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Tales From Shakspeare


Lamb, Charles/Mary Lamb

Hardcover. London, UK, George Routledge and Sons, First Thus, c. 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 372 pages. Attractive volume. No date, c. 1918 with one hundred and eighty-four illustrations by Sir John Gilbert. Frontis engraving, "He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner." Previous owner's signature to preliminary page. Gilt embossed illustration with additional black & red print to covers & spine. Fraying to crown & heel of spine and to board corners. Front cover is attached & tender to lower 2 inches. Light toning to pages throughout. In very good condition for its age.

Record # 6670071


Price: $29.00 

 

Tales from the South Seas - A Collection of 36 Island Legends written especially for children


Gittins, Anne

Softcover. Suva, Government of Fiji, Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Paperback. Illustrated with black & white drawings by J. K. Payne. Cover and front endpaper with slight bend at top right corner. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 511578


Price: $8.00 

 

Tales from Washington Irving's Traveler


Irving, Washington, Illust. by: George Hood

Hardcover. Phila, Lippincott , 1st thus, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 8 color plates by George Hood. Top edge gilt. Blue cloth w/cover label in color. Super condition

Record # 12160


Price: $34.00 

 

Tanglewood Tales - For Boys and Girls


Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Illust. by: George Wharton Edwards

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st illustrated thus, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations by George Wharton Edwards. Blue beveled covers with 3-color illust.

Record # 66680


Price: $33.00 

 

Ten Little Indians


Wade, Mary Hazelton, Illust. by: Sears Galagher

Hardcover. Boston, W. A. Wilde Company, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 247 pages, with drawings by Sears Gallagher. Minor edge wear, and previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853786


Price: $18.00 

 

Ten to Seventeen - a Boarding School Diary


Bacon, Josephine Daskam

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 261 pages with fourteen illustrations. Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine & illustrated cover label. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. A nice copy.

Record # 509347


Price: $80.00 

 

Tenggren's Story Book


Tenggren, Gustaf, Illust. by: Gustaf Tenggren

Softcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, color & b&w Illustrations by Tenggren, fragile cardboard covers with wear/rubbing to edges of spine and corners. Slight stain to fore edge, not affecting text. Internally very good.

Record # 20849


Price: $40.00 

 

That Little Smith Girl


Perry, Nora, Illust. by: Charlotte Tiffany Parker

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., reprint, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 72 pages + advertisements. B/W illustrations/prints by Charlotte Tifffany Parker. Marks/glue from previous bookplates on front and back fly leaves. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Very clean yellow cloth cover with black stamped design on front and title stamped on spine.

Record # 802088


Price: $20.00 

The Boy Magician Dixie, Raymond
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The Boy Magician


Dixie, Raymond

Boston, Lothrop Lee Shepard, 1st, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 218 pages. Black & white illustrations. Cover has edgewear. Previous owner's sticker on inside of front cover.

Record # 206909


Price: $50.00 

 

The City that was Never Reached and Other Stories for Children


Stocking, Jay T.

Boston, Pilgrim Press, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 153 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper.Color frontis illustration. Top edge gilt. Some light discoloration on cover spine.

Record # 203902


Price: $25.00 

 

The Fossil Collection - World Pre-History in the Palm of Your Hand


Parker, Steve

Softcover. New York, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 page paperback with text and full color photographs. Slides into a cardboard case that opens like a book and houses 3 ammonite fossils.

Record # 501648


Price: $8.00 

 

The Gem and Mineral Collection


Pellant, Chris

Softcover. New York, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 page paperback with text and full color photographs. In cardboard box that opens like a book and houses three gem/mineral samples.

Record # 501649


Price: $8.00 

 

The Golden Horseshoe


Coatsworth, Elizabeth, Illust. by: Robert Lawson

Hardcover. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 151 pages. Black & white illustrations by Robert Lawson. Green cloth cover. Tear to top back cover edge. Light water damage to first pages, otherwise very good.

