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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. THE WONDER BOOK OF STORIES AND POEMS: A TREASURY OF POETRY AND PROSE FOR YOUNG READERS. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading. Damaged book. Slightly damaged in some way typically, a grazed corner or torn cover. Ex-library book with stamps on the first page, it is also likely to have a small shelf number sticker on the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paper Back. Condition: Good.

Condition: Good. Good condition. (anthology, short stories) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Mona Moore (illustrator). First edition thus. First published by Simon & Schuster in 1959, this is a great anthology of 48 improbable short stories from a list of leading writers from which it is hard to choose examples. (Oh, alright then, here are a few of my favorites: Chekhov, T.H. White, H.G. Wells, John Collier, Saki, Ray Bradbury, Evelyn Waugh, and so on.) There's an Introduction by the editor. This mass market paperback edition is undated. It carries only the copyright date of 1959 (which, of course, has no relevance to subsequent editions), but this Ace Star book, K-113, would be from the following year. Edges are browned, but a very good copy with the spine looking pretty good.

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Illustrated (illustrator). KLT011590, LIVEZEY pale blu hb, slightly edgeworn and sunworn, bottom corner of foredge soiled, few pencil marks to foredge also,o/wise pgs bright and clean, dustjacket scuffed at every corner and edge, nicked edges, shreded about head of spine with tears and chipping to front top edge, yet whole, authors include Ethel Anderson, Stephen Andrews, Viola Bayley, Elizabeth Beresford, Norah Burke, Dorothy Gilman Butters, Katleen Fidler, Yury Kazakov, Angus MacVicar, Penelope Mortimer, M. Pardoe, Edith Pargeter, Mary Patchett, Roger Pilkington and A.Tyson makes up 255pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Light blue covers have light wear, spine is slanted. Interior is clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Gwen Tourret (illustrator). Excellent anthology, with contributions from Kathleen Fidler, Mary Patchett, Elisabeth Beresford and Penelope Mortimer, among others. All is in VG, neat, clean, crisp and bright interior order with spotting to edge of block. Light blue boards are VG with bright gilt titling to the spine and minor fading to upper edge. Clipped d/j is worn to edges with some tearing and creasing around the spine but otherwise in good condition. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. 255pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. N/A (illustrator). No Date. Odhams Press Ltd, London, No Date, Early Sixties, Hard Cover. Book Condition : Very Good, Clean, bright text. Cover has only slight bumping to lower spine. Jacket fair, tears top/bottom, spine. Bookseller Inventory 000660. N/A.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Undated. 256pp. Maroon cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Spine ends rounded slightly, bottom front corner just bumped. Previous owner's name inked on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has light shelf wear, mirrors book damage, price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Printing. 22 stories. Authors include: W.E. Johns (Pearls and Primroses), Kathleen Fidler, Viola Bayley, J. Keir Cross, Elisabeth Kyle, Lorna Wood and others. Hardback: illustrated in b/w by various illustrators, dj is rubbed on the edges and is a bit dusty, price unclipped, some foredge and internal foxing, a few pages have some light indentations and one lower page corner is creased, g. large 8vo, 320pp.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reg Gray (illustrator). 9999. Odhams Books, London, no date, 1950's ? Hard cover. Book Condition : Very good, appears little read. Very clean text. Scarce book. Superb Ilustrations. Jacket has shelf wear tears.Page edge marked. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #BY015185. N/A.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 278 pages. First English edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Colin Andrews. Short stories about liars, miscreants, con men, swindlers, thugs and artful dodgers. Contributors include H. G. Wells, O. Henry, Roald Dahl, Evan Hunter, Alan Paton, Damon Runyon, Robert Louis Stevenson, Martin Armstron, Guy de Maupassant, Alberto Moravia andNigel Balchin. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. Price clipped. A beautiful copy!

Red Cloth Silver Embossed. Condition: Contents Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated By Drawings (illustrator). First Edition of This Edition 1966. This is a well-illustrated book of 22 fine stories for boys. Famous authors include.Charles Dickens, John Macefield etc. The tales cover many ages and countries, from dinasaurs to Red Indians. Please e-mail for further details. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Signed By a Metcalf 5 St. Mary.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. A wonderful vintage collection of stories for girls including some well known authors. Illustrated in black and white. Cover is torn at the top of spine, as seen in photo.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition. First English edition. Very Good book in a Good dustjacket.

Hardback. Condition: Very good copy. Hardback. 373pp. A selection of extracts from a wide range of writers including: Zora Neale Hurston, Angela Thirkell, Alison Uttley, Rose Macaulay, Cynthia Asquith, William Plomer, James Kirkup, Nancy Mitford, Monica Dickens, John Moore, Diana Cooper and many others. The extracts are organised on themes of family life. Blue cloth is very clean and neat but very slightly faded to the very edges. Age toning to endpapers. Text is clean. Binding is sound. Very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Good condition. Dust jacket has small tears and fading of spine. Inscribed on fly leaf. Some tanning of inside pages. All pages clean and unmarked. Red Story Book for Boys is suitable for children from nine to twelve. It is a treasury of stories chosen for their imaginative and literary qualities. The stories range from adventure to humour, from everyday life to the magical, from schoolchild larking to Welsh myth and Chinese legend.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. FIRST ODHAMS EDITION with chipped & rubbed dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 255 pages. spine scuffed, page edge foxed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Copyright. Authors include Gerald Durrell, H. Mortimer Batten and William Saroyan. Illustrated, dj is a bit worn on the edges and faded on the spine, price clipped. Name crossed out on front endpaper, green ink stripe on bottom page edges, else vg. 8vo, 256pp.

Condition: Fair. . Hardback. Some shelf wear , dustjacket worn. . . . .

Hard Cover. Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No date (c1960s). 320pp, text-ills. Prelims and endpages lightly foxed, page edges quite heavily foxed. Papered boards, foxed, in price-clipped dust-jacket which is worn at the spine head and foot. Includes Biggles adventure The Case of the Unknown Aircaft (pp177-195) with other stories by T O Beachcroft, Arthur Catherall, Denis Clark, Hylton Cleaver, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, I O Evans, Gerald Kersh, S Malcolm Kirk, Eric Leyland, R J McGregor, H G Wells, and Eric Williams. Size: 8vo.