Brent-Dyer, Elinor M.

Excitements at the Chalet School, with, The coming of age of the Chalet School (2 paperbacks).

Armada, 1981. Reprint. Softcover. Excitements: Clean and tightly bound paperback, spine and card covers rubbed, pages age tanned, no inscriptions. 192 pages. Armada no. 1915. Coming: Tatty reading copy, an ex library paperback with the usual stamps & stickers, card covers detached, 160 pages. Good.

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N° du livre: 70407

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Mots-clés: Murder mysteries Detective fiction Crime stories

Brent-Dyer, Elinor

Jane and the Chalet School.

W. & R. Chambers, Ltd. 1964. Second Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback bound in blue cloth with silver titles, front board pulled, spine sunned, corners bumped, front endpaper and half title page excised, no inscriptions. 212 pages. Poor with no dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 68583

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Mots-clés: School stories Chalet School

Brent-Dyer, Elinor M.

The Princess of the Chalet School.

W. & R. Chambers, Ltd. 1949. Reprint. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book with a gift inscription on the front endpaper, in an unclipped dustjacket which is worn, creased and chipped, rear cover reattached at spine, loss at spine ends and foldovers. 304 pages, dustwrappper by Nina K. Brisley. Good in Poor dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 70117

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Mots-clés: Children's fiction School stories Chalet School Nina K. Brisley

Brent-Dyer, Elinor

Top secret.

W & R Chambers, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in blue cloth with dark blue titles, cloth foxed at spine, pages age tanned throughout, bookseller's label on front pastedown otherwise no inscriptions. 204 pages, frontispiece by Brook. One of the Chudleigh Hold series. Good with no dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 67517

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Mots-clés: Children's adventure stories Australia Hawk Chudleigh

Brereton, Lt. Col.

Rough riders of the pampas.

Blackie & Son Limited, 1941. Reprint. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in green cloth with blue titles, cloth rubbed at edges and bumped at corners, Sunday School prize label on front pastedown, front endpaper, half title page and frontispiece torn out. 366 pages, 3 illustrations on plates by Stanley L. Wood. Undated but prize label gives 1942. Poor with no dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 60660

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Mots-clés: Children's adventure stories Gauchos

Browne, Frances

Granny's wonderful chair.

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright price clipped dustjacket which is sunned at the spine and chipped at the spine ends. 150 pages, 4 colour illustrations on plates and drawings in the text by Denys Watkins-Pitchford. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 67388

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Mots-clés: BB Children's Fiction Fairy Stories

Bruce, Dorita Fairlie

Dimsie, head girl.

Oxford University Press, 1945. Reprint. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book with a gift inscription on the front endpaper, in a price clipped dustjacket which is creased and worn with small areas of loss at both edges. 280 pages, frontispiece. Good in Fair dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 56718

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Mots-clés: Dorita Fairlie Bruce Girls School Fiction Schoolgirl

Bruin, Mrs (ed)

The Rainbow annual 1924.

The Amalgamated Press, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardback bound in pictorial boards with blue cloth spine, boards pulled and boards worn at edges, front endpaper excised, pages 3 - 6 partially detached, no inscriptions. 72 pages, illustrations in the text. Poor.

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N° du livre: 63608

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Mots-clés: Short stories Childrens Annuals

Byron, May

J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Wendy retold by May Byron for little people.

University of London Press, 1939. Reprint. Hardcover. Clean hardback bound in blue cloth with dark blue titles and decoration, cloth sunned at spine and rubbed at edges, page edges foxed, name on front endpaper. 128 pages + 4 pages of publisher's adverts, illustrations on plates and in the text by Mabel Lucie Atwell. Good with no dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 69126

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Mots-clés: Children's Fiction Neverland Peter Pan Mabel Lucie Attwell

Carey, M. C.

Fairy tales of long ago (BB interest).

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in pictorial boards with blue titles, cloth rubbed at edges, minor foxing, crossed out name and date on front pastedown and name on front endpaper, some titles underlined on contents pages. viii + 244 pages, 8 colour illustrations on plates by Denys Watkins-Pitchford. Fair with no dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 68001

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Mots-clés: Denys J Watkins-Pitchford Children's Illustrated fiction Beauty and the beast Puss in boots

Carroll, Lewis & Attwell, Mabel Lucie

Alice in Wonderland.

Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, 1922. Reprint. Hardcover. Hardback bound in quarter red cloth with pictorial boards. Spine sunned and split, boards worn at edges, binding pulled at title page, page11/12 horizontal closed tear at top of page, page 33/4 detached but present, page 71/2 top corner missing. No inscriptions but remains of hard scribble on front pastedown and pages 46/7. 108 pages, 4 colour illustrations on plates, one detached, so assume 2 missing from other dealer's descriptions, many illustrations in the text. Undated but appears early 1920s. Poor with No dust jacket as issued.

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N° du livre: 60614

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Mots-clés: Lewis Carroll Childrens illustrated fiction Mabel Lucie Attwell

Carroll, Lewis

Alice in Wonderland.

Nottingham: Boots Pure Drug Co. 1938. Reprint. Hardcover. Clean, tightly bound book in grey boards with red illustrations which has no inscriptions, (the 'This is the book of...' printed on the front pastedown is not completed), page 131 has old tape marks from a fore edge tear, now neatly repaired (no loss), and frontispiece is creased and chipped at edges where it was laid in for some years, now reattached. The dustjacket is creased and chipped at the edges with loss at top of spine and covers also at bottom corner of front foldover. 222 pages, 12 plates and numerous black text illustrations by Gwynedd M. Hudson + 2 red illustrations on endpapers. Undated but appears to be a later Boots edition- the British Library gives 1938 for the 222 page edition. Good in Fair dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 63635

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Mots-clés: Lewis Carroll Gwynedd M. Hudson Childrens illustrated fiction

Carroll, Lewis

Alice in Wonderland stories old and new.

Blackie & Son Ltd. 1925. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in white boards with mounted picture and green titles and decoration, minor rubbing at spine ends, page edges foxed, no inscriptions. 120 pages, frontispiece and 3 colour illustrations on plates by Frank Adams, decorated endpapers. No date but assume mid 1920s. Good with no dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 70270

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Mots-clés: Alice's adventures in wonderland Classic childrens fiction Frank Adams

Carroll, Lewis; Lamb, Charles and Mary; Swift, Dean et al

Children's treasury of great stories: Alice in Wonderland, 12 tales from Shakespeare, Gulliver in Lilliput and 9 Stories from the Arabian Nights.

Daily Express Publications, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in red cloth with gilt titles, cloth rubbed at spine ends, some foxing at page edges, gift inscription dated 1933 on front endpaper verso. 448 pages, colour illustrations on plates by Arhtur Rackham and Harry Rountree, plus illustrations in the text, illustrated endpapers. Book undated but assume 1933 from inscription. Good with no dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 70262

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Mots-clés: Children's classic fiction Arthur Rackham Harry Rountree Illustrated childrens fiction

Catherall, Arthur, Compton, Denis et al

Boy's own paper: Vol. 70 No. 2 September 1948.

Sheffield: Lutterworth Periodicals Limited, 1948. First Edition. Softcover. Clean, small format, tightly bound paperback original, stapled spine, pictorial covers, no inscriptions, appears little used. 54 pages, photos and illustrations in the text. Includes final part of Sea Wraith by Arthur Catherall and a speedway story by Leslie Bell. Very Good.

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N° du livre: 68120

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Mots-clés: Adventure stories Cricket Speedway Photography