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THE ADVENTURES OF WILLY AND NILLY
Written by Phyllis Morris. Illustrated by Hilda Cowham.
Stock no. 1710683
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1921. Very good condition.

Green cloth with dark titles. B/w illustrations and 8 colour and 7 b/w plates. Willy and Nilly are twins. Spine faded with a couple of small marks. Pictorial endpapers browned. All plates present.

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THE NEST OF THE SCARECROW
Written by M.E. Atkinson. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.
Stock no. 1311942
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1944. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

An exiting adventure involving a remote and lonely bungalow and a cruel sea. Dark red cloth, black titles to spine. Blue pictorial endpapers, b/w illustrations. 214 pages. Spine bumped. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is worn and torn with loss to spine and front corners, slightly grubby to rear panel.

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THE GOLDEN AGE
Written by Kenneth Grahame.
Stock no. 1808462
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1925. Almost very good condition.

Yellow/black pictorial cloth. Delightful word sketches of child life. 196 pages. Boards a little scuffed. Name and date in ink to title page. Page 8 has edge tear with loss - affects a couple of words of the text, but still legible.

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THE GOLDEN AGE
Written by Kenneth Grahame. Illustrated by Lois Lenski.
Stock no. 2112476
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. Very good condition.

Green pictorial cloth. 4 tipped-in, tissue-guarded colour plates. 199 pages. Spine and a few edges are browned. Wear to edges. Bookplate to verso of front endpaper. Outer page edges are browned, with foxing. All plates present.

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CONSTABLE
Written by Andre Fontainas; Wilfrid Jackson.
Stock no. 1605497
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1927. Very good condition.

Orange / yellow boards, black titles. Masters of Modern Art series. 40 b/w illustrations. Spine faded and boards a little marked. Foxing throughout.

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WILLIAM AND HIS KITTEN
Written by Marjorie Flack. Illustrated by Marjorie Flack.
Stock no. 1310286
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1939. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Oblong format. Yellow pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Small splits at top and tail of spine. Lower corner tips very slightly creased. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and grubby, pink stain to front panel (a couple of smaller pink spots to both panels), small piece torn from lower corner of front flap. Covers are slightly curved (book doesn't sit flat on the desk).

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LITTLE SEA DOGS
Written by Anatole France. Illustrated by Marcia Lane Foster.
Stock no. 1310208
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1925. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Yellow cloth spine with black title, beige boards with black title and vignettes to front. B/w illustrated endpapers. 8 colour plates, b/w chapter header and footers. 149 pages plus publication list to rear. Spine and corners bumped. Some discolouration to spine. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is grubby and edge worn/chipped with tape repairs on verso and small piece of loss to top edge of rear panel.

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FAIRINGS
Written by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe. Illustrated by Fred Lawson.
Stock no. 1401438
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1928. Almost very good condition.

Orange cloth boards. 7.5 x 10". A very appealing book with unusual and interesting colour illustrations. 170pp + ads. Limited to 1000 copies. Spine bumped and faded. Corners bumped. Boards a little marked. Browning to endpapers. Some foxing, Plates clean and bright.

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THE NEST OF THE SCARECROW
Written by M.E. Atkinson. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.
Stock no. 2106059
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1944. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

An exiting adventure involving a remote and lonely bungalow and a cruel sea. Dark red cloth, black titles to spine. Blue pictorial endpapers, b/w illustrations. 214 pages. A little bumping to spine. Small hole to spine cloth. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Wrapper has some tears, with a little loss to top of spine and 1" hole loss to spine. Wrapper is also marked with some scuffs.

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THE MONSTER OF WIDGEON WEIR
Written by M.E. Atkinson. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.
Stock no. 1206079
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1943. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Lockett family had not been on their Thames island many days before Adventure cropped up in the usual fashion... Green cloth, blue title to spine. Blue pictorial endpapers. B/w illustrations. Horizontal line across front cover and spine - defect in the cloth. Wrapper lightly browned and edge-rubbed.

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SMUGGLERS' GAP
Written by M.E. Atkinson. Illustrated by Harold Jones.
Stock no. 1305430
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1947. Very good condition.

Orange cloth, dark brown title to spine. Blue and white decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers grubby. Black mark to spine and white mark to front cover. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Some writing (crossed out) and ink stamp (from City of London Police Library) to half title-page. Some light foxing else contents clean.

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CHALLENGE TO ADVENTURE
Written by M.E. Atkinson. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.
Stock no. 1204205
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1942. Very good condition.

A story of the Locketts family. Red cloth. B/w illustrations. Spine is faded. Light crease to rear cover.

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