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America's Story for America's Children - VII America Grows Up


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: $20.00 

 

American Children through their Books 1700-1835


Kiefer, Monica

Hardcover. Philadelphia , University of Pennsylvania Press , 2nd pr., 1948, Book: Very Good, 248 pages, b&w illustrations. red cloth covers in a bright dust jacket with minor wear.

Record # 405839


Price: $15.00 

 

And Long Remember - Some Great Americans Who Have Helped Me


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: $12.00 

 

Andrew Jackson - Frontier Statesman


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: $12.00 

 

At the Mouth of the Luckiest River


Griese, Arnold A.

NY, Crowell, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. by Glo Coalson. Dust jacket price clipped

Record # 66104


Price: $19.00 

 

Boston Tea Party - December 1773, The


Pollard, Josephine/H. W. McVickar

Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead & Company, 1st, 1882, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Full color illustrations by H. W. McVickar. Small pea-sized hole through front endpaper. Chipping and rubbing along spine and at cover corners.

Record # 609696


Price: $80.00 

 

Boy Soldiers of 1812, The


Tomlinson, Everett T.

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages plus 8 pages of ads. Hardcover. Features 8 black & white illustrations. Cloth covers with titles and decoration in gilt. Light rubbing at cover edges and corners. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611097


Price: $31.00 

 

Boys Book of Border Battles


Sabin, Edwin L.

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.

Record # 608748


Price: $35.00 

 

Child of the Owl.


Yep, Laurence

NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color dust jacket art by Allen Say. Light edgewear to dust jacket .

Record # 200554


Price: $25.00 

 

Den Mother's Den Book


Boy Scouts of America

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.

Record # 610997


Price: $31.00 

 

Finishing Becca: A Story About Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold


Rinaldi, Ann

Hardcover. New York, Gulliver/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 362 pages, illustrated glazed boards with a matching unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 403750


Price: $18.00 

 

Forrester's Illustrated Juvenile Keepsake


Forrester, ed., Mark

Hardcover. Boston, William Guild, 1st, 1850, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 84 pages, b & w illustrations, cloth spine missing, gilt lettering and decorations on front and back cover.

Record # 800804


Price: $50.00 

 

George Washington's Ghost


Brown, Jane Clark

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 87 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR JANE CLARK BROWN ON TITLE PAGE. Black & white illustrations by Brown. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 610446


Price: $25.00 

 

Great Truths in Simple Words, For Little Children


American Tract Society

NY, American Tract Society, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 94 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings. Small format. Previous owner's signatures on front endpaper, front flyleaf. Spotting to inside pages. Brown cloth binding with gold lettering, illustration on spine.

Record # 509415


Price: $38.00 

 

Happiest Ending, the


Uchida, Ushiko

NY, Atheneum, 1st , 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 111 pages. Minor edgewear to book bottom edges. Bright dust jacket.

Record # 501706


Price: $12.00 

 

Heroes of our War with Spain - Their Exploits told for a Boy


Ross, Clinton

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Henry B. Weshler. Front interior hinge cracked. Previous owners name stamped at top of half title page. White cloth covers with titles and decoration. dark smudges to back cover. Interior clean, tight.

Record # 611100


Price: $38.00 

 

House of Peace, The


Dyer, Luisa A.

Hardcover. New York , Longmans, Green & co., 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A novel of Indians in Hudson Valley. 191 pages, including bibliography, illustrated in B&W by Larry Toschik. Dust jacket faded with edgewear and creases.

Record # 175674


Price: $19.00 

 

Hudson of Hudson's Bay


Scott, J. M. , Illust. by: Astrid Walford

Hardcover. New York , Henry Schuman, 1st U.S., 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None , 176 pages, B&W illustrations by Astrid Walford. Minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 305497


Price: $15.00 

 

In Calico and Crinoline: True Stories of American Women 1608-1865


Sickels, Eleanor, Illust. by: Ilse Bischoff

Hardcover. New York, The Viking Press, reprint, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages, with illustrations by Ilse Bischoff. Decorative red stain on top edge. Very slight dust jacket edgewear and previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852868


Price: $12.00 

 

Indians Of Yesterday


Gridley, Marion E.

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.

Record # 201532


Price: $30.00 

 

John Treegate's Musket


Wibberley, Leonard

New York, Farrar Straus & Cudahy, rep, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 188 pages. Dust jacket has edgewear.

Record # 206631


Price: $18.00 

 

Kitty Brown: Beginning to Think


N/A (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps)

Hardcover. Philadelphia, American Sunday-School Union, 1st, 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 153 pages, b&w line plates. Marbled boards with leather spine, front cover partially detached., corners worn. Interior very good.

