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123 Ladybird Teaching Frieze
Published by Ladybird Books in 1980
ISBN: 0721430732.
23cm x 21cm.
A wallet containing seven 20cm x 90cm pin-up counting friezes (five for the numbers 1 and 2, 3 and 4, etc up to 10, plus one for numbers 1 to 10 and one for 1 to 100).
Light wear to edges of the wallet, and a little wear at the corners of one of the friezes where is has been pinned-up.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
2.
A Child's Garden of Verses
by
Robert Louis Stevenson
Published by Thunder Bay Press in 1996
ISBN: 1571451005.
Pictorial laminated boards.
Comprises a small keepsake book with extracts from the poems, plus a number of note-cards and envelopes, all in a folding cardboard pouch.
Five of the original eight note-cards still present.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
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Bandits
by
Lance Salway
with illustrations by
Valerie Littlewood
1st edition,
published by Pepper Press in 1983
ISBN: 0237456656.
Laminated pictorial covers.
The story of famous bandits, including Billy the Kid, Dick Turpin and Salvatore Giuliano.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
5.
Best Stories for Under Fives
with illustrations by
Katy Rhodes
Published by Hodder Children's Books in 1995
ISBN: 0340646322.
Paperback.
Covers worn and creased.
Pages crinkled.
Reading condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
6.
Betty's Diary
by
Dorothy Russell
with illustrations by
Honor C. Appleton
1st Thus edition,
published by Blackie circa 1918
Octavo.
Cream cloth-covered boards.
Dark brown lettering on spine.
261 pages.
Five colour plates.
Narrow picture onlay beneath titling on the front cover.
The covers soiled and heavily worn.
Corners soft and spine ends beginning to fray.
Floral decoration around picture onlay has faded.
Front endpaper removed.
Gift dedication on the half-title.
Pages generally clean, although there is a little fingermarking.
Binding is tight.
Reading condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
7.
Cockle Button, Cockle Ben
by
Richard Phibbs
with illustrations by
Gladys M. Rees
Reprint,
published by Hale circa 1946
Quarto.
Cream cloth-covered boards.
95 pages.
Six short stories.
Numerous black and white illustrations.
Colour frontispiece missing.
Five remaining colour plates all in place.
A few light marks on covers.
Neat gift dedication on title page.
Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
8.
Cold at five
by
Scud Morgan
Reprint,
published by Longman in 1986
ISBN: 0701511966.
Paperback.
73 pages.
Covers a little worn.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
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Famous Boys and how they became Great Men
6th edition,
published by Darton and Co in 1860
Octavo.
Bevilled red embossed cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
All edges gilt.
Dark brown endpapers.
Covers soiled and heavily worn.
Extensive scuffing to edges.
Spine faded.
Corners heavily bumped.
Contents good.
Reading condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
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Famous Discoveries by Land and Sea
Published by Blackie
Red pictorial covers with gilt blocking.
Spine darkened.
Covers unevenly faded.
Red stain to lower corner of prelims.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
21.
Famous Five Annual Five on Kirren Island again
by
Enid Blyton
1st Thus edition,
published by Purnell Books in 1982
ISBN: 0361053126.
Quarto.
Laminated boards.
93 pages.
Light wear to covers.
Inner hinges strained.
Name and address written on title page.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
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