Chicago, LoFollett, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illust. by W. T. Mars. SIGNED BY KELLY on title-page. Lives of Father Jacques Marquett,a Jesuit priest and Frenchman Louis Jolit met in New France and explored the Mississippi River in the 1670's.
NY, P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&W illustrations by William Wilson. In a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page.
Hardcover. Toronto, William Briggs, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 320 pages, many b&w illustrations but most notable for the 8 bright color lithographs of famous American heroes. Paper covering covers is chipped, hinges tender. Aside from cover chipping, very good.
Paperback. New York, The Horn Book, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 84 pages. Reference of books and reading for children and young people. Featuring: 'Brother of the Indian' by Robert Hofsinde, 'The Education of an Artist' by Fritz Eichenberg, 'Anne Parrish as a Writer of Children's Books' by Lavinia Davis and more. Light marking or library stamp on cover. Black & white illustrations. Interior clean and bright.
Paperback. Boston, Horn Book, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Reference of books and reading for children and young people. Featuring: 'My Father' by Yuriko Say, 'Lois Lowry' by Walter Lorraine, and more. Light marking or library stamp/subscription label on cover. Black & white illustrations. Interior clean and bright.
Hardcover. London, B.T. Batsford, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 136 pages illustrated with drawings by Edward Ardizzone. Blue cloth covers with light fading to spine
Hardcover. New York , Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages with b&w photos by Gloir Kitt Lindauer and Carmel Roth.Clean, bright copy with unclipped dust jacket, $3.95. Mild soil to jacket.
New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY PUPPETEER PAUL VINCENT DAVIS (SUBJECT OF BOOK). Unpaginated. Black & white photography by Christopher G. Knight.
Chicago, Laidlaw Bros., 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages, b&w photos. How a steel mill worked, circa 1930. In a scarce dust jacket.
Menlo Park, CA, Lane Book Company, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 64 pages. Contains black & white photography by Martin Litton and Frances Coleberd. A Sunset Junior Book. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Some tape residue to covers and dust jacket. Edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Profusely illustrated with full color and black & white examples of works by: Edward Lear, Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, Beatrix Potter, Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, and more. Clean, tight copy.
Paperback. New York, The Horn Book, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. A reference of books and reading for children and young people. Featuring articles by: Deborah Stevenson, Leonard S. Marcus, Susan Boulanger, and more. Light marking or subscription label on cover. Black & white illustrations. Interior clean and bright.
Hardcover. London, 1st edition, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 pages. Blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, blue dust jacket. Clean covers, light edgewear to dust jacket, with faded spine, neat ink underlining to pages 193-199, pages crisp and otherwise unmarked, tight binding.
Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 48 pages, hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket that has sort tear and chip to top of spine. Illustrated in 3-colors by Tomie de Paola.
Hardcover. Chicago, Book House for Children, 6th pr., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, In 9 volumes. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Black cloth with color illustrations on front cover labels,(except for volume 9 which is the index). color endpapers. All fresh and clean with only minor bumps to two volumes. Cover labels clean, unchipped.
Cleveland NY, World Publishing, 1st US, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 503 pages, b&w illustrations. Nice copy in a bright dust jacket.
Paperback. New York, The Horn Book, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 109 pages. Reference of books and reading for children and young people. Featuring: 'A Tent of Green' by William Jay Smith, 'Storytelling in Toronto' by Eileen Colwell, and more. Light marking or library stamp on cover. Black & white illustrations. Interior clean and bright.
Paperback. Boston, Horn Book, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Reference of books and reading for children and young people. Featuring: 'The Historical Story: Is It Relevent Today?' by Geoffrey Trease, 'Twenty Years of Harper's Young People' by Mary June Roggenbuck, and more. Light marking or library stamp/subscription label on cover. Black & white illustrations. Interior clean and bright.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 349 Pages. Black & white illustrations. Front hinge cracked with cloth holding. Gilt titles on cover and spine still bright with full color paste down intact. Majority of dust jacket sealed within a clear plastic Brodart cover. Text clean, and unmarked.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with many black & white photographs. Gilt titles and decoration on front cover and spine. Areas of rubbing to back cloth cover, and along some edges. Clean, tight copy.
