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ALLIGATOR PIE
Written by Dennis Lee. Illustrated by Frank Newfeld.
Stock no. 1329945
Published by Macmillan Of Canada. 1st 1974. Very good condition.

Colour pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Poems for children. ISBN: 0771595913. Minimal bumping to spine. Inscription in ink to verso of front free-endpaper. Contents clean.

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NATURE BIRTHDAY BOOK
Written by Christine H. Rolland. Illustrated by Nina Scott Langley.
Stock no. 1329936
Published by Collins. Circa 1964. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Windsor Birthday Books series. Green boards, silver title to spine and title/vignettes to front cover. 3 little verses or sayings for each day of the year. Illustrations at the top of each page. A sweet little book. 5.5 x 4.25". Spine and corners slightly bumped. Endpapers lightly browned. Contnets UNUSED. Dustwrapper is foxed, light browned to spine.

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R. CALDECOTT'S PICTURE BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1329748
Published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd.. Good condition.

Contains: The Diverting History of John Gilpin; The House That Jack Built; the Babes In The Wood; An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog. Beige and red pictorial cloth. Colour & b/w illustrations. All edges red. Covers are grubby and rubbed. Spine rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Possibly has new endpapers (professionally done if so). Name plate to front pastedown. Grubby fingermarks to contents but still a decent copy for a book over 100 years old!

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R. CALDECOTT'S PICTURE BOOK No. 2
No author listed. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1329741
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Circa 1919. Almost very good condition.

Containing: The Three Jovial Huntsment; Sing a Song For Sixpence; The Queen of Hearts; The Farmer's Boy. Beige pictorial cloth. Colour illustrations throughout. Page edges red. 9.5 x 8.25". Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Small stains to lower edge of front cover. Rear cover is faded. Corners are slightly worn. Page 25/6 of Sing a Song for Sixpence is repaired with tape. Light creasing to front free-endpaper. Some light fingering else contents clean.

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R. CALDECOTT'S PICTURE BOOK No. 1
No author listed. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1329740
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Circa 1910. Good condition.

Containing The Diverting History of John Gilpin; The House That Jack Built; An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog; The Babes in the Wood. Square format. Pictorial cloth. Colour & b/w illustrations. Decorated pale orange endpapers (publisher's motif?). Spine and corners bumped. Some small dents to cover edges and some scuffing and scratches to cloth. Covers a bit grubby. Inscriptions in ink to front free-endpaper (one crossed out). Front free-endpaper is creased. Front joint is cracked. Pages 23-26 of John Gilpin have been torn and now repaired with tape. A couple of the b/w illustrations have been coloured in with water-colour paint. There is some foxing throughout. A few small margin tears. Not as bad as it sounds, still a reasonable copy for a book that is over 100 years old!

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PEACOCK PIE
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Louise Brierley.
Stock no. 1329238
Published by Faber & Faber Limited. 1st thus 1989. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

75th anniversary edition. Blue boards with white title to spine. B/w and colour illustrations throughout. 111 pages. 9.5 x 6.5". ISBN: 0571139892. Spine very slightly bumped. Contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is lightly foxed on verso and slightly faded to spine.

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THE LITTLE ONE IN BETWEEN
Written by Marion St. John Webb. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant.
Stock no. 1329063
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1929. Almost very good condition.

A book of 26 delightful verses accompanied with 4 beautiful colour plates. Blue cloth covers, gilt title to spine and small embossed vignette. 59 pages. Cr 8vo. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Foxing to contents.

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MARKO'S WEDDING
Written by Ian Serraillier. Illustrated by Victor Ambrus.
Stock no. 1329053
Published by Andre Deutsch. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Re-tellings of heroic folk poetry from Serbia and of old ballads and a folk tale from England and Scotland. Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 111 pages. ISBN: 0233961054. Spine bumped. Foxing to top edge of textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased.

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JOYCE STRANGER'S BOOK OF HANAK'S ANIMALS
Written by Joyce Stranger. Illustrated by Mirko Hanak.
Stock no. 1329021
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1976. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Prose and poems accompany enchanting pictures of animals. White cloth, gilt title to spine. 103 pages. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0460066242. Spine and corners very slightly bumped. Some slight browning at cover edges and foxing to top edges. Pale page browning and light foxing to top edge of textblock else contents clean. Dustwrapper is just a tiny bit edge rubbed.

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A BOOK OF THE SEASONS
Written by Eve Garnett. Illustrated by Eve Garnett.
Stock no. 1328975
Published by Frederick Muller Limited. 1969. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

An anthology of seasonal poetry. Brown cloth spine, white pictorial boards. 4 full-page colour illustrations and b/w illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0584620047. Spine and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. Light foxing to textblock else contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn, foxed to spine.

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PANSIES
Written by Clifton Bingham; Frances Ridley Havergal; et al.
Stock no. 1328973
Published by Ernest Nister. Circa 1933. Good condition.

White cloth, gilt title and decoration to front cover. Lovely colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. White covers are grubby, ink imprint to front cover. Front joint and some hinges cracked. Inscription in ink to half title-page. Staples rusty. A few small brown spots to some page margins.

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THIS REALM
Written by Diane Elson. Illustrated by Diane Elson.
Stock no. 1328969
Published by World's Work Ltd.. 1st 1982. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Poetry and prose by various authors (Longfellow, Blake, Thackeray, etc). Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w and colour illustrations. ISBN: 0437377059. Spine slightly bumped. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased and slightly grubby. Spine of wrapper is browned.

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