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Little Bertie, and other stories.

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Henry A. Young & Co.:

Seller ID: 3136

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

The Moss Rose Series. A small hardcover, bound in red cloth, blindstamped cover decorations, gilt spine lettering, sewn binding, illustrated in b&w. Undated, late Victorian-era production. ; 3" x 4-1/2"; 64 pp; Covers rubbed, gift inscription and ownership inscriptions at front (ca 1900 pen).
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GOOD STORIES for Wee Little Willie and his Wee Little Friends

By: Anon

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Leavitt & Allen: c1868

Seller ID: 3146

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Blue cloth, blindstamped decorations to boards, gilt spine lettering, nine stories illustrated with b&w drawings. Uncommon series of books. Spine notes series as Wee Little Willie's Story Books; title page notes this as Wee Little Willie's Library. The book is undated, but was offered as a Reward of Merit for a student of the Walnut Grove District with an inscription penned in 1868 by the instructor.; 4-1/2" x 5-1/2"; 128 pp; An OCLC search for this title notes but a single holding, at the University of Kansas. OCLC also lists a companion title for a girl, Katie, noting the author as ...
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Stencil-Art ABC Book

By: Anon

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Bedford, Ohio, Stemcil-Art Publishing Co.: [1950s?]

Seller ID: 6381

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Stiff covers, front cover illustrated in color, red painted metal comb binding at left, first page page describes How to Use Stencils and offers list of additional titles, includes seven leaves of stencils enconpassing the alphabet with items spelled in works and pictured (A=Axe, B=Bells, C=Cow and so on), each with unprinted color backing sheet, includes 10 sheets of unprinted paper for project use at rear.; 10" x 13"; Uncommon, not seen in the trade and with OCLC listing one holding, at the Newberry (9/2020). ; Worn at lower comb assembly; one ring is flat with a tear to the front co...
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Every Child's Folk Songs and Games

By: Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Springfield, Massachusetts, Milton Bradley Company: 1914 (1917)

Seller ID: 4220

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Dark green cloth, front board with circular pastedown illustration of a girl and white lettering, nursery rhymes and stories adapted to music. Dated 1914 on title page and 1917 on copyright page.; 9-1/2" x 12-1/4"; 89 pp; Covers rubbed, edgeworn and lightly soiled, nick to cloth along bottom edge and wear at top/bottom of spine, no writing but pages have the occasional spot of soiling.
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THE LAND OF OZ: A sequel to The Wizard of Oz

By: Baum, L. Frank; John R. Neill (Illustrations)

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Reilly & Lee Co.:

Seller ID: 3185

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Pink cloth, black illustration and lettering on spine, b&w illustrations within. Later reprint notes 1904 and 1932 copyright dates. ; 7" x 9-1/4"; 287 pp; Boards lightly edgeworn, soiled and with a few (4) small waterspots. Solid hinges, clean pages with minor edgewear and a few creased corners, prior owners inscription inked inside front cover (emulating a library card).
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The Story of Our Calendar

By: Brindze, Ruth (illustrations by Helene Carter)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Vanguard Press: 1949

Seller ID: 1213

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

No additional printings noted.; 8 x 10"; 64 pp; Very minor edgewear to book, name label inside front cover, slightly musty, solid hinges, bright cover and pages, no writing, darkened pps 43-44 from laid in newspaper article (now protected from further damage). Dust jacket is also bright with minor edgewear and is not price clipped ($3.00), one 2.5" closed tear and 2 more tiny tears, all along the top edge, in clear protecfive cover.
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Gian Carlo

By: Brundage, Burr Cartwright; Illustrated by Bruce Hodgell

Price: $60.00

Publisher: St. Petersburg, Fla., Valkyrie Press: 1975

Seller ID: 2982

ISBN: 0-912760-04-4

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Stiff white wraps, cover illustration of cat, many additional illustrations of this Siamese accompany the story, unpaginated with about 50 pages. This copy with an inscription penned and signed by the author on the FFEP: For ______ _______ in admiration of her work, Burr C. Brundage. ; 8-1/2" x 10"; Signed by Author; Covers lightly soiled, internally very nice.
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Valery Carrick's Picture Folk-Tales

