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THE HOLE AND CORNER BOOK
Written by B. Parker. Illustrated by N. Parker.
Stock no. 622119
Published by W. & R. Chambers. Almost very good condition.

Oblong format. Pictorial boards show family of rabbits peeping from covers. Brown & white illustrations. Animal rhymes. Covers lightly scuffed. Edges rubbed & worn. 1" and 0.25" loss of surface paper from base and top of spine. Cloth at base of spine split. Pale foxing throughout. Overall, a nice copy.

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A BUSHEL OF MERRYTHOUGHTS
Written by William Harry Rogers. Illustrated by Wilhelm Busch.
Stock no. 668728
Published by Sampson Low, Son & Marston. 1st 1868. Fair condition.

Four works in one volume. Contains: The Terrible Punishment of the Naughty Boys of Corinth; The Disobedient Children Who Stole Sugar-Bread; Cat And Mouse; The Fearful Tragedy of Ice-Peter. Reprinted in 1900 as A Book of Merry Thoughts. Oblong format, pictorial front board, green cloth spine. Comical b/w illustrations accompanied by hunourous verse. The book has been repaired with all pages having reinforced hinges. Page 13 of Cat and Mouse is missing as it is from all copies. Covers are worn and chipped at edges and badly scuffed to rear. Extensive foxing and grubby marks throughout with pencil drawings and annotation mainly on blank pages. Despite all this it remains a readable copy of a scarce Victorian book.

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NICHOLAS BENTLEY'S BOOK OF BIRDS
Written by Nicolas Bentley. Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley.
Stock no. 666622
Published by Andre Deutsch. 1st 1965. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A Avian Alphabet. B/w pictures. Humourous rhymes. Spine a little bumped, slight fading to boards. Wrapper edge-worn and grubby. Contents fine.

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THE GOLDEN BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES
Written by T.C. Micklem.
Stock no. 621843
Published by Blandford Press. Circa 1955. Good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Front cover shows blackbirds in a pie. Cloth spine has 1" tear to one side at centre height. Boards scuffed and scratched. Corners bumped and worn. Front and rear joints cracked. Pencil writting to front endpaper. Inscription in ink to verso front endpaper. A little colouring to page 42.

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MY BIG BEDTIME BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by H.G.C. Marsh Lambert.
Stock no. 657831
Published by Tiger Books. 1st thus 1988. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Colour plates and b/w illustrations. Delightful rhymes and stories. ISBN: 1870461258.

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MY BIG BEDTIME BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by H.G.C. Marsh Lambert.
Stock no. 803008
Published by Tiger Books. 1st 1988. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Colour plates and b/w illustrations. Delightful rhymes and stories. ISBN: 1870461258. price-cut wrapper is slightly grubby to rear.

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MY PICTURE STORY BOOK
Written by Watty Piper. Illustrated by Eulalie; Victor G. Becker; Arthur O. Scott.
Stock no. 564336
Published by Platt & Munk. Circa 1941. Very good condition.

Red cloth spine. Colour pictorial front cover shows a family of pigs. Colour illustrations. Corners rubbed. Light foxing to endpapers.

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A PECK OF PEPPER
Written by Brian Alderson. Illustrated by Faith Jaques.
Stock no. 603813
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1974. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Text taken from a copy of Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation. Postscript by Brian Alderson. ISBN: 0701150432.

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THE TODDLERS' PICTURE BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 662623
Published by Promak Ltd.. Very good condition.

Fun for the Youngsters stories and rhymes. One of Uncle Wadman's celebrated childrens books. Brown card wraps. Pictorial onlay to front cover of young girl with puppy dog. Colour and two-tone illustrations. Name in ink inside front cover. A nice copy.

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DULCE DOMUM RHYMES AND SONGS FOR CHILDREN (OLD & NEW)
Written by John Farmer.
Stock no. 803517
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. Circa 1893. Very good condition.

Maroon cloth with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Contains 134 rhymes and songs for children, including the score music and verse that now may be forgotten! Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers a little scuffed and rear cover has a grubby 'splash' mark. Name in ink to front pastedown. Front joint a little cracked. Endpapers are browned, but rest of contents lovely and clean, apart from very occasional margin mark.

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THE NURSERY SONG BOOK
Written by H. Keatley Moore. Illustrated by May Sandheim.
Stock no. 619989
Published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd.. Circa 1906. Good condition.

Original blue pictorial cloth. 3 colour plates, numerous b/w illustrations. 63 pages. Front cover slightly bowed, spine & corners lightly rubbed, front cover lightly marked. Name in ink to verso of frontis plus inscription in pencil to half-title page. Joints and some hinges cracked. One colour plate detached with ragged edges. A few grubby marks and some light damp stains to margins but generally contents are clean.

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THE PET BUBBLE BOOK
Written by Ralph Mayhew; Burges Johnson. Illustrated by Rhoda C. Chase.
Stock no. 557364
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1917. Almost very good condition.

The sixth Bubble Book. Small format. Pictorial paperboards. 3 rhymes with accompanying gramophone records. Colour illustrations. All records present and complete but untested. Covers grubby. No tears.

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