1514 SMYTHE, PAT
THREE JAYS AGAINST THE CLOCK
1958 CASSELL
HARDBACK
1ST EDITION. VERY Nr FINE BOOK AND UNCLIPPED D/W. ONLY
VERY MINOR WEAR TO WRAPPER EDGES. ILLUSTRATED BY J.E. McCONNELL. SECOND
STORY OF THE THREE JAYS AND THEIR ADVENTURES AT MISERDEN.
1515 SMYTHE, PAT
THREE JAYS GO TO TOWN
1959 CASSELL
HARDBACK
1ST EDITION. FINE BOOK IN VERY Nr FINE D/W. WRAPPER HAS
A SMALL HOLE TO THE SPINE OTHERWISE FINE AND UNCLIPPED. FOURTH ADVENTURE
IN THE SERIES. WILL THEY WIN AT THE HORSE OF THE YEAR SHOW IN LONDON?
WILL THEY EVEN GET TIME OFF SCHOOL? ILLUSTRATED BY J.E. McCONNELL
2412. Snow, Alan: Here Be Monsters! : The Ratbridge Chronicles volume 1
Published by Oxford University Press, London, 2005
1st edition UK hardback in very good condition. The book has had a slight bump at the bottom corner otherwise fine. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is also very good.Welcome to Ratbridge. But beware - for there is skulduggery afoot. Arthur has fallen foul of the appalling Snatcher and is trapped alone in the town, with no way home. Meanwhile Snatcher and his men are working tirelessly in secret on a fiendish and dastardly plan to take over Ratbridge - and the world. With the help of Willbury Nibble QC, some friendly boxtrolls and cabbage-heads, Marjorie the frustrated inventor, and the rats and pirates from the Ratbridge Nautical Laundry, can Arthur thwart Snatcher's evil plans - and find his way home? Illustrated throughout with hundreds of the author's incredible black and white drawings, this unmissable debut novel will entrance readers of all ages, and looks certain to become a new classic.
THE CAT WHO TASTED CINNAMON TOAST
1969 CHATTO & WINDUS
HARDBACK
1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD IN A NOT SO GOOD D/W. THE JACKET
IS PRICE CLIPPED AND HAS SOME CONSIDERABLE LOSS
TO THE REAR AND SPINE PANELS, IT'S ALSO A LITTLE SOILED. A DELECTABLE
TALE FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE CATS AND/OR CUISINE. ILLUSTRATED
BY THE AUTHOR.
1543. Stewart, Paul & Chris Riddell: The Edge Chronicles: Clash of the Sky Galleons
Published by Doubleday, London, 2006
1st edition hardback. Both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in near fine condition. Quint is travelling with his father, Wind Jackal, on a mission to track down and bring to justice Turbot Smeal, the man who started the fire that killed their family. Having left behind his studies at the Knights Academy, Quint is now eager to learn what it really means to be a sky pirate and to learn from his father. But Wind Jackal is consumed by his desire to capture Smeal - and his judgement is flawed. His actions endangers the lives of his crew - and his son. As they travel from the taverns and backstreets of Undertown and the wonders of the shipbuilders' yards, to the dark dangers of the Deepwoods, where Quint and Maris become separated from the rest of the crew and encounter some terrifying creatures - and finally to the mysterious, ghostly sky-wreck in Open Sky, where they discover the truth about Smeal - and face a new terror. . .
1605. Stewart, Paul & Chris Riddell: The Edge Chronicles: The Curse of the Gloamglozer
Published by Doubleday, London, 2001
1st edition hardback in fine condition. The contents are clean, page edges slightly browned but no previous owner names or marks. Dust wrapper is not price clipped. In the floating city of Sanctaphrax, fusty old professors scheme and bicker with each other as they study the weather in minute detail - mistsifting, fogprobing, researching the air blowing in from beyond the Edge. But some experiments are best left alone... Quint is the son of a sky pirate captain. He arrives in Sanctaphrax at the request of Linius Pallitax, the Most High Academe, who needs an apprentice he can trust to carry out a series of highly important tasks. Just how important, Quint is about to find out as he and Linius's only daughter, Maris, are plunged into the midst of a terrifying adventure that takes them deep within the rock upon which Sanctaphrax is built. It is here that they unwittingly invoke an ancient curse - The Curse of the Gloamglozer...
2080. Stewart, Paul & Chris Riddell: The Edge Chronicles: Midnight over Sanctaphrax
Published by Doubleday, London, 2000
Hardback, 1st edition. Both the book and the unclipped dust wrapper are in near fine condition. There is a small damp mark to the bottom corner, page edges and the board corners are very slightly bumped. The jacket is a little rubbed at the edges. There are no previous owner names or marks present. Far over the Edge, the Mother Storm is brewing - a storm more terrifying than any seen in the lifetime of any Edgelander. Sweeping in from the open sky, it must strike the source of the Edgewater River to bring new energy to the land. But in its way is Sanctaphrax - a magnificent city built on a floating rock and tethered to the land by a massive chain... Only one person can save the Edgelands from certain disaster: Twig, the young sky pirate captain who had dared to sail over the Edge - but returned with his memory shattered and his crew flung far and wide. But to recover his memory and take action, Twig must first find his lost crew. And this means a journey back into the Deepwoods - and beyond...
