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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. Book. Illus. by Charles E. Brock, Illustrator. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Holiday Edition.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. Holiday Edition. Very Good+/no dustjacket . Charles E. Brock, Illustrator. Two matching volumes, one of them (Volume II) inscribed and signed by author Kate Douglas Wiggin. VOLUME I: Penelope's English Experiences. Date on title page MDCCCC (1900). Olive green cloth decorated and lettered in gold on cover and spine, blind-stamped decorative border on rear board. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Light wear to spine corners. Pages and edges are clean, with gilt page edges. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Frontis illustration with clean tissue guard. Fifty-three illustrations by Charles E. Brock. 176 pages. VOLUME II - Penelope's Progress - Being Such extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton as relate to her Experiences in Scotland. Olive green cloth boards with gold decoration and…
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Challenger
by Gray, Patsey
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New York: Coward McCann, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Beautiful first edition in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Clean red cloth boards with black horse head and crisp back lettering on cover, black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean (brief neatly penned previous owner inscription on front free endpaper, tasteful custom-printed bookplate on front fixed endpaper). Lovely illustrations by Sam Savitt. 217 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped (3.00 on front inside flap). Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
Scarce, collectible quality first edition.
Scarce, collectible quality first edition.
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- Date Published 1959
- Keywords Patsey Gray, first edition, horses, fiction, novel, young adult, jumping horses
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Penelope's English Experiences; Penelope's Progress (Two Volumes)
by Wiggin, Kate Douglas
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Scorpion - A Good Bad Horse
by James, Will
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New York: Charles Scribner, 1936. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Charles Scribner, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Very Good. First Edition in original unclipped jacket. Clean orange cloth boards (very tiny pale white spot near bottom edge of front cover). Black lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight, no cracking; pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. "A" present on copyright page. Illustrated by the author. 312 pages. Dustjacket is not price clipped (2.50 on front inside flap), tiny corner chips, a few faint water marks to corners and top spine edge. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The story of an outlaw rider and an outlaw horse, and how they did each other good..
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Across Five Aprils
by Hunt, Irene
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Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1964. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1964. First Edition . Near Fine/Very Good+. First Edition in clean original dust jacket, complete number line on copyright page 123456789). Winner of the 1964 Charles W. Follett Award. Very clean gray and rust red cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean map-illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Jacket and endpapers by Albert John Pucci. 224 pages. Jacket is clean, with very slight edge wear, no chips, some peeling/chipping to Follett Award seal on front panel, not price clipped (3.95 on front inside flap). Author photo and bio on rear inside flap. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
by Hillenbrand, Laura
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New York: Random House, 2006. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Random House, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. First Edition, First Printing with all correct first edition points in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean black boards with black cloth spine, bright stamped gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean blank endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 399 pages with index. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Collectible quality first edition..
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Five Against Venus
by Latham, Philip
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John C. Winston Company, 1952. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. John C. Winston Company, 1952. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Near Fine. Stated First Edition in clean bright original unclipped dust jacket. Very clean unfaded red cloth boards with black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Beautifully illustrated endpapers (by Alex Schomburg) are clean, with small neatly penned previous owner name at top edge of front free endpaper. All pages are clean, but tanned. 214 pages. Dust jacket is designed by Virgil Finlay, clean and bright, not price clipped (2.00 on front inside flap), no chips or tears. Four science fiction novels listed on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..
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Penelope's English Experiences; Penelope's Progress (Two Volumes)
by Wiggin, Kate Douglas
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. Book. Illus. by Charles E. Brock, Illustrator. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Holiday Edition.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. Holiday Edition. Very Good+/no dustjacket . Charles E. Brock, Illustrator. Two matching volumes, one of them (Volume II) inscribed and signed by author Kate Douglas Wiggin. VOLUME I: Penelope's English Experiences. Date on title page MDCCCC (1900). Olive green cloth decorated and lettered in gold on cover and spine, blind-stamped decorative border on rear board. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Light wear to spine corners. Pages and edges are clean, with gilt page edges. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Frontis illustration with clean tissue guard. Fifty-three illustrations by Charles E. Brock. 176 pages. VOLUME II - Penelope's Progress - Being Such extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton as relate to her Experiences in Scotland. Olive green cloth boards with gold decoration and…
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Scorpion - A Good Bad Horse
by James, Will
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New York: Charles Scribner, 1936. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Charles Scribner, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Very Good. First Edition in original unclipped jacket. Clean orange cloth boards (very tiny pale white spot near bottom edge of front cover). Black lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight, no cracking; pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. "A" present on copyright page. Illustrated by the author. 312 pages. Dustjacket is not price clipped (2.50 on front inside flap), tiny corner chips, a few faint water marks to corners and top spine edge. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The story of an outlaw rider and an outlaw horse, and how they did each other good..
