Retro, rare and collectible childrens books. Children's fiction authors Victor Appleton, Enid Blyton, Helen Dore Boylston, Franklin W Dixon, Sylvia Edwards and others. Authors A-E.
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Further adventures of Dido Twite, a Victorian tomboy, aboard a whaling ship and in Nantucket.
Part of the The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Chronicles.
PUFFIN PS346
young adult, whaling, alternate history, Hanoverian, Jacobite
G+ paperback, light reading or age wear, Puffin bookplate tipped onto inside cover
$10 A/A
Puffin 1969 first paperback edition, 173pp.
[PB1557 ]
Illustrated By Harry Toothill with 19 line drawings and 4 colour colour plates.
Bound in Sundour cloth with special designs for the binding, end-papers, and jackets by Alexander H. Williamson.
ISBN 0460050443
Children's Illustrated Classics 44,
VG cloth hardback with G+ dust jacket with some edge wear and slight fade to spine.
$20 C/C
Dent and Sons 1971, 326pp.
[#5305 ]
US first edition of this classic retro American young adult fiction.
VG- hardback in G dust jacket.
Name to half-title, paper scar to free end paper, jacket worn and chipped.
$15 C/B
Grosset & Dunlap 1954 first edition, 210pp.
[#4767 ]
The Tom Swift Science Adventures
Illustrated by Ray Johnson
UK reissue of classic retro American young adult fiction.
ISBN 001622145
G+ hardback with pictorial boards, no dust jacket.
$10 C/B
Collins 1969 first edition thus, 159pp.
[#4760 ]
The Tom Swift Science Adventures
Illustrated by Graham Kaye
UK reissue of classic retro American young adult fiction.
G+ hardback with pictorial boards, no dust jacket.
$10 C/B
Collins 1969 first edition thus, 191pp.
[#4761 ]
The Tom Swift Science Adventures
Illustrated by Graham Kaye
UK reissue of classic retro American young adult fiction.
G+ hardback with pictorial boards, no dust jacket.
$10 C/B
Collins 1969 first edition thus, 190pp.
[#4758 ]
The New Tom Swift Jr. adventures
UK issue of classic retro American young adult fiction.
VG hardback with VG- dust jacket with some wear.
$20 C/B
Sampson Low (1954) first edition thus, 192pp.
[#224 ]
The Tom Swift Science Adventures
Illustrated by Charles Brey
UK reissue of classic retro American young adult fiction.
ISBN 001622145
G+ hardback with pictorial boards, no dust jacket.
$10 C/B
Collins 1970 first edition thus, 160pp.
[#4759 ]
The Three Investigators; Jupiter Jones, Peter Crenshaw and Bob Andrews and their wild adventures.
ISBN0001601490
Collins #6
VG hardback with no dust jacket, school prize plate (dated 1971) to blank verso of fep, misbound so final text page pasted down to rear board (no loss of reading material)
$30 C/B
Collins 1968 first edition thus pictorial hardcovers, 159pp.[#2792 childrens fiction ]
[# ]
The Three Investigators; Jupiter Jones, Peter Crenshaw and Bob Andrews and their wild adventures.
ISBN0001600095
Collins #7
VG hardback with light wear, no jacket.
$15 C/B
Collins 1977 pictorial boards, 159pp
[#3722 ]
The Three Investigators; Jupiter Jones, Peter Crenshaw and Bob Andrews and their wild adventures.
ISBN0001600079
Collins #2
VG hardback with name to half title, browned closed edges. No dust jacket.
$15 C/B
Collins 1973, 158pp.
[#3723 ]
The Three Investigators; Jupiter Jones, Peter Crenshaw and Bob Andrews and their wild adventures.
ISBN0001600109
Collins #8
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
$15 C/B
Collins 1973, 158pp.
[#3724 ]
VG- name to ownership panel, date to title page, some crayon to colouring pages, one page has "this story is finished" written on it, some doodling to endpapers, light rubbing to corners.
