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Waterslain Angels.

By: CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, KEVIN:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Orion Children’s Books. London. 2008 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 62979

8vo. In dark blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With pictorial dustwrapper. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped). Author’s signed inscription to main title page. Inserts loose in front include personal letters and card to and from the author. A very clean and tight copy. 192pp. Two girls set out to find Angels missing from the village church roof, a search which leads them into danger. Detective story set in the 1950s in the North Norfolk saltmarshes.
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Storm. A Banana Book. Illustrated by Alan Marks.

By: CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, KEVIN:

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Heinemann. London. 1986 repr.:

Seller ID: 63040

Sm 8vo. In illustrated hard card covers. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded. postcards written by author loose in front. 42pp. With illustrations in colour by Alan Marks. Children’s story. On a stormy night, Annie needs to get the doctor for her sister. She is offered a ride by a dark horseman. Who is he?
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The Sea Stranger. Long Ago Children Books. Pictures by Joanna Troughton.

By: CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, KEVIN:

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Heinemann. London. 1973 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 63042

8vo. In green pictorial cloth covers with matching dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly rubbed at ends with small tears at top. Handling marks. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. 48pp. With colour plates and line drawings in text. A young Saxon boy meets a missionary and decides to beome a monk.
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The Callow Pit Coffer. Drawings by Margaret Gordon. Signed copy.

By: CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, KEVIN:

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Macmillan. London. 1968 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 63043

8vo. In pictorial white hard card covers with matching dustwrapper. yellow endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine and edges slightly darkened. Small tears to ends of spine. Not price clipped). Author’s signed inscription to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. 48pp. With b/w illustrations. A dark folk tale from Norfolk. The pond known as Callow Pit is said to conceal a treasure. Two young boys in the reign of King Steven, decide to retreive it. The get more than they bargained for.
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Timur and His Comrades Translated by Musia Renbourn. Illustrated by Donia Nachsen.

By: GAIDAR, A.:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Pilot Press, 1943 1st:

Seller ID: 81796

Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Half bound with brown cloth to spine and illustrated red paper covered boards. In very good condition. Top leading corners bumped and a little rubbed. Slight curls to boards. Minor mark to rear edge. Neat inscription to endpaper “For Aullicia, from Aunt Barbie, 1943.” A couple of minor handling marks else pages very clean and tight. 88pp. With B&W illustrations in text by Donia Nachsen.
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Trying Toby and The Punch and Judy Show Told in Words by Margaret Gilmour. Pictures by Jack Orr.

By: GILMOUR, Margaret: ORR, Jack:

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Co., 1925 1st:

Seller ID: 81798

Hardback, 6 x 4.5 inches. Blue paper covers with colour plate to front. Illustrated endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to edges, small chip to top of spine. No penned inscriptions. Small tear to top corner of title page. Else pages all clean and tight throughout. 70pp. With full-page colour illustrations by Jack Orr.
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Friday and Saturday, The Adventures of Two Little Pickles. Pictures by Joan Hassall, Verses by M. Byron.

By: HASSALL, JOAN: BYRON, M.:

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Henry Frowde & Hodder & Stoughton, ca1911:

Seller ID: 79966

Hardback, oblong, 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Half bound with cloth to spine and illustrated paper covered boards. In good condition. Boards darkened, edges rubbed, corners bumped. Prize bookplate to front endpaper, “Oliver Kirkwood, Hudson Road Infants School, Sunderland. July 1911.” Lacks both free endpapers front and rear. Some minor foxing spots, some dark handling/thumb marks to pages throughout. Else a tight copy. 48pp. Pages un-numbered. Illustrated with 12 full-page colour plates.
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Ameliaranne & The Green Umbrella Pictured by Susan Beatrice Pearse.

By: HEWARD, CONSTANCE:

Price: £30.00

Publisher: George G Harrap & Co. Ltd. London. 1939 1st thus.:

Seller ID: 83520

Hardback, approx 8 x 6 inches. Light blue/grey cloth to spine with black lettering, illustrated paper covered boards. Illustrated endpapers. In very good condition. Spine faded. Some minor handling marks to boards, rubbing to edges and corners. No penned inscriptions or marks to inside pages. Else a very clean and tight copy. Unpaginated. (Approx 70pp) with colour illustrations and b&w drawings in text.
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Image for The English Struwwelpeter or Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures for Little Children. 3 vols in 1. Three Volumes Bound in One; Including: A Laughter Book for Little Folk; and Funny Leaves for the Younger Branches by Baron Krakemsides of Burstenoudelafen.

