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Chicago, IL: Belford, Clarke & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1888. Hardcover. Text is clean. Pages are tanning. Book has been repaired: Text block reattached to boards, corners stiffened, new endpapers. ; Contributors include: Henry Ward Beecher, James A Garfield, Washington Irving, James Whitcomb Riley, Mary Mapes Dodge, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, along with many others. Illustrated throughout with black and white illustrations by True Williams. ; B&W Illustrations; 128 pages .
The Sun Horse by Clark, Catherine Anthony; illustrated by Clare Bice - 1959
by Clark, Catherine Anthony; illustrated by Clare Bice
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The Sun Horse
by Clark, Catherine Anthony; illustrated by Clare Bice
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Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1959. 209 pages. 1959 reprint of 1951 1st ed. Blue hardcover with red lettering on spine shows sunning to top and bottom edges. Binding tight: a very nice copy with minimal shelfwear. Former owner's name neatly on ffep, contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is unclipped, shows minor chipping and two short closed edge tears with associated creasing; some soiling to white back panel, faint signs of soil on front. Now protected in new mylar cover. In this scarce and sought-after Canadian fantasy for children, two 11-year-olds set out for Forgetful Valley -- a mysterious place from which nobody ever returns -- hoping to find Giselle's father who went looking for the magnificent Sun Horse. Catherine Clark's attempts to combine adventure, magical fantasy, and First Nations folklore make her books unique. . Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Clare Bice. 5.5 x 8.5 in. (14cm x 21.5cm).
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- Place of Publication Toronto
- Date Published 1959
- Keywords Shannon children juvenile fiction Canada Canadiana folklore mythology native peoples Indian adventure Fantasy Canadian
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Sparkles For Bright Eyes
by Handford, Thomas W. (editor)
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Brother Bartholomew and the Apple Grove
by Jan Cheripko
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PA: Boyds Mills Press, 2004. Pictorial Cover mirrors DJ. Unpaginated Color Illustrated Pgs. Clean Tight Copy. Signed by the Author on fep. Priced Intact Clean DJ. Stated First Edition, also 1st Printing. "An ambitous monk learns a lesson in humility when he encounters Brother Bartholomew, the old monk who tends the apple grove" Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Author. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Kestutis Kasparavicius.
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Mommy, Buy Me a China Doll
by Zemach, Harve; Zemach, Margot
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Gordonsville, VA, U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988 1988 Sunburst Edition. No Writing Or Marks, Light Rub To Corners, Some General Rumpling To Pages, But Very Good. A Most Appealing Illustration Of The Lyrics To Mommy Buy Me A China Doll With A Depiction True To Its Appalacian Folk Roots With The Depiction Of A Small Holding Family In Their Modest Home Amongst Their Belongings. A Rocking Chair,A Cradle, A Feather Bed, A Spinning Wheel, Some Animals. Margot Zemach Has Selected Red Ochre, Browns And Greens To Present A Moving And Good Humoured Warmth And Simplicity. You Can See That There Won't Be A China Doll Purchase, The Family Cannot Afford It, And It Doesn't Really Matter. This Ala Notable Book Is Quite Scarce And Fondly Remembered By Many.
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Hans Wundersam. Ein Wintermärchen
by Adolf Holst (Verse)/Ernst Kutzer (Illustr.)
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Alfred Hahns Verlag - Verl.Nr. 38, 1930?. Halbleder. mit Widmung (datiert 1936); Ecken/Kanten leicht berieben, sonst sehr schönes Exemplar dieses alten Kinderbuches!
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Aesop's Fables
by Hague, Michael (editor) (Illustrations by Michael Hague.)
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Norwalk: Easton Press 1985. (4to) 27pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Orange leather with gilt decoration and lettering. All edges gilt, color illustrations. The spine is lightly sunned and there is a previous owner's book plate on the front free endpaper. Includes 'The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse,' 'The Lion and the Mouse,' and 'The Hare and the Tortoise' among others. Illustrations by Michael Hague. (Juvenile, Fairy Tales, Morals).