Record # 404850


Price: $23.00 

 

Last Frontier, The


Cooper, Courtney Ryley, Illust. by: Remington Schuyler

Hardcover. New York , Little, Brown and Company, 1st , 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. illustrated frontispiece, illustrated front cover and spine. Top edge decorative stain. Light edge wear. clean, tight copy.

Record # 857169


Price: $44.00 

 

Little Metacomet or The Indian Playmate


Butterworth, Hezekiah, Illust. by: Frank Merrill

Hardcover. NY , Crowell, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 4 b&w plates by Frank Merrill. Light green cloth with 2-color decoration, 147 pages.

Record # 501391


Price: $23.00 

 

Longhouse Winter


Jones, Hettie, Illust. by: Nicholas Gaetano

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Nicholas Gaetano. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Dust jacket shows some wear, tear on front cover. Hardbound.

Record # 109856


Price: $15.00 

Make Way for Sam HoustonFritz, Jean, Illust. by: Elise Primavera

Make Way for Sam Houston


Fritz, Jean, Illust. by: Elise Primavera

Hardcover. New York , Putnam, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 109 pages, with illustrations by Elise Primavera. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 304777


Price: $10.00 

 

Many Forked Branch, The


Carlson, Ewan

Hardcover. New York , E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages, dust jacket slightly wrinkled, otherwise in good condition.

Record # 175648


Price: $19.00 

 

Mercy Short - A Winter Journal, North Boston 1692-93


Faber, Norma

hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 2nd, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 64477


Price: $15.00 

 

Mohawk Gamble


Ridle, Julia Brown

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 209 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with chipping, tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612880


Price: $15.00 

Moral Tale, A : Children's Fiction and American Culture, 1820-1860 Macleod, Anne S.

Moral Tale, A : Children's Fiction and American Culture, 1820-1860


Macleod, Anne S.

Hardcover. Hamden, Conn., Archon Books, 1st thus, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 196 pages. Orange cloth, gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460515


Price: $11.00 

 

Mr. Revere and I


Lawson, Robert , Illust. by: Robert Lawson

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Company , 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages. B&w illustrations by Lawson throughout. Illustrated end papers and fly leaves. Illustrated frontispiece. Related articles laid in. Some stains to bottom edge. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857384


Price: $19.00 

 

NEW WORLD BUILDERS. THRILLING DAYS WITH LEWIS AND CLARK


Moorehead, Blanche Woods, Illust. by: Armstrong Sperry

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 228 pages. Illustrated by Armstrong Sperry with 10 b/w plates and a color frontispiece of Sacagawea with one of the explorers. Black, orange, and white color pictorial end papers of Indian totems, tepees, buffalo, more. Double page color map. Introduction by Christopher B. Coleman. Four page glossary of Indian and French names at pages 225 to 228. 8vo. Orange pictorial cloth with black lettering and decoration on front cover and spine. Minor marking and smudging to cover. Light edgewear. Very Good.

Record # 219852


Price: $10.00 

 

New York - New Jersey - Pennsylvania (3 Volumes) Romantic Stories of the States series


McSpadden, J. Walker

NY, J. H. Sears, 1st, 1926/1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 3 separate vols. - all in similar condition. All with color frontis (repeated on cover label) and B&W drawings by Howard L. Hastings. Very minor library stamps. Spine lettering faded. Light residue otherwise very good.

Record # 300915


Price: $30.00 

North Star to FreedomGorrell, Gena K.

North Star to Freedom


Gorrell, Gena K.

Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 1st Am, January 1, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages, b&w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy. (3)

Record # 454522


Price: $8.00 

 

Northern Trails - Some Studies of Animal Life in the Far North


Long, William J.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Ginn & Company, Reprint, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 390 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards, with wolf & moon vignette printed in gilt & black. Gilt titles to cover & spine. Moisture stains to front board. Moisture marks to gutter, top & bottom edges have resulted in cracks to gutter, pp. xix, 215 & 179. Profusely illustrated in bw by Charles Copeland throughout. Gilt top edge, light toning to edges.

Record # 751408


Price: $23.00 

 

Old Times in the Colonies


Coffin, Charles Carleton

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 460 pages. Black & white illustrations. Spine modestly cocked. Gilt pictoral cover with gilt title on spine. Spine faded. Internally very good.

Record # 600107


Price: $40.00 

 

Patches - A Wyoming Cow Pony


Hawkes, Clarence

Hardcover. Springfield, Milton Bradley Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 268 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Griswold Tying. Previous owners last name at top right corner of front endpaper. Blue cloth covers with spots of glue, and areas of darkening to front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611068


Price: $25.00 

 

Photographing History - Mathew Brady


Komroff, Manuel

Chicago, Britannica Books, Unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 192 pages. Great Lives for Young Americans Series

Record # 66234


Price: $11.00 

 

Picture Story and Biography of Marquette and Joliet, The


Kelly, Regine Z., Illust. by: W. T. Mars

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.

