 | Ginger and Snout this Book is About - Constance Ripman, illustrated by Eva Ash
Condition Good Plus
Published by Franklyn Ward & Wheeler, Leicester
Undated circa 1930s
A girl and her piglet with stylishly graphic illustrations in colour.
24pp with printed board covers.
# 22418
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Price: £15.00 / $22.50
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|  | Pickaninny - written and illustrated by Maben
Condition Good Plus
Published by The Sylvan Press, London
Undated circa 1940s
The story of Pickaninny and a whole family of turtles, their escapades and adventures.
Nineteen full page graphic and colourful lithographic illustrations plus the title. Unpaginated
Scarce item
# 21689
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Price: £65.00 / $97.50
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|  | The Infants Magazine 1877
Condition Good plus
Volume XII January to December 1877
Published by Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, London
Making 188pp. illustrated throughout in black and white
# 21691
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Price: £25.00 / $37.50
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 | Kit Norris, Schoolgirl Pilot - C.M.Drrury
Condition Good Plus
Published by Juvenile Productions Ltd, London 1937
First edition
A good schoolgirl yarn
256pp with colour frontis plate
# 20966sC4
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Price: £28.00 / $42.00
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|  | Six-Penny Toy Books, A Pretty Book for a Good Little Child
Condition Good
Published by The Religious Tract Society, London
Undated but with an inscription which reads "Miss Alice Leighton with Aunt Warburtons best love, January 1st 1876
12pp making six linen backed spreads comprising full page colour illustration and a page of text.
The cloth backed edition originally selling at one shilling.
#17485sC13
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Price: £34.00 / $51.00
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|  | The Oxford Nursey Rhyme Book - assembled by Iona and Peter Opie
Condition Very Good
Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1967
Gathered here are 800 rhymes and ditties with which generations of mothers and nurses have attempted to please the youngest and have usually succeeded.
xi, 224pp illustrated by Joan Hassall
# 18810sC13
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Price: £9.00 / $13.50
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 | The Lore and language of Schoolchildren - Iona and Peter Opie
Condition Very Good
Published by Oxford University Press, London 1976
ISBN 0198272065
xviii, 417pp
# 18800sC13
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|  | Children's Games in Street and Playground - Iona and Peter Opie
Condition Very Good
Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1970
Chasing, Catching, Seeking, Hunting, Racing, Duelling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, Pretending.
xxvi, 371pp with black and white plates'
# 18809sC13
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|  | Children's Books in England, five centuries of social history - F.J.Harvey Darton
Condition Very Good
Published by Cambridge at the Unversity Press, 1958
Second Edition
367pp illustrated in black and white.
# 20310s37
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Price: £8.00 / $12.00
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 | Born to Run, the many lives of one incredible dog - Michael Morpurgo
Condition Very Good
Published by HarperCollins Childrens Books, London 2007
Signed by the author
ISBN 9780007230570
The story of an innocent animal and the people - both good and bad, both young and old - who shape the course of his life.
240 illustrated by Michael Foreman
# 19932s52
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Price: £18.00 / $27.00
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|  | Stories from the Arabian Nights in the words of Laurence Housman, illustrated by Edmund Dulac
Condition Good
Dustjacket Fair
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London circa 1920s
222pp with 12 full page colour plates by Edmund Dulac
# 18651s97
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Price: £40.00 / $60.00
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|  | The Dragon of Kinabalu - Owen Rutter, illustrated by Mary Penrose-Thackwell
Condition Very Good
Published by Clement Ingleby, London, circa mid 1920s
The Dragon of Kinabalu and thirteen other stories as gathered by the author from the people of North Borneo.
xv, 124pp with eight tipped on colour plates from illustrations by Mary Penrose-Thackwell.
# 18694s53
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 | Bookano Stories No.14 - Pop up book with pictures that spring up in model form
Condition Good
Published by Strand Publications, London
Undated circa late 1940s.
Content includes 17 stories, 7 verses, 5 pop up spreads entitled, Castle Revelation, The Sphinx and the Pyramids, At the Fair, A Hunting we will go and Christmas Eve.
# 17253s26
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Price: £48.00 / $72.00
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|  | Grant of the Secret Service in Operation Ormer - Ronald Seth
Condition Very Good
Dustjacket Good
Published by Geoffrey Bles, London 1956
192pp
Although the Nazis occupied the Channel Islands during the war, 1945 saw the last of them - or did it? A book about the Secret Service for boys.
# 18509
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Price: £12.00 / $18.00
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|  | Facing Death or The Hero of the Vaughan Pit, a tale of the Coal Mines - G.A.Henty
Condition Good Plus
Published by Blackie, London
Undated but an inscription to the front end paper dated 1897 makes it an early impression.
304pp plus publishers list
Illustrated with black and white plates.
Henty described this title as his favourite work, probably because of his and his fathers association with mining. He said it sold more copies than any other of his works.
# 18497
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Price: £35.00 / $52.50
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 | The Tiger of Mysore - G.A.Henty
Condition Good
First edition 1896
Published by Blackie, London
379pp with black and white plates.
# 18498
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Price: £35.00 / $52.50
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|  | Basil Woollcombe, Midshipman - Arthur Lee Knight
Condition Good
Published by W.& R.Chambers, London
283pp + publishers list, illustrated in black and white
Inscription dated 1911 to front end paper.
# 18502
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Price: £16.00 / $24.00
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|  | Mirror Grange, the book of the 'Daily Mirror's' House for Pip, Squeak and Wilfred
Maxwell Ayrton FRIBA, joint architect of the Wembley Exhibition, designer of the Stadium and bridge across the Thames at Richmond is the author of the model manor house in which its famous trio of philosophers, satirists, comic spirits and entertainers, Pip Squeak and Wilfred (and satellites) may move and have their being.
Published by The Daily Mirror, London, undated circa late 20s.
Unpaginated, illustrated in monotone with colour frontis.
# 18347
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Price: £30.00 / $45.00
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 | 16163 - The Cadghill Manor Mystery - Wallace Nichols
Condition Very Good
Dustjacket Good Plus
Illustrated by Eric Mudge-Marriott
Published by Dennis Dobson, London
First edition 1961
205pp
Price: £18.00 / $27.00
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|  | 16167 - Prefects at Springdale - Dorita F.Bruce
Condition Good Plus
Dustjacket Good Plus
Published by Geoffrey Cumberlege OUP
Reprint 1948
288pp.
Price: £28.00 / $42.00
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