OLD ENGLISH NURSERY SONGS
Written by Horace Mansion. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 1324627
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. Circa 1928. Almost very good condition.

Music by Horace Mansion. 8 quite charming colour plates plus b/w drawings illustrate this selection of nursery rhymes. Includes musical score for voice and piano. Buff boards with blue pictorial onlay to front cover. 11 x 8.5". 88 pages. Spine and corners bumped, top corner of rear cover quite badly worn. Scuffing to front cover edges. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. One of the plates is loose with ragged edges. Grubby fingermarks to page margins and some foxing to contents.

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NUMBER NINE JOY STREET
Written by Michael Lynn. Illustrated by L.R. Brightwell; Eve Garnett; C.T. Nightingale; et al..
Stock no. 1324625
Published by Basil Blackwell. Good condition.

A medley of prose & verse for boys and girls. Contributors include Laurence Housman, Compton Mackenzie, Hugh Chesterman etc. One story illustrated in colour, packed with b/w illustrations. Cream cloth with blue titles and decorations on covers. Spine and corners rubbed, spine slightly browned. Half title-page is detached at lower 2". Colouring to quite a number of the b/w illustrations. Some light fingermarks to page margins.

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THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
No author listed. Illustrated by A.E. Jackson.
Stock no. 1324621
Published by Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth spine, pictorial boards. 24 colour plates. The Sunshine Series. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Slight damp stain to lower edge of rear board. Contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn with some damp stains.

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THE UNTIDY GNOME
Written by Stella Gibbons. Illustrated by William Townsend.
Stock no. 1324616
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1st 1935. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

The only children's book by the author of Cold Comfort Farm. Gerda, a little girl who is taken prisoner by the Elves and kept in a cave with an old gnome, is rescued by the princess of the fairies. Beige cloth, red titles and illustration to front cover. 180 pages. Two-colour text illustrations throughout. Spine bumped, some very slight darkening to lower edge of front cover. Name in ink and small embossed booksellers stamp to front free-endpaper. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is browned, chipped and torn to front edge of spine with loss at top and tail of spine. There are splash marks to spine of wrapper. A nice copy of a very scarce children's book. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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THE GREAT BOOK FOR GIRLS
Written by Mrs. Herbert Strang; Phillippa Francklyn; Winifred Darch; Bessie Marchant; et al. Illustrated by Grace Lodge; Mary S. Reeve; M.D. Johnston; et al..
Stock no. 1324607
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1937. Very good condition.

Pictorial boards, front shows The Games Captain (girl with a tennis racquet). First story is "The Sea Eagles' Nest" by Francklyn. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations throughout. Unpaginated. Covers are edge worn. Contents are browned but clean.

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THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
Written by Johann Wyss.
Stock no. 1324600
Published by William Clowes & Sons Ltd.. Very good condition.

Blue cloth, black titles and vignette to front cover. Colour frontis and 8 b/w illustrations. 383 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Spine faded. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Contents clean.

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CHRISTIE REDFERN'S TROUBLES
Written by Mrs Robertson. Illustrated by E. Barnard Lintott.
Stock no. 1324595
Published by The Religious Tract Society. Circa 1911. Very good condition.

Green cloth with red decoration to spine and front cover. Pictorial onlay to centre of front cover. 3 b/w plates. 384 pages plus 4 page booklist to rear. Spine and corners bumped. Small white paint(?) spot to top edge of rear cover. Name plate and tiny booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Prize plate to front free-endpaper. Foxing throughout else contents clean.

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IN THE KING'S NAME
Written by George Manville Fenn. Illustrated by Gordon Browne.
Stock no. 1324594
Published by Blackie And Son Limited. Circa 1905. Good condition.

Or, The Cruise of the Kestrel. Brown pictorial cloth with gilt titles. 12 b/w plates. vii + 374 pages + 32 page booklist. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Covers scuffed and slightly marked. Name plate to front pastedown. Pencil doodles erased from margins of page 65 and pencil doodles to rear endpapers. Joints and hinges pulled and cracked causing contents to be slightly loose. Contents are foxed and a bit grubby.

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RALPH THE OUTLAW
Written by Mrs. Henry Clarke.
Stock no. 1324591
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons. Almost very good condition.

A tale of adventure in medieval England. Colour frontis and title page. Grey pictorial cloth with gilt titles. 248 pages + 24 page booklist. Spine and corners bumped. Covers slightly grubby. Name plate to front pastedown. Small booksellers sticker to front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock, a couple of spots to margins. Some hinges pulled but generally binding still tight.

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BLACK BEAUTY
Written by Anna Sewell. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1324586
Published by Jarrolds. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

18 colour plates, specially drawn for this edition. Dark green cloth. Gilt titles to spine. Elaborate gilt decoration to front cover. 291 pages. Spine and corners bumped with some light damp staining to corners and a small hole to top of spine. Tiny white mark to rear cover. Name and price in ink to front free-endpaper. Light foxing to contents. Dustwrapper is grubby and worn with loss to spine and crease/tears to rear panel.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1955
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1324585
Published by Daily Express. 1955. Very good condition.

Colour laminated boards - Rupert hiking in a field. 1st story Rupert and Poll Parrot. 10x7 inches. 107 pages. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Light marks to covers. Endpapers are lightly browned, slight evidence of removal of a label to front free-endpaper. Name, adderess and date in belongs to box (blue biro). NOT price cut but price also written (in blue biro) 3 times to other corners of title-page. Crossword done in pencil. Painting contest part completed with entry form completed. Textblock is slightly grubby.

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SEA WITCH COMES HOME
Written by Malcolm Saville.
Stock no. 1324581
Published by George Newnes Ltd.. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A Lone Pine Adventure. Blue boards, gilt titles and lone pine vignette. Endpapers are maps. Spine and corners bumped. Small pink mark to top of spine and small white mark to centre of front cover. Slight foxing to textblock. Price-cut wrapper is edge rubbed with small tape repairs on verso, name in blue biro to front flap of wrapper.

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