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A New Year's Tale
By
M. A. Currie
Circa 1910, Blackie and Son.
Blue cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
White decoration on covers.
12cm x 17cm.
Colour frontispiece by H. M. Brock.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Boards slightly soiled.
Spine strip darkened.
Sunday school prize-label on front pastedown.
Pages evenly tanned.
Good condition.
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Christabel
By
Mrs Albert G. Latham
Illustrator
Paul Hardy.
1909, Blackie and Son.
Green pictorial boards with gilt lettering.
32 pages of adverts at back of book.
Covers worn and scuffed.
Front endpaper, half title and frontispiece missing.
Remaining prelims a little messy.
Two out of four plates present.
Intermittent scribble to contents.
Reading condition.
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Exploration To-day
By
B. Webster Smith
Circa 1947, Blackie and Son.
Blue covers, white lettering.
With maps and ten photo illustrations.
Dustwrapper price clipped, repaired at top of spine.
Prize label on front endpaper.
Good condition with dust-wrapper.
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Good Company
Circa 1935, Blackie and Son.
Pictorial paper-covered boards with green cloth spine.
Covers edgeworn.
Spine faded.
Contents VG.
Good condition.
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Jack Frere of the Paratroops
By
Major J. T. Gorman
Circa 1958, Blackie and Son.
Yellow cloth-covered boards.
Black decoration on covers.
Light wear to edges of dustrapper.
Minor wear to covers.
Neat gift dedication on half-title.
Pages tanned.
Good condition with dust-wrapper.
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Kitty Quick
By
L. E. Tiddeman
Reprint, circa 1930, Blackie and Son.
Yellow covers, black lettering.
Frontispiece by Elizabeth Earnshaw.
Dustwrapper heavily worn and repaired.
Covers badly discoloured.
Book has been badly affected by damp.
Worm hole in top of pages 122 - 126.
Reading condition with dust-wrapper.
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Masterman Ready
By
Captain Marryat
Circa 1940, Blackie and Son.
War economy edition.
Writing on front endpaper.
Dustwrapper badly chipped, price-clipped
3 cm. loss at base of spine strip.
Covers clean, but corners bowed.
Contents clean and unmarked.
Good condition with dust-wrapper.
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Miss Honor's Form
By
E. C. Matthews
Illustrator
H. L. Bacon.
Circa 1910, Blackie and Son.
Octavo.
Orange cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering and decoration on covers.
Back edge of spine strip cracked, and neatly taped.
Covers worn and marked.
Good in other respects.
Contents generally clean.
Reading condition.
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Mole Hole
By
Peter Dickinson
Illustrator
Jean Claverie.
1st edition, 1987, Blackie and Son.
ISBN: 0216914701.
Quarto.
Pictorial laminated boards.
An interactive story, about a man with a mole in his lawn.
"Turn the wheel [...] ant watch the trap appear in the hole."
Wheel slightly worn, but functional.
Very good condition.
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South Seas Of Peril
By
Peter Wickloe
Reprint, circa 1948, Blackie and Son.
Orange covers, red lettering.
Dustwrapper has some closed tears, and a small triangle missing from the front.
Front and back endpapers missing.
Pages tanned.
Good condition with dust-wrapper.
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The Fortunes of Philippa
By
Angela Brazil
Reprint, circa 1960, Blackie and Son.
Octavo.
Brown cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
208 pages.
Black and white frontispiece by John Caldwell.
Covers very slightly bowed.
Prelims. and fore edge spotted, contents clear.
Good condition.
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The Girl's Story Book
1949, Blackie and Son.
Pictorial paper-covered boards with green cloth spine.
190 pages.
Covers a little edgeworn.
Gift dedication on front pastedown.
All plates present.
Pages 7/8 and 9/10 detached but present.
Good condition.
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The Golden Picture Story Book - Stories and Pictures for Little Folk
Circa 1920, Blackie and Son.
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.
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The Hidden House
By
Dorothy Russell
Illustrator
E. Verpilleux.
Reprint, circa 1935, Blackie and Son.
Octavo.
Olive green cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
224 pages.
Linear decoration on covers.
Two black and white illustrations.
Dustwrapper edge-chipped, several closed tears.
Binding VG.
One plate edge-chipped.
Pages generally white and clean.
Very good condition with dust-wrapper.
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