$10 C/B [ILL 5]
Dean 1974 pictorial boards 4to, 93pp illustarted throughout by Attwell, stories by Douglas.
VG- some splitting to spine ends, sewn section pulling from covers, pen doodle at head of title page.
$10 B/B [ILL 6]
Dean 1959 pictorial boards 4to, 20pp, may be later reprinting, single collation of folded sewn sheets in the boards covers.
VG
$10 B/B [ILL 7]
Dean 1985 pictorial boards 4to, 20pp, sewn into the covers. ISBN 0603016022
VG
$10 B/B [ILL 8]
Dean 1985 pictorial boards 4to, 20pp, sewn into the covers. ISBN 0603085687
A British public school boy's adventure story, probably based on the author's experiences at Eton.
victorian, school boy fiction, boarding school, Britain
VG- hardback, minor damp splashes to cover, small piece cut out of fep.
$20 C/C
Thomas Nelson undated but 1910 or later based on adverts, 443pp +6 plates + 3pp adverts.
[#4825 ]
Illustrated children's fiction set in a small Italian lakeside village.
A girl prays to St Francis to help rescue birds from birdcatchers.
Translated by Katharine Potts from the original Kleine Schwester Schwalbe.
modern first edition, children
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
$10 B/B
Oxford University Press 1959 First edition, 63pp.
[#4091 ]
A story about the Wombles, who inhabitant a burrow on Wimbledon Common in London, and spend their days cleaning up the rubbish left by humans.
ISBN0510080030
The Wombles, collectable childrens book
VG- hardback with pictorial covers, with some rubbing to spine edges.
$10 C/A
Ernest Benn 1975 first edition, (28pp).
[#3961 ]
VG G short edge tears and chipping at spine ends and corners, unclipped
$20 C/B [BGO 8]
Sampson Low undated ( but has Grosset copyright date 1947) assumed first edition of UK issue, decorated red papered boards, map endpapers, 192pp similar vein to Hardy Boys etc
Being the Tenth Adventure of the Five Find-Outers and Dog
Illustrated by Treyer Evans.
G+ hardback with no jacket.
Lightly handling soiled, spine leans, name and address to free end paper.
$20 C/B
Methuen 1952 first edition, 179pp + adverts.
[#4699 ]
VG slightly rubbed boards
$10 C/B [BGO 11]
Hodder 1961 hardcover 191pp decorated endpapers, illustrated Eileen Soper
The Flying Goat / Unhappy Golliwog/ Puppy in Fairyland / Little Pink Pig / Pixie's Motor Bus / Enchanted Bellows / Little Light-Fingers.
British children's fiction, 1950s, british empire culture
G+ hardback, spine and corners rubbed back to the card, name to first page.
Souvenir of Royal Visit to New Zealand decal of the Queen and the New Zealand and British flags to paste down, internally VG.
No jacket.
$25 C/A
Pitkin undated first edition (?), 80pp
[#4793]
G+ spine edges rubbed and chipped to ends, split bottom of lower joint, one page has a clean straight tear
$15 C/C [BGO 50]
Latimer House undated (1950s) illustrated by Grace Lodge, coloured line in text plus painted plates, 124pp.
G+ front hinge cracked and loose,minor foxing, covers lightly worn, name to fep and bookseller blind embossed stamp.
$30 B/B [BGO 88]
MacMillan 1950 decorative cloth, illustrated Eileen Soper. 192pp.
VG lightly sunned spine, light soiling to boards, minor foxing to closed edges.
$10 C/B [BGO 136]
Methuen 1952 reprint of second edition hardcover, 197pp, illustrated by J Abbey.
G top fifth of backstrip missing, one page torn, ownership box filled in.
$10 B/B [BGO 143]
Sampson Low undated pictorial boards, approx 40pp colour illustrated throughout, 4 stories featuring Noddy, the Golly, Big-Ears etc.
