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  • BARBARA LAMB. by CAM. [Campbell, Barbara Mary]
    CAM. [Campbell, Barbara Mary]
    BARBARA LAMB.

    London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1944. [32] pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. 4to. Original pictorial boards; original pictorial dust-wrapper. First edition. A fine copy in a slightly chipped dust-wrapper with a closed tear. This was Cam's first book.

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  • BASIL SEAL RIDES AGAIN or The Rake’s Regress. by WAUGH, Evelyn.
    WAUGH, Evelyn.
    BASIL SEAL RIDES AGAIN or The Rake’s Regress.

    London: Chapman & Hall, 1963. [vi]+49pp. Illustrated frontispiece by Kathleen Hale. Original blue cloth bevelled boards with gilt lettered spine and gilt pictorial upper cover. 4to. Original glassine dust-wrapper. First edition, limited to 750 copies and signed by the author. This is copy number 250. Neat inscription to front endpaper; tears to glassine wrapper with some loss; else an excellent copy.

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  • BASIL The Bay Seal. Written and Illustrated by Patricia Mason. by Mason, Patricia.
    Mason, Patricia.
    BASIL The Bay Seal. Written and Illustrated by Patricia Mason.

    London: The Bodley Head, 1947. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. [32] pages. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original pictorial paper-covered boards; original pictorial dust-wrapper. Wrapper a little worn with a few shorts tears, but no loss; else a very good copy, the boards fresh and clean.

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  • BEACHCOMBER BOBBIE. by BOURGEOIS, Florence.
    BOURGEOIS, Florence.
    BEACHCOMBER BOBBIE.

    New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1935. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. Un paged, but [32] pages. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. Oblong: 14.8 x 18.3 cm. Presumed first edition. Few light marks on boards; else excellent.

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  • BEAUTIFUL MAMMA and other stories. With Twenty-six illustrations. by GRAHAM, Winifred.
    GRAHAM, Winifred.
    BEAUTIFUL MAMMA and other stories. With Twenty-six illustrations.

    London: George Newnes, Limited, 1901. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 253 pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original green pictorial cloth gilt. All edges gilt. Octavo. First edition. Gift inscription on half-title; else a very good, bright copy.

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  • BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. The Old Fairy Tales Pictured by H. M. Brock.
    BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. The Old Fairy Tales Pictured by H. M. Brock.

    London: Frederick Warne & Co. No date [1913]. [10] pages of text. Illustrated with 6 single-page and 1 double-page full-colour illustrations, plus line drawings within the text. Original pictorial wrappers. 28 x 22 cm. First edition. Very slight creasing to one corner of wrapper; else fine. Scarce.

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  • AWDRY, Rev. W.
    BELINDA THE BEETLE.

    Leicester.Brockhampton Press. 1958. [4], 5-88pp. Illustrated in colour and line by Ionicus. Original yellow boards with original dust-wrapper. Octavo. First Edition. Spine and boards a trifle rubbed; some very minor chipping to extremities of dust-wrapper; ownership inscription " 27. James Bedford" to front free endpaper; else an excellent, bright copy.

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  • BELLING THE CAT and other Aesop’s Fables. Retold in verse by Tom Paxton. Illustrated by Robert Rayevsky. by PAXTON, Tom.
    PAXTON, Tom.
    BELLING THE CAT and other Aesop’s Fables. Retold in verse by Tom Paxton. Illustrated by Robert Rayevsky.

    New York: Morrow, 1990. Illustrated in colour. Publisher’s glazed boards; dust-wrapper. First edition. Signed and with a small drawing by Rayevsky on the half-title. A fine copy.

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  • BEN BO’SUN: A Tale of the King’s Navy. Illustrated by G. E. Shepheard. by GOLDING, Harry.
    GOLDING, Harry.
    BEN BO’SUN: A Tale of the King’s Navy. Illustrated by G. E. Shepheard.

    London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, No date [circa1920’s]. 85 pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original paper-covered boards with mounted pictorial pastedown. 143 x 11 mm. A fine copy.

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  • BERTIE’S ESCAPADE. By Kenneth Grahame. Illustrated by Ernest H, Shepard. by GRAHAME, Kenneth.
    GRAHAME, Kenneth.
    BERTIE’S ESCAPADE. By Kenneth Grahame. Illustrated by Ernest H, Shepard.

    London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1949. [iv] 42 pages. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Original pictorial paper-covered boards; original pictorial dust-wrapper. 158 x 128 mm. First edition. Wrapper has three very short tears in the back panel and a small light stain; else an excellent copy. .

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  • BERTIE'S ESCAPE. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. by GRAHAME, Kenneth.
    GRAHAME, Kenneth.
    BERTIE'S ESCAPE. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.

