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GREAT EXPLORERS
Written by A.A. Bass. Illustrated by Clarke Hutton.
Stock no. 1308383
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1965. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Young Learner Books series edited by J.C.Gagg, History. Pictorial boards. 30 pages. Colour illustrations. Minimal bumping to spine. Rear panel of wrapper is just a little grubby from scuffing.

A DAUGHTER OF FRANCE
Written by Eliza F. Pollard.
Stock no. 1704292
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons. Circa 1916. Almost very good condition.

A Story of Acadia. Green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and colour picture to front cover. Colour frontis + 3 colour plates. Covers grubby. Belongs to box completed in ink. Some foxing.

THE THRESHOLD OF HISTORY
Written by H.R. Hall. Illustrated by Nancy Smith; Hilda Booth.
Stock no. 381411
Published by George G. Harrap & Co.. 1st 1914. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Beige pictorial cloth. 4 colour plates mounted on grey card, b/w text illustrations. 158 pages. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Prize plate to front pastedown. Light foxing. Some page corners lightly creased. Dustwrapper is edge worn with slight loss at spine and corners, browned to spine.

DROMKEEN: A JOURNEY INTO CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Written by Jeffrey Prentice; Bettina Bird.
Stock no. 701787
Published by Henry Holt and Company. 1st USA 1988. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Lilac boards, gilt title. Lilac endpapers. B/w and colour illutrations. ISBN: 0805007733.

INFANTILLA THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE NURSERY
Written by Arnold L. Haskell; Min Lewis. Illustrated by Stanley Lewis.
Stock no. 709079
Published by Dennis Dobson. 1st 1971. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Telling in drawings and text the history of perambulators, feeding bottles, and rattles. A fascination for anyone who has ever been pushed in a pram! Superb b/w illustrations. Cream mottled cloth. Bookplate to verso of front endpaper. Orange illustrated wrapper very slightly grubby to rear with spine sunned and small nick to top.

THE STORY OF THE NURSERY
Written by Magdalen King-Hall.
Stock no. 711036
Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1st 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photo plates. A history of the nursery from the Middle Ages to the early years of the 20th century. Spine lightly bumped. Green wrapper is a little edge-worn and price-cut.