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By: Bruce, Mary Owen
Price: $5.75
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, Westminster Press: 1948
Seller ID: 000058
Condition: Good
Covers show some bookshelf wear, and there is a small tear at the top of the spine. There is a small crease running down the center of the booklet. 48 pp. "Once, Long Ago is a carefully selected group of stories from the Old Testament, beautifully interpreted for the young child by Mary Owen Bruce." from the back cover. Copiously illustrated, many in color. Est Level: 3rd-4th grade.; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall View more info
By: Taylor, Arthur S.; Stone, Buena Cobb; Foster Irene
Price: $9.95
Publisher: San Francisco, Cal, Harr Wagner Publishing Company: 1954
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 003785
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Minor edgewear/bumping, boards slightly bowed. Ex-library with the usual markings. Full color illustrations of pioneer wagon train on pastedowns/free endpapers. Many full-page color illustrations throughout. A bright, attractive copy. Stories of the Pacific Northwest, of the Native Americans before the settlers came, of pioneer days, and of other notable things from "then to now." Age Level: Grades 2-5; Ex-Library; 9 ¾" - 11" Tall View more info
Price: $17.95
Publisher: New York, Street & Smith: 1926
Seller ID: 005129
Condition: Good
Pictorial wraps, 216 pp. plus ads. Spine somewhat creased and slightly slanted, minor edge wear, a little rubbing, owner's name on title page. 2 pp in front and 8 pp at back that have lists of this & other Street & Smith series, including the Western Library (Ted Strong), [Frank] Merriwell Series, Sports Stories, [Horatio] Alger Series, and Adventure Library. A nice copy. This is No. 41 in the Round the World Library and was likely published in mid 1926, previously published as No. 141 in Street & Ssmith's Bound to Win Library. "Every reader, young and old, has heard of Jack Harka... View more info
By: Lewis, C. S.
Price: $4.45
Publisher: New York, Collier Books: 1986
Edition: Fifty-Sixth Printing
Seller ID: 007190
ISBN: 002086910X
Condition: Good
A little edge wear and rubbing, some cover creasing, owner's name inside cover, scribbling inside back cover. Book has a curve to it. Text clean and unmarked. A good reading copy. The first book of C.S. Lewis's famous Space Trilogy which is followed by Perelandra and That Hideous Strength. The protagonists of the series, philologist Ransom, Devine and physicist Dr. Weston are introduced when Devine and Weston kidnap Ransom and take him to Malacandra (Mars).; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall View more info
By: Lewis, C. S.
Price: $4.95
Publisher: New York, MacMillan Publishing: 1982
Edition: Thirty-Second Printing
Seller ID: 8785
ISBN: 0020868804
Condition: Good+
Spine slightly creased and slanted, light reading crease, some edge wear and rubbing, owner's name inside cover. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A solid copy. ; Publishing date not listed but this is from the early 1980s. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 160 pages; The first book of C. S. Lewis's famous Space Trilogy which is followed by Perelandra and That Hideous Strength. The protagonists of the series, philologist Ransom, Devine and physicist Dr. Weston are introduced when Devine and Weston kidnap Ransom and take him to Malacandra (Mars). View more info
By: Heighway, Jane Van Alstine
Price: $22.50
Publisher: Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1917
Seller ID: 005835
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
102 pp., light blue cloth boards with glossy color paste-on illustration on front board and glossy black and white illustrations inside. Some foxing, but text is basically light and clean. No edition stated, and no colophon is printed on the copyright page, so we are unable to positively identify this as a first edition. Bobbs-Merrill did not always identify firsts in this time period. Five charming children's stories including "Mother Robin's Story," What the Lilies Said to Jane," from the Bible "The Story of Ruth," from mythology the story of Pandora in "The Myst... View more info
By: Baum, L. Frank
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Konecky & Konecky: 1999
Edition: Reprint Edition
Seller ID: 006889
ISBN: 1568522274
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Slight spine slant, corners bumped, slight edge wear, a couple small spots towards the bottom of the leading edge. Text and illustrations are bright and clean. A nice copy. ; 269 pp. , pictorial cover, lavishly illustrated, color frontispiece, numerous b/w illustrations, 36 color plates. Third book in the original Oz series. ; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; From the title page - "Ozma of Oz. A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman, Tik-Tok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Nume... View more info
By: Baum, L. Frank
Price: $4.50
Publisher: London, Puffin Books: 1985
Edition: 27th Edition; Third Printing
Seller ID: 8623
ISBN: 0140351191
Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket
Corners bumped, a little edge wear and creasing. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. ; Map of 'The Marvelous Land of Oz' by Jo Worth. Third in Baum's series of Oz books. ; Oz; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 154 pages; From the title page - "Ozma of Oz. A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman, Tik-Tok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully recorded herein. " "Not only does Ozma of Oz bring Dorothy back to Oz on her second visit... View more info
By: Chenault, Nell
Price: $6.20
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company: 1962
Seller ID: 004037
Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket
Weekly Reader Book Club Edition. Corners bumped, some edgewear, spine slightly slanted. Pages bright and clean. Some darkening/soiling to boardsd "Parsifal was a Poddley-a little green creature about a foot high. . . . A Poddley's job is a very interesting one indeed. It is being a friend to a lonely or unhappy child until that child's problem is solved. Then the Poddley moves on to a new case. Poddleys are also rather magical. They can appear of disappear at will, and they travel to and from jobs on the time waves that run around the world." Black and white illustration... View more info
Price: $32.50
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1951
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 007448
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
Yellow cloth with black lettering, unpaginated, numerous color and black/white/yellow illustrations. Signed by author on title page. Spine a bit shaken, sunned, corners worn, minor edge wear, some soiling and rubbing, front board bowed out at top and bottom. Gift inscrip on front end paper together with a drawing of an angel blowing a trumpet, names penciled on back end paper. Interior clean and unmarked. Patrick and his family live in a very small brick house by the river in Philadelphia. One autumn day he is watching all his neighbors start to get their costumes ready for the annual Mumm... View more info
By: Dolbier, Maurice
Price: $13.50
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1959
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 005519
Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
54 pp. #Y-9 in the Legacy Book series. Boards are green with dark green and gold lettering and a dark green and gold square medallion of a bird on the front board. Some dampstaining on boards, with minor edgewear. DJ intact but shows edgewear. A nice copy. A lively collection of tall tales about Old Paul, from the birth of "The Baby That Shook the Earth" to the attempt by Paul and the Seven Axemen to fell the Tree of Evil. Engaging black and green ink drawing by Leonard Everett Fisher. Age Level: Grades 3-6; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall View more info
By: Castle, Jane
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Raleigh, NC, Holiday House Inc.: 1959
Edition: Apparent First Edition
Seller ID: 003796
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
Corners bumped/chipped, ex-library with usual stamps. Pictorial cover with a few light ink marks on front, back somewhat soiled, No jacket, apparently as issued. When a plover tries the "hurt wing" trick to lure Jill away from her nest, Jill runs for Daddy's binoculars and watches four little plovers hatch from their nest. Age Level: Preschool Read Aloud & Grade 1; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Clark, Joan
Price: $6.95
Publisher: Chicago, The Goldsmith Publishing Company: 1936
Edition: Apparent First Edition
Seller ID: 003691
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
Corners bumped/chipped, spine faded with wear along edges, spot on front red board., spine somewhat weak and beginning to separate at pastedowns. PO's nameplate on pastedown. Text is yellowed, but clean and unmarked. Penny Nichols, girl sleuth, is pulled into her father's investigation of a gang of auto thieves when a tire from her roadster is stolen. Age Level: Grades 4-10; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: O'Neill, Mary
Price: $6.75
Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company: 1964
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 000973
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
Ex-library with library binding and usual stamps and markings. Covers show a little shelf wear, some chipping at the corners and scuffing. A couple pages dogeared. There is a poem scrawled on the FEP, starting "God Bless mothers every where" Short stories, in rhyme, of all sorts of interesting people, from Paddy, the Railroad-Crossing Watchman to Pico Zimballi, the Shoe-Repair Man. Mostly black and white with some color illustrations. Est level: 2nd - 4th and Read Aloud.; Ex-Library; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall View more info
By: Long, Eula
Price: $12.50
Publisher: New York, Alfred A Knopf: 1956
Edition: Early Reprint
Seller ID: 005829
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
71 pp., red boards with green lettering and ivory, green and red illustration on front board. Corners bumped with tiny chips. Text has a few smudges. Ex-library with usual stamps. The early 17th century adventure of the little Chinese girl who was stolen by pirates and ended up in the house of Captain Miguel Sosa in Puebla, Mexico. She inspired the design of the "china poblana," the Mexican national costume for girls. Age Level: Grades 2-4; Ex-Library; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall View more info
By: Lewis, C. S.