VG minor bumping, slight foxing to endpapers.
$15 B/A [BGO 144]
Sampson Low 1967 pictorial boards with sewn in pages, 18p price to title page, 18pp. mainly full page colour pictures.
G+ rubbed joints and edges, lightly soiled cloth.
$15 C/B [BGO 145]
Methuen 1951 cloth, 150pp. Illustrated by Eileen Soper. 18 stories.
G+ rubbed joints and edges, lightly soiled cloth, sunned spine, foxed closed edges.
$15 C/B [BGO 146]
Evans 1949 fourth impression cloth, 224pp. Illustrated by Peter Beigel.
VG- sunned spine, pencil name to fep, light scattered foxing.
$10 C/B [BGO 147]
Country Life 1950 4to cloth, 152pp. Illustrated by Harry Rountree.
G+ soiled and rubbed cloth, name to fep, two ticks to list of titles at front, age browned paper stock.
$8 C/B [Item# 133 BGO]
Angus & Robertson 1949 first Australian edition cloth, 192pp.
G+ crease to front cover, one page lightly stained.
$5 A/A [BGO 121]
Knight 1972 paperback. 189pp. ISBN 0340024631
G creased covers with small pen price, one page starting to loosen.
$5 A/A [BGO 122]
Knight 1973 paperback. 190pp. ISBN 0340040076
VG lightly creased covers.
$5 A/A [BGO 131]
Knight 1976 paperback. 191pp. ISBN 0340040076
VG creased rear cover.
$5 A/A [BGO 132]
Knight 1975 paperback. 192pp. ISBN 0340040084
VG spine leans a little, light surface wear to boards, light scattered foxing to closed edges.
$20 B/B [BGO 135]
Bodley Head 1958 hard cover, 198pp.
VG VG faint fade to DW spine, light foxing closed edges.
$20 C/B [BGO 150]
Ward Lock 1957 hardcover (spine of DW numbered 253 by publisher), 220pp + 4pp adverts.
While flying over the Mad Two Hundred, a dusty road in the outback, Peter Devlin spots road bandits crashing into and looting other vehicles.
With no interest from the authorities, Peter and Jet search for the bandits and with a decoy car lure them to face justice.
ISBN0851795862
australian, young adult, fiction
VG hardback with pictorial boards. School prize plate pasted to front end paper.
$10 C/B
Rigby 1973 first edition, 172pp.
[#3770/4756 ]
Somewhere on the north-west coast illegal immigrants and drugs are being smuggled into Australia, the Air Patrol must thwart them.
ISBN 0851795102
australian young adults fiction
VG hardback with pictorial boards, rubbed edges, name to fep. No jacket.
$10 C/B
Rigby 1973 first edition, 173pp.
[#4673 ]
Peter Devlin and his friend Jet, are on a station hunting wild buffaloes.
While there they find themselves involved in hunting a gang that is smuggling wildlife out of Australia.
ISBN 0851795854
australian young adults fiction
VG hardback with pictorial boards, sunned spine.
$10 C/B
Rigby 1973 first edition, 172pp.
[#4757 ]
Beautifully illustrated edition of this classic tale.
VG- cloth hardback with wear to spine ends and faint foxing to closed page edges.
$45 C/C
Heinemann October 1939, 300pp + 8 colour plates with tissue guards.
[#3099 ]
Ken and Sandy head to Long Island for a week's holiday at the invitation of Sandy's school friend, Ted Bateson.
While planning on doing nothing more than help catch lobsters, the boys are quickly caught up in the mystery of why the Bateson's lobster pots are being robbed.
Even the boys have no idea of what they were getting into in this adventure.
ISBN0723555109
young adult, mystery, series
G+ hardback with no dust jacket, pictorial papered boards. Short split to joint, bumped corners, foxed closed edges.
