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JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
Written by Kathleen Lines. Illustrated by Harold Jones.
Stock no. 2131035
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A book of Nursery Stories. Pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Marks to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased.

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BO-PEEP'S BUMPER BOOK 1937
Written by Clara Pownall; et al. Illustrated by S. Jacobs; Phyllis Cooper; Mildred Entwisle; et al..
Stock no. 2130318
Published by The Amalgamated Press Limited. 1937. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine; onlay to spine; pictorial covers. First story is 'The Smallest Bridge In The World'. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to cover corners and edges; damp marking to rear cover. Browning and foxing.

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THE CHUMMY BOOK - SEVENTH YEAR
Written by Edwin Chisholm; Dorothy Russell; Ethel Talbot; Angela Brazil; et al. Illustrated by Lawson Wood; Mabel Lucie Attwell; S.B. Pearse; Anne Anderson; et al..
Stock no. 2130301
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. Circa 1919. Almost very good condition.

Cream cloth spine. Pictorial front board shows boy and girl giving rabbit a carrot. 320 pages. Colour plates plus b/w text illustrations throughout. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; edges have been 'touched up' with colour ink. Uneven browning to spine. Marks to rear cover. Foxing; heaviest to endpapers and outer page edges.

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THE CHUMMY BOOK - SEVENTH YEAR
Written by Edwin Chisholm; Dorothy Russell; Ethel Talbot; Angela Brazil; et al. Illustrated by Lawson Wood; Mabel Lucie Attwell; S.B. Pearse; Anne Anderson; et al..
Stock no. 1609756
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. Circa 1919. Good condition.

Cream cloth spine. Pictorial front board shows boy and girl giving rabbit a carrot. 320 pages. Colour plates plus b/w text illustrations throughout. Corners and board edges worn with some surface loss. Boards scuffed, with some marks and fading. Some scattered foxing.

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JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
Written by Kathleen Lines. Illustrated by Harold Jones.
Stock no. 2123607
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1960. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A book of Nursery Stories. Pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Bumping to corners. Endpapers have some grubby finger marks. Foxing to outer page edges. Odd margin mark. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few nicks.

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THE THREE GOOD FRIENDS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1506743
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons. Almost very good condition.

A Coloured Picture Book For The Nursery. Containing nursery rhymes and Little Red Riding Hood plus sixteen coloured (chromolithograph) illustrations. Untearable - pages mounted on cloth. Brown decorated cloth with gilt title labels and small oval floral onlay to front cover. Large format 11.5 x 8.75". Bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Some darkening to cover edges. Onlay and gilt on front cover ribbed. A few short scratches to rear cover. Endpapers browned. Light foxing to contents but colours are bright and pages are generally clean.

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MOTHER GOOSE NURSERY TALES
No author listed. Illustrated by Margaret Tarrant.
Stock no. 1505406
Published by J. Coker & Co. Ltd.. Almost very good condition.

A nice collection of the traditional nursery fairy tales with 16 full page colour illustrations and b/w sketches throughout. Cloth spine. Colour pictorial cover. 74 pages. 11.5 x 9". Circa 1930s. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Wear to edge of onlay. Rear cover slightly browned and grubby with small amount of faint pencil writing. Endpapers browned. A couple of hinges cracked. Light foxing throughout otherwise contents clean. All plates present, tear to edge of one just touches margin of illustration, nicks to top edge of another.

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THE GOLDEN PLAYBOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Alfred J. Johnson.
Stock no. 1505197
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. circa 1890. Good condition.

Comprising The Golden Alphabet, Dorothy's Dolls, Red Riding Hood's Party. Grey and blue pictorial cloth. Full-page pictures printed in colour by Edmund Evans. All edges gilt. A delightful Victorian book. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers are grubby and marked. Both joints cracked. Some damp damage to contents, two pages have been stuck together on bottom margin, now torn apart causing surface paper damage to last line of text and a few other pages have surface paper damage or tears to bottom edge. Large 5.5" tear to one illustration. Ink inscription to front endpaper. Numerous pencil marks to contents. mostly short lines to blank pages. Grubby marks to contents.

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THE BIG BOOK OF FAIRY TALES
Written by Walter Jerrold. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 1404468
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1911. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth with beautiful gilt illustration to front cover and highly decorated spine. 12 superb colour plates plus 16 black-and-red plates and numerous b/w text illustrations. Large format. All edges gilt. Spine bumped and cloth faded but gilt remains fairly bright. Corners are bumped and rubbed. Couple of little bumps to board edges. Some marks to covers. Both joints are cracked showing webbing beneath but binding remains firm. Dated inscription in ink to half-title page. Foxing to endpapers and some pages otherwise contents are clean. Plates are all present and in very good condition.

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SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS AND OTHER STORIES
Written by Michael Hornby. Illustrated by Kuniro Fukazawa; Jiro Mizuno; Kei Wakana.
Stock no. 1809881
Published by Paul Hamlyn. 1st thus 1968. Slightly better than very good condition.

Includes Puss In Boots; Little Red Riding Hood, Brother and Sister. Orange glazed pictorial boards with yellow titles. Printed on thick card. Colour illustrations. 48 pages.

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MOTHER GOOSE'S NURSERY TALES
Written by A. Pitt-Kethley.
Stock no. 1503263
Published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd.. Good condition.

Told chiefly in words of one syllable for young children. Cloth spine with black title, colour pictorial boards. 25 illustrations (incl. covers). 15 stories including Cinderella, Blue-Beard, Puss in Boots, Three Bears etc. 94 pages. Spine bumped. Corners and cover edges are bumped and worn. Some marks to covers. A few hinges cracked so binding feels weak. Grubby marks to title page, endpapers and margins. Foxing to front endpaper.

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MOTHER GOOSE NURSERY TALES
No author listed. Illustrated by Mary Smith.
Stock no. 1502891
Published by J. Coker & Co. Ltd.. Very good condition.

Red cloth spine with pictorial boards. Illustrated endpapers. Full page illustrations by Mary Smith. Two colour plates plus b/w and two-tone text illustrations. 76 pages. Spine, corners and cover edges bumped and worn. Spine grubby. Pen mark to rear endpaper. Light page browning, contents generally clean.

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