MCALLISTER ANGELA & HENWOOD SIMON

The King Who Sneezed

London, Aurum Press. 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 1854060090) Pictorial Boards, 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. Ill.: Simon Henwood. (500 gram rate) very tidy ( but signs of use) DW has small grease stain at top edge of cover, unclipped, small splits top ends of spine joints, approx 32pp well illustrated in colour. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 002940

Catalogue: Childrens Young Adult

Keywords: Illustrated Childrens Fiction Picture Story Book 1854060090 Simon Henwood

BRAZIL ANGELA

The Luckiest Girl in the School

London, Blackie. Decorative Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: H L Bacon. rubbed corners frayed, pictorial cloth with three gals with hockey sticks, undated, about 1920?, lacks frontis, fep removed, some foxing to closed edges and on to margins, 30 titles listed at front, 296pp + 3 plates. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008184

Catalogue: Childrens Young Adult

Keywords: School Story Victorian Brazil Fiction H L Bacon

BRAZIL ANGELA

Monitress Merle

London, Blackie. reprint. Decorative Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: Treyer Evans. Brown cloth with black titles and b/w illustrations of a girl sat reading (upper board) and a girl stood with her hands behind her back (to spine), rubbed spine ends, some foxing to closed edges, plain RTS prize plate to fep 'Noleen Watson S4 Steady Progress 18.12.30' list of titles has 30 titles, 256pp + 5plates (incl frontis.). Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008981

Catalogue: Childrens Young Adult

Keywords: School Story Victorian Brazil Fiction Noleen Watson 1930 School Prize Treyer Evans

BRAZIL ANGELA

A Pair of Schoolgirls, a Story of School Days

London, Blackie. assumed first. Decorative Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ill.: John Campbell. blue cloth with illustration of two girls in green raincoats and boaters, lacks fep and half title, frontis detached but present, all plates present but bound out of order. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003367

Catalogue: Childrens Young Adult

Keywords: School Story Victorian Brazil Fiction John Campbell

BRAZIL ANGELA

Secret of the Border Castle

London, Blackie. First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. DW lacks large portion at head and tail of spine as well as large chip to lower corner, some pinkish staining from the boards. Book lacks fep, two large inscriptiions to reverse of B&W frontis, paper age browned. Red papered boards titled in silver to cover and spine, a very small amount of mottling and rubbing. 256pp G+/Fair, undated, assumed first edition. Good/Fair.

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Book number: 013359

Catalogue: Childrens Young Adult

Keywords: British School Girl Story Brazil

BULL ANGELA

Wayland's Keep

London, Collins. 1966, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: Shirley Hughes. DW unclipped with edge wear and corner rubbing, short tear at top left of front panel with associated creasing, no loss to DW but surface wear and soiling, short tear rear lower corner fold, 191pp, illustrated in line by Shirley Hughes. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 012927

Catalogue: Childrens Young Adult

Keywords: British Young Adult Childrens Fiction Adventure Mystery Shirley Hughes

MACVICAR ANGUS

The High Cliffs of Kersivay

London, Harrap. 1964, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ill.: Douglas Relf. (500 gram rate) unclipped dust jacket light wear to edges, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, short tear at head of lower dust jacket joint, closed edges foxed, 95pp illustrated in line, climbing adventure on a Scottish island. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 005041

Catalogue: Childrens Young Adult

Keywords: British Children's Fiction Young Adult Scotland Scottish Isles Island Setting Cliffs Climbing Adventure Story Douglas Relf

MACVICAR ANGUS

Return to the Lost Planet

London, Burke. 1958, reprint. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 grams) fourth printing, price clipped dust jacket complete but with some splits at ends of joints, strengthened to verso of head with paper, short tear bottom corner of front panel, crease marks at spine ends, some mild scattered foxing to prelims and closed edges, 158pp, part of the Falcon Library. Good/Good.

