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Mickey Mouse Annual
London Dean 1946 Hardcover Good None issued 22cm
Some small person has started to colour a few pix (Grrrr!) Cover is a great Mickey as Santa putting a prezzie in Pluto's stocking. There's 188pp on typical thick paper. (London: Dean and Son: 1946) - the first story is ‘School Daze’., 1946. Binding on spine top & bottom has only slight wear, wear to board edges- very secure sewn-in binding.
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45.00 AUD
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The Children's Own Treasure Book
Odhams Press Limited 1947 Hardcover Very Good No Jacket 25cm
320pp stories by Andersen, Belloc, Blyton, Darling, Gribble, Kipling, Milne, Ockenden, Ransome, Roberts, Stevenson, Stoneham Streatfeild, Uttley
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18.00 AUD
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Brazil Angela MY OWN SCHOOLDAYS
Blackie & Son Limited Hard Cover Good Good/Fair in Protective Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Photos tell the story, dj has a red drink splash (what other colour possible?), 1st page has a 1943 gift inscription inscription. Clean and well bound pp (spill is only to compressed edge & not inside, dj protected in plastic. "In offering the public this happy little autobiography, Miss Brazil yields to the urgent demand of numerous readers who regard her as not only a favourite authoress, but as a friend in the truest sense of the word. Here the friend reveals herself- the writer slips away into a pleasant background of home life from which the Miss Brazil of to-day quite naturally emerges" says a publishing blurb. General bio info > Angela Brazil (pronounced 'brazzle') wrote nearly fifty schoolgirl novels & was arguably the first author of girls' books to write her stories from the characters' point of view - and the first to write entertaining rather than instructional stories. She believed in writing musing and enjoyable tales in which the characters acted like normal human beings. Each story stands on its own, distinct from all the others. Her books are filled with well-delineated characters. Angela was born on November 30, 1868, in Preston, Lancashire, England. Her parents were quite well off & had 3 kids already. Angela's mother decided that Angela was going to be sent to a local private ladies school that encouraged pupils in art, literature and music. Following her father's death, Angela and her mother took to seeing much of Europe, & for a time Angela looked after her brother, Walter, & she spent her remaining years as Walter's housekeeper. Angela was extremely civic-minded and involved herself in many local charities and clubs.
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115.00 AUD
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Brent-dyer, Elinor M. The New Chalet School
UK Amada Books, UK 1981 Paperback Very Good None issued 18cm
green pencil 1st page - all others 100%. plot > The Chalet School and St Scholastika's become a single school after Miss Browne, the headmistress of St Scholastika's wins a law-suit and retires. She offers her school as a whole to Madame and Mademoiselle Lepattre, who accept. Due to the addition of more than 40 pupils as well as new staff, the Chalet School is quite crowded, so plans are made for the building of a new house, as well as the acquisition of a nearby chalet. As the students try to become a united school, the Mystic M play a series of pranks on both the school itself and people related to it. The affair comes to a head when Sybil Russell is kidnapped!
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25.00 AUD
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Carroll, Lewis Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
UK Walker Books 1999 Hardcover Excellent Excellent 24.5cm Helen Oxenbury
207 clean white well bound pp in great order with the delightful Oxenbury illustrations to bring this exciting classic to modern life - one of the great editions. approx 1.2kg carded/bubbled for post
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42.00 AUD
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Chauncy, Nan The Lighthousekeeper's Son
UK Oxford University Press 1969 1st Hardcover Excellent Excellent 22.5cm Ambrus, Victor
Although it's an isolated and frequently dangerous life, a nine-year-old decides, after his father tries pineapple farming, that he definitely prefers being a lighthouse keeper's son. wiki info - Chauncy was born Nancen Beryl Masterman in Northwood, Middlesex, England and emigrated to Tasmania, Australia with her family in 1912, when her engineer father was offered a job with the Hobart City Council. She attended St Michael's Collegiate School in Hobart. In 1914, the family moved to the rural community of Bagdad, where they grew apple trees. The bush setting of Bagdad, including a bushranger's cave, would inspire some of her future writing, and also a lifelong involvement with the Australian Girl Guides movement. All pages clean, white, tightly bound - original owner's plastic cover has kept this book pretty well pristine.
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35.00 AUD
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Dennison, Dorothy Call Me Jacqueline
London PATERNOSTER PRESS 1958 Hardcover Very Good Very Good 18 Cm
about the author - Born in 1899 in London, Dorothy Dennison was the daughter of merchant Charles Dennison, and was educated at the North London Collegiate School. A prolific author of Protestant Christian evangelistic stories for both children and adults, Dennison worked for a number of years for the Scripture Union. She was married in 1931, had one son and one daughter, and retired to Haslemere, Surrey, where she died in 1978. Dennison has this title as part of a group about the Courtneys, 112pp with a nice Sunday School presentation plate on the first page (dated 1964), dj has protective wrap
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21.00 AUD
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Estoril, Jean Drina Goes On Tour
UK Simon & Schuster 1990 Laminated Pictorial Boards Very Good None issued 20.5cm
Drina passes her school exams and becomes a senior student at her dance school, which means that her whole day is spent in dance classes and rehearsals. A nasty flu epidemic leaves the dance company short-staffed, and Drina and some friends are sent out to join the tour as replacements. Drina has a difficult time adjusting to life with a touring company, as the accommodation is quite a bit different from what she's used to with her well-off grandparents. And finally, the secret Drina has hidden from her peers since her arrival at the Dominick is discovered... . . 154 crisp pp, less than 500g for post. (We also have Drina dances in Madeira)
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46.00 AUD
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Grahame, Kenneth The Golden Age and Dream Days
London Bodley Head 1962 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 22cm Charles Keeping
Book in great order despite being ex-lib with usual card, stamps. Book was in circultion 65 - 98 but is in really great shape, credit to the binding quality. These two collections of tales, most of them about the escapades of five brothers and sisters living in a large country house, made Kenneth Grahame famous as a writer for and about children.