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Across Five Aprils
by Hunt, Irene
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Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1964. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1964. First Edition . Near Fine/Very Good+. First Edition in clean original dust jacket, complete number line on copyright page 123456789). Winner of the 1964 Charles W. Follett Award. Very clean gray and rust red cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean map-illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Jacket and endpapers by Albert John Pucci. 224 pages. Jacket is clean, with very slight edge wear, no chips, some peeling/chipping to Follett Award seal on front panel, not price clipped (3.95 on front inside flap). Author photo and bio on rear inside flap. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
by Hillenbrand, Laura
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New York: Random House, 2006. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Random House, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. First Edition, First Printing with all correct first edition points in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean black boards with black cloth spine, bright stamped gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean blank endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 399 pages with index. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Collectible quality first edition..
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Five Against Venus
by Latham, Philip
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John C. Winston Company, 1952. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. John C. Winston Company, 1952. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Near Fine. Stated First Edition in clean bright original unclipped dust jacket. Very clean unfaded red cloth boards with black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Beautifully illustrated endpapers (by Alex Schomburg) are clean, with small neatly penned previous owner name at top edge of front free endpaper. All pages are clean, but tanned. 214 pages. Dust jacket is designed by Virgil Finlay, clean and bright, not price clipped (2.00 on front inside flap), no chips or tears. Four science fiction novels listed on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..
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Challenger,
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Coward McCann, 1959. Unknown Binding. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Former owner's name, otherwise unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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Martin Luther King Jr: A Picture Story
by Margaret Boone -Jones
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clean no tears or marks
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Tarzan and the Forbidden City
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Vintage Whitman Publishing Company edition 1957. Hardcover, pictorial matte boards with original dust jacket. Overall condition is very good, dust jacket showing wear at top and bottom of spine and edges, but with bright colors. Dust jacket protected by a removable mylar cover. Slight bumped corners of boards. Pages are unmarked. Beautifully illustrated endpapers, with a slight separation from binding at front hinge. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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The Sky and the Forest
by Forester, C.S
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Samuel The Seeker
by Sinclair, Upton
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Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.
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Going To the Doctor (First Experiences Series)
by Fred Rogers
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Fred Rogers: First Experiences Book Series: Going To the Doctor (1986 1st Ed. 3rd Pr. Thus, G.P. Putnam)RARE in this first hardcover edition. Quite the find. Used. VG/VG condition unclipped dust jacket, printed price $12.95 Mr. Rogers appears on the back dj panel wearing a pale blue sweater. "In this book, real life photos are used to help young people feel more comfortable with interacting with other children and making new friends. A Note From Fred Rogers: A child's first visit with a pediatrician usually comes soon after birth. It may be months or even years later, though, that a child first shows fear about going to see a doctor. The worry of an injection or some other unfamiliar medical procedure can trigger that fear. It can also appear because another family member may be feeling medical anxieties. And, of course, new body awareness and needs for privacy develop naturally in children's early years, so all these feelings can make it very hard for them to let doctors investigate the workings of…
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The Man Who Lost His Head
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The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.
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Little May and Her Friend Conscience
by Marianne Parrot
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Little May and Her Friend Conscience. Used. Very Good+ Condition. RARE/SCARCE. ANTIQUARIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK. Thomas Nelson & Sons First Edition, 1876. Color front paper paste-down label is in good shape. Complete. Dark Blue, blind-stamped boards. Pocket-size. 70 pages plus adverts.
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A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
by Verne, Jules
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Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."
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The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
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Black boards with silver writing on spine; dings on top of front and back boards near corners. Top and bottom corners of front boards bumped; top and bottom of spine rumpled. Chip and wrinkles on top edge of front dust jacket; chip on corner of back dust jacket near fold to spine. Shelf wear on top and bottom of dust jacket spine; tight binding and pages still look in excellent condition. Cover price of $17.99 on front dust jacket flap, which has slight wrinkle at top of flap.Dutton First Edition; Thirty-First Printing as indicated by number line ending of "40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31" on copyright page. Signed by author on second interior page. Red cloud image with Target logo and advertising Bonus DVD from author with behind-the scenes looks at the movie.Green's second novel, which became his most famous one and has been made into a movie. Hardcover and original unclipped dust jacket protected by archival Mylar cover.
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Doonesbury Classics
by Gary Trudeau
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Four trade paperback editions of classic Doonesbury cartoons. The slipcase has minor wear but the books themselves are Like New and possibly never opened! Original political satire
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