2259. Stewart, Paul & Chris Riddell: Muddle Earth
Published by Macmillan, London. 2003
1st edition hardback. The book is in fine condition, there are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper too is fine and unclipped. Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Muddle Earth...As the third moon rises over Muddle Earth's Perfumed Bog, the twinkling lights are lit on a small houseboat, home to a wizard, Randalf, and his familiar, a very sarcastic budgie called Veronica. Randalf is in trouble - he's stony broke. He's just spent his last silver pipsqueak. There's only one way for a wizard to make cash on Muddle Earth - and that's by doing some magic. There's just one problem: Randalf has lost his spell book. He's just got a fragment of paper with half a spell on it - telling him how to summon a Great Warrior Hero. The last one, Quentin the Cake-Baker, wasn't a great success. But this time, it's going to be different. And life is about to change beyond recognition for an ordinary schoolboy on ordinary earth - Joe Jefferson - and his dog, Henry. Welcome to a world of ogres and goblins, batbirds and pink stinky hogs, flying cupboards and terrifying teddy bears...
1146 STONE, BERNARD
INSPECTOR MOUSE
1980 ANDERSON PRESS
HARDBACK
1st EDITION. NO D/W AS ISSUED. SLIGHTLY WORN CORNERS TO
BOARDS. OTHERWISE VERY GOOD+. ILLUSTRATED BY RALPH STEADMAN.
260. Stroud, Jonathan: The Golem's Eye
Published by Doubleday, London. 2004.
1st edition hardback in fine/as new condition. The jacket is not clipped and there are no previous owner names or inscriptions. The second book in the Bartimaeus series. The young magician Nathaniel is fast rising through the government ranks. His most urgent task is to put an end to the mysterious Resistance, but Kitty and her friends continue to elude him. As the pressure mounts, London is suddenly threatened by a new series of terrifying attacks. Is it the Resistance - or something even more dangerous? Nathaniel is forced to embark on a perilous mission to the enemy city of Prague; and to summon once again the troublesome, enigmatic and quick-witted djinni, Bartimaeus.The thrilling sequel to THE AMULET OF SAMARKAND is a roller-coaster ride of magic, adventure and political skulduggery as the fates of Nathaniel, Bartimaeus and Kitty explosively collide.
BLUEBERG: The Little Iceberg
1960 Heinemann, London .
Hardback
1st edition hardback in fine condition. The unclipped dust wrapper is very near fine being only very slightly soiled at the rear panel. Illustrated by D.G. Valentine.
THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN
1986 THE BODLEY HEAD
HARDBACK
1ST EDITION. A FINE BOOK IN A Nr FINE UNCLIPPED D/W. THE
JACKET HAS A SMALL CLOSED TEAR TO THE REAR FOLD OTHERWISE FINE. 1ST ENGLISH
TRANSLATION OF THIS OLD CZECH TALE. ILLUSTRATED BY MAURICE SENDAK.
92 TRAVERS, P.L.
MARY POPPINS
1935 LOVAT DICKSON
HARDBACK
NO D/W, GRUBBY YELLOW CLOTH BOARDS WITH RED PRINT &
DECORATION TO UPPER BOARD & SPINE 2ND IMPRESSION OF THIS POPULAR CHILDRENS
STORY, ILLUSTRATED BY MARY SHEPHERD
TALES OF LITTLE GREY RABBIT
1984 HEINEMANN
HARDBACK
FINE D/W, FINE BOOK. Reprint. Illustrated by Faith Jaques
EVERY BOY'S STORY BOOK- The Bumper Book Series-3
0 BEAVER BOOKS
HARDBACK
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
868 VERNE, JULES
FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON
19 WARD, LOCK & CO
HARDBACK
NO D/W,''ROYAL SERIES'' GREEN CLOTH BOARDS WITH BLACK
PRINT, DECORATION & COLOUR ENVELOPE TO UPPER.REAR BOARD DAMP STAINED
& CREASED. SLIGHT NICK TO TOP FRONT HINGE. FOXING TO EP'S. LIGHT STAMP
& INSCRIPTION TO FEP,SUNDAY SCHOOL PRESENTATION 1922. OVERALL GOOD+
2246. Verne, Jules: The Show on Ice
Published by Arco Publications, London. 1966
1st edition hardback. A very good book in a very good dust wrapper. The dust wrapper is only very slightly soiled with some darkening at the spine but otherwise very good and unclipped. No previous owner names or marks. Follows "The Travelling Circus", an adventure story about the Cascabel circus family.
THE ENCHANTED TREE
1995 HODDER
HARDBACK
NEAR FINE D/W, FINE COPY OF A BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED
BOOK BY FLAVIA WEEDN
1439 WELLS, HELEN
CHERRY AMES - BOARDING SCHOOL NURSE
1958 WORLD DISTRIBUTORS
HARDBACK
REPRINT OF THE 1957 FIRST EDITION. THE 6th BOOK OF ADVENTURES.
