Retro, rare and collectible childrens books. Children's fiction authors Holly Beth Walker, Helen Wells, Paul White and others. Authors S-Z.
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A rhyming anti-war story about arms races and mutually assured destruction by nuclear war.
ISBN0394865804
A. S. Geisel, illustrated
VG- hardback with no dust jacket.
Some wear to spine ends, name to dedication page.
$20 B/B
Collins 1984 first edition, approx 48pp.
[#4061 ]
First British edition of this crazy illustrated story.
ISBN 0001953516
Theodore Geisel, Collectable Modern First Edition
VG hardback with no dust jacket, a clean copy.
$45 B/C
Collins 1969 first UK edition.
[#5116 ]
First printing in this British edition of this classic illustrated Dr Seuss tale.
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with a few edge tears and light handling soiling
$55 B/C
Collins 1962. [#2718]
Very colourful story of a maori boy's quest to win the Kite Competition.
ISBN0722654502
new zealand, illustrated, children's fiction, maori
VG hardback in VG dustjacket
$25 B/B
Kestrel Books / Penguin 1975 first edition, 25pp.
[#4189 ]
G+ inscription to fep and half title, minor rubbing to boards and corners, split at head of lower joint.
$8 C/B [BGO 87]
Sampson Low nd decorative boards hardcover, 192pp.
Self published children's book with New Zealand setting and a cast of animal characters.
Has colour illustrations throughout the text.
childrens fiction, animals
VG softback
$10 B/A
J A Tasman 2007, 55pp
[#4237 ]
VG name light foxing prelims, light wear boards, soiled closed edges
$6 C/B [BGO 92]
World Distributors 1960 hardcover, 184pp.
VG VG minor wear to ends of some DW spines.
$20 each C/D [ILL 9]
Time-Life Books vd vp decorated leatherette boards, 4to, DWs under plastic sleeves, c 150pp each, well illustrated in colour throughout, myths and legends told as stories.
Facsimile of the 1899 original which collected children's stories from 1770 to the 1820s.
ISBN0238789381
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket. Jacket has been trimmed to vertical edges of the fold in flaps, and has some adhesive residue from old plastic sleeve. Ex-library with stamps and cancellation. Tape residue to covers.
$10 C/C
Evelyn Adams and Mackay Ltd. Undated but library accession has (19)70. 439pp.
[#3292 ]
G cloth bubbling, worn at edges, pencil name and prize plate to fep, some soiling to pages.
$10 C/C [BGO 148]
Religious Tract Society nd (prize plate dated 1911) pictorial cloth, 255pp + 16pp adverts. Illustrated by Victor Prout. by the author of the Pixie O'Shaughnessy books.
G rubbed spine ends, name and stamp to fep and half title
$5 B/B [BGO 17]
Whitman / Western Publishing 1970 first edition pictorial hardcover, 136pp
VG dusty top edge
$5 B/B [BGO 18]
Whitman / Western Publishing 1967 first edition pictorial hardcover, 136pp
G lightly soiled boards, small ink spot lower board
$5 B/B [BGO 93]
Hulton Press 1958 first edition hardcover, 131pp. Illustrated by Daphne Rowles.
Stories about Charity 'Cherry' Ames, a mystery-solving, nurse from Illinois, featured in a series of twenty-seven mystery novels with medical settings.
Stories about Charity 'Cherry' Ames, a mystery-solving, nurse from Illinois, featured in a series of twenty-seven mystery novels with medical settings.
UK issue
young adult, girl's fiction
VG hardback with no dust jacket, name to free end paper
$8 C/B
World Distributors 1964 first edition, 183pp.
[#4826 ]
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket, rubbed with chips to spine ends at folds, torn along fore edge folds at corners, unclipped, inscription to fep.
$8 C/B
World Distributors 1960 hardcover, 185pp.[#BGO 69 ]
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket, chipped to bottom edge of front panel, minor chips spine ends, short tear top edge down through the 'm' of 'Ames', unclipped.
$8 C/B
World Distributors 1967 hardcover, 185pp.[#BGO 70 ]
VG hardback with no dust jacket, some minor foxing
$8 C/B
World Distributors 1965 first edition hardcover, 176pp.[#BGO 71 ]
G+ hardback with G+ dust jacket complete but some short tears and chipping, name blacked out to fep, old price to 1/2 title.
$8 C/B
World Distributors 1959 reprint hardcover 185pp.[# 63 childrens fiction]
Jacket spine has 14, being it's number in the Sovereign Series of uniform books by the publisher.
keywords
VG hardback with VG- dust jacket, price clipped with chipped edges, name to first page, booksellers rubber stamp to foot of title.
$8 C/B
Ward Lock undated (1950s) hardcover, 253pp + colour frontis and adverts.
[#4795 ]
The Ingalls family are upping sticks from Minnesota and heading West for Silver Lake.
With illustrations by Garth Williams.
ISBN 9780140303032
A Little House Book.
american pioneers, Little House on the Prairie, young adult fiction
VG paperback
$6 A/A
Puffin (1967 edition but recent reprint), 220pp.
[PB1700 ]
By the author of Masquerade, an illustrated riddle book with full and double page art throughout in colour, with the title of the book hidden in clues in the text.
ISBN 0224019066
puzzle, quest, illustrated
VG+ hardback with pictorial boards, spine sunned to backstrip only.
$20 B/B
Cape 1984 first edition.
[#5408 ]