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Scrambled Eggs Super!

By: Seuss, Dr.

Price: $14.50

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1953

Seller ID: 003243

Binding: Pictorial Cover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Primarily a reading copy. Spine strip is gone, bottom third of backstrip missing and front board detached from spine along that length. Edge wear and chipping, esp. to corners. Some random markings to cover, likely with Magic Marker. Text block a little loose, but the pages are clean and unmarked. No other printings listed on copyright page, but it does not say "First printed in 1953', so probably not first, but does appear to be an early printing.

"You see, I was sitting here, resting my legs/And I happened to pick up a couple of eggs/And I sort of got thinking-it's sort of a sham...
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Seven Little Maids or the Birthday Week Pictures and Verses

By: Lathbury, Mary A.

Price: $145.00

Publisher: New York, R. Worthington: 1884

Seller ID: 8978

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Minor edge wear and a little chipping, a little soiling to boards, boards starting. Interior very good with some offsetting across from color illustrations. An attractive copy. ;
Cloth over pictorial boards, flowery endpapers, unpaginated, stiff paper with lovely color illustrations. ; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall;

Starting with the 'Monday's Child' birthday poem, each page and illustration shows one of the birthdays.
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Shadow Over the Back Court

By: Christopher, Matt

Price: $6.35

Publisher: New York, Franklin Watts, Inc.: 1960

Seller ID: 004064

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Considerable wear along edges and spine including chipping, corners bumped, boards somewhat spotted, ex-library with usual stamps. Text is clean and unmarked.

A boy faces opposition from his family and teachers to his pursuit of his love for playing basketball.
Age Level: Grades 4-6; Ex-Library; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Shirley Temple and the Screaming Specter (An Original Story Featuring Shirley Temple Famous Motion Picture Star as the Heroine)

By: Heisenfelt, Kathryn

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Racine, WI, Whitman Publishing: 1946

Seller ID: 006425

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

247 pp., dark green boards with orange type. Pastedowns depict black and white drawing of girl on porch of Leech Lake Resort. Frontispiece and other full page illustrations are black and white drawings on plain paper. Corners are somewhat bumped, pages are lightly tanned, but overall a very nice copy.

Shirley Temple finds adventure at Leech Lake Resort.
Age Level: Grades 4-8; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Stories from the Old Testament Book One - From Adam to Joseph

By: N/A

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Collins: 1958

Seller ID: 007139

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Tan cloth with gold lettering, black inset on front board with gold title, unpaginated, lavishly illustrated many in color. Spine slanted, corners bumped, slight edge wear, some spotting along edges of boards. Interior bright and clean. Pictorial jacket in new Brodart, moderate edge wear with several small edge tears and creasing along edges. 1 x 3/4" chip missing to bottom edge of front panel, a little chipping at top and bottom of spine and flaps. Overall, a nice copy.

"Covers the whole of Genesis: the creation of the world, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah's ark and the flood, ...
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Teen-Age Football Stories

By: Owen, Frank (Editor)

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1948

Seller ID: 006139

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

252 pp., orange boards with brown lettering. Spine very slightly slanted, very minor edgewear. DJ in protective Brodart plastic wrap. DJ has slight edgewear along bottom and a closed 1 1/2" tear, two very small chips in flap. A very well preserved, attractive copy.

A vintage collection published in 1948 of selected football stories targeted towards teenagers by H.C. McFadden, B.J. Chute, John Gartner, Russell Gordon Carter, Bob Eddy, William F. Strube, H.W. Sandberg, and John Everett Dodge.
Age Level: Young Adult; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Teen-Age Football Stories

By: Owen, Frank (Editor)

Price: $8.50

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1948

Seller ID: 006140

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

252 pp., orange boards with brown lettering. Spine very slightly slanted and a little soiled, very minor edgewear, PO name inside. DJ in protective Brodart plastic wrap. DJ has shallow chipping at spine and flap ends, and edgewear including a few small tears. Text is clean and unmarked.

Tenggren's Story Book

By: Tenggren, Gustaf

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1944

Seller ID: 001498

Binding: Pictorial Cover

Condition: Poor with no dust jacket

Backstrip is gone from spine. Boards are still attached, somewhat tenuously, to spine, but have torn away from end papers. Significant wear, scuffing, chipping to boards. Owner's name and date (1947) on ffep. Pages in good condition with bumped corners and slight foxing. Reading copy.

