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The Travels of a New Zealand Feather and Other Tales

By: "Hinemoa"

Price: NZ$175.00

Publisher: Wellington, Printed by J. B. Innes: 1892

Seller ID: 22318

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued

Rubbing and fading to cloth, with old dampstain to cloth in middle of front board. ; Scarce. Inscription on front endpaper, "W. A. Parkinson Esq. with J. B. I's Compliments". The inscription has been crossed out and there is a later owner's name beneath it. The inscription is possibly by the printer J. B. Innes? 49, [3] pages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on front board. Page dimensions: 180 x 119mm. Stories for children. "I now present them to the Public, in the hope that the children of New Zealand, more especially the young ones of Wellington, may enjoy these little tales, some of ...
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Northanger Abbey and Persusasion [The Novels of Jane Austen, Volume V]

By: Austen, Jane; edited by R. W. Chapman

Price: NZ$54.00

Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press: (1959)

Seller ID: 22298

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Fading to spine and boards. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Lacking the dust-jacket.; This is a single volume, containing the novels "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" from a five volume set of "The Novels of Jane Austen - The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions". This is the 1959 sixth printing of the 1933 third edition. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 185 x 122mm.
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The Ragamuffin Mystery

By: Blyton, Enid

Price: NZ$85.00

Publisher: London, Collins: (1959)

Seller ID: 22161

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Previous owner's name in green ink on title page. Bookseller's rubber stamp on front endpaper. Small 5mm chips at head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First printing. 256 pages + colour frontispiece. Black and white illustrations within the paginated leaves, some full page. Red boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 191 x 119mm. Top page edges dyed red. Children's mystery novel, the sixth and final title in the "Barney Book" / "Barney Junior Mystery" series. Illustrated by Gilbert Dunlop
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The Mystery of the Strange Bundle - Being the Tenth Adventure of the Five Find-Outers and Dog

By: Blyton, Enid

Price: NZ$100.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: (1952)

Seller ID: 22162

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good dust jacket

No signatures. Chips and tears to dust-jacket, including 8mm missing at head of dust-jacket spine. Adhesive tape at head of front flap fold of dust-jacket. Some adhesive tape stains to dust-jacket flaps and endpapers. Fading to dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First printing. 179, [3] pages. 10 full page black and white illustrations within the paginated leaves, including the frontispiece. Yellow boards with green lettering on spine and front board. Green fingerprint and magnifying glass illustration on front board. Page dimension...
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The Mystery of the Strange Messages - Being the Fourteenth Adventure of the Five Find-Outers and Dog

By: Blyton, Enid

Price: NZ$67.50

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: (1957)

Seller ID: 22163

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Lacking the front free endpaper, which has been torn out. Chips and tears to dust-jacket, including 22mm missing at head of dust-jacket spine. Fading to dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First printing. [6], 186 pages. 8 full page black and white illustrations (including the frontispiece). Grey boards with crimson lettering on spine and front board. Crimson fingerprint and magnifying glass illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 185 x 118mm. Children's mystery novel, the fourteenth title in the "Mystery" series. Illustrated by Lilian Buchanan.
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Five on a Secret Trail

By: Blyton, Enid

Price: NZ$54.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: (1956)

Seller ID: 22164

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

No signatures. Dust-jacket with 45mm tear along lower joint, dampstain to lower margin, chips to corners, 10mm missing at tail of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; First printing. 182 pages. Red boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 185 x 118mm. Illustrated endpapers. The fifteenth adventure of the Famous Five. Illustrated by Eileen Soper.
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Five Go To Billycock Hill

By: Blyton, Enid

Price: NZ$60.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: (1957)

Seller ID: 22165

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

10mm missing at head of dust-jacket spine. 25mm tear at corner of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; First printing. 182, [2]. Red boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 184 x 118mm. Illustrated endpapers. The sixteenth adventure of the Famous Five. Illustrated by Eileen Soper.
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Five on a Treasure Island

By: Blyton, Enid

Price: NZ$60.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: (1942)

Seller ID: 22274

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Spine and boards rubbed with some marks. A 10 x 3mm chip to cloth in front joint near head of spine. Rear hinge broken and loose. Previous owner's inscription dated 1943 on title page. Lacking the dust-jacket.; Second printing, September 1942. 191, [1] pages. Blue cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 184 x 119mm. Illustrated by Eileen A. Soper. The first title in the Famous Five series.
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The Land of Far-Beyond

By: Blyton, Enid

Price: NZ$67.50

Publisher: London, Methuen Children's Books: (1973)

Seller ID: 22277

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

No signatures. A 14 x 4mm abrasion on rear panel of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket is price-clipped.; 1973 reprint edition. 156 pages. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 214 x 135mm. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
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Mr. Tumpy and His Caravan

By: Blyton, Enid

Price: NZ$87.00

Publisher: London, Cresta-Books: [c1959]

Seller ID: 22283

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Previous owner's inscription dated 1961 on inside of front cover. 50mm tear at corner of rear panel of dust-jacket. Some small tears to corners of dust-jacket and ends of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; No date. Reprint edition. [68] pages. Illustrated papered boards with red cloth spine. Each page with four captioned illustrations. Illustrations by Dorothy M. Wheeler.
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Up the Faraway Tree

