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The Woman Who Won Things

By: AHLBERG, Allan

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Walker Books: 2002

Seller ID: 007967

ISBN: 0744581273

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

Glazed pictorial boards in pictorial dustwrapper; 80pp; colour ills. Toning and thumbing to pages which are a little wavy. Unclipped dustwrapper is lightly rubbed to edges and scuffed to surface. The second adventure about the Gaskitt family.
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Little Women

By: ALCOTT, Louisa M.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Ward Lock & Co, Ltd:

Seller ID: 010387

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

The Royal Series No.7. Undated. Blue boards in pictorial dustwrapper; 255pp; b/w frontis. Light rubbing and bumping to corners; sunning to foot of spine; foxing to page block edges. Unclipped dustwrapper is rubbed, nicked and chipped to egdes.
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The High House

By: ARUNDEL, Honor

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton: 1967

Seller ID: 010632

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A Reindeer Book. Pictorial boards in matching dustwrapper; 152pp; b/w ills. Very light bumping to corners and spine ends. Price-clipped dustwrapper has light edgewar with small chip to one corner. Emma is sent to stay with her chaotic Aunt Patsy following the death of her parents.
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The Greatest Gresham

By: AVERY, Gilliam

Price: £4.75

Publisher: Collins - Armada Lions: 1972

Seller ID: 012239

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Very Good

Pictorial card covers; 218pp; b/w ills. Slight roll and sunning to spine; tanning to pages. The three Greshams were prim, correct Victorian chidlren but longed to be something quite different.
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Alice and Thomas and Jane

By: BAGNOLD, Enid

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann Ltd: 1946

Seller ID: 004718

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Decorated cloth boards, no dustwrapper; 172pp; photo frontis plus two tone ills by the author and her daughter Laurian Jones. Light marking to cloth with lightly bumped corners; previous owner gift inscription dated 1951 to front endpaper; binding very slightly pulled in a couple of places; occasional small mark to pages.
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The Saucy Jane Family

By: BLYTON, Enid

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Lutterworth Press: 1962

Seller ID: 010576

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

Sixth impression. Blue cloth boards in pictorial dustwrapper; 94pp; colour frontis plus b/w ills. Light sunning to lower edge of cloth; foxing to page block edges. Unclipped dustwrapper is rubbed, creased, nicked and chipped to edges with small patch of sticker residue to lower spine. Mike, Belinda, Ann and their parents spend their holidays in a houseboat.
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The Children at Green Meadows

By: BLYTON, Enid

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Lutterworth Press: 1954

Seller ID: 012207

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

Green cloth boards in wraparound pictorial dustwrapper; 176pp; colour frontis plus b/w ills. Slight lean to spine with couple of small marks to cloth and bruising/sunning to spine ends; previous owner gift inscription to front pastedown. Price-clipped dustwrapper has significant rubbing, nicks and creasing to edges with large chips and splits to corners and spine ends with 6cm tear to foot of spine, repaired to the reverse with old tape. [919: G2]
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Meadowsweet Farm

By: BRADBY, Violet

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: Humphrey Milford: 1934

Seller ID: 002642

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Yellow decorated cloth boards in pictorial dustwrapper; 255pp; colour frontis plus b/w ills. Light bumping to spine ends; previous owner gift inscription to front endpaper; foxing to pages; browning to page block edges. Price-clipped dustwrapper is rubbed to edges, chipped to corners with small loss to head of spine just affecting title, now in removable sleeve. The trials and tribulations of Meadowsweet Farm are seen through the eyes of the farmer's daughters, Julia and Jane.
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Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories

By: BRISLEY, Joyce Lankester

Price: £12.00

Publisher: George G.Harrap & Co. Ltd: 1967

Seller ID: 012983

Condition: Good

Patterned cloth boards in matt dustwrapper; 96pp; colour frontis plus b/w ills. Slight bow to boards; bumping to lower corners; foxing to page block edges; occasional small mark/nick to pages which are a little musty. Unclipped dustwrapper is rather grubby with marking, creasing, chips and tears and small tape repair to reverse. [120:S3]
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The Windmill Family

By: BROWN, Pamela

Price: £10.00

Publisher: White Lion Publishers: 1974

Seller ID: 011307

ISBN: 0856860026

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Blue cloth boards in pictorial dustwrapper; 184pp. Small dent to upper edge of front board; tanning to pages; production crease to a couple of pages. Unclipped dustwrapper has original price crossed out to front flap, light sunning to spine, rubbing and light creasing to edges with chipping to corners and spine ends. The Channings are being forced to sell their windmill home, though none of them want to leave.
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Harlequin Corner

