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Childrens Hardback booklist

Please also see the page for my stock of secondhand paperbacks.

How to buy. All prices are as listed plus post. Please email or phone me with your order or enquiries. I will advise you on postal options and charges.

I will be very happy to describe any book in more detail with photographs of the actual book for sale - please just ask me.

All books are priced in £ sterling. New customers books sent off on receipt of payment.

UK - Payment by cheque or PayPal.

Outside U.K - Payment by PayPal only.

M.E. ALLAN

Changes for the  Challoners

phc d/w  Ward Lock 1st

n/d

£18-00

Black Forest Summer

Collins reprint

n/d

£5-00

KITTY BARNE

Rosina Copper 

Evans 3rd 

1955 

£6-00 

Rosina and Son 

d/w Evans 1st 

1956 

£10-00 

ENID BLYTON

The Island of Adventure

d/w  Macmillian 6th

1952

£15-00

The Valley of Adventure

pictorial boards  Macmillian rpt

1949

£17-00

The Naughtiest Girl in the School

d/w  Newnes 4th

1951

£12-00 

Bom Annual

Purnell 1st 

1958

£8-00 

More Adventures of Pip

d/w Sampson Low

n/d

£10-00 

The Ship of Adventure

d/w  Macmillian rpt

1966

£16-00

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

Peggy of the Chalet School

phc d/w Chambers 1st

1950

£30-00

Jo to the Rescue

d/w  Chambers rpt  

n/d

£30-00

Chudleigh Hold

phc d/w Chambers 1st

1954

£30-00

Carola Storms the Chalet School

phc d/w Chambers 1st 

1951

£24-00 

Exploits of the Chalet School

d/w  Chambers rpt 

1951

£18-00 

The Feud in the Fifth Remove

phc d/w Lutterworth  1st

1949

£20-00

The New House at the Chalet School

d/w Chambers rpt

1956

£25-00

A Thrilling Term at Janeways

phc d/w Nelson

n/d

£18-00

Chudleigh Hold

phc d/w Chambers 1st

1954

£27-00

Jo to the Rescue

d/w Chambers rpt

1935

£30-00

Peggy of the Chalet School

Chambers 1st

1950

£25-00

Heather Leaves School

phc d/w Chambers rpt

1962

£25-00

Monica Turns up Trumps

Lutterworth 2nd

1954

£25-00

The Lost Staircase

phc d/w Chambers 1st

1946

£27-00

D.F. BRUCE

Dimsie, Head Girl

d/w Ox Univ Press rpt

1949

£10-00

The School on the Moor

Ox Univ Press rpt  

1934

£26-00 

Nancy Returns to St Bride's 

d/w Ox Univ Press 4th 

1949 

£16-00 

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 

Nancy in the Sixth

Ox Univ Press 1st

1935

£35-00

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

Torley Grange

Nelson

n/d

£16-00

The Chiltons

d/w Nelson 1st

1952

£22-00

MONICA EDWARDS

The Outsider

d/w Childrens Book Club 1st in this edition

1962

£12-00

No Mistaking Corker

Collins  1st

1947

£10-00

No Entry

d/w Childrens Book Club  1st in this edition

1958

£16-00

Fire in the Punchbowl

d/w Childrens Book Club 1st in this edition

1963

£12-00

K. FIDLER

The Mysterious Mr Simister

Lutterworth 1st

1947

£9-00

The Brydons at Smugglers Creek

Lutterworth 1st

1945

£10-00

Tales of London

Lutterworth 1st

1949

£6-00

OLIVIA FITZROY
The House in the Hills Collins 2nd 1947 £20-00
Steer by the Stars Collins 1st 1953 £25-00

CYNTHIA HARNETT

The Great House d/w Methuen rpt 1960 £12-00

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

LORNA HILL

Marjorie and Co

Nelson 3rd

1959

£14-00

More About Mandy

Evans 1st

1963

£18-00

Border Peel

d/w Nelson 2nd in this edition 

1959

£14-00 

Stolen Holiday

d/w Nelson 2nd in this edition 

1959 

£16-00

Masquerade at the Wells

d/w  Childrens Book Club 1st in this edition

1958

£6-50

Dancer's Luck

d/w Nelson  2nd

1958

£15-00

GARRY HOGG
Explorers Awheel Nelson  3rd 1946 £10-00

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

Worrals Flies Again Hodder & Stoughton 3rd 1948 £10-00
Worrals on the War-path Hodder & Stoughton 1st 1943 £12-00
Worrals in the Wilds Hodder & Stoughton 2nd 1950 £10-00

