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  • BURNHAM, Clara Louise
    THE QUEST FLOWER. With illustrations in color by Anna Milo Upjohn

    Edition: First printing

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1908. Red pictorial cloth stamped in gilt. pp (10), (134), (2, ads) + frontispiece with tissue guard and 3 other colour plates. Spine lightly sunned, bands of tanning to endpapers, tidy ink owner name at front, else a VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy. Nice illustrations by a noted American painter and illustrator.; Squarish octavo

    Book ID: 44776
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  • THE REBELLION OF HARRY WHARTON by RICHARDS, Frank
    RICHARDS, Frank
    THE REBELLION OF HARRY WHARTON

    Edition: First Edition

    London: Howard Baker, 1969. Quarto, green boards. Tanning and a biit of foxing to page edges, small foxing spots in lower corner of front free endpaper; nice otherwise, no owner names. Dust jacket has a two inch corner tear to rear panel, a few nicks elsewhere, VG otherwise. Howard Baker Magnet Volume Number 2. Facsimile reprint of a number of issues of The Magnet from 1932 which contain the complete account of Wharton's rebellion. 1.5 kg parcel

    Book ID: 40749
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  • BAUM, L. Frank
    THE ROAD TO OZ

    New York: Books of Wonder / HarperCollins. c 1991. Second printing of this facsimile of the 1909 first edition, adding an Afterword by Peter Glassman. Colour pictorial boards. B&w illustrations, text printed on different colours of paper. Fine copy. Dust jacket has light spine sunning, small creases to front panel, else fine.

    Book ID: 44472
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  • THE ROAD TO OZ. Illustrated by John R. Neill by BAUM, L. Frank
    BAUM, L. Frank
    THE ROAD TO OZ. Illustrated by John R. Neill

    Chicago: Reilly & Lee, c1909. Later printing ca. 1941. Quarto, beige cloth, colour pictorial cover label, illustrated endpapers, black & white illustrations in text. Ink owner name in the provided printed space, yellowing to page edges, partial split to rear inner hinge neatly repaired, soft creases to lower outer corners of some leaves, else a fine copy. The dust jacket has chips at ends of lightly darkened spine (no text loss); small hole in front spine fold; chip to upper inner corner of front panel; small chips and small tears elsewhere; VG otherwise. In the list of Oz books on the front flap (ending with #34), the unit price has been over-printed and raised to $1.75. An attractive copy.

    Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

    Book ID: 35704
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  • MYERSON, Joel and Daniel Shealy (Louisa May Alcott)
    THE SELECTED LETTERS OF LOUISA MAY ALCOTT and THE JOURNALS OF LOUISA MAY ALCOTT [2 Volumes]. Intro by Madeleine B. Stern

    Edition: First Edition

    Boston & Toronto: Litttle, Brown and Company, (1987; 1989). Two volumes: "Letters" - mauve boards backed in grey with silver spine titles, pp. lvi, 352 + 16 inserted, double-sided plates containing over 50 photographs and facsimile letters; extreme top edge very lightly sunned, else near fine copy in very good, lightly sunned dust jacket; "Journals" - light pink boards backed in grey with silver spine titles, pp. xxvii, 356 + 8 inserted, double-sided plates containing 30 photos and facsimile journal entries; near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. These letters and journals, from the author of "Little Women", include her insights into the volatile political issues of the day, abolition, the Civil War, educational reform, and the rights of women. 2 kg parcel.; Octavo 0316593613

    Book ID: 31208
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  • ALLEN, Charles (Charles Richards Allen, b. 1885].
    THE SHIP BEAUTIFUL. A Two-Fold Tale. With Original Illustrations by George Soper.

    Edition: First Edition

    London: Warne, 1925. Octavo. Green cloth, pictorial spine stamped in gilt and black, pictorial endpapers. (x), (279) pp + 6 black & white plates with captioned tissue guards. Vertical crease to front free endpaper, else a fine copy. Pale green jacket is tanned to panels, flap folds; chip to upper edge of rear panel; small chips, rubbing to spine tips; spine is very browned and hard to read; good. "It is the record of a jolly, lovable little boy with a fitting devotion to cricket, and of his uncle who dwells with a brave heart and a fine mind in the shadow of sadness. The pair are the best of friends, and between them they build up the wonder-story…

