Auction No 363, Category: Children's Books

34 Lots (displaying 21 - 34)

Elsie Oxenham selection including "The Tuck-Shop Girl" W. & R. Chambers, n.d., pictorial cloth,

Lot: 103

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Elsie Oxenham selection including The Tuck-Shop Girl W. & R. Chambers, n.d., pictorial cloth, some browning to text; The Abbey Girls At Home, 1942, in fair d/jkt; and 9 fine modern reprints in the ‘Girls Gone By’ Series. (17)

"The Schoolgirls Own Library" Amalgamated Press, a collection of 78 issues, 1924 to 1940,

Lot: 104

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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The Schoolgirls Own Library, Amalgamated Press, a collection of 78 issues, 1924 to 1940, many with rusted staples and/or worn spines, but some fine and all with covers intact and bright colours.  (78) 

Dorita Fairlie Bruce selection, mostly published by Oxford University Press; includes five First Editions

Lot: 105

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
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Dorita Fairlie Bruce selection, mostly published by Oxford University Press; includes five First Editions comprising Wild Goose Quest, Lutterworth Press, 1945; Triffeny, 1950; A Laverock Lilting, 1945; Toby at Tibbs Cross, 1942; and Prefects at Springdale, 1936. Fair to fine; plus 4 reprints in mixed very condition. All with previous owner’s bookplate. (9) 

'Girls Gone By' reprints of Schoolgirl fiction, mostly Dorita Fairlie Bruce stories,

Lot: 106

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Girls Gone By reprints of Schoolgirl fiction, mostly Dorita Fairlie Bruce stories, plus biographical works on Antonia Forest (2) and Monica Edwards. All softbacks. Most with previous owner’s bookplate. (15)

"The Girls' Friend Library", Amalgamated Press, a collection from 1906, including Issues 1 to 5, 8 and 9;

Lot: 107

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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The Girls’ Friend Library,  Amalgamated Press, a collection from 1906, including Issues 1 to 5, 8 and 9; most with masking tape used to strengthen the spines; includes 6 from a later series to 1924. Scarce. (33)

"The Schoolgirls' Own Library", Amalgamated Press, a collection of 100 issues from 1925 to 1940,

Lot: 108

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £105
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The Schoolgirls’ Own Library, Amalgamated Press, a collection of 100 issues from 1925 to 1940, many with rusted staples and/or frayed spines, almost all with covers intact with bright colours though a few with covers detached. Some fine. (107)

"The Schoolgirls Own Library" Amalgamated Press, a collection of 100 issues from 1924 to 1940,

Lot: 109

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
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The Schoolgirls Own Library, Amalgamated Press, a collection of 100 issues from 1924 to 1940, many with rusted staples and/or frayed spines, almost all with covers intact with bright colours though a few with covers detached. Some fine. Includes 2 copies of the last issue (No. 733) (93)

Arthur Aikin and Mrs. Barbauld "Evenings at Home, or The Juvenile Budget Opened:

Lot: 116

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £15
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Arthur Aikin and Mrs. Barbauld Evenings at Home, or The Juvenile Budget Opened: consisting of a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces for the Instruction and Amusement of Young Persons, London, 1826, 14th Edn, set of four small volumes, full grained green morocco, red title labels, gilt, Vol.1 with small piece of backstrip missing. Few light pencil annotations o/w very good internally.  (4)

"Schoolgirls' Own Library" Amalgamated Press (later Fleetway Publications) late 1940s to early 1960s,

Lot: 121

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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Schoolgirls’ Own Library, Amalgamated Press (later Fleetway Publications) late 1940s to early 1960s, a collection in varied condition, most with worn spines but covers largely intact with bright colours. (130)

"Girls' Crystal" Amalgamated Press 1947-1952, a collection in folders contained in three lever-arch files,

Lot: 122

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £80
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Girls' Crystal, Amalgamated Press 1947-1952, a collection in folders contained in three lever-arch files, most 1947 issues with rusted staples and some also with hole punches in margin, later issues good to fine. Light duplication. (249 issues)

Rod Barzilay & Others "Spaceship Away....The original Dan Dare returns" Issues 1 to 22, 2003 to 2010,

Lot: 123

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £10
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Rod Barzilay & Others Spaceship Away....The original Dan Dare returns Issues 1 to 22, 2003 to 2010, A4 softbacks, pictorial card wraps. (22)

Hulton Press interest including 1950s Novels (8), some in d/w; "Dan Dare Pilot of the Future" facsimiles (8),

Lot: 124

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £10
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Hulton Press interest including 1950s Novels (8), some in d/w; Dan Dare Pilot of the Future facsimiles (8), Eagle Classics facsimiles (3) etc.Many with previous owner’s bookplate.  Also boxed videos.

"Wonder Woman" D.C. Comics, 1973-79, a good collection in folders stored in lever-arch file,

Lot: 125

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Wonder Woman D.C. Comics, 1973-79, a good collection in folders stored in lever-arch file, VG to VF (40). Also 7 modern Wonder Girl. 

Illustrated Children's Books including Kate Greenaway "Mother Goose" printed by Edmund Evans;

Lot: 129

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Nov 2016 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
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Illustrated Children’s Books including Kate Greenaway Mother Goose printed by Edmund Evans; Randolph Caldecott (2); Come Lasses and Lads, Castell Brothers, chromo-litho printing; The Podgy-Puppy illustrated by Alan Wright & Anne Anderson; and 2 others. (7)