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When Esther was a Little Girl
by Eliza Orne white
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1944
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Bethany, Missouri, USA
- Item Price
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$125.00
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1944 Green cloth covers, good or better condition. Paper clip clipped to the top edge of the front end paper, left a stain.<p>
Signed in pencil on the blank front page by Eliza Orne White.<p>
Included is a letter from Eliza Orne White to Miss Florence Poor,
included is the envelope, has a large tear on the front.… Read more about this item Item Price
$125.00
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How To Live With A Calculating Cat
by Eric Gurney
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Published
- 1962
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Bethany, Missouri, USA
- Item Price
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$150.00
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Prentice Hall, 1962 Book and dust jacket in very good condition. Not priced clipped. <p>
A loose full page original signed drawing by Eric Gurney dated Feb 10/78 included. The inscription reads Very Best Wishes To_____
And Her Chorus Of Calculating Cats, From Your Friend
Eric Gurney. Item Price
$150.00
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Folksy Fruits
by T. Benjamin Faucett
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Published
- 1924
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Bethany, Missouri, USA
- Item Price
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$300.01
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New York: A. L. Burt, 1924 Book is in very good condition. A dedication on the front end paper
Really nice boards . String binding, illustration on page 23 halfway loose. Page 15 spine cracked at the lower bottom, darkened edges.
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Mylar covered dust jacket, inch off the bottom of the dust jacket spine, small piece missing at the… Read more about this item Item Price
$300.01
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Alice's Adv entures In Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Published
- 1870
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Bethany, Missouri, USA
- Item Price
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$1,200.03
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Boston: Lee And Shepard, 1870 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland in good condition.<p>
Front board cracked and coming loose from the book at the title page.. Front title page loose but in the book. Page three loose
from the book , complete 192 pages.<p>
Gold tipped edges. The second edition puiblished in the US after the 1869 edition Lee and Appleton… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,200.03
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More Ant and Bee
by Angela Banner
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Bethany, Missouri, USA
- Item Price
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$24.99
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New York: Franklin Watts Green cloth boards very good. Inside pages clean and unmarked.<p>
Dust jacket good, no copyright date,
dust jacket has a couple of large tears to the spine that has been taped back on the inside of the dust jacket cover.Looks like maybe a sticker removed from top corner of the inside dust jacket flap. Item Price
$24.99
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The Story Of Little Kettle-Head
by Helen Bannerman
- Condition
- Used - Good -
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Published
- 1904
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Bethany, Missouri, USA
- Item Price
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$700.04
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1904 The book is in good - condition. The cover is starting to come loose from the spine but the inside contents are solid. Blue cloth spine has an inch tear at the bottom.
Fading and scuff marks to the cover. Overall decent looking.<p>
Lots of blue stamps to the front end… Read more about this item Item Price
$700.04
Peeps, (With Box)
by Nancy Cox McCormack
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Published
- 1918
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Bethany, Missouri, USA
- Item Price
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$175.01
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P. F. Volland Company, 1918 Book in near fine condition.<p>
The bottom of the box has one broken corner. The Lid has all corners broken, have been clear taped back, tear in the lid middle edge. The lid has foxing on the edges. The box is fair condition.<p>
Still nice to have the complete box with the book Item Price
$175.01
The Turned-Into's, (with box)
by Elizabeth Gordon
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Sixteenth Edition
- Published
- 1920
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Bethany, Missouri, USA
- Item Price
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$150.01
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P. F. Volland Company, 1920 Book is in near fine condition. Protected very well in the box.<p>
The box is in good condition. The box is complete, The bottom has no broken corners and the lid has two broken corners, and the lid has a middle edge tear. Some edge wear to the lid of the box.<p>
Nice to have… Read more about this item Item Price
$150.01
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thinking of you
by Sam Brown
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Published
- 2006
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Bethany, Missouri, USA
- Item Price
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$50.00
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Derby, CT: explodingdog, 2006 Red boards with white text and white illustration.<p>
Initialed by Sam Brown on the front grey end paper with an original drawing Item Price
$50.00
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Wizard's First Rule
by Terry Goodkind
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1994
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Bethany, Missouri, USA
- Item Price
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$500.03
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New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 1994 Book and dust jacket in near fine condition. First edition, first printing. Signed by author. The book is not price clipped. Comes with a Wizard's First Rule book mark. Item Price
$500.03
