AIKEN, JOAN | THE WHISPERING MOUNTAIN | VG/FN | £5 | Puffin 1975 | UK PB
ISBN 0140304606 | |
ANDERSON, ELLA | JO-JO | VG | £20 | Pickering & Inglis 1959 | 1st UK HC
With DJ (GD) in removable archival film |  |
BLITZ BOOKS:
TUCK’S BETTER LITTLE BOOKS | BIG BOY’S BOW | VG | £6 | Tuck 1940-1944 | UK Booklet |  |
| THE KILLER OF CARRICKBURN | VG | £6 | Tuck 1940-1944 | UK Booklet |  |
| TRUE SON | VG | £6 | Tuck 1940-1944 | UK Booklet |  |
BLYTON, ENID | ADVENTURE OF THE STRANGE RUBY | FN | £20 | Brock 1960 | 1st UK HC
With DJ (FN) in removable archival film |  |
| FIVE GET INTO TROUBLE | VG/FN | £15 | Hodder & Stoughton 1964 | UK HC
11th printing
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film
Price clipped
#8 in series |  |
| FIVE GET INTO TROUBLE | VG | £12 | Hodder & Stoughton 1953 | UK HC
5th printing
With DJ (GD) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
Flyleaf carefully torn out
#8 in series | |
| FIVE GO ADVENTURING AGAIN | GD | £15 | Hodder & Stoughton 1949 | UK HC
3rd printing
With DJ (FA/GD) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
Tape /tape residue on DJ
#2 in series |  |
| FIVE GO ADVENTURING AGAIN | VG | £15 | Brockhampton Press 1966 | UK HC
14th printing
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film
Price clipped
Gift inscription
Previous owner’s name neatly written in
#2 in series | |
| FIVE GO OFF IN A CARAVAN | VG | £20 | Hodder & Stoughton 1952 | 6th UK HC
With DJ (PR) in removable archival film
|  |
| FIVE GO OFF IN A CARAVAN | FN | £15 | Hodder & Stoughton 1953 | UK HC
7th printing
With DJ (GD) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
#5 in series | |
| FIVE GO OFF TO CAMP | VG | £15 | Hodder & Stoughton 1960 | 10th UK HC
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film | |
| FIVE GO TO MYSTERY MOOR | VF | £18 | Brockhamopton Press 1967 | UK HC
Later printing
With DJ (VG/FN) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
#13 in series |  |
| FIVE GO TO SMUGGLER’S TOP | FN | £30 | Hodder & Stoughton 1960 | UK HC
12th printing
With DJ (GD) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
#4 in series |  |
| FIVE HAVE A WONDERFUL TIME | FN | £15 | Brockhampton Press 1969 | UK HC
Later printing
With DJ (VG/FN) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
SBN 340033746
#11 in series |  |
| FIVE ON A SECRET TRAIL | VG | £25 | Hodder & Stoughton 1956 | 1st UK HC
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film
Price clipped
With gift inscription
Tape with 34 written on it stuck to inside front of DJ
#15 in series |  |
| FIVE ON A TREASURE ISLAND | VG | £30 | Hodder & Stoughton 1953 | UK HC
10th impression
With DJ (GD) in removable archival film
Previous owner’s name and address on flyleaf |  |
| FIVE ON A TREASURE ISLAND | FN | £15 | Brockhampton Press 1969 | UK HC
With DJ (GD/VG) in removable archival film | |
| FIVE ON FINNISTON FARM | VG | £20 | Brockhampton Press 1969 | UK HC
With DJ (FN) in removable archival film
|  |
| FIVE ON KIRRIN ISLAND AGAIN | VG/FN | £20 | Hodder & Stoughton 1965 | 14th UK HC
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film
|  |
| FIVE RUN AWAY TOGETHER | VG | £10 | Brockhampton Press 1968 | UK HC
Later printing
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
SBN 340033800
#3 in series |  |
| GOOD WORK SECRET SEVEN | VG/FN | £15 | Brockhampton Press 1967 | 1st UK HC
8th printing
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film
Price clipped
#6 in series |  |
| THE MYSTERY OF THE BURNT COTTAGE | VG/FN | £25 | Methuen & Co. 1953 | UK HC
9th printing
With DJ (GD/VG) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
#1 in Five Finder-Outer series |  |
