201.
The Giants and how to fight them
by
Rev. Robert Newton
1st edition,
published by Thomas Nelson and Sons in 1904
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)
202.
The Giants and how to fight them
by
Rev. Robert Newton
Reprint,
published by Thomas Nelson and Sons in 1911
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)
203.
The girl who knew
by
Sandra Glover
1st Thus edition,
published by Corgi in 2001
ISBN: 0552546992.
Paperback.
Fine condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
204.
205.
The Heroes (The Argonauts and Theseus)
by
Charles Kingsley
with illustrations by
A. A. Dixon
Reprint,
published by Blackie circa 1935
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)
206.
207.
The house without windows
by
Barbara Newhall Follett
with illustrations by
Jackie Morris
1st Thus edition,
published by Hamish Hamilton in 2019
ISBN: 9781785176821.
Dark blue cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Gilt decoration on covers.
Signed by the illustrator.
Fine condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
208.
209.
The Islanders
by
John Rowe Townsend
1st Thus edition,
published by Oxford University Press in 1983
Laminated covers.
Top of spine strip damaged.
Life on isolated island threatened by newcomers.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
210.
The Joyce Mercer edition of Andersen and Grimm
by
Brothers Grimm and Hans Andersen
with illustrations by
Joyce Mercer
1st edition,
published by Hutchinson in 1930
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)
211.
212.
213.
The Little Fishes
by
Erik Christian Haugaard
with illustrations by
Milton Johnson
Reprint,
published by Heinemann in 1983
ISBN: 0435121448.
New Windmill series.
Laminated covers.
Front endpaper missing.
Three children journey from Naples to Cassino in 1943.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
214.
215.
The Monster Garden
by
Vivien Alcock
1st Thus edition,
published by Heinemann in 1989
Laminated pictorial covers. New Windmill.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
216.
The New Abbey Girls
by
Elsie Jeanette Oxenham
Published by Children's Press in 1959
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Red spine.
Covers a little worn at edges.
Corners slightly bumped.
Pages tanned.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
217.
218.
The New Abbey Girls
by
Elsie Jeanette Oxenham
Reprint,
published by Children's Press in 1969
Octavo.
Pictorial laminated boards.
124 pages.
Abridged edition.
Name written at top of front endpaper.
Pages evenly tanned.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
219.
The New Adventures Galldora
by
Modwena Sedgwick
with illustrations by
Diana John
Reprint,
published by Penguin Books in 1974
ISBN: 0140304479.
Paperback.
106 pages.
Covers a little worn.
Top corner of front endpaper clipped.
Name on inside of front cover.
Pages tanned.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
220.
221.
The New Adventures of Rupert
by
Alfred E. Bestall
with illustrations by
Alfred E. Bestall
Published by Daily Express in 1985
ISBN: 0850791499.
Quarto.
Red pictorial embossed cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Black decoration on covers.
Facsimile edition of the 1936 Rupert Book.
Numbered edition, no. 14707.
Outer wrap-around band present.
Belongs To box neatly completed.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
222.
The New Anne Moby
by
Ellen Morgan
1st Thus edition,
published by Magnet in 1987
ISBN: 0416001327.
Paperback.
154 pages.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
223.
The New Boy at Merriton: A Story of School Life
by
Julia Goddard
with illustrations by
A. T. Smith
Reprint,
published by Blackie circa 1928
"Stories Old and New" series.
Also contains the story "Turn Again, Whittington."
Cream boards with gilt lettering and green decoration.
Rectangular picture onlay on front cover.
Patterned endpapers.
Six colour plates.
This edition published in 1912, this copy bears dedication dated 1928.
Covers rather worn and scuffed.
A few fingermarks.
Some scribble in margin of paage 9.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
224.
225.
The New Film show Annual
Published by L T A Robinson in 1955
Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration.
Illustrated copiously with photographs, mainly in colour, of the contemporary film scene.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)