1.
A Harbour Light
By
C. E. Mallandaine
Illustrator
W. H. Overend.
Circa 1900, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
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.
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3.
A Saint George of King Charles' Days
By
Dorothea Townshend
Illustrator
W. S. Stacey.
Circa 1906, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Grey pictorial covers, brown lettering.
Grey patterned endpapers.
Covers owrn and scuffed.
Corners and spine ends bumped.
Gift dedication on front endpaper.
Inner hinge cracked and repaired with tape.
Reading condition.
4.
Adventures of Marshall Vavasour
By
S. W. Saddler
1st edition, circa 1928, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
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.
5.
Afterthought House
By
Evelyn Everett-Green
Illustrator
W. H. Overend.
Circa 1900, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Blue pictorial boards with gilt lettering.
Patterned endpapers.
Slight wear to edges of covers.
Some spotting to prelims.
Prize label on front pastedown.
Very good condition.
6.
By Heather and Sea
By
E. Vaughan
Illustrator
Claude Shepperson.
Circa 1895, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Pale blue pictorial covers, gilt lettering on spine, bevilled boards.
Patterned endpapers, prize dedication written in ink on front paste down.
Eight pages of adverts at rear of book.
Very good condition.
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10.
Guy's Ordeal
By
Helen Elrington
Circa 1910, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Decorated endpapers.
Stamp on title page.
Some fingermarking.
Good condition.
11.
Herbert Clutterbuck
By
Arthur Canon
Circa 1890, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
"A tale of opening manhood".
Green pictorial covers, gilt lettering.
Endpapers renewed.
Very good condition.
12.
Heroine or?
By
Isabella B. Looker
Illustrator
Harold Piffard.
1st edition, 1908, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Cream pictorial boards with brown lettering.
Patterned endpapers.
Covers heavily soiled, corners bumped.
Three of four colour plates present.
Name neatly written on front endpaper.
Contents clean and unmarked.
Reading condition.
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14.
Jackanapes
By
Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
Illustrator
Randolph Caldecott.
Reprint, circa 1900, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Tan paper covered pictorial boards with blue cloth spine.
Covers heavily worn.
Inner hinges cracked.
Contents close to VG.
Reading condition.
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16.
Jackanapes
By
Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
Illustrator
Randolph Caldecott.
Reprint, circa 1916, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Tan paper covered pictorial boards with blue cloth spine.
Covers heavily worn.
Inner hinge repaired with clear tape.
Dedication on front endpaper.
Contents shaken.
Reading condition.
17.
Jackanapes
By
Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
Illustrator
Randolph Caldecott.
Reprint, circa 1909, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Octavo.
Cream pictorial paper-covered boards.
Blue cloth spine.
Black lettering on covers.
47 pages.
Covers soiled with age and a little worn, otherwise in good shape.
Two ownership names on front endpaper.
Some fingermarking in text.
Good condition.
18.
Jerry and his Dog
By
Beech Wood
Illustrator
W. H. Overend.
Reprint, 1915, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Brown, decorated boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Three black and white plates.
Covers scuffed and a little marked.
Front endpaper missing.
Moderate fingermarking.
Reading condition.
19.
Kitty
By
Adela Frances Mount
Illustrator
W. S. Stacey.
Reprint, circa 1908, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Blue pictorial covers.
Three wormholes in prelims.
Three black and white plates.
Illustrated chapter headings.
Sixteen pages of adverts at back of book.
Good condition.
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