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SIMPKIN AND THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER A MUSICAL PLAY
Written by John M. Phillips; Douglas Young.
Stock no. 2115997
Published by F. Warne & Co.. 1st 1992. Very good condition.

Based on The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter, adapted for stage by John Phillips, music by Douglas Young. Large format. Red pictorial cardwraps. 95 pages. ISBN: 072324023X. Some fading to spine. Sticker glue mark to front cover.

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SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDY OF TWELFTH NIGHT OR WHAT YOU WILL
Written by William Shakespeare. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1314200
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1908. Very good condition.

Signed limited edition of 350 copies. Printed on handmade paper and bound in white vellum, gilt. 40 superb tipped-in colour plates on dark green mounts with captioned tissue-guards. 143 pages. Large, heavy format. SIGNED by the artist, this is copy no. 53. A few small, light marks to covers. Silk ties are missing. Foxing to textblock and to some page margins. Inscription in ink to front fly-leaf.

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SIX ENID BLYTON PLAYS
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 1403119
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 6th 1946. Almost very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Grey/blue cloth with dark blue titles. 166pp. 6.75 x 4.25". Spine and corners a little bumped. Cover edges browned. Small piece torn from top of front endpaper. Light foxing to endpaper and page edges. Dustwrapper has tear to top of spine, front panel and front flap plus other edge tears. Wrapper is very grubby.

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A BUNNY AFFAIR
Written by Blacker Hopkinson.
Stock no. 1313382
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. 1st 1940. Very good condition.

The Nelson Theatre (under the management of Nora Ratcliff, M.A.), Show Plays No. 11, Section III. Yellow and red decorated cardwraps. 15 pages. Very slight rubbing at corners. Contents clean. A nice copy of this scarce little booklet.

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THE LOVE FOR THREE ORANGES
Written by Frank Corsaro. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 1711696
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1984. Slightly better than very good condition.

Stone cloth with gilt title to spine and brown/red vignette to front cover. Colour illustrations and endpapers. The Glyndebourne Version. ISBN: 0370305779.

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NEW PLAYS FROM OLD STORIES
Written by Hermon Ould. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris.
Stock no. 1402702
Published by Oxford University Press. 1924. Slightly better than good condition.

Contains three stories (Peter the Pied Piper, The Princess in the Sleeping Wood, Rip van Winkle) adapted into plays. Black boards with gilt titles to front and spine and vignette to front cover. Colour plates. 96 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Fading to gilt on spine and some of gilt on front cover. Front endpaper is MISSING. Browning to endpapers which are also a little grubby. Some foxing and a few margin marks.

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ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON & THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
Written by S. Lyle Cummins. Illustrated by G.L. Stampa.
Stock no. 1402363
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1922. Slightly better than good condition.

Small format. Grey boards. Colour pictorial onlay to front. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 2 plays for children. Spine and corners bumped. Couple of marks to boards. Small ink marks to top of textblock. Endpapers are browned. Names written in pencil by Dramatis Personae to first play. First few pages are creased on inner margin. Foxing mainly to page edges. Some pencil marks to text. Biro line next to inner margin on one page.

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THE MAGIC PENCIL
Written by Rose Fyleman.
Stock no. 1502157
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1938. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

And other plays from my tales. New plays adapted from eight of the author's tales. Blue cloth covers with dark blue titles. 145 pages. Top and bottom of spine faded, cover edges browned, spine a little stained. Some wear to corners. Presentation plate to front endpaper. Foxing, mostly to endpapers and page edges. Price-cut dustwrapper is edge worn, torn and chipped. Spine is faded and panels are grubby.

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THE LOVE FOR THREE ORANGES
Written by Frank Corsaro. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 1808214
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1984. Slightly better than very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Stone cloth with gilt title to spine and brown/red vignette to front cover. Colour illustrations and endpapers. The Glyndebourne Version. ISBN: 0370305779. 'D' inked to vertical edge of text block but no damage inside seen. Top edge of text block a little dusty. Contents fine. Clear acetate wrapper has loss to top and bottom (possibly the reason for the 'D').

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THE TRAVAILS OF SANCHO PANZA
Written by James Saunders.
Stock no. 1501694
Published by Heinemann. 1st 1970. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Some favourite episodes from Cervantes' story of Don Quixote and his long suffering servant Sancho Panza woven into a boisterous and humane comedy play. Black boards with gilt title to spine. 111 pages. ISBN: 43523787X. Patch of surface paper damage near top edge of rear cover approx. 2 x 3cm. A little bumping to spine and corners. Contents very good. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped with browning to spine and folds.

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EIGHT LITTLE PLAYS FOR CHILDREN
Written by Rose Fyleman.
Stock no. 2105432
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 8th 1936. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Cream cloth, small title label to front cover. Bottom 1cm of spine is missing. Some grubby marks to covers; wear to edges. Name in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-torn and creased, with some loss; now disguised by being stuck to piece of paper beneath.

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THE PLAY'S THE THING!
Written by Enid Blyton; Alec Rowley. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1102900
Published by The Home Library Book Company; George Newnes Limited. 1st 1927. Very good condition.

12 musical plays for children aged 8 to 15. 24 full-page b/w drawings by Alfred Bestall and music by Alec Rowley. Very large format. Russet cloth, gilt title and decorations to spine. Pictorial endpapers. 240 pages. Corners are bumped. Inscription in ink to front endpaper.

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