ISBN: 0099977508.
Paperback.
A collection of short stories, compiled by Mick Gowar.
Authors include: Joan Aiken, Helen Cresswell, Adele Geras, Jan Mark and Martin Waddell.
Very Good condition

(Search score: medium, Confidence: high)

Maroon cloth-covered boards.
Silver lettering on spine.
Light wear to dustwrapper.
Top edge spotted.
Gift dedication on front endpaper.
Contents good.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: high)

Quarto.
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Blue cloth spine.
Light yellow lettering on covers.
Black lettering on spine.
Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white.
Boards worn and edge-chipped.
Spine strip in good condition.
Name and date on front paste down.
Front endpaper missing.
Contents clean and unmarked.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: high)

Octavo.
Beige pictorial cloth-covered boards with black lettering.
288 pages.
Six black and white plates, all in good condition.
Front and back covers are very good.
Lettering and decoration has faded from the spine.
Gift dedication on front paste down.
Small piece of white paper has been pasted to the top of the front endpaper with a name on it.
Contents tight and clean.
Very Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: high)

Edited by F. C. Tilney.
Duodecimo.
Light blue cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Picture onlay to front cover.
128 pages.
Eight colour plates.
Four black and white illustrations.
Covers soiled.
Gilt faded, particularly on spine.
Front endpaper creased.
Half title spotted.
Contents in good condition.
Black and white illustrations neatly coloured in.
Reading condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: high)

Octavo.
Brown cloth-covered boards.
White lettering on covers.
192 pages.
Covers decorated with roses surrounding a girl's portrait.
Colour frontispiece and one other colour plate.
Small piece missing from spine strip below title.
Covers otherwise in good to very good condition.
Binding a little loose.
Prize label on front paste down.
Pages clean and white.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: high)

Brown paper covered boards titled and decorated in gilt.
Green cloth spine.
Patterned endpapers, green with gilt crosses and Fleur-de-Lys.
Twelve tipped-in plates.
Boards slightly worn and bumped edges and corners.
Spine professionally renewed.
Contents very good.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Octavo.
Grey pictorial glazed boards.
Red cloth spine.
White lettering on covers.
31 pages.
An equal number of short stories and poems suitable for toddlers, illustrated with black and white engravings.
Very pretty pictorial front cover.
Back cover has full page advert for Fry's cocoa.
Three pages of adverts at front of book, three more at the back.
Black and white frontispiece.
Minor wear to edges of covers.
Contents detached from binding.
Title page appears to be missing.
Gift dedication dated 1896 on half title.
Otherwise in very good condition.
Reading condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Quarto.
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Red cloth spine.
12 tipped-in colour plates, one by Louis Wain.
Covers heavily worn at edges, and rather scuffed.
Name on front endpaper.
Contents good, but pages slightly tanned, with a small amount of intermittent foxing.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Beige boards with green lettering on front cover and spine.
Dustwrapper has four centimetres missing from top of spine, but is otherwise in good repair.
Name neatly written on front endpaper.
Small hole on half title.
Contents clean and white.
Very Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Quarto.
Pictorial paper-covered boards.
Light green cloth spine.
Black lettering on spine.
Covers worn and scuffed.
Corners and edges bumped.
Name and address partially erased from front cover.
Foxing to prelims and endpapers.
Front endpaper removed.
Gift dedication on reverse of frontispiece.
Contents generally good.
Pages tanned.
Reading condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Reissue of 1899 edition.
Red cloth-covered boards.
Embossed gilt lettering and decoration.
Twelve colour plates.
Several black and white drawings.
Covers slightly discoloured.
Plates all very good.
Covers worn at edges and unevenly faded.
Spine edges worn.
Back edge of spine split.
Gilt decoration faded and dimmed.
Generally VG in other respects.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

ISBN: 0140341293.
Paperback.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Red decorated boards.
Gilt blocked titling on front cover and spine.
Four colour plates (colour printing from wood).
Series 49.
Back cover marked.
One plate frayed at edges, with mended tear.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

