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Childrens Hardback booklist

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Unless stated all the hardback books offered below are in very good condition or better.

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Updated November 25th
M.E. ALLAN
Ship of Danger d/w  Heinemann 1st  ex lib 1974 £11-00
A Formidable Enemy d/w  Nelson 1st 1975 £9-00
The Flash Children d/w  Brock 1st  ex lib 1975 £8-00
An Island in a Green Sea d/w Dent 2nd  ex lib 1974 £9-00
Over the Sea to School phc d/w  Blackie 1st 1950 £17-00
GILLIAN AVERY
A Likely Lad d/w  Collins 2nd 1975 £8-50
The Italian Spring d/w  Collins 1st 1964 £16-50
To Tame a Sister d/w  Collins 1st 1961 £16-50
VIOLA BAYLEY
Paris Adventure d/w  Dent 1st in this edition 1962 £8-00
Welsh Adventure d/w  Dent 1st 1966 £8-50
ENID BLYTON
The Island of Adventure pictorial boards  Macmillian 2nd 1948 £15-00
The Sea of Adventure pictorial boards  Macmillian 5th 1952 £9-00
The Ship of Adventure pictorial boards  Macmillian rpt 1954 £10-00
NANCY BREARY
A School Divided Newnes 2nd 1944 £20-00
It was fun in the Fourth Blackie n/d £10-00
The Reluctant Schoolgirl d/w  Blackie n/d £16-00
E. BRENT DYER
The Princess of the Chalet School phc d/w  Chambers rpt 1955 £15-00
Chudleigh Hold phc d/w  Chambers 1st 1954 £36-00
The Chalet School and the Lintons phc d/w  Chambers rpt 1952 £25-00
The New House at the Chalet School d/w  Chambers rpt 1956 £33-00
The Highland Twins at the Chalet School d/w  Chambers rpt 1962 £30-00
Lavender Laughs in the Chalet School d/w  Chambers rpt 1963 £38-00
Jo to the Rescue phc d/w  Chambers 2nd 1946 £40-00
Three go to the Chalet School phc d/w  Chambers 1st? n/d £30-00
Peggy of the Chalet School phc d/w  Chambers 1st 1950 £50-00
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
Tom Tackles the Chalet School Chambers rpt 1956 £30-00
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
Seven Scamps d/w  Chambers rpt 1955 £45-00
The Lost Staircase phc d/w  Chambers 1st 1946 £48-00
PAMELA BROWN
The Windmill Family d/w  Nelson 1st 1954 £20-00T
The Bridesmaids Brock 1st in this edition 1966 £15-00
D.F. BRUCE
Dimsie Moves Up d/w  Ox Univ Press rpt   1950 £15-00
Dimsie, Head Girl d/w  Ox Univ Press rpt 1949 £12-50
Dimsie Goes Back d/w  Ox Univ Press rpt 1948 £13-00
Dimsie Carries On d/w  Ox Univ Press rpt 1950 £12-00
That Boarding School Girl semi-emb boards  Ox Univ Press rpt 1936 £15-00
The Best House in the School d/w  Ox Univ Press 3rd 1951 £18-00
GWENDOLINE COURTNEY
The Chiltons d/w  Nelson 2nd 1964 £18-50
MONICA EDWARDS
The Summer of the Great Secret Collins  1st 1942 £10-00
Cargo of Horses d/w  J.Goodchild  1st in this edition 1984 £12-50
No Entry Childrens Book Club  1st in this edition 1958 £13-00
Frenchman's Secret phc d/w  Childrens Book Club 1st in this ed 1958 £14-00
The Outsider d/w  Childrens Book Club 1st in this ed 1962 £18-00
Badger Valley d/w  Book Club 1st in this ed 1977 £15-00
The Badgers of Punchbowl Farm d/w  M.Joseph  1st 1966 £25-00
ANTONIO FOREST
Autumn Term d/w  Faber  rpt  ex lib 1969 £25-00
JANET GREY
The Advent of Anne d/w  Nelson   n/d £7-00
The Concerns of Cecily Nelson  1st 1947 £8-50
The Concerns of Cecily d/w  Nelson  rpt 1953 £8-00
The Sixth-Form Pantomime d/w Nelson  2nd 1954 £8-50
Lucille - House Captain Nelson  1st 1950 £8-50
CYNTHIA HARNETT
The Wool-pack d/w  Methuen  rpt 1958 £10-00
The Great House d/w  Methuen  rpt ex sch 1965 £15-00
The Writing on the Hearth d/w  Methuen  2nd 1978 £16-00
LORNA HILL
