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Tales of Filial Love.

BARRAU, THEODORE H. · 1870 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, nd. (c.1870). Contents: The Cascade in the Woods; Clara Falkland: A Tale of 1665; Victor; Emma: A Tale of the French Revolution of 1793; Gaston de Foix; Birds; Adelaide: Or, the Judge's Daughter; The Deser Island; The Pastor's Story; Nellie. 17.5cms x...

Little Lord Fauntleroy.

BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON. · 1910 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London: Frederick Warne and Co, nd. (c.1910). . "Little Lord Fauntleroy is a novel by the English-American writer Frances Hodgson Burnett, her first children's novel. It was published as a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine from November 1885 to October 1886, then as a book by Sc...

The Boy King. The Story of an Adventure.

ALINGTON, ADRIAN. · 1935 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1935. 1st edition. Tales of Action. No.VI. Pp.256, colour frontispiece + 8 black & white plates by H.R.Millar, some minor spotting mainly affecting closed page edges. Purple cloth, rubbed with slight fading to spine. G+.** Adrian Alington (1895-1958) w...

Hi-Po The Hippo. (Lithographs by Ruth Gannett. Story by Dorothy Thomas).

THOMAS, DOROTHY / GANNETT, RUTH ( RUTH CHRISMAN GANNETT 1896-1979 ) . · 1944 · Chilton Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London: Museum Press Limited, 1944 . 0. A scarce first edition with dustwrapper. 11.25" x 9.75" x0.25". Original coloured dustwrapper (now protected by a removeable clear plastic cover). Dustwrapper very rubbed with loss to corners and top & tail of spine. Cream cloth covered ...

The Chimpy Family...

SCHMERLE, WILLY. · 1960 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

The Netherlands: Clifford Series, nd. (c.1960). A children's story book. 15.5cms x 15cms. Unpaginated. Colour and black & white illustrations throughout, colour illustrated endpapers, pages toned. Illustrated laminated boards, wear to top and tail of spine. G+.

Bertie the Bus.

PITT, INGRID. · 1981 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Birmingham: The Spastics Society, 1981. Story by Ingrid Pitt. Illustrated by Ulla Reque. Bertie created by Tony Vlassopulo. Landscape format. 21cms x 30cms. Unpaginated. Colour illustrations by Ulla Reque throughout, scuff from old price sticker to inside front board. Illustra...

The Happy Families. A Story for Children.

BRADBY, VIOLET. · 1914 · Chilton Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London: Henry Frowde/ Hodder and Stoughton, 1914. 1st edition. Based on the popular card game, with black & white reproductions of the original card designs, and further illustrations by Lilian A. Govey. Pp.107/4(publisher's catalogue), colour frontispiece by Lilian A. Govey, ...

The Life And Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe, Of York Mariner. With An Account Of His Travels Round Three Parts Of The Globe. With Illustrations By Thomas Stothard, R.A. Engraved By Charles Heath .

[ DEFOE, DANIEL ] · 1858 · Chilton Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London: W. Kent And Co. 86, Fleet Street, 1858 . 0. A very good full leather binding. 8vo. pp.620. 7.75" x 5.5" x 1.75" (20cm x 14cm x 4.8cm) . Tan calf over bevelled boards, edges bumped and boards lightly soiled. Carefully rebacked at some time in the past. Smooth spine with...

The Concerns of Cecily.

GREY, JANET. · 1947 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

London Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1947. 1st edition. Girls boarding school story. Pp.192, frontispiece + 3 further illustrations by Topham. Cream cloth spine with red paper-covered boards, minor wear to top and tail of spine.VG.

Some Yorkshire Poets: An Anthology of To-Day 1924-25.

FOWLER WRIGHT, S. · 1925 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

Westminster: The Merton Press Ltd, nd. (c.1925). One of a series of anthologies representative of the renaissance of poetry in the various counties and principal cities of Great Britain. Pp.viii/112/7(ads), front and rear free endpapers toned. Dark green crocodile-skin-effect ...

