Children's Fiction from JimsOldBooks

London: University of London Press, 1948. Slight creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, original owner'gift message (Christmas 1948) on f/ep, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Tales from "Nomad the Naturalist" of the BBC Childrens Hour. 206pp, numerous b&w illustrations by Tunnicliffe.. First Edition.… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Plaid Stationery of Scotland Ltd , 1945. Slight creasing and a couple of small tears to edges of unclipped (original price 8/6) dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, a previous (original?) owner's name and date (Christmas 1950) on f/ep, a tear to the bottom inch or so of the pages next to spine, binding… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1947. Minor creasing and a couple of small tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper (which is printed on parchment-style paper, post-War paper shortages meaning that all sorts of paper was used in publishing). Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, original owner's gift message (June 1948) on f/ep, but otherwise a good… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1948. Some creasing and small tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, some bumping and shelf-wear to spine ends and corners of red boards, original owner's gift message (Xmas 1948) on f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A childrens story dealing with an English boy travelling in the Bush country of… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1945. Minor creasing and a few small tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of brown boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover childrens book. Contains twelve stories featuring Sam Pig and his friends. Originally published in 1942, this is a… Read more about this item

London: The Bodley Head, 1949. Unclipped dustwrapper is in poor shape; torn in two at left-hand side of front panel and with lower half missing at the spine, along with a lot of creasing and small tears to the edges, but front panel illustration showing three children climbing up a rock is still complete. Some bumping to spine ends… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1948. Some creasing and small tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, mnor bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. The story involved the adventures of a boy and his sister on holiday in a Cornish fishing village who stumble on a plot by German… Read more about this item

London: Hollis & Carter, 1946. A lot of tears and creasing to unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, previous owners name and address on f/ep dated Summer 1951, and unfortunately many of the illustrations have been coloured in with colour pencil, I suspect by the same girl. The story deals with a group… Read more about this item

London: Oxford University Press, 1945. Price-clipped dustwrapper is in quite poor shape, with the top left-hand and bottom right-hand corners missing on front panel, also the lower1.5 inches at the spine. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of yellow boards, original owner's school prize inscription dated 1947 on f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1950. Price-clippeddustwrapper has a lot of tears and creasing, with the top left and bottom right corners being missing on front panel. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, some fading where the dustwrapper pieces are missing. Original owner's school prize label dated 1951 on f/ep, she has also written her name above… Read more about this item

London: The Amalgamated Press Ltd, 1937. No dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of red illustrated boards (cowboy on front board, football goalie on spine), but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no splitting to the binding inside, of this large hard-cover book. The forty-fourth (of forty-eight) "Chums" annual, containing four book-length stories ("The Gold Trail"… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1973. Some creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of yellow boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally pubished in the US in 1972, this is the first UK edition from the next year. A childrens story about Dominic the dog, who sets off… Read more about this item

London: Andre Deutsch, 1973. Slight creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends of green boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A collection of traditional folk-tales featuring animals, originally from the Acholi people of northern Uganda but here re-told for children by the author. 124pp, b&w drawings.. First Edition. Hard… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2009. Very slight creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book.. Looks at British boys comics from the late nineteenth century up to the late 1970s, specifically at those which were mainly or solely war comics, from Boys Own and Chums, through Wizard, Hotspur and Victor, to Warlord… Read more about this item

London: Paul Hamlyn, 1968. A crease to the spine and to corners of back cover, some scuffing to spine ends and corners of cover, but otherwise a not too bad copy of this soft-cover book. The story deals with a girl working in a Childrens Home with just the eight residents (the "Awful Eight" of the title). 125pp,… Read more about this item

Stornoway: Acair, 2005. Gaelic language text. Minor scuffing to outer corners of cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this large soft-cover book. Intended for children, a collection of (mostly) traditional Gaelic nursery rhymes, sayings and jingles. Text in Gaelic, no English translation. A heavy book, packaged weight is… Read more about this item

London: Lutterworth Press, 1955. Price-clipped dustwrapper has creasing and tears to the edges, with a large piece torn away at bottom edge of front panel (triangular piece about 2 inches high by 4 inches long). Some bumping to spine ends and corners of red boards, yellowing to the pages, original owner's school prize label dated 1958 on f/ep, but… Read more about this item

Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren förlag. , 2000. Some creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, very slight bumping to corners of blue boards, a previous owner's gift message on f/ep (possibly from the translator: last word looks a bit like Eivor, but I can't be sure), but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally published in… Read more about this item

London: Andre Deutsch, 1973. Ex school library copy with paper label inside front board and on f/ep, ink stamp on title page and on top edge of text blaock. Slight creasing to edges of price-clipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of brown boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. The story,… Read more about this item

London: George G Harrap & Co Ltd, 1938. No dustwrapper, some fading to spine of green boards but black titles thereon are still clear, as are those on front board. Original owner's name on f/ep, a few pages have the bottom corner torn but with no loss to the text, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover… Read more about this item