By: BROWN, Pamela

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Leicester, Brockhampton Press: 1967

Seller ID: 012948

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Super Hampton Library Series. Orange cloth boards in pictorial dustwrapper; 183pp. Slight lean to spine and splay to boards; corner of front endpaper clipped; browning to pages. Price-clipped dustwrapper is rubbed and creased to edges and folds, chipped to corners with a couple of small edge tears and untidy tear across foot of spine. A thrilling adventure into the fascinating world of the theatre.[1219: R3]
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My Mum

By: BROWNE, Anthony

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Doubleday: 2005

Seller ID: 010609

ISBN: 0385608217

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Pictorial boards; colour ills. Light thumbing to pages with light creasing to last page. A celebration of Mums.
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Holding Me Here

By: CONRAD, Pam

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1987

Seller ID: 002435

ISBN: 0192715801

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Red cloth in pictorial dustwrapper; 184pp. Significant tanning to pages. Unclipped dustwrapper is lightly rubbed to foot of spine with faint stain to reverse, just visible to front. Robin is forced to acknowledge the pain of her family situation when a lodger comes to stay.
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Granny is a Darling

By: DENTON, Kady MacDonald

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Walker Books: 1988

Seller ID: 010564

ISBN: 0744503523

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

Glazed pictorial boards; colour ills. Bumped lower corners. Billy hopes his Granny will protect him from the monsters after dark.
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Tales of the Twins

By: DENTON, Phyllis

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co Ltd: 1958

Seller ID: 010242

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Turquoise cloth boards with vignette of twins to front, lacking dustwrapper; 85pp; tri-colour ills. Boards slightly splayed, bumped to corners with foxing to cloth and endpapers; previous owner gift inscription and name to front endpaper; small tear to fore-edge of front endpaper. Introducing Peter and Pam, the red-headed twins and their exciting adventures.
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Granny Was a Buffer Girl

By: DOHERTY, Berlie

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Lions: 1988

Seller ID: 003376

ISBN: 0006727921

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Pictorial card covers; 128pp. Light rubbing to cover edges and spine ends; gently creased cover corners; light marking to rear cover; tanning to pages. Signed to previous owner on first page. 'Berlie Doherty has captured perfectly the complex interweaving of emotions and experience through three generations of one family.'
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A Great Emergency and A Very Ill-Tempered Family

By: EWING, Juliana Horatia

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz Ltd: 1967

Seller ID: 010587

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Gollancz Revivals Series. Red cloth boards in matt pictorial dustwrapper; 174pp; edited with intro by Gillian Avery. Price-clipped dustwrapper is faded to spine with rubbing and small nicks to corners. Two stories of family life.
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Ameliaranne's Washing Day

By: FARJEON, Eleanor

Price: £20.00

Publisher: George G.Harrap & Co. Ltd: 1934

Seller ID: 006766

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

Red cloth boards with pictorial onlay pasted to front, no dustwrapper; colour ills. Slight lean to spine with light rubbing and bumping to corners; offset tanning to first and last pages; light smudging and finger marking to pages; binding only just starting to crack in a couple of places but still firm. Ameliaranne mixes up the laundry so the party guests end up wearing fancy dress.
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Ameliaranne at the Seaside

By: GILMOUR, Margaret

Price: £20.00

Publisher: George G.Harrap & Co. Ltd: 1935

Seller ID: 012029

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Red cloth boards with pictorial onlay, no dustwrapper; colour and b/w ills. Boards rubbed and bumped to corners and spine ends with small frayed split to head of spine; 4cm split to top of front hinge; previous owner name to front endpaper; occasional spotting to pages; couple of internal repairs to gutters. Ameliaranne goes on a Mother's outing and comes up with a plan to give her Mother an outing of her own. [3017: F2]
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Lucy's Village: A Story for a Little Girl

By: HARRISON, Ada

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press:

Seller ID: 008699

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

Undated [1945]. Small format paper-backed pictorial boards in matching dustwrapper; colour ills. Light bumping to spine ends and corners; previous owner gift inscription to front pastedown; small 1cm tear to lower edge of one page. Dustwrapper is chipped to corners with several small tears. The story of a little girl's Nannie as a little girl herself. Size: 128mm x 158mm
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