139964
Published by Purnell. Circa 1974. Almost very good condition.

A Shape Book. Card wraps. Colour illustrations. Tom and Jerry characters. ISBN: 0361027427. Some wear to covers; small stain to one edge. Remains of old label to bottom of front cover. A bit of creasing.

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WILLIAM HEATH ROBINSON
Written by W. Heath Robinson; James Hamilton. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 2138618
Published by Pavilion Books Ltd.. 1st 1992. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Green boards with title inscribed in gilt on spine. Illustrated end pages. B/w frontis piece. Valuable reference for collectors. ISBN: 1851457194. A few knocks along cover edges. Browning to outer page edges.

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THE WALT DISNEY THUMPER ANNUAL
Written by Walt Disney; R.H. Taylor. Illustrated by Walt Disney.
Stock no. 2136163
Published by Odhams Press Limited. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. Pictorial endpapers. Colour cartoons and illustrations throughout. Edited by Taylor. First story is Thin Ice. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few small nicks.

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TOM AND JERRY TOY BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 2129169
Published by World Distributors (manchester) Ltd. Circa 1954. Very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour cartoon strips. Couple of small knocks to cover edges. Pale page browning, but contents are still nice and bright.

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FELIX ET FURIOSO
No author listed. Illustrated by Pat Sullivan.
Stock no. 2126823
Published by Hachette. Circa 1939. Almost very good condition.

Cloth spine. Card wraps. Cartoon style strips, two colour illustrations. Text in French. Appears that part of backstrip/spine is missing - stitching can now be seen. Creasing and some wear to covers. Grubby marks. Foxing and browning to pages throughout.

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WHAT ELSE DO YOU DO?
Written by Mel Calman. Illustrated by Mel Calman.
Stock no. 1506718
Published by Methuen London Ltd. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Some sketches from a cartoonist's life. Grey boards with gilt titles to spine. B/w illustrations. 105 numbered pages. ISBN: 0413588408. Signed by author, with inscription, on front endpaper. A little fading to base of spine and edges of covers alongside. Faint erased pencil writing to front endpaper otherwise contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with a few small marks, very light browning to spine area.

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WINSOR MCCAY HIS LIFE AND ART
Written by John Canemaker; Maurice Sendak. Illustrated by Winsor McCay.
Stock no. 2122440
Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.. 1st thus 2005. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Colour & b/w illustrations. Revised and Expanded edition. Foreword by Sendak. This the only biography of one of America's greatest and most influential cartoonists, Winsor McCay (1867-1934), the universally acknowledged first master of both the comic strip and the animated cartoon. Although invented by others, both genres were developed into enduring popular art of highest imagination through McCay's innovative genius. He attributed his considerable success to "an absolute craving to draw pictures all the time." ISBN: 0810959410. Wrapper is a little edge-creased with small nick to edge of rear panel.

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THE WORLD OF TOM AND JERRY
No author listed.
Stock no. 1712378
Published by P.B.S.. 1977. Very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 33 pages. Corners bumped.

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