- Tag = Children's books
-
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: 44776More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
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: 40749More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
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: 44472More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
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: 35704More details Price: USD $60.00 USD $54.00 -
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: 31208More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
THE SHIP BEAUTIFUL. A Two-Fold Tale. With Original Illustrations by George Soper.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 8512More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
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: 41803More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
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: 42909More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
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: 19056More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
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: 41925More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
THE THIEF LORD (inscribed with drawing)
Book ID: 46624More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50
-
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: 40765More details Price: USD $200.00 USD $180.00 -
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: 50229More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
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: 41790More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
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: 30098More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
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: 50248More details Price: USD $10.95 USD $9.86 -
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: 44461More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
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: 48894More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
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: 41314More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
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: 34064More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16