A WINNIE THE POOH FIRST READER by GAINES, ISABEL - 1998: POOH'S PUMPKIN

London: Viking, 1993. Gold title on blue boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear and a small bump to front lower corner tip. Internally there is a blank coloured bookplate of a badger to front pastedown else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Dustjacket is not price clipped and is also Very Good +. The author is an acknowledged master of comic animal stories and the illustrations by Amanda Harvey bring to life the stories and will enchant children and adults alike. C3D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Harvey, Amanda. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

HBDJ, 1950. Stated First Edition; First Printing, VG+/VG. AS-IS, Dates match ,  Green Tweed Cloth Hardcover cvr Lite wear Titled in Blue on Spine with Illustration on front of boy in Snowshoes .   DJ. Minor wear to extremities. Jacket is in a fresh mylar cover. ; 8vo.Interior Nice tight clean Light wear Fox, Jacket shows slight edgewear, light wear to back DJ and some TINY CHIPS ENDS DJ SPINE;   DJ Protected Clear Mylar cvr, 5 x 8.  , 182 PGS, Half Title pg Former Owner pencil Inscription dated  1951, who have spent many summers in Deep Hollow, persuade their Parents to allow them to spend their Winter Holiday there with the Joosts, the Postmaster, His wife & their Son, chuck  !  It is perfect weather for winter Sports.they go Skiing, & Sleigh Riding, Play Hockey, Skate, Fish thru the Ice, & Practically Fly Across Miles of ice in Chuck’s New Ice Boat. Strange things start Happening that build Up Suspense. & Smsons become Amateur Detectives,    ages 7 to 10.

Chatto and Windus. LONDON, 1976 HARDBACK NODustjacket,,1976, First British English THUS STATED, Illustrated COLOR GLOSSY Papered Boards. Book Condition: Very Good Minus. NO Jacket. Hans Schabracq (illustrator). First Thus. 4to [28] POG, UNPAGINATED, full-page colour illus with text opposite, illus papered boards. Light thumbing. Name crossed out on front pastedown. VG minus. 10 3/4 X 8 1/2 IN. , No matter How Often Mrs. Crow might Lay an Egg in her nest ina Cottonwood Tree at Pearblossom, the egg always disappeared. Did the Rattlesnake who lived at Bottom of Tree have His Breakfast ?. 1st Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by HANS SCHABRACQ .

Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1946. HBDJ, 1946 on Title pg, 1ST EDITION, 1st printing, VG/VG, DJ has tiny white piece tape with B on it at spine with FADE, 8vo, Beige with Red cloth decorated boards, decorated end papers, cover shows slight wear and stain but overall is attractive and bright, minor bu mping, clean and bright inside, book hinges are intact. UNPAGINATED 29 PGS. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

GARRARD PRESS CHAMPAIGN, IL, 1958. HBDJ, 1958, 1ST EDITION, GOOD++ / GOOD+, AS-IS, EX-LIBRARY USUAL WEAR, Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Good slight wear to pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Exlibrary. SPINE DJ FADE, Brown & YELLOW ILLUSTRATED Cloth HB. 64 pgs, DOLCH FIRST READING BOOK for 1st Grader, Stories are Shep, the Dog Susan chicken & Mother Cat who had kittens raising them together, Mary?s Pony, Dan, who fell in well ETC. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by Don and Midge Robertson,. Ex-Library.

London: Viking, 1993. Gold title on blue boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear and a small bump to front lower corner tip. Internally there is a blank coloured bookplate of a badger to front pastedown else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Dustjacket is not price clipped and is also Very Good +. The author is an acknowledged master of comic animal stories and the illustrations by Amanda Harvey bring to life the stories and will enchant children and adults alike. C3D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Harvey, Amanda. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boots the Chemist. ND.,(1927). NEW EDITION. 4to (10.1 x 8.1 inches). Sixteen full colour plates, mounted within a black ruled border. Each plate with the title printed below the border. 95 line illustrations throughout, some full page. Previous owners neat name on front blank endpaper otherwise a fine copy in original burgundy cloth with gilt illustrations and lettering to front board and spine. Front board with quadruple ruled black borders, spine ruled in gilt. In the scarce original publshers dustwrapper with colour illustration mounted onto the front panel, below black lettering and four line border. Flaps and other panels lettered in black. Original printed price (15/-) on spine has been blacked out neatly. Aside from a couple of tiny chips to the wrapper this is a beautiful fine example of this well produced edition. Scarce in this condition.:

J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1952 HBDJ, 1952, Stated First Edition, NF+/VG-, AS-IS, Gently bumped with just a hint of wear at the corners and spine ends. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears. Spine sunned, small drip marks on the front panel. Lower corner of the front flap clipped, DJ Protected Clear Mylar Cvr ,Orange Cloth Titled in Blue cvr Light Wear, DJ LIGHT SCUFFING EDGE SPINE & Light fade Spine DJ & Tiny chips tears Extremities DJ, 115 pgs, Interior Nice, tight Clean Light Wear Fox, ,A deserted old barn set at the end of a grassy lane, in the midst of sunny fields, the the favorite place where Reed and Kathie play. It is only when strange sounds in the old stable and a ghostly form in the mist are added to the familiar owl hoots and mouse scurryings that the barn becomes a mysterious place. Their Much Admired Uncle, Bill, Makes a Visit & loses his Wallet in the Haymow. Then things happen Fast, & in the End Kathie’s dearest Wish comesTrue. 1st… Read More

Macmillan & Co. New York. 1889. New edition. 12mo. (7.5 x 5.2 inches). xii, 192, 12 pp publishers catalogue. Also an extra gathering bound in so that pages 117 to 124 appear twice. One gathering slightly sprung. Publishers dark green cloth with gilt and black decorative band across the top of the front board and the top and bottom of the spine. Black decorative roll to the bottom of the front board. Title on gilt to the middle of the front board. Spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Rear board with blind stamped floral roll to the top and bottom. Floral decorative endpapers. Neat two line inscription to the front free endpaper. The rear endpapers have an early previous owner's name and address written in red crayon to the free endpaper and a few short lines to the pastedown. Cloth a bit rubbed to the edges and a couple of small marks to the boards but overall a very good copy. An uncommon and attractive nineteenth century edition, printed in New York by J. J. Little and Co. This 1889 new edition was… Read More

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.