Leitch, Elizabeth

The Saturday club.

Blackie & Son Ltd. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean, tightly bound hardback book with school prize label on front pastedown, in a bright price clipped dustjacket which is rubbed and chipped at the spine ends and foldovers. 252 pages, illustrations in the text by W. Lindsay Cable. No date but assume 1953 from prize label. Good in Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 68808

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: Horses & ponies Circus

Lewis, C. Day

The Otterbury incident.

Putnam & Co. Ltd. 1948. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in red cloth with faded gilt titles, cloth has minor rubbing at corners, spine sunned, neat name on front endpaper, mark on page 51. 148 pages, illustrations in the text by Edward Ardizzone. Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 52465

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: Edward Ardizzone Cecil Day Lewis Childrens illustrated First Edition

Lewis, Ann

Sheila, Squeak and the balloon.

Clifford Series, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in pictorial boards with red cloth spine, boards lightly rubbed, no inscriptions. 20 pages, colour frontispiece by Brock, full page colour illustrations plus drawings in the text by J. C. van Hunnik. No 1201 in the Comet Series. Fair with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 60031

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: Childrens illustrated Mice

Lindsay, Jack

Runaway.

Oxford University Press, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in blue cloth with dark blue titles, cloth has rubbed and worn, sunned at spine, spots on front cover, Sunday School prize label on front pastedown, page edges foxed. 256 pages, colour frontispiece and 6 black & white illustrations in the text by J. Morton Sale. Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 60659

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: Historical Childrens Fiction Adventure stories

Llorca, Fernando

Lo que cantan los niños Canciones de cuna, de corro, coplillas, adivinanzas, relaciones, juegos y otras cosas infantiles.

Spain: Prometeo, 1924. Reprint; Third Printing. Hardcover. Text in Spanish. Clean hardback tightly bound in tanned boards with blue titles, boards worn at edges name, place and date on front endpaper otherwise no inscriptions. 200 pages, illustrations in the text by R. Manchon. Book undated but inscription is 1924. Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 68364

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: Nursery Rhymes Children's games Folk & traditional customs

Lofting, Hugh

The story of Doctor Dolittle.

Book Club Associates, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is rubbed at the edges and chipped at spine ends. 224 pages, illustrated endpapers, illustrations in the text revised by Jan Pienkowski. Very Good in Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 64513

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: Childrens illustrated

Lund, Gilda

Red Riding Hood also Goldilocks and the three bears.

Wills & Hepworth Ltd. 1961. Reprint. Hardcover. Hardback tightly bound in matt buff boards with blue titles and illustration, boards rubbed and worn, 2 inch split at base of spine/back board, 1/2 inch split at spine top/front board, scribble on both boards, remains of pencil scribble on front endpapers but no inscriptions, stains to page edges and endpapers. 50 pages, illustrations in the text by J. H. Wingfield. Assume early edition but post 1961 as has later Ladybird logo. Poor with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 59879

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: Ladybird Fairytales

Lyon, Elinor

The house in hiding.

Edinburgh: Fidra Books, 2006. Second Edition. Softcover. Very clean, tightly bound paperback, spine uncreased, new and unread, no inscriptions. xii + 268 pages, 4 colour plates, map frontispiece, 12 illustrations in the text, autobiographical foreword by the author. Splendid new edition of the first of the 'Ian and Sovra' books. ;. Fine.

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Book number: 14688

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: Elinor Lyon Childrens Fiction

Lysaght, Elizabeth J.

Brother and sister or, the trials of the Moore Family.

Blackie and Son Limited, 1908. New edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in blue cloth with decorated boards and gilt titles, cloth rubbed at spine ends and edges, front endpaper excised, foxing on pages and page edges, name & address on frontispiece verso. 276 pages + 16 pages of publisher's adverts, 6 illustrations on plates by Gordon Browne. Poor with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 61193

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: Sunday School prize Edwardian fiction

Mais, S. P. B.

Raven among the rooks.

U.S.A: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is chipped and creased at the edges with a few closed tears at the top edge and minor loss at top of spine/front cover. 262 pages, illustrations in the text by Alex Jardine. Very Good in Fair dust jacket.

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Book number: 63431

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: Mystery story Cornwall Horses and riding

Mathieson, Eric

Plonk and the forty-nine cats.

Hamish Hamilton, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which has a ringmark to the front panel. Appears little used. 94 pages, illustrations in the text by Constance Marshall. Very Good in Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 51341

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: Constance Marshall Childrens illustrated

McCloskey, Robert

Make way for ducklings.

U.S.A: Viking Press, 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. Clean and tightly bound larger format hardback, no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which has minor edgewear. Unpaginated (76 pages), illustrations throughout. Very Good in Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 54619

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: Childrens illustrated Caldecott medal Ducks

McDowell, D. F.

The boy's own book of warships.

Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean, landscape format hardback bound in quarter green cloth with pictorial boards, boards rubbed at edges, mark on front cover, no inscriptions. 48 pages, colour illustrations in the text, glossary. Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 62074

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: World War 2 British Navy

McGregor, A. J. & Perring, W.

Mr. Badger to the rescue.

Loughborough: Wills & Hepworth Ltd. 1950. Third Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback book with no inscriptions, minor browning to endpapers, loss to bottom third of backstrip, in an unclipped dustjacket which is well rubbed at the edges and corners, has some loss at the foot of the spine and an old tape repair to a tear at the bottom edge. Series 401. Good in Fair dust jacket.

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Book number: 63502

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: Ladybird Childrens Fiction Ladybird Books

Meade, L. T.

Peter the pilgrim.

W. & R. Chambers, Limited, 1921. Reprint. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in orange cloth with red titles & decoration, cloth has minor rubbing at corners, no inscriptions page edges and endpapers foxed. 296 pages, 4 illustrations on plates by Harold Copping. Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 56506

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens