Avery, Harold Fred Whishaw and R. B. Townshend:

Gunpowder, Treason And Plot and Other Stories For Boys.

London, Thomas Nelson And Sons Ltd, no date Hard cover decorated red cloth bds, VG, spine a little sunned, colour frontis. contents clean and tight, neat inscript. to ffep dated 1927, pp167. Includes the stories: When Friends Fall Out; Two Heroes; Lost in the Soudan; The Wolfman; In Honour Bound; "Gunpowder, Treason and Plot"; The Cock-House Cup.

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Book number: 11981

Catalogue: Short Stories

Keywords: short stories boys fiction friends heroes wolfman honour Soudan 0000000000

Blyton, Enid:

Enid Blyton's Playtime Story Book, Number Ten.

World Distributors (Manchester) Ltd, 1966 Oversized slim hard cover, glazed pict. bds, VG, no d/w, a little fading partic. at spine, stitching showing through at spine in places, contents nice and bright with colour illust.s, v. occas. soiling, price unclipped, binding sound, unpag., no inscriptions etc...

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Book number: 10260

Catalogue: Short Stories

Keywords: short stories magic Brer Rabbit Snicker the Brownie donkey The Little White Rabbit animal stories children's 0723516553

Briggs, Raymond:

The Fairy Tale Treasury: Selected by Virginia Haviland.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1972 Oversized hard cover orange pictorial glossy bds, VG+, tiny scuffs at corner tips, unclipped dust jacket, VG, a little furled/creased at edges and minor scuffs here and there, purple felt pen neat name to half title, no other inscriptions, glorious illustration in b/w and colour, some full-pge, contents fine and tight, has a bit of an 'old book' smell, pp192. With many favourites, here are 32 beautifully illustrated tales including: The Gingerbread Boy; Heny-Penny; The Old Woman and Her Pig; The story of the Three Bears; The Turnip; The Golden Goose; The Half-Chick; The History of Tom Thumb; Jack and the Beanstalk; Budulinek; The Sun and the Wind; The Frog Prince; Puss in Boots; Molly Whuppie; Rumpelstiltskin; The Real Princess; The Ugly Duckling etc... The postage may be higher on this item.

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Book number: 13765

Catalogue: Short Stories

Keywords: Fairy tales fantasy children's magic The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids Three little pigs Little Red Hen Gone Is Gone Three Billy Goats Gruff Tiger to Anansi Miller his son and their donkey Wakaima 024102207X

Browne, Frances Ed. by H. A. Treble:

Granny's Wonderful Chair.

Edinburgh, Oliver And Boyd, no date Hard cover brick red cloth bds, black lettering to spine, Very Good-, contents clean and tight, b/w frontis., incl. 5 stories followed by exercises, pp95.

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Book number: 10088

Catalogue: short stories

Keywords: Granny's chair fairy stories fairy story fantasy Approach To Literature Series H A Treble The Christmas Cuckoo The Greedy Shepherd The Story of Fairyfoot The story of Merrymind The Lords of the White

Cameron, K. A. (Ed by):

Gateways To Bookland: A Wreath Of Golden Blossoms.

London, McDougall's Education Company Ltd, no date Hard cover blue cloth bds, Fair+, spine splitting at rear hinge 1" at btm, bds a little bend, some soilind, cloth creased in places, contents loosening and many pages loose, some very dog-eared at edges but doesn't affect text, pge 19 has a closed tear across, pges 35/36, 37/38, and 91/92 missing, all colour plates present + frontis., artists incl. Sir Joshua Reynolds; Dorothy Furniss; Sir John Everett Millais; Ambrose Dudley; Sir Noel Paton; Will Owen; and Gordon Browne, stories incl. The Three Billy Goats; The Little Fir Tree; Robin Redbreast and Jenny Wren; Goody Two Shoes; The Rolling Pancake; The Wolf and the Three Little Pigs Happy Jack; The Spinning Top; The Lucky Shepherd Boy and Rushy Coat etc... pp144, school stamp to front pastedown. A McDougall's School Series.

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Book number: 9579

Catalogue: short stories

Keywords: short stoies rhymes verse education The Lion's Welcome rhymes about Robin the Cat and the Mice Flying Away Little Miss Muffet The yew tree's Needles trees Shaking the Apple Tree Banbury Fair Sleep

Cassie, E. A., M. Perry, Muriel Jack, Ann Watson, Ernest Butler, J Dalby, Elizabeth Gould, Anne Diack:

The Silver Whistle. A Collection Of Stories And Verses.

London, Blackie, no date Hard cover shiny pict. paper bds, two bumps one at the top edge and one at the btm otherwise VG, clipped d/w, 2 closed tears and scuffing, contents fine and bright, with lovely colour plates and two-tone illustrations, nice black/red/white endpapers. A collection of short stories and verses by various authors including; Dolly Dawdle - M. Perry; Miss Smith's Fifteen Cats - Muriel Jack; Jelly Babies - Anne Watson; Lost and Found - Ernest Butler; When I'm Invited Out to Tea - J Dalby; Miss Meek - Elizabeth Gould and The Little Grey Donkey - Anne Diack.

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Book number: 10422

Catalogue: short stories

Keywords: short stories verse rhyme Cassie, E. A., M. Perry, Muriel Jack, Ann Watson, Ernest Butler, J Dalby, Elizabeth Gould, Anne Diack The Anytime Series

Crossley-Holland, Kevin Illust. by Shirley Felts:

The Dead Moon And Other Tales from East Anglia and the Fen Country.

London, Andre Deutsch, 1982 1st ed., H/B green cloth bds and unclipped d/w completely enclosed with protective film, VG, ex lib with usual markings, label to spine, ffep partly pasted to front pastedown, contents clean and tight, illust. by Shirley Felts, pp104. 11 tales evocative of the strange isolated world of the Fens in East Anglia.

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Book number: 11182

Catalogue: Short Stories

Keywords: Fens, East Anglia, tales, children's, strange, ghosts, short stories, fiction, juvenile Suffolk Miracle Tom Hickathrift Pedlar of Swaffham Green Mist Tiddy Mun Black Dog of Bungay Yallery Brown 0233974784

Flowerdew, Phyllis Illust. by Virginia Smith, Barry Wilkinson, Ann Rees, Caroline Sharpe:

Goodbye Candlelight And Other Stories.

Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, 1974 Oversized Hard cover 1st ED., slight scuffing at corners and spine tips otherwise VG, unclipped dust jacket, a couple of clear tape mends, Good+, contents clean and tight with colour illustrations by the above. Stories incl. The Bad Little Bird; The Lighthouse; The Tree that Grew in a House; A Fox Story; The Runaway Orange; The Old Steam Engine; A Garden for Richard; The Emperor's Dog; The Snowman; Magic in the Van; A Mouse in a Church; The Brave Little Elephant; Yellow!; Flowers for the Queen; The Lost Nest; The Igloo; The Wishing Pond; The Lost Boat etc...

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Book number: 12899

Catalogue: Short Stories

Keywords: short stories juvenile fiction Virginia Smith Barry Wilkinson Ann Rees Caroline Sharpe Jelly For Tea The Magic Ring The Little Zebra The Empty House Fivepence for a Tooth The Keeper of the Keys 0050028162

Frank, Waldo (Edited with a Foreword by) Illust. by Mordecai Gorelik:

Tales From The Argentine.

New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1930 Hard cover green cloth bds, Good+, no d/w, nicely illust. endpapers, no inscriptions etc..., contents nice and tight, pp268, with 7 short stories.

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Book number: 10072

Catalogue: short stories

Keywords: short stories Argentine Roberto J. Payro, Leopoldo Lugones, Lucio V. Lopez, Domingo F. Sarmiento;Ricardo Guiraldes, Horacio Quiroga

Gales, R. L.:

The Vanished Country Folk & Other Studies In Arcady.

