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P.D. Eastman: Are You My Mother? Beginner Books Copyright 1960, Random House First Edition. States States B-18 on the book spine and dj spine. Little Black, A Pony is latest title listed. Used. VG-/VG- Original First state unclipped blue dust jacket with 100 word vocabulary emblem and front flap price of 195/195. Gift inscribed. A nice find.

Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade. By Patrick Dennis. Vanguard Press 1959 First Edition, Stated Third Printing Thus. "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!" Used. VG/VG Unclipped $3.50 ORIGINAL DJ is now protected in a mylar wrap. One of the funniest books ever written, this story was also a made into a play, a film, and a musical with the incomparable Rosalind Russell and Lucille Ball. Rare/quite scarce in a nice dj. Please see our photos. A great find.

Babar Loses His Crown. By Laurent DeBrunhoff. Beginner Books B-45, Random House First Edition 1967. Used. VG/G. First Edition with the points: 195/195 R Cat in The Hat back panel dust jacket. Back panel lists The Beginner Book Story, Elementary Educators blurb, Remedial Reading Specialists blurb and titles list is: The Bear Scouts, The Digging-est Dog, Babar Loses His Crown, Travels of Doctor Doolittle, and the Cat in the Hat Songbook.

209LewisBabbittRed Sinclair Lewis. Babbitt. Copyright 1922. No other info appears on the copyright page. Harcourt Brace, NY. This is an undated Harbrace reissue edition, circa 1936 Printed from First Edition second issue plates with the correction of "Lyte" for "Purdy" on p. 49, line 4. USED. VG/Good-. Dark red boards and original maroon dust. Quite rare thus. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. 401 pages.

Bad Seed, a play by Maxwell Anderson. Adapted from the original novel "The Bad Seed" by William March. 1955 Dodd, Mead Fireside Theatre Book Club Edition. Used. Green boards. 96 pages. Good/Acceptable Condition original Patty McCormack purple dust jacket. Original cast list and 2 production photos. Book has a loose gather. Jacket has old tape damage and loss. Now protected by a mylar wrap. Summary: "Can a child be born evil? This disturbing question underlies the startling events of a new play, based on the best-selling novel by William March. A powerful play. Subjects: Sociopathy, psychology. horror. drama, family, Child Criminal. RARE/SCARCE.

Berenstain, Stan and Jan: The Berenstain Bears Go To Camp ( A First Time Book) Random House 1982 First Edition, full number line. Ex-lib hardcover library-bound edition Brown cloth boards. Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice find for Berenstain Bears fans.

The Berenstain Bears: Here's The Church, Here's The Steeple Pop-Up Book 1st Ed. POP-UP BOOK VG, ALMOST AS NEW. Religion. Hard to find. A nice family item.

Steig, William Brave Irene. 1988 Sunburst Edition, 1986 Farrar, Straus and Giroux copyright. USED. VG Condition. Softcover. ISBN0374409277. Unpaginated. Large format 7 ½ X 10 ½. A story about love and courage. "Brave Irene is Irene Bobbin, the dressmaker's daughter. Her mother, Mrs. Bobbin, isn't feeling so well and can't possibly deliver the beautiful ball gown she's made for the duchess to wear that very evening. So plucky Irene volunteers to get the gown to the palace on time, in spite of the fierce snowstorm that's brewing-- quite an errand for a little girl." Written and illustrated by William Steig, Author/ Illustrator of Shrek!

Proulx, Annie. Brokeback Mountain. ISBN . USED. As New BCE, 1997 Scribner NY "In 1963, rodeo cowboy Jack Twist and ranch hand Ennis Del Mar are hired by rancher Joe Aguirre as sheep herders in Wyoming. One night on Brokeback Mountain, Jack makes a drunken pass at Ennis that is eventually reciprocated. Though Ennis marries his longtime sweetheart, Alma , and Jack marries a fellow rodeo rider, the two men keep up their tortured and sporadic affair over the course of 20 years."

Caleb & Kate Steig, William. Copyright 1977 Farrar, Straus and Giroux. NY. Stated First Edition, 1977. EXLIB. GOOD CONDITION /VG Original unclipped Dust Jacket. Unpaginated. Large format. 8 X 10 1/8. A mischievous witch turns a quarreling husband into a dog, who then runs home in fright to his human wife Written and illustrated by William Steig, Author/Illustrator of Shrek!

