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BOSKY GOLDFISH (POET)
Written by Peter Thornhill.
Stock no. 2112172
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine. Pictorial front cover. Colour illustrations throughout. Large print. Byron Omar Shakespeare Kipling Yeats Goldfish was so small when he was born that if he hadn't been all shining gold...nobody would have known he was there at all. Bumping and wear to corners; a little chipping. Front cover is a little bowed. Odd foxspot and margin mark. Illustrations are remarkably bright!

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FRANK FLOWER THE BOY WAR-CORRESPONDENT
Written by A.B. Cooper.
Stock no. 2112167
Published by C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Brown pictorial cloth with orange/black titles. Bumping and wear to covers; some scuffing. Front cover is a little bowed. Foxing and some page browning.

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THE HEROIC IMPOSTER
Written by Tom Bevan.
Stock no. 2112166
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth with black titles and vignettes. B/w frontis. Some fading to cover edges and spine; a little bumping. Foxing. Wrapper is creased with some edge-tears and chips; a little loss.

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THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN
No author listed. Illustrated by Gustav Canton.
Stock no. 1311370
Published by Joseph, Myers & Co.. circa 1863. Good condition.

"An Invitation to the Youth of both Sexes to contemplate animated nature in 16 plates designed and engraved on stone by Gustavus Canton. Text according to the best and latest authorities on natural sciences". Large format. Embossed navy cloth with gilt title and decoration to front cover. 97 pages. Cream endpapers. Spine and corners bumped and worn, spine professionally re-backed retaining original cloth. Cover edges lightly rubbed. Covers a bit grubby. Name and date in ink to front endpaper. Joints cracked and repaired, Small binders sticker to rear pastedown. There is foxing and grubby fingermarks throughout and there are light damp stains to the plates (mainly evident on verso but some do show stains to front, however, colours are still bright on all plates). A decent copy of a very scarce book.

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HERE'S TO YOU RACHEL ROBINSON
Written by Judy Blume.
Stock no. 1501905
Published by Heinemann. 1st 1993. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Rachel Robinson, gifted musician and straight-A student, is rapidly finding boys to be the biggest problem in her life... Red boards, white title to spine. 196 pages. ISBN: 0434966142. Lower corners bumped, base of spine lightly bumped. Erased pencil marks to front endpaper otherwise contents clean. Rear flap of dustwrapper is edge creased.

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FIVE IN A FAMILY
Written by Mrs. A.C. Osborn Hann.
Stock no. 1311357
Published by Lutterworth Press. 1st 1951. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Green boards, black title to spine. Colour frontis. 160 pages. Spine bumped. Prize plate to front endpaper. Endpapers lightly browned and some foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn and price-cut.

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THE PRINCE & THE IMPOSSIBLE QUEST (A TREASURE HOUR STORY BOOK LR 5)
Written by Petre Ispirescu.
Stock no. 1605600
Published by Murrays Sales & Service Co.; Ion Creanga Publishing House. 1974. Good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. Translated from the Romanian by Ana Cartianu. Retold by Lornie Leete-Hodge. 16 pages. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0719602947. Covers creased and grubby. Page corners are creased and there are some grubby marks but overall contents are VG.

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BONZO IN DER SOMMERFRISCHE
Written by G.E. Studdy; George Jellicoe. Illustrated by G.E. Studdy.
Stock no. 1402136
Published by Artur Wolf. Almost very good condition.

Small format. Pictorial cardwraps. Text in German. Translated by Helga Kundt. Bonzo in the Summer. Covers are creased and worn. Spine is rubbed. Rear cover is grubby. Split to top and bottom of spine. Browning and light foxing to pages. Contents split at bottom of spine to first staple. Contents are detached.

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CYRIL THE SQUIRREL
Written by Leonora Fry. Illustrated by Peter Fraser.
Stock no. 1501885
Published by Partridge Publications Ltd.. Slightly better than good condition.

Cyril thinks his home, Tree-Trunk Lodge, is to be felled. Colour pictorial boards. Blue and white and blue, pink and white illustrations. 48 pages. Spine and corners are bumped and worn. Some small splits to backstrip. Covers a little grubby and scuffed. A few coloured pencil marks to endpapers and a couple of illustrations at the start of the story. Contents slightly pulled.

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THE RED UMBRELLA
No author listed.
Stock no. 1501884
Published by W.H.C. London. Very good condition.

Amusing rhyme about the colour coming out of an umbrella. The Success Series. Small format, approx 5" x 3.6". Paperwraps. Colour pictorial covers. 6 pages of text and 6 full page colour illustrations, 2 pages to colour at end of book. Staples rusty. Name to top margin on front cover.

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SCHOONER ON THE ROCKS
Written by Alexis Brown. Illustrated by Jenifer Armour.
Stock no. 1501881
Published by Dennis Dobson. 1st 1966. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

David and his friends help to search for the real thief after Captain Ramon is accused of stealing from his schooner, which has been driven aground in a gale. Blue boards with silver titles to spine. B/w illustrations. 183 pages. Minimal wear to spine and corners. Small closed tear to front endpaper. Odd fox spot, contents very good. Price-cut dustwrapper is a little edge worn and grubby. Black marks above sun on front panel, possibly from removal of a label.

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DRUSCILLA
Written by Clarice England. Illustrated by Lynley Dodd.
Stock no. 1501878
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1980. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of Druscilla, spirited, sensitive and eloquent, a fascinated observer of the grown-up world flowing around her. Set in New Zealand. Dark orange boards with white title block to spine. Colour and b/w illustrations. 91 pages. ISBN: 0340256915. Top edges of covers and spine faded. Contents clean. Top edges of dustwrapper flaps browned.

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