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BIGGLES FLIES WEST
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Alfred Sindall.
Stock no. 1324253
Published by Oxford University Press; Geoffrey Cumberlege. 1951. Good condition.

Green cloth, black title to spine. B/w illustrations. 255 pages. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Inscription in ink to front pastedown and name and address in ink to verso of front free-endpaper. Heavy foxing to contents.

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'TENTION!
Written by George Manville Fenn. Illustrated by Charles M. Sheldon.
Stock no. 1324249
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1st 1906. Good condition.

A story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War. Green pictorial cloth, gilt titles. 8 b/w plates. Covers grubby. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Ink name stamps to prelims and name in ink to verso of frontis. Foxing to contents and textblock.

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THE THREE ADMIRALS
Written by W.H.G. Kingston. Illustrated by Archibald Webb.
Stock no. 1324245
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1918. Almost very good condition.

Brown pictorial cloth. 6 colour plates. 410 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Some slight scuffing to covers. Name plate to front pastedown. Foxing to textblock.

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THE GIRLS OF GWYNFA
Written by Elsie J. Oxenham. Illustrated by Nina K. Brisley.
Stock no. 1324244
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Circa 1930. Good condition.

Orange cloth, black titles. 310 pages. Colour frontis. Spine and corners bumped. Covers discoloured. Endpapers lightly browned, some foxing to contents.

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THE FLAME-FLOWER AND OTHER STORIES
Written by Jas. F. Sullivan. Illustrated by Jas. F. Sullivan.
Stock no. 1324242
Published by J.M. Dent & Co.. 1st 1896. Very good condition.

Green cloth with gilt titles and decorations to spine and front cover. B/w illustrations throughout. 285 pages, top edge gilt. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Name plate to front pastedown. Endpapers browned. Foxing to contents else clean.

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THE CHRONICLES OF ROBIN HOOD
Written by Rosemary Sutcliff. Illustrated by C. Walter Hodges.
Stock no. 1324241
Published by Oxford University Press; Geoffrey Cumberlege. 1st 1950. Very good condition.

Oxford Illustrated Classics series. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. 280 pages. Colour frontis and 7 other colour plates. B/w chapter headers. ISBN: 0192745026. Spine and corners bumped. Name and address in ink to verso of front free-endpaper. Some light foxing else contents clean.

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PIERRE
Written by Maurice Sendak. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 1324240
Published by Harper & Row. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A coutionary tale in five chapters and a prologue. Reinforced library binding (bigger than the normal Nutshell edition). Blue pictorial cloth. Colour illustrations throughout. 48 pages. Slight rubbing to cover edges. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn/rubbed with a gold Harpercrest sticker to spine.

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BENNIE BLACK LAMB
Written by Cicely Englefield. Illustrated by Cicely Englefield.
Stock no. 1324239
Published by John Murray. 1st 1938. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Small format. Cloth spine, pale blue pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. Corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. Some light foxspots to spine. Endpapers partly browned else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with a few small tears which have been tape repaired on verso, spine of wrapper is slightly browned.

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THE UGLY DUCKLING
Written by Hans Christian Andersen; R.P. Keigwin. Illustrated by Johannes Larsen.
Stock no. 1324231
Published by Edmund Ward Ltd.. 1st UK 1956. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Translated by Keigwin. Oblong format. Burgundy cloth spine, cream boards with silver title to front cover. 24 full-page colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Inscription in ink and some light creasing to front free-endpaper. Some light grubby marks to page margins. Dustwrapper is edge worn and grubby, slight loss to spine ends.

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THE NOW-A-DAYS FAIRY BOOK
Written by Anna Alice Chapin. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
Stock no. 1324229
Published by J. Coker & Co.. Almost very good condition.

6 beautiful colour plates. Pictorial boards, cloth spine. Front cover shows Goldilocks with three teddy bears. 159 numbered pages. 11.5" x 8.5". Spine and corners bumped and worn. Small splash mark to rear cover. Small ink stamp initials to front free-endpaper. Heavy foxing to contents and a few other small margin marks. One hinge cracked.

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BRITISH PLANT LIFE (NN 10)
Written by W.B. Turrill.
Stock no. 1324227
Published by Collins. 1st 1948. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist Series. Green cloth covers. 6 x 8.5 inches. 315 pages. Depicting colour illustrations of plants of specific interest. A most attractive and informative book. Spine slightly bumped. Fading to spine and front cover edges. Contents are clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn, grubby to rear panel, slightly browned to spine with 0.5" loss at top.

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THE DICTIONARY OF 20TH CENTURY BRITISH BOOK ILLUSTRATORS
Written by Alan Horne.
Stock no. 1324225
Published by Antique Collectors' Club. 1995. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Information about some 1,000 British illustrators, the lesser known as well as the masters in the field. Large format. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Colour & b/w illustrations. 456 pages. ISBN: 1851491082. Spine very slightly bumped. A nice, bright copy.

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