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Biggles Air Detective Omnibus
By
W. E. Johns
Reprint, 1963, Hodder & Stoughton.
Red cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Black decoration on covers.
640 pages.
Dustwrapper complete, but a little worn.
Covers clean and undamaged.
Binding sound.
Some light tape marks on endpapers where a protector may previously have been attached.
Pages slightly tanned.
Good condition with dust-wrapper.
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Goodbye Mr Chips
By
James Hilton
1944, Hodder & Stoughton.
Light brown cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on spine.
Light wear to covers.
Corners bumped.
Neat gift dedication on front endpaper.
Pages faintly tanned.
Good condition.
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Gulliver's Travels to Lilliput and Brobdingnag
By
Jonathan Swift
Illustrator
R. G. Mossa.
1938, Hodder & Stoughton.
Quarto.
Grey cloth-covered boards.
Red lettering on covers.
Red decoration on covers.
Covers worn and edges and a little soiled.
Corners bumped.
Belongs To box completed, and neatly crossed-out.
Title page foxed.
Some intermittent foxing to page edges.
Pages slightly tanned.
Good condition.
5.
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
By
Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrator
W. Heath Robinson.
2nd thus edition, 1981, Hodder & Stoughton.
ISBN: 0340258071.
Quarto.
Brown cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Gilt decoration on covers.
18cm x 25cm.
288 pages.
Minor wear to covers.
Edges of page block very slightly soiled.
Very good condition.
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Mary Slessor, The White Queen
By
W.P. Livingstone
15th edition, 1950, Hodder & Stoughton.
Octavo.
Light grey cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on spine.
127 pages.
Not illustrated.
Dustwrapper worn at edges, and a little chipped.
Price clipped.
Light spotting on fore edges.
Contents clean and unmarked.
Good condition with dust-wrapper.
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Mrs Nibble
By
Jane Pilgrim
1990, Hodder & Stoughton.
ISBN: 0340036745.
Blackberry Farm series.
Paperback.
Mark on back cover where label removed.
Good condition.
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Peter Trawl or The Adventures of a Whaler
By
W. H. G. Kingston
1st edition, 1881, Hodder & Stoughton.
Octavo.
Dark green embossed cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Silver decoration on covers.
All edges gilt.
350 pages.
Six (of eight) black and white plates present.
Covers heavily worn at edges, and a little soiled.
Corners bumped.
Spine strip worn at edges and ends, and somewhat darkened.
Gift dedication dated 1883 on reverse of front endpaper.
Endpapers and prelims foxed and tanned.
Contents shaken, and some pages coming loose.
Occasional foxing to page edges.
Some foxing in gutter, where staples in the binding have rusted.
Reading condition.
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The Adventures of Billy Topsail
By
Norman Duncan
1906, Hodder & Stoughton.
Green cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Covers worn at edges and unevenly faded.
Spine faded.
Pages tanned.
Good condition.
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The Blue Muffin Book
By
Ann Hogarth
1951, Hodder & Stoughton.
Quarto.
Dark blue paper-covered boards.
From the 1950s "Muffin the Mule" children's TV series.
Covers worn at edges.
Neat name in Belongs To box.
VG in other respects.
Good condition.
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The First Biggles Omnibus
By
W. E. Johns
1957, Hodder & Stoughton.
Red cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Four Biggles stories in one volume:
"Biggles Sweeps the Desert",
"Biggles in the Orient",
"Biggles Delivers the Goods", and
"Biggles Fails to Return".
Dustwrapper heavily worn, and reinforced with clear tape.
4cm loss to dustwrapper at top edge of spine and rear panel re-backed with plain paper.
Light wear to edges of covers.
SOme faint foxing to fore edge.
Gift dedication facing half-title.
Pages tanned.
Good condition with dust-wrapper.
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The Mystery of Holly Lane
By
Enid Blyton
2016, Hodder & Stoughton.
ISBN: 9781444942743.
11th book in The Find-Outers series.
Paperback.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Some marks to page edges (text not affected).
Reading condition.
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