Search Results: Children's from C L Hawley

London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co.,. H/b, 7.5'' x 5'', 211 pp. Historical children's adventure story. Black and white frontis and 19 further black and white plates. Illustrated by G. E. Robertson. Red cloth with rubbed gilt titles to slightly sunned spine. Blind embossed decoration to front and blind embossed device to back. Rubbed and bumped. Sunday school prize sticker with inked out name. Foxing to page edges. A good copy. . None.

Edinburgh: Fidra Books,. Paperback. 275pp. Newly reissued children's adventure story with the original illustrations by Mary Smith reproduced throughout. With a biographical introduction by a children's bookseller originally written for early Fidra Books edition of a Pardoe novel. This volume also has a brief reflection on 'Bunkle: The Irrepressible Hero' also by Vanessa Robertson. New, unread copy. New Copy. . Paperback. 2006.

Edinburgh: Fidra Books,. Paperback. 275pp. Newly reissued children's adventure story with the original illustrations by Mary Smith reproduced throughout. With a biographical introduction by a children's bookseller originally written for early Fidra Books edition of a Pardoe novel. This volume also has a brief reflection on 'Bunkle: The Irrepressible Hero' also by Vanessa Robertson. New, unread copy. New Copy. . Paperback. 2006.

London: Heineman,. Hardback. 128pp. Fictionalised version of the Coronation told from the point of view of family from Sheffield who travel to London for the event in 1953. Slightly rubbed and bumped. Dust wrapper is missing a few tiny chips and is somewhat dust soiled to white areas. Colour image to front and back has bled slightly around the edges. Blue boards with gilt titles to spine are clean and bright; internally bright. Very good copy in good dust jacket . Hardback. 1962.

London: Lutterworth Press,. Hardback. 1st edn., 128pp. Pony story. Green boards with black titles to spine. Colour illustrated frontis. Sunday School prize label has been partially removed from ffep. Rubbed and bumped. Good copy. . Hardback. 1962.

Edinburgh: Fidra Books,. Paperback. viii + 275pp. Newly reissued children's adventure story with the orginal illustrations by R. M. Turvey reproduced throughout. With a new biographical introduction by a children's bookseller, brief bibliography and author's photograph. Illustrated map. Clean, bright and unread. New, unread copy. New. . Paperback. 2005.

Edinburgh: Fidra Books,. Paperback. viii + 275pp. Newly reissued children's adventure story with the orginal illustrations by R. M. Turvey reproduced throughout. With a new biographical introduction by a children's bookseller, brief bibliography and author's photograph. Illustrated map. New, unread copy. New . Paperback. 2005.

Edinburgh: Fidra Books,. Paperback. viii + 275pp. Newly reissued children's adventure story with the original illustrations by R. M. Turvey reproduced throughout. With a new biographical introduction by a children's bookseller, brief bibliography and author's photograph. Illustrated map. Clean, bright and unread. Very slightly bumped to one corner. Near fine, bright copy. . Paperback. 2005.

Harmondsworth: Puffin,. Paperback. 284pp. Children's story by the author of Mary Poppins. Internally browned with some reading and edge wear. Good, sound copy. . Paperback. 1985.

Oxford: Oxford University Press. Hardback. 165pp. Children's novel translated from the Danish by the author. Illustrated with black and white line drawings by Victor G. Ambrus. Dust wrapper has been enclosed in a plastic wrapper which is removable. Slight rubbing. Very good copy in Good + dw. . Hardback. First edition. 1974.

London: Pickering & Inglis,. Hardback. 64pp. Children's novel. Green cloth is clean with the slightest of fading to edges. Colour illustrated dust jacket is sound but rubbed with a number of small chips. Sunday school prize sticker. Child has crayoned his name and address on front end paper. Good+, sound copy in chipped and torn dust jacket . Hardback. 1969.

London: Fidra Books,. Paperback. 268pp. A re-issue of this classic children's adventure story set in Scotland, reproduced complete with original author illustrations including the 4 colour plates. Also includes an autobiographical introduction by the author. Wraps are very clean and bright and the book is new and unread but there is a tiny dust mark to the corner of the page edges. Near fine, bright copy. . Paperback. 2006.

London: Collins,. Hardback. 192pp. Children's novel. Red boards with gilt titles to spine. Colour illustrated dust wrapper has a small number of chips and tears to front. Slightly sunned to spine. Slight edge wear. Very good copy in good dust jacket . Hardback. 1978.

London: Blackie & son,. Hardback. 255 pp. Girls' story. Plain maroon cloth with black titles. Black and white frontis and two further plates by T. Laidler. Very slightly rubbed and bumped. Previous owner's name and address to ffep in fountain pen ink has run, and has slightly stained the endpapers and dust jacket flap. Colour illustrated dust jacket has suffered significant loss to spine with a large chip to front; the dw is also sunned to spine and has been mended with small amounts of now browning tape. Very good copy in poor dust jacket . Hardback.

New York: Bulfinch Press,. Board box with attached book plus internal pocket fixed with a yellow ribbon. 10'' x 11''. Contains colour illustrated book which aims to provide an overview of Greek mythology; it is richly illustrated with full page pictures and has removable pop-up features. Separate board games, masks and other intriguing additions. Contents all present and complete. Some slight wear. Clean, bright and sound. A very good copy. . None. 1995.

London: Boy's Own Paper,. 11'' x 8'', 128pp. Substantial collection of longer stories for older boys with spies, Scouts, military and colonial adventures. With four colour plates (all present though one has been tipped back in) including a frontis and many others by Stanley L. Wood. and many integral black and white illustrations. The first story is ''Dingo Face' by Wooramel. Red cloth to spine and illustrated paper, showing American prospectors and Indians, to front. Front internal hinge beginning to split - 3'' up from lower edge - with some weakness to rest of that hinge. Slightly rubbed with boards exposed to edges in some places. Some browning to prelims. Previous owner's prize label, dated 1925, to endpapers. Good copy. . Hardcover. 1920.

London: OUP,. Hardback. 297 pp. Classic survey of children's books drawing heavily on the author's own experience with her personal collection. Covers nursery rhymes, fairy tales, nonsense, fantasy and reality, cowboys and Indians, photography, politics, picture-books, and children's books by men of letters. Translated and edited by Brian W. Alderson. Bibliography and Index. Twenty eight black and white plates and a small number of illustrations. Green cloth with silver titles. Remains of tape to endpaper hidden by dw flap. Ex-library copy but only mark is one stamp to endpaper. Very clean and bright dw. Good, sound copy. . Hardback. 1967.

Edinburgh: Fidra Books,. Paperback. 160pp. Newly reissued children's adventure story with the original illustrations by Anne Bullen reproduced throughout. With a new biographical introduction by the author's daughter and fellow novelist Josephine Pullein-Thompson. New, unread copy. New . Paperback. 2006.

Edinburgh: Fidra Books,. Paperback. 160pp. Newly reissued children's adventure story with the original illustrations by Anne Bullen reproduced throughout. With a new biographical introduction by the author's daughter and fellow novelist Josephine Pullein-Thompson. New, unread copy. New . Paperback. 2006.

Edinburgh: Fidra Books,. Paperback. xi+ 175pp. Newly reissued children's fantasy adventure story. Autobiographical introduction by the author. With the original illustrations by the author. New, unread copy. New . Paperback. 2006.