A GO-AHEAD SCHOOLGIRL
Written by Elsie J. Oxenham. Illustrated by Harold C. Earnshaw.
Stock no. 2120690
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. Very good condition.

Brown cloth with decorations. 6 b/w plates. 376 pages. Some light bumping and wear to spine and corners. A few light marks to covers. Slight scuffing to spine. Name in ink to front endpaper. Some grubby marks and page browning to outer page edges. All plates present. A nice copy of an early reprint.

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THE RED CAPS OF LYONS
Written by Herbert Hayens. Illustrated by Lionel Edwards.
Stock no. 1315572
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1st 1909. Almost very good condition.

A story of the French Revolution. Blue pictorial cloth with gilt titles. Brown endpapers. 6 b/w plates. 302 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Joints cracked. Small booksellers sticker to rear pastedown. Small erasure mark to top corner of front free-endpaper. Pale foxing and fingering to contents which are generally clean.

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A BUNCH OF KEYS
Written by Margaret Johnson. Illustrated by Jessie Walcott.
Stock no. 1315568
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1st 1904. Good condition.

Large oblong format. Pale blue boards with pictorial onlay to front. A rebus book. 73 numbered pages. B/w illustrations. Spine is worn and split, slight loss to base, top 1.5" part detached. Corners worn. Covers slightly grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers browned. Grubby fingermarks to page margins. A decent copy of a scarce rebus item.

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THE STORY OF PADDY PORKIE
Written by H.G.C. Marsh Lambert. Illustrated by H.G.C. Marsh Lambert.
Stock no. 1315468
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1947. Very good condition.

Small format. Blue pictorial boards with white spine. B/w illustrated endpapers. Colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. 37 pages. Spine slightly bumped and worn. Cover edges lightly rubbed. Name, address and date in ink to front pastedown. Foxing to endpapers and a few small fingermarks at page margins else contents clean. A nice copy of a scarce little book.

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TOP SECRET
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer.
Stock no. 1404196
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1st 1955. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

From the Chudleigh Hold Series. Hawk Chudleigh goes to work in Queensland bearing papers about a new secret weapon. He and his chum, Walter Urquhart escape to an island owned by the Penrose family who fall into enemy hands. Pale blue boards, dark blue title to spine. B/w frontis. 204 pages. Spine bumped. Boards a little foxed. Name and address to edge of front pastedown. Front joint beginning to crack. Pages browned. Foxing to endpapers and page edges. Dustwrapper is a little edgeworn and chipped. Foxing to front and verso.

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BRAINS & BRAVERY
Written by G.A. Henty; Guy Boothby; et al. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1403629
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1st 1903. Almost very good condition.

A Collection of Stories - first four by Henty. 8 b/w plates. Russet pictorial cloth with gilt title boxes. 398 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Board edges a little bumped and worn. Gilt on front a little worn. Covers grubby. Some hinges cracked but binding still tight. Inscription to half title page. Foxing mainly to prelims and page edges. Some light fingering to page margins. Small ink mark affecting edge of a few pages.

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BRAINS & BRAVERY
Written by G.A. Henty; Guy Boothby; et al. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 2116025
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1st 1903. Almost very good condition.

A Collection of Stories - first four by Henty. 8 b/w plates. Blue pictorial cloth with gilt title boxes. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Some marks and scuffing to covers. Tape/glue residue with some paper residue to edges of pastedowns. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and some page margins. Some grubby margin marks. One plate is partially detached.

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THE ADVENTURES OF SQUIRREL FLUFFYTALE
Written by Dolores McKenna.
Stock no. 1402406
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1951. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

The story of Brownie Squirrel's journey to a party. Green boards with gilt title. Black & white pictorial endpapers. 6 colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. 37 pages. Spine and corners a little bumped. Browning to endpapers. Pencil erased from top of verso of front endpaper. Colour plates all present but not in right order. They may have been reinserted into book. One plate has ragged edges and is a little detached from the book and has a couple of shiny marks (?glue).Pictorial dustwrapper is edgeworn and torn with a little loss. Front panel is creased. Wrapper is grubby.

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SEVEN SCAMPS
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer.
Stock no. 1311805
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. 1957. Almost very good condition.

The La Rochelle series. An exciting adventure based in the Channel Islands and Guernsey. Grey boards with red title to spine. 296 pages. Spine bumped some light indentations to spine and cover. Old tape marks to pastedowns. Contents lightly browned and slightly wrinkled else clean.

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THE PEDLAR'S PACK
Written by Mrs. Alfred Baldwin. Illustrated by Charles Pears.
Stock no. 1402073
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. Very good condition.

Brown illustrated cloth covers. 9 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 397 pages. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Browning to endpapers. Some page browning and foxing, including to margin of plates, otherwise contents are clean. A couple of hinges are cracked.

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GOLDEN SQUARE HIGH SCHOOL
Written by May Baldwin. Illustrated by A.S. Boyd.
Stock no. 1311119
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. circa 1927. Good condition.

Green cloth with dark green titles and vignettes. B/w frontis. 311 pages. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed, pale foxing to spine. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Frontis is detached but still present and has name and address written in biro on verso. Hinge between frontis and endpaper cracked, rear joint partly cracked. Endpapers browned.

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UNCLE SAM'S MONEY-BOX
Written by Mrs. S.C. Hall. Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell; et al..
Stock no. 1311040
Published by W. & R. Chambers Limited. circa 1912. Very good condition.

Red pictorial cloth (illustration to front by Attwell). 2 b/w plates and 2 b/w text illustrations by other artists (not named). 127 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Prize plate to front endpaper. The 2 b/w illustrations have been coloured in (not too badly) and there is heavy foxing else the contents are clean.

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