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A HOUSE
Written by C.B. Parkes.
Stock no. 1503248
Published by The Educational Supply Association Ltd.. 1st 1954. Very good condition.

How things are made. Information Book. From the architect's plans to the construction and the different trades involved. Stiff card wraps, b/w illustrations. 95 pages. Slight wear to corners and a couple of small marks to rear cover. Corner tips creased on last few pages. Contents clean.

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TOBY TWIRL'S DILLYPADDLE POP-UP BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 1606130
Published by Sampson Low. 1954. Good condition.

Spiral bound, oblong format. 5 pop-up scenes. Covers bowed. Some splitting around spiral binding. Contents are generally very good, clean and bright. Pop-ups in working order.

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QUEEN OF THE WHEAT CASTLES
Written by Christobel Mattingley. Illustrated by Gavin Rowe.
Stock no. 1402931
Published by Brockhampton Press. 1st 1973. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Cathy, with her friend Mrs. Tabbs assumes responsibility for a growing number of homeless cats. When she fails to find them homes in her own community she ventures further afield - across the Australian wheat plains. Oblong format. Pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0340172045. A little bumping to spine and corners. Some foxing to endpapers and text block edge. Small pink mark to top of front endpaper. Light creasing to last few pages. Contents clean. Pictorial wrapper is edgeworn with chipping and a couple of small tears. Original price crossed out (on front flap) and new price added in blue ink. Wrapper slightly grubby.

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THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY
Written by Ezra Jack Keats. Illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats.
Stock no. 1606062
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1969. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Oblong format. Words and music by Katherine Davis, Henry Onorati and Harry Simeone. ISBN: 0370015118. Corners rubbed. Name in ink to front endpaper. Wrapper has a couple of small edge tears.

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BRER RABBIT STORIES
No author listed.
Stock no. 1712646
Published by Birn Brothers Ltd.. Very good condition.

Cloth spine. Green pictorial boards. Two-tone illustrations. First story Brer Rabbit and the Paper Chase. Edges and corners worn.

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BONZO'S ANNUAL 1951
Written by G.E. Studdy; Christine E. Bradley. Illustrated by G.E. Studdy.
Stock no. 1503215
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. 1951. Almost very good condition.

Front cover shows Bonzo as a cowboy. Red cloth spine. Spine bumped, worn and marked. Wear to corners and cover edges. Lots of pin holes to front cover, ink marks and drawing to rear cover. Belongs to box completed in pen and crossed out, date above. Pencil drawings to rear endpaper. Light browning to endpapers. Just one or two small marks to contents.

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MISS MOUSE AND HER BOYS
Written by Mrs. Molesworth. Illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke.
Stock no. 1605976
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1897. Almost very good condition.

Orange cloth with black illustration to front and spine, gilt title to spine. 7 b/w illustrations. Corners bumped, some wear and splitting to spine. Spine scuffed with some fading of gilt. Joints cracked, inscription to front pastedown. One plate MISSING. One plate has been coloured.

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THE YOUNGEST ANNUAL
No author listed. Illustrated by H.M. Brock; Jack Orr; Lilian A. Govey; J.M. Rickard; et al..
Stock no. 1313654
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. Very good condition.

Large format. Cream cloth spine, pictorial front board shows boy in a toy car with girl sat on the bonnet waving to the reader. First story "The Rabbity Ruffikins Family". Colour plates plus b/w illustrations to text. 144 pages. Spine and corners bumped. A few light spots to covers and some light rubbing at edges. Old price (75p) in black biro to front pastedown. Some grubby fingermarks but contents generally clean.

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NOAH'S ARK
Written by Jasper Dimond. Illustrated by Jasper Dimond.
Stock no. 1313650
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1983. Very good condition.

A book and press-out model. Large oblong format. Pictorial card wraps. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0241109663. Spine and corners slightly bumped. The book originally came in a slipcase but this is missing. Contents are fine and unused.

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BABY'S OWN ANNUAL 1953
No author listed.
Stock no. 1313640
Published by The Amalgamated Press. 1953. Good condition.

Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Nursery rhymes, ABC, reading primer. Covers are grubby, edge rubbed and creased at corners. Price NOT cut. Page corner tips creased throughout. Staples rusty. Grubby fingermarks to page edges.

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THE CUCKOO TREE
Written by Joan Aiken. Illustrated by Pat Marriott.
Stock no. 1402899
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1971. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Dido Twite and Captain Hughes set out from Chichester Harbour with urgent dispatches for London. Their coach overturns in the middle of nowhere leading Dido to become involved in some 'havey cavey goings in' with smugglers, witches, kidnappers and treasonous pirates. Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w text illus. 251 pages. ISBN: 0224005146. Spine and corners bumped. Ex -Library with stamps to front and rear endpapers. Textblock edge a little grubby but contents are clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge worn. Spine is darkened.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1938 (FACSIMILE) - THE NEW RUPERT BOOK
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1402893
Published by Daily Express. 1989. Slightly better than very good condition.

Reproduction of the third Rupert annual. Pictorial paper-covered boards showing Rupert waving from a tree. Red cloth spine. Red, black and white pictures throughout. 125 pages. ISBN: 0850791979. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Name label and handwritten date to belongs to box. Light foxing to prelims and endpapers. Small mark to bottom edge of text block. Still has original wrap-around band to book which is slightly faded to spine. Copy no. 07987.

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