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd, 1914 1st Ed., Hard cover brown cloth bds, rubbed and scuffed, faded gilt titles to upper bd and spine, two small white paint spots to upper bd, cloth at spine top has tiny closed tear, contents clean and tight, ffep torn and damaged, prev. owners label to front pastedown, hinge cracked at front but holding, pp438. A sound reading copy.

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Book number: 12299

Catalogue: Short Stories

Keywords: country tales short stories folk village farm labourer church Advocatus Pauperum old people Autumn arcady tramp lobster catchers Christianity clericalism Cardinal Newman Christmas prose rhyming place

Goodwyn, E. A. & J. C. Baxter (Ed. by):

East Anglian Short Stories.

Ipswich, The Boydell Press, 1977 1st Ed., Hard cover maroon cloth bds, silver lettering to spine, VG+, clipped d/w, VG+, contents fine and tight, seem unread, pp148, neat inscription to ffep. A collection of storiesby East Anglian writers and is "... for the most part reflections of East Anglia as a predominantly farming community, absorbed in wresting a living from the land; their characters are men and women inured to toil, stubbornly independent and schooled to endurance."

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Book number: 12312

Catalogue: Short Stories

Keywords: short stories Adrian H Bell James Blyth Richard Davey Peter H Emerson Harold W Freeman R Hindes Groome Lady Camilla Gurdon Mary E Mann Agnes Strickland Agnes M Wilson East Anglia farming characters 0851150861

Henderson, T. Illust. by James Thomson:

Wilson's Tales Of The Borders.

London, The Ettrick Press Ltd, 1947 Hard cover green cloth bds, Good, a little age-marking, contents clean and tight, no d/w, pp350, in inscriptions etc...

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Book number: 10071

Catalogue: Short Stories

Keywords: borders tales short stories James Thomson John Mackay Wilson Scots Scotland battles monks death raids revenge rescue

Hewett, Anita Illust. by Margery Gill And Charlotte Hough:

The Anita Hewett Animal Story Book.

London, The Bodley Head, 1972 1st thus, Hard cover blue cloth bds, VG+, unclipped d/w, Good-, some internal tape repairs, a little edgewear/creasing/rubbing, contents nice and tight with b/w illust.s by Margery Gill and Charlotte Hough, pp270. Short stories that include: The Jackal That Teased; Mr and Mrs Ostrich; Elephant Big and Elephant Little; Honey Mouse; Koala's Walkabout; Lozard Comes Down From The North; Pig Says Positive; Peccary Piglet's Collar; Terrible Tiger's Party; Happy Black Grackle etc...

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Book number: 12393

Catalogue: Short Stories

Keywords: animal stories short stories tales Margery Gill Charlotte Hough fiction children's juvenile rhinoceros elephant frog tiger bull piglet peccary pig sloth mouse platypus rabbit Koala quail bird kangaroo 0370012399

Illust. by Knight, Gladys Peto:

Happy Holiday Stories.

London, Juvenile Productions Ltd, date unknown Oversized hard cover, paper covered pictorial bds, some wear, partic. to leading bd edges and spine, otherwise Good, picture of two girls and a caravan, To/From neatly filled in in pencil to front pastedown, neat pen and ink Sunday School presentation to half title dated 1938, colour frontis. and 3 further full page colour plates, light age-marking throughout, small closed tear to btm margin of one plate, further b/w illustrations, unpaginated.

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Book number: 14316

Catalogue: Short Stories

Keywords: short stories girls holiday Gladys Peto Knight Emma Smith Heroine Heroine Helen Cynthia in Cairo The Third Time Mamua Rodeo Rose Rose Clark Katinka Goes Back

Von Kleist, Heinrich; Ludwig Tieck; E T A Hoffmann:

Six German Romantic Tales.

London, Angel Books, 1985 Paperback, Good, some fading, contents clean and tight, pp146, transl. by Ronald Taylor.

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Book number: 10060

Catalogue: Short Stories

Keywords: short stories German Ronald Taylor Eckbert The Fair The Runenberg The Earthquake in Chile The Betrothal on Santo Domingo Don Giovanni The Jesuit Chapel In G 0946162174