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Billy Bunter's Beanfeast
by Frank Richards
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- photocopy
- Edition
- 1st edition, ,1st printing
- Published
- 1952
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Dorset, GBR
- Item Price
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€29.42
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First edition, first printing Billy Bunter with Original red cloth boards.
Photocopy DJ is very well fitted and covered in protective poly cover.
Frontispiece "Coker, his eyes and nose and mouth full of jam, spluttered horribly"
Illustrated by R. J. MacDonald.
240pp
Used, very good. Photocopy DJ has copied the grubbiness and wear of the original. Boards have a few fingerprint marks. Internally very lean.… Read more about this item Item Price
€29.42
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Sea Fights and Land Battles: From Sluys to the Bombardment of Alexandria [1890]
by Mrs Valentine
- Condition
- Used - Good-
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1890
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Dorset, GBR
- Item Price
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€58.84
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'and from Hastings to the War of the Sudan'
Antiquarian book aimed at older children of the 1800s.
Blue boards decorated in red with gold text to front and spine.
Fair. Rubbing and bumping to outside boards and spine. Inner fly pages completely detached (still present) frayed at the edges and tanned. spine very loose. Frontispiece 'Almeida' present. 294 pages present. Some… Read more about this item Item Price
€58.84
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
by J. K Rowling
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- Children's Edition First Edition
- Published
- 2005
- ISBN
- 9780747581086
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Dorset, GBR
- Item Price
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€116.50
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Excellent copy of this popular children's book. First edition - ideal gift that will increase in value over time. CONDIITON: Used, near fine. Unread, very slight beginnings of tanning to internal pages, no inscriptions, DJ has v. slight shelf wear. DJ not price clipped. Item Price
€116.50
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
by J. K Rowling
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 2003
- ISBN
- 9780747569404
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Dorset, GBR
- Item Price
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€116.50
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Excellent copy of this extremely popular book. This in book 5 of a series of 7. First edition. CONDITION: Unread, very slight beginnings of tanning to internal pages, no inscriptions, DJ has v. slight shelf wear. DJ not price clipped. Item Price
€116.50
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J. K. Rowling
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Published
- 2007
- ISBN
- 9780747591054
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Dorset, GBR
- Item Price
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€116.50
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First edition. CONDITION: unread. Very slight crease to bottom front edge of DJ and light edge wear to DJ and page edges. No inscriptions. Item Price
€116.50
The Boys' Watchword or Syd and His Brothers
by Jennie Harrison
- Condition
- Used - Good-
- Edition
- Early
- Published
- 1893
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Dorset, GBR
- Item Price
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€70.61
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Very rare copy of this popular boys' story. Undated, but school prize plate dated 1893 (8 years after 1st publication). Pictorial cloth boards with gilt title band to front board. Pictorial design to spine. Floral design to pastedowns. Frontispiece. 392pp + several pages of ads. CONDITION: boards worn and grubby (particularly back and spine). Dusting to edges. School gift plate… Read more about this item Item Price
€70.61
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Racketty-Packetty House
by Queen Crosspatch aka Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1907
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Dorset, GBR
- Item Price
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€58.84
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First edition. Brown cloth boards with pictorial inlay. Frontispiece. Colour plate illustrations throughout. 92pp. Size 16 x 13 x 1 cm. CONDITION: Very light wear to boards; discolouration to prelims; a few very slight marks internally but mostly very clean and bright. Some loosening of binding towards the back. In poly cover. Very bright, clean copy. Item Price
€58.84
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Biggles in the Jungle
by Captain W. E. Johns
- Condition
- Used, good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st, 3rd reprint
- Published
- 1947
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Dorset, GBR
- Item Price
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€35.30
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Excellent copy of this timeless "Boys' Adventure"
Used, good. No DJ. Boards grubbied, spine faded, prize-winner bookplate on front pastedown. Binding a little loose at front only. Internally clean.
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€35.30
The Floating Island
by Jules Verne
- Condition
- Used - Boards: worn, bumped and marked. Edges: darkened and dusted. Prelims: foxed; ownership inscription on ffep. Internal pages: tann
- Jacket Condition
- none issued
- Published
- c. 1925
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Dorset, GBR
- Item Price
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€17.65
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Undated - c. 1925. Pictorial cloth boards with illustrations in green, blue, beige, black to front and spine. Lettering black. Author's copyright edition. Colour frontispiece 'The Sea began to Spread over The Country'. 264 pp + ads. Item Price
€17.65
The Willows in Winter
by William Horwood
- Condition
- Used, very good. Dust jacket: light wear. Clipped. In poly cover. Book: bright, clean, no inscriptions. Binding good.
- Jacket Condition
- Dust jacket: light wer. Clipped. In poly cover.
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1993
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Dorset, GBR
- Item Price
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€29.42
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First edition of the modern sequel to the classic children's favourite, The Wind in the Willows.
An enchanting, unforgettable new novel, enlivened with the delightful illustrations of Patrick Benson, in which Willian Horwood has recaptured all the joy, magic and good humour of Graham'd great work - and Toad is as exasperatingly lovable as he ever was - from dust… Read more about this item Item Price
€29.42
Gamble Gold
by His Honour Judge Edward Abbott Parry
- Condition
- Used - boards worn, bumped and marked but still bright and pleasant. Gift inscription on ffep, dated 1908. Foxing to prelims and edges.
