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Updated July 19th

M.E. ALLAN

The Flash Children

d/w Brock 1st ex lib

1975

£8-00

School Under Snowdon

Hutchinson

n/d

£12-00

Black Forest Summer

d/w  Collins reprint

n/d

£8-00

An Island in a Green Sea

d/w Dent 2nd  ex lib

1974

£9-00

GILLIAN AVERY

To Tame a Sister

d/w  Collins 1st in this edition

1971

£14-00

KITTY BARNE

 

 

 

Musical Honours 

Dent 1st 

1947 

£12-00 

Rosina Copper 

Evans 3rd 

1955 

£6-00 

Rosina and Son 

d/w Evans 1st 

1956 

£10-00 

VIOLA BAYLEY

Caribbean Adventure

d/w  White Lion in this edition 

1977 

£6-00 

S.G. HULME BEAMAN

Tea For Two (Larry the Lamb)

Toy Town No1 Lapworth

n/d 

£10-00 

Dreadful Doings in Ark Street 

Toy Town No6 Lapworth

n/d 

£10-00 

ENID BLYTON

The Island of Adventure

pictorial boards  Macmillian 2nd

1948

£15-00

The Valley of Adventure

pictorial boards  Macmillian rpt

1949

£17-00

The Naughtiest Girl Again

Newnes 2nd 

1943 

£10-00 

Tales of Green Hedges

Nat Mag Co 1st 

1946 

£7-00 

More Adventures of Pip

d/w Sampson Lowe  

n/d

£10-00 

The Mystery of the Missing Man 

Methuen 2nd 

1962 

£8-00 

The mystery of the Strange Bundle

Methuen 1st 

1956 

£12-00 

The Mystery of the Strange Messages 

Methuen 1st 

1956 

£12-00 

The Ship of Adventure

pictorial boards Macmillian rpt

1954

£10-00

NANCY BREARY

The Impossible Prefect

Blackie 1st

1947

£10-00

It was fun in the Fourth

Blackie

n/d

£8-50

Junior Captain

phc d/w  Blackie

n/d

£9-00

E. BRENT DYER

The Feud in the Chalet School

phc d/w Chambers 1st 

1962

£40-00

The Princess of the Chalet School

phc d/w Chambers rpt

1955

£15-00

Chudleigh Hold

phc d/w Chambers 1st

1954

£30-00

Adrienne and the Chalet School

phc d/w Chambers 1st 

1965 

£42-00 

Challenge for the Chalet School 

phc d/w Chambers 1st 

1966 

£42-00 

The Chalet School and the Lintons

phc d/w Chambers rpt

1952

£20-00

The New House at the Chalet School

d/w Chambers rpt

1956

£25-00

The Highland Twins at the Chalet School

d/w Chambers rpt

1962

£24-00

Lavender Laughs in the Chalet School

d/w Chambers rpt

1963

£35-00

Jo to the Rescue

d/w Chambers rpt

1935

£30-00

Three go to the Chalet School

phc d/w Chambers 1st?

n/d

£28-00

Peggy of the Chalet School

Chambers 1st

1950

£25-00

Heather Leaves School

phc d/w Chambers rpt

1962

£25-00

The New Mistress at the Chalet School

phc d/w Chambers 1st

1957

£35-00

Carnation of the Upper Forth

Girls Own Paper prize

1936

£38-00

Monica Turns up Trumps

Lutterworth 2nd

1954

£25-00

Gerry goes to School

phc d/w Chambers rpt

1952

£26-00

The Lost Staircase

phc d/w Chambers 1st

1946

£27-00

PAMELA BROWN

The Windmill Family

Childrens Book Club rpt

1955

£7-00

D.F. BRUCE

Dimsie, Head Girl

d/w Ox Univ Press rpt

1949

£12-50

Dimsie moves Up 

d/w Ox Univ Press rpt  

1950

£15-00 

Nancy Returns to St Bride's 

d/w Ox Univ Press 4th 

1949 

£20-00 

Nancy Calls the Tune 

d/w Ox Univ Press 2nd 

1944

£25-00 

The New House Captain 

d/w Ox Univ Press rpt 

1952 

£15-00 

The Best House in the School 

d/w Ox Univ Press 3rd 

1951 

£16-00 

The  New House Captain

d/w Spring 

n/d

£6-50 

Dimsie Goes Back

d/w Ox Univ Press rpt

1948

£13-00

That Boarding School Girl

semi-emb boards  Ox Univ Press rpt

1936

£15-00

MARY GRANT BRUCE 

 

 

 

Mates at Billerbong 

d/w Ward lock 

n/d 

£16-00 

Billerbong's Daughter 

semi pictorial boards Ward Lock 1st 

1924 

£20-00 

Son of Billerbong 

d/w Ward Lock rpt 

1951 

£14-00 

GWENDOLINE COURTNEY

The Girls of Friar Rise

d/w Nelson 2nd

1955

£22-00

Torley Grange

Nelson

n/d

£18-00

The Chiltons

d/w Nelson 1st

1952

£24-00

MONICA EDWARDS

The Outsider

d/w Childrens Book Club 1st in this edition

1962

£15-00

The Summer of the Great Secret

Collins  1st

1942

£16-00

Cargo of Horses

d/w J.Goodchild  1st in this edition

1984

£12-50

No Entry

d/w Childrens Book Club  1st in this edition

1958

£20-00

Fire in the Punchbowl

d/w Childrens Book Club 1st in this edition

1963

£14-00

K. FIDLER

The Mysterious Mr Simister

Lutterworth 1st

1947

£9-00

More Adventures of the Brydons

d/w Lutterworth 1st

1947

£18-00

Seal Story

d/w Lutterworth 1st

1979

£6-00

CYNTHIA HARNETT

The Woolpack

d/w Methuen 3rd

1955

£14-00

David's New World

Country Life 2nd

1944

£8-50

The Writing on the Hearth

d/w Methuen  2nd

1978

£16-00

JEAN HENSON

River Detectives

d/w Faber 2nd

1958

£16-00

LORNA HILL

Marjorie and Co

Nelson Reprint

1958

£16-00

The Little Dancer

d/w Nelson 1st

1956

£22-00

The Vicarage Children

d/w Evans 1st

1961

£24-00

Principal Role

d/w Evans 1st 

1957 

£22-00 

Stolen Holiday

d/w Nelson 2nd in this edition 

1959 

£18-00

Masquerade at the Wells

d/w Evans  2nd

1960

£15-00

Dancer's Luck

d/w Nelson  2nd

1958

£15-00

GRACE JAMES

John and Mary Detectives

d/w Muller reprint

1949

£12-00

John and Mary's Secret Society

Muller 1st

1939

£16-00

John and Mary's Visitors

d/w Muller 1st

1940

£18-00

W.E.JOHNS

Biggles Flies North

d/w Oxford University Press 3rd

1947

£10-00

The Death Roads of Ardilla

d/w Childrens Book Club 1st in this edition

n/d

£16-00

Return to Mars

Childrens Book Club 1st

n/d

£6-00

Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy

d/w Childrens Book Club 1st in this edition

1961

£8-00

The Quest for the Perfect Planet

Childrens Book Club 1st in this edition

n/d

£7-00

ELISABETH KYLE

Vanishing Island

Peter Davies 2nd

1943

£8-00

Holly Hotel

Peter Davies 2nd

1951

£8-00

West Wind

d/w Nelson

1958

£8-50

JOANNA LLOYD

Jane Runs away from School

Blackie 1st

1946

£14-00

Catharine Head of House

Blackie 1st

1947

£14-00

Audrey, a New Girl

d/w Blackie 1st

1948

£16-00

KATHLEEN MACKENZIE

Pony and Trap

d/w Evans 1st

1962

£7-50

PHYLLIS MATTHEWMAN

The Amateur Prefect

Latimer House 1st

1951

£12-00

Because of Vivian

Lutterworth  1st

1947

£14-00

The Turbulence of Tony

d/w Latimer House  2nd  ex school

1952

£13-50

Amanda at the Manor

d/w Olliphants  2nd

1957

£14-50

DEREK McCULLOCH

Cornish Mystery

Sidgewick  1st

1950

£8-50

L.M.MONTGOMERY

Anne of Windy Willows

d/w Harrap 4th

1938

£8-00

Emily Climbs

Harrap 1st

1928

£16-00

Chronicles of Avonlea

d/w Harrap rpt

1945

£6-50

Mistress Pat

d/w Harrap rpt

1955

£10-00

VIOLET NEEDHAM

The Changling of Monte Lucio

Collins 1st

1946

£15-00

The Boy in Red

phc d/w Collins 1st

1948

£25-00

The Woods of Windri

d/w Collins  1st

1944

£25-00

The House of the Paladin

d/w Collins  1st

1945

£22-00

The House of the Paladin

Collins  1st

1945

£14-00

The Emerald Crown

d/w Collins  2nd

1944

£25-00

The Changling of Monte Lucio

d/w Collins  1st

1946

£25-00

The Betrayer

d/w Collins  1st

1950

£30-00

E.J.OXENHAM

A Dancer from the Abbey

d/w Collins rpt

1956

£8-50

M.PARDOE

Bunkle Breaks Away

d/w Routledge 2nd

1948

£30-00

The Far island

Routledge 2nd 

1949

£22-00

VIRGINIA PYE

The Prices Return

Faber 1st

1946

£8-50

Primrose Polly

Faber 5th

1945

£6-00

ARTHUR RANSOME

Coot Club

d/w Cape rpt

1949

£10-00

Swallowdale

d/w Cape rpt

1951

£10-00

Winter Holiday

Cape rpt

1947

£10-00

Secret Water

d/w Cape rpt

1947

£15-00

Missee Lee

d/w Cape rpt

1949

£12-50

MALCOLM SAVILLE

Seven White gates

d/w John Goodchild 1st in this edition

n/d

£8-50

Lone Pine Five

Newnes 1st

1949

£15-00

Not Scarlet but Gold

Childrens Book Club 1st

1962

£8-00

Saucers over the Moor

d/w Childrens Book Club 1st in this edition

n/d

£15-00

The Secret of the Villa Rosa

d/w Collins 1st in this edition

1971

£15-00

The Sign of the Alpine Rose

Lutterworth 1st

1950

£17-50

The Secret of Grey Walls

d/w John Goodchild 1st in this edition

1973

£6-00

A. DE SELINCOURT

One Good Tern

d/w Routledge 2nd

1943

£12-00

Calicut Lends a Hand

Routledge 1st

1946

£10-00

DAVID SEVERN

Ponies and Poachers

d/w Bodley Head 1st

1947

£12-50

Hermit in the Hills 

d/w Bodley Head 1st 

1945 

£14-00 

The Future Took Us 

d/w Childrens Book Club 1st 

n/d 

£6-50

JANE SHAW

Susan at School

Collins this impression

1968

£7-00

Fourpenny Fair

Nelson 1st

1955

£10-00

Crook's Tour

d/w Collins Childrens Press 1st

1962

£5-00

No Trouble for Susan

d/w Collins  1st in this edition

1966

£12-00

The Tall Man 

Nelson 1st 

1960 

£7-50

NOEL STREATFIELD

The Growing Summer

Collins 1st

1960

£10-00

Ballet Shoes for Anna

d/w Collins 1st

1972

£14-00

The Vicarage Family

d/w Collins 1st

1967

£16-00

The Circus is Coming

Dent 2nd

1939

£12-50

The House in Cornwall

d/w Dent 1st in this edition

1968

£10-00

The Bell Family

d/w Collins 1st

1954

£18-00

When the Siren Wailed 

d/w Collins 1st 

1974 

£18-00

Caldicott Place 

d/w Collins  2nd

1968 

£14-00 

Party Frock

d/w Collins 3rd

1954

£9-50

Thursday's Child

d/w Collins 1st

1970

£18-00

Beyond the Vicarage

d/w Collins 1st

1971

£20-00

ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF

Brother Dusty Feet

d/w Oxford Childrens Lib 1st in this edition

1952

£8-50

Simon

d/w Oxford Childrens Lib 1st in this edition

1959

£8-50

Knight's Fee

Oxford University Press 1st

1960

£15-00

Warrior Scarlet

d/w Oxford University Press 1st

1958

£25-00

BARBARA EUPHAN TODD

The Box in the Attic

d/w World's Work reissue 

1984 

£6-50

Worzel Gummidge & the Treasure Ship

Evans 1st 

1958 

£10-00 

Detective Worzel Gummidge

Evans 1st

1963 

£10-00 

MARY TREADGOLD

 

 

 

No Ponies

Cape 3rd

1948

£8-00

The Heron Ride

d/w Cape 1st in this edition

1962

£6-00

GEOFFREY TREASE

The Hills of Varnia

Macmillan 1st

1948

£12-00

Mists over Athelney

Macmillan 1st

1958

£12-00

The Grey Adventurer

Blackwell 1st

1942

£15-00

No Boats on Bannermere

Heineman 2nd

1952

£16-00

Follow my Black Plume

d/w Macmillan 1st

1963

£15-00

Change at Maythorn

d/w Childrens Book Club 2nd

1963

£8-50

MERIOL TREVOR

The Sparrow Child 

d/w Childrens Bookclub 1st

1960 

£7-00

PHILIP TURNER

Mystery of the Colonel's Clock

d/w John Goodghild 1st in this edition

1985

£10-00

The Grange at High Force

d/w Oxford University Press 1st ex lib

1965

£12-00

The Adventure at High Force

d/w John Goodghild 1st in this edition

1985

£6-50

JOHN VERNEY

Friday's Tunnel

d/w Childrens Bookclub 1st in this edition

1960

£8-50

February's Road

Collins 1st

1961

£10-00

Samson's Hoard

d/w Collins 1st

1973

£12-00

LAURA INGALLS WILDER

On the banks of Plum Creek

d/w Lutterworth

1965

£7-00

 

 

 

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