Castle in Northumbria d/w  Burke  this edition 1969 £12-00
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 Evans  1st 1962 £8-50
Backstage d/w  Evans  1st 1960 £24-00
Dancer's Luck d/w  Nelson  2nd 1958 £15-00
W.E.JOHNS
World of Wonder Childrens Book Club1st 1962 £6-00
Biggles Takes it Rough Brock  1st 1963 £18-00
Spitfire Parade Oxford University Press  2nd 1948 £14-00
Worrals in the Wilds Hodder & Stoughton  1st 1947 £8-50
ELISABETH KYLE
The Mirrors of Castle Doone Houghton 1st 1949 £10-00
JOANNA LLOYD
Jane Runs away from School Blackie 1st 1946 £16-00
Catharine Head of House Blackie 1st 1947 £16-00
Catharine Head of House d/w Blackie rpt n/d £12-00
Audrey, a New Girl d/w  Blackie 1st 1948 £18-00
PHYLLIS MATTHEWMAN
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
The School in the Forest Olliphants  2nd 1957 £15-00
DEREK McCULLOCH
Cornish Mystery Sidgewick  1st 1950 £8-50
EILEEN MEYLER
Adventure in Purbeck d/w Epworth  1st 1953 £8-00
L.M.MONTGOMERY
Chronicles of Avonlea d/w  Harrap rpt 1945 £6-50
Mistress Pat d/w  Harrap rpt 1955 £12-50
VIOLET NEEDHAM
The Woods of Windri phc d/w  Collins  1st 1944 £20-00
The House of the Paladin d/w  Collins  1st 1945 £30-00
The House of the Paladin Collins  1st 1945 £20-00
The Emerald Crown d/w Collins  2nd 1944 £25-00
The Changling of Monte Lucio phc d/w  Collins  1st 1946 £24-00
The Betrayer d/w  Collins  1st 1950 £35-00
E.J.OXENHAM
The Abbey Girls Play Up d/w  Collins  1st in this edition 1947 £12-00
The Testing of the Torment Cassell 2nd  1927  £40-00 
The Second Term at Rocklands  Collins 1st? n/d  £18-00 
Strangers at the Abbey Collins  rpt 1956 £6-00
Margery Meets the Roses phc d/w  Collins  1st 1947 £45-00
M.PARDOE
The Far island Routledge 2nd  49 £35-00
VIRGINIA PYE
Snowbird Faber  rpt 1945 £7-00
ARTHUR RANSOME
Swallowdale d/w  Cape  rpt 1947 £12-00
Winter Holiday d/w  Cape  rpt 1943 £15-00
Secret Water d/w  Cape  rpt 1947 £15-00
Great Northern Cape  3rd 1947 £16-00
MALCOLM SAVILLE
Mystery at Witchend Newnes  5th 1948 £17-50
Lone Pine Five Newnes  2nd 1950 £16-00
The Neglected Mountain Newnws  1st 1953 £25-00
The Elusive Grasshopper d/w  Collins  1st in this edition 1970 £20-00
Sea Witch Comes Home d/w  Newnes  1st 1960 £45-00
The Secret of the Villa Rosa d/w  Collins  1st 1971 £25-00
The Sign of the Alpine Rose Lutterworth  1st 1950 £15-00
The Amberemere Treasure Lutterworth  1st 1953 £20-00
DAVID SEVERN
Ponies and Poachers d/w  Bodley Head  1st 1947 £10-00
Hermit in the Hills  d/w Bodley Head 1st  1945  £12-00 
The Future Took Us  d/w Childrens Book Club 1st  n/d  £6-50
JANE SHAW
No Trouble for Susan d/w  Collins  1st in this edition 1966 £12-00
The Tall Man  Nelson  1st  1960  £7-50
NOEL STREATFIELD
Wintle's Wonders d/w  Collins  1st 1957 £18-00
When the Siren Wailed  d/w  Collins  1st  1974  £18-00
Caldicott Place  d/w  Collins  2nd 1968  £14-00 
Tennis Shoes d/w  Dent  5th 1956 £18-00
Party Frock d/w Collins  3rd 1954 £9-50
The May Baby d/w  A.Barker  1st 1959 £11-00
New Town d/w  Childrens Book Club 1961 £16-00
Thursday's Child d/w  Collins  1st 1970 £18-00
Beyond the Vicarage d/w  Collins  1st 1971 £24-00
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  1st 1946 £12-00
The Heron Ride d/w  Cape 1st in this edition 1962 £6-00
The Rum Day of the Vanishing Pony d/w  Brock  1st 1976 £7-50
GEOFFREY TREASE
No Boats on Bannermere Heineman  2nd 1952 £18-50
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
LAURA INGALLS WILDER
Little House on the Prairie d/w  Methuen 2nd 1960 £20-00

 

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