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Auction No 372, Category: Children's Books

7 Lots (displaying 1 - 7)

Violet Needham collection with original hardbacks (6), modern reprint softbacks (7)

Lot: 109

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £34
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Violet Needham collection with original hardbacks (6), modern reprint softbacks (7), and 70 issues of the journal Souvenir. Includes The Sword of St Cyprian and other stories, Violet Needham Society, 2003, card wraps, VG. Also 5 Malcolm Saville hardbacks including 3 first editions. Mixed condition.

Elinor Brent-Dyer "Joey Goes to the Oberland", Chambers 1954, "The Chalet School Does it Again", Chambers 1955

Lot: 124

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £36
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Elinor Brent-Dyer Joey Goes to the Oberland, Chambers 1954, The Chalet School Does it Again, Chambers 1955, and Joey and Co. in Tirol, Chambers 1960, all First Editions, and ten similar works including three first editions; all original cloth, lacking d/jkts; two poor, others fair to fine. (13)

Elinor Brent-Dyer First Editions published by Chambers comprising "Shocks for the Chalet School", 1952;

Lot: 125

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Elinor Brent-Dyer First Editions published by Chambers comprising Shocks for the Chalet School, 1952; A Future Chalet School Girl, 1962; Theodora and the Chalet School, 1959 (spine faded), and A Problem for the Chalet School,1956 (prize bookplate, text browned throughout). Original cloth, lacking d/jkts; fair to fine. (4)   

Elinor Brent-Dyer selection published W. & R. Chambers including "Changes for the Chalet School", 1953, 1st Edn, VG;

Lot: 126

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £32
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Elinor Brent-Dyer selection published W. & R. Chambers including Changes for the Chalet School, 1953, 1st Edn, VG; Bride Leads the Chalet School, 1955, browning to text; Jo to the Rescue 1951 (front panel of d/jkt laid down on front cover); Summer Term at the Chalet School, 1965 (spine faded); and 7 others in mixed condition including three Firsts. Poor to VG. (11)

Elinor Brent-Dyer selection including "The Chalet School in Oberland", Chambers, 1958 in complete d/jkt,

Lot: 127

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £50
SOLD £46
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Elinor Brent-Dyer selection including The Chalet School in Oberland, Chambers, 1958 in complete d/jkt, recased with new endpapers; The Wrong Chalet School 1958, in VG complete d/jkt; Trials for the Chalet School 1959, First Edn, in poor (& repaired) d/jkt; A Problem for the Chalet School 1956, First Edn., in fair d/jkt (tape stains to flaps, text browned); and two others in d/jkts. Mixed condition. (6)

Elinor Brent-Dyer First Editions in dustjackets comprising "Ruey Richardson – Chaletian" [1960]; "The Chalet School Triplets"

Lot: 128

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £74
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Elinor Brent-Dyer First Editions in dustjackets comprising Ruey Richardson – Chaletian [1960]; The Chalet School Triplets [1963], ex-library; The Chalet School Reunion, 1963; Jane and the Chalet School, 1964 (d/jkt with peripheral creasing); Adrienne and the Chalet School 1965 (d/jkt chipped at tail of spine); Challenge for the Chalet School 1966 (d/jkt chipped at top & tail of spine); Althea Joins the Chalet School 1969 (price-clipped); and Prefects of the Chalet School 1970 (price-clipped). Last title with small inked number top of endpaper and Triplets with library markings o/w VG/F internally.(8)

Girls Gone By publications comprising softback reprints of novels by Elinor Brent-Dyer (9) and Malcolm Saville (2),

Lot: 129

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £36
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Girls Gone By publications comprising softback reprints of novels by Elinor Brent-Dyer (9) and Malcolm Saville (2), plus some related girls’ fiction, Chalet Club publications, and spoof novels by Jackie Roberts & Merryn Williams. VG/VF (23). Also photocopies of Chalet Club News Letters