By: Carrick, Valery

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1928

Seller ID: 4830

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket

Features ten stories. Publishers red cloth, front cover with full page lettered illustration pasted down, black spine lettering, Illustrated (with drawings) by the author. Tan dust jacket reproduces illustration and lettering on front pastedown ; 7-1/2" x 10-1/4"; 90 pp; Covers with slight corner and spine wear, red binding color spotted toward bottom of boards, no inscriptions, binding tight and square, pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is well worn along edges, with a tape repair to back side at top of spine, closed tears and several small losses, protected by mylar cover.
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TAWNY GOES HUNTING

By: Chaffee, Allen

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1937

Seller ID: 3691

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good dust jacket

With illustrations (in two colors) by Paul Bransom. Tan cloth, front pastedown illustration, brown spine lettering. 1937 date on title and copyright pages, no printing or edition noted. ; 7" x 10"; 79 pp; Book is soiled along top edge, spine darkened, covers lightly sunned (mosty along top edge), solid hinges, pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is complete but soiled, lightly edgeworn, unclipped retaining original $2.00 price, protected by mylar cover.
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Angus Lost

By: Flack, Marjorie

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company: (1932)

Seller ID: 4834

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Paper boards with color illustrations to covers, illustrated within (mostly b&w, some color). Pages are not numbered.; Oblong, 9-3/4" x 6-3/4"; Light soiling to covers, lacking top 1/2" of spine cover, prior owner name to front cover, front free endpaper and title page, binding cords a bit loose, pages otherwise clean and unmarked.
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Little Red Snapperhood: a fishy fairy tale

By: Gilbertsen, Neal (Story); Evon Zerbetz (lllustrations)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Portland, Oregon, WestWinds Press: (2003)

Seller ID: 6135

ISBN: 1-55868-683-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Coated paper boards, color wrap-around cover illustration, red endpapers, story with colorful art from linoleum blocks. Dust jacket replicated cover art. This copy signed by the author on the front free endpaper and additionally signed and with an illustration by the artist. ; 8-1/2" x 10-1/4"; A collaboration by Alaskans. The author hails from Juneau and the artist carves and paints in Ketchikan. ; Signed by Author & Illustrator; No wear of note to book or jacket. Jacket in clear protective cover.
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Elfriede. Erzählung für die Jugend.

By: Helm, Clementine

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Stuttgart und Leipzig, William Effenberger:

Seller ID: 1709

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Freie Bearbeitung von L. Ulbach's "Le parrain de Cendrillon". Original blue cloth with cover illustration of a woman in color, page edges dyed red, dark endpapers, 3 chromolithographs and 16 additional plates printed in purple ink. Not dated, OCLC notes an edition at 1890, this is perhaps mid-1890s. Text in German. ; 6 x 8.5"; 176 pp; Light soiling to boards, corners lightly bumped, hinges remain sound, prior owner name inked over on half-title, a few pages with corner creases.
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How Freckle Frog Made Herself Pretty

By: Herr, Charlotte B.; Frances Beem (Designs)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago, P. F. Volland & Co.: 1913

Seller ID: 2322

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Tan paper boards, lettered in green on front, cover illustration, half page illustrations on title page, the first page and the last page, 7 additional full page illustrations, all illustrations in cover, 19 unnumbered pages. ; 4-1/2" x 6-1/4"; Lightly soiled with minor wear noted at the corners and top of spine, lower part of spine missing paper covering to reveal the backstrip, paper is starting to split from the backstrip, overall binding is a bit loose though holding, prior owners inscription dated 1915 on copyright page in space provided.
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A BOY SCOUT AROUND THE WORLD, A Boy Scout Adventure

