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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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The Uninvited Donkey

By: White, Anne H.

Price: $6.50

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1957

Seller ID: 003802

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Some edgewear, corners bumped/chipped, green boards with red picture of donkey show some spots. Pastedowns are starting to yellow. Text is clean and unmarked.

A funny story about the Linian family's summer at the beach which is turned upside down by the arrival of a donkey from Italy, Fra Diavolo. Expressive pen and ink drawings by Don Freeman throughout.
Age Level: Grades 4-9; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia Book 3)

By: Lewis, C. S.

Price: $3.75

Publisher: New York, Collier Books:

Seller ID: 8374

ISBN: 0064471071

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

Slight spine slant, some edge wear and rubbing, small tear at top of spine, a few page corners with small creases. A good reading copy. ;
Cover art by Roger Hane, interior pictures adapted from the original illustrations by Pauline Bayne. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 216 pages;

Book 5 in The Chronicles of Narnia.
"Lucy and Edmund, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, sail to the land of Narnia where Eustace is temporariily transformed into a green dragon because of his selfish behavior and skepticism."
" Narnia . . . Where a dragon awakens . . . Where stars w...
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The Witch and the Ring

By: Chew, Ruth

Price: $5.95

Publisher: New York, Scholastic: 1989

Seller ID: 9110

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

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A little edge wear and rubbing. A nice copy. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 128 pages;

"An ancient ring with magic powers ...
"The entire ring was a deep blue with little silvery flecks that twinkled in the afternoon sun.
"'Can I see it, Charlotte? ' Walt reached for the ring.
" Charlotte pretended to put the tiny ring on her brother's finger. To her surprise, it went right on. A shiver went down Charlotte's back. She was sure the ring had been much too small for Walt only a minute ago ... "
Black and white illustrations by the author.
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The Witch At the Window

By: Chew, Ruth

Price: $4.95

Publisher: New York, Scholastic: 1990

Seller ID: 9109

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

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Some edge wear, covers creased, some dents on back cover. A good reading copy. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 128 pages;

"One minute she's there - the next minute, she's gone!
" Marjorie and Nick are sure they see a witch standing on the air conditioner outside the window. Then she disappears into thin air!
"That's just the beginning of some strange adventures for Marjorie and her brother. They meet a talking bird and then find the witch's book of magic spells. They can't wait to try the spell that will make them invisible.
"Marjorie and Nick are abo...
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The X Bar X Boys at Nugget Camp

By: Ferris, James Cody

Price: $22.50

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap:

Seller ID: 005510

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

#6 in the X Bar X Boys series. 216 pp., red boards with black lettering and silhouette of cowboy on a bucking horse on front board. No publication date listed, but the red boards mark this book as after 1932. Front and back pastedowns have green and ivory drawing of cowboys rounding up cattle. Corners bumped. Vintage DJ a little yellowed with 2 small tears, one 2 1/2" tear, and small chips at top and bottom of spine. Text clean and unmarked. A very nice copy.

" When the boys find an old miner who had been shot and left for dead, they bring him to the ranch for some tender lov...
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The X Bar X Boys at the Round-Up

By: Ferris, James Cody

Price: $24.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap:

Seller ID: 005509

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

#5 in the X Bar X Boys series. 212 pp., red boards with black lettering and silhouette of cowboy on a bucking horse on front board. No publication date listed, but the red boards mark this book as after 1932. Front and back pastedowns have green and ivory drawing of cowboys rounding up cattle. Corners slightly bumped. Vintage DJ a little yellowed with 3 small tears and small chips at top and bottom of spine. Text clean and unmarked. A very nice copy.

"A pompous easterner, acting on behalf of a conglomerate, makes an outrageously high offer for some of Bardwell Manley's prime catt...
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The X Bar X Boys Riding for Life

By: Ferris, James Cody

Price: $22.50

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap:

Seller ID: 005512

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

#10 in the X Bar X Boys series. 218 pp., red boards with black lettering and silhouette of cowboy on a bucking horse on front board. No publication date listed, but the red boards mark this book as after 1932. Front and back pastedowns have green and ivory drawing of cowboys rounding up cattle. Some edgewear/bumping. Vintage DJ a little yellowed with 1 3/4" at bottom of spine, 1" tear and edgewear/shallow chips Text clean and unmarked. A very nice copy.

"A new hand who has shown himself lazy and untrustworthy is given his walking papers by Bardwell Manley on the advice o...
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The Yearling

By: Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scibner's Sons: 1938

Seller ID: 007000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Early reprint of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Title page is dated 1938, but no 'A' on copyright page and no printing history listed. Tan cloth with green lettering, 428 pp. A little edge wear and some light spotting to lower portion of boards. Some browning but text is clean and unmarked. Jacket in new Brodart with a little edge wear, a little chipping at top and base of spine and base of front flap, a few small tears along edges. Some darkening and soiling. Overall, a nice copy.

"With its excellent descriptions of Florida scrub landscapes, its skillful use of native vernacul...
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The Yearling (50th Anniversay Edition)

By: Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

Price: $3.95

Publisher: New York, Collier Books: 1988

Seller ID: 003497

ISBN: 0020449313

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good+

Front cover creased along hinge and in upper right corner, corners bumped including a few pages, minor edge wear. A fairly tight, attractive copy.

