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NEWPORT RUGBY GREATS
Written by Alan Roderick.
Stock no. 2135291
Published by Handpost Books. 1st 1995. Slightly better than very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0951521357. SIGNED by author to half-title page. Spine is a bit faded. Page edge browning. Rubbing to corners.

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A NEW THEORY OF BEAUTY
Written by Guy Sircello.
Stock no. 1822192
Published by Princeton University Press. 1st 1975. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Princeton Essays on the Arts, 1. A comprehensive theory that encompasses beauty in art and nature, as well as intellectual, utilitarian, and moral beauty. Mustard cloth boards, white title to spine. Vertical crease to spine. Large bookplate to front pastedown else contents clean. Dustwrapper is heavily faded to spine and rubbed at edges.

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LIONBOY
Written by Zizou Corder.
Stock no. 1321566
Published by Puffin Books; The Penguin Group. 1st 2003. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Charlie Ashanti can speak Cat... when his mum and dad go missing the cats are the only friends he can turn to. Red boards, gilt title to spine. Blue pictorial endpapers. ISBN: 0141380241. SIGNED by author title half title-page. Spine slightly bumped. Foxing to contents. Dustwrapper is slightly faded.

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THE STORY ABOUT PING
Written by Marjorie Flack. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese.
Stock no. 1321539
Published by The Bodley Head. 1954. Almost very good condition.

Ping is a beautiful young duck who lives on a boat on the Yangtze river. Blue pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Some grubby marks to covers. Light foxing to contents. Stitching pulled causing contents to be a little loose but still attached to covers.

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LEMUEL
Written by Edith Ray Gregorson. Illustrated by Peter Scott.
Stock no. 1321538
Published by The Owl Press Ltd.. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

The story of Lemuel, the tree kangaroo. White boards with blue cloth spine. Small brown vignette and title to front. Simple brown text illustrations throughout. 48 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Foxing to covers and a few light fox spots to contents. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped, loss to top edge of front panel and grubby.

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STORIES OF ANIMALS I HAVE LOVED BYT HE LITTLE RAINBOW MAKER
Written by Katherine Parr.
Stock no. 1321536
Published by Katharine Parr. Circa 1921. Almost very good condition.

Blue spine, white boards. 3 b/w photos. 16 pages. Spine bumped, a few small nicks to spine. Corners worn. Covers are grubby and marked. Some foxing to endpapers.

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A LION FOR A SITTER
Written by Helen Kay. Illustrated by Yaroslava.
Stock no. 1321534
Published by Abelard-Schuman. 1969. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A picture book about a little boy named Andrew and his very special "sitter". Oblong format. Blue boards, metallic green title to spine. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0200716166. Spine bumped. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is edge chipped and heavily foxed.

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THE STORY OF PATSY
Written by Kate Douglas Wiggin.
Stock no. 1321531
Published by Houghton Mifflin and Company. 1st 1889. Very good condition.

Green pictorial cloth. 68 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Some light foxing and fingering to contents. Pencil writing to rear pastedown has been erased. Light tobacco smell to contents.

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THE STORY OF SAMMY STICKLEPIN
Written by Margaret Alleyne. Illustrated by Mary Robinson.
Stock no. 1321527
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 4th 1957. Very good condition.

Square format. Pictorial boards. Colour pictures throughout. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Foxing to endpapers and text-block.

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A BOOK OF NONSENSE
Written by Edward Lear.
Stock no. 1321526
Published by Gowans & Gray Ltd.. 1919. Good condition.

Minature Edition. Pictorial card wraps (illustration to front by Hassall). B/w illustrations. Covers grubby, foxed and edge rubbed. Tobacco smell to contents. Fingering to page margins.

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DUTCH DOLLS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1321522
Very good condition.

A little book shaped as a boat. 8 pages, each with a red, black and white illustration at top 2/3 and paragraph of text below. Some light creasing to covers. Contents very slightly browned else clean.

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THE TALE OF PAPA WHISKERS AND MR. WATSON'S LETTUCES
Written by Crystal Barry. Illustrated by Mary Smith.
Stock no. 1321521
Published by H.A. and W.L. Pitkin Ltd.. Good condition.

A little booklet. White pictorial paperwraps. Colour illustrations throughout. Covers are grubby and worn at edges. A few small ink blots to title-page and inside front cover. Contents are fingered at margins and corner tips are slightly creased.

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