Brendon Chase by Denys Watkins-Pitchford 'BB'
100.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The novel is about three boys living wild in an English forest. It was later made into a 13-part TV serial and shown on ITV from 31 December 1980 to 25 March 1981.
My First Voyage: A Book for Youth by William Stones
550.00 NZD
Category: Exploration
Although classified as fiction, what the author is doing is relating facts about world travels in a style designed to appeal to the youth. Includes instruction on the use of scientific instruments by travellers–an idea adopted not long after by The Royal Geographical Society in "Hints to Travellers". ...Show more
Childhood's Pattern - A Study of the Heroes and Heroines of Children's Fiction, 1770-1950 by Gillian Avery
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics/Rare
This book studies analyses different heroes and heroins in childhood literature from the 1700s-1900s
Whitcombe's Story Books by I. F. Mclaren
110.00 NZD
Category: Classics/Rare
Whitcombe's Story Books - A Trans-Tasman Survey.
William Tell (or The Patriot of Switzerland) by De Florian, M.
100.00 NZD
Category: Classics/Rare
A good copy, covers and spine are worn, pages and illustratrions still clear and clean.
The Fables of Aesop 2 Vols by Aesop
700.00 NZD
Category: Classics/Rare
Red leather and clothbound cover with gilt-stamped lettering and decorations on spine, with 112 engraved illustration plates. Text and illustrations are unmarked and clean, pages crisp and bright. Bindings tight, sturdy, and square
Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb
55.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare
Tales from Shakespeare is an English children's book written by the siblings Charles and Mary Lamb in 1807, intended "for the use of young persons" while retaining as much Shakespearean language as possible. Mary Lamb was responsible for retelling the comedies and Charles the tragedies.
Feeding the Mind by Lewis Carroll
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics/Rare
In 'Feeding the Mind' by Lewis Carroll, the reader is taken on a journey through the author's thoughts on education and intellectual growth. Written in Carroll's iconic whimsical style, the book explores the importance of feeding one's mind with knowledge and imagination.
Botanical Ladder by The Religious Tract Society
160.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A BOTANICAL LADDER FOR THE YOUNG
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
150.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Aesop's Fables in the seventeenth-century translation of Sir Roger L'Estrange, with the illustrations of Percy J. Billinghurst The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since they were first written down nearly two millennia ago. Aesop was reputedly a ...Show more
Voyage of the Nyanza by J. Cumming Dewar
150.00 NZD
Category: World History
The Record of Three Years' cruise in a schooner Yacht in the Atlantic and pacific, and her subsequent shipwreck.An eyewitness description of several of the more remote and unfamiliar island groups in the Pacific Ocean.
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