Children from Andmeister Books

London: The Amalgamated Press, 1927. Comic. Good. Soft cover. Another Edition. 1920s school fun featuring Elizabeth Gertrude Bunter otherwise known as Bessie, also referred to as "The fat girl of the Fourth" demonstrating what different times they were. Paginated from 219 - 252. Foxing on front cover and occasionally in the text. Staple bound, staples rusty with wear to spine… Read more about this item

London: The Amalgamated Press , 1930. Book. Fair. Soft cover. Another Edition. 280mm Tall. No.58 Vol 3 Week Ending September 6th 1930. 27 pages. Illustrated. Wholesome 1930s adventure and stuff, more Roedean than St Trinian's for this magazine. Very worn spine, staple bound - some marking in the staple area due to rusting. Edges of covers and pages browning… Read more about this item

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1913. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Another Edition. 190mm Tall, 12mo. With 12 colour illustrations. 340 pages. Wear to top/base of spine and a little to cover corners. School award plate on front pastedown. Drawing in pencil on front free endpaper by same pupil. Some foxing on title page and occasionally elsewhere. .

London: Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1895. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 180mm Tall. [1895] Includes Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and The Story Of a Short Life. 252 pages. Cover corners worn with small surface loss to top front corner. Slight browning to half-title page, title page and margins. .

London: The Amalgamated Press, 1932. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 275mm Tall. The Gem, spiffing stuff from the 1930s. This edition has the story Prime Minister of St. Jim's! by Martin Clifford. There are only a few pictures, they read a lot in those days. 28 pages. Staple bound, rather battered and soiled copy, staples rusty and… Read more about this item

The Boy Scouts Association/Evans Brothers, 1938. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 310mm Tall, Folio. Clean copy with no annotations or details filled in. Lots of photographs. Some wear to top/base of spine. Small mark on front cover, and mark on back cover..

London and Glasgow: Collins, 1961. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Another Edition. 190mm Tall, 12mo. Light blue cloth covers with silver title on spine and small vignette on front cover. 192 pages. Dust jacket not price clipped. Dust jacket worn on extremities and surface, with small loss at base of spne. Small dirt mark on page 22.… Read more about this item

London: John Harris, 1111. Book. Good. Hardcover. Another Edition. 135mm Tall, 32mo. Circa 1830. Frontispiece plus 19 other full-page wood-cuts. Rebound.

Melbourne, London, Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd, 1953. Book. Illus. by Katherine Wigglesworth. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 180mm Tall, 12mo. 69 pages. Dust jacket generally worn and soiled, loss at top/tail of spine, and corners, price clipped or better described as price torn. Book has split and wear to top and tail of spine; light wear to cover corners.… Read more about this item

London: The Daily Mirror, 1930. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 245mm Tall, 8vo. Wear to cover corners and edges, cover surfaces lightly dirty and scratched. Both crosswords partially completed in pencil. Two pages of the Prizes for Paintings pages were cut out fairly neatly down the 'cut here' line, hopefully sent in before the deadline of February 15… Read more about this item

New York: The Viking Press, 1980. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 220mm Tall, 8vo. Covers of khaki boards with blue cloth spine. Signed inscription by author on front free endpaper. Dust jacket has lost the back and back flap, with loss also to top/tail of spine..

London and Glasgow: Collins, 1111. Book. Illus. by H. M. Brock and Irene Mountfort. Good. Hardcover. Another Edition. 260mm Tall, 4to. [1942] Dust jacket has loss at top/tail of spine and lower edge, and back corner; creases to remains of lower back edge, top front edges and corners..

London: Blackie & Son Limited, 1111. Book. Good. Hardcover. Edition Not Stated.. 185mm Tall, 12mo. Children's adventure published when Africa was viewed as the 'dark continent'. 190pp plus 16 pages of publisher's Story Books list. School prize bookplate on front pastedown dated 1905, recipients name and date on free endpaper. Wear to cover extremities..

London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited, 1111. Book. Illus. by Frank Adams. Good. Hardcover. Edition Not Stated.. 280mm Tall; 4to. The cheery tale of two orphans whose uncle orders them to be killed by two ruffians, who instead leave them to die in a forest. They dont write them like this anymore. Not dated, circa 1920. With… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan & Co, 1885. Book. Good. Hardcover. Edition Not Stated.. 170mm Tall, 16mo. 403pp plus four pages of publisher's advertisements. Dedication on front free endpaper. Foxing on pastedowns and endpapers..

London, Edinburgh, and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1111. Book. Good. Hardcover. Another Edition. 260mm Tall, 4to. Numerous illustrations with 27 colour plates. Not dated. Inscription on half-title page dated 1926. 320 pages. Blue cloth covers with gilt title and vignette on front and title on spine. Spine bumped top/base. Some marks on covers. … Read more about this item

Geneve: Edition ATAR, 1111. Book. Illus. by P. Kaufmann. Good. Hardcover. Another Edition. 190mm Tall, 12mo. Text in French. Not dated. Gilt Title with gilt and black illustration of boy and girl and bookshelf on front cover. Nice illustrations. Front endpaper torn, Page edges somewhat soiled..

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd, 1111. Book. Good. Pictorial Cover. Edition Not Stated.. 270mm Tall, 4to. [1950] A kind of early Jeremy Clarkson (Top Gear on TV) book - motor cars, bikes, and speed. Loads of splendid photographs. 159 pages. Repaired spine, wear to cover edges and surface; no inscriptions..

Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1957. Book. Illus. by Joan Hassell. Very Good. Hardcover. Another Edition. 240mm Tall. A full repository of the nursery rhymes and ditties which are the heritage of our oral tradition. Reprinted with corrections, 224pp. Tears down back top edges of dust jacket and further small tears to edges. Previous owners… Read more about this item

London: Juvenile Productions, 1111. Book. Illus. by 'Fel'. Fair. Hardcover. Another Edition. 250mm Tall, 4to. Seventeen bedtime stories by various authors with numerous illustrations. 77 pages. [1953]. Cover edges worn and covers soiled. Page 9 has some pencilled lines and illustration crayoned, remaining pages clean with only slight soiling on a few pages..