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Friends of Jimmy, The by: Kay, Gertrude Alice
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Friends of Jimmy, The
by: Kay, Gertrude Alice

Hardcover. New York, Wise-Parslow Company, reprint, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light chipping to cover edges. Corners frayed. Previous owner's markings on front end paper. Color illustrations by author. Light soil.

Record # 368026

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

In Sheep's Clothing by: Rolerson, Darrell A.
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In Sheep's Clothing
by: Rolerson, Darrell A.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Ted Lewin. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 368375

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 
 

Adventures of Wu Han of Korea, The by: Nevins, Albert J.
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Adventures of Wu Han of Korea, The
by: Nevins, Albert J.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, reprint, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 244 pages. Black & white illustrations by Kurt Wiese.

Record # 371441

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Our Own Magazine: Vol.XXX by: T. B. Bishop (Ed.)
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Our Own Magazine: Vol.XXX
by: T. B. Bishop (Ed.)

Hardcover. London, Children's Special Service Mission, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Collected magazines January to December 1909' With The Intelligencer for October 1909, 32 pages, bound in at rear. All edges gilt, Blue cloth with gilt floral decoration. Clean and bright. Previous owner's inscription opposite half-title page.

Record # 371632

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Adventure North by: Pinkerton, Kathrene
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Adventure North
by: Pinkerton, Kathrene

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 3rd pr., 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 168 pages. Blue boards are solid with silhouette of a boy and girl in a canoe; illustrated in b&w by Stephen Voorhies who did the illustrated map on the endpapers. When Ann Jackman was fourteen and her brother Philip eleven, their father decided to become a fur trapper, so the whole family moved to northern Ontario, near a Hudson Bay Post, and built themselves a home. There were many exciting new things for the Jackmans to learn: building a log cabin, making furniture, paddling canoes, the habits of animals, and the language and customs of the Indians.

Record # 374116

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Our Miss Boo by: Runbeck, Margaret Lee; Bacon, Peggy (Illustrator)
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Our Miss Boo
by: Runbeck, Margaret Lee; Bacon, Peggy (Illustrator)

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton-Century Company, reprint, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Green cloth boards with white illustration on cover, white lettering on spine. 226 pages, b&w drawings by Peggy Bacon. Charming story of the little girl, Miss Boo, and her adventures. Reviews on rear of dust jacket suggest this is a reprint.

Record # 375300

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 
 

Call of the Rio Bravo by: Albert E. Bailey/ Henry Pitz
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Call of the Rio Bravo
by: Albert E. Bailey/ Henry Pitz

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. Color frontispiece, b&w illustrations by Henry Pitz. Previous owner's inscription, name on half-title page. "Edward Morrell suddenly steps from the freshman class at Harvard into the interior of Brazil where, he has heard, a young man may earn money provided he has courage. A jealous rancher intends to destroy the foreigner's lumber business, killing if necessary the owner and young Morrell"

Record # 378007

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Pig Plantagenet, The by: Allen Andrews/Michael Foreman
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Pig Plantagenet, The
by: Allen Andrews/Michael Foreman

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st UK, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 199 pages, illustrated in b&w by Michael Foreman. "Set in medieval France, the hero is - yes - a pig, a small but highly intelligent pig with a little boar blood lurking in his veins . . . When the feudal lords of Pitou decide with the farmers to rid the nearby forest of wild animals, it is Plantagenet (beloved of the farmer's daughter, Adele) who warns his cousin, the wild boar Grondin, of what is afoot . . . "

Record # 378014

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Naju of the Nile by: H.E. Barns/Warwick Reynolds
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Naju of the Nile
by: H.E. Barns/Warwick Reynolds

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth covers with gilt and 2-color decoration, 277 pages. Sixteen b&w plates by Warwick Reynolds. Front flap copy glued to front fly leaf. This is the story of Naju, fourth son of the great African king of Nuan who is sent out to find his way in the world. Spine darkened, clean copy.