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THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK SAMBO
by BANNERMAN. HELEN.;
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Chatto & Windus. London.,1935. Reprint. Small 4to.(9.3 x 7 inches). 27 full colour plates, each with a page of text opposite. Small area of loss to the bottom corner of one page and a few pages with tears into the margins, without any loss to the page. Overall a very good clean copy which has recently been finely bound in leather. Full blue morocco, spine with raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. Boards with gilt ruled borders. Front board lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Overall a very good, attractively bound copy.:
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The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales
by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
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London: Hodder and Stoughton A very good copy in red decorative cloth binding with tipped in colour frontispiece and 14 further tipped in colour plates by Edmund Dulac. With numerous designs and black and white illustrations by Dulac. Top page edges gilt. Undated but probably 1920's. The binding is bright and clean . There is a small white mark at the top corner of the front board and very slight fading to the spine, together with slight pulling to the spine. The contents are very clean and in very good condition. Lge octavo.
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Otter Nonsense
by Norton Juster
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Calgary , Alberta, Canada
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New York: Philomel, 1982 Imagine! Phantom Tollbooth Meets Hungry Caterpillar. What A Collaboration! Apparently They Are/Were Neighbours And Good Friends. If You Google Both Eric Carle And Norton Juster You Will Be Treated To Photos Of Them,(Along With Barry Moser), Wearing T-Shirts That Say I Am Not Eric Carle And I Am Not Norton Juster Respectively. As Suggested By The Title, Otter Nonsense Is A Book Of Animal Line Drawings Illustrating Some Terrible Puns! 'Weasel Overcome," For Example. This Is A Very Good Plus Presumed First Philomel Edition With Gift Inscription On Ffep. Unclipped Dust Jacket Has A Small Stain To Lower Rear Bottom Edge Near Spine, About 1.5 Inches Long And .25 Inches High. Price Is $8.95.
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THE GILLYFLOWER GARDEN BOOK.
by ANDERSON. ANNE. Illustrates
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Thomas Nelson & Sons. London. ND. [1915] 1915. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. (9.3 x 701 inches). Illustrated with 12 full page colour plates and line drawings around the text pages opposite each plate, plus illustrated title page, all by Anderson. A little browning to the blank endpapers and a neat previous owner name on the front free endpaper, otherwise a very good, clean copy in the publishers grey cloth covered boards. Full colour illustrated onlay to the front board and green line border, decoration and lettering. Blue cloth spine lettered in dark blue. Aside from some darkening to the plain spine and minor rubbing to the extremities this is a very good copy. The book is undated but the British Library catalogue gives the publication date as 1915.
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Drawn from Memory and Drawn from Life
by E. H. Shepard
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Cape Town, South Africa
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London: Methuen & Company. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1957-1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Autobiographical book of Shepard childhood, later famous for his children illustration in particular books by AA Milne. A fine book in excellent condition. Internally clean with clean boards and clear red top stain. VG+ or better dust jacket. Some minor edgewear and some very small chips. Now in a protective cover, unclipped. An exceptional copy in collectors condition, the 2nd of Shepard's bibliographical works following on Drawn from Memory. Many of Shepard's drawings adorn the pages. A very fine book, small smudge at the bottom edge. Internally book is pristine (as new) with no marks internally. Tight binding and seems unread. Clear red top stain. A like dust jacket that is very fine. Unclipped, with 25s price visible. Now in a protective cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages .
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The Sun Horse
by Catherine Anthony Clark
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Pullman, Washington, United States
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The MacMillan Company of Canada Limited, 1951. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1st edition, 1951. Very good hardcover with light edge rub. Solid binding. Gift note on front fly, else no mark's inside. Bright colored dust jacket is "good", with a small bend and small tear and some edge wear. Award-winning book.
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Bedtime Stories
by Tenggren, Gustaf: Illustrated by
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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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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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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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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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The Man Who Lost His Head
by Claire Huchet Bishop
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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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