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Auction No 361, Category: Children's Books

9 Lots (displaying 1 - 9)

Elinor Mary Brent-Dyer "Carnation of the Upper Fourth" Girl's Own Paper [1935] in creased but near complete dustjacket;

Lot: 82

  • Auction Date: Wed 10th Aug 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £96
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Elinor Mary Brent-Dyer Carnation of the Upper Fourth, Girl's Own Paper [1935] in creased but near complete dustjacket; gift inscription dated January 1936, VG internally; together with Brent-Dyer reference works including good runs of The New Chalet Club Journal from Issue No.1, and Friends of the Chalet School Magazine. (119 items)

"Schoolgirls' Weekly" Amalgamated Press, 1934-1937, Issue Nos. 615 to 785 complete,

Lot: 83

  • Auction Date: Wed 10th Aug 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £100
SOLD £105
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Schoolgirls' Weekly, Amalgamated Press, 1934-1937, Issue Nos. 615 to 785 complete, rusted staples with some marks to covers o/w good. (171 issues)

Elinor Brent-Dyer 1943-1955 First Editions comprising "Lavender Laughs in the Chalet School" in d/w,

Lot: 84

  • Auction Date: Wed 10th Aug 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £66
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Elinor Brent-Dyer 1943-1955 First Editions comprising Lavender Laughs in the Chalet School, in d/w; The Chalet School and the Island, 1950; Joey Goes to the Oberland, 1954, in d/w (text browned); Changes for the Chalet School, 1953, in d/w (text browned); Kennelmaid Nan, 1954, in d/w; and The Chalet School Does it Again, 1955. Sound bindings. Mixed quality. (6)

Elinor Brent-Dyer First Editions comprising "The Chalet School and Richenda" 1958 in d/w;

Lot: 85

  • Auction Date: Wed 10th Aug 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £28
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Elinor Brent-Dyer First Editions comprising The Chalet School and Richenda, 1958 in d/w; The Coming of Age of the Chalet School, 1958 in d/w; A Problem for the Chalet School, 1956 (repair to top of spine); and Excitements For the Chalet School, 1957. (4)

Elinor Brent-Dyer First Editions comprising "Jane and the Chalet School" 1964 in d/w;

Lot: 86

  • Auction Date: Wed 10th Aug 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £46
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Elinor Brent-Dyer First Editions comprising Jane and the Chalet School, 1964 in d/w; A Leader in the Chalet School, 1961, in d/w; A Future Chalet School, 1962, in d/w; and Joey and Co in Tirol, 1960; the dustwrappers complete (except one is price-clipped) but with some wear and marks. (4)

Elinor Brent-Dyer First Editions comprising "Redheads at the Chalet School" 1964 in d/w;

Lot: 87

  • Auction Date: Wed 10th Aug 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £32
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Elinor Brent-Dyer First Editions comprising Redheads at the Chalet School, 1964 in d/w; Summer Term at the Chalet School, 1965, in d/w; Adrienne at the Chalet School, 1965; Challenge for the Chalet School, 1966, in d/w; and Two Sams at the Chalet School, 1967; mixed quality. (5)

Elinor Brent-Dyer modern paperback editions in the 'Girls Gone By' series, 2003-2012,

Lot: 88

  • Auction Date: Wed 10th Aug 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £66
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Elinor Brent-Dyer modern paperback editions in the 'Girls Gone By' series, 2003-2012, all in very fine condition. (15)

Elinor Brent-Dyer Girls' Fiction, a collection of hardback reprint editions c.1929 to 1960s,

Lot: 89

  • Auction Date: Wed 10th Aug 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £105
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Elinor Brent-Dyer Girls' Fiction, a collection of hardback reprint editions c.1929 to 1960s, mostly 1950s & 1960s, thirteen in poor to fine dustwrappers; includes an early printing of A Thrilling Term at Janeways, T.Nelson, n.d.; also The Second Chalet Book for Girls, 1948 (damaged), and a modern paperback. (22)

Enid Blyton "Sunny Stories" George Newnes, 1943-1962, a good collection including 100 pre-1952

Lot: 90

  • Auction Date: Wed 10th Aug 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £110
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Enid Blyton Sunny Stories, George Newnes, 1943-1962, a good collection including 100 pre-1952 (the large majority WW2 period). Many of the later 1950s and early '60s issues have the name 'Davies' endorsed top left in pencil. 25 of the WW2 issues in a cloth-bound volume (original pictorial wraps retained). One with covers detached, a few with a coupon clipped away, mostly good to VF. (204)