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KEEPING SECRETS
Written by Sue Barrow.
Stock no. 1805870
Published by Pont Books. 1st 2006. Nearly fine condition.

Ceri is adopted although she has never seen her adoption papers. Now she is determined to find her real mother - even if it means unearthing long-kept family secrets. Pictorial cardwraps. ISBN: 1843235927. SIGNED by the author to half-title page (with personal dedication).

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RUPERT AT THE SEASIDE
No author listed.
Stock no. 2106959
Published by L.T.A Robinson. Circa 1952. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial glazed boards. Colour illustrations. 10.5 x 8". Bumping and chipping to cover edges. Small splits to top and tail of spine. Name in ink to front endpaper. A little foxing and browning to a couple of pages. Contents are very good.

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DADDY CAT
No author listed. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 2106927
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Fair condition.

Cloth spine, dark green paper boards with pictorial onlay to front. 32 colour illustrations including half-title page and title page. All about 'Daddy Cat'. Covers are heavily worn; bumping and chipping to corners; grubby marks; some red crayon scribble to rear cover. Onlay has a little chipping to edges. Front joint is cracked. Grubby marks and some foxing to pages internally. Tears to edges of some pages; one has 1" x 1" semi-circle of loss to margin (with tiny piece of loss from actual illustration). Classic charming Louis Wain cat illustrations!

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THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE
Written by Bret Harte. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 2106919
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1886. Good condition.

Cream cloth covers, colour vignettes to front and rear, black titles to spine. Full-page colour frontis illustration, colour text illustrations throughout. 58 pages. 8.5 x 6.5". Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Covers are heavily worn with some bumping, fading and marks. Front joint is cracked; half-title page is nearly detached. Contents are generally very good, but pages do have some grubby margin marks.

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DANNY, A BUSY BOY
Written by Dolly Rudeman. Illustrated by Dolly Rudeman.
Stock no. 1705943
Published by Mulder & Zoon. Very good condition.

White pictorial boards. 10 x 8". Lovely colour illustrations.

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THE SCARLET HERRING
Written by Edward Abbott Parry. Illustrated by A. D. Rusden.
Stock no. 1705911
Published by Smith, Elder & Co.. 1st 1899. Very good condition.

A collection of six stories. Green covers, red vignette of fish to front and spine. Red title to front cover, gilt title to spine. B/w frontis and text illustrations throughout. 252 pages plus small catalogue and specimen page. A few marks to covers. Corners bumped. Name in ink to front endpaper.

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PICTURE-BOOK WORLD
Written by Bettina Hurlimann; Brian W. Alderson.
Stock no. 1705877
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1968. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Modern picture-books for children from twenty-four countries with a bio-biographical supplement by Elizabeth Waldmann. Colour illustrations. 216 pages. Board edges worn with bumped corners. Ink stamps to prelims. Wrapper faded and grubby with edge-creasing and chipping.

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MASTERWORKS OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE VOLUME 1
Written by Francelia Butler; et al.
Stock no. 1705875
Published by Chelsea House Publishers; The Stonehill Publishing Company. 1983. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Early Years C. 1550- c. 1739. Volume one ONLY. ISBN: 0877543755. Publisher Allen Lane Stickers added with additional ISBN of 0713916966. Wrapper grubby.

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DEAN'S TELL THE TIME POP-UP BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 1107590
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. 1974. Very good condition.

Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 3 Pop-up scenes to help children learn to tell the time. ISBN: 0603020607. Light wear to spine and corners. Creasing to first pop-up.

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MY LADY VENTURESOME A STORY OF 1685
Written by Dorothea Moore. Illustrated by P. Walford.
Stock no. 1805769
Published by The Sheldon Press. 1st 1926. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth boards, black titles and vignettes with pink highlighting. Colour frontispiece by Walford. Boards a little grubby, Top & tail of spine edges worn. Prize plate to front pastedown. A few marks to margins. Some hinges pulled.

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HENRY DISCOVERS THE COUNTRYSIDE
No author listed. Illustrated by Caroline Mills.
Stock no. 1107572
Published by Foxwood Publishing Limited. 1st 1977. Very good condition.

Turn-over Picture Books. NO TEXT. Spiral bound cardwraps. Each page is divided into three parts which can be turned over to give many different picture combinations. ISBN: 0904897478. Some light browning and creasing to covers. Contents still in excellent working order.

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THE GENE AUTRY JUMP-UP BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 1603101
Published by Adprint Limited. Very good condition.

With 5 pop-Up Pictures. Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Some creasing to first po-up scene, and one tab torn in second scene. A couple of margin marks.

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