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THE SIT-IN STRIKE AT GREYFRIARS
Written by Frank Richards.
Stock no. 1319707
Published by Howard Baker. 1st thus 1975. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The Magnet No. 35. Contains issues nos. 1510 to 1517. Large format, green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w text illustrations. Individual stories include: Billy Bunter's Housewarming; The Stay-In Strike at Greyfriars; The No-Surrender Schoolboys; Holding the Fort; The Fighting Form; The Prisoner of the Stronghold; Coker the Kidnapper; The Man with the Glaring Eyes. ISBN: 0703000721. Spine slightly bumped. Small booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Contents fine. Wrapper appears to be a few millimetres short for book.

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GREYFRIARS FOR GROWN-UPS
Written by Lawrence Sutton; Frank Richards.
Stock no. 1319705
Published by Howard Baker. 1st 1980. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A nostalgia-laden selection of Extracts from The Magnet and Gem. Red boards, gilt titles. ISBN: 0703001884. Spine very slightly bumped at top and tail. Dustwrapper is just a little creased at lower edge of front panel.

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FRANK RICHARDS - THE CHAP BEHIND THE CHUMS
Written by Frank Richards; Mary Cadogan.
Stock no. 1319703
Published by Viking. 1st 1988. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. A book about the life and works of Frank Richards. Full of photgraphs and pictures. 258 pages. 9.5 x 6.25". ISBN: 0670819468.

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ABC AND ALL THAT
Written by Gladys M. Rees. Illustrated by Gladys M. Rees.
Stock no. 1319692
Published by Robert Hale Limited. Circa 1948. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

In addition to a new rhyming alphabet, the nursery child's first introduction to numbers, coins, measure, time, the days, months and seasons and even some first prayers. Black pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations. 86 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped, cover edges slightly worn. Some light foxing. A light musty smell to contents. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed, slight loss of surface paper to top corner of rear panel.

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PATCH
Written by Helen Griffiths. Illustrated by Maurice Wilson.
Stock no. 1319691
Published by Hutchinson of London. 1st 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Patch was a white and black dog born in Mallorca, belonging to an English boy who had to return to England and leave Patch behind.... Blue boards, silver title to spine.118 pages. B/w text illustrations. ISBN: 0091030404. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Booksellers sticker to front pastedown, a few small spots to free-endpapers. Dustwrapper is price-cut and slightly rubbed at edges.

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AN OLD-TIME YARN
Written by Edgar Pickering. Illustrated by Alfred Pearse.
Stock no. 1319679
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1913. Almost very good condition.

'Or, with Hawkins and Drake'. Red pictorial cloth with gilt titles. Colour frontis plus two b/w plates. 288 pages plus 15 page publisher catalogue to rear. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed, small stain to gilt title-block on spine. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Foxing to contents else clean.

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A BIT OF WOOL
Written by E. Boyd-Bayly.
Stock no. 1319677
Published by Jarrold and Sons Limited. Circa 1898. Good condition.

Old days and Now-a-Days. Fifth edition. Blue pictorial cloth, gilt titles. 297 pages. B/w plates. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Covers slightly grubby. Prize plate to front pastedown. Some foxing and general grubbiness to contents.

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DIRTY WORK AT THE DOG AND WHISTLE
Written by S.G. Hulme Beaman. Illustrated by Ernest Noble.
Stock no. 1319676
Published by George Lapworth & Co. Very good condition.

Red cloth spine. Cream pictorial boards. The Adventures of Larry the Lamb - Toytown Series. Covers slightly grubby. Contents clean.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1986
No author listed. Illustrated by John Harrold.
Stock no. 1319647
Published by Express Newspapers Ltd.. 1986. Fine condition.

Tall laminate boards - Rupert with net and tadpoles in jar. 1st story Rupert & the Strange Airman. 100 pages. (In 1986 Alfred Bestall, the first illustrator of Rupert annuals, died at the age of 93). ISBN: 0850791596.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1990
Written by James Henderson. Illustrated by John Harrold.
Stock no. 1319646
Published by Daily Express. 1990. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

No. 55. 70th anniversary edition. Tall 4to pictorial glazed boards - Rupert on a bench with Baby Badger and Little Yum. 99 pages. Pictured by John Harrold. ISBN: 0850792061. Top edge of textblock is a bit dusty/foxed else a fine copy in dustwrapper which is just slightly worn at top of spine.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1967
Written by Alfred Bestall. Illustrated by Alfred Bestall.
Stock no. 1319638
Published by Daily Express. 1967. Almost very good condition.

Colour pictorial boards - Rupert on snow-covered hill pulling a dog on a sledge. 1st story Rupert and the Lost List. Magic Painting pages. No facsimile produced for this year. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Name in belongs to box has been erased. Price cut. Magic paintings messily completed and paper for these has browned. Light foxing to textblock.

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RUPERT ANNUAL 1983
No author listed. Illustrated by John Harrold.
Stock no. 1319637
Published by Express Newspapers Ltd.. 1983. Very good condition.

Tall 4to glazed boards - Rupert in plane flown by clown. 1st story Rupert and the Black Circle. 92 pages. ISBN: 0850791308. Small white mark to tail of aeroplane on front cover. Contents fine.

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