By: Blyton, Enid

Price: NZ$270.00

Publisher: London, George Newnes: 1951

Seller ID: 22280

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Fading to spine. Some fading to boards. Small 4mm long crease to spine across rear joint, about midway between the words "TREE" and "ENID". Sunday School prize label on front endpaper. Some ink scribbles on the prize label, and to a small extent on the front free endpaper itself (see photos). Otherwise a very good and clean copy. No other previous owner's names or markings. Some light foxing to page edges.; First printing. 96 pages. Red boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 197 x 130mm. Illustrated by Dorothy M. Wheeler. There are two illustrations on each page...
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More About Paddington

By: Bond, Michael

Price: NZ$216.00

Publisher: London, Collins: 1959

Seller ID: 22129

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

No signatures. Some adhesive tape stains to endpapers. Dustjacket with fading and foxing. A 25mm tear in front panel of dust-jacket. 5mm tears and chips at corners of dust-jacket and head and tail of dust-jacket spine. Some adhesive tape stains to dust-jacket flaps. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 128 pages. Blue cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 198 x 134mm. Illustrated by Peggy Fortnum. The second book about Paddington Bear. "The Brown family first met the lovable bear from South American on Paddington station - hence ...
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Freddy and Freginald

By: Brooks, Walter R.

Price: NZ$100.00

Publisher: London, The Bodley Head: (1952)

Seller ID: 22235

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket

Most of dust-jacket spine missing. 25mm chip / abrasion to front panel of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; First UK edition. 185 pages + [4] pages advertisements. Blueboards with black lettering on s pine, black illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 184 x 120mm. Illustrated by Kurt Weise. "This is the fourth of the 'Freddy' books, and in it we are introduced to Freginald. Freginald is a bear." - from dust-jacket blurb. This was originally published in the USA in 1936 as "The Story of Ferdinand".
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The Flying Turk

By: Creasey, John

Price: NZ$100.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: [1939]

Seller ID: 20047

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Some foxing. Small chips and tears to margins of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; No date [1939]. v, [1], 250 pages + black-and-white frontispiece. Red cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 195 x 129mm. Children's novel. "[. . .] he started a thing which had always been in his dreams - flight in a gigantic airliner from England to India. But what was to be a perfect holiday flight turned out very differently, for the sinister Sud Ben Ali began to operate against Frank's father and the lives of the ...
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The S.O.S. Flight

By: Creasey, John

Price: NZ$67.50

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: [1937]

Seller ID: 22259

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Ends of spine whitened from old damp damage. Gutter broken at rear hinge. School prize label dated 1944 on front endpaper. Dust-jacket with dampstain to lower half of spine and corner of rear panel. Large pieces missing to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; No date [1937]. v, [1], 250 pages + black-and-white frontispiece. Red cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 197 x 128mm. Children's novel. "The whole of the South of England on that February morning was hidden under a blanket of fog, which lifted...
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The Three Princes of Serendip

By: Hodges, Elizabeth Jamison

Price: NZ$108.00

Publisher: London, Constable Young Books: (1965)

Seller ID: 22291

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

No signatures. Rubbing to dust-jacket. Small 2mm loss at head of dust-jacket spine. Small ink price at corner of front panel of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; First UK edition. This UK edition has a different illustrator, Peggy Fortnum, than the 1964 US edition, which was illustrated by Joan Berg. 128 pages. Teal boards with silver lettering on spine, silver flower illustration on corner of front board. Page dimensions: 216 x 135mm. Children's novel. Illustrated by Peggy Fortnum. "Walpole explained it in a letter of January 28, 1754. Alluding to a 'faury tale, ca...
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Meet Muffin the Mule

By: Hogarth, Ann

Price: NZ$87.00

Publisher: London, University of London Press: (1954)

Seller ID: 22296

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

No signatures. Some foxing. Tears and some small chips to margins of dust-jacket. Fading to dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 88 pages. Yellow boards with red lettering on spine, red illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 193 x 132mm. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated by Neville Main. Five stories for children. Contents: Muffin is Muddled; Peregrine has Duckling Trouble; Muffin and the Beautiful White Horse; Muffin's Racing Day; Muffin Makes Pancakes.
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The Boy From London

By: Lethbridge, Peter

Price: NZ$60.00

Publisher: Leicester, The Brockhampton Press: (1951)

Seller ID: 22284

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

No signatures. A 20mm tear at head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 192 pages. Burgundy boards with gilt lettering and publisher's Scottish terrior motif on spine. Page dimensions: 184 x 122mm. Children's novel. Illustrated by Norman Meredith. "Set in the Lakeland this is a colourful adventure of Jeremy, who runs away from London to find his uncle's farm." - from dust-jacket blurb.
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The Golden Shore

By: Lyon, Elinor

Price: NZ$135.00

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton: (1957)

Seller ID: 22275

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Some foxing and rubbing to dust-jacket. A 45 x 19mm chip to top corner of front panel of dust-jacket. Some chips at head and tail of dust-jacket spine, with a couple of pieces of white paper pasted on reverse side of dust-jacket at head and tail of spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 192 pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, gilt illustration on corner of front board. Page dimensions: 216 x 137mm. Illustrated. Children's novel, set in Ancient Greek. "John and Penelope fall into the stream, and climb out on the other side into an entirely different world." -...
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Peg's Fairy Book

By: Maltby, Peg

Price: NZ$81.00

Publisher: Sydney, Angus & Robertson: (1980)

Seller ID: 22351

ISBN: 0207134162

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

No signatures. Fading to margins of boards. 50mm missing at top of dust-jacket spine. 50mm tear to corner of dust-jacket. Wear to corners of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 1980 reprint of 1976 "Special Gift Edition". Pages unnumbered. 15 full page colour illustrations. Orange boards with white lettering on spine and front board. White illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 286 x 214mm.
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Category: Children's Books