RUPERT BEAR.

Rupert Annual 1975. NEAR FINE COPY

Beaverbrook Newspapers,, 1975. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured illustrations throughout and pictorial endpapers, name panel completed, title unclipped; pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 37218

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RUPERT BEAR.

Rupert Annual 1976. NEAR FINE COPY

Beaverbrook Newspapers,, 1976. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured illustrations throughout and pictorial endpapers, name panel completed, title unclipped; pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 39019

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: children's, childrens, rupert bear, daily express, bestall, alfred bestall, cubie

RUPERT BEAR.

Rupert Annual 1981. NEAR FINE COPY

Express Newspapers,, 1981. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured illustrations throughout and pictorial endpapers, name panel blank, title unclipped; pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 43741

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Keywords: children's, childrens, rupert bear, daily express, bestall, alfred bestall,

RUPERT BEAR.

Rupert Annual No. 56. [1991]. NEAR FINE COPY

Express Newspapers,, [1991]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured illustrations throughout and pictorial endpapers, name panel blank, title unclipped; pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 43742

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: children's, childrens, rupert bear, daily express, john harrold

RUPERT BEAR.

Rupert Annual No. 54. [1989]. NEAR FINE COPY

Daily Express,, [1989]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured illustrations throughout and pictorial endpapers, name panel blank, title unclipped; pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, a near fine copy. Wrap-around cover artwork by John Harrold.

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Book number: 46107

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: children's, childrens, rupert bear, daily express, john harrold

S F.M.

Brother Reginald's Golden Secret. A Tale for the Young.

Nelson,, 1876. 8vo., with a chromolithographed frontispiece (original tissue guard present), chromolithographed and printed titles, and numerous monochrome illustrations in the text, free endpapers mildly browned, contemporary inscription on frontispiece recto; original decorative terra-cotta cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and black, an unusually bright, clean copy. With 6pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. The first edition was published in 1862.

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Book number: 9850

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Keywords: childrens, juvenilia, chromolithography, f.m. s, children's, juvenilia, brother, reginald's, golden, secret

SAGON Amyot

Dick Dashwood. The Boy Squatter. Illustrated by Warwick Goble.

Ward Lock,, n.d. [?1902]. 8vo., First Edition [?], with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 2 plates, one plate dust-soiled at outer margin, very neat gift inscription (dated 1904) on half-title verso; original pictorial green cloth, upper board blocked in red, orange, yellow and black, pictorial backstrip lettered in gilt, green endpapers, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), small closed tear at tail of backstrip else a very good, bright, clean copy in remarkably well-preserved pictorial binding. With 2pp publisher's catalogue at end. A minor Australian classic. BL gives a publication date of 1902; Muir concurs. Extremely scarce, especially in this condition.

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Book number: 16176

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Keywords: childrens, juvenilia, amyot sagon, warwick goble, australia, illustrated, amyot sagon, children's, juvenilia, dick, dashwood

SAUNDERS Marjorie

Leave it to Madge.

Epworth Press,, [1953]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece; original cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in unclipped but worjk and partially defective dustwrapper. With a coloured prize bookplate on front free endpaper. Sequel to 'Madge's Sister'.

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Book number: 13589

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: childrens, juvenilia, marjorie saunders, madge, school tales, marjorie saunders, children's, juvenilia, leave, madge

SEYMOUR M.

Shakespeare's Stories simply told. Tragedies and Histories.

Nelson,, 1893. 8vo., with a tinted frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and very numerous illustrations in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original decorative cloth blocked in gilt and black, gilt back, a very good, bright, firm copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue at end. Seymour's retellings were first published in two volumes (Comedies; Tragedies & Histories) in 1883.

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Book number: 18423

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Keywords: mstock, literature, shakespeare, childrens, juvenilia, m. seymour, children's, juvenilia, shakespeare's, stories, simply, told

SMITH-MASTERS M[argaret]

The King's Scout. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock. IN PICTORIAL CLOTH WITH BROCK ILLUSTRATIONS

Wells Gardner Darton & Co.,, [1912]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 7 plates, some light age-soiling; original pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, hinges tender (but binding wholly sound), a good, bright copy. Good copy of an early scouting yarn enhanced by Brock illustrations. Skilton, p.162.

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Book number: 35848

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Keywords: children's, childrens, smith-masters, margaret smith-masters, charles brock, scouts, scouting, boy scouts

SMITH E.

The Little Betty Wilkinson. Illustrated by F. . Hiley. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY

blackie,, [1923]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 3 plates; some faint offsetting to free endpapers; original blue pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered and blocked in white and black, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION

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Book number: 22891

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STEWART Brian

The Enid Blyton Dossier. FINE COPY

Hawk Books, [Penryn,, 1999]. Sm. folio, First Edition, with very numerous coloured illustrations and facsimiles throughout, and pictorial endpapers; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy. Well-illustrated review of Blyton's life and work, and a valuable complement to Summerfield's bibliographies.

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Book number: 9452

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Keywords: children's, childrens, blyton, enid blyton, noddy, famous five, secret seven

STRANG Herbert

With Marlborough to Malplaquet. A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne. UNUSUALLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Oxford University Press,, [1924]. 8vo., with coloured frontispiece and pictorial endpapers; original green pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in red, white and black, an unusually bright, crisp, clean copy. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION

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Book number: 25278

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: juvenilia, herbert strang, richard stead, george ely, herbert strang, g.e. ely, c.j. l'estrange, children's, juvenilia, marlborough, malplaquet

STRANKS Alan

On Duty with PC49. With a Foreword by Brian Reece. Illustrated by F.G. Moorsom.

Juvenile Productions,, [1952]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, monochrome title-vignette, 5 coloured plates, numerous illustrations (including two picture-strips) in the text and coloured pictorial endpapers, neat contemporary inscription on frontispiece verso; original pictorial boards, red cloth back, a very good, bright copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with medium loss at front panel and edges. Stranks was the author of the famous children's radio series.

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Book number: 22335

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STRIKER Fran

The Lone Ranger and the Mystery Ranch. Written by Fran Striker and based on the famous Lone Ranger adventures created by Geo. W. Trendle.

Sampson Low,, [1938]. 8vo., First UK Edition, with pictorial endpapers; original yellow cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with small loss (affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip.

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Book number: 20494

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

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