ISBN: 9781852383619.
Pictorial laminated boards.
Dustwrapper repeats cover design.
14cm x 11cm.
Damp mark on reverse of dustwrapper.
First few pages crinkled.
Good in other respects.
Reading condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Quarto.
Dark green pictorial glazed boards.
Red cloth spine.
444 pages.
Colour frontispiece.
Black and white illustrations throughout.
Thirty pages of adverts at rear.
Covers bright and generally VG.
Spine is worn and discoloured, front edge cracked and repaired with tape.
Endpapers frayed at edges, and have been repaired.
Contents are in at least good condition.
Reading condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Light green pictorial paper-covered boards.
Dark green cloth spine.
Brown lettering on covers.
Black decoration on covers.
19cm x 25cm.
40 pages.
8 pages of adverts at rear.
Brown patterned endpapers.
One colour illustration per page, beneath one or two lines of poetry.
Covers a little worn and scuffed at edges, and slightly soiled.
Corners and spine ends bumped.
A little faint spotting to fore edge and reverse of front endpaper, contents not affected.
School prize label, dated 1896, on front pastedown.
Contents clean, with bright colours.
Very Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Yellow covers, silver and green lettering.
Dustwrapper worn and scuffed.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Tape marks and some spotting to prelims.
Contents good.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Dark green pictorial cloth-covered boards.
White lettering on covers.
Gilt decoration on spine.
Covers worn at edges and scuffed.
Corners bumped.
Endpapers removed.
Pages slightly tanned, and a little fingermarked at edges but otherwise good.
Reading condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Octavo.
Blue cloth-covered boards.
Silver lettering on covers.
Pictorial endpapers.
Covers a little worn at edges and corners.
Signed by the author on front endpaper: "For Mrs Bridge with the warm good wishes of the authr, Elizabeth Coatsworth Beston, October 12, 1940".
Very Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Quarto.
Gold paper-covered boards.
Yellow cloth spine.
Black lettering on spine.
Black decoration on spine.
Picture onlay to front cover.
Some of the characters and stories might be considered politically incorrect, by contemporary standards.
Covers worn at edges and scuffed.
Dedication on reverse of front endpaper.
Belongs To box completed.
Address at top of first page.
A number of the line drawings have been coloured in neatly, but rather garishly.
Contents otherwise in good condition.
Reading condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Red embossed cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Gilt decoration on covers.
Top edge gilt.
290 pages.
Illustrators include: Arthur Rackham, Hugh Thomson, Bernard Partridge, Lewis Baumer, Harry Rountree and C. Wilhelm.
Covers worn and faded, with some soiling.
Spine darkened.
Gilt rubbed.
Endpapers pasted down.
Two B/W plates missing.
Contents good.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Dark green paper-covered boards.
Red cloth spine.
Gilt lettering on spine.
White decoration on covers.
Dustwrapper worn and chipped with several repairs and 2cm loss at upper corner of back panel.
Book itself good.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Faint foxing to fore edge.
Small pen mark on front endpaper.
Contents clean and bright.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

ISBN: 0333173147.
Four school children help a new immigrant find his feet.
Label removed from front pastedown.
Dustwrapper close to Very Good.
Light wear to covers, contents Very Good.
Good condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)

Cream cloth-covered boards with light brown lettering.
Picture onlay to front cover.
18cm x 23.5cm.
A story in verse about mice, with a poem facing a picture on every page.
Covers are soiled, and bumped at corners and spine ends.
Contents have pulled away from binding at both front and back.
Gift inscription on front endpaper, some largely erased pencil scribble.
Frontispiece and one other plate slightly damaged, last plate creased, remaining nine plates in very good condition.
One page of text has been torn through and roughly mended with paper tape.
Reading condition

(Search score: low, Confidence: medium)