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By: N/A
Price: $120.00
Publisher: Racine, WI, Whitman Publishing: 1946
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 006614
Whitman Publishing Nr 5049, 381 pp, green quarter cloth with pictorial boards. Spine slightly cocked, corners chipped, some edge wear and chipping, 3/4" tear near center of rear board, a few other nicks and scuffs to boards. Diamond patterned end papers with drawings of a toy or pet inside each diamond. Jacket in new Brodart with moderate edge wear and chipping especially along alap edges, some rubbing, a number of small holes from insect damage, an old price in cray... View more info
By: Hunt, Irene
Price: $2.95
Publisher: New York, Ace Books: 1965
Edition: 27th Edition
Seller ID: 000934
Covers a bit creased/scuffed. Minor shelf wear, A couple pages creased. Owner's initials (?) inked inside front cover. "The unforgettable story of young Jethro Creighton who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War. " Newbery Medal Runner-up. Est Level: 5th grade and above; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall View more info
Price: $2.45
Publisher: New York, Viking Seafarer: 1973
Edition: 27th Edition
Seller ID: 006965
Reading copy. Spine a bit creased, corners bumped, minor edge wear, scuffing to front cover. Spine cracked through at page 103 with the preceeding 20 pages tenuously attached, but all pages present. Owner's names inside cover. Some tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A good reading copy. A Newbery Award winner. "Eleven-year-old Adam loved to travel through the open roads of 13th century England with his father, a wandering minstrel, and his red spaniel, ... View more info
Price: $4.50
Publisher: New York, Puffin Books: 1987
Edition: 27th Edition; Twenty-Sixth Printing
Seller ID: 008187
Corners bumped, a little scuffing, text clean and unmarked. An attractive copy. A Newbery Award Book. "Eleven-year-old Adam loved to travel through the open roads of 13th century England with his father, a wandering minstrel, and his red spaniel, Nick. But when his father suddenly disappears and Nick is stolen, Adam finds himself alone searching these same roads filled with rich merchants, pilgrims with cockleshells upon their hats, farming folk driving pigs... View more info
By: Clarke, Tom E.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Lothrop Lee & Shepard: 1960
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 005890
Blue cloth boards. DJ in protective wrap taped to boards. Ex-library with usual stamps. Text is clean and bright. "It had started out to be a miserable summer for Jerry Nelson - with his father in the hospital recovering from an automobile accident and his mother so worried about him - and about finances, too. And Jerry only adding to her worries! At least, that was the way it looked the night he was picked up in a car driven by a hot-rodding friend and esco... View more info
By: Finley, Martha (aka Martha Farquharson)
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Chicago, M. A. Donohue & Co.:
Edition: Reprint Edition
Seller ID: 006445
Part of M. A. Donohue & Co."s "The Golden Days Series;" no publication date given. 346 pp., orange cloth boards with black lettering, pastedowns show silhouette of boy fishing with dog at his side, glossy color frontispiece tipped in of three boys fishing. Front board is spotted, spine sunned and frayed along top and back edge, corners bumped and chipped, webbing exposed between frontispiece and title page. Appears to be ex-library because it has a "Da... View more info
Price: $14.00
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1911
Edition: Reprint Edition
Seller ID: 005839
Spine slightly slanted, some edgewear & bumping, boards spotted near spine. Text yellowed, but clean and unmarked. From the author's Preface: "As the first part of An Old-Fashioned Girl was written in 1869, the demand for a sequel, in beseeching little letters that made refusal impossible, rendered it necessary to carry my heroine boldly forward some six or seven years into the future. The domestic nature of the story makes this audacious proceeding possible; ... View more info
By: Coburn, John B.