Record # 501800


Price: $35.00 

The Horn Book 1953 Lindquist, Jennie D. (ed.)/Horn Book Magazine
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The Horn Book 1953


Lindquist, Jennie D. (ed.)/Horn Book Magazine

Hardcover. Boston, The Horn Book, Inc., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 488 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket, good condition. Very little wear, upper spine slightly cocked, otherwise clean and tight. All 6 editions of the Horn Book Magazine for 1953 (Feb, April, June, Aug, Oct, Dec) in maroon cloth binding. December 1953 is "Laura Ingalls Wilder Issue".

Record # 2230634


Price: $150.00 

The Horn Book 1955 Lindquist, Jennie D. (ed.)/Horn Book Magazine
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The Horn Book 1955


Lindquist, Jennie D. (ed.)/Horn Book Magazine

Hardcover. Boston, The Horn Book, Inc., 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 504 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket, good condition. Very little wear, clean and tight copy. All 6 editions of the Horn Book Magazine for 1955 (Feb, Apr, June, Aug, Oct, Dec) in maroon cloth binding.

Record # 2230635


Price: $38.00 

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The Horn Book 1957


Lindquist, Jennie D. (ed.)/Horn Book Magazine

Hardcover. Boston, The Horn Book, Inc., 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 544 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket, good condition. Very little wear, spine cocked, otherwise clean and tight copy. All 6 editions of the Horn Book Magazine for 1957 (Feb, April, June, Aug, Oct, Dec) in maroon cloth binding.

Record # 2230636


Price: $38.00 

 

The Nutcracker: An Enchanting Pop-Up Adaptation


Southwick, Jessica/Yevgeniya Yeretskaya

Hardcover. Mason, Jumping Jack Press, First Edition, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover pop-up movable adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffman's, The Nutcracker, the classic holiday story. Bright colors, in very good condition. Clean & unmarked, nice copy.

Record # 750381


Price: $31.00 

 

The Planet of Terror - A Daring Adventure Game for Children


Burston, Patrick, Illust. by: Alastair Graham

Paperback. New York, Little Simon, 1st wraps, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 46 pages. Paperback. Color illustrations by Alastair Graham.

Record # 206135


Price: $250.00 

 

The Story of Siegfried


Baldwin, James, Illust. by: Peter Hurd

Hardcover. London, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st illustrated thus, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 279 pages. Color illustrations by Peter Hurd. Black cloth boards with faded spine. Illustrated front cover, loose-swinging front hinge. Internally very good.

Record # 501781


Price: $35.00 

 

The Wonder World


Lewis, William Dodge Albert Lindsay Rowland, Illust. by: Hattie Longstreet Price

Hardcover. Chicago, The John C. Winston Company, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 295 pages including "your dictionary." Color illustrations by Hattie Longstreet Price. Blue cloth pictorial binding faded at spine, with soiling to lower left corner of front cover. Book III of The New Silent Readers "A Basal Activity Series."

Record # 501866


Price: $12.00 

 

The Wreck of the Golden Fleece


Leighton, Robert, Illust. by: Frank Brangwyn

London or New York, London: Blackie & Son, Limited New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, ca. 1870s, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Scribner's catalogue of books for young people. 8 black & white illustrations by Frank Brangwyn. Green cloth cover slightly scuffed, gold embossing.

Record # 501531


Price: $44.00 

 

The Young Nimrods in North America - A Book for Boys


Knox, Thomas W.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 299 pages plus 4 pages of "interesting books for boys." Copious black & white illustrations. Blue cloth cover, back scuffed and discolored. Front: gilt title laid over brown design. Spine slightly faded but gilt still bright.

Record # 501579


Price: $44.00 

 

Their First Formal Call


Cooke, Grace MacGowan , Illust. by: Peter Newell

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hard cover. 55 pages. Black & white illustrations by Peter Newell. No dust jacket. Faded black top edge. Spine faded.

Record # 502009


Price: $35.00 

 

Their First Igloo - On Baffin Island


True, Barbara and Marguerite Henry, Illust. by: Gladys Rourke Blackwood

Hardcover. Chicago, A. Whitman, 3rd, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated in color by Gladys Rourke Blackwood. Previous owner's inscription in front. Wear and fraying to edges of spine.

Record # 101244


Price: $10.00