26.
A Visit to Santa Claus
by
Margaret Evans Price
with illustrations by
Margaret Evans Price
1st thus edition,
published by Dover in 2009
ISBN: 0486473716.
Paperback.
Red pictorial covers.
19cm x 33.5cm.
Originally published in 1916 by Stecho Litho. Co.
Illustrated Christmas poem.
Fine condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
27.
Aaron in the Wild Woods
by
Joel Chandler Harris
with illustrations by
Oliver Herford
Reprint,
published by Harper and Brothers in 1898
Beige cloth-covered boards decorated with dark blue.
Spine ends damaged.
Water mark on spine.
Back endpaper missing.
Otherwise VG.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
28.
Adam of Pendle Grange
by
David Bingley
with illustrations by
Colin Twinn
1st edition,
published by Galliard in 1979
ISBN: 0852494750.
Marron cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
29.
30.
African Queen
by
Anthony Masters
1st edition,
published by Methuen Teens in 1990
ISBN: 0749701951.
Paperback.
Pages lightly tanned.
Cover a little worn around the edges.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
31.
After the Rain
by
Norma Fox Mazer
1st British edition,
published by Macmillan Children's Books in 1988
ISBN: 0333472039.
Laminated pictorial covers.
A Limelight book.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
32.
Air, Wind and Flight
by
Richard Bowood and Frank Edward Newing
with illustrations by
Harry Wingfield
1st edition,
published by Wills & Hepworth in 1963
Brown paper-covered boards.
Blue lettering on covers and spine.
51 pages.
Series 621.
Original price 2'6.
Name and address on dustwrapper flap and front endpaper.
slight wear to edges of covers.
Contents VG.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
33.
34.
Alice in Wonderland
by
Lewis Carroll
with illustrations by
Gwynedd M. Hudson
Published by Hodder and Stoughton / Boots in 1932
Red embossed cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Gilt decoration on covers.
20cm x 25cm.
180 pages.
Centenary Edition.
Rectangular picture onlay depicting Alice and Dinah on front panel of dustwrapper (duplicates frontispiece).
Black line drawn illustrations of the Mad Hatter and the March Hare on rear panel of dustwrapper.
The same illustrations of the Hatter and the Hare appear on the front and back endpapers and pastedowns, additionally with orange colouring to their coats.
12 tipped-in colour plates (including frontispiece), all present.
Dustwrapper intact, with moderate wear, mainly at edges, and has been neatly reinforced at the corners on the reverse with small tabs of tape.
Some light wear to edges of covers.
Gilt lettering and decoration remains bright.
Binding sound.
Some foxing to fore edge and prelims.
Name written neatly in Belongs To box facing half-title.
Pages slightly tanned.
Includes a small number of newspaper clippings from the 1930s onward, on the subject of Lewis Carroll and Alice.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
35.
All Aboard or Life on the Lake
by
Oliver Optic
Published by Hurst in 1908
Blue pictorial boards with red and gilt lettering.
Covers slightly worn.
Name on front endpaper.
Contents close to VG.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
36.
All through the Year
with illustrations by
Anne Rochester
Published by Raphael Tuck circa 1940
Paperback.
Yellow pictorial covers.
26.5cm x 20.5cm.
Unpaginated.
Landscape format.
Card covers.
A short verse and full page picture for each month.
Covers slightly warped and soiled.
Small crease in back board.
Contents in very good condition.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
37.
38.
39.
40.
Amber Brown is not a Crayon
by
Paula Danziger
with illustrations by
Tony Ross
Reprint,
published by Macmillan Children's Books in 1994
ISBN: 0330331434.
Paperback.
75 pages.
Pages tanned.
Covers worn and creased.
Reading condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
41.
Ameliaranne Cinema Star
by
Constance Heward
with illustrations by
Susan Beatrice Pearse
Reprint,
published by Harrap in 1937
Orange paper-covered boards.
Picture onlay to front cover.
Light wear to covers.
Stitching slightly pulled.
VG in other respects.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
42.
Ameliaranne goes Touring
by
Constance Heward
with illustrations by
Susan Beatrice Pearse
Reprint,
published by Harrap in 1959
Blue covers.
Blue cloth spine.
Dustwrapper worn at edges, and some scribble at top edge of front panel.
Several names, etc., on prelims.
Contents VG.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
43.
Ameliaranne keeps School
by
Constance Heward
with illustrations by
Susan Beatrice Pearse
Reprint,
published by Harrap in 1941
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Blue cloth spine.
Dustwrapper repeats cover design.
Dustwrapper worn at edges.
Book itself VG.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
44.
American Football
by
James Buckley
Published by Dorling Kindersley in 1999
ISBN: 0751363022.
106th book in Eyewitness Guides series.
Quarto.
Laminated boards.
Light wear to dustwrapper.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
45.
46.
American Stories
by
John Foster
1st edition,
published by Ward Lock in 1981
ISBN: 0706240782.
Dark blue boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Label removed from front endpaper.
VG in other respects.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
47.
48.
An Edwardian Diary for 1979
by
John S. Goodall
with illustrations by
John S. Goodall
1st edition,
published by Macmillan in 1978
ISBN: 0333255992.
Paperback.
White embossed covers.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Gilt decoration on covers.
Dustwrapper price-clipped.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
49.
An Edwardian Holiday
by
John S. Goodall
with illustrations by
John S. Goodall
1st edition,
published by Macmillan in 1978
ISBN: 0333240022.
Blue cloth-covered boards.
Gilt decoration on covers.
Dustwrapper price-clipped, and a little worn.
Pages slightly crinkled.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
50.
An Edwardian Summer
by
John S. Goodall
with illustrations by
John S. Goodall
Reprint,
published by Atheneum in 1977
ISBN: 0333194276.
Dark green cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Gilt decoration on covers.
Dustwrapper lightly worn, price-clipped and unevenly faded.
Book itself near-fine.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)