Price: $6.00
Publisher: New York, Harper Trophy: 1994
Seller ID: 8616
ISBN: 0064405001
Condition: Very Good
Corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing. A fairly tight, attractive copy. ; Includes a double page map of the Narnia. The Harper Trophy edition is the first U. S. Edition where the titles were renumbered according to C. S. Lewis' original order. ; Chronicles of Narnia; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 223 pages; How Prince Caspian and his army of Talking Beasts conquered the Telmarines. "Narnia . . . The land between the lamp-post and the castle of Cair Paravel, where animals talk, where magical things happen ... And where the adventure begins. " Peter, Susan, Edmund,... View more info
By: Lewis, C. S.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1966
Edition: Eighth Printing
Seller ID: 006859
Condition: Good in Good+ dust jacket
Blue cloth with black lettering, 186 pp, line drawing in black on front board. Spine is sunned and slightly slanted, corners bumped, a little edge wear, some sunning along all edges, b/w drawings throughout, text is clean and unmarked. Jacket in new Brodart, spine somewhat sunned, some edge wear and chipping, mainly along top edge from top of spine across front panel. Back flap lists the other six volumes (in the order originally published in the U.S.). Overall, a nice copy of a fairly early American printing. How Prince Caspian and his army of Talking Beasts conquered the Telmarines. ... View more info
By: Lewis, C. S.
Price: $7.45
Publisher: New York, Harper Trophy: 2005
Seller ID: 006828
ISBN: 0064471055
Condition: Very Good+
This special collector's edition features stiff wraps and thick, premium paper inside. Pauline Baynes' illustrations from the original edition were colorized in 1998, and the cover displays the color jacket Ms. Baynes created in 1962 for this book. Includes a double page map of the Narnia. All in all, a beautiful edition of this delightful children's classic. Corners slightly bumped, slight edge wear, binding tight, 1" black line on bottom edge. Movie tie-in seal on front cover. The Harper Trophy edition is the first U.S. edition where the titles were renumbered according to C.S. Lewi... View more info
Price: $4.95
Publisher: New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.: 1963
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 005307
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
Pictorial boards, moderate edge wear with some chipping, spine slightly slanted, binding fairly tight, text clean and unmarked. A nice copy. Fourteen-year-old Vincent Missillier goes alone up to Wolf Ridge in the French Alps to cut hay when his injured father cannot. Then Vincent is visited by a mysterious stranger banished from his Italian village across the border after being accused of stealing the village cross. Convinced of his innocence, Vincent resolves to solve the mystery. Age Level: Grades 4-7; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Carlton Press: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 003411
Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket
Very minor shelfwear, front board very slightly bowed out, PO's name on pastedown. Top edge of DJ tattered, with 3 1/2" and 1 1/2" tears in front, 1 1/2" chip at bottom, and approx. 1 1/2" jaged piece removed along back edge. "Rainy day, sunny day, shut-in-day--any day is the right day for Puzzletime, an intriguing new book of word games bound to keep young people interested and entertained. Specifically aimed at boys and girls from 10 to 14 years old, this collection of over 50 puzzles, from simple standard crossword puzzles to oddly shaped and more difficult ones wh... View more info
