Retro, rare and collectible childrens books. Children's fiction authors May Gibbs, Edith Howes, W E Johns, and others. Authors F-J.
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A young adult fantasy novel set in and around Macclesfield and Alderley Edge in Cheshire.
Contains characters from Celtic and Norse mythology, as well as the local folklore of Cheshire.
The first book in the trilogy; The Weirdstone of Brisingamen / The Moon of Gomrath / Boneland.
VG hardback in VG unclipped dust jacket with small tear along top of upper fore edge fold.
$95 C/B
Collins 1969 Evergreen Library second edition, third printing, 224pp
[#4701 ]
Illustrated by E H Shepard.
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Lacks free end paper, price clipped jacket withlight edge wear, mild chipping to spine ends and corners, faintly browned.
$15 C/B
Bodley Head 1945 reprint, 168pp.
[#5552 ]
VG+ VG- minor foxing to endpapers,lacks fep, unclipped DW with short edge tears or rubbing.
$8 C/B [BGO 89]
World Distributors 1960 hardcover, 185pp.
VG- sunned wraps $6 A/B Puffin 1976, 249pp [PB1392 ]
1950s or 1960s schoolboy detective style fiction.
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket with some rubbing and chipping.
$8 C/B
Spring Books Halcyon Library undated, 208pp + colour frontis.
[#4763 ]
Illustrated with colour plates by Stead.
Good only hardback with no dust jacket.
Sunned spine split at joint ends, corners bumped and rubbed, Salvation Army library stamps to endpapers and throughout the book, light foxing to closed edges.
$10 C/B
Brockhampton Press 1955 first edition, 188pp + plates.
[#4549 ]
A story of interplanetary flight.
By the author of Biggles
With colour plates by Stead (one creased)
young adult fiction, rare, collectable, scifi
VG hardback in a G dust jacket.
Name to free end paper, tape scar to paste down, tape residue to rear paste down, light sunning to edges of boards.
Bottom quarter of dust jacket spine missing, front fold in flap detached, top edge worn and chipped.
$30 C/B
Hodder 1954 first edition,192pp
[#4709 ]
A story of interplanetary flight.
By the author of Biggles
With colour plates by Stead.
young adult fiction, rare, collectable, scifi
G+ hardback in a G+ dust jacket.
Name and address and name stamp and newspaper clipping advert for this title taped to free end paper.
Dust jacket is complete and would be VG but has had the edges (including joints) sellotaped, this is browing and may with time be removeable.
$35 C/B
Hodder 1956 first edition,190pp.
[#4710 ]
A story of interplanetary flight.
By the author of Biggles
With colour plates by Stead.
young adult fiction, rare, collectable, scifi
VG hardback in a G dust jacket.
Name to free end paper, tape scar to paste down, tape residue to rear paste down, light sunning to edges of boards.
Name stamps to the title page.
Dust jacket is complete would be VG but has had the edges (including joints) sellotaped, this is browing and may with time be removeable, small scuffed tear to rear panel.
$20 C/B
Hodder 1956 first edition,190pp
[#4711 ]
8 short adventure stories for boys by the author of Biggles.
Illustrated by Douglas Relf
G+ hardback with no dust jacket.
School prize plate to paste down, lightly sunned spine, faint foxing.
$10 C/B
Thomas Nelson Panther Library 1955 first edition, 118pp.
[#4764 ]
G+ G+ age toned paper, light soiling and edge rubbing and chipping to unclipped DW
$10 C/B [BGO 1]
Dean & Son nd hardcover yellow papered boards, 184pp no illustrations
VG G rubbing and chipping to unclipped DW with loss to bottom quarter of spine
$10 C/B [BGO 2]
Dean & Son nd blue cloth, 184pp no illustrations
VG G+ age toned paper, light soiling and edge rubbing and chipping to unclipped DW
$10 C/B [BGO 3]
Dean & Son nd hardcover red papered boards, 184pp no illustrations
VG G+ age toned paper, light soiling and edge rubbing and chipping to unclipped DW, small area insect damage to surface of cover, bruised corners and spine ends
$10 C/B [BGO 4]
Dean & Son nd hardcover green papered boards, 184pp no illustrations
VG G+ age toned paper, light soiling and edge rubbing and chipping to unclipped DW, pen name to fep
$10 C/B [BGO 5]
Dean & Son nd hardcover red papered boards, 182pp no illustrations
VG
$10 C/B [BGO 7]
Dean & Son nd pictorial papered boards, 184pp no illustrations
Tidy paperback Biggles adventure.
ISBN 0340104325
VG paperback, top of first page clipped.
$10 A/A
Knight 1974, 158pp.
[PB1687 ]