NETCHAYEV, VADIM

Petya and His Dog

London, Kestrel. 1975, First Thus. (ISBN: 0722652216). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Colbert, Anthony. C3E. Fine/Very Good.

Goldring BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 004899

Catalogue: Juvenilia / Childrens Fiction

Keywords: Childrens Fiction, Sakhalin 0722652216 Colbert, Anthony

PARKINSON, ETHELYN

Higgins of the Railroad Museum

Nashville, Abingdon Press. 1970, First Edition. (ISBN: 068716981x). Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Bill McPheeters. Gold title with blind embossed train motif on brown cloth with pictorial slightly chipped dustjacket which is complete G+. A children's story by the American chidren's writer of railroads told from the point of view of Higgins who is a dog - part German Shepherd part Airedale, part Labrador and part hound. 12. Very Good/Good.

Goldring BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 001265

Catalogue: Juvenilia / Childrens Fiction

Keywords: 068716981x Bill Mcpheeters

PENDERGRAFT, PATRICIA

Miracle at Clement's Pond

London, Victor Gollancz. 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 057504330X). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The American children's author has created a host of memorable characters in a story of friendship, promises honoured and broken, and of a small rural community transformed by the events of one stormy night. NOT EX LIB 21. Fine/Near Fine.

Goldring BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 004401

Catalogue: Juvenilia / Childrens Fiction

Keywords: American Authors, Juvenilia, Rural Community 057504330x

PERKINS, LUCY FITCH

The Belgian Twins

London, Jonathan Cape. 1956. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Perkins, Lucy Fitch. A near Fine uninscribed copy with VG complete dustjacket. First published in 1940. A childrens novel uniform with the Famous Twins series featuring delightful illustrations by the American childrens author (1865-1937) which was popular with children and adults in many countries. The story of the two little Belgian refugees is based on the actual experiences of two Belgian children as is part of the story. C3E. Near Fine/Very Good.

Goldring BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 003260

Catalogue: Juvenilia / Childrens Fiction

Keywords: Juvenilia, Famous Belgian Twins Perkins, Lucy Fitch

PITMAN, MRS. E.R.

Profit and Loss

London, Haughton and Co. 1879. Cloth, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gilt and black title and decoration with coloured pictorial to front on red cloth bevelled boards. Minor light marks to front and back but very bright with just a touch of wear to lower corner tips. All edges gilt. Internally there is a contemporary name to front endpaper and a few sporadic marks but generally very clean and tight. Not dated but the British Library has only two copies the first dated 1875 the second dated 1879. iv and 315 pages. 3 Illustrations. The author is Emma Raymond Pitman (1841-). SCARCE IN SUCH GOOD CONDITION 11. Very Good AEG/No Jacket.

Goldring BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 005263

Catalogue: Juvenilia / Childrens Fiction

Keywords: Juvenilia, Childrens Fiction

PLANT, K. SHIRLEY

The Captain of the Eleven and Other School Stories

London, The Religious Tract Society. Cloth, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Black and gold titles and decoration with pictorial to front on green cloth boards which are clean and unmarked but with a crease to back which has affected the spine. Internally clean and unmarked. Fourth impression undated but decorative coloured prize label is dated 1919. First published in 1898. The author Kate Shirley Plant was a Victorian children's author and in this volume there are 11 short stories. SCARCE C3E. Very Good/No Jacket.

Goldring BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 003592

Catalogue: Juvenilia / Childrens Fiction

Keywords: Juvenilia, Kate Shirley Plant, Short School Stories

POLIKOFF, BARBARA GARLAND

Riding the Wind

New York, Henry Holt. 1995, First Edition. (ISBN: 0805034927). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. A novel of Angie, who dreams of owning Lila, the white Arabian she's been riding for three years at Smitty's Good Luck Ranch, then thanks to an inheritance she has the chance to realise her dreams but must act fast, as the farrier's daughter, Sage also has her eye on the horse. A seamlessly woven tale of girls and horses and family relationships. C3D. Fine/Fine.

Goldring BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 003619

Catalogue: Juvenilia / Childrens Fiction

Keywords: Juvenilia, Arabian Horse, Smitty's Good Luck Ranch 0805034927

REES, CELIA

Pirates

New York, Bloomsbury. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 1582348162). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stated First US Edition. A Fine copy with near Fine dustjacket. A swashbuckling adventure containing all the elements of the grand pirate story with a female heroine. C3D. Fine/Near Fine.

Goldring BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 000665

Catalogue: Juvenilia / Childrens Fiction

Keywords: Historical Fiction, Slavery 1582348162

RICE, O.L.

