ADVENTURE
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GENTLEMAN JACK AN ADVENTURER IN EAST AFRICA
Written by H.A. Hinkson.
Illustrated by Harold Piffard.
Stock no. 1106719
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Circa
1913.
Good condition.
Blue cloth with drawings to spine and front cover. Colour frontis. Covers are scuffed and worn, with bumping. Presentation plate to front pastedown. Home made 'library' pocket to front endpaper. Some foxing and grubby margin marks. Joints are cracked.
HAUNTED ISLAND
Written by Isabel M. Peacocke.
Stock no. 1106718
Published by Ward Lock & Co Ltd..
1st
1930.
Almost very good condition.
Beige decorated cloth. B/w plates. Covers are marked, with some wear. Some foxing. Tear, with a little loss to one page margin.
DEMON ISLAND
Written by Cecil R. Baldock.
Illustrated by W. Bryce Hamilton.
Stock no. 2105286
Published by George Newnes Limited.
2nd
1948.
Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.
The Bannister twins know how to look after themselves and they need all their resourcefulness when they are kidnapped and taken to Demon Island . Light brown boards, black titles. B/w illustrations. Tower House Series. 128 pages. Corners are bumped. Some marks to covers. Presentation plate to front endpaper. Some foxing. Wrapper is price-cut, heavily foxed, with edge-tears and chips; a little loss and some creasing.
THE BUCKINGHAMS AT RAVENSWYKE
Written by Malcolm Saville.
Illustrated by Alice Bush.
Stock no. 2105012
Published by Evans Brothers Limited.
1st
1952.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
A thrilling story set in and around Whitby and the moors of North Yorkshire. Blue boards, gilt titles and author signature vignette to front. Endpapers are maps. B/w illustrations. 216 pages. Bumping to spine. A few marks to covers. Foxing to outer page edges and endpapers. Wrapper has some grubby marks and edge-tears/nicks to edges.
SMUGGLER'S WAY
Written by Dorothea Moore.
Illustrated by H.M. Brock.
Stock no. 1804583
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd.
1928.
Almost very good condition.
Cassell's Popular Library for Boys and Girls series. Red boards with black titles and borders. B/w frontis. Popular edition. Edges worn and bumped. Covers unevenly faded.
THE BOWEN TWINS
Written by Deborah Tyndall.
Illustrated by T. Cuneo.
Stock no. 1206326
Published by A. & C. Black.
1st
1930.
Very good condition.
Pale green pictorial cloth, black title to spine. 8 colour plates. 247 pages. Book: Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Scattered foxspots to prelims and last few pages. Corners bumped.
PRINCESS NATALIE'S ADVENTURE
Written by Ierne L. Plunket.
Stock no. 1206252
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford.
1933.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Beige cloth, blue titles and decorations. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 175 pages. Free endpapers lightly browned. Wrapper a little grubby.
THE MONSTER OF WIDGEON WEIR
Written by M.E. Atkinson.
Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.
Stock no. 1206079
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head Limited.
1st
1943.
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The Lockett family had not been on their Thames island many days before Adventure cropped up in the usual fashion... Green cloth, blue title to spine. Blue pictorial endpapers. B/w illustrations. Horizontal line across front cover and spine - defect in the cloth. Wrapper lightly browned and edge-rubbed.
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THE PICTS AND THE MARTYRS
Written by Arthur Ransome.
Illustrated by Arthur Ransome.
Stock no. 1804578
Published by Jonathan Cape.
1st
1943.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Green cloth, gilt title to spine, blind title to front cover. Pictorial endpapers depicting map for the book. B/w illustrations throughout. 303 pages. 8 x 5.5". Pale grease stain to lower edge of spine & boards. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Pale grease type stain to lower gutter edge of pages at rear half of contents. Pictorial wrapper is lightly worn at corners with slight loss, browned at spine and rear panel.
OUTLAWS IN BLUE VALLEY
Written by Dorothy Burdett.
Stock no. 1704288
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd..
1st
1949.
Almost very good condition.
Yellow cloth. Colour frontis. Spine faded. Inscription in ink to front endpaper.
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CASTAWAY CAMP
Written by M.E. Atkinson.
Illustrated by Charlotte Hough.
Stock no. 1305435
Published by The Bodley Head.
1st
1951.
Almost very good condition.
Red boards. Black titles and vingettes. Illustrated end papers. B/w illustrations to text. Colour frontis. 208 pages. 8 x 5.5". Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. A few light marks to covers and spine slightly discoloured. Contents clean.
WINNING THE PRIZE
Written by Amy Whipple.
Stock no. 1205484
Published by The Religious Tract Society.
Circa
1926.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Brown with black titles and large pictorial onlay to front. Colour frontis. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Wrapper torn and edge-chipped and repaired with tape.