Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Reflections on being raised by pack of sled dogs. Color illusrations. by Ruth Wright Paulsen.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 283 pages. Black & white drawings by Richard Amundsen. Light soil to rear of dust jacket..
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap , rep, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 324 pages. Hardcover. Dj with chipping and wear, back panel repaired with tape. Internally clean, black & white illustrations.
Hardcover. New York , Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. , 1st, 1963 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 62 pages, illustrated in B&W by Douglas Gorsline. dust jacket with light edgewear, price clipped. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.Color photos by the author. "With understanding and attention to detail, Ms. Krementz introduces us to Josh and his activties, capturing his energy and enthusiasm in full-color photographs, while Josh's own words tell us about learning to play the trumpet, and why he enjoys it so much." Clean copy.
NY, Clarion Books, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 48 pages. Color photos and illustrations. Illustrated end papers. More than 130 full-color photographs adorn this handsome re-creation of daily life in a Plains Indian village in 1868. Readers will meet Real Bird and his family, part of a Northern Cheyenne tribe in southeastern Montana. Each member has an important role: Men prepare to become warriors and hunters, while women learn to raise crops and build a home-a tipi-from poles and buffalo hides. The clothes the family wears, from elaborate ceremonial headdresses to colorful beaded moccasins; the foods they eat; the games they play; the crafts and jewelry they make; and the spiritual rituals they perform are among the many topics included. This large-format book, with clear text and informative sidebars, provides a detailed pictorial account of the Plains Indian life more than a century ago. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Eight two-color illustrations plus dust jacket art in color by Thomas (Hart) Benton. True account of a young school teacher in the Tennessee mountains. With a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear. Scarce in this condition.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepard , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear to covers. Sticker on rear dust jacket over bar code.
Hardcover. Boston, Jr. Lit. Guild/Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages. Hardcover with black stamped illustration on front cover. B&w illustrations by Manning de V. Lee. Mild stain to several pages and light rubbing to covers, otherwise tight and clean. Faded spine.
Hardcover. New York , Jr. Literary Guild/J.B. Lippincott, Book Club Ed, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages, 348 b&w drawings and photographs by the authors. Scarce in the bright orange dust jacket, light edgewear and chipping.
Hardcover. New York, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 263 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Orange covers with black stamped decorations and gilt panel on spine. Gutter cracked throughout. Rear hinge starting. Captain John Hardy, Retired, a weather-beaten, somewhat eccentric old sea dog of 59 recounts the exciting, sometimes amusing tale of his running away from home at eighteen to become a sailor/mate on a ship bound for the Arctic seas to hunt seals to harvest their valuable pelts.
Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 6th, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 475 pages. Hardcover with dark green covers, gilt lettering and dog illustration in gilt on front. Gutter cracked throughout and repaired in places. Previous owner's writing on front fly leaf. Cover boards fraying at corners and small rips to top spine with small piece missing.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. An author and artist who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinated modern people, David Macaulay here reveals the methods and materials used to design and construct a mosque in late-sixteenth- century Turkey. Clean, tight copy with minor rubbing to edges.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing , 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 332 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Frank Schoonover. White stamped lettering, decoration worn on front, light fraying to green cover boards, light soil. Internally good.
Softcover. Decatur IL, A. E. Staley Mfg., 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Square format paperback in color, 24 pages. Color illustrated covers; saddle stapled binding. A charmingly illustrated entertainment and party book for children's holiday parties and events. Two page facing spreads devoted to the major holidays, each illustrated with warm festive color illustrations of children at play. Several pages of games and recipes appear at rear. Light handling wear to edges and dust soiling to wraps.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 78 pages illustrated with b&w photographs by the author. The story of a little Arab girl. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with cover label, white lettering on spine. 12 full page illustrations about Audubon's early life by Elinore Blaisdell. Publisher's review slip laid in. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 127 pages, including bibliography. History of Pennsylvania mining from a century ago. On nearly every page are photos of kids as young as seven working in the mines. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A simple discussion of the physical characteristics and probable origins of the races of the world. Color illustrations by Symeon Shimin.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ronald Himler. This picture-book biography focuses mainly on the War of 1812, but also mentions Madison's contributions to the Constitution and the creation of the three branches of government. Although this is a biography of the couple, there is more specific information on James Madison than on Dolley. Still, readers do learn some interesting facts about her, such as how she rescued a portrait of George Washington while the Executive Mansion burned. Adler's writing is clear yet not oversimplified, and is without fictionalization.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 256 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Marion Kohs. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated and designed by Don Bolognese and Elaine Raphael. Ex-library with light marking, residue to endpapers. An epistolary narrative of the musical prodigy's first year in Italy, composed from his detail-laden letters to his younger sister Nannerl. Although the letters themselves are fictional they are based on detailed research and on the hundreds of letters which Mozart and his father both wrote home during their trip. A map of the trip is also included as well as a little biography on some of the main characters.
