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Recent Additions: The 250 most recent additions to our catalogue.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Carroll, Lewis
Good condition. Unglazed pictorial paper-covered boards. Eight colour plates. Numerous line drawings. Wear to edges of covers and spine. Name on front endpaper.
Added on 17 November 2008 Price: £25.00
The Secret Garden by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Very good condition. New Windmill series. Blue cloth-covered boards. Silver lettering and decoration. Illustrated with line drawings. Spine strip faded.
Added on 17 November 2008 Price: £7.50
Helen's Babies by Habberton, John
Good condition. Grey pictorial cloth-covered boards. Black lettering. Coloured frontispiece. Line drawings in text. Some wear and soiling to covers. Names on front endpaper.
Added on 17 November 2008 Price: £25.00
The Beasts of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Good condition. Blue cloth-covered boards. 17cm x 10cm. Pages tanned.
Added on 17 November 2008 Price: £6.50
The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll by Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson
Good condition. Bevilled green cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering and decoration. Top edge gilt. Twelve pages of adverts at rear. Spine faded and scratched. Front inside hinge cracked. Spotting on endpapers. Name on front endpaper.
Added on 17 November 2008 Price: £30.00
Coot Club by Ransome, Arthur
Very good condition.
Added on 13 November 2008 Price: £15.00
The last Noo-Noo by Murphy, Jill
Good condition. ISBN: 0744532280. Would be VG, except for indentations along top edge of covers.
Added on 13 November 2008 Price: £5.00
Death flies high by Walker, Rowland
Good condition. Slight wear to dustwrapper. Pages tanned, otherwise VG.
Added on 13 November 2008 Price: £7.50
On the World's Roof by Duff, Douglas V.
Reading copy.
Added on 13 November 2008 Price: £7.50
Excitements at the Chalet School by Brent-Dyer, Elinor M
Mint condition. ISBN: 9781847450326. Paperback.
Added on 13 November 2008 Price: £15.00
The Coming of Age of the Chalet School by Brent-Dyer, Elinor M
Mint condition. ISBN: 9781847450289. Paperback.
Added on 13 November 2008 Price: £15.00
Jennings goes to school by Buckeridge, Anthony
Good condition. Dustwrapper heavily chipped with some loss. Spotting to foredge. Fingermarking to prelims. Name on front pastedown.
Added on 13 November 2008 Price: £7.50
The Sleeping Beauty by Perrault, Charles
Good condition. Green cloth-covered boards. Green lettering and decoration. Rectangular picture onlay front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Four colour plates, several line draings in text.
Added on 13 November 2008 Price: £15.00
The Story of Timothy Twitter by Alleyne, Margaret
Good condition. Pictorial paper-covered boards. Dustwrapper a little worn. Name on front endpaper.
Added on 13 November 2008 Price: £6.50
Babar and the Old Lady by Brunhoff, Jean De
Good condition. ISBN: 0416034306. "Little Babar Books." Laminated pictorial covers. Slight wear to covers. Some fingermarking to lower corners of pages.
Added on 13 November 2008 Price: £6.50
By airship to the tropics by Walker, Rowland
Good condition. Grey cloth-covered boards. Black lettering and decorations. Covers slightly worn at edges.
Added on 13 November 2008 Price: £6.00
Hornblower goes to sea by Forester, C. S.
Good condition. Cadet edition. Lengthy dedication on front endpaper. Remains of dustwrapper flap on back pastedown.
Added on 13 November 2008 Price: £6.50
To the Land of Fair Delight
Good condition. Three Victorian tales of the imagination: "Mopsa the Fairy" by Jean Ingelow, "The Little Panjandrum's Dodo" by G. E. Farrow and "At the Back of the North Wind" by George MacDonald. Introduction by Noel Streatfeild. With the original illustrations. Some spotting to foredge.
Added on 13 November 2008 Price: £10.50
For the School Colours by Brazil, Angela
Good condition. Blue and grey decorated cloth-covered boards. Four black and white plates. Crease to top corner of back cover. Prize label on front pastedown. Some spotting to prelims.
Added on 13 November 2008 Price: £10.50
Paris Adventure by Bayley, Viola
Very good condition. Penant series. Slight wear at edges of dustwrapper.
Added on 13 November 2008 Price: £8.50
Hobberdy Dick by Briggs, Katherine Mary
Very good condition. The story of a hobgoblin who has lived in the same house for centuries.
Added on 13 November 2008 Price: £15.00
Exmoor Lass and other pony stories by Seaby, Allen William
Very good condition. Brown pictorial cloth-covered boards. Dark brown lettering and decorations. Colour frontispiece plus black and white drawings. Name on front pastedown and fly-leaf.
Added on 13 November 2008 Price: £10.50
The Midnight Horse by Edwards, Monica
Good condition. Red boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Covers a little faded at edges. Name on front endpaper.
Added on 13 November 2008 Price: £40.00
Anne of Windy Willows by Montgomery, Lucy Maud
Fine condition.
Added on 13 November 2008 Price: £15.00
Nancy to the rescue by Bruce, Dorita Fairlie
Good condition. Orange cloth-covered boards. Blind embossed front, black lettering on spine. Colour frontispiece plus four black and white drawings. Dustwrapper a little worn. Spotting to foredge. Prize label on front pastedown.
Added on 13 November 2008 Price: £30.00