Record # 378015

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

A Child of the Sun by: Charles Eugene Banks/Louis Betts
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A Child of the Sun
by: Charles Eugene Banks/Louis Betts

Hardcover. Chicago, Monarch Book Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 166 pages. Sixteen color plates by Louis Betts. Yellow cloth cover with title and illustration on front. Spine very slightly darkened. Private library sticker on inner front cover, no other markings. First published by Herbert Stone in 1900, this edition undated but appears to be soon after as quality color plates appear to be from that printing. Clean.

Record # 378016

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Down the Strings (SIGNED COPY) by: Nancy Means Wright
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Down the Strings (SIGNED COPY)
by: Nancy Means Wright

Hardcover. NY, Lodestar / E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT on front fly leaf. Drusie Valentini feels she is trapped on a merry-go-round, going nowhere. She doesn't fit in with the rest of her arty family: her extravagant puppeteer father, his gypsylike assistant Fey who moved in when her mother left; even her pesky brother Punch. At a party a boyfriend talked her into giving ends in disaster-and in getting sent to a strict boarding school. In a year where it seems that everyone is pulling her strings, Drusie is forcd to come to terms with her life with the people she loves best-and with the person she is, and hopes to be. Clean copy.

Record # 378017

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Son of Columbus by: Hans Baumann/William Stobbs
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Son of Columbus
by: Hans Baumann/William Stobbs

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press , 3rd pr., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright dust jacket that has light edgewear. Illustrated with b&w drawings by William Stobbs. 248 pages transl. from German by Isabel and Florence McHugh. Clean copy. Against the dramatic background of hardship and adventure of his fourth voyage of discover to the West Indies the author has set the enigmatic character of Columbus himself, and the moving story of his son Fernan's friendship with the Red Indian boy Tahaka. Clean copy.

Record # 378018

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Wonder Book for Girls and Boys, A by: Nathaniel Hawthorne/Walter Crane
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Wonder Book for Girls and Boys, A
by: Nathaniel Hawthorne/Walter Crane

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st thus, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 210 pages, 60 color designs by Walter Crane. Beige cloth with torquoise and dark brown decoration by Crane. Green decorated end papers. Spine rubbed, light scratches on spine, front fly leaf chipped at corners, rear hinge partially cracked. Internally very good.

Record # 378153

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

In Noah's Ark by: Godden, Rumer
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In Noah's Ark
by: Godden, Rumer

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In this story in verse, Godden has created a new & delightful myth out of the story of the Flood. Clean copy.

Record # 378207

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

The Secret Name by: Barbara Williams (Author), Jennifer Perrott (Illust.)
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The Secret Name
by: Barbara Williams (Author), Jennifer Perrott (Illust.)

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovitch, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A nine-year-old girl recounts the changes in her family's life after a young Navajo girl comes to stay with them. Ex-lib with light stamping, endpapers have scarring.

Record # 380049

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Save Alice! by: Eva-Lis Wuorio
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Save Alice!
by: Eva-Lis Wuorio

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A young adult mystery set off the coast of Spain featuring a parrot named Alice. Clean copy. Dust jacket art by Emily MCCU1lly.

Record # 380050

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Down the Strings (SIGNED COPY) by: Nancy Means Wright
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Down the Strings (SIGNED COPY)
by: Nancy Means Wright

Hardcover. NY, Lodestar / E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT on front fly leaf. Drusie Valentini feels she is trapped on a merry-go-round, going nowhere. She doesn't fit in with the rest of her arty family: her extravagant puppeteer father, his gypsylike assistant Fey who moved in when her mother left; even her pesky brother Punch. At a party a boyfriend talked her into giving ends in disaster-and in getting sent to a strict boarding school. In a year where it seems that everyone is pulling her strings, Drusie is forcd to come to terms with her life with the people she loves best-and with the person she is, and hopes to be. Clean copy.

