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Stories from the Faerie Queene
By
Mary MacLeod
Illustrator
A. G. Walker.
1897, Gardner, Darton & Co.
Olive green pictorial cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Black decoration on covers.
Top edge gilt.
16cm x 21cm.
395 pages.
8 pages of publisher's adverts at rear.
Olive green endpapers.
Covers worn at edges and a little scuffed.
Inner hinges cracked.
Foxing to prelims and page edges.
Good condition.
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The Hobbit
By
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Illustrator
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
4th edition, 1982, George Allen and Unwin.
ISBN: 0048231479.
Dark green cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering and decoration on spine.
15cm x 22cm.
256 pages.
Pictorial endpapers (Middle Earth maps).
Top edge dark green.
Third printing (1982) of the 1978 fourth edition.
Dustwrapper price-clipped but otherwise undamaged, and enclosed in a protective sleeve.
Dustwrapper spine slightly faded.
Attractive school prize-label pasted to blank leaf between front endpaper and half-title.
Pages very faintly tanned.
Very good condition with dust-wrapper.
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Enid Blyton's Storytime Book
By
Enid Blyton
1964, Dean.
Red covers.
Black lettering on spine.
Dustwrapper worn and creased.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Pages tanned.
Good condition with dust-wrapper.
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The Water Babies
By
Charles Kingsley
Illustrator
Harry G. Theaker.
Reprint, circa 1920, Ward Lock.
Grey cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Black decoration on covers.
Picture onlay to front cover.
340 pages.
Pictorial endpapers.
48 colour plates by Harrg G. Theaker.
Light wear to covers.
Faint splash mark on back board.
Pages slightly tanned.
Very good condition.
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Dragon Rider
By
Cornelia Funke
1st Thus edition, 2004, The Chicken House.
ISBN: 9791903434900.
Translated from the German by Anthea Bell.
Blue cloth-covered boards.
Silver lettering on spine.
Light wear to dustwrapper.
Lower edge of covers scuffed and worn.
Contents close to VG.
Good condition with dust-wrapper.
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The Wallypug of Why
By
George Edward Farrow
Illustrator
Harry Furniss.
Circa 1890, Hutchinson.
Dark green pictorial embossed cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Gilt decoration on covers.
All edges gilt.
201 pages.
Section of advertising after main body of text.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Gilt a little rubbed and dull.
Gilt edging on fore-edge has largely come away; gilt on top and bottom edge unaffected.
Endpapers renewed in black paper.
Some light foxing to prelims.
Good condition.
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Biggles gets his Men
By
W. E. Johns
Illustrator
Leslie Stead.
1st edition, 1950, Hodder and Stoughton.
Blue cloth-covered boards.
Dark blue lettering on covers.
Dark blue decoration on covers.
Light wear to covers.
Spine faded.
Front endpaper removed.
Good condition.
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A Biggles Omnibus
By
W. E. Johns
1st Thus edition, 1995, Leopard.
ISBN: 9780752901299.
Pictorial laminated boards.
Contains three Biggles stories:
"Biggles Learns to Fly",
"Biggles Flies East", and
"Biggles in the Orient".
Pages slightly tanned.
Very good condition.
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The Wizards of Once
By
Cressida Cowell
1st edition, 2017, Hodder Children's Books.
ISBN: 9781444936704.
Orange cloth-covered boards.
Blue decoration on covers.
Dustwrapper worn at edges, and appears to have been glued to covers at the spine edge.
Good condition with dust-wrapper.
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Flower Fairies of the Summer
By
Cicely Mary Barker
Illustrator
Cicely Mary Barker.
Circa 1925, Blackie and Son Limited.
Grey paper-covered boards.
Grey cloth spine.
Maroon lettering on covers.
Maroon decoration on covers.
Picture onlay to front cover.
Blue pictorial endpapers.
Covers rather worn at edges.
Spine relaid in grey cloth.
Dated from gift dedication on half-title.
Prelims and page edges foxed.
Good condition.
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