| THE MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN HOUSE | VG | £15 | Methuen & Co. 1965 | UK HC
11th printing
With DJ (GD/VG) in removable archival film
Not price clipped, but small section cut on bottom inside front
#6 in Five Finder-Outer series |  |
| THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING MAN | GD | £5 | Methuen & Co. 1956 | 1st UK HC
Photocopy of DJ in removable archival film
#13 in Five Finder-Outer series | |
| SECRET SEVEN MYSTERY | VG | £6 | Brockhampton Press 1959 | 1st UK HC
2nd printing
With DJ (GD) in removable archival film
DJ taped
Not clipped
Previous owner’s name inscribed Flyleaf taped
#9 in series |  |
| THE MYSTERY OF THE PANTOMIME CAT | FA/GD | £15 | Methuen & Co. 1958 | UK HC
7th printing
With DJ (GD) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
Stains on several pages last quarter of book, affecting about 25 pages
#7 in Five Finder-Outer series |  |
| SUMMER TERM AT ST CLARE'S | VG | £1.50 | Dragon 1969 | UK PB | |
| WELL DONE SECRET SEVEN | VG | £6 | Brockhampton Press 1965 | 1st UK HC
10th printing
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film
Price clipped
#3 in series |  |
BUCKERIDGE, ANTHONY | ACCORDING TO JENNINGS | GD/VG | £7 | Collins 1961 | UK HC
DJ (VG/FN) in removable archival film | |
| JENNINGS’ LITTLE HUT | VG | £8 | Collins 1958 | UK HC
With DJ (GD/VG) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
#3 in series |  |
| JENNINGS OF COURSE! | VG | £9 | Collins 1967 | UK HC
With DJ (GD/VG) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
Flyleaf removed
#14 in series |  |
CARROLL, LEWIS | ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS | VG | £10 | Mellifont Press 1950s | UK PB
Illustrated (after Tenniel); abridged |  |
| ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND | VG | £30 | Oxford University Press 1933 | UK HC
No DJ (Pictorial boards)
Illustrated by A E Jackson
|  |
| ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND & THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS | GD | £4 | Puffin 1974 | UK PB
ISBN 0140301690
Includes John Tenniel illustrations
Generally VG, but with a few individual partially loose pages |  |
CROMPTON, RICHMAL | JIMMY AGAIN | FN | £2.50 | Armada 1965 | UK PB | |
| JUST WILLIAM ON HOLIDAY | GD | £2.25 | MacMillan 1996 | UK PB | |
| MORE WILLIAM | FN | £3 | Macmillan Children’s 1995 | UK PB
#2 in William series | |
| STILL – WILLIAM | FN | £25 | George Newnes 1964 | UK HC
28th printing
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
#5 in series |  |
| STILL - WILLIAM | VG | £2.50 | Macmillan Children’s 1995 | UK PB
#5 in William series | |
| SWEET WILLIAM | VG | £15 | George Newnes 1956 | UK HC
14th printing
With DJ (GD) in removable archival film
Price clipped
With gift inscription
#18 in series | |
| SWEET WILLIAM | VG/FN | £12 | George Newnes 1967 | UK HC
16th printing
With DJ (GD) in removable archival film
Top and bottom edge of DJ trimmed and taped
Not price clipped
#18 in series | |
| SWEET WILLIAM | VG | £2.50 | Macmillan Children’s 1999 | UK PB
#18 in William series | |
| WILLIAM AGAIN | VG | £2.50 | Macmillan Children’s 1995 | UK PB
#3 in William series |  |
| WILLIAM AND THE BRAINS TRUST | VG | £25 | George Newnes 1956 | UK HC
6th printing
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film
Price clipped
With gift inscription
#25 in series |  |
| WILLIAM AND THE BRAINS TRUST | VG/FN | £20 | George Newnes 1961 | UK HC
7th printing
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
Previous owner’s name neatly written in
Also drawing and writing on title page and back page (spelling as good as William’s!)