Hardcover. London, Michael Joseph, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket, 124 pages. Punchbowl Farms' largest crop may not be cats, but the Siamese and Burmese cat families who have the run of the farm are certainly its most delightful product. With love humor, and insight, Monica Edwards introduces some o the numerous felines she has welcomed into her home on the farm. B&w photo illustrations.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with a pastedown plate on front. illustrations by Morgan Dennis; foreword by Morris Frank. 65 pages; b&w plates and text illustrations throughout + 8 b&w photographic plates in rear. The story of a blind person and his "seeing eye" guide dog, written shortly after the first guide dog was brought to America from Switzerland. Spine label faded, mild soil to covers otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Portland OR, Binfords & Mort, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. 191 pages, b&w illustrations by Parker McAllister. A general survey of the history of the region told through the exciting anecdotal history of those who published primary accounts of their early reconnaissance in the region, starting with Barkley and thence to Gray, Ebey, Hancock, Sylvester, et al. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 3rd pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In a clear, straightforward style, Katz describes the settlement of the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys (covering Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri) by African Americans seeking freedom, including biographical sketches of men and women who formed churches, started schools, or were politically active in their region. Some of these settlers were fugitive slaves; several set up stations on the Underground Railroad with the aid of the Quakers; others were farmers, poets, and soldiers. In several states, they helped form black regiments in the Civil War. Chronologically arranged, the book introduces many lesser-known personages not found in most collective biographies and places them in a broader context of U.S. history as a whole.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in orange cloth covers with blue lettering. 114 pages, illustrated with 4 b&w photographs. The amazing and true story of Bobbie, a collie from Silverton, Oregon, who got lost in Indiana during a family vacation in the summer of 1923. Bobbie managed to find his way back to Oregon in 1924. Charles Alexander's book reconstructs the arduous 2800 mile journey. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Chicago, Beckley-Cardy Co., 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial red cloth covers with two children riding a camel. 287 pages, b&w stock photos throughout, nice color illustration as frontispiece. Inscription on first blank page, library stamp on front fly leaf, no other markings. A simplistic tale and view of Africa, typical of a 30s young reader book.
Hardcover. North Pomfret VT, David & Charles, Inc, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 152 pages, many photographic plates in colour and b/w. A history of puppets, puppetry and puppet theatre, including glove puppets, shadow puppets, rod puppets, marionettes.
Hardcover. NY, The Century Company, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with pale lettering to spine and front cover, with color portrait of Lawrence. No dustwrapper. First printing with no other printings indicated. 293 pages with eight illustrations including frontispiece photo-portrait of Lawrence. A reworking of the material Thomas had published earlier in With Lawrence in Arabia in 1924, adapted for a semi-juvenile audience, during the height of Lawrence's fame. Small notation on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Co., 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers stamped in black. 126 pages, b&w illustrations by author.14 games such as guessing game, tross ball, toss and catch, Indian rattles, Hopi Kachinas. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue covers stamped in black, 162 pages, illustrated with b&w photos. A classic account by the step-son of Amelia Earhart who travelled with renowned Captain Robert "Bob" Bartlett to Baffin Island in Arctic Canada.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with stamped lettering in blue on front cover and same on spine. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Patterns in envelope on back pastedown. Square and intact binding. Clean and unmarked endpapers and text pages. History of marionettes, how to make marionettes and several scripts for puppet plays. B&w drawings by Marjorie Flack. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 215 pages. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 190 pages. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 215 pages. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 189 pages. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 223 pages. B&w illustrations by author. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 216 pages. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 192 pages. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 191 pages. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 222 pages. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 216 pages. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. A brief survey of life in five North American Indian tribes--Makah, Hopi, Creek, Penobscot, and Mandan--at the time Columbus arrived in the New World. Nice 2-color drawings by Mad artist Jack Davis. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, self-published, 1st, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with white lettering and design on front cover and spine. 270 pages. Andrea Hofer Proudfoot's classic work on parenting and family life is as relevant today as it was when it was first published over a century ago. Drawing on her experiences as a kindergarten teacher and mother, Proudfoot offers practical advice and insight into the challenges and joys of raising young children. This is the original first printing, dated 1897 on copyright page. Name on front fly leaf, light pencil marking on about a dozen pages.
Hardcover. London, Faber And Faber , 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 91 pages. B&w drawings by Michael Lyne. The story of the developing friendship between the author and a little orphaned vixen. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. Lavishly illustrated with black & white photographs by Louise Birt Baynes and Ernest Harold Baynes. 145 pages. Super condition, bookmark of former Governor of Vermont (Redfield Proctor) on inside front cover. Otherwise bright and clean.
