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Oct 1, 2003 9:22 am
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... on ... I can't help you with the Boys Leisure Hour but there is a very good article with plenty of descriptive information, even including passengers'...
Hi, I would like some help with dating Beatrix Potter books. e.g. The Tale of Two Bad Mice - light orangey brown boards, square pasted inset of mouse with...
This isn't really a list topic but I've been a subscriber for long enough to know there are some helpful booksellers on the list & I'm wondering if one of them...
Just over a month ago I rambled on about my book finds in south-west Scotland. I mentioned going to a bookshop in Girvan which had quite a few interesting...
Somebody many months (years?) ago asked about the Teddy Lester series written by John Finnemore. I found a copy of 'Three School Chums', the first in the ...
Ok I know a month late but Do you these indexed like the annuals? Earlier this year I picked up about 20 of them from about 1979 to 1981 not complete run but ...
Hi, At last another collection to catalogue. Plenty of the usual 1950s suspects appear as authors : Peter Dawlish, A. Stephen Tring, Arthur Catherall, John...
I haven't seen a reply to this - the 263 implies it's probably February 1963. GillB ... Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system...
Gill Bilski
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Oct 4, 2003 5:21 pm
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John It was the "Teddy Lester Series" that started me on the nostalgic road to collecting boys' school stories a couple of years back although ever since ...
Peter Jackson
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Oct 4, 2003 8:48 pm
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Hi Barbara, I will try and check on the Look & Learn situation this afternoon and let you know which issues I'm missing. As you'll hopefully have seen, one...
[Opsbooks@...:] ... This is the kind of thing that only *half* rings a bell with me: I'm sure I haven't read this story myself, but have probably *heard...
Here's a US Biggles reader after cheap editions. Anyone willing to sell him some? ... Subj: biggles collectors Date: 3/10/03 5:58:47 AUS Eastern Standard...
This is from a bookseller catalogue. 21 Kielecka Aukcja Antykwaryczna odbedzie sie w auli Instytutu Bibliotekoznawstwa i Dziennikarstwa Question: What country?...
... wrote of "Stories for Boys" . There must be a gem in there.I'll let you know. ... "Mouldy chizz" or is it "Mouldy chiz" as Jennings would say when he felt...
... On the other hand, I found a copy of an extract from M.E. Miles' 'Pirates of the Air' in a book of 'stories' and noted that they'd cut it at the end of the...
Eeep - 'face-paced'? I meant fast-paced. The spelling checker even tried to warn me but I ignored it ;o) ... On the other hand, I found a copy of an extract...
In a message dated 10/10/03 1:44:40 AUS Eastern Standard Time, vililee@... writes: << Running it through the Polish translator makes some words come...
Hi fellow collectors, Just joined your group (found it through penrithcity). My collecting is actually bushranging with a particular emphasis on Ned Kelly. ...
Am I correct in saying that the 'Oxford Annual for Girls, 22nd Year' would be the one published before Christmas 1940 for the year 1941? In which case, should...
Hi I'm KT. Some of you'll know me from the biggles group anyway. I don't collect EVERY type of childrens book but I do collect Just William and Paddington...
In a message dated 12/10/03 2:15:13 AUS Eastern Standard Time, nbooksca@... writes: << Am I correct in saying that the 'Oxford Annual for Girls, 22nd...
Hi David, You asked: "Am I correct in saying that the 'Oxford Annual for Girls, 22nd Year' would be the one published before Christmas 1940 for the year 1941?"...
Thanks John & Steve, that's very helpful. Interestingly, there doesn't appear to be any other copies of this year for sale on ABE at the moment, though I'd...