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THE MAN WHO LOST HIS HEAD. Ex-lib. Library-bound. oblong format. Good Condition/ No DJ included. The Viking Press. First Published October, 1942. This is the stated Ninth Printing Thus, December, 1959. Glossy finish decorated blue and white boards with Black titling. A solid copy. Both gutters are intact. 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. Corner bumps and finger smudges noted. A fantasy 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. RARE.
The Day They Gave Babies Away by Eunson, Dale - 1990
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New Chapter Press, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good ; Good+ Jacket. 1990 New Chapter Press, New York. Third edition. Hardcover has orange textured paper-covered boards with green cloth-covered spine and gold spine lettering. Black and white illustrations by Phil Huling. 44 pages. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends lightly bumped. Pages clean and unmarked. One page is dog-eared. Dust jacket has light edge and surface wear; back panel of jacket has a few smudges. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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The Man Who Lost His Head
by Claire Huchet Bishop
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THE MAN WHO LOST HIS HEAD. By Clair Huchet Bishop. RARE/SCARCE. ILLUSTRATED BY ROBERT MC CLOSKEY, author, Illustrator of the beloved "Make Way For Ducklings". EXLIB. GOOD/ NO DJ INCLUDED. LIBRARY BOUND. Green geometric patterned boards. Copyright October, 1942. STATED SEPTEMBER, 1955 5TH PRINTING THUS. SUMMARY: "It's bad news when you wake up in the morning and find you've lost your head, especially if it's an especially agreeable and handsome head, but there you go, such things happen." Claire Huchet Bishop's charming parable is illustrated by the great Robert McCloskey, whose books for children include One Morning in Maine, Blueberries for Sal, and the Caldecott Medal-winning Make Way for Ducklings."
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By The Shores Of Silver Lake
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Wilder, Laura Ingalls. By The Shores Of Silver Lake,1953 Harper & Brothers Uniform Edition. Pictures by Garth Williams Little House on the Prairie series. Used. VG-/G- unclipped $2.95 dust jacket. 1 inch loss at top of dj spine. The family moves from Minnesota and Laura and Mary take a thrilling train ride during which an attempted payroll robbery takes place.
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The Wind in the Willows (The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf)
by Grahame, Kenneth, Introduction By A. A. Milne, Color Plates By Arthur Rackham
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. Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind In The Willows. Copyight 1940. Heritage Press. USED. VG+ Condition/ VG+ Original Canary yellow cart Slipcase. Blue boards with drawing of Toad dressed as the washerwoman on the Front Cover. February, 1966 Printing Thus of 20,000 copies. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 190 pages. 6 1/2 X 10. Please see stock photos. Our copy is crisp and clean with a clean spine, appearing almost unread. Quite charming.
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The Doll's House That Glue Built
by Williams, Clara Andrews
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.,, 1910. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. George Alfred Williams. Oblong quarto. Hardcover quarter bound in grey cloth with colour illustrated boards. Binding is scuffed, the boards show damping and foxing. Endpapers are toned. A pencilled notation on front flyleaf. The lower edge of the text block has some insect damage. Text is not affected. Text is toned. This was a book for children to cut out household items and paste them into various rooms of the house. A couple of loose cut outs have been placed in an envelope and placed in the front of the book.
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The Wizzywab ( In Jingles The Author Tells of Things That Befell an Adventurous Little Boy, Johnnie Bob, Who Dreamed One Night of a Wonderful Flight to the Land of the Wizzywab. CHILDRENS, Whimsical Account of Strange Adventures of Johnnie Bob in the Sc
by By George W. Caldwell, M.D., SIGNED & Inscribed By Author on Blank Frontispiece Fox Stain, FORMER OWNER STAMP Back Blank Endpaper Has SOME Edge Stains , B/W Frontispiece Photo of Author in Suit,
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Phillips & Van Orden Co. San Francisco, CA, 1919. HBDJ, 1919, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, VG-/VG-, AS-IS, Beige Blue & Red Dustjacket with Small Chips Extremities & Edges light Rub, Wear, Back DJ Staining Extremities & light Soil, Spine DJ light Stain Top Edge & Tiny Extremities chips, Last 21 pgs light Stains Edges , Interior nice tight clean light Wear Rub, 120 pgs, Cloth Cvr bright Grey , black and a touch of red on tan Illustrated cover light rub, Wear . Whimsical Account of Strange Adventures of Johnnie Bob in the schools of Animals, Frogs, & Fishes. Fascinating to the young & refreshing to the Old.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover.
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A New Year's Address to the Patrons of the Essex Gazette 1828; With a Letter, Hitherto Unpublished by John G. Whittier
by WHITTIER, John G.
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Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1903. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Thin 8vo. Pp. 10. Title page with a handsome stamped device mid-page. Printed by D. B. Updike at The Merrymount Press. This is number 52 of an edition limited to 60 copies. Top edges mostly unopened. Green quarter cloth binding over paper-covered boards. An exemplary copy. First thus. Ransom ("Private Presses and Their Books"), p.343, notes two titles printed by Merrymount in 1903, both published by Goodspeed, but neglects to cite this title.
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The Guardians of the House: Inscribed Copy
by Lucy Boston with Diana Boston
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Inscribed "The Simpson family You saw most of these faces at Green Know on 26 April 2001 Diana Boston" Book in Near Fine condition, Dust Jacket Good/VG. Has very little wear but crinkly with a crease down the back, some dents and a purple stain on back by bar code. See photos.A souvenir from visiting the manor at Hemingford Grey which stands near the river Ouse. SHIPS FROM CHICAGO, IL.
