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THE FAIRY WASHING PAINTING AND STORY BOOK
Written by Dorothy Marsh. Illustrated by Chow.
Stock no. 2118352
Published by Blackfriars Press. Slightly better than very good condition.

Paperwraps. Storybook, with different scenes depicted on opposite page with a larger picture to colour in (to copy from smaller picture). Pages are browned. Drawings are NOT coloured in.

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THE FAIRIES' WEDDING
Written by Bassett Green. Illustrated by Ray Foster.
Stock no. 1314927
Published by The Mercian Publishers. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

An illustrated fairy tale for children of all ages. Black cloth spine, cream pictorial boards. Lovely colour illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Endpapers lightly browned/foxed. SIGNED by the author by means of an inscription in ink to front endpaper - "Paula with love from the Author". Contents bright and clean. Dustwrapper is slightly grubby, has loss to base of spine, lower front corner and top spine corner.

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THE GREEN FIDDLER
Written by George Kalkar. Illustrated by Louis Moe.
Stock no. 2117988
Published by Thomas De La Rue & Co. Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Large oblong format. Black cloth spine, white pictorial front board. Delightful colour and b/w illustrations featuring fairies. The Green Fiddler is a cricket. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Some scuffing to cover edges. Grubby marks with some erased pencil marks to covers. Title page has small margin tear and is browned, with a little foxing. Colour illustrations are in beautiful condition - nice and bright, just a few foxspots to page margins. Last page (which is a plate page) has a large repaired tear.

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SUMMER SONGS WITH MUSIC
Written by Cicely Mary Barker; Olive Linnell. Illustrated by Cicely Mary Barker.
Stock no. 2115451
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Beige paper boards with green titles. Green cloth spine. Pictorial onlay to front board. 12 poems with accompanying tipped-in colour plate and music by Linnell. Bumping and wear to spine and cover edges. Red marks to cloth spine. Some scuff marks and indentation marks to rear cover. Foxing to outer page edges and some page margins.

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SUMMER SONGS WITH MUSIC
Written by Cicely Mary Barker; Olive Linnell. Illustrated by Cicely Mary Barker.
Stock no. 1713072
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1926. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Beige paper boards with green titles. Green cloth spine. Pictorial onlay to front board. 12 poems with accompanying tipped-in colour plate and music by Linnell. Light foxing to prelims. Wrapper chipped and grubby with odd short closed tear.

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OFF TO FAIRYLAND
No author listed.
Stock no. 1711823
Published by Ernest Nister; E.P. Dutton & Co.. Circa 1899. Good condition.

And all the way back. Cloth spine. Pictorial front board. Nister no. 438. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. Corners bumped and worn. Rear cover grubby. Front joint cracked. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Pages browned.

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LUCIE ATTWELL'S TALES FOR ALL TIMES
Written by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell.
Stock no. 1710684
Published by S.W. Partridge & Co.. Circa 1922. Almost very good condition.

Beige/brown boards with pictorial onlay to front cover - shows girl with two dolls and three birds sat on a branch. Pictorial endpapers. 4 colour plates. Spine edge chipped. A few marks to covers. Front joint a little weak. Belong to box completed. Endpapers browned.

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CLOTILDA
Written by Jack Kent. Illustrated by Jack Kent.
Stock no. 1808863
Published by Random House. 1st thus 1978. Almost very good condition.

Tommy doesn't believe in a fairy godmother's magic so he gets a donkey's head while his sister gets the fairy godmother and three wishes... White cloth spine with blue title, cream paper boards with blind fairy vignette. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0394939115. Boards are grubby, corners worn. A few marks to contents.

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SPRING SONGS WITH MUSIC
Written by Cicely Mary Barker. Illustrated by Cicely Mary Barker.
Stock no. 2114228
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1929. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Grey boards with blue titles, pictorial onlay to front. Blue cloth spine. 12 poems with music by Linnell, each has accompanying colour tipped-in plate. A beautiful book! Some light wear to corners. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. A few light margin marks. Wrapper is grubby with edge-tears and chips/nicks, with a little loss in a couple of places.

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THE MOULDY
Written by William Mayne. Illustrated by Nicola Bayley.
Stock no. 2111605
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1983. Nearly fine condition.

In the great garden of the world there was peace before Mouldy came... Mouldy is a mole. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Blue endpapers. 10 x 7.5". Unpaginated. ISBN: 0224020927. Spine is faded. Light wear to cover edges. 'Proof copy' ink stamp to front endpaper.

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AUTUMN SONGS WITH MUSIC
Written by Cicely Mary Barker; Olive Linnell. Illustrated by Cicely Mary Barker.
Stock no. 2106107
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1926. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

From Flower Fairies of the Autumn. Grey paper boards with blue titles, blue cloth spine. Pictorial onlay to front board. 12 poems with accompanying tipped-in colour plates and music by Linnell. A lovely book. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Fading to base of spine. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and a few page margins. Wrapper has some edge-tears and chips, with a little loss; browned; creased; some grubby marks.

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PEEPS INTO FAIRYLAND
Written by E. Nesbit; F.E. Weatherly. Illustrated by E. Stuart Hardy.
Stock no. 1303868
Published by Ernest Nister. circa 1896. Almost very good condition.

A Panorama Picture Book of Fairy Stories. Nister book 633. Six stunning three-dimensional stand-up scenes. Large oblong format. Green cloth spine, colour pictorial paper boards. Front cover shows the Babes in the Wood riding on a leaf in the air harnessed to a pair of robins. Green/white floral endpapers. Spine has been rebacked with red cloth. Corners and cover edges are worn. There is some scuffing to the covers. Front free-endpaper is missing. Inscription in ink to top margin of title-page. One page has a large closed tear which has been neatly repaired. From the pop-up scenes there are some flowers missing at the top of the fairy's oar (in the swan picture) and the giant is missing from behind Jack (in the Jack and the Giant picture) otherwise the pop-ups are complete, bright and in excellent working order. The text pages are well fingered and thus a little grubby. A decent copy of a scarce pop-up book.

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