21.
Phantom Island
By
Rowland Walker
Circa 1930, Ward Lock.
Light brown cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Dustwrapper worn at edges and price-clipped.
Book itself close to VG.
Good condition with dust-wrapper.
22.
Scottish Stories
By
John L. Foster
1st edition, 1978, Ward Lock.
ISBN: 0706237730.
Octavo.
Black cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Prelims a little messy where labels removed.
Generally VG in other respects.
Good condition with dust-wrapper, ex-library.
23.
Spy Stories
By
John Foster
1st edition, 1979, Ward Lock.
ISBN: 0706238923.
Red boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Light wear to covers and dustwrapper.
Label removed from front endpaper.
Contents VG.
Good condition with dust-wrapper, ex-library.
24.
25.
Tenpin Bowling
By
Henry Harrison
1st edition, 1988, Ward Lock.
ISBN: 070636659X.
Paperback.
'Play The Game' series.
Slight wear to covers.
Good condition, ex-library.
26.
The After-You Story Book
Circa 1923, Ward Lock.
Quarto.
Glazed pictorial boards with red cloth spine.
Pictorial endpapers by W. Heath Robinson.
Contributors include Thomas Maybank, Fay Inchfawn and Jessie Pope.
Five of six colour plates present (frontispiece missing).
Covers and spine a little worn.
Neat dedication on title page.
One or two of the black and white illustrations neatly coloured in.
Good condition.
27.
The Backwoodsmen
By
Charles G. D. Roberts
Circa 1910, Ward Lock.
Blue-green blind embossed boards with gilt lettering on spine.
Pictorial endpapers.
Slight wear to edges of covers.
Very good condition.
28.
The best of chums
By
May Wynne
Reprint, circa 1938, Ward Lock.
Dark green boards, black lettering and decorations, black and white frontispiece.
Worn at edges of spine.
Good condition.
29.
The Cloister and the Hearth
By
Charles Reade
Reprint, circa 1940, Ward Lock.
Grey boards with black lettering and decoration.
Pictorial dustwrapper.
Dustwrapper worn at edges.
Some foxing to foredge.
Good condition with dust-wrapper.
30.
The Fortunes of Prue
By
Bessie Marchant
Circa 1932, Ward Lock.
Red boards with black lettering and decoration.
Spine faded.
A few marks to covers.
Prize label on front endpaper.
Spotting to fore edge.
Contents VG.
Good condition.
31.
The Fortunes of Prue
By
Bessie Marchant
Reprint, circa 1949, Ward Lock.
Green boards with black lettering.
Dustwrapper heavily worn.
3cm loss at lower edge of dustwrapper spine and front panel.
8cm loss to lower half of dustwrapper back panel.
Name blocked out on half title.
Good condition.
32.
33.
34.
The House of Whispers
By
May Wynne
Reprint, circa 1928, Ward Lock.
Red cloth covers.
Overall decorative pattern in brown, lettering in brown.
Coloured frontispiece.
Very good condition.
35.
The House of Whispers
By
May Wynne
1st edition, 1959, Ward Lock.
Blue cloth-covered boards.
Silver lettering and decoration on covers.
184 pages.
Black and white frontispiece.
Spine faded.
Page edges foxed.
Pages tanned.
Good condition.
36.
The Kidnappers
By
Peter Blundell
1927, Ward Lock.
Octavo.
Grey pictorial cloth-covered boards.
Red lettering on covers.
Black lettering on spine.
256 pages.
Four b/w plates, artist not credited.
Light wear to covers.
Prize label on front endpaper.
Spotting on fore edge.
Contents clear.
Good condition.
38.
The Rajah of Monkey Island
By
Arthur Lee Knight
Illustrator
W. S. Stacey.
Reprint, circa 1900, Ward Lock.
Maroon pictorial cloth-covered boards.
Red lettering on covers.
Black endpapers.
Covers worn at edges and somewhat faded.
Front inner hinge cracked wide.
Bainding strained.
Contents shaken.
Reading condition.
39.
The Secret of Brick House
By
May Wynne
1st edition, 1937, Ward Lock.
Blue boards with dark blue lettering and decoration.
Spine strip faded, with some damge to top 5cm.
VG in other respects.
Good condition.
40.
The Water Babies
By
Charles Kingsley
Illustrator
Harry G. Theaker.
Circa 1949, Ward Lock.
Printed to Wartime Economy Standard.
Colour frontispiece, no other illustrations.
Undated; prize label on front pastedown dated 1949.
Slight wear to corners of covers.
Good condition.