$6 A/B
World Distributers Redwing Library 1972, 208pp.
[#3767 ]
When Richard Holt fails to meet an appointment with his son, Ken heads to New York in order to find him.
Kidnapped along the way, he manages to escape and seeks refuge with the Allen family, owners of the Brentwood Advance newspaper.
Sandy Allen teams up with Ken to investigate Holt's disappearance.
Heading to Skeleton Island, the last known destination of the kidnappers, leads Ken and Sandy into adventure, mystery and danger.
The boys uncover a clever international smuggling ring that requires all of their efforts to thwart.
ISBN0723555273
young adult, mystery, series
VG hardback with no dust jacket, pictorial papered boards, short split to top of lower joint,browned closed edges, number rubber stamped to final page.
$6 A/B
World Distributers Redwing Library 1973, 208pp.
[#3768 ]
The mayor of Brentwood dedicates a new lakeside playground, and the Allen clan were there to enjoy the event and cover it for the Advance newspaper.
On their way home, Sandy and Ken opt for a short cut, and rescue Ralph Conner from the wreck of his truck. However, this last incident in a string of bad luck, could cause the Conner Brother Trucking Company to lose its insurance coverage, and end of their business. It's up to Ken and Sandy to prove a conspiracy is involved.
Despite repeated attempts to explain the circumstances surrounding Ralph's crash, nothing concrete is achieved.
When Mr. Randolph Dutton enters and offers to buy out the company, suspicions are raised. When the name of James Tolliver becomes involved, the boys find out from Granger that the mob may be in on the action.
Further investigations at the lake on the outskirts of Brentwood, reveal the whole sordid plot. Ken and Sandy must escape a gas filled tunnel and a final battle with the forces arrayed against them, before successfully unraveling the Clue of the Phantom Car.
ISBN0723555265
young adult, mystery, series
G+ hardback with no dust jacket, pictorial papered boards. Short split to joint, bumped corners, foxed closed edges.
$6 A/B
World Distributers Redwing Library 1972, 208pp.
[#3769 ]
VG inscription to fep, spine ends rubbed
$5 C/B [BGO 19]
Whitman /Western Publishing 1970 pictorial hardcovers, 236pp.
VG original price label to cover, spine ends rubbed
$5 C/B [BGO 20]
Whitman /Western Publishing 1970 pictorial hardcovers, 236pp.
VG spine ends rubbed
$5 C/B [BGO 21]
Whitman /Western Publishing 1970 pictorial hardcovers, 236pp.
VG spine ends rubbed
$5 C/B [BGO 22]
Whitman /Western Publishing 1970 pictorial hardcovers, 236pp.
The Three Investigators; Jupiter Jones, Peter Crenshaw and Bob Andrews and their wild adventures.
ISBN0001600184
Collins #20
VG hardback with no dust jacket.
$25 C/B
Collins 1974 first edition thus, 158pp.
[#3725 ]
Nice large size (130x200mm) reissue with John Tenniel illustrations in line.
ISBN 9780099512073
alice in wonderland, Tenniel illustrations, vintage classics
VG large format paperback
$7 C/B
Vintage Books 2007, 327pp.
[#5234 ]
Going by DW art would be just post war vintage.
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with light rubbing. Light foxing to closed edges, inscription to free end paper.
$15 A/B
Ward Lock undated (1950s?) 12mo, 190pp+ frontis +1pp adverts.
[#3656 ]
First published in this form in 1949 with an all new style of illustrations, this reprint is a tidy copy with line illustrations throughout as well as the colour plates.
mad hatter, illustrated alice, collectable
VG- hardback with no jacket, name blacked out to endpaper.
$35 C/C
Heirloom Library 1954, 287pp + 8 colour plates.
[#4116 ]
Two works in one book, with 92 black and white illustrations in the text and 8 colour plates by John Tenniel.
Tenniel's Alice in Wonderland
VG red cloth hardback with no dust jacket, small name blacked out to free end paper.