#25 in series | |
| WILLIAM AND THE MONSTER | GD | £2.25 | Armada 1960s | UK PB | |
| WILLIAM CARRIES ON | GD | £2.25 | Macmillan Children’s 2000 | UK PB
#24 in William series | |
| WILLIAM DOES HIS BIT | GD | £2.25 | Armada 1974 | UK PB
#23 in William series | |
| WILLIAM – IN TROUBLE | FN | £30 | George Newnes 1963 | UK HC
25th printing
With DJ (FN) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
Previous owner’s name written in
#8 in series |  |
| WILLIAM – IN TROUBLE | GD | £2.25 | Macmillan Children’s 1984 | UK PB
#8 in William series | |
| WILLIAM - THE BAD | VG | £10 | George Newnes 1963 | UK HC
20th printing
With DJ (GD) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
#11 in series | |
| WILLIAM THE CANNIBAL | GD | £2.25 | Armada 1960s | UK PB | |
| WILLIAM – THE CONQUEROR | FN | £25 | George Newnes 1961 | UK HC
27th printing
With DJ (GD/VG) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
Previous owner’s name written in
#6 in series | |
| WILLIAM – THE DETECTIVE | VG | £10 | George Newnes 1967 | UK HC
20th printing
With DJ (GD) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
Previous owner’s name crossed out
Tape (residues?) at spine
#17 in series | |
| WILLIAM – THE DICTATOR | FN/VF | £20 | George Newnes 1963 | UK HC
12th printing
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
#20 in series | |
| WILLIAM – THE DICTATOR | VG | £15 | George Newnes 1963 | UK HC
12th printing
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film
Top and bottom edge of DJ trimmed
Not price clipped
#20 in series |  |
| WILLIAM – THE FOURTH | GD | £2.25 | Macmillan Children’s 1995 | UK PB
#4 in William series |  |
| WILLIAM – THE GANGSTER | FN | £25 | George Newnes 1965 | UK HC
20th printing
With DJ (FN) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
#16 in series |  |
| WILLIAM THE GLOBETROTTER | GD | £2.25 | Armada 1960s | UK PB | |
| WILLIAM – THE GOOD | VG | £2.50 | Macmillan Children’s 1989 | UK PB
#9 in William series | |
| WILLIAM THE HERO | GD | £2.25 | 1974 | UK PB
| |
| WILLIAM – THE SHOWMAN | GD/VG | £20 | George Newnes 1949 | UK HC
10th printing
With DJ (GD) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
With (pencil) gift inscription
#19 in series |  |
| WILLIAM'S CROWDED HOURS | GD | £2.25 | Armada 1972 | UK PB
#13 in William series | |
EDWARDS, MONICA | THE COWNAPPERS | FN | £45 | Collins Children’s Book Club 1960 | UK HC
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film
Geoffrey Whittam cover and illustrations |  |
| DOLPHIN SUMMER | FN | £60 | Collins Children’s Book Club 1963 | UK HC
With DJ (FN) in removable archival film
Leslie Wood cover
Geoffrey Whittam illustrations |  |
| FIRE IN THE PUNCHBOWL | VG | £10 | Collins Children’s Book Club 1965 | UK HC
With DJ (GD/VG) in removable archival film (tape on inside of DJ at top of spine)
Kenneth Brookes cover Geoffrey Whittam illustrations | |
| FRENCHMAN’S SECRET | GD | £9 | Collins
Children’s Book Club 1958
| UK HC
No DJ
Geoffrey Whittam illustrations
Award label on inside front cover | |
| HIDDEN IN A DREAM | FN | £35 | Collins 1955 | UK HC
With DJ (VG/FN) in removable archival film
Geoffrey Whittam illustrations |  |
| THE HOODWINKERS | VG | £25 | Collins Children’s Book Club 1962 | UK HC
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film
Leslie Wood cover
Geoffrey Whittam illustrations | |