Biggles Flies North

d/w Oxford University Press 3rd

1947

£10-00

Return to Mars

Childrens Book Club 1st

n/d

£8-00

Gimlet Goes Again

Youth Book Club 1st in this edition

1950

£15-00

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

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

Nancy and the Carrs

d/w Evans 1st

1958

£16-00

PHYLLIS MATTHEWMAN

Amanda at the Manor

d/w Olliphants  2nd

1957

£15-00

DEREK McCULLOCH

Cornish Mystery

Sidgewick  1st

1950

£8-50

VIOLET NEEDHAM

The Changling of Monte Lucio

d/w Collins 1st

1946

£26-00

The Woods of Windri

d/w Collins  3rd

1947

£15-00

The House of the Paladin

d/w Collins  1st

1945

£20-00

The Emerald Crown

d/w Collins  2nd

1944

£25-00

The Changling of Monte Lucio

d/w Collins  1st

1946

£22-00

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

£25-00

VIRGINIA PYE

The Prices Return

Faber 1st

1946

£8-50

ARTHUR RANSOME

Swallows and Amazons

Cape rpt

1947

£7-00

Swallowdale

Cape rpt

1947

£8-00

Peter Duck

Cape rpt

1948

£7-00

Missie Lee

Cape 6th

1946

£10-00

MALCOLM SAVILLE

Treasure at Amorys d/w Collins first in this edition 1969 £18-00

Seven White Gates

d/w John Goodchild 1st in this edition

n/d

£8-50

Lone Pine Five

Newnes 2nd

1949

£15-00

Not Scarlet but Gold

d/w Childrens Book Club 1st

n/d

£14-00

Saucers over the Moor

d/w Childrens Book Club 1st in this edition

n/d

£12-50

Mystery Mine

Newnes 1st

1959

£28-00

The Secret of Grey Walls

Newnes 2nd

1948

£15-00

A. DE SELINCOURT
Kestrel d/w Routledge 1st 1949 £12-00

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

The Tall Man 

Nelson 1st 

1960 

£7-50

NOEL STREATFIELD

The Growing Summer

Collins 1st

1960

£8-00

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

d/w Dent rpt

1967

£16-00

Curtain Up

Dent 1st

1946

£18-00

The Bell Family

d/w Collins 1st

1954

£18-00

New Town

d/w Childrens Book Club first in this edition

1961

£8-50

Caldicott Place 

d/w Collins  2nd

1968 

£12-00 

Party Frock

Collins 1st

1946

£10-00

Thursday's Child

d/w Collins 1st

1970

£16-00

Apple Bough phc d/w Collins 1st 1970 £9-00
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF

Brother Dusty Feet

d/w Oxford Childrens Lib 4th in this edition

1971

£7-00

The Queen Elizabeth Story

d/w Oxford Childrens Lib 1st in this edition

1958

£8-50

Bonnie Dundee

d/w Oxford University Press 1st

1963

£17-00

Warrior Scarlet

d/w Oxford University Press 2nd

1959

£17-50

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 

£12-00 

MARY TREADGOLD

No Ponies

d/w Cape reissued

1979

£6-50

The Rum Day of the Vanishing Pony

d/w Brock 1st

1970

£7-50

GEOFFREY TREASE

A Thousand for Sicily

d/w Macmillan 1st

1984

£8-50

The Arpino Assignment

d/w Walker 1st

1988

£12-00

The Grey Adventurer

Blackwell 2nd

1948

£12-00

Bows Against the Baron

Brock  revised

1968

£6-00

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 Oxford University Press rpt ex lib

1973

£11-00

The Grange at High Force

d/w Oxford University Press 1st ex lib

1965

£12-00

ELFRIDA VIPONT
Boggarts and Dreams d/w Hamish Hamilton 1st in this edition 1962 £8-00
LAURA INGALLS WILDER
Little House on the Prairie d/w Methuen 2nd 1960 £18-00

On the banks of Plum Creek

Harcourt

1965

£7-50

 How to buy. All prices are as listed plus post. Please email or phone me with your order or enquiries. I will advise you on postal options and charges.

I will be very happy to describe any book in more detail with photographs of the actual book for sale - please just ask me.

All books are priced in £ sterling. New customers books sent off on receipt of payment.

UK - Payment by cheque or PayPal.

Outside U.K - Payment by PayPal only.

15 Aug 2011