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THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
Written by Gladys Davidson. Illustrated by Rene Bull.
Stock no. 2140890
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1941. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth, black title to spine. Blind title and vignette to front cover. 16 beautiful colour plates, many b/w illustrations. 352 pages, top edge red. 8.75 x 6.5". Bumping and wear to cover edges; some ring marks; Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Browning and foxing to prelims and outer page edges; some to margins.

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LITTLE SONGS OF LONG AGO
Written by Alfred Moffat. Illustrated by Henriette Willebeek Le Mair.
Stock no. 2140887
Published by Augener Ltd.. 1st 1912. Almost very good condition.

Oblong format. Dark yellow cloth, oval pictorial onlay to front cover. Delightful colour illustrations. Traditional nursery rhymes with music. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Uneven browning/fading to covers; some spotting and marks. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing and browning to varying degrees throughout. A few pages are creased.

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EARLY BUS SERVICES IN ULSTER
Written by M.L. Kennedy; D.B. McNeill.
Stock no. 2140877
Published by Institute Of Irish Studies. 1st 1997. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 085389697X. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with some grubby marks; foxed to verso.

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LUCIE ATTWELL'S ANNUAL 1924
Written by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell.
Stock no. 2140867
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. 1924. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Front cover shows little girl in green frock, holding green basket in which a pixie is riding. Another five pixies are walking alongside. Some 'creasing'/scuffing to covers, with browning and marks. Inscription in ink to belongs to box; browning. Foxing and browning to varying degrees throughout the book. Margin tear to top of one plate page.

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LUCIE ATTWELL'S ANNUAL 1933
Written by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell.
Stock no. 2140864
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. 1933. Almost very good condition.

Fuschia pictorial covers. Front cover shows little girl with green umbrella dog and slogan "Hul-lo everyone! Full of Good Things". Colour plates and two-tone illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; chipping/surface paper damage. Some scuffing to covers. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Name in ink to belongs to box. Foxing and browning to varying degrees throughout book.

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[C]ARTOGRAPHY MAP-MAKING AS ARTFORM
Written by William J. Smyth; William Laffan; Mic Moroney.
Stock no. 2140852
Published by Crawford Art Gallery; Raven Design. 1st IRELAND 2007. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large oblong format. White boards with titles. Colour and b/w photos, maps and illustrations. Published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name at the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. ISBN: 1874756066. Foxing and browning to endpapers, outer page edges and cover edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few small nicks and some grubby marks.

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GIANT CREATURES PAST & PRESENT
Written by Clare Watson. Illustrated by Robert Cremins.
Stock no. 2140847
Published by Hamlyn. 1st 1990. Very good condition.

A pop-up book. Imagine a dinosaur so big that it eats 500kg of food every day. Or an insect that flies 80 kilometres per hour. Or a mammal that has babies 7 metres long... Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0600570320. Browning to spine. All pop-ups in excellent working order.

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HOW THINGS FLY
No author listed.
Stock no. 2140846
Published by Child's Play (International) Ltd.. 1st 1988. Almost very good condition.

A pop-up science book. Introduces the younger children to the world of powered flight. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0859532887. Tab to 'pitch' on controls page missing. Foxing to pages. Pop-ups appear very good.

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HOW THINGS FLY
No author listed.
Stock no. 2140842
Published by Child's Play (International) Ltd.. 1st 1988. Very good condition.

A pop-up science book. Introduces the younger children to the world of powered flight. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0859532887. A few grubby margin marks. Pop-ups and moving pieces are very good.

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MY FIRST EARTH BOOK
Written by Geraldine McCaughrean. Illustrated by Mike Peterkin.
Stock no. 2140833
Published by Guild Publishing. 1st thus 1989. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. 3 pop-ups of the earth. Colour illustrations. Pop-ups are all very good. A few marks to covers.

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DINOSAURS GIANTS OF THE EARTH
No author listed. Illustrated by Keith Moseley; Richard Courtney.
Stock no. 2140832
Published by Carnival. 1st 1988. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 5 double-page pop-ups. Paper engineering by Moseley. ISBN: 000194407X. Pop-ups in very good working order.

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THE WORKS OF DANIEL DEFOE
Written by Daniel Defoe; John S. Keltie.
Stock no. 2140827
Published by William P. Nimmo. 1872. Almost very good condition.

Brown leather spine and corners; raised bands to spin; gilt titles and decorations. Marbled boards, endpapers and outer page edges. Carefully selected from the most authentic sources, with a life on the author. Wear and chipping to leather corners and spine; some loss of top surface. Scuffing to covers. Bookplate to front pastedown. Joints are a bit cracked. Some foxing and browning.

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