The English Struwwelpeter or Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures for Little Children. 3 vols in 1. Three Volumes Bound in One; Including: A Laughter Book for Little Folk; and Funny Leaves for the Younger Branches by Baron Krakemsides of Burstenoudelafen.

By: HOFFMANN, HEINRICH:

Price: £450.00

Publisher: Leipsic, London, Friedrich Volckmar, Cundall & Addey, Grant & Griffith, ca 1853:

Seller ID: 79274

Hardback, 9.5 x 7 inches. Tall 8vo. Half bound in contemporary calf leather to spine and marbled paper covered boards. Maroon label to spine lettered in gilt. In very good condition. Contemporary leather binding. New endpapers. Bookplate to front “Henry MacLaren.” Inscription to following earlier endpaper “Henry MacLaren 1853.” Original paper covers not bound in. Handling and thumb marks to pages throughout. A couple of pages with torn/repaired edges p.24 and bottom of title to “Funny Leaves.” Else a tight copy. Collection of scarce childrens books. 24pp +19...
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Lie-Down Stories

By: JOAN, NATALIE: ANDERSON, ANNE:

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Blackie and Son, no date ca1919 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 79983

Hardback, 4to. 10 x 7.5 inches. Half bound with grey cloth spine and grey paper covered boards with dark blue lettering and colour plate pasted to front. In very good condition. Cover bright and clean. Some minor rubbing to corners. Free endpapers partly darkened with neat inscription to front “Barbara, with love from Uncle Alfred Christmas 1921.” Some minor foxing spots to pages, plates all very clean and bright throughout. An excellent copy. 77pp. Illustrated with 8 full-page colour plates and many b&w drawings. A book of stories for children, to be read at bed time.
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The Golden Story Book “No. 3800. Printed in Bavaria.”

By: MANVILLE FENN, G.: PARRY, D.H.: HENTY, G.A.: BRAINE, Sheila: WEEDON, L.L.:

Price: £150.00

Publisher: London & New York, Ernest Nister, E.P. Dutton & Co., n.d. ca1890:

Seller ID: 78628

Hardback, 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Half bound with dark purple cloth spine and colour illustrated paper covered boards. In very good condition. Corners bumped and edges rubbed, some minor rubbing to cloth on spine. Some minor darkening and rubbing to boards. Cracked between front endpapers. Some darkening and tanning to pages with some minor handling marks and spots else pages very clean and tight throughout. 108pp. + 3pp adverts. With b&w full-page and smaller illustrations, colour tipped-in frontis plate. Early Henty.
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The Borrowers ALOFT

By: Mary Norton

Price: £4.00

Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1961 1st Ed thus:

Seller ID: 69210

The Children's Book Club London 1961 Bound in original red cloth with pictorial dustwrapper. In good condition. (Dw slightly rubbed on edges, with a few small nicks, one tear lower spine.) Not Price clipped. Some minor foxing inside, with two small nicks on fore edge. Inside generally clean & tight. Illustrated by Diana Stanley. Fourth book in the classic Borrowers series.
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WOODWORK FOR BOYS A Junior teach Yourself Book.

By: Matthew, W.P.

Price: £2.00

Publisher: English Universities 1950 1st edition:

Seller ID: 52458

In original beige paper-covered boards with tan cloth spine. Black print to spine and black medallion to front. Covers have some wear on corners and top/bottom of spine. Light soiling/spots all over beige part of cover. Lacks front endpaper. Else generally clean & tight. 95pp Prof. ills with tan, black & brown line drawings throughout. Excellent simple projects for beginner woodworkers.
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The House at Pooh Corner. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard.

By: MILNE, A. A.:

Price: £160.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co., 1928 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 79245

Hardback, 8vo. (7.5 x 5 ins). In pink cloth covers with gilt vignettes to front and back. Illustrated endpapers. Top edges gilt. In very good condition. Some minor fading to spine and around board edges. Corners slightly bumped with tiny nick at bottom of spine. Else cloth very clean and bright. Darkening to ‘free’ sides of endpapers. Neat inscription to top of half-title page “To Grizzel, fron her Godfather 1928.” Tiny spot to title page, small spot to inner edge of “Contradiction/Preface” page, and very light spot to top edge of p2-3. Else inside pages all...
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The House at Pooh Corner. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard.

