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The Midnight Beast

By: Parker, Richard

Price: $4.85

Publisher: New York, NY, Scholastic, Inc.: 1961

Seller ID: 000983

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Slight shelf wear, some darkening on back cover.

"Something in the silent night wakens Barry . . . something outside the bedroom window. Softly he steals to the window -- and sees a huge shape just beyond the front gate! Slowly it moves toward him, its great eyes glowing in the night. . . " Original Title: Lion at Large. Pen & ink illustrations.
Est level: 3rd - 6th grades.; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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The Midnight Beast

By: Parker, Richard

Price: $3.45

Publisher: New York, Scholastic, Inc.: 1969

Seller ID: 004567

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Original title: "Lion at Large." Slight shelf wear, 1/4" tear on back cover & last page, PO name blacked out. Text is yellowing, but clean and unmarked. Pen and ink illustrations.

The Mysterious Shrinking House

By: Curry, Jane Louise

Price: $3.75

Publisher: New York, NY, Scholastic, Inc.: 1973

Seller ID: 000965

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good+

Covers show some creasing, chipping, a few scuffs. Top right corner of cover is chipped and some pages creased slightly at that corner.

"Mindy found the miniature house hidden in the attic of the old barn. It was so perfect it looked like a real house -- that had somehow shrunk. But she never guessed its terrible secret -- or that she herself would be trapped inside!"
Original title: Mindy's Mysterious Miniature. Pen & ink illustrations.
Est level: 4th - 8th grades.; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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The Mystery of Glengary Castle (Robin Kane Series #3)

By: Hill, Eileen

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Racine, WI, Whitman Publishing: 1966

Seller ID: 006148

Binding: Pictorial Cover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

190 pp., pictorial cover with no jacket, apparently as issued. Edgewear, one corner chipped, PO name inside. Full-page black, blue and white illustrations throughout text. Text is starting to yellow, but clean and unmarked.

Robin and her friends take on the ghostly mystery of the local "castle."
Age Level: Grades 3-7; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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The Mystery of the Laughing Dinosaur (The Bobbsey Twins Ser., No. 8)

By: Hope, Laura Lee

Price: $4.50

Publisher: New York, NY, Pocket Books: 1987

Seller ID: 000744

ISBN: 0671435876

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good+

Covers somewhat creased, several small (1/4 inch) tears at edges, some foxing but pages in good condition. Owner's nameplate inside front cover.

"When the Bobbsey Twins set off to visit a famous museum in Washington, D.C., they find themselves on the trail of an intriguing mystery that begins with a laughing dinosaur!"
Children will love this detective classic.
Est Level: 2nd - 6th grades; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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The Pearl / the Red Pony

By: Steinbeck, John

Price: $2.95

Publisher: New York, Penguin: 1986

Seller ID: 8857

ISBN: 0140042326

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good+

Light tanning, some margin notes and underlining, primarily in The Pearl , but the text is not marked. Overall, a nice copy. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 192 pages;

"The Pearl is an enduring and classic fable, sensitively told, in simple and beautiful language. It is the story of a fisherman who found a pearl beyond price, the Pearl of the World. With the pearl, he hoped to buy peace and happiness for himself, his wife and their little son. Instead he found that peace and happiness are not to be purchased. They are, themselves, pearls beyond price. The Pearl is a book to be r...
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The Proud Eagles

By: Patchett, Mary

Price: $15.50

Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio, World Publishing Company: 1960

Seller ID: 003489

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Spine slanted, corners bumped, slight edge wear, owner's name on front end paper. Jacket shows edge wear and chipping, some rubbing and darkening, 2" tear at base of front cover along hinge. Text clean and unmarked.