| THE NIGHTBIRD | GD | £30 | Armada 1963 | 1st UK PB |  |
| NO GOING BACK | FN/VF | £150 | Collins 1960 | 1st UK HC
With DJ (VG/FN) in archival cover (taped on inside)
Geoffrey Whittam cover and illustrations
Award label on inside front cover |  |
| OPERATION SEABIRD | FN | £100 | Collins 1957 | 1st UK HC
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film
Geoffrey Whittam cover and illustrations |  |
| THE OUTSIDER | VG | £18 | Collins Children’s Book Club 1962 | UK HC
With DJ (FN) in removable archival film
Geoffrey Whittam cover and illustrations | |
| PUNCHBOWL MIDNIGHT | VF | £30 | Goodchild 1986 | UK HC
With DJ (FN) in removable archival film
Gordon King cover |  |
| PUNCHBOWL MIDNIGHT | GD | £10 | Armada 1963 | UK PB |  |
| SPIRIT OF PUNCHBOWL FARM | FN/VF | £70 | Collins 1956 | UK HC
With DJ (VG/FN) in removable archival film
Joan Wanklyn cover and illustrations |  |
| SPIRIT OF PUNCHBOWL FARM | GD | £3 | Armada 1963 | UK PB | |
| STORM AHEAD | GD/VG | £25 | Puffin 1957 | UK PB | |
| STRANGERS TO THE MARSH | VG/FN | £30 | Collins Children’s Book Club 1958 | UK HC
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film
Geoffrey Whittam cover and illustrations | |
| THE WANDERER | VG | £12 | Collins Children’s Book Club 1955 | UK HC
No DJ
Joan Wanklyn illustrations
|  |
ELIOTT, E C | KEMLO AND THE MARTIAN GHOSTS | GD | £15 | Nelson Juniors 1959 | 1st UK PB |  |
FOREST, ANTONIA | THE PLAYER’S BOY | VG | £80 | Faber & Faber 1970 | 1st UK HC
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film
The book has a water ripple at the top of the first few pages (but no sign on the boards; otherwise the book would grade higher). The dust jacket is also graded VG, with very slight erosion at the ends of folds and a small mark at the top right of the front cover. The evidence of the book’s former life as a library book is limited to a large and very pink label on the flyleaf and a stamp on the publisher’s page.
Not price clipped
Ex library |  |
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL | THE POMEGRANATE SEEDS | VG | £10 | Mellifont Press ND | UK PB
Rare edition of two ‘Tanglewood Tales’ stories
|  |
JOHNS, CAPTAIN W E | BIGGLES AIR DETECTIVE | FN | £6 | Dean & Son ca 1975 | UK HC
Pictorial boards |  |
| BIGGLES AND THE BLACK PERIL | VG/FN | £8 | Dean & Son ca 1971 | UK HC
SBN 603 03403 9
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film | |
| BIGGLES AND THE BLACK PERIL | FN | £6 | Dean & Son ca 1975 | UK HC
Pictorial boards | |
| BIGGLES AND THE PLOT THAT FAILED | FN | £125 | Brockhampton Press 1965 | 1st UK HC
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film
DJ has slight watermark on back, near spine |  |
| BIGGLES FLIES AGAIN | FN | £6 | Dean & Son ca 1975 | UK HC
Pictorial boards | |
| BIGGLES IN THE CRUISE OF THE CONDOR | FN | £6 | Dean & Son ca 1975 | UK HC
Pictorial boards |  |
| THE DEATH RAYS OF ARDILLA | VG | £20 | The Childrens’ Book Club 1959 | UK HC
No DJ
| |
| NO REST FOR BIGGLES | GD | £3 | Armada 1963 | UK PB | |
LEWIS, C S | THE HORSE AND HIS BOY | VG | £3 | Puffin 1977 | UK PB |  |
| THE HORSE AND HIS BOY | GD/VG | £3 | Puffin 1970 | UK PB
ISBN 0140302441 | |
| THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW | VF | £3 | Fontana Lions 1980 | UK PB |  |
| PRINCE CASPIAN | VF | £3 | Fontana Lions 1990 | UK PB | |
| THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER | GD | £2.50 | Puffin 1971 | UK PB
ISBN 0140302298 | |
LYON, ELINOR | WISHING WATER-GATE | VG | £15 | Brockhampton Press 1960s | UK HC
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film
Would be FN except for two words crossed out on first page of story
| |
MADDOCK, R B | CORRIGAN AND THE WHITE COBRA | VG | £7.50 | Nelson Juniors 1959 | 1st UK PB | |
MOGRIDGE, STEPHEN | NEW FOREST DISCOVERIES | GD | £15 | Nelson Juniors 1959 | 1st UK PB | |
RICHARDS, FRANK | BILLY BUNTER AFLOAT | VG/ FN | £35 | Cassell 1957 | 1st UK HC
With DJ (GD) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
Illustrations by C H Chapman
#21 |  |
| BILLY BUNTER AND THE BLUE MAURITIUS | VF | £25 | Hawk 1992 | UK HC
ISBN 0948248637
Facsimile of original edition
With DJ (VF) in removable archival film
Illustrations by R J MacDonald
Previous owner’s name on sticker on inside front cover
#6 |  |
| BILLY BUNTER IN BRAZIL | FN | £8 | Hawk Books 1992 | UK HC
Facsimile
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film
|  |
| BILLY BUNTER OF GREYFRIARS SCHOOL | VF | £35 | Hawk 1991 | 1st UK HC
ISBN 0948248777
Facsimile of original edition
With DJ (VF) in removable archival film
Illustrations by R J MacDonald | |
| BILLY BUNTER THE BOLD | VG | £3 | Armada 1968 | UK PB
C227 | |
| BILLY BUNTER’S BENEFIT | GD/VG | £20 | Cassell 1960 | 3rd UK HC
With DJ (GD) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
Frontispiece loose | |
| BILLY BUNTER’S BODYGUARD | FN | £40 | Cassell 1962 | 1st UK HC
With DJ (GD/VG) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
Previous owner’s name and address written in
|  |
| BILLY BUNTER’S BODYGUARD | VG | £25 | Cassell 1962 | 1st UK HC
With DJ (FA) in removable archival film
Tape residue on inside edges of DJ
Not price clipped | |
| BILLY BUNTER’S DOUBLE | FN | £30 | Cassell 1956 | 3rd UK HC
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
Illustrations by R J MacDonald
#16 |  |
| BILLY BUNTER’S DOUBLE | VG | £22 | Cassell 1955 | 2nd UK HC
With DJ (FA) in removable archival film |  |
| BILLY BUNTER’S FIRST CASE | FN | £20 | Cassell 1957 | 2nd UK HC
With DJ (FA/GD) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
Previous owner’s name and address written in | |
| BUNTER DOES HIS BEST | NM | £15 | Hawk Books 1991 | UK HC
With DJ (FN) in removable archival film
Facsimile of original edition | |
| BUNTER OUT OF BOUNDS | VG/FN | £35 | Cassell 1959 | 1st UK HC
With DJ (GD) in removable archival film
Not price clipped
Illustrations by C H Chapman
#24 |  |
| BUNTER THE STOWAWAY | FA/GD | £18 | Cassell 1964 | 1st UK HC
With DJ (GD) in film taped to boards
Ex Libris
‘Cancelled’ stamped on pages preceding story ‘ (not affecting frontispiece) | |
| LORD BILLY BUNTER | VG | £35 | Cassell 1959 | 2nd UK HC
With DJ (FA) in removable archival film – lower strip of front cover missing
Price clipped
Previous owner’s name and address written in |  |
(AS HILDA RICHARDS) | BESSIE BUNTER OF CLIFF HOUSE SCHOOL | VF | £6 | Hawk Books 1991 | UK HC
With DJ (VF) in removable archival film
Facsimile of original Charles Skilton Ltd edition
ISBN 0948248823 |  |
STEVENSON, R L | TREASURE ISLAND | FN | £4 | Blackie & Son ND | UK HC
With DJ (VG) in removable archival film |  |
TALBOT, ETHEL | TERRY’S ONLY TERM | FN | £12 | Blackie & Son 1940 | 1st UK HC
With DJ (GD) in removable archival film |  |