Chicago, M.A. Donohue and Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Lone Wolf. Map on end papers. Edgewear rubbing and soil to covers.
New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1st , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, B&W illustrations by Christopher Spollen. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped - previous owner's signature front fly leaf.
Philadelphia PA, John C. Winston, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 117 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by W. Emerton Heitland. Red top edge. Dust jacket chipping, tears, rubbing, light soiling. Price clipped.
Hardcover. N. P., Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, b&w photos by Lura and Courtney Owen, slight age-tanning to endpapers, spine slightly cocked, previous owner's inscription, clean, tight copy.
Paperback. New York, The Horn Book, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. A reference of books and reading for children and young people. Featuring: 'Ten More Reasons for Loving Children' by Isaac Bashevis Singer, 'The Hazards of Translation' by Margaret K. McElderry, 'In Their Own Time - Footnotes to Social History by Margaret N. Cutt, and more. Light marking or subscription tag on cover. Black & white illustrations. Interior clean and bright.
Softcover. London, Educational Supply Association, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 110 pages. Cloth covers with maroon monotone illustration, perfect binding, endpapers decorated with b&w illustration, b&w plates throughout. Faded spine, light rubbing and soiling to covers, previous owner's signature in red ink to front endpaper; overall, a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1st, 1872, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 371 pages. Black & white illustrations. Indigo cloth covers with titles in gilt. 1/8" cloth loss at top and bottom of lightly faded spine. Cover corners bumped, with rubbing along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Everett Press, 1912, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages. Large tear to rear flyleaf. Black & white illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Decorated cover. Heavy soiling, damage to rear cover. Tears to corners, spine. Otherwise good.
NY, F. A. Stokes, 2nd, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. 200 B&W illust. of stamps. Ex-lib but only bookplate on front end paper and light residue to rear. Bright decorated blue covers
Philadelphia, Patterson, rep, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 439 pages. Black & white illustrations. Front hinge cracked. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Cover has edgewear.
Hardcover. London, S.O. Beeton, 1st, 1862, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 426 pages. Illustrated with woodcuts by Harden Melville and William Harvey. Colored illustrations from water-color drawings by J.R. Zweker, Harrison Webb, and Harden Melville. Fold-out maps. All edges marblized. Endpapers with some browning. 3/4 leather tooled binding with raised decorated bands on spine. Rubbing wear to spine edges, small scuff mark to front leather edge. Corners bumped, worn.
Paperback. New York, The Horn Book, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Reference of books and reading for children and young people. Featuring: 'Two Points of View on Illustration: By a Writer, David Fletcher; By an Artist, Barbara Cooney, 'In Search of Kappas' by Betty Jean Lifton, 'Abroad with Mr. Bear' by Emil L. Vernei. Light marking or library stamp on cover. Black & white illustrations. Interior clean and bright.
Paperback. Boston, Horn Book, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Reference of books and reading for children and young people. Featuring: 9 articles about children's bookshops, 'A Second Look: The Glass Slipper' by Sheryl B. Andrews, 'Early Spring Booklist', and more. Light marking or library stamp/subscription label on cover. Black & white illustrations. Interior clean and bright.
Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 178 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings. Slight warp to right edge of pages 161 through 178. Minor foxing to cloth covers. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop & Co., 1st, 1878, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards with a black cloth spine, 247 pages, b&w illustrations. Introduction by Leonard Waldo of Harvard College Observatory. An introductory study of Astronomy for the young reader. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean. Corner chip to paper on bottom of front cover A fragile binding but still solid. Record # 412016
Softcover. New York, Boy Scouts of America, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with many black & white photographs. Standard wear, and some creasing to covers. Clean, unmarked copy.
NY, Watson Guptil, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white and Color illustrations. 271 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
Softcover. Chicago , Donohue, Unknown, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages Juvenile travel book with many nice B&W engravings. Cardboard covers with color paper, label chipped, peeling.Edges of cardboard covers with gouge at bottom edge. Internally very good.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 246 pages. Black & white illustrations by Jordan. Stamp and writing front endpaper. Soiling to endpapers. Spine wear. Corners rubbed. Soiling to covers. Spine a bit cocked.
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