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)

Paperback.
Pictorial covers.
78 pages.
"Book Production War Economy Standard" edition.
Contains 21 shortened stories.
Colour frontispiece.
Line drawings in text.
Spine strip worn, with 1cm loss at each end; strengthened with tape.
Some brown spots on half title and fore edge.
Light spotting on several pages.
Reading condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Octavo.
Cream cloth-covered boards with blue lettering and decoration.
62 pages.
Colour frontispiece, black and white drawings in the text, a number of them coloured in.
Covers a little soiled.
Gift dedication on front endpaper.
Prelims somewhat discoloured.
There has been some childish scribble, erased, but with the indentations still showing.
The text is reasonably clean and firm.
Reading condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

22nd book in Children's Bookshelf series.
Paperback.
Duodecimo.
Light blue covers.
Dark blue lettering on covers.
64 pages.
Colour frontispiece by G. Demain Hammond.
Black and white line drawings by Honor Appleton.
Linen backed thin card covers.
Spine stip slightly faded.
Name written neatly on front endpaper.
Contents clean and unmarked.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

ISBN: 185830136X.
Quarto.
Pictorial laminated boards.
22cm x 29cm.
A collection of nineteen Christmas themed stories, including:
"A Christmas Carol",
"The Twelve Days of Christmas",
"The Night Before Christmas",
"The Nutcracker" and
"The Little Fir Tree".
Copiously illustrated in colour throughout.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Red cloth covers, black lettering.
Colour frontispiece.
'A story of the Royal Navy.'
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Dark green pictorial cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Colour frontispiece.
Light wear to covers.
Corners bumped.
Spine a little scuffed.
Prize label inside front cover.
Pages slightly tanned.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

ISBN: 0718808495.
Octavo.
Brown cloth-covered boards.
Dark brown lettering on spine.
62 pages.
Colour frontispiece.
Prize label on front endpaper.
Frontispiece creased at top corner, with a short closed tear.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

ISBN: 9780747588986.
Octavo.
Pictorial laminated boards.
126 pages.
Colour illustrations by the author.
Covers and text clean and unmarked.
Fine condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Grey covers, picture onlay front cover.
Colour frontispiece by John Rae.
Covers worn and scuffed, spine faded.
Front endpaper and half title missing.
Frontispiece is edge chipped and has dedication on reverse.
Inner hinges cracked.
Reading condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Paperback.
Quarto.
Pictorial covers.
Seven full page colour illustrations unattributed, but in the style of A.E. Kennedy.
Seven pages of text.
Paper covers and contents.
Covers a little dusty, light creasing at top corners.
Small amount of insect damage at upper corner of back cover.
Hinges rusty, central two pages loose.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Blue covers with black lettering and decoration.
Colour frontispiece and title page.
Line drawings in text.
Covers worn and a little marked.
Spine faded.
Front inner hinge cracked.
Prize label on front paste-down.
Pages tanned.
Reading condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Octavo.
dark blue pictorial cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Gilt blocked lettering on spine.
117 pages.
Colour frontispiece and title picture.
Body of book illustrated in black and white.
The giants of the title are sins which must be vanquished.
Covers clean, binding tight.
Prize label on front endpaper.
Contents clean and unmarked.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Translated from the Russian by Ivy Litinova.
Paperback.
Quarto.
Yellow pictorial covers.
"Literature for Children and Youth. For Tiny Tots."
One of a series of books produced in the Soviet Union during the 1950s for export.
An activity book containing flaps, pictures to colour, puzzles etc.
Light wear to covers and edges.
The detached, moveable strip for the "TV" page is present and in good working order.
The moveable strip for the "train" page is missing.
The various flaps and "cut here" lines have been used but, apart from the missing strip noted above, all the parts appear present and in working order.
Two of the puzzles have been completed.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Grey, decorated boards.
Picture onlay front cover.
Colour frontispiece present.
Other plates missing.
Front hinge cracked.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Quarto.
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
160 pages.
Colour frontispiece plus two b/w plates.
Light wear to covers.
Neat gift dedication on front endpaper.
Some fingermarking on prelims.
Several line drawings have been neatly painted.
Light spotting throughout.
Good condition

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Subtitle: "Myths and legends of the world".
Set of six colour prints in separate folder inside book.
Fine condition

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Dark blue cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Pictorial endpapers.
Some wear to edges of dustwrapper.
Light foxing to edges of page block.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Octavo.
Green cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
256 pages.
Colour frontispiece by C. Leslie, no other illustrations.
Dustwrapper chipped, and rather baggy.
Covers clean.
Prize label on front endpaper, dated 1938.
Contents clean and white.
One section (pages 149 - 156) present, but has pulled away from the binding.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Red paper-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
277 pages.
Colour frontispiece.
Black and white line drawings in text.
Dustwrapper edge chipped.
Strip 6cm x 2cm torn from top edge of lower panel
Prize presentation on front paste down.
ontents clean and unmarked.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Orange covers.
Colour frontispiece, no other illustrations.
Covers a little discoloured with a few signs of wear at spine ends.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Stories Old and New series.
Duodecimo.
Beige cloth-covered boards.
Green lettering on covers.
Green decoration on covers.
157 pages.
Four colour plates.
Dustwrapper worn at edges, and has 1 to 3cm loss along top edge of pack panel.
Covers clean and undamaged.
Book plate on front paste down.
Prize dedication dated 1948 on front endpaper (book itself mid-1930s).
Pages slightly tanned.
Plates clean and undamaged.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Quarto.
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Grey spine.
Picture on upper board by Caroline Hall.
Colour frontispiece by Mabel Spurrier.
Eight other full page colour illustrations.
Black and white drawings in the text.
These and the stories and poems are all by different artists and authors.
Covers close to Fine.
Neat gift dedication on front endpaper (book dated from this).
Contents clean and unmarked.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Blue cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on spine.
Black decoration on covers.
Covers worn at edges.
Corners bumped.
Spine faded and marked.
Some ligh foxing to fore edge.
Name on front endpaper.
A number of illustrations neatly coloured-in with watercolour paint.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)

Quarto.
Brown cloth-covered boards.
Dark green lettering on covers.
Undated, believed to be 1930 1st edition.
Spine base reads "New Century Press", title page shows Hutchinson & Co. as publishers.
Pictorial endpapers.
Sixteen colour plates by Joyce Mercer, plus numerous black and white illustrations.
Covers lightly worn, with some pale marks.
Spine worn.
Corners bumped.
Binding sound.
Name at top edge of front endpaper.
Pages tanned, with some intermittent foxing.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)