Trails out West

London, Pickering and Inglis. 1957, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Brown title on cream boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a coloured decorative prize bookplate to front endpaper else clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is price clipped with wear to spine head and tail and to edges. A story of two girls who are living with their parents in the Canadian West, within a short ride of an Indian Reserve and such life in the backwoods compels them to make their own enjoyment. A vivid picture of Canadian life is depicted and the many incidents make a most interesting trail out west. B2B. Very Good/Good.

Goldring BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 003014

Catalogue: Juvenilia / Childrens Fiction

Keywords: Canadian West, Indian Reserve

ROBINSON, RICHARD G.

My Uncle's Strange Voyages

London, Andre Deutsch. 1964, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Verney, John. A VG+ unmaked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is price clipped. 12 delightful stories for children all with a nautical theme and fantastic, including the uncle hooking a sea serpent with a piece of cheese to escape being becalmed in the Sargasso Sea. Original and most enjoyable with illustrations by John Verney. C3E. Very Good/Very Good.

Goldring BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 002142

Catalogue: Juvenilia / Childrens Fiction

Keywords: Juvenilia, Childrens Fiction, Nautical Theme, Verney, John

RUFFELL, ANN

Cathy's Christmas Project

Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 0192716581). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Eastwood, John. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. 'It is December in the twenty-first century, Cathy has a rather strange project at day-school this term. It all began with the word 'snew', which the encyclopedia mode on her computer tells her used to exist on earth in winter, long ago before the greenhouse effect. But what was winter? And what was the very peculiar festival that happened then? What were 'presents'? Who gave them and why? What was that thing shaped like a balloon, only heavy? And who or what was a 'Samper'? It's a very strange project indeed. Delightfully illustrated by John Eastwood. NOT EX LIB C3D. Fine/Very Good.

Goldring BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 005077

Catalogue: Juvenilia / Childrens Fiction

Keywords: Christmas, Childrens Fiction 0192716581 Eastwood, John

SCOTT, J.M.

White Magic

London, Methuen. 1955, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ill.: Kiddell-Monroe. Blue title and girl and sword motif on grey boards. Some minor marks to boards with fading to spine. Internally clean and unmarked. A Good + copy. A juvenile adventure story of an expedition to the Arctic - to East Greenland. Coloured frontispiece illustration of children in a rowing boat with Eskimos and many other illustrations by Kiddell-Monroe. C3E. Good/No Jacket.

Goldring BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 002202

Catalogue: Juvenilia / Childrens Fiction

Keywords: Arctic, East Greenland, Eskimos, Juvenilia Kiddell-Monroe

SIVERS, BOWERING

Jammy Dodgers on the Run

London, Macmillan Children's Books. 2004, First Edition. (ISBN: 1405045779). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. The English female children's author's tale of Jem, Ned and Billy - the Jammy Dodgers - three urchins who scrape a living off the dirty streets of Victorian London and when it comes to begging the odd penny with a far fetched story, the pickpocketing Perkinski brothers are true professionals. Delightfully colour illustrated. C3C. Fine/Fine.

Goldring BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 003507

Catalogue: Juvenilia / Childrens Fiction

Keywords: Juvenilia, Jammy Dodgers, Perkinski Brothers, Jem, Ned, Billy 1405045779

KING-SMITH, DICK

The Cuckoo Child

London, Viking. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 0670832952). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Parkins, David. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. Under your pillow is not the best place to hatch an egg but Jack does have a way with birds and, as he grows so do his pets, from budgies to bantams to ducks to an ostrich? Having had the luck to get an ostrich egg he is determined to hatch it, enlisting the help of a pair of geese as foster parents. What will they make of a giant son who sinks when he should swim, is in danger of trampling his brothers and sisters and runs faster than any bird on earth? C3D. Fine/Fine.

Goldring BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 004143

Catalogue: Juvenilia / Childrens Fiction

Keywords: Juvenilia, Cuckoos, Ostrich Egg, Geese 0670832952 Parkins, David

KING-SMITH, DICK

Harriet's Hare

London, Doubleday. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 0385405324). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Littlewood, Valeri. A Very Good unmarked copy with some minor very small bump to lower edge with VG non price clipped dustjacket which has light crease to back. The discovery of a large flattened circle in her father's Ten Acre wheatfield begins an incredible summer for Harriet, for the circle has been made by a space ship from the far off planet Pars and marks the arrival of someone special, Wiz, an alien who has come to spend his holidays on Earth in the form of a talking hare. Not only can Harriet's new friend speak any language and transform himself into any shape, from hedgehog to a cow, he also has wonderful plans for Harriet. Delightfully illustrated by Valerie Littlewood. 22. Very Good/Very Good.

Goldring BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 005232

Catalogue: Juvenilia / Childrens Fiction

Keywords: Childrens Fiction, Juvenilia, Alien 0385405324 Littlewood, Valeri