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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Book number: 56718

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: 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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Book number: 63608

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: Short stories Childrens Annuals

Bulfinch, Thomas

Legends of Charlemagne. Everyman no. 556.

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1931. Reprint. Hardcover. Clean hardback bound in blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration, lightly pulled at bottom edges, spine faded with small nick just below title, edges rubbed, no inscriptions. x + 240 pages. Fair with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 61278

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: Medieval age Italian writers

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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Book number: 68001

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: 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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Book number: 60614

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: 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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Book number: 63635

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: Lewis Carroll Gwynedd M. Hudson Childrens illustrated fiction

Carroll, Lewis

Alice in Wonderland, with, Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there (2 books).

Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1953. Reprint. Hardcover. 2 clean, small format (4 x 6¼ inches) hardbacks tightly bound in navy faux leather with gilt titles and decoration, minor rubbing at edges, no inscriptions. xvi + 164 7 xii + 174 pages, illustrations in the text by Helen Monro. Undated but 10/53 in pencil on front endpapers. Alice has an introduction by Langford Reed. Very Good.

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Book number: 67560

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: Classic children's fiction Mad hatter Cheshire Cat

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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Book number: 68120

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: Adventure stories Cricket Speedway Photography

Caveney, Philip

Sebastian Darke: Prince of Fools.

The Bodley Head, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean, tightly bound book signed by author on the title page, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is lightly worn at the corners and spine edges. 378 pages; Signed by Author. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 40053

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: Signed First Edition

Channel, A.R.

Jungle rescue.

U. S. A.: S. G. Phillips, Inc. 1968. First American Edition. Hardcover. Reading copy, an ex American school library hardback with one stamp & remains of a sticker on the half title page, new endpapers, no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is rubbed at the edges and sunned at the spine. 192 pages, illustrations in the text by Denys Watkins-Pitchford (BB). Fair in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 67606

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: Tigers India Children's adventure stories Wild animals

Channel, A. R.

Phantom patrol.

Collins, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book, front endpaper excised, no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is chipped and creased with short closed tears and small areas of loss to front cover. 256 pages. Undated but author's dedication to the Boy Scouts of Finland is dated 1940. Good in Fair dust jacket.

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Book number: 68025

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: World War 2 Finland Boy scouts Great Russian War

Cheesman, Lilian

Peter and his pals.

George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1931. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in grey cloth with green titles, cloth has minor rubbing at corners, gift inscription (dated 1932) on front endpaper, page edges browned, else very good. 228 pages, illustrations on 6 colour plates, and several line drawings in the text. Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 61897

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: Childrens illustrated

Chester, Norley

Knights of the Grail Lohengrin : Galahad.

Thomas Nelson And Sons, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in red cloth with gilt titles, colour picture laid on front board, cloth marked and rubbed, endpapers tanned, no inscriptions. 154 pages + 8 pages of publisher's adverts, colour illustrations on plates. Fair with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 68948

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: King Arthur Arthurian legend Round Table

Clarke, Mollie

Little things nos 4, 7, 8, 9, 15 & 16: The four cats, The kind crocodile, the three mice, A panda, Little rhymes and Squirrel.

Exeter: A. Wheaton & Co. Ltd, 1959. Reprint. Softcover. 6 reading copies, ex school paperbacks with a school stamp on front cover but no other inscriptions. Covers creased and rubbed at edges, tape marks around spines and all covers and pages marked as clearly these books have been read many times by small children. 23 pages, illustrations in the text by the author. Undated but assume mid - late 1950s as were other books from the same collection. Fair with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 56021

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: School books Literacy

Clarke, Mollie

Red spot books nos 2, 3, 4 & 5: The blue balloon, The duck's pond, Greedy pig and Angus and the balls.

Exeter: Wheatons, 1959. Reprint. Softcover. 4 reading copies, ex school small format paperbacks with a school stamp and date but no other inscriptions. 3 have 8 July 1959 inside front cover/first page, Blue balloon has stamp and 8 July 1958 on front cover. Covers rubbed and worn at edges and all covers and pages marked as clearly these books have been read many times by small children. 15 pages, illustrations in the text. Undated but date taken from school stamp. Poor with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 56019

Catalogue: Fiction:: Childrens

Keywords: School books Literacy