Hardcover. New Jersey, Barnes and Noble Books, 1st U.S., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. First U.S. edition. An entertaining history of the development of children's books. A clean, bright, unmarked copy.
Washington DC, National Geographic Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Incredible pop-ups, moveable parts, special 3-D lenses, audiocassette, a great interactive book on the earth sciences. Like-new condition.
Boston, Munroe & Francis, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes in brown cloth with embossed design, gilt decoration on spine. B&W line woodcuts throughout. Vol. 1 -223 pages, Vol.2 -297 pages. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf dated 1851. Very good condition on both books.
Hardcover. San Diego and New York, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Michael Foreman. Remainder line bottom edge. Nice condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.
NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 80 pages. Black & white drawings by Kurt Wiese. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Dust jacket with edgewear, closed tears. Inside tape repair to top & bottom of spine tears.
Softcover. Buffalo Grove, The Fell Press, First Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 542 pages. Softcover with irridescent covers. Light marginal wear to edges. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked text.
New York, Viking Press, 6th pr, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 72 pages. Two-tone illustrations by Conrad Buff. Dust jacket clipped, no price clip. Dust jacket with chipping, small closed tears, small chunk missing from front cover. Rubbing.
Hardcover. Flagstaff, Arizona, Northland Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Previous owner's ex-libris front end paper. Blue and black illustrations by Joe Beeler. Some very minor wear to dust jacket, internally clean. Hardbound.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated in color and b&w by the author. Beige cloth covers with red and blue illustration, lettering. End paper map by De Angeli. Stated first edition. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Henry Hoyt, 1st, 1858, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages, several b&w plates. Embossed red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's inscription inside front cover, front hinge partially cracked, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally McNally & Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 62 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated covers. Measures: 6.75" X 5.5". Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Features full color and black & white illustrations. Light rubbing to cover edges, dime size abrasion on back cover left of illustration. Clean, tight.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, reprint, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 251 pages, b&w illustrations by Walter Trier. Translated from German by Cyrus Brooks. Very good in a dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 174 pages. Black & white illustrations by Flavia Gag. Spine faded. Soiling to covers. Edgewear. Corners rubbed. Pink top edge fade. Endpapers lightly soiled. Small tear to front of spine.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 2nd, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 217 pages, b&w illustrations by Frank Nicholas. Clean, tight copy in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, October 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Audio CD included, w/ celebrities reading the story. 85 pages, color illustrations throughout. A very clean, tight copy.
New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 246 pages. Stories selected by Dalgliesh. Black & white and color illustrations by Concetta Cacciola. Previous owner's gift plate on title page. Dust jacket with chipping, rubbing. Brodart cover.
Hardcover. Garden City NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages, illustrated with drawings by Marie Lawson. INSCRIBED BY MOORE on the half-title page. Decorative boards with cover label,green cloth spine. Wear to cardboard corners on cover.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1892, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 344 pages. Black & white illustrations and frontispiece with tissue-guard. Rubbing to corners and spine.
Hardcover. New York, Harlin Quist, Inc., 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dark blue cloth covers, white dust jacket illustrated in color, lovely color illustrations by Schmid and Delessert throughout. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, 1.5" tear to bottom right corner of front dust jacket panel, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Putnams, 3rd, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. by John D. Batten. Previous owner's signature stick front end paper.
Hardcover. US, Wh Smith Pub, rep, 1979-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w by Arthur Rackham. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
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