HENTY G. A.

Both Sides the Border. A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower. With Illustrations by Ralph Peacock. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Blackie,, 1899 [1898]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 11 plates, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, bevelled boards, upper board blocked in gilt and yellow and lettered in blue, gilt back, green edges, grey endpapers, backstrip lightly dulled else a very good, bright, clean copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue at end. Binding by Ralph Peacock as commissioned by Talwin Morris. Dartt p.20; Kennedy & Farmer p.11; Newbolt 84.1.

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Book number: 45485

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: children's, childrens, juvenilia, henty, ga henty, george alfred henty, ralph peacock, talwin morris

HENTY G. A.

By Right of Conquest, or With Cortez in Mexico. With Illustrations by W. S. Stacey. NEAR FINE COPY

Blackie,, n.d. [c.1894-1901]. 8vo., with frontispiece, 9 plates and 2 full-page maps in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, bevelled boards, upper board blocked in colours and lettered in black, gilt back, green edges, grey endpapers, a near fine copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue at end. First published in 1890. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Newbolt 50.2.

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Book number: 45624

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: children's, childrens, juvenilia, henty, ga henty, george alfred henty, ws stacey

HENTY G. A.

The Lion of the North. A Tale of the Times of Gustavus Adolphus and the Wars of Religion. With Illustrations by John Schonberg. NEAR FINE COPY

Blackie,, n.d. [c.1894-1901]. 8vo., with frontispiece and 11 plates, neat signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, bevelled boards, upper board blocked in colours and lettered in gilt, gilt back, green edges, grey endpapers, a near fine copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue at end. First published in 1885. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Newbolt 23.2.

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Book number: 45623

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: children's, childrens, juvenilia, henty, ga henty, george alfred henty, john schonberg

HENTY G. A.

No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising of La Vendee. With Illustrations by Stanley L. Wood. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Blackie,, 1900 [1899]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 7 plates, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper verso, some mild offsetting to half-title; red cloth, bevelled boards, upper board blocked in colours and lettered in gilt, gilt back, green edges, grey endpapers, a near fine copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue at end. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Dartt p.99; Kennedy & Farmer p.51; Newbolt 92.1

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Book number: 45489

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: children's, childrens, juvenilia, henty, ga henty, george alfred henty

HENTY G. A.

True to the Old Flag. A Tale of the American War of Independence. With Illustrations by Gordon Browne. NEAR FINE COPY

Blackie,, n.d. [c.1904]. 8vo., with frontispiece, 11 plates and 6 maps in the text, endpapers lightly browned; green cloth, bevelled boards, upper board blocked in colours and lettered in gilt, gilt back, green edges, grey endpapers, a near fine copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue at end. First published in 1884. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Newbolt 19.2.

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Book number: 45622

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: children's, childrens, juvenilia, henty, ga henty, george alfred henty, gordon browne

HENTY G. A.

With the British Legion. A Story of the Carlist Wars. With Illustrations by Wal Paget. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Blackie,, 1903 [1902]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 9 plates, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, bevelled boards, upper board blocked in colours and lettered in gilt, gilt back, green edges, grey endpapers, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue at end and trade ticket of Giraud of Deal on rear paste-down. Newbolt states that the [unsigned] binding is probably by John Hassall. Dartt p.163; Kennedy & Farmer p.83; Newbolt 106.1.

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Book number: 45486

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: children's, childrens, juvenilia, henty, ga henty, george alfred henty

HENTY G. A.

With the Allies to Pekin. A Tale of the Relief of the Legations. With Illustrations by Wal Paget. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Blackie,, 1904 [1903]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 7 plates and full-page map, wanting front free endpaper; green cloth, bevelled boards, upper board blocked in colours and lettered in gilt, gilt back, green edges, grey endpapers, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue at end. Dartt p.162; Kennedy & Farmer p.82; Newbolt 108.1.

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Book number: 45487

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: children's, childrens, juvenilia, henty, ga henty, george alfred henty

HENTY G. A.

