An EXCELLENT XMAS PRESENT! A collection of CHARLES DICKENS illustrated hardbacks illustrated by Hablot K Browne to include A Tale Of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop and A Child's History Of England, Nicholas Nickleby and David Copperfield, with a copy of Twenty One Tales by Rudyard Kipling by publishers Purnell and Sons Ltd - 5 books in total

Vintage issue -THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS by James Fenimore Cooper by publishers Collins

An eight volume set of CASSELL'S BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE, edited by Harold FB Wheeler, published by the Waverley Book Company

A sixteen volume set of classic novels released by Heron Books to include Frankenstein, The Mill on the Floss etc with faux blue leather binding and gold detailing

A collection of vintage books to include The Swiss Family Robinson, A First Book of Wild Flowers (1918) by Margaret Rankin, a set of 5 books red bound with gilt edgings to include the Master of Ballantrae, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, The Heroes by Charles Kingsley and 2 volumes of The Economies by Thackeray plus 2 Shakespeare tragedies - King Lear and Antony and Cleopatra published by JM Dent & sons, Birds' nests eggs and egg collecting by Richard Kearton, The May Queen by Alfred Tennyson illustrated by EVB 1861

A collection of vintage books to include 'A book of golden deeds' by Charlotte M Yonge, 'The new yeomen of England' by J Wentworth Day, 'Westward Ho!' illustrated with 16 coloured plates 1923, 'Village Memories' by A Flower Painter, 'Peter Parley's Annual - A Christmas and New Year's present for young people 1851, 'Burning gold: a junior poetry book' selected and edited by Reed Moorhouse published 1929, reprinted 1947 and an anthology of Dickens published by Heron Books

COLLECTABLE - Four volumes of WINSTON S CHURCHILL The Second World War to include The Gathering Storm, Their Finest Hour, The Hinge Of Fate and The Grand Alliance, The Reprint Society London

Three signed books by the ever-popular ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH being The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, The Kalahari Typing School for Men, and The Full Cupboard of Life plus a signed 1st edition copy of PEEBLES INTEREST Double Vision by John Stuart and Bill Goodburn and 2 copies of 'If You Want My Opinion' by Bernard Levin, one copy is missing the last page of the book, there is a replacement copy and letter of apology from Hodder Stoughton with this lot

Vintage BLUE PETER annuals - John Noakes, Valerie Singleton, Peter Purvis etc in their glory days! - books 7, 10, 11, 13, 15, 20, 21, 22, plus Oor Wullie from1984, 1988, 1998, 2000, and The Broons from 1985 and 1999