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Goudge, Elizabeth, Illustrator: Hodges, C. Walter
The Little White Horse
Publisher: New York: Coward-McCann (1947)
First American Edition 8vo Silver decorated blue cloth. 280pp with illustrations from line drawings by C. Walter Hodges. A fantasy set in England's enchanted West Country "a hundred years ago." This title not only won the UK's prestigious Carnegie Medal, but no less an author than J. K. Rowling has said it was her favorite as a child. High praise indeed! The title was also an Honor Book in the New York Herald Tribune's Children's Spring Book Festival. Some fading to spine, slight fore edge foxing else Very Good. Dustjacket lightly soiled, spine a bit darkened, with a little chipping at spine ends and corners.
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AUD 241.55 | CAD 259.07 | EUR 193.80 | GBP 165.89 | JPY 22,727.27 | MXN 2,777.78 | ZAR 2,500.00 |
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Item number: 006009.
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Pullman, Philip
The Golden Compass
Publisher: New York: Knopf (1996)
ISBN: 0679879242 Seventh Printing 8vo Cloth-backed boards. 399pp. Book one in Pullman's highly acclaimed His Dark Materials trilogy. Winner of the 1995 Carnegie Medal (under the title Northern Lights) and the ABBY Award in the Children's category. Fine in Near Fine dustjacket.
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AUD 9.66 | CAD 10.36 | EUR 7.75 | GBP 6.64 | JPY 909.09 | MXN 111.11 | ZAR 100.00 |
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Item number: 003775.
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Pullman, Philip
The Golden Compass
Publisher: New York: Knopf (1996)
ISBN: 0679879242 First U.S. Edition 8vo Cloth-backed boards. 399pp. Book one in Pullman's highly acclaimed His Dark Materials trilogy. Winner of the 1995 Carnegie Medal (under the title Northern Lights) and the ABBY Award in the Children's category. Tip of one leaf creased (appears to be a bindery flaw) else Fine in dustjacket.
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AUD 144.93 | CAD 155.44 | EUR 116.28 | GBP 99.54 | JPY 13,636.36 | MXN 1,666.67 | ZAR 1,500.00 |
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Item number: 007310.
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Ransome, Arthur
Pigeon Post
Publisher: London: Jonathan Cape (1988)
ISBN: 0224021249 Second Printing, Revised Edition 8vo Green boards gilt. 382pp illustrated with the author's drawings and endpaper map. Another of Arthur Ransome's wonderful adventures, the sixth book in his Swallows and Amazons series, and the first Carnegie Medal winner in 1936. Fine in lightly frayed dustjacket.
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AUD 24.15 | CAD 25.91 | EUR 19.38 | GBP 16.59 | JPY 2,272.73 | MXN 277.78 | ZAR 250.00 |
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Item number: 006207.
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Treece, Henry, Illustrator: Keeping, Charles
The Dream Time
Publisher: New York Meredith Press, 1968
First U.S. Edition 8vo Teal cloth. 114pp illustrated with Keeping's fine drawings, both full-page and smaller. Postscript by Rosemary Sutcliff. Set at the dawn of time, this is the story of a young artist who would rather make beautiful things than engage in his tribe's incessant warfare. Carnegie Commended in 1968. Fine in Near Fine dustjacket, lightly frayed.
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AUD 48.31 | CAD 51.81 | EUR 38.76 | GBP 33.18 | JPY 4,545.45 | MXN 555.56 | ZAR 500.00 |
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Item number: 000559.
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