1.
Jules Verne
by
Jules Verne
Published by Octopus Books in 1978
ISBN: 0706407849.
Octavo.
Red cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Gilt decoration on covers.
590 pages.
Omnibus edition, containing:
"Around the World in Eighty Days",
"From the Earth to the Moon", and
"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".
Light wear to dustwrapper.
Dustwrapper spine slightly faded.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
2.
The Phantom Tollbooth
by
Norton Juster
with illustrations by
Jules Feiffer
Reprint,
published by Lion in 1976
ISBN: 0006707998.
Paperback.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Pages tanned.
Good condition
(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)
3.
Texar the Southerner - A Tale of the American Civil War
by
Jules Verne
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. circa 1930
Red pictorial cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Black decoration on covers.
Covers heavily worn.
Edges scuffed.
Corners bumped.
Spine edges neatly taped.
Spine faded.
Neat gift dedication on front endpaper.
Some fingermarks on prelims.
Contents good.
Reading condition
(Search score: medium, Confidence: medium)
4.
The Ox and the Ass at the Manger
by
Jules Supervielle
with illustrations by
Muriel Broderick
1st Thus edition,
published by Hollis & Carter Ltd in 1945
Pictorial covers.
13cm x 19cm.
Dustwrapper price-clipped, worn at edges and a little soiled.
Neat gift dedication on dustwrapper front-flap.
Book itself VG.
Very Good condition
(Search score: low, Confidence: low)
5.
6.
7.
Herb, The Vegetarian Dragon
by
Jules Bass
with illustrations by
Debbie Harter
Reprint,
published by Barefoot Books in 1999
ISBN: 1902283996.
Paperback.
Quarto.
A cautionary tale about dragons.
Light wear to covers.
Contents clean and unmarked
Very Good condition
(Search score: low, Confidence: low)
8.
Hank Prank and Hot Henrietta
by
Jules Older
with illustrations by
Lisa Kopper
1st Thus edition,
published by Puffin in 1987
Paperback.
Covers creased and becomming rather limp.
Scribble on front endpaper and contents page.
Remainder of contents in good condition.
Reading condition
(Search score: low, Confidence: low)
9.
Robinson Crusoe
by
Daniel Defoe
Published by Ernest Nister in 1895
Bevilled dark blue pictorial cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Gilt decoration on covers.
18cm x 24cm.
328 pages.
Red edges.
6 colour plates, including frontispiece, "and upwards of eighty black-and-white drawings by J. Finnemore, G. H. Thompson and Archibald Webb".
Covers worn and scuffed.
Corners and spine ends bumped.
Spine strip faded, and appears to have been re-glued at edges.
Scuff where label removed from inside front cover.
Endpapers foxed.
Contents VG.
Good condition
(Search score: low, Confidence: low)
10.
Adventures of Marshall Vavasour
by
S. W. Saddler
1st edition,
published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge circa 1928
Blue semi-pictorial cloth-covered boards with red and gilt lettering.
160 pages.
16 pages of adverts at back of book.
Black and white illustrations throughout, not attributed.
Front cover worn and creased.
Faint damp mark to pages, near base of spine.
Spotting to fore edge.
Reading condition
(Search score: low, Confidence: low)
11.
The Fourth Engineer
by
Lawrence R. Bourne
with illustrations by
Rowland Hilder
Reprint,
published by Oxford University Press in 1939
Front endpaper renewed. Coloured frontispiece and six black and white illustrations. Pictorial dustwrapper has old sellotape marks at top of spine and at bottom of back plus a small piece missing from bottom front. Book has pale blue binding with dark blue lettering and decoration. Book itself is V/G.
Good condition
(Search score: low, Confidence: low)
12.
Four Little People and their Friends
Reprint,
published by W. P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell circa 1910
Octavo.
Light blue pictorial cloth-covered boards.
Dark blue lettering on covers.
128 pages.
Five short stories plus sixteen
pages of publisher's adverts at the rear.
No authors credited.
Flower pattern on front cover and spine.
Gilt blocked titling on spine.
Patterned endpapers.
Black and white frontispiece.
Slight signs of wear at corner's and sides of spine.
Name and address opposite half title.
Very Good condition
(Search score: low, Confidence: low)