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5 PUSSY CATS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1318178
Published by Young World Productions. Good condition.

Large, oblong spiral bound shaped board book. Each leaf gets larger. Spiral binding is slightly damaged. Pages are slightly grubby from fingermarks and also slightly worn at corner tips.

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CHESAPEAKE & OHIO, COAL, AND COLOR
Written by Eugene L. Huddleston; John Joseph; Everett Young.
Stock no. 1818097
Published by Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society, Inc.. 1st 1997. Fine condition.

The coalfield operations of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, long known as the 'world's largest originator of bituminous coal'. Large format. Pictorial glazed boards. Colour photos. 120 pages. ISBN: 0939487284.

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HAPPY DAYS
Written by Mabel Mackintosh. Illustrated by K. Harrow; et al..
Stock no. 1317826
Published by John F. Shaw & Co Ltd.. Very good condition.

Edited by Mackintosh. Large format. Cloth spine with pictorial front board showing two young girls baking. 6 colour plates plus b/w illustrations throughout. Spine bumped. Corners worn and cover edges rubbed. Heavy foxing to contents.

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THE YOUNG ASTRONOMER AND HIS TELESCOPE
Written by Patrick Moore.
Stock no. 2130934
Published by Keith Reid. 1st 1974. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Answers the questions so often asked. Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0904094081. Top corner of front endpaper has been cut off. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with a faded spine.

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WHEN WE WERE YOUNG
Written by William Feaver.
Stock no. 2128535
Published by Thames and Hudson. 1st 1977. Slightly better than very good condition.

Two Centuries of Children's Book Illustration. Large format. Yellow pictorial card wraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0500270759. Contents are excellent. Light fading to spine.

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FLUTES AND CYMBALS
Written by Leonard Clark. Illustrated by Shirley Hughes.
Stock no. 2127665
Published by The Bodley Head. 1973. Very good condition.

Poetry for the young. Large format. Orange pictorial boards. 103 pages. B/w text illustrations. ISBN: 0370010906. Bumping to a couple of corners and cover edges. Name in ink to front endpaper. Page edge browning.

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THE KINGS AND THE CATS
Written by John Hannon. Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Stock no. 2127497
Published by Burns & Oates. 1st 1908. Almost very good condition.

Munster Fairy Tales For Young And Old. 3 stories. Green cloth, gilt title and border. Attractive b/w plates, some cats but not in Wain's usual anthropomorphic style. xiii + 78 pages. What appears to be 'repairs' to top and tail of spine. A few small splits/nicks to spine, with a little fraying to cloth. Uneven fading to covers. Corners are bumped, with wear. A couple of score marks to rear cover. Margin tear to front endpaper, which also has a couple of partially erased children's names. Foxing. B/w illustration to page 54 has some colouring to it.

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THE COCKPIT FLYING ADVENTURES FOR YOUNG PILOTS
Written by W.E. Johns; Arch Whitehouse; Rudolf Stark; et al. Illustrated by Stanley Orton Bradshaw; Howard Leigh.
Stock no. 2125672
Published by John Hamilton Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Flying Adventures For Young Pilots. Large format. Blue cloth with dark blue titles and vigette of a plane to front cover. Eight coloured plates by Bradshaw, other illustrations by Leigh. Johns story is "The Ace of Spades". Spine is bumped and faded with browning. Front cover is a bit bowed, with fading to edges. Rear cover also has fading to edges. Page browning.

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MY SURPRISE BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 2125251
Published by Young World Productions. Almost very good condition.

Spiral bound, stiff card covers. Only a few pages long, with lift-the-flaps to every page, including front and rear covers! Easy-to-read captioned text. Some creasing and browning to covers. Lift-the-flap to rear cover has torn off, rest are all in very good working order.

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SNUGGLEPOT AND CUDDLEPIE ON BOARD THE SNAG
Written by May Gibbs. Illustrated by Noela Young.
Stock no. 1815923
Published by Angus & Robertson Publishers. 1988. Very good condition.

Original characters created by May Gibbs, redrawn by Young. Adapted by David Harris. Large format, glazed pictorial boards. Blue endpapers. Colour illustrations. Young Australia series. ISBN: 020713264X. Reprint. Light creasing to prelims. One or two foxspots to margins.

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NICE STORIES
Written by Angela Brazil; Maud E. Sargent; et al. Illustrated by George Morrow.
Stock no. 2124563
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine. Pictorial front cover shows a young girl reading a book, with the help of pixies/fairies! Angela Brazil Story is 'The Slap-Bang Boys'. Bumping and wear to spine, corners and some cover edges; chipping along cover edges. Damp mark to corner of rear cover. Front endpaper is MISSING. Biro to page 29 and to contents page. Some foxing. 4 colour plates.

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