John Gilpin.

HASSALL, JOHN. (ILLUSTRATOR). · 1941 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Blackie & Son Ltd, nd. (c.1941). William Cowper's poem tells how Gilpin and his wife and children became separated during a journey to the Bell Inn, Edmonton, after Gilpin loses control of his horse, and is carried ten miles farther to the town of Ware. `25.5cms x 19.5...

Little Bear's Visit. (Illustrated by Maurice Sendak)

MINARIK, ELSE HOLMELUND. · 1974 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Tadworth: World's Work Ltd, 1974. 7th impression. An I Can Read Book No.14. Little Bear visits his grandparents. 22cms x 15cms. Pp.64, illustrated throughout by Maurice Sendak. Broown cloth spine, illustrated paper-covered boards, dustwrapper has edgewear and a few light spots...

Two in One: A Good Keen Man and Hang On A Minute Mate.

CRUMP, BARRY. · 1962 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Wellingtton: A.H.& A.W.Reed, 1962. Rep. Semi-autobiographical, A Good Keen Man was based on Crump's experiences as a government hunter. It was a fictional account of a young hunter who has to suffer through a series of hunting partners who are often unsuitable for the job. Thi...

Orlando (The Marmalade Cat): His Silver Wedding. By Kathleen Hale.

HALE, KATHLEEN (1898-2000) . · 1949 · Chilton Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London; New York : Country Life Limited; Transatlantic Arts, 1949 . 0. Colophon to verso of the title-page: "Drawn to plate by the Author and lithographed in Great Britain by W. S. Cowell Ltd, Ipswich and London. First Published 1944.. Reprinted 1949". Original large format br...

Ciivl War at the Rectory.

COLLISON-MORLEY, KATHLEEN. · 1980 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

London: J.M.Dent & Sons Limited, 1980. 0460069802. 1st edition. "A true story of divided loyalties during the Civil War. When the Rector of Penfold rides off to join the King's army, Mary and her two small sisters are left alone in a village full of Roundhead sympathisers. Nea...

Pandora of Parrham Royal. (Illustrated by Joyce Bruce).

NEEDHAM, VIOLET. · 1951 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London: Collins, 1951. 1st edition. "When Pandora comes to Parrham Royal she finds many problems and a strange mystery facing her. During the war years she and her mother had lived and worked with a band of guerrillas in Greece. After her mother's tragic death she comes to Eng...

The Valley of Adventure. (With illustrations by Stuart Tresilian).

BLYTON, ENID. · 1949 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London:Macmillan,1949. 2nd impression. 3rd book in the Adventure series. Pp.10/341, frontispiece + further black & white illustrations by Stuart Tresilian,slight spotting to external page edges not affecting text. Yellow illustrated cloth, slight fading and wear to spine. G+.

The Adventures of a Donkey.

ARGUS, ARABELLA. · 1890 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London: Darton and Clark, nd. (c.1890). Small children's Victorian fiction book. 14.5cms x 9.5cms. All edges gilt. Pp.213, engraved frontispiece + engraved vignettes to chapter headings, old dampstain to frontispiece, toning to pages. Red blind-stamped cloth with gilt title to...

The Letters of J.E.Flecker to Frank Savery.

FLECKER, J.E. · 1926 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London: Beaumont Press, 1926. Limited edition of 310 copies on handmade paper of which this is No.243. Pp.126, coloured title vignette by Randolph Schwabe, some pages unopened, a few minr spots to endpapers. White vellum spine with gilt title, decorated paper-covered boards wi...

Ballads of a Cheechako.

SERVICE, ROBERT W. · 1910 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1910. 1st British edition. Collection of verse, inspired by tales of the Klondike Gold Rush, by the British/Canadian writer Robert W. Service, following his previous book "Songs of a Soughdough". Pp.140/4(publisher's catalogue, front free endpaper abse...