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BRITISH BIRDS AND THEIR NESTS
Written by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Allen W. Seaby.
Stock no. 1331339
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Circa 1958. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 536. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Spine slightly browned. Heavy pencil initials to front free-endpaper (KR). Contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is edge rubbed, slightly faded to spine and a bit grubby to rear panel.

BRITISH BIRDS AND THEIR NESTS
Written by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Allen W. Seaby.
Stock no. 1331078
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Circa 1960. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 536. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and faded to spine. No titles listed on rear flap.

A SECOND BOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS AND THEIR NESTS
Written by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Allen W. Seaby.
Stock no. 1331040
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 2nd 1954. Good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Ladybird series 536. Light grey boards with colour vignette and titles. Colour illustrations throughout. Spine and corners bumped. Some pale foxing to covers. Light pencil marks to front cover have been mostly erased. Substantial crayon marks and doodles to rear cover. Inscription in ink to verso of front free-endpaper. Contents are clean. Price-cut wrapper is edge rubbed, grubby and creased to rear panel.

BROTHER MARCUS AND THE BIRDS
Written by Austin Burn-Jones. Illustrated by Marion Smylie-Wild.
Stock no. 1330447
Published by Imagier Publishing. 1st 2010. Slightly better than very good condition.

A Colour & Read book. "Choose your favourite crayons and colour in each page as you read about Brother Marcus and the Birds". Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Limited to 200 copies. ISBN: 9780955841583. Covers ever so slightly grubby. Corner tips ever so slightly creased. Contents fine.

FARAWAY LOOK ONE
Written by Peter Scott; Philippa Scott. Illustrated by Peter Scott.
Stock no. 1329149
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Colour and b/w photos. B/w illustrations. A natural history book for children. SIGNED by the authors to half title-page. Foxing to contents, heavy foxing to wrapper flaps and verso of wrapper. Slight rubbing to wrapper edges.

FARAWAY LOOK TWO
Written by Peter Scott; Philippa Scott.
Stock no. 1329148
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This book tells of Peter and Philippa's travels and of the animals and birds they met in the British Virgin Islands, Trinidad, Panama and the Galapagos Islands. Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photo illus throughout. 120 pages. 8.5 x 6.5". Spine and corners bumped. Heavy foxing to contents and to dustwrapper. Wrapper is slightly edge rubbed and faded to spine.

SONGBIRD STORY
Written by Michael Rosen. Illustrated by Jill Dow.
Stock no. 1329012
Published by Frances Lincoln. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition.

Two songbirds soar among the leaves and branches, filling the woods with their singing. Then along comes the birdcatcher with his traps.... Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0711207186. Spine is faded else a fine copy.

HOW TO RECOGNISE YOUNG BIRDS
Written by Eric Pochin. Illustrated by Eric Pochin.
Stock no. 1328780
Published by Brockhampton Press. 1st 1951. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The Young Naturalist series. Beige boards with brown title and vignette to front. 124 delightful colour pictures. Foxing to endpapers and prelims. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is price-cut, edge-chipped, very slightly grubby with a few spots to front panel.

THE BOOK OF BABY BIRDS
Written by W. Gilhespy. Illustrated by Cicely Englefield; Alan Wright.
Stock no. 1328417
Published by T. Nelson & Sons; T.C. & E.C. Jack. 1st 1933. Good condition.

Beige pictorial cloth. 16 beautiful colour plates. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Covers grubby. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins and some light foxing.

THE BIRD BOOK
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Roland Green.
Stock no. 1328329
Published by George Newnes Ltd.. 2nd 1929. Very good condition.

Red cloth spine, pictorial boards. 4 colour plates and numerous b/w illustrations. An informative bird book for children. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers edge rubbed. Slight loss of surface paper damage to top spine corner of rear board. Foxing else contents clean.

THE DICKIE-BIRDIE BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 1325538
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. Circa 1916. Very good condition.

A book of poems about birds. Off-white cloth with green title and pictorial onlay to front. 12 beautiful colour plates. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Covers slightly browned at spine and edges. Endpapers lightly browned and foxed.

KIOU THE OWL
Written by Vassilissa. Illustrated by Romain Simon.
Stock no. 1324305
Published by Andre Deutsch Limited. 1st UK 1982. Very good condition.

Pere Castor Books. Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0233975055. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. A-/ written in biro to front pastedown. A few light marks to rear endpapers. Contents clean.