    London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1949. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition thus. Wrapper price-clipped, neat name on endpaper; discreet bookseller's label on endpaper [Queensland Book Depot, Brisbane]; lower, outer, corner of front board lightly bumped; else a lovely fresh copy, in a bright dust-wrapper that is lightly chipped and worn at edges and corners. Berties' Escapade is reprinted from First Whisper of the Wind in the Willows, but with illustrations by Shepard.

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  • Besuch bei Frau Sonne. Neue lustige geschichten und drollige Bilder von Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann. Aus dem Nachlass herausgegben von Eduard und Walther Hessenberg. by HOFFMANN, Heinrich.
    HOFFMANN, Heinrich.
    Besuch bei Frau Sonne. Neue lustige geschichten und drollige Bilder von Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann. Aus dem Nachlass herausgegben von Eduard und Walther Hessenberg.

    Frankfurt am Main: Rutten & Loening, No date [1924]. [16] leaves printed on one side only. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Quarto. A very good copy.

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  • BETTY BLUE. by [PETHERICK, Rosa.]
    [PETHERICK, Rosa.]
    BETTY BLUE.

    London: Humphrey Milford, No date [inscribed 1921]. 61 pages. Vignette on title; colour frontispiece; pictorial pastedown on cover, and repeated on slipcase by Rosa Petherick. Original boards with ties. Original slipcase. Slipcase: 7 x 5.8 cm. Bookplate of Nigel Temple on rear pastedown; else a fine copy of this miniature children's books.

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  • JOHNS, Captain W.E.
    BIGGLES AND THE PENITENT THIEF.

    Leicester.Brockhampton Press. 1967. [6], 7-152pp. Blue boards gilt. Pictorial dust wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Dust wrapper has very slight rubbing to front top corner and head of spine. Very slight crease lines to rear top of dust wrapper. Else an excellent copy.

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  • BIGGLES & CO. Illustrations by Howard Leigh and Alfred Sindall. by JOHNS, Captain W. E.
    JOHNS, Captain W. E.
    BIGGLES & CO. Illustrations by Howard Leigh and Alfred Sindall.

    London: Oxford University Press, 1936. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 256 pages. Colour frontispiece and six illustrations in black & white. Original pictorial buff-coloured cloth with image of a biplane to front panel. First edition. Ownership name & date on endpaper; spine a little browned; joint between half-title & frontispiece strained; else a good plus copy.

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  • BIGGLES FLIES WEST. Illustrated by Howard Leigh and Alfred Sindall. by JOHNS, Captain W. E.
    JOHNS, Captain W. E.
    BIGGLES FLIES WEST. Illustrated by Howard Leigh and Alfred Sindall.

    London: Oxford University Press, 1937. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 255 pages. Colour frontispiece and four black & white illustrations, plus a map and one other illustration. Original pictorial blue cloth with image of a gold doubloon to front panel. First edition. Ownership name & date on endpaper; spine little worn; doubloon plate wrinkled; covers rubbed; else a very good copy.

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  • BILL E BOB ALLO ZOO. Written by Jolanda Colombini Monti. Illustrated by Mariapia Franaoni.. Collana “Albi a Rilievo.” Editrice “Piccoli” Milano.
    BILL E BOB ALLO ZOO. Written by Jolanda Colombini Monti. Illustrated by Mariapia Franaoni.. Collana “Albi a Rilievo.” Editrice “Piccoli” Milano.

    No date [circa 1949]. Five full colour ‘pop-up’ scenes. Original pictorial card covers. 135 x 190 mm. A very good copy.

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  • BILL THE MINDER written & illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. by ROBINSON, W[illiam] Heath.
    ROBINSON, W[illiam] Heath.
    BILL THE MINDER written & illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.

    London: Constable & Co., Ltd, 1912. xiv, [2],254, [2] pages. Illustrated with 16 mounted colour plates, and numerous illustrations in line. Original green cloth, gilt with mounted colour pastedown to the front panel. 4to. First edition. Bookplate; ownership name and book number on endpaper; spine a little mellowed, and boards lightly rubbed; else a very good copy.

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  • “BILLY BOY,” the ferry boat. by SHIELD, Arnold. and MANN, Bill.
    SHIELD, Arnold. and MANN, Bill.
    “BILLY BOY,” the ferry boat.

    London: Frederick Muller Ltd, 1948. [24] pages, of which the title and 9 others have full colour illustrations; the tailpiece is also in full colour, and there are coloured illustrations within the text. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Oblong: 19 x 25.7 cm. First edition. Wrapper is a little torn at head of spine; else an excellent copy.

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  • BILLY QUACK.
    BILLY QUACK.

    London: Humphrey Milford, No date [circa 1913]. Hardback. 67 pages. Colour frontispiece by Ernest Aris. Original boards secured with strings, with pictorial pastedown to upper board; slipcase with duplicate paste-down. 7 x 6 cm. Small area of rubbing at fore-edge of upper board; slipcase a little rubbed & worn; else very good copy of this miniature book.

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