THE PROMISED ONE
Written by David Alric.
Stock no. 1813297
Published by Bladon Publishing. 1st 2004. Slightly better than very good condition.

Lucy, a schoolgirl of eleven, finds that the animals of the world have been expecting her for more than a million years. She is the only person on earth with her awesome and extraordinary powers and her destiny is to save the planet. Pictorial glazed boards. Colour illustrations. 310 pages. ISBN: 1904218393. SIGNED by the author with dedication to title page. Corners bumped & rubbed. Prologue page lightly creased. Small name in ink to front pastedown.

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THE MARIGOLD PAINTING BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1506949
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. circa 1919. Almost very good condition.

Orange pictorial covers show two children sat on brick steps. Kate Greenaway illustrations to paint, some in colour with same illustration opposite. Instructions on rear pastedown. 33 pages. Covers grubby with browning and stains. Bumping and wear to spine and corners, small sharp bump to front edge of faded spine. Front cover is slightly bowed. Small dark mark to text block. Light stains to outside edges of endpapers and a few pages otherwise contents clean and unused.

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CITY OF GOLD AND OTHER STORIES FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT
Written by Peter Dickinson. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Stock no. 1813291
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1980. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. 10 x 7 ins. 24 full page colour illustrations and b/w textual illustrations throughout. A highly unusual rendering of 33 Old Testament stories by the author, who has fused the individual stories into an account of the development of the scattered Tribes of Israel, who were to build the Temple in Jerusalem; suffer a decline, culminating in the destruction of the City of Gold. Each story is re-told with vigor from a different contemporary perspective, as would have been the case in the earliest oral traditions before these stories were written down. A Carnegie Medal winner. ISBN: 0575028831. Minor foxing to top edge of text block and endpapers. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-worn.

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THE LITTLE OLD ENGINE
Written by Rev. W. Awdry. Illustrated by John Kenney.
Stock no. 1406479
Published by Edmund Ward. 1st 1959. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Tan Boards, with darker titles. Railway series No. 14. Oblong format. Colour illustrations. A little bumping to spine.Contents very good. Price-cut dustwrapper is edge worn with a couple of small tears.. Some surface paper damage to spine. Cover grubby with a couple of brown marks to verso.

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THE COUNTRY OF THIRTY-SIX THOUSAND WISHES
Written by Andre Maurois. Illustrated by Adrienne Segur.
Stock no. 1506937
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st 1930. Very good condition.

Translated by Katharine I. Monro. Large format. Brown cloth spine, cream pictorial boards. 11 delightful colour plates plus b/w text illustrations featuring fairies. A little bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Nick to cloth on front edge of spine. Covers slightly grubby. Small name to top edge of front endpaper. A couple of marks to front endpapers. Light browning to endpapers. Light foxing, mainly to endpapers and text block.

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O HARU KI
No author listed.
Stock no. 1406472
Published by Castell Brothers Ltd.. Slightly better than good condition.

A Japanese prodigy. Small format (4.5 x 4.25"). Pictorial cardwraps with yellow string tie to spine. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners rubbed. Corners a little creased. Mark to bottom corner which affects inner margin of all pages. Contents browned.

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STORIES FROM HISTORY
Written by Emily Taylor.
Stock no. 1406469
Published by Groombridge & Sons. circa 1887. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine. Gilt title block with green titles and black decoration to front.B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Covers grubby and a little marked. Prize presentation plate to front pastedown. Foxing mainly to page edges. Some grubby margin marks. Top corner of one page is creased.

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CAROLS
No author listed. Illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale.
Stock no. 1506935
Published by Alexander Moring Ltd.. circa 1945. Almost very good condition.

Dark red cloth with gilt title and onlay. 14 carols. 6 double page spread colour plates; 5 other colour plates. 43 pages. 10.25 x 8". Spine faded and bumped with wear to ends. A little wear to corners. Uneven fading to front and rear cover. Ink inscription to front endpaper. Tiny hole to front joint. One hinge cracked. Foxing to endpapers, prelims and page edges. Light page edge browning. All plates present.

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CHRISTINA'S FAIRY BOOK
Written by Ford Madox Ford. Illustrated by Jennetta Vise.
Stock no. 1506934
Published by Latimer House Limited. 1st thus 1949. Slightly better than good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

A collection of lovely fairy stories. Grey cloth covers, red titles to spine. 7.5 x 5". B/w illustrations. 60 pages. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Crease to cloth at top corner of front cover with pinhole. Some faint marks to covers. Heavy erased pencil lines to front endpapers, half-title page, page 15 and one line to title page. Small part of line on half-title has torn paper which has been repaired on both side with clear tape. Just an odd mark and some foxing otherwise. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped with a little loss from base of spine. Grubby with a couple of light stains, foxed on verso. Surface paper damage from label removal on front panel.

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MY PICTURE STORY BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by M.A. Boole; J. Ley Pethybridge; J.F. Weedon; et al..
Stock no. 1506928
Published by The Religious Tract Society. circa 1908. Almost very good condition.

Cloth spine, stiff card covers, pictorial front cover shows two children with wheelbarrow and chickens, advert to rear cover. Colour frontis and upwards of 60 b/w illustrations. 88 pages. Short stories and rhymes. Wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Scratches to covers and crease to bottom corner of rear cover. Prize plate to front endaper. Contents fingered, mainly lower margin. Light stain affects top corner tips of all pages.

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BRAMBLE
Written by Margery Colman. Illustrated by Margery Colman.
Stock no. 1506926
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1945. Slightly better than good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Bramble is a hedgehog but he is so absentminded that he needs an alarm clock to wake him up. Blue cloth covers with brown titles and vignette. Colour and b/w illustrations 32 pages. Covers grubby and marked. Small hole to cloth on rear cover. A few grubby fingermarks, mainly to lower margins. Erased initials to front endpaper. Dustwrapper is very grubby with some loss, mainly from ends of spine and folds. 3" tear to front panel repaired on verso with clear tape. A couple of other small tears also repaired on verso.

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A THING TO BE EXPLAINED
Written by Laurence Housman. Illustrated by C.T. Nightingale.
Stock no. 1506925
Published by Basil Blackwell. Almost very good condition.

Jolly Books series. Blue patterned covers with white title block. Colour frontis plus b/w illustrations. 29 pages. Minimal bumping and wear to spine and corners. Browning to spine and some cover edges, damp stian to base of spine and lower edge of rear cover. Some light browning and foxing to contents but otherwise pages are clean. Line of surface paper damage to frontis, looks like it has been stuck to title page. Book has a smell of smoke.

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