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Price: $25.00
Used & Rare Children's Non-Fiction Books
Our children's non-fiction shelves hold used, rare, and out-of-print books that once taught young readers about history, nature, biography, and the wider world. Titles include Gary Paulsen's Puppies, Dogs and Blue Northers, Jill Krementz's A Very Young Musician, and Jeanne LeMonnier Gardner's Sky Pioneers: The Story of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
You will also find older primers such as Josephine Pollard's History of the United States, Told in Words of One Syllable, along with regional and outdoor titles like Gerald Summers's The Lure of the Falcon. Many are vintage editions long out of print, so condition and availability vary across our used and rare stock.
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 "History of the United States, The/ Told in Words of One Syllable by: Pollard, Josephine")
 "Puppies, Dogs and Blue Northers by: Paulsen, Gary")
 "Lure of the Falcon, The by: Summers, Gerald")
 "How to Make the Varsity by: Pashko, Stanley")
 "Sky Pioneers - The Story of Wilbur and Orville Wright by: Gardner, Jeanne LeMonnier")
 "A Very Young Musician by: Krementz, Jill")
 "Daily Life In A Plains Indian Village 1868 by: Terry, Michael Bad Hand")
 "Schoolhouse in the Foothills by: Enslow, Thomas Hart Benton, Ella with Alvin F. Harlow")
 "Market! by: Lewin, Ted")
 "Sweet Possum Valley by: Govan, Christine Noble")
 "Home Handicraft for Girls: Interesting Things to Make and Do by: Hall, Ruth M. and A. Neely Hall")
 "Cast Away in the Cold: An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures by: Hayes, Dr. Isaac")
 "Jock of the Bushveld by: Fitzpatrick, Sir Percy")
 "Mosque (SIGNED COPY) by: Macaulay, David")
 "With Cortes the Conqueror by: Watson, Virginia, Frank Schoonover")
 "Childrens' Party Book: Games, Decorations, Menus and Recipes by: Staley, Cornelia")
 "Maha and Her Donkey by: Wimmer, Hed")
 "Boy of the Woods: the Story of John James Audubon by: Wells, Maie Lounsbury And Fox, Dorothy")
 "Growing Up In Coal Country by: Susan Campbell Bartoletti")
 "Why People are Different Colors by: Julian May, Symeon Shimin (Illustrator)")
 "A Picture Book of Dolley and James Madison by: David A. Adler , Michael S. Adler, Ronald Himler")
 "Basketful: the Story of Our Foods by: Irmengarde Eberle")
 "Letters to Horseface: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Journey to Italy 1769 1770 When He Was a Boy of Fourteen by: F. N. Monjo")
 "The Cats of Punchbowl Farm by: Monica Edwards")
 "Robert Ramble's Stories Selected from the History of Spain by: (Frost, John)")
 "Andrew Jackson, Frontier Statesman by: Clara Ingram Judson/Lorence Bjorklund")
 "A Friend in the Dark: The Story of a Seeing Eye Dog by: Knight, Ruth Adams/ Morgan Dennis")
 "Washington's Yesterdays (Before There Was a Territory) 1775-1853 by: Lucile McDonald and Parker McAllister")
 "Black Pioneers: An Untold Story by: William Loren Katz")
 "Bobbie: A Great Collie by: Charles Alexander")
 "Peter and Nancy in Africa by: Comfort, Mildred Houghton")
 "Fanfare for Puppets! A Personal and Idiosyncratic View of the Puppet Theatre by: Ann Hogarth; Jan Bussell")
 "The Boys' Life of Colonel Lawrence by: Thomas, Lowell")
 "Indian Games and Crafts by: Hofsinde, Robert (Gray Wolf)")
 "David Goes to Baffin Land by: Putnam, David Binney")
 "Marionettes: Easy to Make! Fun to Use! by: Edith Flack Ackley")
 "The Real Book About Our Armed Forces (Real Books) by: Knight, Clayton/Knight, K. S.")
 "The Real Book About Airplanes (Real Books) by: Arch Whitehouse")
 "The Real Book About Crime Detection (Real Books) by: M.G. Bonner")
 "The Real Book About Cowboys (Real Books) by: Michael Gorham")
 "The Real Book About Real Crafts (Real Books) by: C. C. Roberts")
 "The Real Book about Prehistoric Life (Real Books) by: Dorothy Shuttlesworth")
 "The Real Book about Space Travel (Real Books) by: Hal Goodwin")
 "The Real Book about Buffalo Bill (Real Books) by: Adolph Regli")
 "The Real Book about Submarines (Real Books) by: Samuel Epstein/Beryl Williams")
 "The Real Book About Our Natural Parks (Real Books) by: Nelso Beecher Keyes")
 "Meet The North American Indians by: Elizabeth Payne / Jack Davis")
 "A Mother's Ideals: A Kindergarten Mother's Conception Of Family Life by: Andrea Hofer Proudfoot")
 "Vickey by: Jill Fairhurst")
 "Jimmie: The Story of a Black Bear Cub by: Baynes, Ernest Harold")