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63pp. 'I can read it all by myself' Beginner Books. This charming story about what the bears got up to on their holidays, is aimed at children around 6 - 7 years old. This is the first UK edition of this popular series of children's books.

Excellent copy of this timeless "Boys' Adventure"Used, good. No DJ. Boards grubbied, spine faded, prize-winner bookplate on front pastedown. Binding a little loose at front only. Internally clean.

First edition, first printing Billy Bunter with Original red cloth boards.
Photocopy DJ is very well fitted and covered in protective poly cover.
Frontispiece "Coker, his eyes and nose and mouth full of jam, spluttered horribly"
Illustrated by R. J. MacDonald.
240pp
Used, very good. Photocopy DJ has copied the grubbiness and wear of the original. Boards have a few fingerprint marks. Internally very lean. Binding very good.

Illustrated by D. G. Valentine. Being the narrative of his adventures on a tropic shore with the whale Blowhard. With maps on front and back pastedowns. Original dust jacket and blue cloth boards with white lettering to spine. Collectible children's book. First edition.

Very rare copy of this popular boys' story. Undated, but school prize plate dated 1893 (8 years after 1st publication). Pictorial cloth boards with gilt title band to front board. Pictorial design to spine. Floral design to pastedowns. Frontispiece. 392pp + several pages of ads. CONDITION: boards worn and grubby (particularly back and spine). Dusting to edges. School gift plate to front pastedown, with corresponding making on ffep. Light tanning and foxing to prelims. Occasional age marks internally but text block mostly clean.

Undated but probably c. 1920. Original red boards with design and lettering in black on front cover and spine. 310pp + ads. Illustrated with b/w plates by MIP.

Very rare, early edition of a charming children's book. Adventure, readership age 10 - 16yrs. Red cloth pictorial boards and spine. All edges gilt. 240pp.

Undated - c. 1925. Pictorial cloth boards with illustrations in green, blue, beige, black to front and spine. Lettering black. Author's copyright edition. Colour frontispiece 'The Sea began to Spread over The Country'. 264 pp + ads.

With illustrations by Harry Furniss. Class children's adventure, aimed at 10yrs plus (then). 8vo. 248pp. Embossed presentation edition. Pictorial red cloth boards with gilt and black inlay illustration (Gamble brushing down the salmon) and text to front and spine. Gilt edged. Frontispiece 'Gamble, King of Wales'.

Collectable children's adventure story from the early Twentieth Century. Original blue pictorial boards.

First edition. CONDITION: unread. Very slight crease to bottom front edge of DJ and light edge wear to DJ and page edges. No inscriptions.

Excellent copy of this popular children's book. First edition - ideal gift that will increase in value over time. CONDIITON: Used, near fine. Unread, very slight beginnings of tanning to internal pages, no inscriptions, DJ has v. slight shelf wear. DJ not price clipped.

Excellent copy of this extremely popular book. This in book 5 of a series of 7. First edition. CONDITION: Unread, very slight beginnings of tanning to internal pages, no inscriptions, DJ has v. slight shelf wear. DJ not price clipped.

First UK edition. Illustrated by Jim McMullan. Size 23 x 17cm. 66pp. Collectible children's book about a cat who finds its perfect home. Aimed at 8 - 9 year olds, to read themselves.

Lovely bright copy of this charming nineteenth-century children's book. Illustrated throughout with b/w line drawings in the typical Victorian style.

Collectable children's arctic adventure. original blue pictorial boards.

From the silent, mysterious Arctic, the wild geese come every winter to the Fenland farms and marshes which 'BB' knows so intimately and describes so vividly. Leading the great arrowhead comes Manka, the white goose. The mystery and wonder of Manka's life is felt not only in the text, but in the author's delicate woodcuts. It is a book which will appeal to lovers of nature and the countryside, of any age.

First edition. Brown cloth boards with pictorial inlay. Frontispiece. Colour plate illustrations throughout. 92pp. Size 16 x 13 x 1 cm. CONDITION: Very light wear to boards; discolouration to prelims; a few very slight marks internally but mostly very clean and bright. Some loosening of binding towards the back. In poly cover. Very bright, clean copy.

'and from Hastings to the War of the Sudan'
Antiquarian book aimed at older children of the 1800s.
Blue boards decorated in red with gold text to front and spine.
Fair. Rubbing and bumping to outside boards and spine. Inner fly pages completely detached (still present) frayed at the edges and tanned. spine very loose. Frontispiece 'Almeida' present. 294 pages present. Some end pages missing, including text. Presentation plate on front pastedown, dated 1907.

Collectible Victorian children's fiction. Original heavy, very pictorial boards with gilt to title band on spine. Prelims with daisy design. Pages of ads front and back. Frontispiece: Tournois admiring Marthe and Fanchette. (H. Petherick, 1882). New edition. Shaw's Gift Series.