By: MILNE, A. A.:

Price: £450.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co., 1928 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 83076

Hardback, 8vo. (7.5 x 5 ins). In pink cloth covers with gilt vignettes to front and back. Illustrated endpapers. Top edges gilt. In original illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (DW in protective sleeve, some darkening & mark down front fore edge, rubbing to edges and corners, loss ends of spine.) Some slight rubbing to edges of cloth. Private bookplate on front endpaper. A few minor marks, else inside pages all clean and tight throughout. 178pp. With b/w line drawings by Ernest Shepard.
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When We Were Very Young. With decorations by Ernest H.Shepard. Third edition.

By: MILNE, A.A. / SHEPARD, E. H.:

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Methuen & Co. 1924 3rd edition.:

Seller ID: 83073

Size 5.0 x 7.75 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. Gilt vignette to front. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing on edges, with corners bumped. Small lower mark front lower corner. Lacks front endpaper, rubbed out inscription on half title page, Inside a few minor marks throughout. Else generally a clean and tight copy. 100pp. With b/w line drawings in text. Third edition of When We Were Very Young, published in the same year as the first.
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Image for The Christopher Robin Story Book From, When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six, Winnie-The-Pooh, The House At Pooh Corner. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. Third Edition.

The Christopher Robin Story Book From, When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six, Winnie-The-Pooh, The House At Pooh Corner. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. Third Edition.

By: MILNE, A.A.:

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co., 1931:

Seller ID: 81808

Hardback, Size approx 7.5 x 5 inches. In light blue cloth covers with gilt lettering to front and spine, gilt-paneled front board with gilt pictorial decoration. Top edges blued. Illustrated endpapers. In very good condition. Some rubbing to extremities, some minor handling marks and slight darkening to boards. Endpapers darkened with some marks, cracked between rear endpapers. Some darkening and foxing to outer page edges. Some handling marks to inside pages, some neat colouring to a few illustrations. Else a tight copy. 171pp + 8pp cat. With B&W illustrations by Ernest Shepard. A compila...
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Image for The Christopher Robin Verses. Being ‘When We Were Very Young’ and ‘Now We Are Six,’ With a preface for parents. With Twelve Plates in Colour and Text Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard.

The Christopher Robin Verses. Being ‘When We Were Very Young’ and ‘Now We Are Six,’ With a preface for parents. With Twelve Plates in Colour and Text Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard.

By: MILNE, A.A.:

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1932 1st Combined Volume:

Seller ID: 83020

Hardback, 8 x 6 inches. In light blue cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine. Decorative gilt paneling to front board with small pictorial gilt Cristopher Robin design. Top edges blued. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to corners and ends of spine. Some ever-so-slight fading on spine. Some tanning to endpapers with owners inscription. Colour plates clean and bright. Some mild foxing to text pages throughout. Else a clean and tight copy. 210pp. Illustrated with Twelve Plates in Colour and B&W Text Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard.
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I'll Tell You Something

By: NISTER, ERNEST:

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Ernest Nister, no date ca1880:

Seller ID: 79977

Hardback, 9 x 7.5 inches. Half bound with brown cloth to spine and illustrated paper covered boards. Illustration to front attributed to ‘Louis Wain.’ Floral endpapers. In very good condition. Corner bumped and slightly chipped. Some minor rubbing to ends of spine. Endpapers faded. some tanning/darkening to pages, small faint stain to top corner of first few pages. Else a very clean and tight copy. 70pp. Pages un-numbered. Illustrated with 6 full-page colour plates plus many B&W illustrations.
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Nister’s Holiday Annual for 1898 With Stories by G. Manville Fenn, Mrs. Molesworth, &c. &c. Edited by Robert Ellis Mack and Alfred Fuller.

By: NISTER: MACK, R. E.: FULLER, Alfred:

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Ernest Nister, 1898:

Seller ID: 79065

Hardback, 10 x 8 inches. Half bound in red cloth to spine and illustrated paper boards. In very good condition. Some rubbing to corners and edges, some minor marks and darkening to boards. Neat inscription to front “Gladys Faine, 1897.” Some slight tanning to pages Else a very clean and tight copy. 128pp. With beautiful coloured chromo plates and monochrome plates. This delightful edition of the Nister Annual contains stories by G.M.Fenn and E. Nesbit. A scarce year in this series.
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