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CONVENT CAT
Written by Bunshu Iguchi; Barbara Willard. Illustrated by Bunshu Iguchi.
Stock no. 1330496
Published by Hamish Hamilton Childrens Books. 1st 1975. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A stray kitten finds its home in a convent and nearly loses it through misadventure. Translated from the Japanese by Willard. Large colour pictures. Easy to read text. Glazed pictorial boards. ISBN: 0241892252. Musty smell to contents. Light page browning and some evidence of erased pencil marks to title-page. Price-cut wrapper is just a tiny bit edge creased

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DUCK ON A POND
Written by Barbara Willard. Illustrated by Mary Rose Hardy.
Stock no. 1330476
Published by Constable and Company Ltd.. 1st 1962. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Tim and Janie rescue a duck from the common pond. Dark green boards, gilt title to spine. Vignette to front cover. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Light stain to base of spine (affecting spine edges of covers). Endpapers partly browned. Small mark to front pastedown. Dustwrapper is edge worn and torn with tape repairs on verso.

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THE QUEEN OF THE PHARISEES' CHILDREN
Written by Barbara Willard.
Stock no. 1328881
Published by Julia MacRae Books. 1st 1983. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth, gilt title to spine. 130 pages. Moll Swayne was a magical creature to her children, a creature of light and air and sunshine, the Queen of the Pharisees who danced in a fairy ring... Winner of the Whitbread Award 1984. ISBN: 0862031486. Spine and corners bumped. Top edge of textblock is dusty and foxed. Dustwrapper has a blue felt-tip pen mark crossing out the printed price on the front flap.

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SNAIL AND THE PENNITHORNES
Written by Barbara Willard. Illustrated by Geoffrey S. Fletcher.
Stock no. 1328457
Published by The Epworth Press. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green boards, cream title to spine and snail vignette to front cover. Excellent b/w text illustrations. 182 pages. 8" x 5.5". Minimal bumping to spine. Light crease to lower corner of page 53/4. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed and slightly browned to spine with minimal loss at top.

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SNAIL AND THE PENNITHORNES AND THE PRINCESS
Written by Barbara Willard. Illustrated by Geoffrey S. Fletcher.
Stock no. 1502292
Published by The Epworth Press. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Dark pink boards, cream title to spine and vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. 159 pages. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Endpapers partially lightly browned. Foxing, mainly to prelims and text block. Grubby mark to text block. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped with a few small tears. Unevenly browned and foxed, very foxed on verso.

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PERSONAL EFFECTS
Written by Barbara Willard.
Stock no. 1502235
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1939. Very good condition.

Grey patterned covers with blue titles to spine. 337 pages. Some bumping to spine and corners. A little erased pencil writing to front endpapers. Contents generally clean.

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BRIDESMAID
Written by Barbara Willard. Illustrated by Jane Paton.
Stock no. 673089
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1976. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Pink pictorial paperboards. Two-tone illustrations. 46 pages. A Gazelle Book. ISBN: 0241893518. price-cut wrapper very slightly grubby to edges.

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SNAIL AND THE PENNITHORNES AND THE PRINCESS
Written by Barbara Willard. Illustrated by Geoffrey S. Fletcher.
Stock no. 731683
Published by The Epworth Press. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Dark pink boards, cream title to spine and vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. 159 pages. Spine slightly bumped. Endpapers partly browned. Contents clean. White pictorial wrapper is slightly grubby with tape reinforcements to verso at top of spine and flap folds. A nice copy.

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