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WINGS IN THE SUN (BROADCAST ECHOES No. 29)
Written by L. Hugh Newman.
Stock no. 1828283
Published by E.J. Arnold & Son Ltd.. Very good condition.

A book about butterflies for children. White & blue cardwraps with red title to front. Staple binding. B/w photos. 95 pages including bibliography. Undated. Covers browned with one or two marks. Text block browned but contents clean.

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THE STORY OF PLANT LIFE
Written by Isabel Alexander. Illustrated by Isabel Alexander.
Stock no. 1826106
Published by Penguin Books. Circa 1946. Very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book no. 58. Pictorial paper wraps. colour and b/w illustrations. Spine lightly rubbed, covers a little scuffed. Name in red ink to inside front cover. Staple binding is rusty and rust has bled slightly onto gutter. Contents are very nice.

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TINY TOILERS AND THEIR WORKS
Written by G. Glenwood Clark.
Stock no. 1324654
Published by J. Coker & Co.. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Yellow covers with black/brown titles and decorations. B/w illustrations. Looks at different little creatures/insects. Spine and corners bumped. Some very light spotting to spines. Pencil scribbles to rear free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock and some fingermarks to page margins. Red dustwrapper is edge worn and slightly browned.

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BIRDS OF THE VILLAGE
Written by James Fisher. Illustrated by P.F. Millard.
Stock no. 1323945
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. Circa 1945. Almost very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book No. 20. Colour pictorial paperwraps. Colour lithographs and b/w drawings. Initials in ink to front cover. Staples rusty. Some foxing. Remains of a label to inside of front cover. Small chip to lower edge of front cover and a tiny nick to same area of first page (no loss there). Some light fingering else a clean copy.

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ANIMALS OF THE COUNTRYSIDE
Written by Arnrid Johnston. Illustrated by Arnrid Johnston.
Stock no. 1323795
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st thus 1944. Almost very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book No. 7. Pictorial cardwraps. Covers edge rubbed. Staples rusty. Some foxing to contents.

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A BOOK OF INSECTS
Written by Richard James. Illustrated by James Holland.
Stock no. 1323793
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. Circa 1944. Good condition.

Puffin Picture Book No.5 Colour lithographed illustrations. Printed by W.S. Cowell. Paperwraps. Covers grubby and foxed. Inside covers also foxed. Slight pulling at staples.

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POND LIFE
Written by Jean Gorvett. Illustrated by Paxton Chadwick.
Stock no. 1323595
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st 1952. Very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book No. 93. Oblong format, pictorial paperwraps. Colour and b/w illustrations. Some light foxing to textblock. Pencil annotations to two pages.

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NATURE SERIES 1-9
No author listed. Illustrated by Littlewood-Moore.
Stock no. 1323523
Published by Blandford Press Ltd.. 1958. Very good condition.

Nine volumes: Bird Painting Book, A Painting Book of Flowers, A Painting Book of British Butterflies, A Painting Book of Tropical Fish, Birds of Lake & Stream Painting Book, The Painting Book of Garden Flowers, Tropical Birds Painting Book, Birds of Hill and Forest Painting book, The Painting Book of Birds of the Aviary. Each book is bound in cardwraps and has beautiful colour illustrations with a b/w version opposite to be painting. Some light browning to covers and rubbing to spines. Contents are unused and clean. A nice set.

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CRACK THE ANT
Written by David Ross; Sephanie Ross.
Stock no. 1824097
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1968. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A picture book for very, very junior science enthusiasts - and what small child has not been fascinated by watching a tiny ant scurrying about its business? Oblong format. Matt pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Base of spine split for 0.5" to rear edge. Boards very slightly browned. A few grubby marks to contents, mainly to margins. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn and torn with a little loss, a little grubby.

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HOW TO RECOGNISE GARDEN FLOWERS
Written by . Illustrated by Will H. Stevens.
Stock no. 1323271
Published by Brockhampton Press Ltd.. 1st 1950. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Young Naturalist series. 101 of the most popular garden flowers in colour. Beige boards with brown cloth spine. 31 numbered pages, colour illustrations. Endpapers partly browned and foxed. Price-cut wrapper is foxed, slightly edge rubbed and grubby.

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CREATURES OF THE DESERT WORLD
No author listed. Illustrated by Barbara Gibson.
Stock no. 2140893
Published by National Geographic Society. 1st 1987. Very good condition.

A National Geographic Action Book. Large square format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 6 stunning pop-ups. Paper Engineering by John Strejan and James Roger Diaz. ISBN: 0870446878. Bumping along cover edges and to corners. Pop-ups are generally very good; piece MISSING to roadrunner scene; tabs worn, but working.

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GIANT CREATURES PAST & PRESENT
Written by Clare Watson. Illustrated by Robert Cremins.
Stock no. 2140847
Published by Hamlyn. 1st 1990. Very good condition.

A pop-up book. Imagine a dinosaur so big that it eats 500kg of food every day. Or an insect that flies 80 kilometres per hour. Or a mammal that has babies 7 metres long... Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0600570320. Browning to spine. All pop-ups in excellent working order.

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