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EVERY BOY'S STORY BOOK- The Bumper Book Series-3

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NO DATE OR D/W. PICTURE BOARDS WITH RED CLOTH SPINE. PREVIOUS OWNER NAME, BOARDS RUBBED AT THE EDGES OTHERWISE CLEAN AND BRIGHT. STORIES INCLUDE "THE RIO KID RIDES AGAIN !", "BAD LUCK FOR BILLY BUNTER" AND "FOES OF THE FOREST" AND OTHER FRANK RICHARDS GEMS

SCARCE BP ANNUAL CONTAINING RICHARD BACON "EX-PRESENTER" AND ARTICLES LIKE "RACING THE DRAGON" STONE ME!" AND "POT IT!". WITHDRAWN AFTER BACON'S SACKING FOR ALLEDGED SUBSTANCE ABUSE. NO D/W AS ISSUED. FINE.

1st edition hardback in fine condition. The dust wrapper is also fine and unclipped. There are no previous owner names or marks. Nineteen folk tales from around the world told by an imagined narrator to varied audiences, leaving the reader free to infer location and time. Adams, author of "Watership Down", combines his knack for storytelling with the rich and beautiful illustrations. Illustrated with colour plates by Yvonne Gilbert, b/w drawings by Jennifer Campbell.

810. Adams, Richard: Watership Down

Published by Rex Collings, London, 1976

Second edition hardback, later printing. Slightly sunned at the top edge otherwise both book and unclipped dust wrapper(a little sunned at the spine) would be fine. No previous owner names or marks. Fiver could sense danger. Something terrible was going to happen to the warren - he felt sure of it. So did his brother Hazel, for Fiver's sixth sense was never wrong. They had to leave immediately, and they had to persuade the other rabbits to join them. And so begins a long and perilous journey of a small band of rabbits in search of a safe home. Fiver's vision finally leads them to Watership Down, but here they face their most difficult challenge of all...

653. Adams, Richard: Watership Down

Published by Penguin/Kestrel, 1978

Hardback reprinted illustrated edition in slipcase. Slightly dusty spine panel to unclipped d/w otherwise fine. Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace. Large volume beautifully illustrated by John Lawrence.

52. Adams, Richard: The Ship's Cat

Published by Jonathan Cape, London. 1977.

1st edition hardback. Laminated picture boards without dust wrapper as issued. Slightly chipped at the tips with some surface marks but generally very good in condition. There are no previous owner names. Beautifully illustrated by Alan Aldridge.

2135 Alderson, Brian

Cakes and Custard

1974 Heinemann, London.

Hardback

Uk 1st edition hardback in very good +condition.The book has an inscription on the half title page. The dust wrapper has been clipped but the price sticker still remains (£4.90 net price). It is in good condition, there are cellotape repairs inside and out.

2323. Almond, David: The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean telt by hisself

Published by Puffin/Penguin, London. 2011

1st edition hardback in fine condition signed by the author at the foot of the title page. The dust wrapper is fine and unclipped. I wos a secrit shy and tungtied emptyheded thing. I wos tort to read and rite and spell by my tenda littl muther & by Mr McCaufrey the butcha & by Missus Malone and her gosts. So I am not cleva, so please forgiv my folts and my mistayks. I am the won that glares into your harts & that prowls insyde yor deepist dremes. Wonce I was The Anjel Childe. Now I am The Monster. Just read and lissen and take note. Let the words enter yor blud & boans. I am Billy Dean. This is the truth. This is my tale.

2068 Anderson, Anne

Little Folks Picture Story Book

1925 Thomas Nelson and Sons, London.

Hardback

Undated. Very good condition with no wrapper as issued. Large format, cream cloth spine. Pictorial front board and 6 beautiful colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. 160 pages. Slight foxing, otherwise contents clean and bright. One loose page. A very tidy, collectable copy of a scarce book by a very sought after illustrator.

Published by Collins, 1965

Hardback reprint. Near fine book in a very good dust wrapper. The wrapper has a couple of small nicks at the top edge. With the sensitive understanding, the quiet observation, the tender appreciation that marks all of her works. Joan has distilled the essence of childhood into the pages of this beautiful little book.