50th Anniversay edition of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize winning novel. "With its excellent descriptions of Florida scrub landscapes, its skillful use of native vernacular, its tender relation between Jody and his pet fawn, 'The Yearling' is a simply written picturesque story of boyhood that stands a good chance, when adults have finished with it, of finding a permanent place in adolescent libraries." - Time.; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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The Young Visitors or, Mr. Salteena's Plan

By: Ashford, Daisy

Price: $12.95

Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company: 1919

Seller ID: 005610

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

105 pp. Beige boards depicting gray marionettes in silhouette on both front, back and spine. Boards are somewhat sunned, with spine paper splitting in front and pulling away from the webbing. Some foxing. Frontispiece is a portrait of the young author.

E.M. Barrie introduces this charming portrait of the Victorian "High Life" by a remarkable nine-year-old girl: "Except for the smirk on her face, all I can learn of her now is that she was one of a small family who lived in the country, invented their own games, dodged the governess and let the rest of the world go hang. Sh...
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Thee, Hannah!

By: De Angeli, Marguerite

Price: $32.50

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company: 1962

Seller ID: 8756

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Yellow over pictorial boards, 90 pp. Corners worn, some edge wear and chipping. End papers show a Philadelphia residential streetfront. No jacket - given the pictorial boards it's not clear whether this edition was issued with a jacket, although the first edition evidently did have a jacket. Owner's note on half title page. Inscribed by author on title page, dated 1971. ;
No publishing date listed. Other titles by this author are listed, and the most recent title was published in 1961. No ZIP code on the title page, which is another indicator that it was printed in the early 1960s. Au...
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Three Desperate Days

By: Jordan, Hope Dahle

Price: $2.95

Publisher: New York, Scholastic: 1975

Seller ID: 002218

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good+

Corners bumped, covers show some soiling and darkening, minor edge wear. First page is the title page -- either no separate free end paper was printed, or it has been deftly removed. Some yellowing but text is clean and unmarked.

"'From now on you're riding with us. And there's not a thing you can do about it!' Julie grew tense with panic and fear. She couldn't kid herself any longer-she and her grandmother were held prisoner in their own car, trapped by two desperate hitchhikers! Escape, escape, was all she could think of-but how?" Est Level: Young Adult.; 5¾" - 6¾" ...
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Till Potatoes Grow on Trees

By: Brock, Emma L.

Price: $14.50

Publisher: New York, Alfred A Knopf: 1938

Seller ID: 003846

Binding: School & Library Binding

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

129 pp. reset edition. Minor edgewear/bumping, PO name inside, a few spots along edge of text block, but overall a bright, attractive copy. Library binding/pictorial boards but NOT ex-library. Charming pen and ink illustrations by the author throughout.

"Suddenly Mary seemed to do everything wrong, no matter how hard she tried; Paul found that being a farmer could be very hard work; and Susan counted the freckles on her nose, with unpredictable results. Emma Brock has a warm and humorous view of the ordinary and extraordinary things that happen to children, and these nine simple but...
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Tom Brown's School Days

By: Hughes, Thomas

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio, World Publishing Company:

Seller ID: 006427

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

230 pp., red cloth boards with silver type, frontispiece and three full-page illustrations on plain paper. Spine slightly cocked, corners bumped, PO name inside. Text starting to yellow, but clean and unamrked. DJ in protective plastic wrap. DJ has minor edgewear and one 1/2" tear. This edition was issued as part of The World Publishing Company's "The Classic Series," and was probably published in the early 1930s (based on publication dates for the other books in the ad pages).

From Wikipedia: "Tom Brown's Schooldays, first published in 1857, is a novel by Thomas Hughes...
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Tom's Town (Winston Social Studies Series)

By: Willcockson, Mary

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company: 1952

Seller ID: 000393

Binding: Pictorial Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Has a slight curve to this book, owner's name inside front cover. Slight darkening to the edges, otherwise clean and tight.

Est. Level: 2nd-3rd grades.
Johnny, Nancy, and Tom share life in a small town with their new neighbors Joe and Betty. Illustrations, mostly color, show many of the people and goings-on in this town.
This is listed as being part of the Winston Social Studies Series, along with two other books "Nancy's World" and "Other Places".; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Tough to Tackle

By: Christopher, Matt

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company: 1971

Seller ID: 001188

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Ex-library with only about 3 stamps, a date due pocket, and Brodart wraps taped to the boards. Pages bright and clean. Corners slightly bumped, slight shelf wear.

"More than anything else Boots Raymond wanted to be a quarterback. But when he joined the Apollos football team he was bitterly disappointed. Because of his size and the League regulations, he couldn't be a quarterback and the coach assigned him as a tackle. Miserable in this position, Boots fumed at being restricted to the line and it wasn't long before the coach took him to task for his attitude. After a while, and some goo...
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Tunnel Through Time

By: Del Rey, Lester

Price: $3.40

Publisher: New York, Scholastic, Inc.: 1966

Seller ID: 000982

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Covers show some creasing, chipping, corners bumped. Front FEP and title page missing, but text appears to be complete. Some pages show creasing, esp. at corners.

Both young people and adults will enjoy this book by science fiction great Lester Del Rey.
"Has the experiment failed? Why hasn't doc Tom returned through the time tunnel? 'He's hours overdue,' says Bob grimly. 'Where is he?'
'Back 80 million years in time,' says Dr. Miller. 'Back in the age of the dinosaurs.'
What has gone wrong? Is it too late to save Pete's father? There is only one way to find out. Pete and...
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Category: Children's Books: Vintage