"Miss Patchett knows more about wedgetail eagles than most anybody else in the world. The first twenty years of her life were spent in the Australian bush, where she developed a passionate interest in the wildlife of her country. Using this knowledge, she has drawn a picture of a bush family living amidst the haggard and spectral beauty of a wild country. She has also...
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The Red Cross Girls with the Italian Army

By: Vandercook, Margaret

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company: 1917

Seller ID: 003789

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Red and black pictorial cover on somewhat soiled cloth tan boards, spine weak and slightly slanted with two 3/4" tears along edge and worn along lower half. Corners bumped and slightly chipped. PO's name on free endpaper. Black and white frontispiece. Text yellowing and cracking at pp. 17 and 64, but clean and unmarked.

Fifth in this series of vintage children's books about the Red Cross Girls. Nona Davis and Sonya Valesky are off to serve as Red Cross nurses in Italy during World War I.
Age Level: Grades 6-10; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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The Road to Agra

By: Sommerfelt, Aimee

Price: $4.95

Publisher: New York, American Book-Stratford Press: 1961

Seller ID: 002719

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, some bumping/edgewear, boards slightly soiled. Text is starting to yellow, but clean and unmarked. Cover has picture of peasant children on a journey. Black and white illustrations by Ulf Aas.

In the little village in India, Maya, Lalu's little sister, is going blind, and if she does so, she'll lose her spot in the school and will never learn to read. And if she doesn't, she won't be able to teach her brother. Hearing that a friend's uncle was cured of blindness in Agra, Lalu decides to walk the long and dangerous distance to Agra with his sister to get the doct...
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The Royal Progress of King Pepito Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans

By: Cresswell, Beatrice F.

Price: $66.00

Publisher: London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: 1889

Seller ID: 8977

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Edge wear and a little chipping, especially along spine, boards sunned with some soiling. Boards starting to separate with a little webbing showing. Interior is nice with a bit of darkening, tanning to front and back free end papers. ; First edition with color illustrations by Kate Greenaway. ; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 48 pages;

"Then there was Kitty, faithful Kitty, who always followed Pepito into mischief, sat with him under the bed, and in the cupboard, or any other dangerous situation into which Pepito's investigating spirit might lead him.
"Pepito had other courtiers k...
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The Safe-Way Club

By: Bryce, Catherine

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Thomas Nelson & Sons: 1939

Seller ID: 003609

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Minor shelfwear, some foxing on boards outside & inside, top edge darkened. Hard cover boards are pictorial. DJ sunned, large chip along bottom flap edge, plus smaller chips; inside sunned. Color and black and white illustrations of the period.Text is clean and unmarked.

"Dear Grown-up: The SAFE WAY CLUB is the most valuable children's book you have ever held in your hands, for it is the only storybook with the protection of life as its theme. As our boys and girls read of the adventures of the wide-awake, fun-loving children who started a neighborhood club to prevent accidents, t...
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The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, Book 6)

By: Lewis, C. S.

Price: $6.25

Publisher: Harmondsworth, England, Puffin Books: 1967

Seller ID: 8375

ISBN: 0590405985

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

Spine a bit slanted, well creased, reading crease, some edge wear and rubbing. Pages yellowed but text is clean and unmarked. ; Puffin Books PS240. This copy has a wraparound cover featuring the dust jacket art created by Pauline Baynes for the hardcover edition. ; Narnia; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 206 pages;

Volume 4 -- How captive Prince Rilian escaped from the Emerald Witch's underground kingdom.
"Not even a year has passed! But when Eustace returns to Narnia with school friend Jill Pole, he discovers that seventy years have gone by there. King Caspian is now an old man.. His s...
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The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, Book 6)

By: Lewis, C. S.

Price: $4.35

Publisher: New York, Harper Trophy: 2005

Seller ID: 8780

ISBN: 0064471098

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Corners bumped, slight edge wear. A bright, attractive copy. ;
New cover art by Cliff Nielsen, with the original illustrations by Pauline Baynes. ; Narnia; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 257 pages;

The Spirit of Jem

By: Newby, P. H.

Price: $4.75

Publisher: New York, NY, Dell Publishing: 1972

Seller ID: 000969

ISBN: 0440081912

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good+

Cover/spine a bit creased, somewhat scuffed. Pencil tracings and a small stain on front cover. Shelf wear, foxing. Bookstore stamp and numbers written on front FEP.