Price: $16.95
Publisher: New York, The Seabury Press: 1964
Edition: Apparent First Edition
Seller ID: 003078
Corners somewhat bumped, spine slightly slanted, edges lightly foxed. Ex-library w/ usual stamps. A bright, attractive copy. Eleven year old Danny says: "This is the story about my sister, Anne, who died. It’s also the story of Bonnie, my dog, who died, too—or rather he got killed. Anne and Bonnie are tied in together. Because of them something has happened to our family, something good. How can that be good? That’s what I’d like to know. That’s ... View more info
By: Norton, Mary
Price: $4.95
Publisher: New York, NY, Scholastic, Inc.: 1972
Edition: Third Printing
Seller ID: 000747
Front cover has several chips and a 1" tear on the upper edge. Covers/spines somewhat creased. Some foxing -- pages in good condition. Delight again in this children's fantasy adventure classic that became a Disney movie. "The bed-knob glows red . . . Then with a sickening lurch, the big bed zooms dizzily into the sky. Carey, Charles, and Paul hang on tight. Far, far below their dangling feet lie fields, woods, city streets, and finally the ocean . . .&#... View more info
By: Sewell, Anna
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Akron, Ohio, Saalfield Publishing Company: 1924
Edition: Early Reprint
Seller ID: 006166
234 pp. Saalfield Every Child's Library #3001. Front board detached at pastedown, but still attached at rear pastedown, corners a bit bumped. Text browned with 3/8" bookworm hole (I'm not kidding) affecting pp.16-56. One page dogearred. DJ in protective Brodart plastic wrap. DJ has scuff mark on front, small chips at spine and flap ends, some edgewear, PO name on front flap. Florence Williams' full-page black and white illustrations and chapter head silhouettes ... View more info
By: Ollivant, Alfred
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Astor Place, New York, Doubleday & McClure Company: 1901
Edition: Reprint Edition
Seller ID: 005836
Spine slanted, olive green boards with gold lettering and scene on front board depicting mountains and sheep grazing. Gold along top edge. Edges worn and corners a little chipped. Black and white glossy frontispiece and glossy illustrations throughout text. Webbing exposed at front pastedown, cracked at p 174, dampstain along top edge, but otherwise text is light and clean. Set in the Daleland, this is the story of Bob, son of Battle, the last of the Gray Dogs of ... View more info
By: Hoban, Russell
Price: $3.95
Publisher: New York, Scholastic: 1977
Edition: 27th Edition
Seller ID: 003028
Covers slightly soiled, crease on back. A nice, unmarked copy. Frances' parents have a problem. Whatever Mother serves, Frances wishes it was bread and jam and proclaims accordingly in rhyme. So one day Mother serves her just what she wants-bread and jam for every meal! Soon Frances is not quite as thrilled as she expected to be. A charming book of reverse childhood psychology which children will appreciate on one level and every parent who ever had a stubborn ch... View more info
Price: $9.25
Publisher: New York, Barse & Hopkins: 1916
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 002998
Spine slightly slanted, edges darkened, front board somewhat loose at spine, considerable wear at top 1/2" of spine/front board, green boards show some soiling. Pictorial cover. Text is clean and unmarked. Black & white glossy frontispiece.; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall View more info
By: Wells, Helen
Price: $14.50
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1946
Edition: Reprint Edition
Seller ID: 003715
Spine slightly slanted, starting to crack at pastedowns, edgewear, corners bumped/chipped, board scuffed & lightly soiled. Pictorial cover--no jacted as issued. Text is clean and unmarked. Seventh in the popular Cherry Ames series for girls. More troubles and triumphs as Cherry Ames enters the world of private duty nursing.; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall View more info
Price: $7.50
Publisher: New York, Alfred A Knopf: 1988
Edition: 27th Edition
Seller ID: 001003
Owner's name/sticker on front FEP. Diane Goode sumptuously illustrates this classic fairy tale of a mistreated kitchen maid, her fairy godmother, and (of course) a prince charming. Est Level: 3rd - 6th grades; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall View more info
By: Ringer, Edith Hope; Downie, Lou Chase
Price: $9.50
Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, J. B. Lippincott Company: 1940
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 002079
This was a school textbook rather than ex-library, with a pupil signup sheet pasted inside cover. Corners are bumped with a fair amount of edge wear, chipping, and scurffing to boards. Some fading. Pages show some foxing and soiling. Pages 9 and 69 have pieces torn out that include some text, otherwise I would grade it about Good -. Some other small tears to a few pages, but they don't affect the text. Originally published in 1930, this is a charming first-grade read... View more info
By: Baker, Charlotte
Price: $3.95
Publisher: New York, Camelot Books: 1973
Edition: 27th Edition
Seller ID: 000935
Spine/covers well-creased, scuffed. Bottom corner of front cover was torn and has been taped together. "Dolph was kicking cans the afternoon he found the puppies under the Cockleburr Street Kingdom of Heaven Church. Eight puppies guarded by a gotch-eared, half-blind mammy dog. Eight hungry puppies that nobody wanted -- nobody except Dolph and his younger sister, Myrtis. Together they plan and worry and bargain, take risks, make mistakes, work up sweat and blister... View more info
By: Wirt, Mildred A.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Books, Inc: 1940
Edition: Reprint Edition
Seller ID: 003413
Some edgewear, corners bumped/chipped, boards slightly soiled, edges darkened, ex-library w/ 2 stamps. Spot on p 192, otherwise a clean, unmarked copy.; Ex-Library; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall View more info
Price: $7.50
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co., Ltd.: 1952
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 002801
224 pages w/ Table of Contents & Index. Spine very slightly slanted, 3 dents on top edge of back board, previous owner's name blacked out on free end paper, spine cracked at pp. 48, 96 & 208. DJ is chipped in several places along top & bottom edges, 1 1/2" closed tear at bottom edge. Text is clean, bright, & unmarked. A book which draws on the "striking, unusual, and extraordinary" to present natural history in an engaging way. Age Level: Grades ... View more info
Price: $7.95
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1951
Edition: Eighth Printing
Seller ID: 003189
Spine slanted, darkened, some wear and chipping at top and base. Dampstaining across both boards, corners bumped, minor edge wear with a dent to top edge of back cover. Owner's name insdie cover, a couple gold stars on read pastedown. Pages are clean and unmarked. A "Landmark Book," this is the story of General George Armstrong Custer starting with his boyhood and life at West Point. As with so many men of his generation, Custer comes of age during the Civil ... View more info
