Sold £20 FREE P&P OFFERED! x8 Rare Children's Books inc Robin Hood - Through The Looking Glass - Goodbye Mr Chips - Billy Liar

Thunderblue · September 16

NOTE: All the books are listed at a SUBSTANTIAL discount compared to listings for the same titles (in a comparable condition) elsewhere.
I have tried to make them 'affordable' or suitable for 'resale' via a well known auction site.

£20 in total:

All hardback. More images available on request.
SEVERAL FIRST EDITIONS

Robin Hood & His Merry Outlaws retold by J Walker Mc Spadden & Charles Wilson. 1934 Illustrated.
EXCELLENT CONDITION

The Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe.
Inscribed on inside of front cover & dated 'Xmas 1925' Illustrated.
CONDITION: Fair.

Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, published 1962 by The Folio Society. Illustrated.
CONDITION: Excellent.
Does not have usual card sleeve.
Sybil Makes Good M.W Newman
Inscribed on inside front cover with 'Xmas 1946'
CONDITION: Excellent.
Marjorie Newman was an early creator of girls’ stories of their schooldays, to counteract the dominance of boys’ adventure tales. This volume, written about 1935, contains the typical twists and turns of the genre.

Billy Liar on the Moon Keith Waterhouse
1976 First edition as published by Book Club Associates London
CONDITION: Very Good, slight damage to paper cover.

Goodbye Mr Chips James Hilton
FIRST EDITION 1934.
Inscribed on inside front cover with 'Christmas 1934.'
CONDITION: Good, some surface damage on the covers & spine.

Drawn form Memory Ernest H Shephard
FIRST EDITION 1957 Illustrated.
CONDITION: Good
The biography of the book illustrator until he was about ten years old. The small, very observant boy who grew up at No. 10 Kent Terrace, St. John's Wood, lived in a time of free-lance street sweepers, Queen Victoria's Jubilee, and Whiteley's fire. He recalls how things tasted, smelled, and what it was like to fall in love with pretty little girl.

Letty a Study of a Child by Rose Fyleman
FIRST EDITION 1926
Inscribed on inside front cover with 'Xams 1926.'
CONDITION: Very Good, slight fraying of loose leaf cover.
'With 22 illustrated scissor cuts by L.Hummel.'

London SE13 7PG
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