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1. 1970 Official World Cup Preview Book
1970 Official World Cup Preview Book
by Kenneth Wolstenholme
Published by World Distributors in 1969
Pictorial laminated boards.
Minor wear to edges of covers.
Neat name and address on reverse of front endpaper.
VG in other respects.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
#109481   £10.00   
2. A Child's Garden of Verses
A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson
with illustrations by E. Mars and M. H. Squire
Published by Rand McNally (Chicago) in 1900
Yellow pictorial cloth-covered boards.
16cm x 20cm.
Light wear to covers, and a little scuffing.
Neat gift dedication on front endpaper.
Contents clean and unmarked.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
#105449   £25.00   
3. A Child's Garden of Verses
A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson
with illustrations by Charles Robinson
Reprint, published by John Lane in 1901
Octavo.
Dark green cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Gilt decoration on covers.
All edges gilt.
13cm x 19cm.
Light wear to covers.
Corners slightly bumped.
Gilt on spine slightly dulled.
Light foxing on endpapers and pastedowns.
Contents clean.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
#105441   £50.00   
4. A Child's Garden of Verses
A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Published by Longmans, Green and Co in 1918
Red leatherette boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Gilt decoration on covers and spine.
All edges gilt.
11cm x 16cm.
"New Impression".
Light wear to corners of covers and spine edges.
Contents clean.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
#105442   £25.00   
5. A Child's Garden of Verses
A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson
with illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith
Published by Scribner in 1924
Black cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Picture onlay to front cover.
18cm x 24cm.
Title page dated "MCMXXIV", copyright date on reverse is 1905.
Covers worn at edges.
Picture onlay scuffed.
Some old splash marks on back board, contents not affected.
Contents slightly shaken, but generally clean.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
#105447   £40.00   
6. A Child's Garden of Verses
A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson
with illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith
Published by Scribner in 1927
Black cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Picture onlay to front cover.
18cm x 24cm.
Title page dated "MCMXVII", copyright date on reverse is 1905.
Covers worn and scuffed.
Corners bumped.
Gift dedication on half-title, and previous owner's bookplate.
Contents slightly shaken, but generally clean.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
#116926   £30.00   
7. A Child's Garden of Verses
A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson
with illustrations by Joan Hassall
Reprint, published by Blackie in 1961
Octavo.
Dark blue cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Dustwrapper a little worn at edges, with 4cm loss at base of spine and price-clipped.
Book itself close to VG.
Name in childish hand on front endpaper.
Neat gift dedication between front endpaper and half-title.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
#105445   £25.00   
8. A Child's Garden of Verses
A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson
with illustrations by Michael Foreman
Published by Gollancz in 1989
Paperback.
Writing and some scribble inside front cover.
Small amount of damp staining on first and last pages.
Internally very good.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
#60535   £5.00   
9. A Child's Garden of Verses
A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson
with illustrations by Michael Foreman
Reprint, published by Gollancz circa 1991
Paperback.
Small quarto.
Pictorial covers.
Writing on inside front cover.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
#62889   £6.00   
10. A Child's Garden of Verses
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)
#102915   £5.00   
11. A Child's Garden of Verses
A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson
1st Thus edition, published by Dorling Kindersley in 1997
ISBN: 0751371041.
Laminated pictorial covers.
Dustwrapper repeats cover design.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
#51989   £10.50   
12. A Child's Garden of Verses
A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Sttevenson
with illustrations by Eve Garnett
Reprint, published by Puffin in 1977
ISBN: 0140300228.
Paperback.
Covers worn.
Prelims foxed.
Gift dedicaiton inside front cover.
Pages tanned.
Reading condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
#115580   £2.00   
13. A Children's Book of Verse
A Children's Book of Verse
by Marjoroe Rogers
with illustrations by Eric Kincaid
Published by Brimax Books in 1987
ISBN: 9780861124268.
Quarto.
Pictorial laminated boards.
Pictorial endpapers.
Neat gift dedication facing title page.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
#118516   £7.50   
14. A Harbour Light
A Harbour Light
by C. E. Mallandaine
with illustrations by W. H. Overend
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge circa 1900
Octavo.
Light blue pictorial cloth-covered boards.
221 pages.
Patterned endpapers.
sixteen pages of adverts at rear.
Decorated chapter headings.
Tissue guarded frontispiece, no other illustrations.
Neat dedication on reverse of front endpaper.
Some foxing to prelims and endpapers.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
#88301   £7.50   
15. ABC of the Universe
ABC of the Universe
Published by British Broadcasting Corporation circa 1958
Paperback.
Light wear to covers.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
#104725   £2.00   
16. Action Rhymes
Action Rhymes
by Dorothy Taylor
with illustrations by Kathie Layfield and Brian Price Thomas
Reprint, published by Ladybird Books in 1976
ISBN: 0721404391.
Paper-covered boards.
50 pages.
Series 702.
Covers worn at edges and slightly soiled.
Prelims lightly creased.
Contents generally VG.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
#101708   £2.00   
17. Aesop's Funky Fables
Aesop's Funky Fables
by Vivian French
with illustrations by Korky Paul
1st Thus edition, published by Puffin Books in 1999
ISBN: 014056246X.
Paperback.
23cm x 30cm.
75 pages.
Ten of Aesop's Fables re-written in rap rhythms, with new and modern illustrations.
Very Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
#108477   £4.00   
18. Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
with illustrations by Gwynedd M. Hudson
Published by Hodder and Stoughton / Boots in 1932
Red embossed cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Gilt decoration on covers.
20cm x 25cm.
180 pages.
Centenary Edition.
Rectangular picture onlay depicting Alice and Dinah on front panel of dustwrapper (duplicates frontispiece).
Black line drawn illustrations of the Mad Hatter and the March Hare on rear panel of dustwrapper.
The same illustrations of the Hatter and the Hare appear on the front and back endpapers and pastedowns, additionally with orange colouring to their coats.
12 tipped-in colour plates (including frontispiece), all present.
Dustwrapper intact, with moderate wear, mainly at edges, and has been neatly reinforced at the corners on the reverse with small tabs of tape.
Some light wear to edges of covers.
Gilt lettering and decoration remains bright.
Binding sound.
Some foxing to fore edge and prelims.
Name written neatly in Belongs To box facing half-title.
Pages slightly tanned.
Includes a small number of newspaper clippings from the 1930s onward, on the subject of Lewis Carroll and Alice.
Good condition

