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THE OLD WILLOW TREE AND OTHER STORIES
Written by Carl Ewald. Illustrated by Helen Jacobs; G.E. Lee.
Stock no. 1325897
Published by Thornton Butterworth Ltd.. 1st 1921. Almost very good condition.

Translated by A. Teixeira de Mattos. Blue cloth, blackk titles. Colour onlay to front cover. Pictorial endpapers. 4 colour and 4 b/w plates. Spine and corners bumped and worn with a small nick to top of spine. Covers slightly grubby and marked. Endpapers browned. Foxing to contents.

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MY NICEST STORY BOOK
Written by Ada Leonora Harris; Evelyn Smith; Agnes Grozier Herbertson; Ruth M. Arthur; et al. Illustrated by Helen Jacobs; Jack Orr; Harry Rountree; Harry B. Neilson; Honor C. Appleton; Anne Anderson; Ernest A. Aris; et al..
Stock no. 1325501
Published by Blackie And Son Limited. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Orange cloth spine, pictorial front board showing a girl reading surrounded by toys. Colour plates plus b/w illustrations. First story is Tales Of A Grandfather. Spine bumped. Corners bumped and slightly worn. Name plate to front free-endpaper. Name in green crayon to front pastedown. Foxing to textblock, endpapers and some page margins. Dustwrapper is edge worn with loss, rear panel is grubby with tears.

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CHOPSTICKS
Written by F.I. Codrington. Illustrated by Helen Jacobs.
Stock no. 1324899
Published by Zenith Press. 3rd Very good condition.

Third edition. Cream pictorial cloth. 154 pages. Colour frontis, b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. 1" loss of backstrip to top of spine. Neat name in ink to front free-endpaper.

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UNCLE OOJAH'S BIG ANNUAL
Written by Flo Lancaster; G.F. Christie; et al. Illustrated by Irene Heath; Helen Jacobs; et al..
Stock no. 1324793
Published by Allied Newspapers Limited. 1932. Very good condition.

Red pictorial boards with pictorial spine. Front cover shows Oojah passing an annual with his trunk. First story is Uncle Oojah's Happy Island by Lancaster. Colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Some page browning and foxing. Some hinges cracked causing contents to be slightly loose.

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THE ROMANCE OF READING FIRST SERIES BOOK III PLEASANT PATHS
Written by R.K. Polkinghorne; M.I.R. Polkinghorne. Illustrated by A.H. Watson; Florence Harrison; Helen Jacobs; Ernest A. Aris; et al..
Stock no. 1324630
Published by Oxford University Press. 1953. Very good condition.

Blue decorated cloth. Some colour plates plus many b/w text illustrations. 192 pages. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Spine faded. Small dent to lower edges of covers. Some page corners lightly creased, lower corner of last text page neatly removed (text not affected).

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MY OWN NURSERY RHYME BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Helen Jacobs.
Stock no. 2130306
Published by Henry Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1913. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine. Pictorial front cover showing a mother reading a book to her children. 4 plates. B/w illustrations. Slight bowing to covers. Darkening to spine. Wear to cover edges. Inscription in ink to belongs to box. Foxing and marks throughout.

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TALES OF FARM AND HOME
Written by Elizabeth Gould; et al. Illustrated by B. Butler; Helen Jacobs; et al..
Stock no. 1507204
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Very good condition.

Pictorial front cover, cloth spine, black titles. Front cover title is Stories of Farm and Home. Colour and b/w illustrations. 10.25 x 8". Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Two small bumps to lower edge of front cover. Rear cover and spine slightly grubby. Light browning to endpapers. Two faint numbers to front pastedown. Light foxing to text block. Contents very good.

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BY RIVER AND SEA STORIES OF FAR-OFF BOYS AND GIRLS
Written by Mary Entwistle. Illustrated by Helen Jacobs.
Stock no. 1406506
Published by Edinburgh House Press. 1st 1929. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Round the World Series No. 5. Cream pictorial board with black title to spine. Blue and black titles to front cover. B/w pictorial endpapers and text illustrations. Colour frontis. 62 pages. 7 x 5". Spine and corners bumped. Small split to top of spine. Light foxing to covers. Light foxing and some fingering to contents. Dustwrapper is edge worn with some tears. Area of loss to bottom of rear panel. White labels to verso to cover tears and loss. Some spots to front panel (possibly grease). Wrapper is grubby.

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BUBBLES ANNUAL 1924
No author listed. Illustrated by Louis Wain; Helen Jacobs; Herbert Foxwell; et al..
Stock no. 1315755
Published by The Amalgamated Press. 1924. Very good condition.

Large format approx. 12.5 x 9.5". Cloth spine, pictorial front cover, advert to rear. Colour and b/w illustrations. 100 pages. Some Louis Wain illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn with clear tape to lower corner of front cover. Cover edges rubbed. Small white address label to front pastedown. Old tape mark and an embossed stamp to front endpaper. Contents light browned but clean.

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BUBBLES ANNUAL 1924
No author listed. Illustrated by Louis Wain; Helen Jacobs; Herbert Foxwell; et al..
Stock no. 1504594
Published by The Amalgamated Press. 1924. Slightly better than good condition.

Large format approx. 12.5 x 9.5". Cloth spine, pictorial front cover, advert to rear. Colour and b/w illustrations. 100 pages. Some Louis Wain illustrations. Spine bumped, wear to cover edges, heavy wear to corners. Covers a bit grubby. Front joint badly cracked showing webbing. Belongs to box completed neatly in pen. Contents are edge browned with a few margin tears and an odd fingermark but generally very good.

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ACTING GAMES
Written by Freda Collins. Illustrated by Helen Jacobs; et al..
Stock no. 1311306
Published by University of London Press Ltd.. 1948. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Revised and Enlarged edition. 14 little plays for any number of children to take part. 160 pages. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. A few small foxspots to page edges. Dustwrapper is edge worn and torn, section to lower edge of front panel almost torn off.

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