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    London: Warne, 1925. Octavo. Green cloth, pictorial spine stamped in gilt and black, pictorial endpapers. (x), (279) pp + 6 black & white plates with captioned tissue guards. Vertical crease to front free endpaper, else a fine copy. Pale green jacket is tanned to panels, flap folds; chip to upper edge of rear panel; small chips, rubbing to spine tips; spine is very browned and hard to read; good. "It is the record of a jolly, lovable little boy with a fitting devotion to cricket, and of his uncle who dwells with a brave heart and a fine mind in the shadow of sadness. The pair are the best of friends, and between them they build up the wonder-story which makes the tale within the tale....It should delight all who love the chronicles of fai ryland and the music of Oberon's Horn." - from the tipped in foreword by Justin Huntly McCarthy. "Transcribed from the braille script of Richard Burnard, and here set forth by C.R. Allen." - verso of dedication leaf. Allen was a New Zealand poet and novelist, born in Dunedin, educated in Dunedin and at Cambridge. He had to give up his curacy in Dunedin in 1915 owing to the onset of blindness. This book is partially set in Dunedin.

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    Book ID: 8512
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  • WALLACE, Ian, author & illustrator
    THE SPARROW'S SONG

    Edition: First printing

    Markham, ON: Viking Kestrel / Penguin, 1986. Square quarto, dark blue boards. Private bookplate inside front cover, else fine in fine jacket. Children's book set in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in the early 1900s. A girl nurses and orphan sparrow through the summer, her brother having slain its mother with his slingshot.

    Book ID: 41803
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  • TUDOR. Tasha
    THE SPRINGS OF JOY

    Edition: First printing

    Chicago: Rand McNally, 1979. Folio, Colour illustrated boards without jacket, as issued. The beloved illustrator illustrates in colour a collection of quotations from literary sources. Lots of her favourite corgis in the pictures. Fine, no owner names.

    Book ID: 42909
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  • WYSS, (Johann David) [Edith Robarts].
    THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON Retold for Little Folk by Edith Robarts. Illustrated by John Hassall, R.I.

    London: Blackie, no date. Later printing (ca. 1923?). Quarto, hardcover, plain olive cloth spine, plain grey rear board, glossy colour illustrated front board, title page printed in black. [2], (80) pp. Numerous full-page and vignette line drawings, and 8 full page colour illustrations, in text. Title leaf is a cancel. Bit of foxing to endpapers, tanning to rear free endpaper; mild soiling to rear cover;; else a VG tight and bright unworn copy, no owner names. First published [1909], with 16 colour illustrations.

    Book ID: 19056
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  • THACKERAY, William Makepeace
    THE THACKERY ALPHABET

    London: Murray, 1929. Second printing, same month as first. Squarish 16mo, quarter white cloth, light brown boards with cover label. pp (58). Small gift inscription at bottom of half-title, else fine. White jacket lightly darkened, lightly soiled, small tears, VG otherwise. An alphabet book written and illustrated by Thackeray for a small boy about 1833.

    Book ID: 41925
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  • FUNKE, Cornelia
    THE THIEF LORD (inscribed with drawing)

    New York: The Chicken House / Scholastic, c2002. Inscribed by Author; 10th printing. Blue cloth and purple boards, mauve endpapers. Translated from the German by Oliver Latsch. Fine copy. Jacket has minor wear to one outer corner, crease to lower inner corner of rear panel, small corner crease at foot of spine, else fine, flap price intact. Inscribed at front by the author "May, 2007. To ___, Thank you so much for being such wonderful company all over Canada ! Love, Cornelia" Above which Funke has drawn a masked figure and a rat (she was an illustrator before she was a writer). An adventure novel set in Venice (map of Venice at front), it won, among other awards, the…

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    New York: The Chicken House / Scholastic, c2002. Inscribed by Author; 10th printing. Blue cloth and purple boards, mauve endpapers. Translated from the German by Oliver Latsch. Fine copy. Jacket has minor wear to one outer corner, crease to lower inner corner of rear panel, small corner crease at foot of spine, else fine, flap price intact. Inscribed at front by the author "May, 2007. To ___, Thank you so much for being such wonderful company all over Canada ! Love, Cornelia" Above which Funke has drawn a masked figure and a rat (she was an illustrator before she was a writer). An adventure novel set in Venice (map of Venice at front), it won, among other awards, the Zurich Children's Book Award in 2000 and the Children's Book award from the Vienna House of Literature in 2001. It was her first book to be translated into English and made it to the #2 slot on the New York Times Best Seller list,; Signed by Author

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    Book ID: 46624
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  • THE WESTMINSTER ALICE. Illustrated by F. Carruthers Gould by MUNRO, Hector H. ("Saki") (Lewis Carroll)
    MUNRO, Hector H. ("Saki") (Lewis Carroll)
    THE WESTMINSTER ALICE. Illustrated by F. Carruthers Gould

    Edition: First Edition

    No place (London): Westminster Gazette, no date (1902). Squarish octavo. pp 44, (4, ads), stapled, in pale green paper covers. Covers neatly reattached at spine; front cover has some creasing. both covers have light foxing and sunning; crease to lower outer corner of title leaf; long tear to blank bottom margin of pp 25-26 very neartly repaired; a VG copy otherwise, no owner names, of a fragile and amusing take-off on Alice in Wonderland and British politics. The paper issue preceded the cloth issue and is much scarcer.