- Jacket Condition
- None issued
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1907
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Dorset, GBR
- Item Price
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€35.30
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With illustrations by Harry Furniss. Class children's adventure, aimed at 10yrs plus (then). 8vo. 248pp. Embossed presentation edition. Pictorial red cloth boards with gilt and black inlay illustration (Gamble brushing down the salmon) and text to front and spine. Gilt edged. Frontispiece 'Gamble, King of Wales'. Item Price
€35.30
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Fighting Against Fate or Brent Brompton's Delusion
by Helen Briston
- Condition
- Used. Fine. Fading to spine; very minor wear to boards; gift plate on front pastedown (dated 1913); minor discolouration to prel
- Jacket Condition
- None issued
- Edition
- 1st or 2nd
- Published
- pre-1913
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Dorset, GBR
- Item Price
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€58.84
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Very rare, early edition of a charming children's book. Adventure, readership age 10 - 16yrs. Red cloth pictorial boards and spine. All edges gilt. 240pp. Item Price
€58.84
Little Susy's Six Birthdays and other Stories
by Mrs. Elizabeth Pretiss [The Author of Stepping Heavenward]
- Condition
- Used - Front board worn and bumped; back board has large water stain and slight grubbiness; spine is worn, grubby and bumped; boards an
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Published
- 1896
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Dorset, GBR
- Item Price
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€35.30
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Lovely bright copy of this charming nineteenth-century children's book. Illustrated throughout with b/w line drawings in the typical Victorian style. Item Price
€35.30
The Bears' Holiday
by Stan and Jan Berenstain
- Condition
- Used - Boards and spine worn and grubby. Internal pages clean. Binding good.
- Jacket Condition
- none issued
- Edition
- 1st UK
- Published
- 1969
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Dorset, GBR
- Item Price
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€11.77
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63pp. 'I can read it all by myself' Beginner Books. This charming story about what the bears got up to on their holidays, is aimed at children around 6 - 7 years old. This is the first UK edition of this popular series of children's books. Item Price
€11.77
The Last Little Cat
by Meindert DeJong
- Condition
- Used - original orange boards with cat inlay on front - minor bumping and fading; minor discolouration; foxing to page edges. Corner m
- Jacket Condition
- not price clipped; foxing on inside; spine damaged; grubby and chipped.
- Edition
- 1st UK
- Published
- 1962
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Dorset, GBR
- Item Price
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€17.65
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First UK edition. Illustrated by Jim McMullan. Size 23 x 17cm. 66pp. Collectible children's book about a cat who finds its perfect home. Aimed at 8 - 9 year olds, to read themselves. Item Price
€17.65
Blueberg the Little Iceberg
by Geoff Taylor
- Condition
- Used - boards and spine very good; foxing to page edges; minor finger marking to some pages; binding very good.
- Jacket Condition
- worn around the edges and torn at the corners; foxing, grubbiness and closed tears; price-clipped.
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1960
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Dorset, GBR
- Item Price
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€23.54
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Illustrated by D. G. Valentine. Being the narrative of his adventures on a tropic shore with the whale Blowhard. With maps on front and back pastedowns. Original dust jacket and blue cloth boards with white lettering to spine. Collectible children's book. First edition. Item Price
€23.54
Tom Swift and his Jetmarine
by Victor Appleton II
- Condition
- Used - Dust jacket very chipped and worn around the edges, with a large closed tear at lower spine and 2 inches of upper spine of dust
- Jacket Condition
- Dust jacket very chipped and worn around the edges, with a large closed tear at lower spine and 2 inches of upper spine of dust
- Published
- 1954
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Dorset, GBR
- Item Price
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€11.76
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Classic boys' Sci Fi adventure. Item Price
€11.76
Seeketh Not Her Own
by Sidney Mary Sitwell
- Condition
- Used - Boards bumped and rubbed but still good and intact. Ownership inscription on ffep. Internal pages clean.
- Jacket Condition
- None issued
- Published
- c. 1885
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Dorset, GBR
- Item Price
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€47.07
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Collectible Victorian children's fiction. Original heavy, very pictorial boards with gilt to title band on spine. Prelims with daisy design. Pages of ads front and back. Frontispiece: Tournois admiring Marthe and Fanchette. (H. Petherick, 1882). New edition. Shaw's Gift Series. Item Price
€47.07
Lost in the Arctic: A Tale of Baffin's Bay
by A. B. Cooper
- Condition
- Used. Minor wear to boards, some rubbing to spine, spine sunned. Presentation plate on front pastedown. Prelims slightly discolo
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Published
- c. 1914
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Dorset, GBR
- Item Price
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€35.30
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Collectable children's arctic adventure. original blue pictorial boards. Item Price
€35.30
The White North with Nordenskiold, De Long, and Nansen
by M. Douglas
- Condition
- Used - Boards bumped and rubbed but fairly clean. Three illustration plate missing, but not the centerfold one. All maps present. Some
- Jacket Condition
- none issued
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1900
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Portland, Dorset, GBR
- Item Price
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€35.30
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Classic children's book about the exploration of the Arctic.
Original blue cloth pictorial boards. Item Price
€35.30