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MOTHER GOOSE
Written by Peter Patch. Illustrated by Peter Patch; Jean Walmsley Heap.
Stock no. 2140213
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. Very good condition.

A Panto-Peep book. Top edge of covers and contents shaped. Lift the flaps and peep through the windows. Brightly illustrated throughout. Oblong format, pictorial paperwraps. Peter Patch is Jean Walmsley Heap. Light wear to edges. Contents are lovely and bright with lift-the-flaps and see-through windows in very good working order.

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WHEN IT RAINED CATS AND DOGS
Written by Nancy Byrd Turner. Illustrated by Tibor Gergely.
Stock no. 2140208
Published by J.B. Lippincott Company. 1st USA 1946. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Colour pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; some small splits. Browning to endpapers. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with tears and chips; some small pieces of loss.

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ALGERNON AND THE PIGEONS
Written by Valdine Plasmati. Illustrated by Kazue Mizumura.
Stock no. 2140205
Published by World's Work Ltd.. 1st 1964. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Pictorial boards. Two-tone illustrations throughout. Some light wear to cover edges. Page edge browning. Name in ink to front endpaper. Wrapper is price-cut with some edge-creasing and browning.

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FAVOURITE FAIRY TALES
No author listed. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant.
Stock no. 2140187
Published by Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

The sunshine series. Pictorial boards with cloth spine. 16 Colour plates. Contains 10 classic fairy tales. 128 pages. 10 x 7.25". Bumping and wear to spine and corners; some scuffing and browning. Partially erased inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and some page margins.

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THE THREE MULLA-MULGARS
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop.
Stock no. 2140155
Published by Duckworth & Co.. 1st thus 1921. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth, gilt titles. 12 b/w and colour plates, including frontis. 275 pages. B/w illustrations. SIGNED by author, with inscription in ink to front endpaper. Also includes a letter from Walter de la Mare to a previous owner (letter dated 1931). Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Some browning to spine. Front joint next to free front endpaper is cracked. Page edge browning. Foxing/browning to some pages internally.

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BROOMSTICKS AND OTHER TALES
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Bold.
Stock no. 2140154
Published by Constable and Company Ltd.. 1st 1925. Very good condition.

Cream/beige cloth spine with title label and gilt titles. Grey boards. Limited edition to 278 Numbered and Signed copies. B/w woodcuts. SIGNED by author to verso of half-title page. This is Copy No. 51.Spine is browned and worn. Title block is a bit faded and worn. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.

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THE LORD FISH
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Rex Whistler.
Stock no. 2140153
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1933. Almost very good condition.

Contains: The Lord Fish, A Penny A Day, The Jacket, Dick and the Beanstalk, Hodmadod, The old Lion, Sambo and the Snow Mountains. Purple cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. 4 full-page b/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; some scuffing. Brown marks to covers. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing and browning to outer pages edges.

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ZLATEH THE GOAT AND OTHER STORIES
Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 2140115
Published by Longman Young Books. 1st UK 1970. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

"The seven tales in this book had their beginnings in middle-European Jewish folklore and legend...". Brown cloth with gilt title to spine and decoration to front cover. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0582155231. Light bumping and wear to spine and corners. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing and browning to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is creased with edge-tears and chips; foxing and marks; a little loss.

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SARAH'S ROOM
Written by Doris Orgel. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 2140113
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A pocket-sized picture book with delicate drawings by Sendak and rhyming text. Yellow pictorial boards. ISBN: 0370011384. Bookplate to front pastedown. Wrapper is faded and worn to spine; large stain to front panel and front flap; some white tape repairs to verso.

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WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH A SHOE?
Written by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 2140108
Published by Margaret K. Mcelderry Books. 1st USA 1997. Very good condition.

Questions and wonderfully silly, laugh provoking answers in a game played by a little girl and boy. White pictorial boards with cloth spine. Oblong format 11.25 x 6". Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0689812310. Spine is a bit faded. Marks and foxing to covers. Foxing to outer page edges.

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BABAR'S FAIR
Written by Laurent De Brunhoff; Olive Jones.
Stock no. 2140106
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st thus 1969. Very good condition.

First published under the title 'La Fete de Celesteville'. Translated from French by Jones. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0416933807. Some small nicks and wear to spine and corners. Musty odour to book.

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BABAR'S CHILDHOOD
Written by Jean De Brunhoff. Illustrated by Jean De Brunhoff.
Stock no. 2140100
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1969. Very good condition.

Little Babar Books. Pictorial boards. Colour pictures. ISBN: 0416034209. Bumping to spine and corners; some wear. Browning to outer page edges; some page corner creases.

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