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CAPTAIN BEAKY & HIS BAND THE HAUNTED WOOD
Written by Jeremy Lloyd. Illustrated by Keith Michell.
Stock no. 2130890
Published by Chappell Music Ltd.; Elm Tree Books. 1st 1980. Very good condition.

Card wraps. Colour illustrations. Illustrations based on the characters created by Keith Mitchell for the Captain Beaky book. ISBN: 0903443430. Inscription in ink to inside front cover.

DAISY COMES HOME
Written by Jan Brett. Illustrated by Jan Brett.
Stock no. 2130802
Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1st USA 2002. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Square format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. American edition. ISBN: 039923618X.

THE WILD CHRISTMAS REINDEER
Written by Jan Brett. Illustrated by Jan Brett.
Stock no. 2130801
Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. Circa 1999. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Larger oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. American edition. ISBN: 0399221921. 17th printing.

HEDGIE'S SURPRISE
Written by Jan Brett. Illustrated by Jan Brett.
Stock no. 2130800
Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1st USA 2000. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. American edition. ISBN: 0399234772.

THE UMBRELLA
Written by Jan Brett. Illustrated by Jan Brett.
Stock no. 2130798
Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1st USA 2004. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. American edition. ISBN: 0399242155. Light browning to edges of wrapper.

COMET'S NINE LIVES
Written by Jan Brett. Illustrated by Jan Brett.
Stock no. 2130796
Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. American edition. ISBN: 0399229310. Reprint. Some browning to parts of wrapper.

FURTHER TALES OF MR PENGACHOOSA
Written by Caroline Rush. Illustrated by Peter Rush; Caroline Rush.
Stock no. 1817581
Published by Rupert Hart-Davis. 1st 1967. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The redoubtable Mr Pengachoosa finds himself in fanciful situations quite unsuited to hamsters in general, but than, of course, he isn't a 'general' sort of hamster at all... Each story is founded in the real world of a girl and her pet hamster and each returns to it after considerable flights of fancy... Pink boards, gilt title to spine and vignette of hamster to front board. B/w illustrations. A little loss to margin of gutter edge of front endpaper. Small name in ink to front pastedown hidden by the front flap of dustwrapper. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn with a few closed tears and yellowing tape to verso at edges.

CHURCH MICE AND MRS CLUCKABIDDY'S FRIENDS
Written by C.B. Nelson. Illustrated by C.B. Nelson.
Stock no. 2130431
Published by Figurehead. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Brown slip case with pictorial onlay containing two volumes. Books have cream p/w with pictorial onlays, and b/w illustrations throughout. 9 x 6". Staples to both bindings have rusted, so that covers have come away from contents. Original glassine wrappers are still present, with brown marks from rusting staples; chipping to edges. Slip case is good; grubby with couple of splits at edges.

THE TALE OF GINGER & PICKLES
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 2130409
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1971. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Small format. Cream boards with pictorial onlay to front cover. Green titles. 75 pages. Colour illustrations. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is browned to spine and edges. A few marks to wrapper, also closed tear.

MY MOTHER
Written by R.M. Ballantyne; Comus; Ann Taylor.
Stock no. 2130362
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons. 1st 1857. Good condition.

An adaptation of the poem by Ann Taylor, with a prose version and two musical settings. Comus is the pseudonym for R.M.Ballantyne. Large format. Green embossed cloth with gilt title and vignette to front cover. 32 pages. 8 attractive colour plates. The story of a kitten. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Grubby marks and uneven fading to covers. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Creasing and a few margin tears, foxing, including to plate pages. Frontis is very creased; appears to at one time have been folded. Some damp marks. A reading copy.

LITTLE GREY RABBIT'S WASHING-DAY
Written by Alison Uttley. Illustrated by Margaret Tempest.
Stock no. 2130240
Published by Collins. 1st 1942. Fair condition.

Grey pictorial boards. Colour pictures throughout. 84 pages. Grubby marks and wear to covers. Scuffing and some surface paper damage to edges. A few hinges are pulled. Pages 12 and 13 have ink spillage across them. A reading copy only!

THE FOUR CATS OF THE TIPPERTONS
Written by Julia Goddard.
Stock no. 2129993
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. Almost very good condition.

Two blue cloths with gilt titles. Leaf vignette. And Other Stories about Animals. B/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; some chipping/fraying to cloth. Scuffing. Grubby marks to covers. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Foxing and grubby marks to pages.