551.
The Girls' Budget
Published by Blackie circa 1925
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Covers worn at edges.
Spine faded.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
552.
The Girls' Budget
Published by Blackie circa 1925
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Covers worn at edges and a little scuffed.
Frontispiece missing.
VG in other respects.
Undated; first story titled "Wanted, a Highwayman".
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
553.
The Girls' Budget
Published by Blackie circa 1930
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
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
554.
The Golden Treasury of Stories for Boys and Girls
Published by Victor Gollancz in 1959
Octavo.
Blue cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
696 pages.
A collection of short stories.
Authors include: Sewell, Lear, Belloc, Thackery, Browning, Andersen, Grimm and Carroll.
Spine slightly faded.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
555.
The Goose Girl
by
Joan Collins
with illustrations by
Kathie Layfield
1st edition,
published by Ladybird Books in 1983
ISBN: 0721407641.
Well Loved Tales series.
Pictorial laminated boards.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
556.
The Goose Girl
by
Gillian Cross
with illustrations by
Jason Cockcroft
1st edition,
published by Scholastic in 1998
ISBN: 0590543849.
Paperback.
57 pages.
Name on prelims.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
557.
The Green Bough of Liberty
by
David Rees
1st edition,
published by Dennis Dobson in 1979
ISBN: 0234721871.
The 1798 rebellion.
Ex-school library.
Labels on prelims, one partially removed.
Contents VG.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
558.
The Green Bough of Liberty
by
David Rees
1st edition,
published by Dennis Dobson in 1979
ISBN: 0234721871.
The 1798 rebellion.
Ex-school library.
Labels on prelims, one partially removed.
Contents VG.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
559.
The Greyfriars Holiday Annual 1979
Published by Howard Baker in 1978
ISBN: 0703001493.
Quarto.
Green cloth-covered boards.
Minor wear to edges of dustwrapper.
Fine condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
560.
The Greyfriars Holiday Annual 1986
Published by Howard Baker in 1985
ISBN: 070300283X.
Featuring the famous schoolboy characters of the inter-war years.
Howard Baker Annual No. 23
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
561.
The Harrington Girls or Faith and Patience
by
Sophie Winthrop
Reprint,
published by Thomas Nelson and Sons circa 1897
Octavo.
Light blue cloth-covered boards with brown and green floral decoration.
Gilt lettering on spine.
128 pages.
Black and white frontispiece.
Decorated capitals.
Neat dedication on reverse of frontis.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
562.
The Haunted School
by
Carol Drinkwater
Published by Puffin in 1987
ISBN: 0140321500.
Paperback.
Covers worn.
Pages tanned.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
563.
564.
The Head Girl of St Bees
by
Alys Chatwyn
with illustrations by
Joan Mather
Published by Epworth Press (J. Alfred Sharp) circa 1935
Orange cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Black decoration on covers.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Some light spotting to fore edge and prelims.
Prize label on front endpaper.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
565.
566.
567.
The Hobbit
by
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
with illustrations by
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
4th edition,
published by George Allen and Unwin in 1982
ISBN: 0048231479.
Dark green cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering and decoration on spine.
15cm x 22cm.
256 pages.
Pictorial endpapers (Middle Earth maps).
Top edge dark green.
Third printing (1982) of the 1978 fourth edition.
Dustwrapper price-clipped but otherwise undamaged, and enclosed in a protective sleeve.
Dustwrapper spine slightly faded.
Attractive school prize-label pasted to blank leaf between front endpaper and half-title.
Pages very faintly tanned.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
568.
The Home-life and Adventures of Lydia Longbone
by
Brigadier Ethel Roberts
with illustrations by
W. J. Gibbs
Published by Salvationist Publishing and Supplies circa 1930
Preface by Commissioner Kitching of the Salvation Army.
Story told in letters from one school-girl to another.
Paperback.
Red linen backed card covers, black lettering.
Slight wear to edges of covers.
Front endpaper missing.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
569.
The Honour of the School
by
May Wynne
Published by Nisbet circa 1920
Blue pictorial cloth-covered boards.
Covers and spine worn and scuffed.
Binding a little strained.
Some soiling and darkening to fore edge.
Pages slightly tanned.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
570.
The Honour of the School
by
May Wynne
Reprint,
published by Dean circa 1935
Pale blue boards.
Black lettering and decoratio.
Covers stained.
Spine faded and worn.
Split at back edge of spine glued and taped.
Pages tanned.
Reading condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
571.
The Hornstranders
by
Alan Boucher
with illustrations by
Carol Jones
1st edition,
published by Constable Young Books in 1966
Orange covers, silver lettering on spine.
Small girl and boy motiff on front cover.
Slight wearr to dustwrapper.
Dustwrapper price clipped.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
572.
The Hundred-Year Mystery
by
Carolyn Keene
Published by Sparrow Books in 1984
ISBN: 0099328003.
15th book in Dana Girls series.
Paperback.
By the author of the Nancy Drew series.
Light wear to covers.
Old dealer's stamp inside front cover.
Name in Belongs To box.
Pages slightly tanned.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
573.
The Iliad
by
Nick McCarty
with illustrations by
Victor G. Ambrus
1st edition,
published by Kingfisher in 2000
Paperback.
Quarto.
Two small school library stamps on prelims.
Otherwise near-fine.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
574.
The Infants' Magazine Annual for 1911
Published by S. W. Partridge in 1910
Green pictorial glazed boards.
Green cloth spine.
18cm x 22cm.
Illustrators include Louis Waine, Harry B. Neilson and Angusine MacGregor.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Binding delicate.
Sunday School prize label on prelims.
Pages tanned.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
575.
The Jessame Stories
by
Julia Jarman
with illustrations by
Duncan Smith
1st edition,
published by Heinemann in 1994
Stories about a little girl in an immigrant family from Sierra Leone.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)