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THE STORY ABOUT PING
Written by Marjorie Flack. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese.
Stock no. 1321539
Published by The Bodley Head. 1954. Almost very good condition.

Ping is a beautiful young duck who lives on a boat on the Yangtze river. Blue pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Some grubby marks to covers. Light foxing to contents. Stitching pulled causing contents to be a little loose but still attached to covers.

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LEMUEL
Written by Edith Ray Gregorson. Illustrated by Peter Scott.
Stock no. 1321538
Published by The Owl Press Ltd.. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

The story of Lemuel, the tree kangaroo. White boards with blue cloth spine. Small brown vignette and title to front. Simple brown text illustrations throughout. 48 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Foxing to covers and a few light fox spots to contents. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped, loss to top edge of front panel and grubby.

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STORIES OF ANIMALS I HAVE LOVED BYT HE LITTLE RAINBOW MAKER
Written by Katherine Parr.
Stock no. 1321536
Published by Katharine Parr. Circa 1921. Almost very good condition.

Blue spine, white boards. 3 b/w photos. 16 pages. Spine bumped, a few small nicks to spine. Corners worn. Covers are grubby and marked. Some foxing to endpapers.

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A LION FOR A SITTER
Written by Helen Kay. Illustrated by Yaroslava.
Stock no. 1321534
Published by Abelard-Schuman. 1969. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A picture book about a little boy named Andrew and his very special "sitter". Oblong format. Blue boards, metallic green title to spine. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0200716166. Spine bumped. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is edge chipped and heavily foxed.

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THE STORY OF PATSY
Written by Kate Douglas Wiggin.
Stock no. 1321531
Published by Houghton Mifflin and Company. 1st 1889. Very good condition.

Green pictorial cloth. 68 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Some light foxing and fingering to contents. Pencil writing to rear pastedown has been erased. Light tobacco smell to contents.

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THE STORY OF SAMMY STICKLEPIN
Written by Margaret Alleyne. Illustrated by Mary Robinson.
Stock no. 1321527
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 4th 1957. Very good condition.

Square format. Pictorial boards. Colour pictures throughout. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Foxing to endpapers and text-block.

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A BOOK OF NONSENSE
Written by Edward Lear.
Stock no. 1321526
Published by Gowans & Gray Ltd.. 1919. Good condition.

Minature Edition. Pictorial card wraps (illustration to front by Hassall). B/w illustrations. Covers grubby, foxed and edge rubbed. Tobacco smell to contents. Fingering to page margins.

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DUTCH DOLLS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1321522
Very good condition.

A little book shaped as a boat. 8 pages, each with a red, black and white illustration at top 2/3 and paragraph of text below. Some light creasing to covers. Contents very slightly browned else clean.

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THE TALE OF PAPA WHISKERS AND MR. WATSON'S LETTUCES
Written by Crystal Barry. Illustrated by Mary Smith.
Stock no. 1321521
Published by H.A. and W.L. Pitkin Ltd.. Good condition.

A little booklet. White pictorial paperwraps. Colour illustrations throughout. Covers are grubby and worn at edges. A few small ink blots to title-page and inside front cover. Contents are fingered at margins and corner tips are slightly creased.

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HORSE TALES
Written by Mary Boyle. Illustrated by Isabel Watkin; et al..
Stock no. 1321520
Published by Ernest Nister. Good condition.

Grey pictorial boards with black titles to spine. Pen and ink drawings by Watkin. Some full-page colour illustrations. 64 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Covers slightly grubby and unevenly faded. Front joint cracked. Light browning and foxing to contents.

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TALES FROM NURSERY LAND
No author listed. Illustrated by Constance Haslewood.
Stock no. 1321519
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Good condition.

Pictorial boards. 64 pages. Colour illustrations. Re-backed with blue cloth spine. Covers are edge worn, scuffed and a little grubby. New endpapers. Contents are browned and well fingered.

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THIS IS SYLVIA
Written by Sandy Wilson. Illustrated by Sandy Wilson.
Stock no. 1321513
Published by Max Parrish And Co Ltd. 1954. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Her Lives and Loves. By the author of The Boyfriend, a most successful London musical comedy. Sylvia is Sandy Wilson's cat. Or is she? She has known everybody - but everybody - in the theatrical and literary world. Red boards, blue title to spine. B/w illustrations. 116 pages. Spine slightly bumped. Some light foxing to text block. Musty smell to contents. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn, a few small marks to rear panel. This is the October reprint in same year as first edition.

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