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THE SCHOOL ON THE MOOR
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce.
Stock no. 1310846
Published by Oxford University Press. 1934. Almost very good condition.

Cream cloth with swan decoration. Colour frontis. 285 pages. Spine and corners bumped, some grubby fingering and a couple of light marks to covers. Small hole to cloth at front edge of spine. Prize plate to front pastedown. Foxing to contents else clean.

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TIM IN DANGER
Written by Edward Ardizzone. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Stock no. 1401716
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1953. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Purple and yellow pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. The fifth book in the chronicles of this legendary small boy. ISBN: 0192795643. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Bottom of boards also rubbed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some light foxing mainly to endpapers. Pale browning to some pages else contents are cleam. Dustwrapper has piece missing at top. Large tear to front panel and smaller tear to rear. Edge worn with small tears and foxing to rear.

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WAR COMES AGAIN
Written by Gabor Boritt.
Stock no. 1604934
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1995. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Comparative vistas on the Civil War and World war II. Edited by Boritt. A collection of ten essays. ISBN: 019508845X. Wrapper edge creased.

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THE SCHOOL ON THE MOOR
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce.
Stock no. 2111071
Published by Oxford University Press. 1934. Almost very good condition.

Cream cloth with swan decoration. Colour frontis. 285 pages. Spine is creased, with some bumping. Grubby marks and foxing to covers. Some foxing also to endpapers, outer page edges and some page margins.

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SOLOMON
Written by M.K. Mountain. Illustrated by M.K. Mountain.
Stock no. 1310288
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1943. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Little Grey Cat searches for his real home. Square format. Pictorial boards. B/w and black, white and yellow illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is worn, torn and foxed.

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TRIFFENY
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Illustrated by Margaret Horder.
Stock no. 2110624
Published by Oxford University Press; Geoffrey Cumberlege. 1st 1950. Fair condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Triffeny joins the family pottery firm and rather unexpectedly becomes an asset to the business in more ways than one... Brown cloth, silver title to spine and small vignette of a squirrel to front cover. B/w text illustrations. 275 pages. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Large initials in ink to base of spine. Front endpaper is MISSING and front joint is cracked and repaired with tape. Foxing. Some tape marks to rear endpapers. Wrapper is unevenly faded with edge-tears and chips; some loss and grubby marks.

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PREFECTS AT SPRINGDALE
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Illustrated by M.D. Johnston.
Stock no. 2110603
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1936. Fair condition.

Cream cloth with swan decoration to spine and front cover. Colour frontis plus 6 b/w illustrations. 288 pages. Covers are marked with heavy wear; some fraying to cloth at edges. Frontis MISSING. Foxing.

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THE SERENDIPITY SHOP
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Illustrated by Margaret Horder.
Stock no. 2110600
Published by Oxford University Press; Geoffrey Cumberlege. 1st 1947. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth, red title to spine and vignette to front cover. 205 pages. B/w illustrations. Top edge red. Browning to spine and cover edges. Corners and spine are bumped. Page browning.

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NANCY TO THE RESCUE
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Illustrated by Gordon Browne.
Stock no. 2110597
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1929. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth with black title to spine and blind title and vignette to front cover. Colour frontis and four b/w illustrations. 191 pages. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. A few marks to covers. Erased inscriptions to prelims. Some foxing.

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THAT BOARDING-SCHOOL GIRL
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Illustrated by R.H. Brock.
Stock no. 2110595
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1935. Almost very good condition.

Embossed red cloth covers, black title to spine. Colour frontis, 4 b/w illustrations. 190 pages. Spine is faded, with a little fraying to top corner. Old ink price written to front cover. Some other marks to covers. Foxing to outer page edges.

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INTERNATIONAL SEA TRANSPORT
Written by Osborne Mance; J.E. Wheeler.
Stock no. 2110262
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1945. Almost very good condition.

Card wraps. International Transport and Communications. Covers are unevenly browned, with creasing to corners; small patch of surface paper damage to rear cover. Inscription in ink to first page. Reprint in same year as the 1st.

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THE NEW HOUSE CAPTAIN
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Illustrated by Mary Strange Reeve.
Stock no. 1309965
Published by Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press. 1st 1928. Fair condition.

Yellow and blue cloth with vignettes to spine and front cover. Colour frontis and 4 b/w plates. 288 pages. Covers are worn and grubby. Prize plate to front pastedown partially torn out. Frontis plate has been badly torn and now has tape repairs on vesro and a small hole to centre. Pencil scribbles erased from title-page. One plate missing and one has large section torn off (and missing) from lower corner. Contents foxed and fingered.

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