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PUNKY MOUSE FOR A DAY
Written by John Moreton. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stock no. 2123590
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1962. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, white title to spine and dark vignette to front cover. A mouse didn't seem a very exciting present, but no pet could have been more unusual than Punky. B/w and two-tone illustrations. Small name in ink to front endpaper. Wrapper is price-cut with some edge-creasing and small chips and nicks.

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GUIDE TO MUSHROOM GROWING
Written by Fred C. Atkins.
Stock no. 2123404
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1974. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Light brown cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 0571101909. Damp marks along couple of cover edges. Contents are very good. Wrapper is faded to spine with edge-creasing and a few small nicks and chips; 1" tear to top of spine.

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THE LOST GODS
Written by Francesca Simon. Illustrated by Adam Stower.
Stock no. 2123399
Published by Faber & Faber; Profile Books. 1st 2013. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Freya was an ordinary schoolgirl...until the Norse gods stormed into her life. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781846685651.

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7X7 TALES OF A SEVENSLEEPER
Written by Hanna Johansen. Illustrated by Kathi Bhend.
Stock no. 1814143
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st thus 1990. Very good condition.

Forty-nine tales for sevensleepers everywhere. Red glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0571153208. Light teeth marks to top front corner of board. Pages browned.

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TROUBLE ON THUNDER MOUNTAIN
Written by Russell Hoban. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Stock no. 1814137
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1999. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

The O'Saurus family rebuild Thunder Mountain with the aid of their friends... Pictorial glazed boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0571193595.

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FFANGS THE VAMPIRE BAT AND THE KISS OF TRUTH
Written by Ted Hughes. Illustrated by Chris Riddell.
Stock no. 1507203
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A wildly inventive fantasy with splendidly exuberant illustrations. Black boards, silver title to spine. ISBN: 0571138411. Surface paper damage alongside spine on two pages, looks like they have been stuck together at some stage. A nice copy otherwise. Dustwrapper is very slightly edge worn.

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BRAMBLE
Written by Margery Colman. Illustrated by Margery Colman.
Stock no. 1506926
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1945. Slightly better than good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Bramble is a hedgehog but he is so absentminded that he needs an alarm clock to wake him up. Blue cloth covers with brown titles and vignette. Colour and b/w illustrations 32 pages. Covers grubby and marked. Small hole to cloth on rear cover. A few grubby fingermarks, mainly to lower margins. Erased initials to front endpaper. Dustwrapper is very grubby with some loss, mainly from ends of spine and folds. 3" tear to front panel repaired on verso with clear tape. A couple of other small tears also repaired on verso.

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WHITE EAGLES OVER SERBIA
Written by Lawrence Durrell.
Stock no. 1608631
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Tan cloth boards, white title to spine. An espionage novel. Spine and corners bumped. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is a little grubby and edge creased and chipped with a little loss.

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A BABY SISTER FOR FRANCES
Written by Russell Hoban. Illustrated by Lillian Hoban.
Stock no. 2121584
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1965. Almost very good condition.

Card wraps. Colour illustrations. Frances the appealing little badger who is the heroine of 'Bedtime for Frances', has now acquired a baby sister! ISBN: 0571092284. Book has been covered with clear adhesive film. Some uneven browning; a few grubby marks. Creasing to corners. A few marks to outer page edges.

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THE MERRY FOLK OF FLOWERDALE
Written by Dorothy Richards. Illustrated by Elsie Thomas.
Stock no. 1315786
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1948. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A collection of 10 short stories of the lovable animal characters who live at Flowerdale. Yellow boards, blue title to spine. 135 numbered pages, b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Spine slightly buped, some grubby marks to covers. Foxing to endpapers and page edges. Loss to margin of page 63/4. Dustwrapper is edge worn with some slight loss, slightly grubby and lightly foxed on verso.

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THE IRON WOMAN
Written by Ted Hughes. Illustrated by Andrew Davidson.
Stock no. 1315435
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1993. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Iron Woman has come to take revenge on mankind for its thoughtless polluting of the seas, lakes and rivers. Black boards, white title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 057117003X. Spine slightly bumped. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn.

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THE FABER BOOK OF CHILDREN'S VERSE
Written by Janet Adam Smith.
Stock no. 2119193
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1953. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Designed for those aged 8-14. A collection of poems that show a wide range of mood and sentiment. Pictorial boards. Some bumping and wear to spine and corners. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges; a few page corner creases. Wrapper is badly torn and chipped; with some loss and browned.

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