Record # 380051

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Stories About Whale Catching by: Thomas Teller
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Stories About Whale Catching
by: Thomas Teller

Softcover. New Haven CT, S. Babcock, reprint, 1845, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, 4 1/2 X 5 1/2", illustrated with b&w engravings. Forward by author dated 1845, noting that this book is a shorter version of a "somewhat larger book" printed several years earlier (1832). Wrapper worn with red design and lettering: "Stories About Whale Catching/Toils and Perils of Whalers". Yellow endpapers. Half of paper on spine missing, light foxing and minor staining to several pages.

Record # 380053

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 
 

Twice Besieged by: Sandoz, Edouard
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Twice Besieged
by: Sandoz, Edouard

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Historical tale of a 16-year old during the Crusades. B&w illustrations by the author. Clean copy.

Record # 380269

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 
 

Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates by: Dodge, Mary Mapes; Illustrated By George Wharton Edwards
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Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates
by: Dodge, Mary Mapes; Illustrated By George Wharton Edwards

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, 1st illust. thus, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth pictorially stamped in color and gilt, top edge gilt. Juvenile classic illustrated with 8 color plates and endpapers drawing by George Wharton Edwards. 380 pages, clean copy.

Record # 382173

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 
 

Caleb In Town: A Story for Children by: Abbott, Jacob
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Caleb In Town: A Story for Children
by: Abbott, Jacob

Hardcover. Boston, Crocker & Brewster, 1st, 1839, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed design to black cloth, gilt title on spine. Engraved frontis of sailing ships, has original tissue guard. This title not part of a series, but a "stand alone' title. (Abbott also wrote the 'Rollo' series for children.) 180 pages. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 382188

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 
 

Kidnapped by: Robert Louis Stevenson/Lynd Ward
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Kidnapped
by: Robert Louis Stevenson/Lynd Ward

Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated boards with clear acetate dust jacket, 340 pages. Color and b&w illustrations by Lynd Ward. Clean copy.

Record # 382190

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 
 

All the Blue Moons at the Wallace Hotel (SIGNED COPY) by: Phoebe Stone
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All the Blue Moons at the Wallace Hotel (SIGNED COPY)
by: Phoebe Stone

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY STONE WITH A SKETCH OF A FISH JUMPING OVER THE MOON on the front fly leaf. Unable to afford dance lessons, Fiona struggles to develop her skills while caring for her emotionally detached sister and longing for her family to heal from a past tragedy. Clean copy.

Record # 382248

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 
 

In the Track of the Huskies by: Lillian Murray
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In the Track of the Huskies
by: Lillian Murray

Hardcover. McLelland and Stewart, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket. Blue cloth with black lettering, 208 pages, b&w photo illustrations. Girl's adventure story set among the Eskimos of Arctic Canada. Features Ginnie, who drives her team of huskies as well as any man. Clean copy.

Record # 382264

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 
 

I Can't Stand Losing by: Gene Kemp
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I Can't Stand Losing
by: Gene Kemp

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Teenager Patrick Gates considers himself a future millionaire and irresistible to girls. When suddenly Mum moves out, things change. Paper tanning, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 382269

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 
 

Willow And Twig by: Little, Jean
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Willow And Twig
by: Little, Jean

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Willow doesn't know what to do. Her mother has taken off again, she has to look after her brother Twig, and they're out on the streets of Vancouver with nowhere to go. Then Willow remembers her grandmother, whom she hasn't seen in years. Gram doesn't even know Twig exists, and Twig is, well, difficult. But Gram is her only hope now. After a few urgent phone calls from a police station in Vancouver to Ontario, Willow and Twig are on their way across the country to a grandmother they hardly know, and a strange household made up of an eccentric uncle, a hostile aunt, and a motley crew of animals. Clean, like new.

Record # 382271

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 
 

How the Whale Became by: Hughes, Ted
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How the Whale Became
by: Hughes, Ted

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. embossed blue cloth in a lightly worn dust jacket, unclipped. Mild fading to spine. B&w illustrations by Rick Schreiter. Ex-lib with stamping, residue to endpapers, otherwise clean. Wonderful whimscal traditional short stories that detail how various animals got their name. It all starts in God's workshop where he fashions shapes out of clay and breathes life into them. What is interesting is that Hughes gives the animals free will to choose themselves - both in terms of what they will eat, how they will live, what they will do and what their name will be.

