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THE MARGARET TARRANT NURSERY RHYME BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant.
Stock no. 2140075
Published by Collins. 1st 1944. Very good condition.

Blue cloth. Large format. Beautiful colour and b/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Fading/browning to spine and some cover edges. Bumping to page corners, especially corresponding to spine. Browning to outer page edges.

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NURSERY RHYMES FOR CERTAIN TIMES
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Elinor Darwin.
Stock no. 1322974
Published by Faber & Faber. 1947. Almost very good condition.

The most completely satisfying book of nursery rhymes and jingles that have ever been published! Peachy-orange cloth. Brown line drawings throughout. Introduction by De La Mare. 120 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Covers slightly grubby. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Some light finger creases to page margins.

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NURSERY RHYMES FOR CERTAIN TIMES
Written by Walter De La Mare. Illustrated by Elinor Darwin; Moyra Leathem.
Stock no. 1322946
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st thus 1956. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

The most completely satisfying book of nursery rhymes and jingles that have ever been published! Grey cloth. Two-tone line drawings throughout (coloured by Leathem). Introduction by De La Mare. 124 pages. Spine slightly bumped. Slight fading to cover edges. Endpapers browned. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is lightly foxed, edge chipped with loss to top and tail of spine.

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THE MAD DOG
Written by D. Goldsmith. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 2138752
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

A Randolph Caldecott Picture Book. Card wraps. Full page colour illustrations plus sepia illustration to text. Story in verse. Title page reads: An Elegy On The Death Of A Mad Dog". Sad... Some marks and wear to covers. Some foxing and marks to outer page edges and some page margins.

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THE THREE JOVIAL HUNTSMEN
No author listed. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 2138751
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Good condition.

Card wraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. One of R. Caldecott's Picture Books. Covers are very creased; splits to spine. Tear to corner of front cover. Some foxing and margin marks, although contents are still generally very good.

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MOTHER GOOSE
No author listed. Illustrated by Anne Anderson; et al..
Stock no. 2138019
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Nursery Rhymes. Cream and blue decorated cloth. 4 colour plates by Anderson, b/w text illustrations by other artists. 282 pages. Bumping to spine. Some browning to covers. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is creased with tears and chips; some repaired with tape to verso; some grubby marks.

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SONGS OF LOVE AND EMPIRE
Written by E. Nesbit.
Stock no. 2138005
Published by Archibald Constable And Co.. 1898. Very good condition.

Red cloth with gilt titles and decorations. Light bumping and wear to spine and corners. A few small marks to covers. Foxing to prelims, endpapers and outer page edges. Some page browning.

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THE TOPSY-TURVY STORYBOOK
Written by Dick King-Smith. Illustrated by John Eastwood.
Stock no. 2137796
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1992. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Fairy tales, legends and nursery rhymes rewritten in King-Smith's mischievous style. A riotous collection uproariously illustrated in colour throughout. Dark green cloth. Gilt title to spine. 64pp. 11 x 8". Large format. Browning/foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with some edge-creasing.

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PILLICOCK HILL
Written by Herbert Asquith. Illustrated by A.H. Watson.
Stock no. 2137480
Published by Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press. 1928. Very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine. Pictorial front cover. Verses by Asquith. Set to music by Alec Rowley. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. Slight scuff to front cover. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.

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STIPS UND FLIPS DAS BRUDERPAAR
Written by Graf Lowenstein; George Jellicoe. Illustrated by G.E. Studdy.
Stock no. 2137476
Published by Artur Wolf. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth spine. Pictorial boards. Colour and blue and white illustrations. Marks and browning to covers. Foxing and browning to varying degrees throughout.

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MADAM HEN AND LITTLE HORACE
Written by Hugh Heaton. Illustrated by H.E.M. Sellen.
Stock no. 2137449
1948. Very good condition.

Dark stiff card covers; colour pictorial onlay to front cover; Title to Front is Madam Hen & Little Horace. Colour pictorial endpapers and illustrations. Small chip to top of spine. A few small marks to covers. Browning to endpapers and outer page edges.

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LUCIE ATTWELL'S BOOK OF RHYMES
Written by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell.
Stock no. 2136899
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. 1st 1962. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial glazed boards. Charming colour illustrations. ISBN: 0603015689. Bumping and some chipping to spine and corners. Stitching is a little pulled in places. Page edges are browned with foxing.

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