Childrens Fiction from Charity Bookstall

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company Inc. This book was first published in 1949 and was the winner of the 1950 Newbury Medal. This edition states a 1949 copyright, but a list of titles by the author within includes books published up to 1964. This volume is circa 1964 when the last book in the list within was… Read more about this item

Tulsa, OK: EDC Publishing, 2014. A Luke Challenger Adventure First American Edition 8vo size trade paperback; 350 pages From back cover: "Luke has discovered that the wreck of Captain Nemo's legendary submarine, the Nautilus, is lying at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. The sub's engines hold the key to atomic power - a secret… Read more about this item

New York: Golden Books, 1997. Rare and Collectible Read and Listen with Pages that Talk - Just touch the pages to bring the characters to life Adapted by Mary Dykstra from the Animated Film Annabelle's Wish. Illustrated by Alan Nowell & Associates 4to size pictorial hardcover with integrated speaker at top of book. Unpaginated - about… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1966. Format #16 with purple spine and black toy endpapers Originally published in 1966. It is volume 59 in the series. 8vo size pictorial hardcover; 177 pages with green topstain and a few black and white illustrations. Two sets of male/female fraternal twins, Bert and Nan and Freddie and Flossie, are the principal characters in… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1962. 1962 Revision; Format #16 with purple spine and black toy endpapers Originally published in 1913, this reprint is circa 1962. It is volume 4 in the series. Two sets of male/female fraternal twins, Bert and Nan and Freddie and Flossie, are the principal characters in this series created by the Stratemeyer… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1966. 1966 Revision; Format #16 with purple spine and black toy endpapers Originally published in 1920, this reprint is circa 1966. It is volume 13 in the series. 8vo size pictorial hardcover; 174 pages with green topstain and a few black and white illustrations Two sets of male/female fraternal twins, Bert and Nan and Freddie… Read more about this item

New York: Wonder Books, 1952. This is book number 569 in the series. 8vo size pictorial hardcover board book with sewn binding, color illustrated endpapers; unpaginated - about 20 pages with full color illustrations The fill-in bookplate is blank. Edgewear, worn and bumped corners, chip to top and bottom of spine and middle of spine on back.… Read more about this item

Wilmington, MA: New Voices Publishing, 2002. Stated First Edition with full numberline 4to size pictorial hardcover with matching color illustrated dust jacket; unpaginated - about 26 pages with bright color illustrations throughout. From jacket: "Miguel loves to visit his Aunt Rosa for many reasons... She teaches him many things... Spanish words and phrases. And Aunt Rosa loves to tell Miguel… Read more about this item

Honesdale, Pennsylvania: Boyds Mills Press, 1993. Stated First Edition with full numberline 8vo size hardcover with illustrated dust jacket; 196 pages From dust jacket: "Annie Lucas is fed up. Her older sister, Mae, has left home, and that leaves just Annie - the responsible, hard working, second daughter - to help out with the household chores… Read more about this item

New York: Delacorte Press, 2008. Stated First Edition with full numberline 8vo size green hardcover; 300 pages Description: "When Rogelia becomes a maid at Marina Peralta's home, its obvious to Marina and her friend Fern that they have a real mystic on their hands. Soon Rogelia agrees to teach the girls the magic of their ancestors, much… Read more about this item

New York: Penguin Books, 2022. First Thus with full numberline 8vo size trade paperback; 310 pages with some full page black and white illustrations From back cover: "Mickey can't resist the ad inside his pack of gum: 'Do you ever wish everyone would go away? The Anti-Book is the answer.' After all, lately he's been… Read more about this item

Pekin, Indian: Refuge of Sinners Publishing Inc, 2015. 12mo size trade paperback; 128 pages 2015 reprint Nihil obstat: William F. Bergan, Censor Deputatus Imprimatur: James E. Kearney (1941) From back cover: " 'Tomorrow I shall enter the eighth grade of Holy Cross School, and I have just been thinking... Great men always… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Lollipop Power Inc, 1976. 12mo size staple-bound softcover with green cardstock wraps. There is a black and white illustration on front cover; 32 pages with some full page and some half page black and white illustrations. This picture book tells the story of Coppelia and her missing bellybutton. The publisher, Lollipop Power, was… Read more about this item

Chicago: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1962. 8vo size clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 140 pages From dust jacket: "Freckle-faced and red-haired, 11-year-old Marcus liked giving orders, especially to a girl like tomboy Clem and younger brothers like Jerry and his taglong little brother Davy." The discovery of an old canoe stored in the back of Clem's garage gave… Read more about this item

Duluth, Minnesota: Pfeifer-Hamilton Publishers, 1992. Watercolor illustrations by Cheng-Khee Chee Flat signed by both author and illustrator on title page! 4to size pictorial hardcover with matching dust jacket and illustrated endpapers; unpaginated- about 44 pages. From dust jacket: "(This) fable... promotes a deeper understanding of the earth and our relationship with all the beings who inhabit… Read more about this item

New York: Orchard Books, 1993. First Edition with full numberline Tucked into book is a signed and inscribed bookplate. It has not been fixed into the book; we'll leave that up to you. 8vo size hardcover with color illustrated dust jacket; 103 pages. From dust jacket: "The more she knows, the more the desert blooms… Read more about this item

New York: Wonder Books, 1960. Abridged 8vo size pictorial hardcover with sewn binding; unpaginated - about 20 pages Fill-in bookplate is blank. Light wear and soil to covers, very light crease on front cover; edgewear and small bump to bottom of front cover and bumped top corners. There is some penciled scribbling to inside back… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. 8vo size blue clothbound hardcover with full page color illustration laid on top cover. Illustrated endpapers. 300 pages plus full color frontispiece and three additional color illustrations all on glossy stock. From Preface: "Two Mexican children were really captured some years since on the other side of the Rio Grande… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 2009. A Little Golden Book "with the famous gold-foil spine." Illustrated by Julia Woolf First Edition Thus with full numberline 8vo size pictorial hardcover; unpaginated - about 24 pages with full color illustrations. 'Bookplate' inside front cover is blank and waiting to be filled in. A through Y show children in… Read more about this item

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1973. Book Club Edition (BCE) 8vo size pictorial hardcover with matching dust jacket; 186 pages with some black and white illustrations by Antony Maitland From dust jacket: "Much to his astonishment, James found out about Thomas Kempe, a 17th Century sorcerer who proclaimed James to be his current apprentice. Thomas's deviltry progresses… Read more about this item