New acquisitions

ANCKARSVARD, Karin: Rider By Night  £2.00
Scholastic, pb, 1971, illus Charles Walker. G+
Light rubs to spine, small loss of surface, sticker scar to front. Cover creased. Pages sunned. A Swedish pony story.

BAXTER, Gillian : The Difficult Summer   £15.00
Evans, hb/dj, 1959 1st edn, illus Anne Gordon, G++/G+
Second in the Bracken Stables trilogy.  Blue boards very good, some fading to edges, prelims spotted, pages clean.  DJ clipped, worn and chipped.

CUMMING, Primrose : Four Rode Home    £1.00
Dent Pennant, hb/dj, 1963. Ex lib. Illus Maurice Tulloch. Reading copy

DJ protected by plastic; clipped, worn to edges. Covers fair; library markings. Some pages have been re-stuck with sellotape, but all appear to be there.

EDWARDS, Monica : Dolphin Summer  £40.00

Children’s Book Club, hb/dj, 1963.  Illus Geoffrey Whittam.  VG-/G

Difficult to find in any edition.  Romney Marsh story; admittedly far more about dolphins than it is about ponies, but an excellent read.  DJ unclipped, name written to rear, spine ends missing, chunks missing from top edge of front.  Blue boards good; faded and bumped to top edges.  Tiny mark to endpapers.  Pages bright and clean.

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