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Pride's Progress - The Story of a Family of Lions by: Haas, Emmy
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Pride's Progress - The Story of a Family of Lions
by: Haas, Emmy

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Haas. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 511560

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Primitive People (SIGNED COPY) by: Prose, Francine
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Primitive People (SIGNED COPY)
by: Prose, Francine

Softcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PROSE on the title page. The au pair for the Porter family, Haitian-born Simone, becomes witness to the family's casual cruelty, observing the activities of Rosemary, a sculptor, her philandering husband, her mercurial friends, and her strange children. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 385777

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Prince and the Page, The - A Story of the Last Crusade by: Yonge/Marguerite De Angeli, Charlotte M.
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Prince and the Page, The - A Story of the Last Crusade
by: Yonge/Marguerite De Angeli, Charlotte M.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st thus, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in black. Illustrations with color frontis, 10 black & white plates and endpapers drawing by Marguerite De Angeli. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 200465

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Prince and the Pauper, The: A Tale for Young People of All Ages by: Twain, Mark

Prince and the Pauper, The: A Tale for Young People of All Ages
by: Twain, Mark

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, 1st, 1882, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 411 pages, illustrated with 192 line drawings. Original green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Cover design is bright, spine a little less so, with a touch of cardboard showing through cloth at bottom edge and corner. Front hinge partially cracked. Back cover with several small white spots. "Ladies Library Association #246" in ink on front fly leaf, contents page a little frayed on fore-edge. Interior pages clean, very good. This is the First Edition, second state. Copyright page states Franklin Press, corrected text on pages 124, 263 and 362.

Record # 404236

Price: $400.00
Price: $400.00 

Prince Domino and "Muffles" by: Eaton, Seymour
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Prince Domino and "Muffles"
by: Eaton, Seymour

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Edward Stern, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated cover boards. Author wrote "The Roosevelt Bears", 7 color plates by C. Twelvetrees. An adventure told in verse about a little boy, Prince Domino. He and his siamese cat, who is very smart indeed, travel to far-off lands where they are helped by a little black and a little Japanese boy (the depictions of whom are slightly stereotypical). Moderate wear to front and rear cover. Loose binding. Light soil. Rear hinge torn half way up from bottom.

Record # 13008

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Prince Prigio by: Lang, Andrew and Robert Lawson
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Prince Prigio
by: Lang, Andrew and Robert Lawson

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 110 pages. Black & white illustrations by Robert Lawson. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Soiling to covers, especially spine.

Record # 500692

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Prince Prigio by: Lang/ Robert Lawson, Andrew
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Prince Prigio
by: Lang/ Robert Lawson, Andrew

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st illust thus, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in blue with prince on flying carpet on front, Black & white illustrations by Robert Lawson, 110 pages. Some wear and soiling to cover, but internally mostly clean. No dust jacket.

Record # 110073

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Princess of the Channel Isles by: Hoffmann, Eleanor
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Princess of the Channel Isles
by: Hoffmann, Eleanor

NY, Thomas Nelson, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in white with titles and drawing of a cow's head on front cover. iBlack & white illustrations by Hans Kreis. A Story for young adults about raising diary cattle. Light wear, spine slanted.

Record # 68527

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Printer Boy, The - Or How Ben Franklin Made His Mark - An Example for Youth by: NA
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Printer Boy, The - Or How Ben Franklin Made His Mark - An Example for Youth
by: NA

Hardcover. Boston, J.E.Tilton & Co., Rep., 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. (C) page states 1869. 261 pages. Red cloth with gilt illustration on spine. NIce copy.

Record # 67983

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories by: Lummis, Charles F.
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Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories
by: Lummis, Charles F.

Hardcover. NY, Century Co., Revised from 1894 ed., 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 257 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings by George Wharton Edwards. Missing front endpaper. Illustrated front cover. Soil, spotting to binding.

Record # 509400

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 
 

Puppeteer by: Lasky, Kathryn
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Puppeteer
by: Lasky, Kathryn

New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY PUPPETEER PAUL VINCENT DAVIS (SUBJECT OF BOOK). Unpaginated. Black & white photography by Christopher G. Knight.

Record # 206972

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Purple Prince of Oz, The by: Thompson, Ruth Plumly (L. Frank Baum )
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Purple Prince of Oz, The
by: Thompson, Ruth Plumly (L. Frank Baum )

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 281 pages, b&w illustrations and 12 color plates by John R. Neill. Purple cloth cover with color pictorial paste-down. Illustrations on endpapers. This was one of Ruth Plumly Johnson's contributions to the Oz canon and is a first printing with 12 color plates and page edges tinted yellow. Previous owner's bookplate on half-title page, front and rear hinges cracked. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 353426

Price: $200.00
Price: $200.00 

Put in His Thumb and Pulled Out a Plum - Stories for a Christmas Pie by: Baker, Ella M.
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Put in His Thumb and Pulled Out a Plum - Stories for a Christmas Pie
by: Baker, Ella M.