Record # 382274

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 
 

The Golden Porch: A Book of Greek Fairy Tales by: W. M. L. Hutchinson
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The Golden Porch: A Book of Greek Fairy Tales
by: W. M. L. Hutchinson

Hardcover. NY/London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1st, 1925, Hardcover, gray cloth with blue design featuring a winged horse on the cover. Illustrations by Dugald Stewart Walker, with a color frontispiece and b&w drawings throughout the text and decorative endpapers of blue and white illustrations of a Centaur hunter and forest scene. Blue lettering on spine faded, inscription on half title in ink, another on ext blank page in pencil.

Record # 382275

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 
 

The British Boy's Annual by: N/A
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The British Boy's Annual
by: N/A

Hardcover. London, Cassell and Company, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with color pastedown of stagecoach on cover, black lettering and design. Gilt title on spine. 232 pages, 4 color plates including frontis of airships, many b&w illustrations throughout. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 382276

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 
 

Tibby's Venture by: Holberg, Ruth Langland
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Tibby's Venture
by: Holberg, Ruth Langland

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 122 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Phyllis N. Cote. An historical adventure set in Cape Ann, Massachusetts during the 1870s. Stated first edition with $1.75 on flap. Clean copy.

Record # 382287

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 
 

Wild Geese Calling by: Murphy, Robert
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Wild Geese Calling
by: Murphy, Robert

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages illustrated in b&w by John Kaufmann. The story is beautifully written by an author who knows and understands the habits and life of Canada geese. The illustrations are absolutely lovely with careful detail for each goose pictured. Light spottig to edge of text block, otherwise clean.

Record # 382304

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 
 

The Yearling by: Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
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The Yearling
by: Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige cloth stamped in green. First Printing (with the requisite "A" & colophon, no numbers (which would indicate a later printing) of this beloved novel about the Baxter family in the Big Scrub of inland Florida, centering on the boy, Jody, & his relationship with the little fawn. Winner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize & basis for the 1946 film starring Gregory Peck & Jane Wyman. In 428 pages, with pen-and-ink illustrations throughout text by Edward Shenton. Covers with light soiling, tanning to front edge, otherwise clean.

Record # 382305

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 
 

The Phantom Steer by: Floyd Benjamin Streeter / H. D. Francis
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The Phantom Steer
by: Floyd Benjamin Streeter / H. D. Francis

Hardcover. NY, Ariel Books, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black. A teenage boy's adventure on a cattle drive from Texas to Dodge City in the 1870s. B&w illustrations by Tom Leamon (Tom Lea? Looks like his work). Light shelf wear, no dust jacket, clean copy.

Record # 382320

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 
 

Emma Belle and Her Kinfolks by: Evans, Eva Knox/Flavia Gag (illust.)
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Emma Belle and Her Kinfolks
by: Evans, Eva Knox/Flavia Gag (illust.)

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Hardcover, pastel peach cloth stamped in dark blue. 175 pages, illustrated with charming b&w drawings by Flavia Gag. Evans' first story about white folks full of the spirit of a vanished era. 12 yr old Emma Belle is in a small Tennessee town in 1881 As the undisputed leader of her two younger sisters she must figure out how to get to Kinfolks Meeting which their mother has opposed. Spine has a small 3/4" tear, otherwise sound, clean copy.

Record # 382321

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 
 

Strange Shadows: Spirit Tales of Early America by: Raskin, Joseph and Edith
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Strange Shadows: Spirit Tales of Early America
by: Raskin, Joseph and Edith

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, library edition (NOT ex-lib). B&w illustrations by William Sauts Bock. Tales of the Fox sisters and horses that wore charms. This collection of true tales of spiritualism in America is a rare read. The stories are as entertaining as Sleepy Hollo, the only difference is that many of these strange tales are thought to be true. Clean copy.

