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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

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.

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.

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.

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.