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Book number: 008073

Catalogue: Childrens Young Adult

Keywords: British Childrens Adventure Fiction Science Fiction Space Travel

LEWIS ANN

Sheila, Squeak and the Balloon + Kitty and Tom in Toy-land

London, Brown Watson. Pictorial Boards, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ill.: J. C. Van Hunnik. (200 gram rate) 2 books, Sheila, Squeak and the Balloon has gift inscription to paste down, stapled pages are detached from the boards, tape rust where the text was held in, 41pp 50% approx full colour illustrations; Kitty and Tom in Toy-land is published by Mulder & Zoon Amsterdam, name to paste down, sewn text block is detached, spine rebound with cloth, small area of front panel rubbed with loss of pictorial area, 41pp 50% approx full colour illustrations. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009744

Catalogue: Childrens Young Adult

Keywords: Illustrated Childrens Fiction Picture Story Book Linden Series J.C. Van Hunnik

SEWELL ANNA

Black Beauty the Autobiography of a horse

Auckland, Whitcombe and Tombs. First Edition. Original Wraps, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. story book No 441, at rear the publishers / printers # is G1617 68pp in stapled buff wrappers dec in red and black. 20mm split lower spine, general wear . Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000575

Catalogue: Childrens Young Adult

Keywords: Whitcombes Story Books Abridged Edition Adaptation Collectible

ANON

Chatterbox news-box volume viii

London, Wells Gardner Darton & Co. First Edition. Pictorial Cover, 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. Ill.: Various. pictorial papered boards of boy and girl in school uniform with model sailboats. palian cloth spine, corners of boards rubbed through, annual binding 12 monthly papers, heavy newsprint stock. advertisements to pastedowns and both sides of feps, colour frontis, no date but inscr dated 1925, lower board is an advertisement for Pears transparent soap. VG copy with the internals especially so. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000717

Catalogue: Childrens Young Adult

Keywords: Childrens Paper Annual Pears Soap Advertising Various

ANON

Slave and His Golden Egg, Molly's Bed-time Stories

London, Thomas Nelson. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ill.: P. Denton. (500 gram rate) papered boards rubbed at edges with paper loss, school prize plate to fep, Good Luck Series, col. frontis, lacks DW, 2 stories. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008782

Catalogue: Childrens Young Adult

Keywords: British Childrens Fiction Chapter Book P. Denton

BUCKERIDGE ANTHONY

Speaking of Jennings!

London, Collins. 1974, First Edition. (ISBN: 0001621165) Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. second impression of first edition, very tidy, DW price clipped with photo design of two schoolboys and a bikie, top edge dusting is faded otherwise excellent copy of one of the later titles, 157pp. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 002887

Catalogue: Childrens Young Adult

Keywords: Jennings British Schoolboy School Adbenture Fiction Novel Humour Buckeridge 0001621165

GROOM ARTHUR

Bubble and Squeek Annual

London, Birn Brothers. First Edition. Decorative Boards, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: G Moreno. about 1955 but undated, cover showsman standding on a car painting the book title on a red fence, quarter cloth, edges of papered boards rubbed, large child's name to fep at the top, the top margin above the frontis has a paper scar from erased pencil name, small squiggle at foot of title below publication details, a few pages have chips from the bottom margin, but no text or picture loss noted, 92pp, illustrated throughout with colour. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005238

Catalogue: Childrens Young Adult

Keywords: British Cartoon Annual Childrens Annual 1955 1950s G Moreno

FERRES ARTHUR

His First Kangaroo

London, Blackie. 1896, First Edition. Decorative Boards, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: Percy F S Spence. Green pictorial cloth featuring kangaroos. 32 page catalogue at rear.cloth rubbed to joints and frayed to corners, lacks fep, minor foxing, 288pp lacks one plate (for pp103), light fingermarking to margins, slight spine lean. Colonial Australian boys adventure tale with a cast of native animals, Chinese and other immigrants. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 013086

Catalogue: Childrens Young Adult

Keywords: Australia Adventure Fiction Victorian Childrens Novel Colonial Percy F S Spence