By: Huld, Palle

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Coward - McCann, Inc.: 1929

Seller ID: 5371

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Publishers blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in yellow and black, top stain yellow, b&w photographs, translated into English by Eleanor Hard; 5-1/2" x 7-1/2"; xvi, 197 pp; Spine dulled and with some vertical creasing, lightly sunned on rear panel, sound binding, no inscriptions, a few spots of foxing or soiling on pages that are generally clean and unmarked,
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[Christmas Press] A BOY NAMED NICKY

By: Lampkin, John Chadwick, illustrations by Peggy Lampkin

Price: $40.00

Publisher: [Saranac, MI], (1994)

Seller ID: 1636

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

The story of Nicholas Klaus and how he grew up to become Santa Claus. Pictorial wraps, perfect bound, wrap-around cover and 11 additional illustrations, all in color. Place per OCLC, no publisher noted. This copy bears the signed inscription: With warm wishes for a happy Christmas, Peg & Chad. Scarce, OCLC locates only a copy at the Library of Congress (9/2018). ; 6.5 x 9"; 61 pp; Signed by Author; Minor creasing at spine.
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SIDNEY DE GREY; or, THE RIVAL SCHOOLBOYS.

By: Lancewood, Lawrence

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, Graves and Young: 1868

Seller ID: 4334

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

The first of the Lindendale Stories. Rose cloth, gilt spine lettering, double-frontispiece and additional plates. ; 4-1/2" x 6-3/4"; 256 pp; Boards faded, worn at top.bottom of spine and at corners, lacks tissue guard from frontispiece, solid binding, free of writing, scattered foxing to pages.
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TOLD

By: Mackenzie, Compton

Price: $28.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company: 1930

Seller ID: 4825

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

First Thus, reprinting stories originally published in Joy Street, The Treasure Ship and The Radio Times. Boards are white paper with a design on blue and orange, blue cloth spine lettered in white, decorative endpapers reproduce cover design, contains 11 stories, illustrations include four color illustrations by A. H. Watson tipped onto plates, all stories have additional b&w pictures; illustrators include Watson, also Ruth Cobb, Irene Mountfort, Marian Allen, Joan Gale Thomas, Hugh Chesterman and Cecil G. Trew. ; 7-1/2" x 9-3/4"; vii, 175 pp; Covers lightly soiled/toned along edges, ...
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The STAR WISH

By: Maloy, Lois

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1940

Seller ID: 4622

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Light blue cloth. Front cover with illustration and lettering to spine and front cover, all in black. Full-page color plates and b&w illustrations within text. Publushers just jacket with color cover illustration. ; 6" x 8-1/4"; 109 pp; Book with only slight wear--clean covers, solid binding, no inscriptions or writing. Jacket front flap is clipped, has bookstore price sticker marked out and has a remainder price marked on it. Jacket is lightly rubbed, lightly soiled, lightly worn along bottom edge, worn along top edge with closed tears and a small loss at top of spine, protected by my...
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GOLD: The True Story of Why People Search for It, Mine It, Trade It, Steal It, Mint It, Hoard It, Shape It, Wear It, Fight and Kill for It

By: Meltzer, Milton

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, HarperCollins Publishers: 1993

Seller ID: 5329

ISBN: 0-06-022983-7

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Gold paper boards embossed with title, gilt lettered purple spine cloth, purple endpapers, many b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with color cover illustrations, lettered in gold, black and blue. ; 7" x 8-1/4"; 167 pp; Book has the faintest of rippling limited to the top edge and is otherwise in fine, completely unmarked condition. Jacket has no wear of note, not price clipped ($15.00), in clear protective cover.
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MOONSAILORS

By: Smith, Buckley

Price: $15.00

Publisher: La Jolla and London, Green Tiger Press: 1985

Seller ID: 3138

ISBN: 0-88138-039-3

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

A Star and Elephant Book. Illustrated jacket over wrappers, full page illustrations. ; 8-1/4" x 10-1/2"; Jacket lightly worn at edges, internally fine.
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Category: Children's Literature