$45 C/C
MacMillan and Co. 1934 reprint of the New Edition of 1921, 299pp +8 col. plates.
[#4118 ]
Two volumes in papered boards with cloth spines.
With illustrations by John Tenniel.
Quality paper and binding.
quarter cloth, deluxe edition, children's fiction, classics
FINE hardcovers in slipcase.
$35 C/C
The Folio Society 1996 reprint, 113 + 132pp.
[#4186 ]
In earlier editions the illustrations are reproduced from steel engravings taken from the master woodblocks.
These were thought lost, but they resurfaced in 1985.
The steel plates wore out with each printing, losing clarity and detail.
This edition now reproduces 42 black and white illustrations in the text reproduced from these original woodblock engravings made from John Tenniel's illustrations.
Printed on quality sized paper, will all page edges gilt. With the book cover replicated on jacket design.
ISBN9780688110871
Lewis Carroll, original illustrations, John Tenniel, Alice in Wonderland, children's classic
VG+ pictorial hardback in VG+ dust jacket. Near new condition.
$30 C/B
Books Of Wonder 1992, 196pp.
[#4138 ]
With Tenniel's illustrations including 16 colour plates.
Pictorial endpapers.
Reprint of the 1927 Children's Edition.
Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Alice in Wonderland, children's classic
G+ hardback with no dust jacket.
Some fading to green cloth, hinges weakened, spine leans.
Name whited out at head of title page.
$30 C/C
MacMillan 1942, 206pp +2pp adverts.
[#4139 ]
With a colour frontispiece, and monotone illustrations by John Tenniel in the text.
Top edge dusted teal blue, fore edges untrimmed.
alice in wonderland, dodgson,
VG- hardback, no jacket. A few pages have light creases.
$10 C/B
Junior Deluxe Editions, Garden City, New York, undated, approx 1960s, 189pp.
[#4688 ]
VG inscription to fep, browned endpapers, minor fraying top edge of spine, sunned spine, printed sections 7-9 repeated and bound at rear.
$10 C/C [BGO 85]
Nisbet undated but inscription dated 1923, cloth 240pp+ plates (+ extra sections).
Pristine first edition in unclipped dust jacket of this posthumously published tale by Roald Dahl.
Illustrated by Patick Benson.
ISBN9780224028998
illustrated, childrens fiction
VG+ hardback in VG+ dust jacket.
$30 B/C
Jonathan Cape 1991 first edition, 48pp.
[#4233 ]
Tidy first edition in unclipped dust jacket of these wicked rhymes by Roald Dahl.
Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
ISBN9780224026604
illustrated, childrens verse
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$35 B/C
Jonathan Cape 1989 first edition, 80pp.
[#4234 ]
VG
$8 C/B [BGO 39]
Collins 1971 first thus hardcover pictorial boards, 159pp. ISBN 000160502X
VG
$8 C/B [BGO 40]
Collins 1971 first thus hardcover pictorial boards, 159pp. ISBN 0001605046
VG name to fep, light soiling to covers
$8 C/B [BGO 41]
Collins 1971 first thus hardcover pictorial boards, 160pp. ISBN 0001605062
VG
$8 C/B [BGO 42]
Collins 1972 first thus hardcover pictorial boards, 160pp. ISBN 0001605097
VG
$8 C/B [BGO 43]
Collins 1972 first thus hardcover pictorial boards, 160pp. ISBN 0001605100
G+ name and shop stamp to fep, spine edges rubbed, browned
$5 C/B [BGO 44]
Collins 1972 first thus hardcover pictorial boards, 158pp. ISBN 0001605216
VG
$8 C/B [BGO 45]
Collins 1972 first thus hardcover pictorial boards, 157pp. ISBN 0001605232
VG
$8 C/B [BGO 46]
Collins 1972 first thus hardcover pictorial boards, 156pp. ISBN 0001605240
VG spine leans, rubbed to corners
$6 C/B [BGO 47]
Collins 1974 first thus hardcover pictorial boards, 157pp. ISBN 0001605321
G rubbed and soiled cloth, inscription to reverse of frontis, some fingermarking and dog ears
$10 C/B [BGO 48]
Harold Hill & Son 1951 first British edition, cloth, 222pp
The Hardy Boys Series #26
ISBN 0001605267
British printing
VG hardback with light soiling rear cover, no jacket.