SCHOOL PRIZE PLATE TO FEP. RED BOARDS A LITTLE BUMPED AND WORN AT THE
EDGES IN A SCARCE D/W. JACKET HAS SOME LOSS TO TOP AND TOE OF SPINE AND
BACK PANEL.
1440 WELLS, HELEN
CHERRY AMES - AT HILTON HOSPITAL
1959 WORLD DISTRIBUTORS
HARDBACK
1ST EDITION. THE 17th BOOK OF ADVENTURES. VERY GOOD BOOK
HAS SOME FOXING TO ENDPAPERS AND PAGE EDGES. VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED SCARCE
D/W HAS SOME CLOSED TEARS AND SOME MINOR LOSS TO TIPS.
Published by World Distribution, Manchester. 1964
1st UK edition hardback in very good condition. The pages have browned and there is a Butlin's Beaver Club complimentary label pasted in at the front end paper. There are no previous owner names or other marks. The dust wrapper is not clipped but is a little rubbed and worn at the edges and tips with a small area lost at the bottom spine rear edge, generally very good. This is book 23 in the series of Cherry Ames adventures.
SIR BERTIE & THE WYVERN
1982 DEBRETT'S PEERAGE LTD
HARDBACK
1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD BOOK AND UNCLIPPED D/W. RED CLOTH
AND GILT SLIGHTLY SUNNED ALONG THE TOP EDGE. THE JACKET TOO IS SLIGHTLY
SUNNED AT THE SPINE. A TALE OF HERALDRY. PREFACE BY THE BARONESS TRUMPINGTON.
DEBRETT'S FIRST CHILDRENS BOOK.
1453 WILDE, OSCAR
STORIES FOR CHILDREN
1995 BEEHIVE BOOKS
HARDBACK
1ST IN THIS EDITION. Nr FINE PICTURE BOARDS AND UNCLIPPED
D/W. SIX OF WILDE'S MOST POPULAR CHILDRENS STORIES SELECTED AND ILLUSTRATED
BY P.J. LYNCH
2387 Williams, Margery
The Velveteen Rabbit
1991 Heinemann, London.
1st thus. A beautiful slipcased hardback in fine condition. A tale originally published in 1922 and illustrated by Sir William Nicholson.
Published by Apex Publishing, Essex. 2004
Paperback original, UK 1st edition, in fine/as new condition. Publisher's blind stamp and book plate, signed by the author, at the half title page otherwise fine. There are no previous owner names or inscriptions. Scarce and collectable first print. Jebediah Humphries, at the age of fourteen, is undoubtedly the clumsiest, most accident-prone and very worst Wizard in the world, and has certainly acquired a reputation as such at his wizarding summer camp. However, his skills are tested to the utmost when his parents are held to ransom by Ogres and he is catapulted, along with four hapless friends, into a series of hair-brained schemes - kidnapping and theft included - leaving disaster in their wake. But there's more to his parents' disappearance than meets the eye - a dark and evil presence is plotting revenge, and the teenagers become entangled in a web of treachery that threatens their very lives. Pursued by the Gnome Mafia and a collection of the most unsavoury characters that the magical community has to offer - and aided and abetted by a Leprechaun and a commando Fairy - the clock is ticking and time is running out to find the ransom money and save his parents' lives.
861 WOODRUFF, UNA
CATWITCH
1983 DOUBLEDAY
HARDBACK
1st US hardback edition complete with unclipped dustwrapper in very good condition. There is some shelfwear to the top and bottom edges of the boards otherwise near fine. The jacket has a couple of closed tears, but is clean, bright, complete and now protected. A very scarce and much sought after book.
One summer evening the tabby kitten who called himself Jules left the farm where he was born and set out in search of Life. This exciting, amusing and enchantingly illustrated story tells of the adventures that befall him and how he becomes a witch, or rather, a Catwitch. Fully illustrated in colour, with many full-page plates by Woodruff. Text by Lisa Tuttle from an idea by Una Woodruff.
97 WYNNE, MAY
THE HOUSE OF WHISPERS
1959 WARD LOCK
HARDBACK
VERY GOOD D/W, VERY GOOD BOOK, LITTLE DUSTY
2207. Yancey, Rick: The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp
Published by Bloomsbury, New York. 2005
1st edition US hardback. A fine book in a very good unclipped dust wrapper. The jacket is a little wrinkled having been a bit wet at some time otherwise fine. Alfred Kropp was just trying to survive high school when his guardian uncle gets him roped into a suspicious get-rich-quick scheme that changes his life forever: stealing Excalibur - the legendary sword of King Arthur. But after Alfred unwittingly delivers the sword into the hands of the enemy, he sets off on an unlikely quest to try to right his wrong and save the world from imminent destruction. This gripping, fast-paced, and often hilarious novel is both a thrilling adventure story and an engaging account of one boy's coming of age.
REEF OF DEATH
1998 THE BODLEY HEAD
HARDBACK
1ST EDITION. BOTH BOOK AND UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER ARE IN FINE CONDITION. NO PREVIOUS OWNER NAMES OR INSCRIPTIONS. A GRIPPING, GRUESOME READ THAT IS NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED!