1.
A Child's Garden of Verses
By
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator
Charles Robinson.
1913, Bodley Head.
Red cloth-covered boards.
White lettering on covers.
White decoration on covers.
12cm x 18cm.
138 pages.
Light wear to covers.
Spine and edges of covers faded.
Gilt decoration on spine rubbed and faded.
Neat gift dedication on front endpaper.
Pages slightly tanned.
Very good condition.
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An Elephant for Muthu
By
Carolyn Sloan
1st edition, 1986, Bodley Head.
ISBN: 0370308972.
Laminated pictorial covers.
Label removed from front endpaper.
Pages tanned.
Good condition, ex-library.
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An Overpraised Season
By
Charlotte Zolotow
1st British edition, 1974, Bodley Head.
ISBN: 0370109376.
Label removed from front endpaper.
Several library stamps on front and back endpapers.
Pages tanned.
Good condition with dust-wrapper, ex-library.
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And Peakie lived Happily ever After
By
Lavinia Russ
1st English edition, 1969, Bodley Head.
A story written in the first person about an American girl growing up in Kansas during the first World War.
Very good condition with dust-wrapper.
10.
Cargo for a King
By
J. S. Andrews
1st edition, 1972, Bodley Head.
ISBN: 0370012380.
Octavo.
Light orange cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
171 pages.
A tale of piracy in the Irish Sea.
J. S. Andrews is unusual in that his historical stories deal with the kingdom of Ulster, as it then was, rather than the better known provinces in the south of Ireland.
Dustwrapper complete, and not price-clipped, light wear to edges.
Covers and contents clean and unmarked.
Very good condition with dust-wrapper.
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Castaway Camp
By
Mary Evelyn Atkinson
Illustrator
Charlotte Hough.
1st edition, 1951, Bodley Head.
Red cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering and decoration.
Pictorial endpapers.
Colour frontispiece.
Other illustrations black and white.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Spine strip darkened and slightly soiled.
A small amount of faint foxing to prelims and fore edge.
Contents clean and unmarked, but slightly tanned.
Good condition.
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Cave
By
Barry Pointon
1st edition, 1976, Bodley Head.
Access number only on reverse of title page. Small piece missing from bottom front of dustwrapper.
Good condition with dust-wrapper, ex-library.
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Crusoe Island
By
Mary Evelyn Atkinson
Illustrator
Harold Jones.
2nd edition, 1942, Bodley Head.
A "Locket" story.
Pale blue covers, slightly soiled, corners bumped, some wear to spine strip. Prelims. heavily spotted, text not affected. Back endpaper and two final pages of text also spotted.
Good condition.
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Dream Days
By
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator
Ernest Howard Shepard.
Reprint, 1973, Bodley Head.
ISBN: 0370108930.
Octavo.
Grey cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Faint foxing to dustwrapper and prelims.
Very good condition with dust-wrapper.
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Dream Days
By
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator
Ernest Howard Shepard.
1st Thus edition, 1930, Bodley Head.
Octavo.
Cream embossed cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers and spine.
Black decoration on covers.
First thus edition containing the Shepard illustrations.
Minor wear to edges of covers.
Endpapers darkened.
Pages clean but very slightly tanned.
Very good condition.
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Flain's Coronet
By
Catherine Fisher
1st edition, 2000, Bodley Head.
ISBN: 0370326024.
Volume three of The Book of The Crow.
Laminated pictorial covers.
Signed by the author on front endpaper.
Mint condition.
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Fly By Night
By
Randall Jarrell
Illustrator
Maurice Sendak.
1st Thus edition, 1977, Bodley Head.
ISBN: 0370300173.
Blue covers.
Silver lettering on spine.
Light wear to edges of dustwrapper.
Some spotting to dustwrapper rear panel.
Very good condition with dust-wrapper.
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Gentlehands
By
M. E. Kerr
1st British edition, 1978, Bodley Head.
Review copy.
Fine condition with dust-wrapper.