1276.
Uncle Mac's Children's Hour Story Book
by
Derek McCulloch
Published by Sampson Low circa 1950
Quarto.
Green pictorial paper-covered boards.
Blue cloth spine.
Covers worn at edges.
Minor wear to edges of pages.
Pages lightly tanned.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1277.
Under French's Command
by
Frederick Sadlier Brereton
with illustrations by
Archibald Webb
Reprint,
published by Blackie and Son Limited circa 1930
Green covers, blue lettering on front cover and spine.
Pictorial dustwrapper badly creased, closed tear across front, piece missing from top edge, and from base of spine.
Small crease at bottom corner of front endpaper.
Fore edge spotteed.
Four black and white illustrations.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1278.
Under Sealed Orders - A Naval Adventure
by
Bartimeus
Reprint,
published by Collins in 1956
Blue cloth-covered boards.
Silver decoration on covers.
Dustwrapper price-clipped.
Upper corner of front endpaper clipped.
Some faint foxing to prelims.
Pages slightly tanned.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1279.
Understudy
by
Pamela Brown
with illustrations by
Drake Brookshaw
1st edition,
published by Thomas Nelson and Sons in 1958
Dark blue cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Gilt decoration on covers.
Covers worn at edges and a little soiled.
Corners bumped.
Gilt faded.
Library label and marks on front endpaper.
Some spotting to fore edge.
Pages tanned.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1280.
Unlikely Exploits, The Fall of Fergal
by
Philip Ardagh
with illustrations by
David Roberts
1st edition,
published by Faber & Faber in 2002
ISBN: 0571210694.
1st book in Unlikely Exploits series.
Octavo.
Blue paper-covered boards.
133 pages.
Signed by the author on front endpaper.
Minor wear to dustwrapper.
Pages slightly tanned.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1281.
Ups and Downs of School Life
by
Constance Harvey
Reprint,
published by Shaw in 1956
Blue boards with black lettering and decoration.
Covers a little worn at edges.
Spotting to fore edge.
Neat dedication on front endpaper.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1282.
Veronica at the Wells
by
Lorna Hill
with illustrations by
Eve Guthrie
Published by Evans Brothers in 1953
Blue cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Dustwrapper worn at edges and a little soiled.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Gilt on spine faded and dulled.
Internally VG.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1283.
Victorian Fairy Tales
by
Michael Newton
1st edition,
published by Oxford University Press in 2015
ISBN: 9780199601950.
Dark blue cloth-covered boards.
Silver lettering on spine.
Pages faintly tanned.
Near-fine in other respects.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1284.
1285.
Visitors
by
Caroline MacDonald
with illustrations by
Garry Meeson
1st edition,
published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1984
ISBN: 0340366656.
Blue covers, white lettering.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1286.
Voyage into Danger
by
Roderic Jeffries
Published by Knight Books circa 1981
ISBN: 0340264276.
Blue covers, gilt lettering on spine.
Front endpaper and title page missing.
Label removed from prelims.
VG in other respects.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1287.
Walt Disney's Peter Pan
Published by The Sunshine Press circa 1960
Quarto.
Blue pictorial laminated boards.
Red cloth spine.
Red lettering on covers.
Pictorial endpapers.
Light wear to covers.
Corners and spine ends bumped.
Spine faded.
Binding a little strained.
Contents VG.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1288.
Watchers of the Trails
by
Charles G. D. Roberts
with illustrations by
Julek Heller
1st Thus edition,
published by Kestrel in 1976
ISBN: 072265104X.
Blue boards with silver lettering.
Dustwrapper spine slightly sunned.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1289.
Watery Whirligig, or Moxi in a Mix up
by
Joan Cooper
with illustrations by
Elizabeth Campbell
1st edition,
published by Methuen in 1947
Pale green boards with dark blue lettering and decoration.
Eight full-page colour wash illustrations.
Black and white line drawings in text.
Covers slightly soiled.
Spine strip and corners worn.
Bookplate on front pastedown.
Neat dedication on half-title.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1290.
We are the Champions
by
Sean McCann
with illustrations by
Barry Raynor
1st edition,
published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1975
ISBN: 0340191155.
Faded blue covers, gilt lettering.
Label partially removed from front endpaper.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1291.
We of the Never-Never
by
Aeneas Mrs Gunn
Reprint,
published by Hutchinson circa 1969
ISBN: 0904709310.
Octavo.
Brown paper-covered boards.
Blue lettering on spine.
256 pages.
Dustwrapper has been plasticised, which suggests an ex-library copy, but the book itself shows no other signs of being ex-library.
Dustwrapper worn and marked.
Covers VG.
Some very faint spotting on front endpaper.
Contents clean and unmarked.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1292.
We Rode to the Sea
by
Christine Pullein-Thompson
with illustrations by
Mil Brown
1st edition,
published by Collins in 1948
Yellow cloth-covered boards.
Dark blue lettering on spine.
192 pages.
Minor wear to covers.
Faint mark at left-hand edge of front cover.
Close to VG in other respects.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1293.
Well Played Scotts
by
Nancy Delves
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. circa 1935
Blue pictorial cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Black decoration on covers.
Light wear to covers.
Vinyl laminate applied to covers.
Prize label on front pastedown.
Contents VG.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1294.
Westward Ho!
by
Charles Kingsley
Published by Macmillan in 1882
Dark blue cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Covers worn at edges and a little scuffed.
Inner hinges cracked.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1295.
What Katy did
by
Susan Coolidge
Published by Blackie circa 1950
Light blue cloth-covered boards.
Dark blue lettering on covers.
Dark blue decoration on covers.
Dustwrapper worn at edges, with some chipping at spine ends.
Minor wear to covers.
Pages slightly tanned.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1296.
What Katy did at school
by
Susan Coolidge
Reprint,
published by Blackie circa 1925
Blue blind-embossed cloth-covered boards.
Covers worn at edges.
Corners bumped.
Spine faded.
Pages faintly tanned.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1297.
What Katy did next
by
Susan Coolidge
Published by S. W. Partridge circa 1935
Blue cloth-covered boards.
Yellow lettering on covers.
Yellow decoration on covers.
Covers worn and faded.
Lower edge of covers dampstained.
Dated from gift dedication on front endpaper.
Pages tanned.
Reading condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1298.
When I dream of ABC
by
Henry Fisher
with illustrations by
Henry Fisher
Published by Top That Publishing in 2011
ISBN: 9781849565936.
Dark blue pictorial covers.
Yellow lettering on covers.
Corners bumped.
VG in other respects.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1299.
When the Beaty Kept the Seas
by
Frank H. Shaw
with illustrations by
A. H. Browne
1st edition,
published by Cassell and Company in 1917
Octavo.
Blue pictorial cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Yellow decoration on covers.
312 pages.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Spine worn at edges and decoration scuffed.
Some foxing to fore edge.
Gift dedication on front endpaper.
Old tape marks on inner hinges.
Light foxing to page edges throughout.
Reading condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
1300.
When we were very young
by
A. A. Milne
with illustrations by
Ernest Howard Shepard
10th edition,
published by Methuen in 1925
Dark blue cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Gilt decoration on covers.
Top edge gilt.
Light wear to covers.
Gilt faded.
A few small marks on front cover.
Namr on half-title.
Contents slightly shaken.
Some intermittent finger-marking to page edges.
Tear on p51/52 was neatly repaired on both sides with Sellotape, which has subsequently browned
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)