Favorite stories from Arabian Nights, Dr. Dolittle, Gulliver's Travels, Heidi, Rip Van Winkle, Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe, Rootabaga Stories, Tom Sawyer, Treasure Island, and Uncle Remus selected and illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren.
Est Level: 2nd - 5th and Read Aloud.; 12 - 15" Tall
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That Hideous Strength: a Modern Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups

By: Lewis, C. S.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, Collier Books: 1965

Seller ID: 182911

ISBN: 0020869606

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Ex-library with typical markings, rebound with perma-bound covers, corners slightly bumped, some yellowing. A nice copy. ; Ex-Library; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 382 pages;

"In this last book of the Space Trilogy which begins with Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, the remarkable Dr. Ransom makes his way through a tale of devilry peopled with megalomaniacs, superior beings from other planets, and creators of dangerous scientific experiments. As he wrestles with the battle between science and ethics, Dr. Ransom takes readers on a journey of suspense, mystery, and challenging ar...
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The 'G' Man's Son At Porpoise Island (#2 in G-Man Series)

By: Robinson, Warren F.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Goldsmith Publishing Company: 1937

Seller ID: 006453

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

251 pp., red cloth boards with black lettering. Front board has light spotting near top, edgewear along bottom edge. DJ in new Brodart protective plastic wrap. DJ has shallow chipping at spine and flap ends, and wear along edges, spot at top. Cracked at front hinge, PO name inside in pencil. Text is yellowed, but clean and unmarked. A nice copy.

"Another exciting exploit of Stanley Sandborn, whose father is a Secret Service Agent, and his chum the irrepressible, wise-cracking John Tallman. In this book they go exploring themselves right into the clutches of a powerful ring of int...
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The Adventure Book of Shells (A Capital Young Adventure Book)

By: Evans, Eva Knox

Price: $5.25

Publisher: New York, Capitol Publishing Company, Inc.: 1957

Seller ID: 003800

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

93 pp, index. Some edgewear/bumping, pen mark on p. 17, otherwise clean and unmarked.

"The dramatic story of shells. . . their uses, differences, where, when and how to find them, starting a collection, shell picture dictionary, jewelry making, everything for the young collector."
Age Level: Grades 3-8; 9 ¾" - 11" Tall
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The Adventures of Robin Hood

By: Stebling, Saba Hawks (retold by)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1921

Seller ID: 005497

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Red boards with black lettering on spine and front board and a black medallion depicting an archer on both spine and front board. Spine slanted and corners very slightly bumped. PO inscription on front frre endpaper dated 1939. Pastedowns in red and ivory depict an archer in a forest setting kneeling on one knee preparing to shoot. Vintage DJ depicts Errol Flynn as Robin Hood, DJ has minor soiling and shallow chips at spine and flap ends and 1" tear at top of spine. Text is clean and unmarked. A charming copy.

"With the fair Maid Marion at his side, Robin Hood waged war agai...
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The Banner Campfire Girls: Flying Around the Globe/At Holly House

By: DeVries, Julianne

Price: $10.75

Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio, The World Syndicate Publishing Co.: 1933

Seller ID: 003845

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Spine sunned, corners bumped, spine ends a little frayed, three spots on green boards. Text is yellowed, but clean and unmarked.

A two-books-in-one reprint edition featuring the adventures of the Campfire Girls. In Flying Around the Globe (116 pp.) Mrs. Evans' Wa-Wan-da Camp Fire girls are off on another adventure as they are chosen by the National Camp Fire Girls Organization to be its representative on a round the world flight to establish contact and create good will with other Camp Fire groups around the globe.
In At Holly House (120 pp.) the Wa-Wan-da Camp Fire girls have an adv...
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The Bobbsey Twins and Their schoolmates (The Bobbsey Twins Series)

By: Hope, Laura Lee

Price: $11.95

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1947

Seller ID: 005834

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

244 pp., green cloth boards with round picture of the four twins on the front board. This copy was published in 1947 (c. 1928) utilizing Grosset & Dunlap Format #11 as described by James D. Keeline (green pressed board cover stock, red and cream "tree" endpapers, frontispiece illustration on plain paper stock). Boards show a little soiling and edgewear, with corners chipped and "The Bobbsey Twins" written in crayon on the back. Text is browned, but clean and unmarked.