Record # 382328

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 
 

Overruled by: Alden, G. R (Pansy)
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Overruled
by: Alden, G. R (Pansy)

Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company, reprint, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in gilt and dark brown. Four b&w plates not credited. This novel set in the late nineteenth century provides heartwarming tales of faith and love. Gossip, family failures, and errors in judgment threaten the lives of Ralph Bramlett and Estelle Douglass, but hope is found in the darkest of times. No date on title page, copyright page states 1896. Part of a uniform set so assumed a reprint. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 382342

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 
 

Aunt Hannah and Martha and John by: Alden, G. R (Pansy)/Mrs. C. M. Livingston
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Aunt Hannah and Martha and John
by: Alden, G. R (Pansy)/Mrs. C. M. Livingston

Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company, reprint, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt and black. Spine slightly cocked. Four b&w plates not credited. No date on title page, copyright page states 1890. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Alden was the best-selling Christian author of her time. Born in 1841, her first book, Helen Lester, was published in 1865. With that success, Isabella became a tireless writer of books and short stories that explained God's plan for salvation and reinforced Christian values. A talented writer, her inventive plots and wonderful dialog were featured in over 100 books, many of which were translated into different languages and sold around the world.

Record # 382343

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 
 

Bella Arabella by: Fosburgh, Liza
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Bella Arabella
by: Fosburgh, Liza

Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 3rd pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 102 pages. Illustrated in line by Catherine Stock. A pampered child is transformed into a cat, with her beloved pet as a guide. Clean copy.

Record # 382344

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 
 

Mr. Tidy Paws by: Sayers/Zhenya Gay, Frances Clarke
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Mr. Tidy Paws
by: Sayers/Zhenya Gay, Frances Clarke

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 64 pages. Black & white lithographs by Zhenya Gay. Covers with mild soil, rubbing. Clean copy.

Record # 382351

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 
 

Danny's Partner by: Rogers, W. A.
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Danny's Partner
by: Rogers, W. A.

Hardcover. NT, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in black and orange. 257 pages. When a Civil War veteran who had lost his leg in the fighting and who had been living in the poorhouse comes into an unexpected inheritance, he heads West towards Colorado - and takes 9 year old Danny and his dog with him. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and three internal plates by Rogers, The author was primarily known for being a great illustrator for Harper Brothers during the golden age of illustration. Stated first edition. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 382357

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 
 

A World for Joey Carr by: David Roth
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A World for Joey Carr
by: David Roth

NY, Beaufort Books, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Enroute to his grandparents in Vermont in search of some answers, a lonely teenage hitchiker meets Hannah who claims she is a witch. Hannah is dying and searching for her own special cure. They join forces, and Joey is suddenly swept into a dangerous and fantastic world of magic and miracles as they comb the silent New England countryside. 140 pages, clean copy.

Record # 382358

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 
 

Ruby Electric by: Theresa Nelson
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Ruby Electric
by: Theresa Nelson

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Escaping into the fantasy world of the movies, where fathers don't disappear, mothers have no secrets, and little brothers don't cry over missing stuffed animals, twelve-year-old Ruby Miller, while performing community service for a crime she didn't commit, is forced to face the reality of her life. Clean, like new.

Record # 382391

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 
 

Consigned to Davy Jones: My Third Voyage in the Half Deck of a British Tramp Steamer by: Captain George H. Grant, Gordon Grant (Illust.)
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Consigned to Davy Jones: My Third Voyage in the Half Deck of a British Tramp Steamer
by: Captain George H. Grant, Gordon Grant (Illust.)

Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with yellow lettering. 286 pages illustrated in b&w by Gordon Grant. Follows the popular The Half Deck, which he wrote in 1933. The Monarch, under Capt. McFarlane, leaves the Firth of Clyde for Africa, the Barbadoes, New Orleans, and back. War is declared while in Africa, and the ship tries to outrun a submarine. Small name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 382464

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 
 

PINOCCHIO: The Adventures of a Puppet by: Collodi, Carlo
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PINOCCHIO: The Adventures of a Puppet
by: Collodi, Carlo

NY, Burt/Blue Ribbon Books, reprint, circa 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, light green cloth with gilt & black decorated cover and spine labels. 258 pages. Four color plates by Charles Folkard, many b&w text drawings (not credited). Dust jacket chipped and worn. states translation by May M. Sweet, but title page gives M. A. Murray as translator. The mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. It is considered a canonical piece of children's literature and has inspired hundreds of new editions, stage plays, merchandising and movies, such as Walt Disney's iconic animated version and commonplace ideas such as a liar's long nose. No markings.

Record # 382589

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 
 

Famous French Fairy Tales Collected and Adapted from the Original Perrault by: Perrault, Charles & Stone, David
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Famous French Fairy Tales Collected and Adapted from the Original Perrault
by: Perrault, Charles & Stone, David

Hardcover. NY, Franklin Watts, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, colorful wraparound dust jacket, price-clipped. 192 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Charles Mozley.

Record # 382766

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 
 

Wanderers of the Field by: George Harmon Smith
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Wanderers of the Field
by: George Harmon Smith

Hardcover. NY, John Day Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket cover with a faded spine, unclipped. 217 pages, Young adult novel about migrant farm workers. Minor shelf wear, clean copy.

Record # 383046

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 
 

THE STRANGE PETTINGILL PUZZLE: Two Mysteries for Boys and Girls by: Augusta Huiell Seaman
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THE STRANGE PETTINGILL PUZZLE: Two Mysteries for Boys and Girls
by: Augusta Huiell Seaman

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black, no dust jacket. Second mystery "The Curious Case of Callista" begins on page 133, b&w illustrations by Genevieve Foster. Front cover has fading/discoloration to green cloth, inside clean.

Record # 383047

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 
 

About Wise Men and Simpletons by: Brothers Grimm. Translated by Elizabeth Shub. Etchings by Nonny Hogrogian
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About Wise Men and Simpletons
by: Brothers Grimm. Translated by Elizabeth Shub. Etchings by Nonny Hogrogian

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1st printing of this reissue, square 8vo, cloth backed boards, twelve tales illustrated in line by Nonny Hogrogian. Clean copy.

Record # 383050

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 
 

Plupy - The Real Boy by: Shute, Henry A.
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Plupy - The Real Boy
by: Shute, Henry A.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Good, Hardcover, red cloth, faded at spine. Stamped in red and black. 361 pages plus four pages of ads at the rear. 8vo. Silhouette frontis and 51 full page silhouettes by Warren Rockwell. The further largely autobiographical stories of the lad Plupy and his youth in the Exeter, NH of the 1860's. Rear hinge cracked, mild soil to front fly leaf, bookplate on inside front cover.

Record # 383053

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 
 

North of Nowhere Stories and Legends from Many Lands by: Sleigh, Barbara (retold)
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North of Nowhere Stories and Legends from Many Lands
by: Sleigh, Barbara (retold)

Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial cloth in a matching bright dust jacket. 223 pages with b&w drawings by Victor Ambrus. Discard stamp to front and rear endpapers but otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 383055

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 
 


  

Rare & Out-of-Print Children's Fiction

Here you'll find used, rare and out-of-print children's fiction: chapter books, story collections and classic juvenile novels from many eras. Highlights include Leo Politi's Song of the Swallows, Frances Hodgson Burnett's Two Little Pilgrim's Progress and Henry A. Shute's The Real Diary of a Real Boy, the last illustrated by Tasha Tudor.

The shelves also hold lesser-known gems such as Judith St. George's The Girl with Spunk and Charles Battell Loomis's Yankee Enchantments. Many are earlier editions and long-unavailable printings that collectors and nostalgic readers seek out, often with period illustrations and original dust jackets.

Because each book is used or rare, condition and availability differ between copies. When a childhood favorite turns up, order it online before it goes.