1295 ANONYMOUS,

MY PICTURE BOOK OF RED INDIANS

0 WARD, LOCK & CO

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NO DATE OR EDITION STATED. SUNDAY SCHOOL PRESENTATION LABEL TO VERSO OF FRONTISE DATED 1932. ILLUSTRATED BOARDS AND GREEN CLOTH SPINE. WITH TWO COLOUR PLATES AND SIXTY TWO TONE & SEPIA. H. THOMAS MAYBANK ILLUSTRATED EPS. VERY GOOD++.

THE HOUSE IN THE WOOD and other old fairy stories

1944 FREDERICK WARNE & CO

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NEW EDITION. RESET AND IN A SLIGHTLY SMALLER FORMAT THAN THE 1909 1ST. NO D/W, THE GREEN CLOTH BOARDS ARE A LITTLE RUBBED AND BUMPED BUT GENERALLY VERY GOOD. THERE IS A GIFT INSCRIPTION TO THE FEP OTHERWISE CLEAN AND VERY TIDY INSIDE. ILLUSTRATIONS BY L. LESLIE BROOKE IN BOTH COLOUR AND B+W.

EX-LIBRARY. USUAL LIBRARY STAMPS, VERY GOOD D/W, SUNNING TO TOP FRONT EDGE, SLIGHT BUMPED EDGES VERY GOOD CONDITION

2046 Baker, Tom

The Boy Who Kicked Pigs

1999 Faber & Faber, London.

Hardback

1st edition hardback without a dust wrapper as issued. The book has had a slight knock at the bottom edge of the front board but is otherwise fine. No previous owner names or other marks. This story is about an evil little boy who hates everyone around him. He embarks upon a revenge campaign, developing ever more imaginative nasty ends for each of his enemies. When, however, he crosses swords with a pack of cannibal rats, he meets a truly sickening end.

2349. Barker, Cicely Mary (Illustrator): Fairy Stories and Rhymes

Published by Frederick Warne, London. 2000

1st edition hardback. The book is fine in condition. The dust wrapper too is fine and unclipped. Containing The Lord of the Rushie River; Simon the Swan; Old Rhymes for All Times; The Fairy Necklaces. Large format. Blue pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. 144 pages.

PETER PAN

1971 BROCKHAMPTON

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1ST IN THIS EDITION. GOOD+ D/W IS PRICE CLIPPED, WITH WEAR AND CHIPS TO THE EDGES AND FOLDS. THE BOOK IS VERY GOOD. ILLUSTRATED BY RICHARD KENNEDY.

VERY GOOD D/W, COUPLE OF VERY SMALL NICKS, LIGHTLY EDGE WORN, WATER STAINS TO INSIDE OF COVER, GOOD BOOK ALTHOUGH SOME DAMP PAGES

1st in this edition hardback in near fine condition, pages clean with only the slightest sign of foxing to page edges.The book has no previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper has not been price clipped and still retains the original £1.95 net price. It is in very good condition, 3cm closed tear to top of spine with small cellotape repair, rubbing to spine/corner edges.
The wonderful story of a wonderful dog who was the jolliest toy in the house until he went out to explore the world.

Published by Doubleday, London. 2008

1st edition hardback. Both, book and unclipped dust wrapper are in fine condition. Book 4 in Blackman's Noughts & Crosses series. Everyone assumes the bomb that killed Callie Rose's grandmother was the work of a nought terrorist. But Callie Rose knows the truth - and her fear of the past leaves her afraid for her future. Her boyfriend Tobey is worried about his own future. A nought boy at an exclusive school, Tobey hopes to keep out of trouble, go to university, get a good job and leave the dangerous streets of his childhood behind. But Tobey is discovering that he can't keep clinging to some kind of no-man's land while the neighbourhood around him is carved up by rival gangs. Then he is offered the chance to earn some ready money just making a few 'deliveries'. He doesn't want a part of that world, the world of gangs. But maybe he could get away with it, just this once . . . He little realizes how his decision will bring violence down on both himself and Callie and just how far he will go in fighting back....