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#118455   £400.00   
19. Alice in Wonderland and through the Looking-Glass
Alice in Wonderland and through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
with illustrations by Harry Rountree
Published by Collins circa 1930
Maroon cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
10cm x 15cm.
318 pages.
Maroon endpapers.
Dated from two owner's names and dates on reverse of frontispiece - book is possibly somewhat older.
Covers worn at edges and a little scuffed.
Damp mark at lower corner of front cover.
Marks at lower edge of front endpaper and front paste-down where they have stuck together (probably due to being splashed) and have been prised apart.
Faint damp mark at lower edge of prelims.
Contents good, and unmarked.
Reading condition

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#119057   £10.00   
20. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
with illustrations by Justin Todd
1st Thus edition, published by Gollancz in 1984
ISBN: 0575032634.
Quarto.
Dark blue cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
158 pages.
Printed on art paper.
22 colour illustrations.
A few marks on reverse of dustwrapper.
Covers themselves are clear.
Small amount of wear to base of back board.
Neat gift dedication on front endpaper.
Good condition

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#100606   £15.00   
21. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and through the Looking-Glass
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
with illustrations by A. H. Watson
Published by Collins in 1956
Octavo.
Yellow cloth-covered boards.
Dark brown lettering on covers.
Light wear to dustwrapper, and some faint foxing to reverse.
Minor wear to covers.
Front endpaper missing.
Some foxing to half-title.
Pages slightly tanned.
Good condition

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#115266   £15.00   
22. All through the Year
All through the Year
with illustrations by Anne Rochester
Published by Raphael Tuck circa 1940
Paperback.
Yellow pictorial covers.
26.5cm x 20.5cm.
Unpaginated.
Landscape format.
Card covers.
A short verse and full page picture for each month.
Covers slightly warped and soiled.
Small crease in back board.
Contents in very good condition.
Good condition

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#99408   £15.00   
23. An Early Start to Science
An Early Start to Science
by Roy Richards
1st edition, published by MacDonald Educational in 1987
ISBN: 0356115550.
Paperback.
80 pages.
Covers a little worn.
Name on reverse of front cover.
Contents generally VG.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
#86135   £2.50   
24. Animals have lots of fun
Animals have lots of fun
by Jiri Havel
with illustrations by Karel Franta
Reprint, published by Treasure Press in 1989
ISBN: 1850510679.
Translated from the Czech by Stephen Finn.
Blue pictorial laminated boards.
61 pages.
Comic poems.
Bright colourful illustrations on every page.
Covers clean
Light wear to edges.
Binding slightly strained.
Contents clean and unmarked.
Very Good condition

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#100616   £7.50   
25. At School on the Ocean
At School on the Ocean
by Alfred Judd
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons circa 1940
Red cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Dustwrapper price-clipped, and a little foxed on reverse.
Pages tanned.
Good condition

(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
#112920   £3.00   
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