Record # 65846


Price: $18.00 

 

Red Coats and Blue - A Story of a British Girl in the American Revolution


Campbell, Harriette R. , Illust. by: Marguerite DeAngeli

Hardcover. NY, Juniot Literary Guild, Book Club, 1930, Book: Very Good, Color frontispiece, 9 b&w plates by Marguerite DeAngeli. Red cloth with blue lettering. Spine cocked, previous owner's inscription on front paste-down. Still very good.

Record # 600987


Price: $18.00 

 

Redskin and Cow-boy - A Tale of The Western Plains


Henty, G. A.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, Reprint, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages. Hardcover. Features 4 illustrations. Foxing to endpapers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611090


Price: $19.00 

 

Roller Bears and the Safeway Tribe


Fox, Edith

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 259 pages, illustrated in 2-colors by Marguerite Fugard, George and Billy. Decorated tan cloth covers, end paper illustration.

Record # 602473


Price: $18.00 

 

Special Collections in Children's Literature


Field, Carolyn W.

Hardcover. Chicago, American Library Assoc., 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A guide to important collections of juvenile material in U.S. Libraries. 257 pages.

Record # 59832


Price: $10.00 

 

Story Hour Readers, first year - first half, Primer


Coe, Ida and Christie, Alice J. , Illust. by: Maginel Wright Enright

Hardcover. Cincinnati/NY, American Book Company, N/A, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan cloth over boards with the orange and black pictorial within an oval and initialed AR. 122 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Maginel Wright Enright. Sharp, bright copy.

Record # 412445


Price: $39.00 

 

That Jefferson Boy


Miers, Earl Schenck, Illust. by: Kurt Werth

NY, World Publishing, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 143 pages, illustrated in b&w by Kurt Werth. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Small chunk gone from top spine of the dust jacket otherwise very good.

Record # 600941


Price: $12.00 

 

The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses


Goble, Paul, Illust. by: Paul Goble

Scarsdale, New York, Bradbury Press, 2nd, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, color illustrations by Paul Goble, winner of The Caldecott Medal, price clipped, clean, tight copy, minor wear and tears to dust jacket, taped.

Record # 800665


Price: $25.00 

 

These Hallowed Grounds


Clagett, John

Hardcover. New York, Hawthorn, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 604426


Price: $13.00 

 

True Stories of American Blue Jackets


Morris, LL.D., Charles

Hardcover. Philadelphia, The John C. Winston Co., 1st, 1902, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Red cloth cover with color illustration. Cloth is faded on spine, edges and corners bumped and worn. Previous owner's inscription on front endpage. One hundred b&w illustrations and color plates, every page illustrates with b&w emblematic design. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 852693


Price: $12.00 

 

True Stories of Renowned Men and Women


Walker, Evelyn H.

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.

Record # 603027


Price: $44.00 

Uncle Tom's Cabin for ChildrenStowe, Harriet Beecher

Uncle Tom's Cabin for Children


Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, Penn Publishing Co, 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 195 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Some wear to edges of covers, and partial separation to cover hinges, though they are holding to binding. Front end paper title page fully separated and torn down middle. Name of previous owner on front end papers in pencil. Illustrated throughout.

Record # 2230697


Price: $188.00 

 

We The People: The Constitution of the United States of America


Spier, Peter

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st Edition, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear (see image). Decorated endpapers. Decorated cover boards, some chipping on edges. Pages clean. A colorful, artistic celebration of the entire Constitution, including the Bill of Rights and all the amendments.

Record # 32373


Price: $19.00 

 

Whaling Boy


Freuchen, Peter

New York , G.P. Putnam's Sons, 8th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages, b&w illustrations by Leonard Everett Fisher.

Record # 407822


Price: $13.00 

 

With Hearts Courageous


Kenton, Edna

Hardcover. NY, Jr. Lit Guild/Liveright, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. by Raphael Doktor. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf, bookplate on prelim page.

Record # 60820


Price: $23.00 

Yankee Doodle's literary sampler of prose, poetry & pictures; being an anthology of diverse works published for the edification and/or entertainment of young readers in America before 1900. Selected from the rare book collections of the Lib

Yankee Doodle's literary sampler of prose, poetry & pictures; being an anthology of diverse works published for the edification and/or entertainment of young readers in America before 1900. Selected from the rare book collections of the Lib

Hardcover. New York, Crowell, 2nd printing, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 466 pages, illustrations in b&w. Light edgewear and tanning to dust jacket with slight crease to rear cover. Faint foxing to top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460524


Price: $31.00 

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