Lot: 103
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)
Lot: 104
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)
Lot: 105
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)
Lot: 106
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)
Lot: 107
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)
Lot: 108
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)
Lot: 109
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)
Lot: 116
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)
Lot: 121
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)
Lot: 122
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)
Lot: 123
Rod Barzilay & Others Spaceship Away....The original Dan Dare returns Issues 1 to 22, 2003 to 2010, A4 softbacks, pictorial card wraps. (22)
Lot: 124
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.
Lot: 125
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.
Lot: 129
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)