The book opens with the twins getting ready for the annual summer church picnic with their schoolmates he...
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The Bobbsey Twins at School (The Bobbsey Twins Series#4)

By: Hope, Laura Lee

Price: $14.50

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap:

Seller ID: 005833

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

216 pp., green cloth boards with paste-on illustration by Thelma Gooch. This copy was published between 1927 and 1931 (c. 1913) utilizing Grosset & Dunlap Format #5 as described by James D. Keeline (green cloth cover stock with a coarse weave, blank endpapers, frontispiece plus 3 internals tipped in on glossy stock). Boards show rubbing and edgewear, with corners chipped and webbing exposed at spine bottom. A few pages have smudges, but text is basically light and clean.

The Bobbsey twins are coming home on the train from their summer vacation when they are stopped by a circus train wrec...
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The Bobbsey Twins at the Circus (The Bobbsey Twins Series)

By: Hope, Laura Lee

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1932

Seller ID: 004719

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

250 pp., frontispiece. Green boards with picture of two Bobbsey twins and their dog. Spine slightly slanted, some edgewear/bumping, PO name inside. Text is clean and unmarked.

When an accident brings the circus to town unexpectedly, Freddie and Flossie Bobbsey have an idea. They have taken in a very clever stray dog "Waggo" who does amazing tricks - good enough to be in a circus. Maybe they'll sell him to the circus and make a lot of money!; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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The Bobbsey Twins or Merry Days Indoors and Out (Bobbsey Twins Series Book #1)

By: Hope, Laura Lee (Edward Stratemeyer)

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1945

Seller ID: 005562

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

214 pp, green boards with black lettering and on front board a drawing of the four twins enclosed in a circle. This is the only Bobbsey Twins book actually written by Edward Stratemeyer himself. The text is the expanded text which dates from 1928, The publication date of this copy is 1945 as determined by the publication date of the last Bobbsey Twins book to be listed on the front flap. Pages are tanned, Table of Contents present but detached, some pages trimmed shorter than others, a few pages have tears. DJ shows chipping along edges and spine. DJ is enclosed in protective mylar wrap. ...
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The Boundary Riders

By: Phipson, Joan

Price: $4.65

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.: 1963

Seller ID: 002717

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Some bumping, edgewear, boards somewhat scuffed, front board 's lower corner creased, free end paper chipped, price in corner, corner removed front back end paper, text somewhat yellowed. Front cover depicts children exploring a forest setting. A clean unmarked copy.

A children's adventure/mystery set in central New South Wales, Australia. Black and white illustrations.
Age Level: Grades 4-8; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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The Cricket in Times Square : All about Animals (Chester Cricket Ser.)

By: Selden, George

Price: $3.95

Publisher: New York, Dell Publishing: 1970

Seller ID: 000810

ISBN: 0440415632

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good+

Covers somewhat creased, some ordinary shelf wear. Some pages bent out at corners.

A Newbery Award Honor Book and a Dell Yearling book.
"After Chester, a cricket, arrives in the Times Square subway station via a picnic basket from his native Connecticut, he takes up residence in the Bellinis' newsstand. There, the tiny creature is lucky enough to find three good friends: a little boy named Mario whose parents run the unsuccessful newsstand, a fast-talking Broadway mouse named Tucker and his pal, Harry the Cat. Throughout their escapades and their ups and downs in New York City, to...
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The Easter Story

By: McKnight, Felix R.

Price: $8.95

Publisher: New York, NY, Henry Holt and Company, Inc.: 1953

Seller ID: 000695

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Book is in excellent condition, except that there are two chunks out of the spine: one is about 3/4" long, the other about 1/2". Both close to the top of the spine. Jacket shows some shelf wear and chipping and also has the same defects on the spine. Some darkening. Pages appear clean and bright.

Included with this book is an Easter program from 1955 for Christ Church, Oyster Bay. Rev. John N. Warren, Rector and Mr. Paul J. Sifler, Organist.
"This is a retelling, with simple reverence, of the immortal story of Easter Week -- the story of Christ from Palm Sunday to the Resu...
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Category: Children's Books: Vintage