Reissue of 1899 edition.
Red cloth-covered boards.
Embossed gilt lettering and decoration.
Twelve colour plates.
Several black and white drawings.
Covers slightly discoloured.
Plates all very good.
Covers worn at edges and unevenly faded.
Spine edges worn.
Back edge of spine split.
Gilt decoration faded and dimmed.
Generally VG in other respects.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Laminated pictorial covers.
Illustrated in colour, and black and white.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Quarto.
Paper-covered boards.
Cloth spine.
148 pages.
Colour frontispiece.
Covers clean and bright
A few marks on lower board.
Front endpaper missing.
Gift dedication on front paste down.
Contents close to VG. but sewing is loose.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

ISBN: 0749806958.
Laminated pictorial covers.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Quarto.
Cream pictorial glazed boards.
48 pages.
Pictorial endpapers, showing fashions in dress from 1040 - 1940.
Ten short stories, which illustrate different historical times.
Printed on art paper.
Illustrated in colour, with small drawings in the text.
Spine strip missing.
Covers worn at edges and a little scuffed.
Contents generally good.
Reading condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Octavo.
Blue cloth-covered boards.
Silver lettering on covers.
276 pages.
Large octavo.
Colour frontispiece, no other illustrations.
Covers close to 'very good'.
Light wear at sides of spine.
Small stain at bottom of front cover.
Name stamped on front paste down.
Birthday greetings on front endpaper.
Back endpaper missing.
Contents very clean and white.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Octavo.
Red cloth-covered boards.
Silver lettering on covers.
314 pages.
Colour frontispiece (not credited).
No other illustrations.
Light wear to covers.
Spine faded.
Back board unevenly faded.
Gift dedication on front paste down.
Contents clean and unmarked.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

This is the large edition, first printed in 1938.
Maroon cloth-covered boards.
Silver lettering on front cover and spine. Colour frontispiece.
Dustwrapper worn at edges.
Some faint foxing to fore edge.
Binding sound.
Pages slightly tanned.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Red blind-embossed boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Colour frontispiece, no other illustrations.
Pictorial endpapers by Lilian Govey.
Dustwrapper badly chipped, with loss to spine.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Quarto.
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Blue cloth spine.
Six colour plates.
Covers scuffed and worn at edges.
Some spotting on fore-edge.
Neat gift-dedication on front paste-down.
Name on front endpaper.
Pages tanned.
Binding strained, and contents a little shaken.
Reading condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Quarto.
Glazed pictorial boards with red cloth spine.
Pictorial endpapers by W. Heath Robinson.
Contributors include Thomas Maybank, Fay Inchfawn and Jessie Pope.
Five of six colour plates present (frontispiece missing).
Covers and spine a little worn.
Neat dedication on title page.
One or two of the black and white illustrations neatly coloured in.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Octavo.
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
120 pages.
Two black and white plates, plus numerous black and white drawings in text.
Covers soiled and edge worn.
Colour frontispiece missing.
Reading condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Red spine.
Yellow lettering on spine.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Corners slightly bumped.
Belongs To box neatly completed with a gift dedication.
Back endpaper (p125/126) torn vertically and reattached with sellotape, which has subsequently become brown.
Some cartoon panels and illustrations intermittently coloured-in, with either watercolour paint or a felt-tip pen.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

"The modern Library".
Glazed boards, cloth spine.
Five colour plates.
Dustwrapper chipped, with 4cm loss to top of spine.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Quarto.
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
192 pages.
Colour frontispiece and black and white plates.
Selection of stories by various authors.
Light wear to covers.
Short gift dedication on front endpaper.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Quarto.
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Red cloth spine.
Pictorial endpapers.
Covers worn at edges.
Corners bumped.
Scuff on lower centre of front cover.
Name erased from Belongs To box.
Several pages painted-over, or coloured-in, in water-colour paint by a child.
Contents would otherwise be good.
Reading condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Paperback.
19cm x 23cm.
The original copyright for this title is 1948, when it won the Caldicott Medal.
This Collier edition is copyright 1972.
Covers worn and creased.
scuff on front cover, where a piece of the colour illustration has been pulled off, exposing the white card beneath.
Prelims worn, but not excessively so.
Contents generally good.
Reading condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Quarto.
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Blue cloth spine.
23cm x 28cm.
52 pages.
Colour illustrations on every page, some accompanied by short text or poems.
Covers worn and scuffed.
Boards soiled.
Edges and corners heavily bumped.
Spine worn and a little faded.
Inner hinges cracked.
Pastedowns and endpapers foxed.
Contents in good condition, but light fingermarking to edges of pages throughout.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Black cloth-covered boards with snowflake pattern decoration in embossed coloured foil on front cover.
Silver lettering on spine.
Colour pictorial endpapers.
Other illustrations two-tone brown and black.
Some faint marks to back cover.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Red boards with black lettering and decoration.
Colour frontispiece.
Prize label on front pastedown.
Spine edges worn and split, with 1cm loss at top of spine.
Spine edges reinforced with tape.
Contents good.
Reading condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Quarto.
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
160 pages.
Colour frontispiece and majority of line drawings by Ernest Prater.
Covers scraped at edges and soiled in places.
Fore edge stained.
Front endpaper missing.
Contents clean and unmarked.
Reading condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Pictorial paper covered boards.
Yellow cloth spine.
Dustwrapper repeats cover design.
Colour frontispiece.
Black and white illustrations.
Contributors include Ivy Wallace, Rosalie Fry, and Cynthia Harnett.
Dustwrapper worn and chipped, and repaired on reverse with some loss at edges.
Dustwrapper price-clipped.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Pages tanned, but contents otherwise generally VG.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

ISBN: 0531090817.
Octavo.
Laminated boards.
Colour illustrations throughout.
A simple clear account of the life cycle of butterflies.
Minor wear to covers.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

ISBN: 9781847453525.
Paperback.
Quarto.
"The Chalet Book for Girls" contains a complete long story, "Mystery at the Chalet School", together with four short stories, and four articles on subjects such as Beauty for the "Teen-agers" and Cookin in Olden Days. It is illustrated throughout with black and white illustrations by various artists, and a colour frontispiece.
Mint condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

ISBN: 9781847453525.
Paperback.
Quarto.
"The Chalet Book for Girls" contains a complete long story, "Mystery at the Chalet School", together with four short stories, and four articles on subjects such as Beauty for the "Teen-agers" and Cookin in Olden Days. It is illustrated throughout with black and white illustrations by various artists, and a colour frontispiece.
Mint condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)