"When three people lose their memories at the same time -- a boy, an elderly man, and a cocksure young man called Jem -- one begins to suspect more than coincidence. It is suddenly the land of nowhere and Jem, who seems to remember the most, convinces Roger and Bowler Hat that their loss of memory is part of a plot and that they must organize and resist. . . Rogers is now certain that the spirit of Jem is that lust for powe...
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The Story of a Nodding Donkey (Makebelieve Stories)

By: Hope, Laura Lee

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1921

Seller ID: 000478

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Covers/spine show some shelf wear and chipping and darkening. Book has mostly pulled away from the spine, but is still attached. Some foxing and a few pages dog-eared.

Est Level: 3rd-6th grades. This is one of a series entitled Make-Believe Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap.
"The Nodding Donkey dated his birth from the day he received the beautiful coat of varnish in the workshop of Santa Claus at the North Pole. Before that he was just some pieces of wood, glued together. His head was not glued on, however, but was fastened in such a manner that with the least motion the Donk...
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The Story of George Washington Carver

By: Moore, Eva

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Scholastic, Inc.: 1971

Seller ID: 001096

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fair

Spine/covers somewhat creased, scuffed. Shelf wear, corners bumped, foxing. There is a 3/4" tear on the front cover about 2" from the top of the spine. It goes through the first 35 or so pages.

"When he was seven years old, George had a secret garden in the woods. It was his plant hospital where he took care of sick and dying plants. He knew so much about plants that everyone called him The Plant Doctor.
The Plant Doctor grew up to be the famous scientist, George Washington Carver. This is the true story of his life."
Pen & ink illustrations and marvelous old phot...
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The Story of Robinson Crusoe Adapted Under supervision of Josette Frank

By: Defoe, Daniel

Price: $8.95

Publisher: New York, NY, Random House: 1952

Seller ID: 001497

Binding: Pictorial Cover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Spine slightly shelf-cocked and shaken, corners bumped, some shelf wear, boards somewhat soiled and darkened. Owner's name inside front cover, H stamped twice on ffep. Pages in very good condition.

This children's classic is adapted for the slightly younger reader by Josette Frank. Black and white and color illustrations by Jay Hyde Barnum.
Est level: 3rd - 6th grades.; 9 ¾" - 11" Tall
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the Swiss Family Robinson

By: Wyss, Johann

Price: $7.25

Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio, World Publishing Company: 1947

Seller ID: 001098

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Boards scuffed, darkened. Spine shows some lightening, plus chipping at top and bottom. Corners chipped a bit, with small threads sticking out. Pages somewhat foxed, with a few stains.
'Survivor' can't hold a candle to this classic tale of the family shipwrecked on a desert island.
Black and white illustrations.
Est Level: 5th grades and above; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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The Talbot Boys

By: Reed, Harrison & Mathilda

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Maplewood, NJ, C. S. Hammond & Company: 1961

Seller ID: 000391

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Jacket shows darkening on the spine, plus a coffee cup ring on the front cover. This seems likely to be a first edition -- only the copyright date is listed on the title page -- no evidence of other printings.

Est. Level: Teenagers.
Their summer fishing business leads teenagers Joe and Fred Talbot into a search for sunken treasure, an attempted murder and similar "routine adventures." But it's when they go to visit their cousins on Big Talbot Island that things really start getting dangerous.; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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The Twins' Summer Vacation

By: Whitehill, Dorothy

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1921

Seller ID: 002988

Binding: 002998

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, sunned, corners bumped and chipped, some edge wear, primarily at top and bottom of spine, a little rubbing, owner's name inside cover. A nice copy. No publication date listed, but likely early 1930s as one of the advertisements in back lists 8 Nancy Drew titles.

Fifth in the Page Twins series. The Twins are fifteen and on summer vacation at Janet's home (inherited from her late grandmother) in New York State as well as a month long visit to Major Harrison's home in Virginia. The Twins happen upon a number of adventures as well as wrapping a seemingly endless stream...
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Category: Children's Books: Vintage