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LITTLE BROWN HEN
No author listed. Illustrated by Violet M. Williams.
Stock no. 2125121
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A Father Tuck Little Book. Small square format (4.25 x 4.25"). Green pictorial boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Bump to top of spine. Home made 'library ticket' to front pastedown. Browning and foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is creased with edge-tears and chips; a little loss.

THE ADVENTURE OF THE FOUR WONDER CHICKENS AND THE AEROPLANE
Written by B. Kok. Illustrated by B. Kok; R.V. Looy.
Stock no. 1507201
Published by Arthur Barron Ltd.. circa 1948. Almost very good condition.

Miss Rooster and her Four Wonder Chickens No. 3. Oblong format. Cream cloth spine, pictorial front board. Colour illustrations. Unpaginated. Wear to corners and cover edges. Covers grubby with a few marks. Ink name, address and date to front pastedown. Foxing, mainly to title page. Just an odd mark to contents.

THE THREE BAD BANTAMS
Written by Kathleen Mv. Harke. Illustrated by Kathleen M.V. Harke.
Stock no. 2120398
Published by Valentine & Sons Ltd.. Very good condition.

Beige cloth spine, cream pictorial boards. Decorated endpapers. 39 pages. Full-page colour illustrations throughout. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. A bit of scuffing and some marks to covers. Inscription to front pastedown. Page browning and a few margin marks, but illustrations are lovely and bright!

THE COCK, THE MOUSE AND THE LITTLE RED HEN
Written by Felicite Lefevre. Illustrated by Tony Sarg.
Stock no. 1405019
Published by E. Grant Richards. 1st 1907. Good condition.

Green pictorial cloth with red titles to front board and black titles to spine. 24 colour illustrations. 103 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Spine a little faded and browned. White marks to rear board. Boards are grubby. Front joint badly cracked showing webbing beneath. Rear joint and several hinges cracked making the binding a little loose. Bottom of most pages detached. Pencil scribble to front endpaper and a couple of blank pages. 'The End' and some pencil lines to last text page. A few small edge tears. Grubby marks and some foxing to contents.

MR POPPLECORN & FOUR LITTLE HENS
Written by Margaret Musson. Illustrated by Kathleen Burrell.
Stock no. 1108840
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1946. Very good condition.

How Mr Popplecorn pretended he was a boy again by keeping hens and collecting their eggs. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. Full-page colour and two-tone text illustrations. Edges rubbed, corners worn. Contents clean.

EASTER EGGS
Written by Christoph Von Schmid. Illustrated by M.V. Wheelhouse.
Stock no. 450000
Published by George Bell & Sons. 1st 1908. Very good condition.

Brown pictorial boards with red titles. Lovely colour plates with paper guards plus b/w text illustrations. By the author of "A Basket Of Flowers". Corners are bumped and worn. Covers a bit grubby. Belongs to box completed in ink. Endpapers browned. A little foxing.

THE TALE OF CHICKABOO CHICK
Written by Ernest A. Aris. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris.
Stock no. 448352
Published by Ward Lock & Co Ltd.. 1st 1947. Very good condition.

Cloth spine, red pictorial front cover. Colour frontis and 7 colour plates and b/w illustrations. Corners worn and bumped. Uneven fading to covers. Foxing to outer page edges and prelims. Slight odour to book.

MRS. FLUSTER'S CIRCUS
Written by Angela Ogden. Illustrated by Angela Ogden.
Stock no. 739853
Published by Herbert Joseph Limited. 1st 1948. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Mrs. Fluster is a hen. Blue cloth. Colour text illustrations. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Previous owner's inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some light foxing and fingering but contents generally clean. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn with slight loss, browned to spine and a bit grubby/soiled.

SYLVESTER
Written by Judy Steel. Illustrated by Robin Hain.
Stock no. 668601
Published by The Amaising Publishing House Ltd.. 1st 1991. Nearly fine condition.

The story of Sylvester the cockerel with curly white feathers. Glazed white pictorial boards. Bright colour illustrations. ISBN: 1871512212. SIGNED by author on front pastedown.

MRS CLUCKABIDDY'S FRIENDS
Written by Charles Burrard Nelson. Illustrated by Charles Burrard Nelson.
Stock no. 650565
Published by Figurehead. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Cream paper wraps with pictorial wrapper attached. Colour and b/w plates. Minimal foxing. Wrapper very slightly worn at edges.

THE CHICKEN GAVE IT TO ME
Written by Anne Fine. Illustrated by Philippe Dupasquier.
Stock no. 730787
Published by Methuen Children's Books. 1st 1992. Nearly fine condition.

A comic masterpiece about a chicken's testament - the True Story of Harrowing Farm. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0416186270. SIGNED by author with inscription on title page. Spine very slightly bumped and faded.

PRETTY POLLY
Written by Dick King-Smith. Illustrated by David Parkins.
Stock no. 570336
Published by Viking. 1st 1992. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Abigail's family think she's mad to try teaching a hen to talk!... ISBN: 0670836877. Spine slightly bumped. A tiny mark to front cover. Contents fine. Pictorial wrapper is rubbed at corners.