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25.00 AUD
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Iguchi, Bunshu Convent Cat
London Hamish Hamilton 1975 Hardcover Very Good Very Good 25cm Bunshu Iguchi
Foxing on endpapers only (Grrrr!)- beautiful watercolour illustrations throughout the 20 or so pp, pp are really nice heavy quality papers with a nice feel. English text by Barbara Willard.
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30.00 AUD
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McVitty Walter AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATORS
Melbourne The MacMillan Company of Australia Pty. Ltd. 1987 0333450833 / 9780333450833 1st Edition Illustratred Hard Cover Very Good 35cm
Each double page spread features a different Australian illustrator and includes a brief biography, each illustrators main themes, preoccupations and settings and showing the connection between a writer's life and work. There is also an account of particular books or groups of books designed to stimulate children's interest in reading. Illustrations include many photographs, film stills and book covers. Illustrators include Pamela Allen, David and Ronda Armitage, Stephen Axelsen, Ron Brooks, Walter Cunningham and Noela Young, Bob Graham, Ted Greenwood, Robert Ingpen, Astra Lacis, Sandra Laroche, Patricia Mullins, Deborah and Kilmeny Neland, Peter Pavey, Dick Roughsey and Percy Trezise and Bruce Treloar. Very good condition
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55.00 AUD
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Meade, L.T. Little Trouble the House
UK John F. Shaw & Co Hardcover Good-fair None issued 20.5cm
Title: Little Trouble-The-House Not sure of pub date but pre-1899, School presentation copperplate inscription with that date. Meade gets 4 other mentions in the list of books available. BW steel engravings throught the book. Author info >>> L. T. Meade was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1854–1914), a prolific writer of girls' stories. She was born in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland, daughter of Rev. R. T. Meade, of Nohoval, County Cork. She later moved to London, where she married Alfred Toulmin Smith in September, 1879. She began writing at 17 and produced over 300 books in her lifetime, being so prolific that not less than eleven new titles under her byline appeared in the first few years after her death. She was primarily known for her books for young people, however, she also wrote "sentimental" and "sensational" stories, religious stories, historical novels, adventure, romances, and mysteries, including several with male co-authors. She was also the editor of a popular girls' magazine, Atalanta. She was a feminist and a member of the Pioneer Club. The book's original date was 1890, I can't say if this is a second or later, it just says "New edition" 144pp age-darkened, binding OK but not great.
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24.00 AUD
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Moore, Dorothea A Schoolgirl Adventurer A Story of the '45
London Black 1927 Hardcover Good-fair No Jacket 18 Cm
A Schoolgirl Adventurer. London, A. and C. Black, 1927. ... Dorothea Moore endeavoured to produce a more robust type of fiction than the unexciting domestic stories that had hitherto been put to market. Dorothea Mary Moore - born in Islington 27 February 1880, was 1 of 5 children. In 1909 she lived in Aberdeen. She had plays performed by the Alexander Maclean Company. She served as a VAD in 1914, died in London, 1933.
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25.00 AUD
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Rae, Gwynedd Mary Plain on Holiday
UK George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, London 1947 Hardcover Very Good No Jacket 18cm
One of a series > Mary Plain in Town (1935) .Mary Plain on Holiday (1937). Mostly Mary (1938). All Mary (1938). Mary Plain inTrouble (1940). Mary Plain Home Again (1941). Mary Plain's Big Adventure (1944). Gwynedd Rae (1892–1977)was the author of a number of books for children, about a bear called Mary Plain. Her stories were read on BBC Radio Children's Hour in the 1930s and by Richard Wattis on BBC TV Jackanory in 1969. 114 clean well bound pp, little bw illus at chapter headers.
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28.00 AUD
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Rice, Lice Hegan Lovey Mary
UK Hodder & Stoughton 1934 Hardcover Good No Jacket 18cm
This book has been reprinted an amazing number of times since first run in 1903. 191 pp The story begins. Everything about Lovey Mary was a contradiction, from her hands and feet, which seemed to have been meant for a big girl, to her high ideals and aspirations, that ought to have belonged to an amiable one. The heroine of the story takes off from an institution & takes a little one with her review > I would give this book 10 stars if I possibly could! It is a wonderful book...It follows the life of Lovey Mary, a young woman who claims "it ain`t hard to be good when folks love you." She lives at "the home", where a young boy, Tommy, is entrusted to her care. When she finds out that Tommy`s "wicked" mother is coming to claim him, taking him away from Mary, she is quick to take action. I won`t spoil anything, but it is truely a delighful, humorous read. Good buy for a vintage copy.
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24.00 AUD
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