176.
The Joy of the Snow - Her Autobiography
by
Elizabeth Goudge
1st Thus edition,
published by Girls Gone By in 2024
ISBN: 9781847453402.
Paperback.
"Complete and unabridged. Including letters from her, published for the first time, offering rare insights into her life"
Mint condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
177.
The Joy of the Snow - Her Autobiography
by
Elizabeth Goudge
1st Thus edition,
published by Girls Gone By in 2024
ISBN: 9781847453402.
Paperback.
"Complete and unabridged. Including letters from her, published for the first time, offering rare insights into her life"
Mint condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
178.
The Kennys on their own.
by
Jill Latimer
with illustrations by
G. E. Breary
2nd edition,
published by Newnes in 1948
Tower House series.
Octavo.
Green cloth-covered boards.
111 pages.
Covers slightly soiled and bumped.
A few marks on front endpaper.
Contents clean but slightly worn.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
179.
The Life and Times of Cornelius Plum
by
Kay King
with illustrations by
Victor Ambrus
1st edition,
published by Abelard-Schuman in 1972
ISBN: 0200718975.
Red cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Dustwrapper worn at edges and a little soiled.
Some faint spotting to edges of prelims.
A little fingermarking to page edges.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
180.
181.
The Little Golden Annual 1977
Published by World Distributors in 1976
ISBN: 0723503923.
48mo.
Yellow pictorial laminated boards.
44 pages.
Ten stories and poems with different authors and illustrators, suitable for bedtime reading.
Top 2cm. of spine strip missing.
Top right hand corners chewed.
Name and address written on front pastedown, of which the name and first line have been scraped away, leaving the bare board.
Contents clean and white, and close to VG.
Reading condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
182.
183.
The Magic Trumpet
by
Mary Durack
with illustrations by
Elizabeth Durack
Published by Cassell in 1945
Grey paper-covered boards with brown lettering.
18cm x 24.5cm.
Unusual and attractive illustrations on every page.
Covers heavily worn.
Corners bumped.
Spine has been reinforced by a previous owner with a grey fabric tape.
Inner hinges have been reinforced at some time with brown parcel tape, now peeling.
Stitching has pulled in places.
Contents generally good, but two pages have ink splashes on them, and one leaf is detached, and the first two pages have a small scuff/tear at the centre.
Reading condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
184.
The man who caught the wind
by
Margaret Gibbs
with illustrations by
May Smith
1st edition,
published by Chapman and Hall in 1936
Quarto.
Beige cloth-covered boards with black lettering.
Picture onlay to front cover.
Dustwrapper repeats cover design.
136 pages.
Stories from Children's Hour.
Small bump to the bottom right hand corner.
Slight damage to the top of the spine.
Dustwrapper has three centimetres missing from spine ends.
Neat gift dedication on the front endpaper, plus partially erased name written in a childish script.
All of the fourteen black and white illustrations have been very carefully painted.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
185.
186.
The Old Dog
by
Charlotte Zolotov
with illustrations by
James Ransome
Published by HarperCollins in 1995
ISBN: 0060244097.
Pictorial laminated boards.
When a young boy finds his old dog dead one morning, he spends the rest of the day thinking about all the god times they had together.
Name on front endpaper.
Fine condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
187.
The Red Book of Bedtime Stories
Published by Ladybird Books in 1981
ISBN: 0721406076.
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Contents VG.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
188.
The Red Book of Bedtime Stories
1st edition,
published by Ladybird Books in 1981
ISBN: 0721406076.
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Covers worn at edges, and scuffed.
Contents VG.
Reading condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
189.
The Root Cellar
by
Janet Lunn
1st edition,
published by Heinemann in 1983
Review copy.
Fine condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
190.
191.
192.
The Sands of the Marjee
by
Jim Rogerson
with illustrations by
Ray Mutimer
1st edition,
published by E. J. Arnold and Son in 1979
ISBN: 0560015550.
Roundabouts series.
Paperback.
64 pages.
Covers worn and creased.
Labels removed from inside front cover.
Contents good.
Reading condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
193.
194.
The Silver Whistle and Other Stories
Published by Blackie and Son Limited circa 1950
Yellow pictorial paper-covered boards.
Blue spine.
White lettering on spine.
Dustwrapper repeats cover design.
Pictorial endpapers.
"Anytime Series".
Dustwrapper intact, but worn and creased.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Some intermittent fingermarking at fore edge.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
195.
196.
197.
198.
199.
The St Jim's Christmas Barring-Out
by
Frank Richards
Collectors edition,
published by Howard Baker in 1984
Facsimile.
Greyfriars book club vol 54.
Signed limited edition number 26 of 400.
In blue slip case.
Fine condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
200.
The Story of Gubby the Gnome
with illustrations by
Felice Emmer
Published by Clematis Press in 1954
Brown pictorial paper-covered boards.
12cm x 14cm.
"Wonderland Bed-Time Stories".
Covers worn and scuffed at edges.
Contents generally VG.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)