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ROUND THE CLOCK STORIES
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Nora Unwin.
Stock no. 2136298
Published by The National Magazine Co. Ltd.. 1st 1945. Almost very good condition.

Beige cloth, red titles. B/w and red illustrations. 128 pages. Bumping and wear to cover edges. Some grubby marks and browning to covers. Foxing throughout.

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CHRISTOPHER MOUSE: THE TALE OF A SMALL TRAVELLER
Written by William Wise. Illustrated by Patrick Benson.
Stock no. 2136297
Published by Bloomsbury Children's Books. 1st 2004. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Colour pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0747570612. Inscription to front pastedown. Red x mark to front endpaper. Wrapper is faded to spine and edges; a little edge-creasing.

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THE CHILDREN'S KING ARTHUR
Written by F.H. Lee. Illustrated by Honor C. Appleton.
Stock no. 2136291
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Orange cloth, black titles to front and spine. Colour frontispiece by Rowland Wheelwright. B/w illustrations. 78 pages. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and some page margins. Wrapper is a bit scuffed to front panel.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1957
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 2136290
Published by Daily Express. 1957. Very good condition.

Glazed boards. Front cover shows Rupert in air balloon with springs. 1st story is Rupert & the Crackerjack. 10x7 inches. 107 pages. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. A few marks to covers. Ink stamps to front pastedown. Name in ink to belongs to box. Price-cut. Painting Puzzle DONE and Colouring Contest to rear is also done, with entry form filled out; some pencil writing to opposite page. Browning to outer page edges.

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THE GLOSTER & AW METEOR: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE FOR THE MODELLER
Written by Richard J. Caruana; Richard A. Franks.
Stock no. 2136282
Published by Sam Publications. 1st 2004. Very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. B/w and colour photos and illustrations. Modellers Datafile No. 8. ISBN: 0953346587. Some creasing to cover corners. Browning to outer page edges.

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STEEPLE MORDEN STRAFERS 1943-45
Written by Ken Wells.
Stock no. 2136277
Published by Egon Publishers. 1ST 1994. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A remarkable story of courage and dedicaton, with many individual combat reports, the stories of escape and evasion also show the courage of Resistance fighters who helped downed airmen. A fascinating social documentary on the impact of war on a handful of tiny rural viallages, their inhabitants and of a lifestyle which has now almost vanished. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w and colour photos. Fold out site plan of Steeple Morden at rear. ISBN: 0905858913. Knocks along cover edges. Inscriptions in ink to title page - one covered with white labels. Page edge browning. Wrapper has some fading to spine.

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BAGNALL: A NARROW GAUGE LEGACY
Written by Alan C. Baker.
Stock no. 2136272
Published by Narrow Gauge Railway Society. Very good condition.

Green pictorial paperwraps. B/w photos. A celebration of preserved Bagnall steam locos and an investigation into the locos built to government order in the first world war. ISBN: 0950716987. Spine has some fading.

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FLYING LIVES WITH A NORFOLK THEME
Written by Peter B. Gunn.
Stock no. 2136267
Published by Peter B. Gunn. 1st 2010. Almost very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w and colour photos. ISBN: 9780954277017. Fading to spine, with half inch tear to base. Creasing to rear cover.

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BROTHER, BABY AND I
No author listed. Illustrated by Pelagie Doane.
Stock no. 1322249
Published by Grosset & Dunlap. Circa 1947. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A collection of 44 favourite poems and rhymes of childhood, selected and illustrated by Doane. Pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Covers edge rubbed. Spine split at top and tail. Small mark to front cover. Tiny patch of surface paper damage to front free-endpaper. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and browned, splits at spine ends with loss at base.

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THE BOOK OF GNOMES
Written by F.E. Weatherly. Illustrated by E. Stuart Hardy.
Stock no. 1322248
Published by Ernest Nister. Circa 1903. Very good condition.

Large oblong format. Brown cloth spine, pictorial front board. 8 colour plates, b/w illustrations throughout. A story told in verse. Spine bumpe and rubbed, cover edges rubbed. Some slight scuffing/wear to covers. Small tear to lower margin of title-page. Title-page browned. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins but generally a nice copy of a scarce Nister book.

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KENSINGTON RHYMES
Written by Compton Mackenzie; J.R. Monsell. Illustrated by J.R. Monsell.
Stock no. 1322245
Published by Martin Secker. 1st 1912. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth spine, brown boards. Gilt title to front board and spine. Colour plates and b/w chapter headers. Page edges untrimmed. 87 pages. 10 x 7.5". Covers are browned and edge worn, spine browned and bumped. Endpapers and half title-page lightly browned.

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