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LES AVENTURES DE TINTIN: L'ILE NOIRE
Written by Herge. Illustrated by Herge.
Stock no. 1208931
Published by Casterman. Circa 1947. Good condition.

Large format. Red cloth spine, pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Text in French. Covers are edge worn, scuffed and slightly marked. Wear to spine with very slight loss at base. Name and address in heavy pencil to verso of front free-endpaper. Doodles in pencil of Tintin characters to rear free-endpaper, tear to inner margin of last page. Fingering to margins and light page browning throughout.

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LES AVENTURES DE TINTIN: ON A MARCHE SUR LA LUNE
Written by Herge. Illustrated by Herge.
Stock no. 1208930
Published by Casterman. 1st 1954. Fair condition.

Large format. Red cloth spine, pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Text in French. Covers are worn and scuffed. Loss to top 3" of backstrip, base of which is split. Foxing, fingering, page edge browning to contents. Crease to lower corner of front free-endpaper.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1951 - THE NEW RUPERT BOOK
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1330528
Published by Daily Express. 1951. Good condition.

Colour pictorial boards - Rupert at front of a huge snow scene. 1st story Rupert and Doctor Lion. 124 pages. 10 x 7 inches. Covers are worn, slightly grubby and foxed with a small patch of surface paper damage to centre of front cover and lower half of backstrip MISSING. Front free-endpaper is creased and torn at inner margin. Inscription in pencil in belongs to box has been erased. Price NOT cut. Some page corner tips creased. Lower corner tip of rear free-endpaper torn off. Pencil mark to title page of first story. Some foxing and some pale brown spotting to contents.

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THE VALLEY OF ADVENTURE
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.
Stock no. 1330527
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a poor dustwrapper.

Cream pictorial cloth. B/w illustrations. The third in the Adventure series. Spine and corners are bumped. Small brown mark to top edge of rear cover. Tiny name in ink to top edge of front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock and some page margins. Dustwrapper spine is missing and the remains are worn, torn and creased, large tear to front fold and smaller tear to rear fold.

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BIGGLES AND THE MISSING MILLIONAIRE
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1330526
Published by The Children's Book Club. Circa 1961. Good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Biggles & Co. are on a trail of a yacht that sailed away and never came back. Blue boards, black titles. Not illustrated. Spine and corners bumped. Slight fading to base of spine. Cover split to front edge of spine. Heavy foxing, mainly to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn and grubby with browning to spine.

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THE CHALET SCHOOL AND BARBARA
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer. Illustrated by D. Brook.
Stock no. 1330525
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1st 1954. Good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Pale blue boards, blue titles to spine. B/w frontis. 208 pages. Spine and corners bumped, tiny dent to top edge of front cover. Top 2" of spine browned. Base of spine and also front cover damp(?) stained (matching stain to dustwrapper). Contents are very browned/foxed but otherwise contents are clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped, large section of loss to top of spine and also to spine corner of rear panel. Slight loss, and a magic tape repair to base of spine. Dustwrapper is a bit grubby on rear panel.

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THE STORY OF DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT
Written by Muriel Levy. Illustrated by Evelyn Bowmar.
Stock no. 1330523
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Circa 1963. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 413. Illustrated buff boards. Full-page colour illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is price-cut, slightly edge rubbed and a little bit grubby and scuffed.

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THE NAUGHTIEST GIRL AGAIN
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by W. Lindsay Cable.
Stock no. 1330521
Published by George Newnes Ltd.. 2nd 1943. Very good condition.

Red cloth, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. More adventures of the naughtiest girl in the school. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Small marginal nick to a few pages (51-55).

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1941 (FACSIMILE) - THE RUPERT BOOK
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1330516
Published by Pedigree Books Limited. 1993. Very good condition.

Enjoy Rupert's rarest and most sought-after adventures with this beautiful facsimile of the 1941 annual, widely considered to be the best ever. Everything from the colour of the ink to the specially selected paper is true to the original, the only difference being the addition of a slipcase to keep this collector's item in perfect condition. ISBN: 1874507112. Spine is slightly faded. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Slipcase is missing. Contents are fine.

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THE VOYAGE OF THE ARCTIC TERN
Written by Hugh Montgomery. Illustrated by Nick Poullis.
Stock no. 1330514
Published by Walker Books. 1st 2002. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A classic tale of treason, treachery and treasure that sweeps across many centuries and different lands. Mottled green boards with browne spine. Blue pictorial endpapers. B/w illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0744592518. Minimal bumping/rubbing to spine and corners. Some light foxing to top edge of textblock. Dustwrapper has the remains of a small price label to rear panel and has a tiny mark to top edge of front panel on verso (not visible to front of wrapper). Wrapper is very slightly edge creased. The wrapper sounds awful but it is still very nice!

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JUST SO STORIES
Written by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by Rudyard Kipling.
Stock no. 1208924
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2008. Nearly fine condition.

Printed as a single volume. Red cloth boards, cream titles and illustration of elephant having its trunk pulled by a crocodile to front. B/w illustrations. 189 pages. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly shelf-scuffed.

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CAUTIONARY TALES AND OTHER VERSES
Written by Hilaire Belloc. Illustrated by Posy Simmonds.
Stock no. 1208923
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1997. Nearly fine condition.

Olive green, yellow & red pictorial cloth. Colour & b/w illustrations. Yellow endpapers. 160 pages. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase with some light shelf-scuffing.

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