    Book ID: 40765
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  • STIRLING, Monica (Hans Christian Andersen)
    THE WILD SWAN: the life and times of Hans Christian Andersen

    Edition: First printing

    London: Collins, 1965. Light blue boards. pp (384) + plates; index. Yellowing to page edges else fine in very nearly fine price-clipped jacket. ; Octavo

    Book ID: 50229
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  • GRAHAME, Kenneth (E.H. Shepard)
    THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS FRIEZE

    London: Methuen, 1984. Second printing (first was in 1982). Octavo, Four folding colour illustrated pieces in colour card portfolio, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, with captions from the book. Fine.

    Book ID: 41790
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  • FLETCHER, J. S.
    THE WONDERFUL CITY

    Edition: First Edition

    London: T. Nelson, 1894. Blue pictoriall cloth stamped in black, blind and gilt, floral endpapers. pp (viii), 9-185, [1], (6, ads) + frontispiece with tissue guard and illustrated half-title. Minor rubbing to foot of spine and outer corners; light foxing to page edges; text paper lightly toned; ink gift inscription to verso of front free endpaper; small brown spot on rear cover; else a fine, bright & tight copy, no owner names. A lost race tale for boys set in the Southwestern United States. Bleiler (1978), p. 74. Reginald 05486. Uncommon in first edition, especially in such nice condition.

    Book ID: 30098
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  • EYLES, Allen (L.Frank Baum)
    THE WORLD OF OZ

    Tucson, AZ: HP Books, 1985. Glossy card covers. pp 96. Many colour illustrations. A book about the Oz books. Corner creases to front cover, VG otherwise. ; Squarish quarto

    Book ID: 50248
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  • THE YOUNG FORESTER by GREY, Zane
    GREY, Zane
    THE YOUNG FORESTER

    Edition: First Canadian issue

    Toronto: Musson, c1910 (1923). Green pictorial cloth stamped in black and blue. pp [4], 223, [6] + frontispiece. Moderate wear to spine ends; small remains of sticker in one corner of front free endpaper; tiny white flecks to covers; old repair to gutter of first (blank) leaf; VG otherwise. Made from sheets of a later Harper printing, with "B-X" code (= Feb. 1923). There was no Canadian issue of the 1910 first printing. A scarce issue of one of the more uncommon Zane Grey novels.

    Book ID: 44461
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  • STEPHENS, C.A.
    THE YOUNG MOOSE HUNTERS: a backwoods-boy's story

    Toronto: Musson, no date, 1919. Blue decorated cloth stamped in black & grey, gilt lettered. pp 320. Text paper yellowed, spine a little darkened, 1919 ink inscription at front, VG otherwise. Made from UK (Partridge) sheets with a cancel title leaf. A boy's book by this Maine author, set in Northern Maine. ; Octavo

    Book ID: 48894
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  • KINNIBURGH, R.
    THE YOUTH'S SURE GUIDE TO HAPPINESS; or, scripture selections of the faith and practics of revealed religion

    Edinburgh: Published for the Benefit of the Deaf and Dumb Institution, 1826. 13.5 cm. Disbound, with most of the leather backstrip, sewing still tight. pp 108. Some corner creases, mild text soiling, VG otherwise. Printed by J. Collie, Edinburgh. Not in Osborne.

    Book ID: 41314
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  • TURNER, Ethel
    THREE LITTLE MAIDS

    Edition: First Canadian issue

    Toronto: The Publishers’ Syndicate, 1900. Octavo, blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, black endpapers, top edges gilt. pp (v)-viii, (9)-(316) + title leaf + 3 (of 4) plates, numerous vignette illustrations in text. LACKING the half title leaf and the frontispiece with tissue guard, else a VG clean and unworn copy. Made from sheets of the London: Ward, Lock, 1900, first edition. A very scarce issue.

    Book ID: 34064
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