Krauss, Ruth: The Carrot Seed. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson, author, illustrator of the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. 1945, Harper & Brothers FIRST EDITION. States 1945 on the title page. Beige Boards. USED. Good Condition/ no dust jacket is included. A nice solid copy. 6 X 8 ¼. "Ruth Krauss's book about a little boy who stands his ground and grows a carrot in the face of doubt from his parents brings up themes of individuality, standing one's ground, and what it is to know something, or the basis of knowledge"

Ruth Krauss. The Carrot Seed. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson, author, illustrator of the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. 1945, Harper & Brothers First Edition. States 1945 on the title page. QUITE RARE. EXLIB. Good Condition/ no dust jacket is included. A nice solid copy. "Ruth Krauss's book about a little boy who stands his ground and grows a carrot in the face of doubt from his parents brings up themes of individuality, standing one's ground, and what it is to know something (the basis of knowledge)" Not an easy find.

Wharton, Edith. The Children. D. Appleton 1928 Stated First Printing, September, 1928. Black boards with Yellow titling and ornamentation. (1) on the last page of the text. Used. Very Good Condition/ No DJ Included. 347 pages. New York & London. 5 5/8 X 7 7/8. Signed by former owner in pencil on front end paper. A square, solid copy. RARE. Plot Summary: "First published in 1928, The Children is one of Edith Wharton's later novels, published when the author was in her mid-sixties. Like much of Wharton's fiction, it explores the moral complexities of socially unacceptable relationship – in this instance, one between a middle-aged man and a teenage girl."

Edited By Arthur Waley. Chin P'ing Mei - Adventurous History Of Hsi Men And His Six Wives (aka The Golden Lotus). With an introduction by Arthur Waley. Softcover. 1960 Capricorn Books Edition, New York. Stated Third Impression Thus. 896 pages. 5 ¼ X 8. "The Chinese Decameron." USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION.

Thirkell, Angela: Double Affair. 1957 Hamish Hamilton Ltd. First Edition. Used. VG/ Good Unclipped dust jacket. Original price 15s. Net. Biography. A story of the community of Barsetshire (England) in the 1950's. "A Double Affair opens with the wedding of Vicar Choyce to family retainer Miss Dorothea ('Merry') Merriman. It closes with the double weddings of George Halliday and John Crosse to Jane and Grace Crawley, of suitable age, having suddenly made their appearance. Fortunately the young men promptly and obligingly fall in love. " 303 pages. 5 X 7 ½. .

The Family Moskat. A Novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Copyright 1950 Farrar, Straus & Giroux. VG/VG green and orange original $5.95 price original dust jacket is included. Translated from the Yiddish by A.H. Gross. A nice copy of a hard to find item.

A Flitch Of Bacon, or The Custom of Dunmow (Copyright 1854, George Routledge & Sons.. "Published 1854 by Geo. Routledge. By William H. Ainsworth Published in London. Leatherbound edition. One of a set titled "Ainsworth's Novels" Illustrated by Sir John Gilbert and titled in the same manner as depicted. RARE. "This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Please see our stock photo. Used. Very Good Condition/ No dust jacket as issued. Attractive marbled black leather boards with 5 ribs and gold titling, gold top stain. A story about traditional British marriage practices of yore.

Caldwell, Erskine. A BANNED BOOK. GOD'S LITTLE ACRE. Copyright 1933, #51 Viking Press Modern Library Edition. Used. Very Good/ Very Good UNCLIPPED Original publisher's $1.65 Dust jacket. RARE THUS. Summary: a 20th century American story about a disfunctional farming family in Georgia, obsessed with sex and wealth. Controversial sexual themes caused this book to be banned in New York and Boston. Our copy does not include the Greenspan Judgement statement on obscenity. 5 X 7 1/4. 303 pages plus adverts. This book was made into a film by the same name in 1958 starring Robert Ryan.

GONE IS GONE, BY POPULAR CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATOR WANDA GA'G. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. 1935 Coward-McCann First Edition, Stated Twelfth Printing Thus. A crisp, clean copy in a nice yellow unclipped dust jacket. A nice find.

282HowlettRoy Howlett, Hamilton. Highland Constable, The Life and Times of Rob Roy Macgregor. BIOGRAPHY. HISTORY OF SCOTLAND. Copyright 1950, William Blackwood & Sons, Ltd., Edinburgh and London. Illustrated. Full-colour frontis plate of Rob Roy. A comprehensive map of central Scotland is included on both sets of endpapers. Includes a geneology chart of the Houses of Glenlyon and Glengyle. Carefully and exhaustively researched by author Hamilton Howlett, direct descendant of Rob Roy Macgregor through his mother. USED. VG/Good original price-clipped dust jacket. Protected in a mylar wrap. Please see stock photo. 292 pages, indexed. 5 ½ X 8 7/8. .