WESTERMAN Percy F.

The Airship 'Golden Hind'. BRIGHT, FIRM COPY

S.W. Partridge,, [1933]. 8vo., with frontispiece, small label scar on front free endpaper, small loss at bottom edge of front free endpaper, title lightly dust-soiled; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, backstrip mildly browned else a bright, clean copy. Bright copy of a popular tale first published in 1920.

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Book number: 22203

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: childrens, juvenilia, percy westerman, airships

WESTERMAN Percy F.

East in the'Golden Gain'. Illustrated by R.F. Hilder. NEAR FINE COPY

Blackie & Son,, [c.1936]. 8vo., with frontispiece and 3 plates; pictorial blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in cream and black, a near fine copy. With the trade ticket of Haslam of Morecambe on front paste-down. First published in 1925. Dated from internal evidence.

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Book number: 38838

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: children's, childrens, westerman, percy westerman, hilder, rowland hilder

WESTERMAN Percy F.

Leslie Dexter, Cadet. Illustrated by Norman Hepple. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Blackie & Son,, [1930]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 5 plates, neat contemporary inscription on front paste-down; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in blue and white, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 43073

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: children's, childrens, juvenilia, westerman, percy westerman, norman hepple

WESTERMAN Percy F.

The Westow Talisman. Illustrated by W.E. Wigfall.

Blackie & Son,, [1934]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 3 plates, free endpapers lightly browned, catalogue leaf annotated neatly by previous owner; original brown cloth, upper board ruled in white and lettered in black, pictorial backstrip blocked and lettered in white and black, a very good, clean copy. This classic tale was reissued in 1949 and 1957.

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Book number: 15774

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: childrens, juvenilia, westerman, wigfall, percy f. westerman, children's, juvenilia, the, westow, talisman

WIGGIN Kate Douglas

Polly Oliver's Problem. A Story for Girls. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING

Gay & Bird,, 1894. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and plates, front free endpaper browned; original green pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered and blocked in gilt and pink, bevelled boards, gilt edges, patterned endpapers, upper hinge starting (but binding wholly sound), a remarkably bright, clean copy in publisher's binding. With 16pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Unusually bright copy of the one of popular 'Polly Oliver' series. VERY SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 28553

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: children's, childrens, juvenilia, mrs wiggin, kate douglas wiggin, polly oliver

WILLETT Edward

Cats Cradle. Rhymes for Children. Illustrated by Charles Kendrick. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Strahan & Co.,, n.d. [c.1885]. Sm. 4to., with coloured frontispiece and title, very numerous coloured illustrations throughout and patterned endpapers, case a little loose else a very good, bright, clean copy.

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Book number: 49126

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: children's, childrens, willett, edward willett, kendrick, charles kendrick

WYNNE May

The Girls of Mackland Court.

Ward Lock,, [1928]. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original decorative blue cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end.

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Book number: 21881

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

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