$10 C/B
Collins 1973 first thus, 160pp.
[#4649 ]
The Hardy Boys Series #30
ISBN 0001605305
British printing
VG hardback with light soiling rear cover, no jacket.
$10 C/B
Collins 1973 first thus, 157pp.
[#4650 ]
VG- light wear to covers, list of titles on lower board have been neatly ruled through with pen.
$6 C/B [BGO 118]
Collins 1974 first thus hardcover pictorial boards, 158pp.ISBN 000160533X
The Hardy Boys Series #34
ISBN 0001605348
British printing
VG- hardcover pictorial boards, rubbed edges, name to free end paper.
$10 C/B
Collins 1974 first thus, 160pp.
[#4785 ]
The Hardy Boys Series #36
ISBN 0001605364
British printing
VG- hardcover pictorial boards, light wear.
$10 C/B
Collins 1974 first thus, 158pp.
[#4830 ]
The Hardy Boys Series #47
ISBN 0448089475
Publisher number 8947, priced at 2.50
VG hardback with light rubbing spine ends, top edge dusting seeps into extreme page margins, no jacket.
$10 C/B
Grosset and Dunlap 1968, 174pp.
[#4651 ]
G+ sunned spine, aged cloth with rubbed corners.
$8 C/B [BGO 120]
Harold Hill & Son 1951 first thus hardcover pictorial cloth boards, 224pp.
VG fep removed, slight discolouration rear fep.
$5 C/B [BGO 149]
Nelson 1955 first edition hardcover, 198pp col frontis.
Sally Baxter, teenaged reporter, is sent for her third foreign assignment, as escort to the winner of the Evening Cry competition for Britain's Best Amateur Actress, Rosemary Hunter, to Hollywood where she stumbles on the mysterious case of Maria Teckla, a German girl who is also aspiring to fame.
young adult, series, girl's stories
VG hardback with no jacket, spine ends rubbed, name to first page.
$7 C/B
World Distributors 1961 first edition (?), 184pp.
[#4791 ]
G+ hardback with G+ jacket, lacks free end paper, jacket torn top corner but no loss, private library label and tape at base of backstrip of jacket.
$10 C/B
World Distributors 1961 first edition (?), 184pp.
[BGO 128 ]
"What's It Like to Be a Millionaire" is a light-hearted series of articles in the Evening Cry, and Sally Baxter, junior reporter, thinks she is lucky to be assigned to a rich man's yacht on a cruise in sun-lit waters. Sally loves the lavish life on the yacht with Marcia Carezza and her father, but she secretly yearns to join a crew of students whose broken-down boat sails the same course.
young adult, series, girl's stories
VG hardback with no jacket.
$7 C/B
World Distributors 1961 first edition (?), 184pp.
[#4792 ]
G rubbed boards, lacks fep, pages aged
$10 C/B [BGO 94]
Cassell 1947 first Australian edition cloth, 256pp + colour frontis and eight engraved plates by J Steeple Davis. East Coast USA Indians and Colonists adventure tale.
Alphabetical cyclopedia of the characters from children's fiction.
Very detailed and giving full information on the books, or series of books, which the characters appear in.
With illustrations from the works mentioned.
ISBN0297770373
biographies, imaginary persons, literary characters, encyclopedia, juvenile fiction,
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket with some sun fading.
$20 B/D
Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1978 (third printing), 399pp.
[#3919]