With Moore at Corunna. With Illustrations by Wal Paget. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Blackie,, 1898 [1897]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 11 plates and full-page map, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper verso, half-title and title lightly spotted; green cloth, bevelled boards, upper board framed and blocked in colours and lettered in gilt, gilt back, green edges, grey endpapers, a near fine copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue at end. Binding designed by Ralph Peacock as commissioned by Talwin Morris. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Dartt p.161; Kennedy & Farmer p.82; Newbolt 80.1

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Book number: 45488

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: children's, childrens, juvenilia, henty, ga henty, george alfred henty, wal paget, ralph peacock, talwin morris

HIGGINSON J.A.

A Strange Craft. Illustrated by John Williamson.

Sheldon Press,, [c.1925]. 8vo., with a coloured frontispiece, small label scar on front free endpaper; original brown cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in orange, blue and black, a very good, bright, clean copy. Bright copy of a classic tale first published in 1914.

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Book number: 22202

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: childrens, juvenilia, john higginson, j.a. higginson, children's, juvenilia, strange, craft

HOW Ruth W.

Adventures at Friendly Farm. Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hollis & Carter,, 1948. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, rose top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Third adventure in the Friendly Farm sequence. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 33193

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: children's, childrens, ruth how, joan kiddell-monore, friendly farm

HUGHES Fielden

Bill Holmes and the Red Panthers. [Illustrated by F. . Middlehurst]. [Second Edition].

Spring Books,, [1960]. 8vo., Second Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 4 full-page line illustrations in the text and pictorial series endpapers; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at extremities. Second adventure in the Bill Homes series. This is the second edition, published in the Halcyon Library. First published by OUP in 1953. Uncommon in the dustwrapper.

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Book number: 18400

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: childrens, juvenilia, fielden hughes, bill holmes, fielden hughes, children's, juvenilia, bill, holmes, the, red, panthers

HURRELL Marian Isabel

The Adventures of Friskers and his Friends. By Marian Isabel Hurrell. With Sixteen Coloured Illustrations by Louis Wain.

Robert Culley,, [1907]. 16mo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and 15 charming full-page coloured illustrations by Wain in the text, child's crayon-mark (not obscuring text) and closed tear (without material loss) on G2; original decorative cloth, coloured illustration (repeated in text) mounted in frame on upper board, covers lightly age-faded else a remarkably clean, tight copy housed in a custom-made buckram solander case lettered in gilt. With the early twentieth-century trade ticket of Goulden of Canterbury on front paste-down. A splendid example of Wain's delightful cat illustrations. A rare survival.

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Book number: 7234

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: childrens, juvenilia, louis wain, cats, illustrated, marian isabel hurrell, children's, juvenilia, the, adventures, friskers, his, friends

HUTCHESON J.C.

Young Tom Bowling. A Story of the Boys of the British Navy. Illustrated by John B. Greene. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Warne,, [1896]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title-vignette, 19 illustrations in the text and decorative endpapers, neat contemporary inscription on half-title verso; original brown pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and colours, bevelled boards, covers very lightly rubbed, a very good, bright, clean copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 21575

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: childrens, juvenilia, john conroy hutcheson, royal navy, john b greene, j.c. hutcheson, children's, juvenilia, young, tom, bowling

JOHNS W.E.

Biggles gets his Men. A Further Adventure of Sergeant Bigglesworth, of the Special Air Service, CID. Illustrated by [Leslie] Stead.

Hodder & Stoughton,, [1950]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title-vignette, and 7 full-page illustrations in the text, some very faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; pictorial blue cloth blocked and lettered in blue, backstrip lettered in blue, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at extremities.

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Book number: 13708

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: childrens, juvenilia, johns, biggles, w.e. johns, children's, juvenilia, w.e. johns, biggles, gets, his, men

JOHNS W.E.

Biggles of the Camel Squadron. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Dean,, n.d. [c.1965]. 8vo., neat signature on front paste-down; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter rubbed at edges.

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Book number: 3356

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: juvenilia, childrens, biggles, w.e. johns, children's, juvenilia, w.e. johns, biggles, the, camel, squadron