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Milton Bradley Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Bulletproof black Hard cover ex lib rebound, yet inside hides a gem! Interior VERY CLEAN AND TIGHT but for the normal library stamps. No tears! Smudges to title page. Illustrated.; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7 Professional bookseller for twenty years. Orders shipped daily in cardboard bookfolds.

Collins, London. Hardcover. Good. Undated (circa 1930's). Good Hardcover. No DJ. Colour illustrated boards. Edge and corner wear, corners bumped, owner's inscription in pencil on the half-title page, rust spots on page block edges. Colour frontispiece and B&W illustrations

london epworth press 1929 G. original orange boards are grubby, with pasted picture to front - but same is in poor rubbed and faded condition. board is 1/3 detached to one side of the spine, and all edges are worn. ( ask for scans ) textblock is securely bound and all pages and illustrations are present - but splits to joining with spine covering. fading spine is sunned and paste-down is part-missing. corners are bumped. both ends of spine are rounded with small loss. the endpapers are grubby and foxed. isolated foxing to edges of textblock. a reading copy only. all reflected in price for this uncommon title .

Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley, 1928. 1st . Very Good/None. Hardcover, black cloth with yellow lettering. Previous owner's inscription on prelim page. Chipping to lettering on spine otherwise very good. Color frontis, b&w plates. Colorful map of West Indies on endpapers. Record # 62587

Hurst & Company. Fair with no dust jacket. 1918. Reprint. Pictorial Hardcover. Covers have rubbing w/chipping and tears to paper covers, several moisture marks to rear cover, pages toned, FFEP has small chip and several tears and a pencilled inscription .

US. Fair with no dust jacket. 1904. Hardcover. Pictorial blue board & blue cloth binding rubbed at extremities; boards scuffed & edges chipped; hinges cracked & separating, several points in textblock cracked; front endpapers removed; leaves brittle & leaf detached but present; a bit of pencilled juvenile scribbling to paste-downs & endpapers; outer leaves foxed. No dj.; Many good b&w ils., color cover art. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" ; 256 pages .

London, The Fleetway House, 1928. cover illustration by Foxwell,. Fair. 1928. Hardcover. hardback, 4to, 72pp, illustrated in colour and b/w, owner's name on endpaper, contents clean and complete, pictorial boards and quarter cloth, board edges scuffed all round, spine split down one edge and frayed. Fair condition. .

C. Arthur Pearson Ltd (n/d). Imperial Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

The Epworth Press, 1929. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. No edition. 192 Pages. The boards are shelf rubbed and edge worn. They present as strong and sturdy. Internally, minor foxing, overall clean and complete. Tightly bound.[Ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London:: Issued from the Offices of 'The Playbox', Fleetway House / The Amalgamated Press Ltd,, 1935.. Hardcover. Very Good. 104pp, busy with things happening, richly illustrated, mostly in monochrome, with frontis and a few other pages in colour. Most pages rather card-like and browning at edges. 'Belongs to' window on front free endpaper neatly filled in with an adult gift inscription and dated 1935. A carefully-kept book, all pages unmarked and clean. Quarto, in the original pictorial boards with green cloth spine. Lower board advertises mincemeat, and has a little wear to the corners, spine is faded and a little rubbed, and the front, showing animals scoffing food accidentally tipped down stairs, is bright, with a little scuffing to edges. A nice copy of this annual, from an uncommon year!

HBDJ, 1948, 1st edition , Second printing STATED, SMALL BLUE CLOTH . VG/VG-, DUSTJACKET LITE WEAR RUB & SMALL EXTREMITIES CHIPS EDGES & Small tears , He wants them to realize that ordinary young kids can become saints! Title story & 9 others incl: Land of Diddley Da ,Tin-Foil Baby , Milly's Money ,Soldiers of Christ ,Leave it to Sadie, 2 GOOD FRIENDS, ,The Secret Plans ,The Most Famous Person ,The MAGIC Shield.

Melbourne: Gordon & Gotch, 1927. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. pictorial boards 206pp., col. frontis., colour plates, illusts., A little rubbing to edges of bright pictorial boards o/w a very nice, tight, square copy. PHOTO available

London. Skeffington & Son. 1889 1st edition.. 8vo. (Approx 8 x 6 inches.) In pale green pictorial bevelled cloth covers with gilt to spine. Vignette to back. Patterned endpapers. In good condition. Some darkening to edges of cover. Spine slightly darkened. Neat inscription to half-title page. Else a very clean and tight copy. 265pp. With 5 b&w full page plates and decorative headings and footers. Very scarce first edition of this collection of stories including; True to Her Charge, by G.A.Henty; A Gallant Rescue by R.M.Ballantyne, How the Starling Caught Cold by Geo.Manville Fenn, The New Master by S.Baring-Gould and others.

London. Skeffington & Son. 1889 1st edition.. 8vo. (Approx 8 x 6 inches.) In pale blue pictorial bevelled cloth covers with gilt to spine. Vignette to back. Patterned endpapers. In good condition. Some light marks to cover. Spine slightly darkened & bumped at the ends. Inside some light foxing spots, else generally clean and tight copy. 265pp. With 5 b&w full page plates and decorative headings and footers. Very scarce first edition of this collection of stories including; True to Her Charge, by G.A.Henty; A Gallant Rescue by R.M.Ballantyne, How the Starling Caught Cold by Geo.Manville Fenn, The New Master by S.Baring-Gould and others.