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CHILDREN'S SINGING GAMES - SECOND SERIES
Written by Alice B. Gomme. Illustrated by Winifred Smith.
Stock no. 2119375
Published by David Nutt. Very good condition.

Square format. Grey cloth, black illustrations and titles. Contains music, words and decorations to many popular rhymes. 70 pages. Light bumping and wear to spine and corners. Some neat colouring. A little page browning and some foxing. Grubby margin marks.

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GRANNIE GRAY
Written by Eleanor Farjeon. Illustrated by Joan Jefferson Farjeon.
Stock no. 2118628
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1939. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Plays and Singing-Games for Children. Dark pink cloth with dark titles. B/w illustrations. 148 pages. Bumping to corners. Uneven fading to covers. Paper 'snowflake' stuck to front endpaper. A few marks to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is grubby to spine and edges. A few tears and chips; a little loss; some repairs to verso with sticky tape.

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PATIENCE
Written by P. Francis Grant.
Stock no. 1504210
Published by Geoffrey Bles. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Small format. Red cloth. 20 new and original games including The Anchor, Rainbow, Grand National, Noak's Ark etc. 63 pages. Cloth a little rippled on rear cover. One hinge cracked. Some browning to joints and a few fox spots to endpapers. Dustwrapper is browned, especially front panel. Edge worn with a few chips, creases and marks. Name in pen to top of front flap.

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THE SHIP BOOK 1844-1944
Written by J. Reason.
Stock no. 2115237
Published by The Livingstone Press. 1st 1944. Very good condition.

Blue pictorial front cover. Includes stories, games, poems and models etc. A few marks to covers. Bumping to corners and spine. Inscription in ink to front endpaper.

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BLUE BELL HILL GAMES
Written by R.A. Smith. Illustrated by David McKee.
Stock no. 1710110
Published by Kestrel Books. 1st 1982. Nearly fine condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Oblong format. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0722657269. Corners lightly bumped.

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ESCAPE FROM THE TEMPLE OF LAUGHTER
Written by Jerome Fletcher. Illustrated by Sue Heap.
Stock no. 1808442
Published by Andre Deutsch Children's Books. 1st 1994. Slightly better than very good condition.

Episodes from the life of J. Rathbone Fish. Paper board folder with blue cloth spine. Contains 153 page book plus game board, pieces and cards. ISBN: 0590540610. A few marks to boards. Appears complete.

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ACTING GAMES
Written by Freda Collins. Illustrated by Helen Jacobs; et al..
Stock no. 1311306
Published by University of London Press Ltd.. 1948. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Revised and Enlarged edition. 14 little plays for any number of children to take part. 160 pages. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. A few small foxspots to page edges. Dustwrapper is edge worn and torn, section to lower edge of front panel almost torn off.

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GAMES AND SONGS OF AMERICAN CHILDREN
Written by William Wells Newell.
Stock no. 1501726
Published by Harper And Brothers. 1st 1883. Almost very good condition.

Collected and compared by William Wells Newell. Beige cloth with pictorial front cover, brown titles to spine with decoration at top and bottom. Blue endpapers. B/w frontis. 242 pages. Covers are grubby with a couple of very small areas of damage. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Front joint is cracked between frontis and title page. Endpapers grubby with patch of tape residue to front endpaper. Small area of surface paper damage near top edge of title page. A few light marks and fingermarks to contents but generally clean.

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GAMES FOR PLAYTIME & PARTIES
Written by Stanley V. Wilman. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant.
Stock no. 1308598
Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack Ltd.. Circa 1920. Good condition.

With and Without Music. Large format. White cloth spine, white pictorial front board. Tipped-in colour frontis, colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. 82 pages. 12" x 9". Corners worn. Spine bumped. Covers a bit grubby. Child's name in ink to front pastedown. Book opens to verso of frontis so possibly free-endpaper is missing? Some light fingering to contents and a couple of corners lightly creased. Slight surface paper damage to title-page and a small tear at base of margin. A decent copy of a scarce book.

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CHILDREN'S SINGING GAMES
Written by Alice B. Gomme. Illustrated by Winifred Smith.
Stock no. 405613
Published by David Nutt. 1st 1894. Very good condition.

Large oblong format. Grey cloth, black illustrations and titles. Contains music, words and decorations to many popular rhymes. 70 pages. Covers a little grubby. Some light fingering and foxing to contents.

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GAMES OF SKILL AND CONJURING
No author listed.
Stock no. 811534
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1st 1865. Very good condition.

Dark blue embossed cloth, gilt title to front cover. B/w illustrations. Small format. Including - Chess; Draughts; Dominoes; Tricks with Cards. Book: Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Rebacked in matching blue cloth.

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LAUGH AND LEARN
Written by Jennett Humphreys.
Stock no. 584798
Published by Blackie & Son. 1890. Slightly better than good condition.

The Easiest Book of Nursery Lessons and Nursery Games. From learning to readand to count, playsongs, rhymes and jingles to indoor diversions and nursery drill with music. Brown pictorial cloth. B/w illustrations. Contents very good. Front joint split. Spine split. Corners worn.

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