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A Horn Book Sampler: On Children's Books and Reading

by- Fryatt, Norma R. (Ed.)

Hardcover. Boston, Horn Book, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 261 pages. Brown top edge. Yellowing to dust jacket, chipping to top of spine; in brodart. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851110


 
Price: $31.00
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A sense of story: Essays on contemporary writers for children

by- Townsend, John Rowe

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.

Record # 450679


 
Price: $15.00
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A Vicarage Family: An autobiographical story

by- Streatfeild, Noel , Illust. by: Charles Mozley

Hardcover. New York, Franklin Watts, 1st US, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 245 pages, illustrated dust jacket, b&w illustrations by Charles Mozley. Chipping on edges and spine of dust jacket; otherwise clean, tight edition.

Record # 603747


 
Price: $23.00
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A Young Person's Guide To Ballet

by- stuart, Noel

hardcover. London, Warne, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light edgewear to dust jacket. Small sticker on rear end paper. previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Black & white photos.

Record # 201614


 
Price: $25.00
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Abracadabra Kid, The - A Writer's Life

by- Fleischman, Sid

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Autobiography by the award-winning children's book author. Black & white photos.

Record # 59753


 
Price: $25.00
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Abstract Alphabet - A Book of Animals

by- Cox, Paul

San Francisco, Chronicle, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 50 pages. Color illustrations by author.

Record # 204834


 
Price: $19.00
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Across the Ocean Sea - A Journal of Columbus's Voyage

by- Sanderlin, George, Illust. by: Laszlo Kubinyi

NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&W illustrationsby Laszlo Kubinyi. 275 pages, in a nice, price-clipped dust jacket.

Record # 600151


 
Price: $23.00
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Adventures in Music Land

by- Ketterer, Ella

Philadelphia , Theodore Presser, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. 61 pages. An instruction book for young people. Nice condition.

Record # 501140


 
Price: $23.00
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After the Dinosaurs - The Story of Prehistoric Mammals and Man

by- Shooter, James C.

New York , Golden Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 61 pages, illustrated in color by Peter Barrett.

Record # 175941


 
Price: $15.00
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Alaska Gold Rush, The

by- McNeer, May

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Illust. by Lynd Ward. Dj worn, chipped

Record # 54370


 
Price: $19.00
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Alice in Jungleland

by- Bradley, Mary Hastings, Illust. by: Mary Hastings Bradley

NY , Appleton, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated with b&w photos, line drawings, map endpapers by the author. Nice, clean copy in decorated green cloth.

Record # 501389


 
Price: $188.00
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All Aboard for Alaska!

by- McMurray, DeVon

Boston , D. C. Heath, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages, B&W photos.

Record # 304367


 
Price: $19.00
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All Aboard for Asia and Africa

by- Eddy, Rev. D. C.

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.

Record # 302534


 
Price: $23.00
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All About Mud

by- Selfridge, Oliver R., Illust. by: Jerry Joyner

Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated with 2-color drawings by Jerry Joyner.

Record # 68414


 
Price: $15.00
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All Night, All Day - A Child's First Book of African-American Spirituals

by- Bryan, Ashley, Illust. by: Ashley Bryan

New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages. Color illustrations by Ashley Bryan. Musical arrangements by David Manning Thomas.

Record # 205401


 
Price: $23.00
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Amateur Electrician's Handbook, The

by- Collins, A. Frederick

NY, Thomas Crowell, 3rd, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 373 pages, many b&w line illustrations and diagrams. Hardcover, red cloth covers with a chipped dust jacket.

Record # 602459


 
Price: $44.00
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America's Story for America's Children - VII America Grows Up

by- Knowlton, Clarence H., Gertrude L. Stone and M. Grace Fickett

Boston, Heath, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages. Black & white illustrations. Excellent condition. Clean.

Record # 207111


 
Price: $25.00
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American Hero Stories

by- Tappan, Eva March, Illust. by: Frank E. Schoonover

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., reprint, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 301 pages. Color illustrations on front & one inside. Riverside Bookshelf. Previous owner's name in pen on front fly leaf paper.

Record # 512505


 
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And Everything Nice: The Story of Sugar, Spice, and Flavoring

by- Cooper, Elizabeth K.

New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 80 pages, hardcover. Illustrated in b&w. Very good condition. Dust jacket chipped, torn at bottom of spine, several other small chips or tears. Dust jacket placed in protective plastic cover.

Record # 603141


 
Price: $15.00
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And Long Remember - Some Great Americans Who Have Helped Me

by- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

NY, Whittlesey House, 1st , 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , B&W illust.by Ezra Jack Keats. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 300856


 
Price: $15.00
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Andrew Jackson - Frontier Statesman

by- Judson, Clara Ingram, Illust. by: Lorence F. Bjorklund

Chicago, Follett Publishing, 9th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&W illustrations by Lorence F. Bjorklund. 224 pages. Color illustrated covers. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 600189


 
Price: $15.00
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Animal Secrets Told - A Book of Whys

by- Brearley, Henry Chase, Illust. by: Henry Chase Brearley, Elwin R. Sanborn

NY, F. A. Stokes, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 photography plates by Elwin R. Sanborn, 72 b&w drawings by the author. INSCRIBED BY BREARLEY on front fly leaf.Decorated red cloth cover with a yawning hippo and bright gilt lettering on front, spine lettering faded. Slight cock to spine.

Record # 501355


 
Price: $35.00
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Annie Oakley - The Shooting Star

by- Graves, Charles P.

Hardcover. Champaign, IL, Garrard, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Illust. in 3-colors by Cary. 78 pgs. Dust jacket a bit chipped.

Record # 106615


 
Price: $31.00
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Arctic and the Antarctic, The - What Lives there

by- Huntington, Lee Pennock, Illust. by: Murray Tinkelman

NY, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 2nd, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 47 pages. Black & white illustrations by Murray Tinkelman. Dust jacket with spine fade, light edgewear, closed tears.

Record # 502568


 
Price: $19.00
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At the Dry Cleaners

by- Dean, Lucille Dennhardt, Illust. by: Glenn W. Schroeder

Los Angeles, Melmont Publishers, Inc., 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Ex-library copy. Photographic essay for kids about working in a drycleaning shop. Photographs by Glenn W. Schroeder. Tan cloth pictoral boards lightly soiled.

Record # 600108


 
Price: $15.00
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Athens at War

by- Warner, Rex

London, The Bodley Head, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Rerold by Rex Warner from "History of the Peloponnesian War" of Thucydides. 174 pages, illustrations in black & white by William Stobbs. Very good condition except for fading of spine.

Record # 175837


 
Price: $35.00
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Barefoot Abe - A Really True Story

by- Lowitz, Sadyebeth and Anson, Illust. by: Sadyebeth and Anson Lowitz

NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated in color, b&w by the authors. In a lightly chipped dust jacket with fading to spine.

Record # 600949


 
Price: $19.00
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Barnum Presents General Tom Thumb

by- Desmond, Alice Curtis

New York, Macmillan , 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 236 pages. INSCRIBED BY DESMOND ON BOOKPLATE on front fly leaf.B&W photos.

Record # 304300


 
Price: $23.00
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Baseball in the Barrios

by- Horenstein, Henry

San Diego, Gulliver Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, With color photographs by the author.

Record # 176604


 
Price: $25.00
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Bear, The - Ship of Many Lives

by- Rapaport, Stella F.

New York, Dodd Mead , 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 146 pages, B&W photos, drawings. The biography of a ship that sailed Alaskan & Arctic seas in many roles.

Record # 304322


 
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