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DRAGON BAKED BREAD
Written by Warren Lee Cohen. Illustrated by John M. Ssebulime.
Stock no. 2107234
Published by Temple Lodge Publishing. Circa 2005. Very good condition.

On the day of the Fall Harvest Feast, the baker's old cart collapses and fall into the moat, turning his flour and yeast into a doughy mess. How is the royal feast to be saved? Told in rhyme. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 1902636708. SIGNED by author, with dedication. Bumping to spine and cover edges. Contents are lovely and bright.

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MORE PRAYERS AND GRACES
Written by Allan M. Laing. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.
Stock no. 1107009
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Second Little Book of Unusual Piety. Blue boards, gilt title to spine; vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. Some uneven fading to covers. Foxing to pages. Wrapper is unevenly faded with some foxspots and edge-nicks.

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QUEER CREATURES
Written by E.S.T.. Illustrated by E.S.T..
Stock no. 1307031
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1st 1913. Very good condition.

Beige cloth spine, grey pictorial boards. 80 pages. B/w text illustrations. Verses describing very peculiar creatures! Spine bumped, corners slightly worn. Some discolouration to covers. Endpapers lightly browned. Front joint broken at lower 4" (causing first couple of gatherings to be part detached). Contents clean.

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THE STORY OF FOUR LITTLE SABOTS
Written by Dora W. Merritt; Dora W. Pearsall. Illustrated by Dora W. Merritt.
Stock no. 1305293
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Warne's Cosy Corner Books Series. Small format. Light blue paperboards, dark blue title and decoration. Dark blue cloth spine, with silver title. Colour illustrations throughout. 56 pages. Minimal rubbing to spine and corners. Publisher's file copy with "property room not to be taken away" ink date stamp to front endpaper of book and to both panels of wrapper. Contents of book are clean. Wrapper is edge chipped and grubby.

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THE ALL-NITE CAFE
Written by Philip Gross.
Stock no. 1204361
Published by Faber & Faber. Circa 1993. Fine condition.

Pictorial card wraps. Poetry for teenagers. Winner of the Signal Poetry Award 1994. ISBN: 0571167535. SIGNED by author. 4th printing.

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BEAR HUGS
Written by Kathleen Hague. Illustrated by Michael Hague.
Stock no. 1304743
Published by Methuen Children's Books. 1st 1989. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Nothing feels better than a hug from a teddy bear! 9 heartwarming poems. Red boards, gilt title to spine. Delightful colour pictures. ISBN: 0416148220. Slight bumping to spine. Some light finger creases to page margins else contents bright and clean. Wrapper is slightly faded to spine.

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OUT OF TOWN
Written by F.E. Weatherly. Illustrated by Linnie Watt.
Stock no. 1203745
Published by Hildesheimer & Faulkner. Very good condition.

Green pictorial boards with green cloth spine. Delightful chromolithograph illustrations to almost every page. 64 pages. 9 x 7". Edges are worn. Covers are grubby. A few margin marks, but illustrations are bright.

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THE BEASTS CHOIR
Written by Carmen Bernos De Gasztold. Illustrated by Jean Primrose.
Stock no. 1803252
Published by MacMillan. 1st 1967. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A further collection of delightful poems translated by Rumer Godden from the original French. Some poems reveal a humourous perception of each animal's nature, and all combine to harmonise and give glory to The Lord of Creation. Written by the French poet and mystic, Carmen Bernos De Gasztold, the translation has achieved the spirit of the original text. A book for all ages. Some scattered very pale foxing to contents. Price-cut pictorial wrapper is lightly edge-worn and browned at spine.

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LITTLE ANN AND OTHER POEMS
Written by Jane Taylor; Ann Taylor. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 1302889
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1st 1882. Very good condition.

Olive green spine and corners, cream pictorial boards. Yellow endpapers. Blue edges. 64 pages. 9.25 x 6". Printed by Edmund Evans. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Cover edges lightly rubbed and covers slightly scuffed. Inscription in ink to front fly-leaf. Joints cracked. Grubby fingering and other marks and light page browning but contents are generally clean.

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MEET MY FOLKS!
Written by Ted Hughes. Illustrated by George Adamson.
Stock no. 1103741
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1961. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

The authors first book for children. Yellow and red pictorial boards. Full-page b/w illustrations. 42 pages. Light bumping and wear to spine and corners. Some foxing. Wrapper is edge-torn to top of spine for a few inches with 1" loss to very top; repaired to verso with tape. A couple of other edge-tears. Grubby marks to wrapper.

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THE PICTURE SHOW
No author listed.
Stock no. 1302306
Published by Ernest Nister. circa 1895. Good condition.

Green cloth spine. Pictorial front board showing girl dressed in clown suit. "A Novel Picture book For Children". Four pop-up colour pictures. B/w text illustrations. Spine worn at top and tail. Corners worn and cover edges rubbed. Joints and hinges cracked, front free-endpaper missing. A few loose pieces to first pop-up and skipping rope is twisted (but still intact), other 3 pop-ups in excellent working order. Some tears to inner margins and some loose pages caused by the cracked hinges. Some light page browning and fingering. Still a nice copy of a very scarce Nister pop-up.

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DAISIES AND APPLE TREES
Written by Mary E. Boyle. Illustrated by Mildred R. Lamb.
Stock no. 1801032
Published by Eneas Mackay. Circa 1923. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Small format. Cream card wraps with black title and illustration to front. Silhouette illustrations to endpapers. B/w illustrations throughout. A lovely book of children's poems. Pages unopened by printer. Light browning to covers else contents clean. Pictorial buff wrapper is edge-worn and slightly grubby. A decent copy in a dustwrapper.

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