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EARLY CHILDREN'S BOOKS: a collector's guide
Newton Abbot, Davon / Totowa, NJ: David & Charles / Barnes & Noble, 1983. Green boards. pp (256). B&w illustrations, index. Fine copy. Green dust jacket spine faded to yellow, else fine. An excellent survey. ; Tall octavo
Book ID: 51958More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
EATON'S CHRISTMAS ANNUAL. Authors May Heward, Ethel Talbot, Olive Chandler, Constance Heward
(Toronto): The T. Eaton Co., no date [ca. 1930s?]. Quarto. Blue cloth spine stamped in white and light blue boards, colour illustration on front cover. Unpaged. 16 colour plates (6 by Anne Anderson, 1 by Charles Robinson) inserted, numerous line drawings in text. Front cover errs in calling for 14 colour plates. UK printed. Stories by the aforementioned plus other authors. Only occasional minor soiling in text, slight wear to outer corners, else fine and tight, no previous owner names. In poor dust jacket, worn & torn, front panel lacks upper portion. The jacket spine says "Third Year". Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required..
Book ID: 24549More details Price: USD $40.00 USD $36.00 -
FLORENCE GODFREY’S FAITH: A Story of Australian Life. With Four Illustrations by Paul Hardy
Edition: First of this edition
London: Blackie, no date. A later printing (first was in 1883). Octavo, blue pictorial cloth stamped in black, whitge and gilt, grey endpapers. Pp (viii), 9-309, (1), (16, ads) + 4 plates. 1907 prize label at front, yellowing to page edges, light foxing to first two leaves; else a fine, bright and tight copy. A novel for girls..
Book ID: 32396More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
FLOWERS OF DELIGHT: an agreeable garland of prose and poetry...
Edition: First printing
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1965. Brown illustrated boards. pp 232. Illustrations in colour & b&w. Bibliographical descriptions at rear of the original books. Fine in near fine jacket. Selections from English children's books 1765-1830 found in Toronto famous Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. 1.5 kg parcel; Tall octavo
Book ID: 48784More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
FOOTPLATE LUCK: stories of railway adventure at home and abroad. Illustrated by E.S. Hodgson
London: Blackie, no date (1922 or 1923). Green pictorial cloth stamped in black & white. pp 256, (32, ads) + 5 (of 6) plates. Lacking the plate at p. 48, ink names at front, else a VG clean, tight, unworn and attractive copy. 14 stories.
Book ID: 43465More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
FORWARD [magazine for young people]
Philadelphia: 37 cm. Half sheep and marbled boards. Vol. XXXIV, nos 1-52, 2 Jan. - 25 Dec., 1915. 420pp, complete year. Library discard, rubber stamp and shelf notation at front, no other library marks. Spine worn, lacking pieces at ends, with some repairs, leather stabilzed; edge wear to outer corners, cracked inner hinges repaired, else a clean and tight copy, text unworn. Stories and articles, handicrafts, well illustrated. 3.2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.; Folio
Book ID: 52592More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
FORWARD [magazine for young people]
Philadelphia: 37 cm. Maroon cloth spine gilt lettered. Vol. XLI, nos 1-52, 7 Jan. - 30 Dec., 1922. 416 pp, complete year. Library discard, rubber stamp and shelf notation at front, no other library marks. Light marks to covers, else a clean and tight copy, text unworn. Stories and articles, handicrafts, well illustrated. 2.7 kg parcel; Folio
Book ID: 52595More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
FORWARD [magazine for young people]
Philadelphia: 38 cm. Maroon cloth spine gilt lettered. Vol. XXXIX, nos 1-52, 3 Jan. - 25 Dec., 1920. 416 pp, complete year. Light marks to covers, else a clean and tight copy, text unworn. Stories, articles, handicrafts, and ads, well illustrated. 2.8 kg parcel; Folio
Book ID: 52596More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
FORWARD [magazine for young people]
Philadelphia: 41 cm. Maroon cloth spine gilt lettered. Vol. XXXVI, nos 1-52, 3 Jan. - 29 Dec., 1917. 416 pp, complete year. Light marks to covers, else a clean and tight copy, text unworn. Stories, articles, handicrafts, and ads, well illustrated. 3 kg parcel; Folio
