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LAYS OF A LONDONER
Written by Clement Scott.
Stock no. 2134802
Published by David Bogue. 1st 1882. Almost very good condition.

Peach cloth with gil title and dark brown vignettes. Book of verse. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Some grubby marks to covers. Foxing and page browning.

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SONG DEVICES AND JINGLES
Written by Eleanor Smith. Illustrated by Florence Young; S.B. Pearse; Kathleen Nixon.
Stock no. 1321165
Published by Waverley Book Company Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine with black title. Paper boards with large pictorial onlay to front. Delightful colour plates. Words and music. Covers are edge worn with slight loss of surface paper. Spine bumped and slightly worn. Covers a little grubby/marked. Light foxing and fingering to contents.

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SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE
No author listed. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1321148
Good condition.

Once of R. Caldecott's Picture Books. Pale blue pictorial cardwraps. 30 pages. Colour and b/w illustrations. Original price one shilling. Spine covered with white typing fluid (perhaps to strengthen it). Foxing and light tobacco smell to contents.

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THE QUEEN OF HEARTS AND OTHER NURSERY RHYMES
No author listed. Illustrated by Esme Eve.
Stock no. 1321147
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1958. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Mother Goose Book: Part Three. Original published as a large edition, now divided into four parts, of which this is the third. Pale blue boards with dark blue title to spine. 152 pages. Colour and two-tone illustrations throughout. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Small brown spot to front cover. Endpapers lightly browned and slightly grubby. Dustwrapper is worn, creased and torn with tape repairs on verso.

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JUMPING JOHNNY
Written by Kitty Why.
Stock no. 1321110
Published by Amex Company Ltd.. Good condition.

Based on the rhyme by Kitty Why. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour illustrations to each page (14) with small paragraph of text below. Covers are creased and a bit grubby. Staples rusty. Some slight markings to contents.

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LITTLE BOOKS FOR LITTLE PEOPLE
No author listed.
Stock no. 1320558
Published by Castell Brothers. Circa 1900. Very good condition.

Small box (11.5 x 9cm) containing 6 small rhyme books: Three Blind Mice, Little Blue Boy, Bo-Peep, The Man in the Moon, Baa! Baa! Black Sheep and Little Miss Muffett. Each book has pictorial cardwraps. Chromolithograph text illustrations. 3 of the books are lightly foxed on the covers. The box is just a little edge worn and lightly foxed.

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THE OLD MOTHER GOOSE NURSERY RHYME BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 1320450
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. Circa 1938. Good condition.

Small format. Pictorial front cover and spine. Red pictorial endpapers. 24 colour plates. 96 pages. Spine and corners are worn with some slight loss of surface paper. Covers are lightly scratched. Some light foxing to contents.

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LET'S HAVE A BITE! A BANQUET OF BEASTLY RHYMES
Written by Robert L. Forbes. Illustrated by Ronald Searle.
Stock no. 1320433
Published by Overlook Duckworth. 1st USA 2010. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, black titles. Colour illustrations throughout. Find the mouse in each illustration! ISBN: 9781590204092. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Light evidence of erased pencil to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is slightly browned and edge rubbed. Remains of a sticky label to rear panel.

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DAME PERKINS AND HER GREY MARE
Written by Lindon Meadows. Illustrated by Phiz.
Stock no. 1821069
Published by Sampson Low, Son & Marston. 1st 1866. Almost very good condition.

Or, The Mount For Market. Purple cloth with gilt titles and decoration to front cover. Colour illustrations. All edges gilt. Ex-lib with usual library labels and markings. Spine browned, boards discoloured and marked. Corners worn. Front endpaper missing. Joints cracked but binding tight. All plates present. Some grubby marks to contents.

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MY POETRY BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 2134184
Published by The Religious Tract Society. Circa 1859. Good condition.

Smaller format. Red/brown cloth with gilt title to spine. 3 Kronheim plates. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Browning with some uneven fading to cover edges and spine. Split/tear to cloth to one edge of cover; some fraying to cloth. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. A little writing to front pastedown. A few margin marks and the odd foxspot.

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ABC AND ALL THAT
Written by Gladys M. Rees. Illustrated by Gladys M. Rees.
Stock no. 1319692
Published by Robert Hale Limited. Circa 1948. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

In addition to a new rhyming alphabet, the nursery child's first introduction to numbers, coins, measure, time, the days, months and seasons and even some first prayers. Black pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations. 86 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped, cover edges slightly worn. Some light foxing. A light musty smell to contents. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed, slight loss of surface paper to top corner of rear panel.

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GRANDMA'S ATTIC TREASURES
Written by Mary D. Brine.
Stock no. 2133955
Published by Griffith and Farran. Circa 1906. Good condition.

Larger format. Blue cloth with gilt and black titles and decorations. A Story of Old-Time Memories. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; some tears to cloth at base of spine; some fraying. Marks to covers. Front endpaper is nearly fully detached. Inscription in ink to free front endpaper. Foxing throughout.

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