1.
A Boy and a Secret - A Story for Children
by
Raymond Jacberns
with illustrations by
Mabel Lucie Attwell
Published by W & R Chambers in 1908
Dark green pictorial cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Covers worn at edges.
Decoration a little scuffed.
Front endpaper glued-down.
Back endpaper removed.
Back inner hinge cracked.
Contents good.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
2.
A Celebration of Beatrix Potter
Published by Frederick Warne in 2016
ISBN: 9780241249437.
Quarto.
Orange cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
"Art and letters by more than 30 of today's favourite children's book illustrators".
Minor wear to lower edge of covers.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
3.
A Children's Book of Verse
by
Marjoroe Rogers
with illustrations by
Eric Kincaid
Published by Brimax Books in 1987
ISBN: 9780861124268.
Quarto.
Pictorial laminated boards.
Pictorial endpapers.
Neat gift dedication facing title page.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
4.
A Children's Zoo
by
Julia Watson
Published by Fontana Lions in 1978
ISBN: 0006714218.
Paperback.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
5.
A Children's Zoo
by
Julia Watson
with illustrations by
Karen Strachey
Published by Fontana Lions in 1978
ISBN: 0006714218.
Paperback.
Light wear to covers.
Pages slightly tanned.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
6.
7.
A Night of Lullabies
by
Sarah Pooley
with illustrations by
Sarah Pooley
1st Thus edition,
published by Limited Editions in 1993
Laminated pictorial covers.
Poems for very young children.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
8.
A Party for Lester
by
Philip Curtis
with illustrations by
Sarah Parker
1st edition,
published by Andersen Press in 1984
A child with learning difficulties and his relationships with other children.
Andersen Young Readers Library.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
9.
A Peculiar Gift
by
Lance Salway
1st edition,
published by Kestrel in 1976
Nineteenth century writings on Books for Children.
Fine condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
10.
11.
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
by
Nathaniel Hawthorne
with illustrations by
Arthur Rackham
Published by David Campbell in 1994
ISBN: 1857159306.
Octavo.
Purple cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Picture onlay to front cover.
Everyman's Library Childrens Classics.
Fine condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
12.
Animal Land - The Creatures of Children's Fiction
by
Margaret Blount
1st edition,
published by Hutchinson in 1974
ISBN: 009118410X.
Green pictorial cloth-covered boards.
Dark green lettering on covers.
Dark green decoration on covers.
Minor wear to dustwrapper and edges of covers.
Foxing to edges of page block.
Bookplate on front endpaper.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
13.
Animal Stories
by
Ruth Manning-Sanders
with illustrations by
Annette MacArthur-Onslow
reprint edition,
published by Oxford University Press in 1967
Oxford Children's Library.
"A book of true stories."
Prelims marked where labels have been removed.
Contents VG.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
14.
15.
16.
At the Sign of the Dog and Rocket
by
Jan Mark
Published by Penguin circa 1985
ISBN: 014032237X.
Paperback.
A little wear to covers.
Prelims missing.
Two children run the family pub while their father is laid up with a slipped disc.
Reading condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
17.
Aztec Gold
by
Peter Dawlish
with illustrations by
Patrick A. Jobson
Published by Oxford University Press in 1958
Oxford Children's Library edition.
Covers worn and slightly stained at edges.
Some soiling to fore edge.
Name on front endpaper.
Good in other respects.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
18.
Aztec Gold
by
Peter Dawlish
with illustrations by
Patrick A. Jobson
Reprint,
published by Oxford University Press in 1975
Oxford Children's Library.
Elizabethan adventure at sea.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
19.
Back Home
by
Michelle Magorian
1st edition,
published by Viking Kestrel in 1985
ISBN: 0670806706.
Octavo.
Dark green cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
387 pages.
The difficulties facing British children returning from the U.S.A. to the austerity of post-war Britain.
Light wear to edges of dustwrapper.
Spine cocked.
VG in other respects.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
20.
BBC Childrens Annual 1959
Published in 1958
Edited by Ursula Esdon.
Quarto.
Grey cloth-covered boards.
Red lettering on covers.
125 pages.
Authors include Ian Serraillier, Patrick Moore, William Mayne and Ian Allan.
Artists include Sheila Rose, Terence Freeman and Douglas Relf.
Light wear to edges of dustwrapper.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
21.
22.
Ben and his amazing puffer
by
Lindsey Hart
with illustrations by
Martin Impey
Published by National Asthma Campaign
ISBN: 0950643483.
Paperback.
20cm x 20cm.
Designed to teach young children about asthma.
Short simple text, large print.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
23.
Ben Hur
by
Lew Wallace
with illustrations by
Mario Cooper
1st Thus edition,
published by Purnell in 1956
Edited by Willis Lindquist.
Golden Picture Classics series.
Quarto.
Red paper-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
20cm x 28cm.
94 pages.
Abridged edition for children.
Copiously illustrated with two or three colour illustrations per double page.
Covers unevenly faded, and a little worn.
Contents VG.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
24.
Big Book of Playtime Activities
by
Ray Gibson
with illustrations by
Amanda Barlow
1st edition,
published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. in 2002
ISBN: 074605369X.
Paperback.
Blue covers.
224 pages.
21cm x 21cm..
A range of activities for young children.
Light wear to covers.
Vertical crease on spine strip.
Contents cleand and unmarked.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
25.
Big Cats and Little Cats
by
Beatrice Fontanel
with illustrations by
Anne Logvinoff
1st English edition,
published by Moonlight Publishing Ltd in 1988
ISBN: 1851030549.
Laminated boards.
35 pages.
Pocket Worlds - The Animal World.
First reference book, suitable for children from six years.
Spine faded.
Name written on front paste down.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)