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Children of the Revolution
by Humphrey, Mabel; Humphrey, Maud
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NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Fair with no dust jacket; Backstrip split and reglued, boards heavily . worn, pages toned, water spots on front and rear boards.. 1900. Hardcover. Pictorial hardcover with blue cloth spine. Stories and verse about various figures in American Revolutionary War history and black and white illustrations by Mabel Humphrey of children dressing up and reenacting these scenes. Twelve full-page chromolithograph plates by Maud Humphrey (Mabel's sister and Humphrey Bogart's mother). Scenes and stories include Martha Washington pouring tea, the surrender of Cornwallis, Washington Crossing the Delaware, Lafayette dancing the Minuet, Moll Pitcher, Betsy Ross, Paul Revere's ride, the Boston Tea Party, Paul Jones, the Battle of Bunker Hill, Ben Franklin's arrival in Philadelphia, and the courtship of George Washington. The children depicted in these illustrations are plump and rosy-cheeked and have meticulous costuming. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
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Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know
by Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1915. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket Mary Hamilton Frye (illustrator). 1st Edition. "Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know" edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie. Published by Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1915. The book is in near fine condition. Pages are unmarked and clean. The blue cloth boards are extremely well preserved and the edges are crisp. The color illustration and lettering remain bright and fresh with minimal to no surface wear. This book includes many beloved tales including Jack and the Beanstalk, the Story of Aladdin or the Magic Lamp, Beauty and the Beast and many others.
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The Day They Gave Babies Away
by Dale Eunson
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New Chapter Press, Incorporated, 1990. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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New Chapter Press, Incorporated, 1990. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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New Chapter Press, 1990-09-30. hardcover. Good. 6x0x8. 1944 possibly first edition. Ex-library book with typical stickers and stampings. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping.
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The Day They Gave Babies Away
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New Chapter Press, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Third edition. Dust jacket wrapped in protective sleeve. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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The Day They Gave Babies Away
by Dale Eunson
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Fine Book in Near Fine DJ with light age toning along interior of flaps and light scratches to back of DJ. No po or internal markings. A clean, tight book in gift-ready condition that tells the true life story of the author's father, Robbie, after his Scottish immigrant parents died. On a Wisconsin Christmas day Robbie gave away his five brothers and sisters to carefully selected adoptive parents. The story was serialized, and then later turned into a book and then movie.
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Day In and Day Out (The Alice and Jerry Books, Reading Foundation Series)
by Mabel O'Donnell; Alice Carey
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Evanston, Illinois: Row, Peterson and Company, n.d. [copyright 1936]. Hardcover. First Edition, no additional printings listed. First-grade reader in the Alice and Jerry basal reader educational series. Red cloth over boards with blue & yellow titles and illustration of a dog and duckling. Good+. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown, a few penciled notes. Sewn binding is straight and tight. Corners and spine ends bumped. Covers clean and bright. Not from a school or library. See photos. 156 pages with color illustrations on every page. Word list.
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
by Engle, Joanna
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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Bob Son of Battle
by Alfred Oliphant
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The story focuses on the rivalry between two sheepdogs and their masters, and chronicles the coming of age of a boy who is caught between them. David M'Adam, the boy, was half-orphaned by the death of his mother, and is left to the care of his father, Adam M'Adam, a sarcastic, angry alcoholic with a few redeeming qualities. M'Adam is the owner of Red Wull, a huge, violent dog who herds his sheep by brute force. Doubleday & McClure, 1899. Hardcover. Condition: vg+. .356 pages Find copy in Dark Blue Boards . copyright Doubleday & McClure (New York), 1889. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Rare first edition original 1899 edition by Doubleday and McClure Company New York. Nice copy all on hand laid paper. Deckled edges. Bob Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant. Copyright 1889. Some browning of pages. In a navy cloth binding. Externally sound. Some shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked/,
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Ronny Meets the Cadborosuarus
by Elmay Crow
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Crow Publishing, Victoria, 1971, 30 pages, 6.5" x 8.5", Near Fine, Comb Bound Softcover. An uncommon self published companion to "Ronny Meets The Sasquatch".
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Bedtime Stories
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1978 - 16th printing- vintage Bedtime Stories - Little Red Riding Hood - book: very good - all pages are clean and unmarked - edge wear on boards good for age - pages show some toning at edges - ELEMENT: includes a little red riding hood/big bad wolf as grandma flip doll - doll is professionally sewn with intricate details
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El Principe Picenin – The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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A special copy of The Little Prince translated into the Venetian (Venetan/Veneto) language, also called dialeto del mar – the dialect of the sea. Included is the bookmark from the bookstore - Libreria Acqua Alta. Great gift for any Little Prince collector. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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The House That Jack Built: The Old Woman and Her Pig
by Rodney Peppe
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Pocket sized reproduction from Pleasewell Series of the 1890s. This edition is reversible with The Old Woman and Her Pig also featured when the book is flipped over. Each story has reproduced lithographs from the original publication. No creasing, no age spots, Like New !
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Foreign Agent
by Thor, Brad
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New York: Atria Books, 2016. Signed on fep First Edition with full number line This is a limited, signed edition with an exclusive, to this edition, additional chapter. Please note what looks like a "Signed Edition" sticker on the front of dust jacket. It is not a a sticker; it is part of the design of the jacket. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 338 pages PLUS additional chapter "exclusively for Target customers." Target is US-based department store. From jacket: "Scot Harvath has exactly the skills the CIA is looking for. He's a former Navy SEAL with extensive experience in espionage. Working for a private intelligence company, he will provide the CIA, and more important, the President, with absolute deniability. But deep within the Russian Caucasus, Moscow also has its own special kind of operative... When a clandestine American operations team is ambushed near Syria, all signs point toward a dangerous informant in Brussels..." A new book, but with…
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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 Elephant's Child: Just So Stories Series
by Kipling, Rudyard
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Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2
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