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SILLY SILLY
Written by Tony Ross. Illustrated by Tony Ross.
Stock no. 1501108
Published by Andersen Press. 1st 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

Pictorial glazed boards. Colour illustrations. Mouse and Duck are arguing about which of them is the sillier... ISBN: 0862647401. Spine slightly bumped with small nick at bottom. Very pale page edge browning otherwise contents excellent.

THE MOUSE'S HOUR
Written by M. Fitzgerald. Illustrated by K.F. Barker.
Stock no. 1308676
Published by Country Life Ltd.. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A fantasy in rhyme. Pale grey cloth, green titles to spine and front cover. B/w pencil sketches. Very small green mark to front cover. Light damp stain to base of spine, affecting front and rear covers. Endpapers lightly browned, a few foxspots to contents else clean. Dustwrapper is price-cut (large section cut from front flap), is foxed and slightly grubby and has a few small marks to rear panel.

ANIMAL ANTICS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1806558
Published by The Children's Press. Slightly better than very good condition.

Yellow pictorial card wraps. Large colour illustrations to each page with text below. 6 pages. Light browning otherwise a nice copy.

ANIMAL ANTICS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1806553
Published by The Children's Press. Very good condition.

Yellow pictorial card wraps. Large colour illustrations to each page with text below. 6 pages. Browning to margins else a fine copy.

THE GIFTED BEAR
Written by Rosemary Hammond. Illustrated by Rosemary Hammond.
Stock no. 1706677
Published by Geoffrey Cumberlege; Oxford University Press. 1st 1946. Very good condition.

Small format. Green pictorial card wraps. A delightful story of a little bear with many talents. Cute colour illustrations and text in script. Covers browned.

TIM TUBBY TOES
Written by Harry Golding. Illustrated by M.M. Rudge; D.E. Braham.
Stock no. 2108036
Published by Ward Lock & Co Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Small format. Light brown decorated boards. Colour pictorial onlay to front cover. 85 numbered pages. Attractive colour pictorial endpapers. The Little Wonder Books series. Bumping and wear to cover edges and corners. Some browning to covers. Inscription in ink to half-title page. Grubby margin marks. A couple of small margin tears.

AN ALPHABET OF ANIMALS
No author listed. Illustrated by Carton Moorepark.
Stock no. 1307920
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1899. Almost very good condition.

Magnificent b/w plate for each animal along with a paragraph of text on each. Large format. Green boards and spine, front shows a pair of shire(?) horses. Spine rebacked with green cloth keeping most of the original title-strip. Corners worn and some slight scuffing to covers. Endpapers professionally replaced. Some light fingering else contents clean.

SPIDER IN THE SKY
Written by Anne Rose. Illustrated by Gail Owens.
Stock no. 1805487
Published by Harper & Row. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Based upon the story 'How the Sun Came' from American Indian Mythology by Alice Marriott and Carol K. Rachlin. Relates how Grandmother Spider brought fire and light to the animals in the long ago. Matt blue pictorial paper boards. B/w and two tone illustrations. ISBN: 0060250739. Corners lightly rubbed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents fine. Price-cut wrapper is a little grubby and worn at corners.

JUMPING MOUSE
Written by Brian Patten. Illustrated by Mary Moore.
Stock no. 1805435
Published by The Hawthorn Press. 2nd 2010. Nearly fine condition.

Second Edition. A folk-tale. Purple pictorial boards and endpapers. Colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781903458990. Light scuffing to covers, contents fine.

LITTLE LAMB
Written by Dahris Martin. Illustrated by Lilly Somppi.
Stock no. 2106463
Published by Collins. 1st 1938. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Oblong format. Green cloth with dark green title to front. Charming colour illustrations to every other page. Browning to endpapers. Some foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with browning, foxing, a few marks and some chips/nicks; closed tear to rear panel. A lovely little book!

QUEER CREATURES
Written by E.S.T.. Illustrated by E.S.T..
Stock no. 1307031
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1st 1913. Very good condition.

Beige cloth spine, grey pictorial boards. 80 pages. B/w text illustrations. Verses describing very peculiar creatures! Spine bumped, corners slightly worn. Some discolouration to covers. Endpapers lightly browned. Front joint broken at lower 4" (causing first couple of gatherings to be part detached). Contents clean.

BOB BUSHTAIL'S ADVENTURE
Written by A.J. Macgregor; W. Perring. Illustrated by A.J. Macgregor.
Stock no. 2105226
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 7th 1949. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird series 401. Brown boards with square pictorial onlay to front and titles. Colour illustrations throughout. Revised verses by Perring. Fading and foxing to a couple of cover edges. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Heavy creasing to just two pages. Wrapper is chipped/nicked to edges, with a few scuffs and grubby marks.