Vintage Children's Books from White Swan Books

Four exciting stories, published seperately as: Bull Dog Drummond; The Black Gang; The Third Round; The Final Count. Light Grey cloth cover with Red & Black Lettering on front & spine. Several small stains on spine (see photo. No inscriptions.

Nice edition, well illustrated with 4 Full-Page Full Colour Plates by Frank Adams. Frontis. illus. Alice with the White Rabbit. Title page has Brown & White Decorative Bluebell Border. Green cloth cover with Red and Black Rose and Shield Design on front & Spine. Black title on front, Gilt lettering on spine. From the "Stories… Read more about this item

Sketches of action in World War I, set in the salient of Ypres. Brown cloth cover with Black Lettering on front & spine. Hinges cracked. Text block firm. No inscriptions.

Undated edition, first published in 1923. Circa 1920s. Exciting adventure story. Illustrated with 4 Full-Page Monochrome Plates. Frontis illus. Sinclair held by natives in front of an idol. Red cloth cover with Black illus of Sinclair in the grasp of 2 natives. Spine illus. a rearing Elephant. Black Lettering on front & spine.… Read more about this item

Delightful Poems for Children. Illustrated with Full-Page Engraved Plates. Frontis illus, 2 Ladies and a Girl. Poems include: Feeding the Fairies; A North Pole Poem; The Little White Doe; Butterfly and Fairies. Blue cloth cover with Gilt Decoration on front & spine. All page edges Gilt. Brown endpapers. Lead pencil… Read more about this item

Childrens story about Six year old Willy riding his Shetland Pony on the common and the interesting things he observes including: a House being built and coal, chalk and gravel pits. Main text 131 pages + Publisher's adverts. Period Red Quarter cloth leather cover with Marbles paper-covered boards. Some light wear to leather around sides of spine and some… Read more about this item

Lewis Carroll's hilarious Classic Nonsense tale of the Bellman's nautical expedition to hunt the elusive Snark with his bizarre crew including the Lace Making Beaver and the Banker. Illustrated with 9 Full-Page B&W Plates. Frontis illus. the Bellman wading ashore carrying the Banker. Buff cloth cover illustrated with the Bellman seated up on a spar in the… Read more about this item

Enchanting childrens story of 2 owlets, Bunting and Snunting born in the Belfry. B&W illustrations by Randolph Caldecott. Frontis illus. the Owlets and their parents. Title page has vignette of the 2 Owls. Main text 78 pages + several pages of Leadenhall Press adverts. Card cover with Brown paper jacket illustrated with vignette of 2 owls and black… Read more about this item

Delightful story about a tiny Fairy born in the heart of a Rose. B&W illustrations by Herbeet Beecroft include a Full-Page Monochrome Plate of Rose Fairy at Elfin Court. Undated Edition probably circa early20th C. Buff wraps with Red & Black Print and a line drawing of Rose Fairy in the air. Stapled binding. Rear… Read more about this item

First published in 1906. This Edition has 24 Beautiful Full-Page Colour Plates, each protected by a Captioned Tissue Guard. Green cloth cover with Gilt Embossed illus. of Peter Pan playing Pan Pipes while seated on a mushroom. Decorative Gilt lettering on spine. Frontis illus has same design of Peter playing the pipes but is a full-page Colour Plate and shows… Read more about this item

Exciting story about a boy who dreams of becoming a soldier under General Wolfe when the British and French were fighting for Canada. Undated Edition, gift inscription on ffep dated 1909. No other inscriptions. Well illustrated with many B&W Full-Page Plates and In-Text illustrations. White Quarter leather cover with Blue boards and a lovely Chromolithograph portrait of… Read more about this item

Thrilling history of the Hero of the Fens. Period Full-Leather prize binding woth bright gilt armorial bearing of Cheltenham College on front. 5 Raised bands to spine with Gilt decoration and title in the compartments. Endpapers and all page edges Marbled. Small piece of leather missing from top corner of spine and war to fore corners… Read more about this item

Delightful story of 2 Christian Boys and their kindly and adventurous progress. Well illustrated Children's Classic with over 100 B&W Full-Page Plates and In-Text Illustrations. Period Blue cloth cover with bright Gilt ground to Lettering on front & spine. Blind enbossed Floral Design on front & spine. Top page edges Blue. Title page had Vignette… Read more about this item

Delightful story of Tommy Merton and Harry Sandford and their kindly and adventurous progress. In this edition some obsolete expressions are modernized, frequent recurrence of the Sacred Name in colloquial discourse expunged and a long theological discourse between Mr Merton & Mr Barlow omitted. Frontis illus. shows the 2 boys looking at vignettes of historical heroes. … Read more about this item

Exciting re-telling of the ancient Legend of Grim the fisher and his Foster-son, Havelok, one of England's most popular legends from the conquest to at least Elizabethan times. Well illustrated with 6 full-page B&W Plates. Frontis. illus. Havelok in a banqueting Hall, protected by tissue guard. Title page illustrated with large vignette of soldiers hailing Havelok. … Read more about this item

Delightful childrens book packed with Short Stories with In-Text Illustrations & Full Colour and Part Colour and B&W Comic Strips. Includes: Billy Bunter's Booby-Trap; Biggles Baits the Trap and Enid Blyton's "An Adventurous Evening." Colour Frontis illus. of a Goose tugging a sheet off a washing line. Cloth spine missing. Rear hinge cracked and… Read more about this item

Beautifully illustrated Edition, undated probably circa 1940s-'50s. Complete with all 16 lovely Full-Page Full-Colour Plates. Red cloth spine with Black Lettering. Front cover illustrated with the Sexton and several others carrying the Golden Goose. Sunshine series design on the back. 16 Stories including: The Frog Prince; Hansel & Grethel; Rumplestiltskin; The… Read more about this item

Beautifully illustrated stories from the old Testament and New Testament. Many Full-Page Colour Plates, also some B&W Full-Page ilustrations of the children learning the Bible. Text takes the charming form of Mummy telling the Bible stories to Beryl, Derek and Pauline. Blue cloth spine. White and red scene from the Holy Land on front with a… Read more about this item

Delightful volume packed with short stories with In-Text illustrations and Full-Colour, Part-Colour and B&W Comic Strips. Includes: Billy Bunter"s Booby-Trap; Biggles Baits the Trap & Enid Blyton's "An Adventurous Evening". Colour Frontis. illus. A Goose attacking a line of washing. Dark Blue Pictorial Boards illustrated with many vignettes of the Characters. Cloth spine missing. Edge wear to boards. Rear hinge… Read more about this item

Delightful children's story about the doll Belindy who was Mammy to Raggedy Ann, Raggedy Andy and all the dolls in the Nursery. Beautifully illustrated in colour by the author, Johnny Gruelle, with many Full-Page Plates and In-Text illustrations. From the "Volland Happy Children's Books" series. Purple boards with decorative patter nad large colour illus. of Belindy waving,… Read more about this item