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Collins, 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1951. Reprinted. 314 pages. No dust jacket. Glue cloth with small illustration and white lettering. Pages are moderately tanned with noticeable foxing throughout. Pen inscription to front free end paper and pencil inscription to rear free end paper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Water marks to front board. Book has a slight forward lean. Slight crushing to spine ends.

Paperback. Very Good.

Collins, 1949. Hardcover. Good. 1949. First Edition Thus. 314 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Collins, 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable/Good. 1949. First Edition Thus. 314 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Binding remains firm with mild creasing to gutters. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning with visible tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Clipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall.

Collins Clear-Type Press, 1941. Hardcover. Good. 1941. Reprinted. 314 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with silver lettering. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Heavier tanning to endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Some sunning to head and tail of spine.

England: Collins, 1951. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Jacket is not price clipped but has large losses . Now in a new protective sleeve. Front free endpaper has date in ink. Presentable copy of a hard to find title Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Collins, 1945. presentation certificate front endpaper, some wear to covers, slightly loose in covers, otherwise book clean and sound. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

UK: Girls Gone By Publishers. Near Fine. 2005. Softcover. 1904417752 . A second hand copy that has probably been read carefully once; ; Abbey School; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Collins, c. 1928. 8vo. Original blue pictorial cloth (VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. viii + 314 + publisher's catalogue, illus with coloured frontispiece and 2 b&w plates (1928 school prize plate on front paste-down; no inscriptions).

Published by Collins, 1951. Hardback. Very Good/Good. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper. Seagull library edition. Blue boards with silver titles. Spine and corners bumped, some fading to top and tail of spine. Foxing to endpapers, first few and last few pages. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn and chipped with loss, some tape repairs on verso and rear panel is grubby.

London: London: Collin's Clear Type Press,. Good+. Blazer edition. Hardcover. Hbk; 314pp + 6pp; blue cloth covers with girls face in circle at centre of front cover; illustrated spine - girl in striped blazer waving her hanky; cloth a little worn & marked at edges; front hinge crackingcolour frontis; b/w plate opposite p. 90; text pages very clean; G++; Abbey Girls; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London and Glasgow: Collins Clear Type Press, 1940. Orange cloth boards with silver lettering in pictorial dustwrapper; 314pp; colour frontis. Light bumping to corners and spine ends with small chip to upper edge of boards; tanning and light foxing to page block edges and endpapers; previous owner details to front endpaper. Unclipped dustwrapper is grubby, nicked chipped and creased to edges with several tape repairs to reverse. From the Abbey School Series.. Reprint.. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus/Fair.

Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Wood, Elsie. Good condition with no wrapper. Red embossed cloth, black title to spine. Colour frontis. 314 pages plus booklist to rear. Spine and corners bumped. Covers slightly grubby, faded to spine. Front joint partially cracked. Foxing and grubby fingermarks but contents generally clean.

UK: Colins, 1940. New Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. New Edition Circa 1940. A new edition in this format. Book is very good++ and very bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good++ and quite bright. Edges lightly rubbed, and nicked. Very small loss to spine tips. Un-common in such a nice wrapper. More images can be taken upon request. Ref16297

London, Collins' Clear-Type Press, (1926).. EARLY REPRINT, circa 1926. 8vo, 205 x 135 mm, 8 x 5¼ inches, bright blue cloth, cameo portrait in flesh, black and orange on upper cover, girl in blazer waving in same colours on spine, lettered black upper cover and spine, pages: 314 + 6. Coloured frontispiece and 2 black and white plates by Elsie Wood. Spine just very slightly faded, very slightly worn at head and tail of spine and corners, 3 mm (1/8") hole just below top of lower hinge, top corners very slightly bumped, edges and prelims including page 1 slightly foxed, occasional slight foxing to contents, prize plate dated 1927 on front endpaper. Very good plus tight clean copy. First published in 1922 with a different cover illustration. ZOOMABLE IMAGE ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

LONDON, UK: COLLINS CLEAR-TYPE PRESS. BOUND IN RED CLOTH WITH CLEAR BLACK TITLES TO FRONT BOARD AND SPINE, THIS UNDATED REPRINT CIRCA 1930 HARDCOVER IS VG. 314pp with 24 Chapters. LIGHT FOXING TO PRELIMS, MISSING REAR FREE ENDPAPER; OTHERWISE VG . Near Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. 1930.

Collins, 1949. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. First collins edition without jacket on blue cloth with previous owners name and address will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable

Collins Bumper Copyright Reward. Good+. early 1920s. Collins' Bumper Copyright Reward Books. Hardcover. Thick 8vo Hbk; A strange copy; Spine bound in black cloth with gold gilt lettering; picture boards boards - Collins Bumper Copyright Reward Books. The spine is not put on afterwards as the G from Go in title is partially on top of Black spine; inside cover is a Bodleian Library sticker (where they hold 1st editions, but this isnt a 1st as described by Sue Sims) ; However on the Bodlian Library sticker are the details of first edition. On fep is the tradition picture of 2 girls in motor cycle and side car printed on thick paper and stuck on; on rear of fep is box with Collins Copyright rewards box containing 4 titles - 2 for Boys, Play Up Queens! & Play Up, Blues by D C Eyles & For Girls with Special illustrated Cover by Norman Sutcliff - The Abbey Girls & The Abbey Girls go back to School ; colour frontis; colour illustrated title page; on dedication page is a b/w stuck… Read More

London, Collins' Clear-Type Press nd [c. 1929].. viii+314pp. 8vo. Original pictorial boards, extremities and backstrip a little worn. Colour frontispiece. Foxing to edges. A very good, bright, copy.

Published by Collins Clear-Type Press, 1925 (Circa.). Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Wood, Elsie Anna. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Blue pictorial cloth, black titles. 314 pages plus 6 page book list to rear. Colour frontis plus 2 b/w plates. Covers are rubbed with small areas of scuffing. Corners are bumped. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some dampstaining to rear endpapers/pastedown and to top of outer page edges.