Hardcover. Boston, D. Lothrop and Co., 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth decorated in red and gilt, 322 pages plus publisher's ads. 6 b&w illustrations 9not credited). Clean copy.

Record # 602593

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Quentin Durward by: Sir Walter Scott
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Quentin Durward
by: Sir Walter Scott

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth with a color paste-down on the front cover. Color illustrated title page. Nine additional full page color illustrations plus endpapers art in 2-colors by C. Bosseron Chambers. The gilt lettering on spine has faded. Interior clean, no dust jacket. Mild spotting to rear cover.

Record # 399570

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Ragged Staff, The by: C. M. Edmonston & M. L. F. Hyde
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Ragged Staff, The
by: C. M. Edmonston & M. L. F. Hyde

Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with black stamped decoration. Mild fade to spine. 315 pages, Blue endpapers design and b&w drawings by Henry Pitz. Clean copy.

Record # 371788

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Ragman of Paris and His Ragamuffins by: Jones, Elizabeth Orton
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Ragman of Paris and His Ragamuffins
by: Jones, Elizabeth Orton

Hardcover. New York, Oxford U. Press, 1st US, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 85 pages. Black & white and 2-color illustrations by Jones. Soiling to endpapers, covers.

Record # 500771

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Ranch and Ring by: Means/Henry Peck, Florence Crannell
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Ranch and Ring
by: Means/Henry Peck, Florence Crannell

Boston, Houghton Mifflin , reprint, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth, 260 pages with 5 b&w illustrations by Henry J. Peck. Previous owners inscription on front fly. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 509487

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Ranche on the Oxhide, The by: Inman, Henry
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Ranche on the Oxhide, The
by: Inman, Henry

Hardcover. New York , The Macmillan Co., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. A Story of Boys' and Girls' Life on the Frontier. 297 pages, six full-page black & white illustrations, top edge gilt. Spine faded, Last 10 pages with top edge of paper scuffed, frayed. Beautiful gilt drawing on red cover.

Record # 175738

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Random Shots by: Adeler, Max, Arthur B. Frost (Illustrator)
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Random Shots
by: Adeler, Max, Arthur B. Frost (Illustrator)

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, J. M. Stoddart & Co., 1st, 1878, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 326 pages. Hardcover. Scarce, early Frost work. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations throughout. Back endpapers have a mended rip at gutter. Cover boards bound in orange. Covers have some age wear. Pages are age-yellowed with a touch of foxing in places. Does not affect text or illustrations. In very good shape for its age.

Record # 31111

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Ready Rangers, The - A Story of Boys, Boats, and Bicycles, Fire-Buckets and Fun by: Munroe, Kirk
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Ready Rangers, The - A Story of Boys, Boats, and Bicycles, Fire-Buckets and Fun
by: Munroe, Kirk

Hardcover. Boston, Lothrup, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 6 black & white illustrations by W. A. Rogers. Red cloth spine faded on parts of spine and rear panel. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. Attractive gilt-decorated front cover.

Record # 62206

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Really So Stories by: Gordon, Elizabeth /John Rae
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Really So Stories
by: Gordon, Elizabeth /John Rae

Hardcover. Chicago, P.F. Volland Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 96 pages. Color illustrations by John Rae. In super clean, tight condition.

Record # 381317

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Rebecca Mary by: Donnell, Annie Hamilton
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Rebecca Mary
by: Donnell, Annie Hamilton

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers , 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 194 pages, with illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green. Decorated cover and gilt title. Minor edgewear and rubbing, previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf. Tissue guard on frontispiece illustration. Very clean and tight.

Record # 852767

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Red Eagle - Being the Adventurous Tale of Two Young Flyers, The by: Key, Alexander
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Red Eagle - Being the Adventurous Tale of Two Young Flyers, The
by: Key, Alexander

Hardcover. New York, Wise-Parslow Company, Reprint, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations by Alexander Key. Pages 15-51 with shallow bump to top right corner of pages. Front cover with 2 quarter size stains, standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611096

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Red Horse Hill by: Meader, Stephen W.
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Red Horse Hill
by: Meader, Stephen W.

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with dark brown decoration and titles, 244 pages, b&w illustrations by Lee Townsend. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean interior. Vintage children's book about a young orphan who works with harness racing horses.

Record # 381140

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00