Search Results: ENGLISH from Windy Hill Books

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1943 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. 230 pages, orange boards. Five children attempt to build a cabin while adventures are occuring each ending in disaster. Previous owners ink inscription. VERY GOOD in moderately worn dustjacket..

NY: HarperCollins, 1991 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FINE in a FINE DUSTJACKET. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 231 pgs, boards. Novel that is both a poignant love story & a meditation on the city of London. The protagonist is an architect..

London: Kestrel, 1983 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FINE in a Near Fine dustjacket. FIRST EDITION. 191 pages, boards. Young Dan is alone among thieves and struggles to find the family that he dreams about..

Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. NY: William Morrow, (1975) FIRST AMERICAN EDITION 1977. 287 pages, boards. Abosrbing first novel for young adults portrays two English school girls who, though close friends, are a study in contrasts. FINE in moderately soiled dustjacket..

NY: Atheneum, 1979 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FINE in a Very Good+, clipped dust jacket. . FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 64 pages, boards. Wear to dj at upper spine edge and light crease to dj on front cover. Two children visit the seaside at the turn of the century. Illustrated in full color without text..

NY: Harcourt Brace & World, 1964. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 156 pages, cloth. Companion to STRANGER AT GREEN KNOWE which won Carnegie Medal. Tolly, Ping & Mrs. Oldknow must deal with a witch pretending to be a scholar. Some soil spots, spot on cover. VERY GOOD in chipped & soiled dustjacket..

NY: Lippincott, 1989 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. FINE in dustjacket with closed tear. 248 pages, boards. Three children escape the island of Molybdos and set off on a quest to face the Living God and fulfill an ancient prophesy that will save their Fortunate Isles from destruction..

NY: E.P. Dutton Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Probable First Edition. Hard Cover. Circa 1933. VERY GOOD+ in a lightly chipped & somewhat darkened dust jacket. 79 pages, pictorial boards. The heroes & heroines of history in verse & 38 color plates from Alexander the Great to Emmeline Pankhurst! There is no text on dust jacket flaps, old bookstore label for the Daniels & Fisher Book Shop (Denver) on the rear paste down..

London: Collins, 1951 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Third Impression. Hard Cover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Text block of book is a bit age toned. A group of children find an old croft in the wild hills of West Scotland & fix it as a home for themselves..

NY: Philomel, 1981 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. NEAR FINE in lightly worn dustjacket. 116 pages, cloth. Five spellbinding tales from ancient Gaelic folklore masterfully retold by this Carnegie Medal Winner. Small name sticker & ink stamp front endpaper..

Kingswood: Kaye & Ward, (1984) Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. FINE in FINE dustjacket. Illustrated by Gareth Floyd. 95 pages, boards. A short but substantial book told from many points of vision that involve a man & his grandson who are the sole inhabitants of a fishing village almost entirely washed away by the sea & whose home is looted in their absence by two young boys..

NY: Atheneum, 1982. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Illustrated by author. Hard Cover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Unpaged, boards. Paddy sets sail on an ocean liner. Endpaper shows rumpling else FINE in FINE dustjacket..

Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1983 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FINE in a Near Fine dustjacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Top edge of book and interior edges of dj lightly soiled. 137 pages, boards. Account of how young Mall Percival's village of Eyam struggles against the plague which was brought to Eyam in a parcel of patterns..

London: Oxford Univ Press, 1976 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ Dustjacket. FIRST EDITION. 182 pages, boards. Two stories about the pangs & pleasures of childhood set in Tynesdie in the 1920's & based on the author's own early experiences..

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1993 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FINE in a Fine dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. 147 pages, boards. Story set in London in the 1860's about a runaway boy who is separated from his sisters & sentenced to the workhouse. This gripping novel is loosely based on the true story of the orphan Jim Jarvis who inspired Dr. Barnardo to establish his famous children's refuge. Author is Carnegie Medal winner..

London: Walker Books, 1987 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. First Edition. 186 pages, boards. Text block a bit age toned, (yellowed) else fine. Tiger Malik is the Railway Superintendent of Bessar District in Eastern Europe & he has a hobby of stealing the railway engines of neighboring countries..

NY: Random House, 1965 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Illustrated by author. Hard Cover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ Dustjacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 41 pgs, pictorial boards. A little mouse wants to learn to play the balalaika & so, travels with a gypsy to study. Set in Central Europe and wonderfully illustrated in full color..

Boston: Candlewick Press, 1998 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Illustrated by author. Hard Cover. NEAR FINE in a Near Fine Dustjacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 25 pages, pictorial boards. Willy's dreams capture a host of quintessential childhood fantasies in brilliant color & with wonderful wit. Spine of book slanted, else fine..

London: Jonathan Cape, 1982 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. First Edition. 144 pages, boards. Story of a mystery surrounding a tribe of fairground people & their search for winter quarters & a new chief. Dj lightly edgeworn..