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NURSE MATILDA GOES TO TOWN
Written by Christianna Brand. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Stock no. 1320961
Published by Brockhampton Press. 1st 1967. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The Brown children go to stay with their Aunt Adelaide in London and Nurse Matilda has to be called in again. Small format. Blue boards with gilt titles and vignettes to covers. B/w text illustrations throughout. Spine bumped. Light foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper has clear adhesive film stuck to it causing the colour to 'bleed' a little. Spine is faded. End of silk ribbon is foxed and slightly frayed.

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THE BEGINNING OF THE ARMADILLOES
Written by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by Charles Keeping.
Stock no. 1320960
Published by Macmillan Children's Books. 1st 1982. Very good condition.

A Just So Story. Green pictorial glazed boards. Red endpapers. Colour illustrations throughout. 31 pages. 9.5 x 7". ISBN: 0333341384. Slight fading to spine and cover edges. Some foxing to contents.

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CHILDREN'S BOOKS IN ENGLAND
Written by F.J. Harvey Darton.
Stock no. 1320957
Published by Cambridge University Press. 3rd 1982. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

"Five Centuries of Social Life". Third edition revised by Brian Alderson. Brown boards, gilt title and vignette. Beige endpapers. B/w text illustrations. 398 pages. 10 x 7". ISBN: 0521240204. Spine slightly bumped. Dustwrapper is sunned to spine and just a little rubbed at edges.

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SIXPENNY WONDERFULS 6D GEMS FROM THE PAST
No author listed.
Stock no. 1320956
Published by Chatto & Windus; The Hogarth Press. 1st 1985. Very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations of the front covers of books first published between 1880 and 1914. ISBN: 0701139366. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed, tiny indentation to top edge of front cover. Erased pencil markings to endpapers.

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THE ENGLISH INTERIOR 1500 TO 1900
Written by Ralph Dutton.
Stock no. 1821626
Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd.. 1st 1948. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Four centuries development of the English interior. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. Board corners bumped. Browning to front endpapers. Foxing to text block. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is edge worn and torn, 2" missing from base of spine, Messy repair to verso of dustwrapper with now yellowed tape.

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RESTORATION COMEDY (FOUR VOLUMES)
Written by A. Norman Jeffares.
Stock no. 1320954
Published by Folio Press. 1st 1974. Very good condition.

24 humourous plays. Green cloth with gilt titles. Green endpapers. ISBN: 0850670306. Spines slightly faded. A couple of small spots to front cover. Some browning to endpapers from glue of binding process. Slipcase is slightly scuffed and edge worn.

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HORRID MYSTERIES
Written by Marquis Of Grosse; Peter Will.
Stock no. 1320940
Published by Folio Press. 1968. Very good condition.

The Northanger Set of Jane Austen Horrid Novels. A story translated from the German by Peter Will, four volumes in one. Black cloth, gilt title to spine. Top edge black. Spine slightly worn at base. Corners bumped.

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FOLIO 34
Written by John Dreyfus; John Letts.
Stock no. 1320926
Published by Folio Press. 1st 1981. Fine condition.

A checklist of the publications of the Folio Society 1947-1980. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. 128 pages. B/w illustrations. Issued without slipcase. Minimal bumping to spine else a fine copy.

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THUNDERBIRDS COUNTDOWN TO DISASTER
Written by Graham Marks. Illustrated by Arkadia.
Stock no. 1320894
Published by Boxtree Limited. 1st 1993. Very good condition.

Card wraps. 16 page story, with pop-up at end. Paper engineering by Ruth Mawdsley. ISBN: 1852838493. Some wear to cover edges. Pop-up in excellent working order.

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THE BOMB VESSEL GRANADO 1742 (ANATOMY OF THE SHIP)
Written by Peter Goodwin.
Stock no. 1320889
Published by Naval Institute Press. 1st 1989. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Slightly oblong format. Anatomy of the Ship Series. Contains superbly executed line drawings - the conventional 3-view type of plan as well as explanatory perspective views with fully descriptive keys. ISBN: 0870211781. Light bumping to corners. Contents are excellent. Some fading to wrapper spine.

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THE AGE OF SCANDAL: AN EXCURSION THROUGH A MINOR PERIOD
Written by T.H. White.
Stock no. 1320886
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1993. Nearly fine condition.

Brown cloth spine, pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. Introduction by Reay Tannahill. Gilt to spine slightly rubbed. Contained in slightly grubby cream slipcase.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1980
No author listed. Illustrated by John Harrold.
Stock no. 1320881
Published by Express Newspapers Ltd.. 1980. Very good condition.

Tall format glazed boards - the first Rupert annual in this format. Cover design of Rupert playing with glove puppets. 1st story Rupert and the Flavours. ISBN: 0850790964. Minimal bumping and rubbing to spine and corners. Price NOT cut, no inscriptions. Light page browning throughout.

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