Children's Fiction from Eric James

London , United Kingdom: Puffin Books, 1985. Mass market paperback, unpaginated, but 300 numbered clues or options, illustrated by drawings; tiny price sticker on front cover, top edge age toned, but very clean and unmarked unread condition, gift quality (I would blush to call a now 36-year old book as new). … Read more

London: Puffin Books, 1985. Mass market paperback, second (1985) printing, unpaginated, but 350 numbered clues or options, illustrated by drawings; tiny price sticker on front cover, top edge age toned, but very clean and unmarked unread condition, gift quality (I would blush to call a now 36-year old book as new). See… Read more

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. Oversized glossy durable pictorial hardcover with matching pictorial unclipped dust jacket, 93 pages including many full colour illustrations throughout, some full page; very gently used, tight in binding, hardly a trace of shelf wear, name/date in ink… Read more

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons Hardcover without dust jacket, undated (c1930s), iv + 276 pages including black-and-white illustrations; gently used, light to moderate wear to cover edges, corners and spine ends, tight in binding but light cracks starting between some pages, free front endpaper removed, all pages age toned… Read more

London: Collins, 1965. Pictorial hardcover without dust jacket, "This impression 1970", 124 pages including drawings; book very gently used, tight in binding, only tiny traces of shelf wear to spine ends and cover tips, gift inscription in ink on free front endpaper, all pages age toned as usual, foxing spots to fore edge, all four… Read more

London: Collins, 1961. Hardcover without dust jacket, "This impression 1970", 192 pages including drawings; book very gently used, tight in binding, only tiny traces of shelf wear to spine ends and cover tips, gift inscription in ink on free front endpaper, all pages age toned as usual, foxing spots to fore edge, all four… Read more

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1951. Pictorial hardcover without dust jacket, 212 pages; very gently used ex-school library copy, tight in binding, shelf wear to cover corners and spine ends, covers clean except for an old price sticker and the library spine label, rubber stamp on… Read more

London: Oxford University Press, 1928. Hardcover without dust jacket, 190 pages including full page black-and-white illustrations, plus a full colour frontispiece illustration; orange cloth covers with embossed lettering and decorative pictorial to front cover and spine plus grey lettering and a smaller embossed pictotial to spine, very gently used, tight in binding, only tiny traces… Read more

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. Oversized paperback, 96 pages including Macaulay's quirky black-and-white illustrations throughout; light rubbing to exterior, spine and back cover flat/uncreased, vertical crease down centre of front cover, very tiny ink name inside front cover, otherwise very clean and unmarked. . First… Read more

New York: Scholastic Paperbacks, 1995. Oversized pictorial paperback, 154 pages, beautifully illustrated thoughout in full colour; very gently read, very clean and unmarked throughout, pages fresh and white.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. Hardcover without dust jacket, vi + 207 pages, plus "twelve full-page illustrations in colour---" (of which only eight are present, and one of them is torn across, but all bright and colourful); covers rubbed, moderate shelf wear to all edges, traces of faded old staining, but tight in binding… Read more

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: John C. Winston, 1942. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket, 229 pages including "---with over one hundred black-and-white sketches [some full page] that completely catch the charm and enchantment of the story", plus a full page full colour frontpiece; attractive book in forest green with a yellow stamped front cover illustration and… Read more

Los Angeles: Lowell House Juvenile, 1997. Scary pictorial paperback, 120 pages including full page black-and-white illustrations; rubber stamped puppy dog inside front cover, but very gently read, if at all, very clean and unmarked throughout. See also our listing for Scary Sea… Read more

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Raincoast Books, 1994. Glossy square pictorial hardcover with sturdy metal spiral binding, unpaginated, but probably 26 colourfully illustrated split pages; gentle bumps to cover corners and spine ends, otherwise very gently used, very clean and unmarked throughout. For more alphabet… Read more

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1960. Pictorial hardcover without dust jacket, clearly a later printing with ISBN (so c1970 or later), 182 pages including drawings; very gently used, tight in binding, only tiny traces of shelf wear to cover edges, exceptionally clean and unmarked throughout, interior essentially as new. . Hard Cover. Very Good ++.

Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1994. Trade paperback, xvii + 455 pages; very gently used, hardly a trace of shelf wear, one spine crease although book still tight in binding, gift inscription on title page, the vast majority of pages are very clean and unmarked, BUT there are ink marks in the margins and underlinings and annotations on… Read more

New York: Scholastic, 1976. Mass market paperback, 171 pages; tiny creases to cover corners, four lines of arithmetic on last blank page, otherwise very clean and unmarked. See also our listing for 50 Great Horror Stories, Edited by John Canning.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.… Read more

London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing Children's Books, 2003. Trade paperback Uncorrected Proof Copy, 371 pages; very clean and unmarked unread condition. . . Soft Cover. Fine. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing, 1961. Pictorial hardcover without dust jacket, 186 pages including full-page illustrations; gently used, tight in binding, only very light shelf wear to cover corners, writing by child on fore edge and three of last non-text pages, single ink initials in outer margin of approximately 26 pages (all… Read more

New York: Doubleday, 1963. Pictorial hardcover without dust jacket, 176 pages including full page illustrations; light shelf wear to cover edges, corners bumped, otherwise gently used, tight in binding, very clean and unmarked throughout.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.