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Suzuki Beane
by Sandra Scoppettone
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Published
- 1961
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Bethany, Missouri, USA
- Item Price
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$300.02
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New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1961 Book in very good condition, small bump top front top corner.<p>
Inside pages clean and unmarked.<p>
Dust jacket very presentable. Not price clipped. <p>
2 inch tear at the bottom of the inside front and back flap.<p>
A sweet little story about a hippie little girl and her parents and her friend Henry who is… Read more about this item Item Price
$300.02
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Caesar Cascabel
by Jules Verne
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Published
- 1890
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Bethany, Missouri, USA
- Item Price
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$800.04
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New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1890 Bright Tourquoise Boards in very good or better condition, very light edge wear . Inside pages clean and unmarked. Really nice book.<p>
With over eighty full page illustrations from the originals by George Roux. Item Price
$800.04
Daddy Long Legs
by Jean Webster
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Published
- 1912
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Bethany, Missouri, USA
- Item Price
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$50.00
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New York: The Century Co., 1912 The Boards are in beautiful condition. Dark blue with a heart on the front cover with blue leaves outlined in green and with white roses.<p>
The spine also has the white roses and blue leaves outlined in green.<p>
Very light wear. Item Price
$50.00
The Hobbit
by J. R.R. Tolkien
- Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Published
- 1987
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Bethany, Missouri, USA
- Item Price
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$100.01
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1987 Dark green pebbled faux leather book with slipcase. Edges marbled in green. 1987 collector's edition reissue of the 1966 edition. 1st thus 5th impression. Thor's map reproduced in the front and back endpapers<p>
I counted 5 full page multi colored illustrations, and I counted 6 full page green illustrations, some smaller intext… Read more about this item Item Price
$100.01
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Exterminator!, With Obiturary and sheet
by William S. Burroughs
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Published
- 1985
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Bethany, Missouri, USA
- Item Price
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$1,000.05
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USA: Penguin Books, 1985 Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs, inscribed and signed my Mr.
Burroughs.<p>
The copyright dates on the inside of the title page states that Penguin
books first printing was in 1979 and the last printing in this book was 1985. The back of the book states that the design cover was done
by Neil Stuart in 1984 Art selected by… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,000.05
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Once On Esplanade ( A Cycle Between Two Creole Weddings)
by Francis Parkinson Keyes
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Published
- 1947
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Bethany, Missouri, USA
- Item Price
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$151.12
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1947 Boards very good, gold text, light wear.
I counted 12 full page black and white illustrations. I hope I counted right, there are in text illustrations too. Each full page illustration has a
plate number on the back with a description of the illustration.<p>
Inscribed by Frances Parkinson Keyes on the inside front blank… Read more about this item Item Price
$151.12
Lorna Doone, In Two Volumes
by R. D. Blackmore
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Flexible
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Bethany, Missouri, USA
- Item Price
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$41.14
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Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company Flexible soft bright red leather covers, red ribbon book markers. Really nice condition.<p>
No copyright date, ca 1900s ?<p>
Two volumes. Item Price
$41.14
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Suzuki Beane
by Sandra Scoppettone
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Published
- 1961
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Bethany, Missouri, USA
- Item Price
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$250.01
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Garden City, NewYork: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1961 The book is in good condition. The book has some soil and tiny blemishes.<p>
The top of the spine has an 1 1/2" tear . The inside pages are clean and unmarked.<p>
It is the story of a hip, young, New York City baby beatnik, the child of Greenwich Village beatniks. Her… Read more about this item Item Price
$250.01
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The Harvest Waits
by Lorene Pearson
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1941
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Bethany, Missouri, USA
- Item Price
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$62.95
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New York: The Bobbs.Merrill Company, 1941 Green cloth boards very good, bottom bumped corner. Inscribed on the frist blank page and signed by Lorene Pearson. The book includes a 5 page letter signed by Lorene, also includes a xmas card signed by Lorene and Harry. The book is stated a first edition
The dust jacket is good minus condition,… Read more about this item Item Price
$62.95
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Little Bigs, With Box
by Anne Archbold Miller
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1925
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Bethany, Missouri, USA
- Item Price
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$129.60
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Greenberg Publisher, Inc., 1925 Book in very good condition with the box in very good condition, box lid has an inch chip and inch tear on the bottom edge of one side. Item Price
$129.60