Book ID: 52597More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
FOUR WINDS FARM. Illustrated by Walter Crane
Edition: First Edition
London: Macmillan, 1887. Small octavo. Original green fine ribbed decorated cloth stamped in black, blind and gilt, black endpapers. (viii), 180, [4, ads] pp + frontispiece and illustrated title with tissue guard and 6 other plates by Walter Crane. Book a little leaned; cloth wear at spine tips repaired; cracked inner hinges neatly repaired with black paper; all of spine gilt flaked away but stamping still clearly visible; tissue guard creased; VG clean copy otherwise. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced
Book ID: 24990More details Price: USD $60.00 USD $54.00 -
FRIEND MONKEY
Edition: First UK printing
London: Collins, 1972. Yellow boards. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. A monkey story by the author of the MARY POPPINS books
Book ID: 44454More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
G.A. HENTY: a bibliography
Cedar Grove, NJ: Dar-Web, Inc, 1971. Brown boards. pp xviii, 184 + plates. Index. Light yellowing to page edges; a few pencil annotations in text; else fine in jacket. A descriptive bibliography, it includes periodicals. ; Octavo.
Book ID: 50265More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
GET ME ANOTHER ONE !
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1982. Oblong octavo, stapled, in glossy illustrated card covers. Creases to front cover, VG otherwise, no owner names.
Book ID: 41800More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
GIANT COLD. Illustrated by Alan E. Cober.
Edition: First printing
London: Gollancz, 1984. Terra cotta boards. pp (8), 69. Fine in fine jacket. A fantasy novel for young people by the noted writer of crime fiction.; Octavo
Book ID: 4105More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
GREY RABBIT'S MAY DAY. Pictures by Margaret Tempest
Edition: First printing
London: Collins, 1963. Squarish 12mo, blue pictorial boards, blue on white illustrated endpapers, text printed in blue, colour illustrations. pp 64. Small white fleck on rear cover, light yellowing to page edges, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has minute rubbing to tips of slightly yellowed spine, else fine, a nice copy. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Book ID: 40985More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
HANDY MANDY IN OZ. Illustrated by John R. Neill
Edition: First printing
Book ID: 35719More details Price: USD $295.00 USD $265.50 -
Hans Christian Andersen: The Story of His Life and Work, 1805-75
Edition: First printing
New York: Scribner, 1975. Cloth & boards. pp 376 + plates; index. Front free endpaper neatly removed, else fine. Jacket has sunning to red spine letters, small tear, VG otherwise. ; Octavo 0684144573
Book ID: 50231More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
HORATIO ALGER or the American hero era
New York: Arco, 1978. Maroon cloth. pp 503 + plates; index. Ink owner name at front, rubber stamped initials to lower page edges, else fine. Dust jacket has creases to front flap, VG otherwise. Includes at rear a descriptive bibliography of the Alger books, a must for anyone seriously dealing in on collecting them.
Book ID: 44149More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
HORATIO'S BOYS: the life and works of Horatio Alger, Jr
Edition: First printing
Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Company, 1974. Yellow cloth. pp (viii), 263. Illustrated, index. Fine copy. Dust jacket has small tears to spine ends, split to upper front spine fold externally repaired; good. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50242More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
HOW THE WHALE BECAME and Other Stories. Illustrated by George Adamson (inscribed)
Harmondsworth, England: Puffin Books, 1976. Inscribed by Author; Later printing of the Puffin trade paperback (first was Faber, 1963). Octavo, card covers. A fine copy. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to a Canadian author & impresario who brought him to Toronto for a reading, with the inscribee's tidy ink name and date at front. "For____, Lord of the Whale, best wishes from Ted" and with Hughes' ink name in full on same page. Stories for children. ; Signed by Author
Book ID: 37775More details Price: USD $150.00 USD $135.00