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Pranks of Peter Pig

By: Petersen, Jean

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Springfield, Massachusetts, McLoughlin Bros., Inc.: 1936

Seller ID: 09213

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Significant shelf wear and some wear to the top-edge of the boards and head of the spine also. Binding is square and tight, though the hinges show signs of cracking inside the covers and have split between pages 6 and 7. Clean throughout with no writing or marks. Printed on the rear cover, along with copyright information: 2650 Licensed by the National Broadcast Co., Inc. As the author indicates in the Introduction, the eighteen stories about Peter Pig in this book originated in broadcast form for the Sunday Morning Children's Hour at the National Broadcasting Company (WJZ 9:00-10:00). Not pag...
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The Adventures of Walter

By: Pilgrim, Jane

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, David McKay Company, Inc.: 1954

Seller ID: 10025

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1954 publishing date indicated on rear panel of the dust jacket. A title in Jane Pilgrim's Blackberry Farm Books series. 5.25 x 5.75 inches. Green cloth with lettering stamped in white and a pictorial plate pasted to the front cover, surrounded by decorative white stamping. Mild wear to the boards. Binding firm. Light green paper dust jacket with cut-out window to reveal the pictorial plate on the front cover. Lettering and decoration printed in dark green. The jacket has mild edge wear and a tape repairs to the top edge of the window on the front panel. Thirty-one pages, not numbered, with a ...
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Ernest Owl Starts a School

By: Pilgrim, Jane

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, David McKay Company, Inc.: 1954

Seller ID: 10026

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Rusty the Sheep Dog

By: Pilgrim, Jane

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, David McKay Company, Inc.: 1955

Seller ID: 10027

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Publishing date not indicated, but OCLC states 1955. A title in Jane Pilgrim's Blackberry Farm Books series. 5.25 x 5.75 inches. Red cloth with lettering stamped in white and a pictorial plate pasted to the front cover, surrounded by decorative white stamping. Just a trace of wear to the boards. Light blue paper dust jacket with cut-out window to reveal the pictorial plate on the front cover. Lettering and decoration printed in dark blue. The top-center portion of the jacket that borders the cut-out window is torn away and saved inside the front cover. Other than that, the jacket has mild edge...
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Little Martha

By: Pilgrim, Jane

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, David McKay Company, Inc.: 1955

Seller ID: 10028

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Publishing date not indicated, but OCLC states 1955. A title in Jane Pilgrim's Blackberry Farm Books series. 5.25 x 5.75 inches. Red cloth with lettering stamped in white and a pictorial plate pasted to the front cover, surrounded by decorative white stamping. Just a trace of wear to the boards. Light blue paper dust jacket with cut-out window to reveal the pictorial plate on the front cover. Lettering and decoration printed in dark blue. The dust jacket has mild edge wear and age toning to the spine and flap folds. Thirty-one pages, not numbered, with a color illustration on the recto of each...
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Mother Hen and Mary

By: Pilgrim, Jane

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, David McKay Company, Inc.: 1954

Seller ID: 10029

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1954 publishing date indicated on rear panel of the dust jacket. A title in Jane Pilgrim's Blackberry Farm Books series. 5.25 x 5.75 inches. Green cloth with lettering stamped in white and a pictorial plate pasted to the front cover, surrounded by decorative white stamping. Mild wear to the boards. Binding firm. Light green paper dust jacket with cut-out window to reveal the pictorial plate on the front cover. Lettering and decoration printed in dark green. The jacket has mild edge wear and tape repairs to the top edge of the window on the front panel. Thirty-one pages, not numbered, with a co...
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Mr. Thurtle's Trolley

By: Pratt, Theodore

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan & Pearce: 1947

Seller ID: 07886

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Shelf wear and dust soiling to the page edges. Jacket has chips and paper loss along to edge and tears and paper loss in places along the spine. Preserved now in a clear Mylar archival cover. 214 pages, with no illustrations other than the dust jacket, which was designed by Immerman Studio. When buses replaced Mr. Thurtle's trolley car, his company gave him the old trolley and he soon learned he had a mysterious power over it. With friends, he sets off in the trolley to travel across America.
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The Sheriff of Rottenshot: Poems

By: Prelutsky, Jack

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Greenwillow Books: 1982

Seller ID: 09961

ISBN: 0688002056

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Price-clipped dust jacket. Signed on the title page "To Denise / Jack Prelutsky / Far Out!" A collection of 16 humorous poems with accompanying illustrations by Victoria Chess for young audiences.
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When They Were Boys: Sixteen Boyhood Stories of Famous Men

By: Pringle, Patrick

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Roy Publishers:

Seller ID: 01180

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light wear to boards, toning to endpapers. Jacket chipped with a few tears. Previous owner name on front paste-down. The boyhood lives of 16 famous men, mainly in the science and arts. Those men include Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, James Cook, George Washington, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, George Stephenson, Michael Faraday, Hans Andersen, Charles Dickens, David Livingstone, Joseph Lister, Thomas Alva Edison, Baden-Powell, Fridtjof Nansen, the Wright Brothers, and Guglielmo Marconi.
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Cold Tom

By: Prue, Sally

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Scholastic Press: 2003

Seller ID: 01857

ISBN: 0439482682

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Appears to be an unread copy. Author's debut novel. Juvenile audience. Struggling to find a place for himself, Tom flees the elven parents who hunt to kill him and becomes involved with human "demons" in the nearby city.
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The Shining Princess and Other Japanese Legends

By: Quayle, Eric

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Arcade Publishing / Little, Brown and Company: 1989

Seller ID: 08346

ISBN: 1559700394

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Ten legends from Japan for a juvenile audience, drawn from the two earliest known English translations. Retold by Eric Quayle, a collector of antiquarian books and authority on the history of children's books. 111 pages with numerous illustrations.
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Bunter the Bully, Collectors' Edition: Greyfriars Book Club Volume 48

By: Richards, Frank

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Greyfriars Press Books/Howard Baker Press: 1983

Seller ID: 07018

ISBN: 0703002457

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Dark green leatherette with gilt decoration and lettering. Marbled endpapers. Top-edge gilt. Signed by the publisher (Howard Baker) on the limitation page, number 302 of 400 copies printed. Fine in a nicked wax-paper wrapper, in a red cloth slipcase with a bit of shelf wear. Collection of facsimile 1909 issues of the British publication, The Magnet Library, a weekly series for boys. Billy Bunter and Harry Wharton are featured in this collection.
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Father Christmas's Stories

By: Riley, Louise Alice

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, John Hogg: 1891

Seller ID: 10739

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Green cloth with color illustrations to spine and front cover. Edge wear, light foxing, and writing on the rear endpapers. Vertical creasing to most pages. Front free endpaper appears to have been removed and there is tearing at the gutter. 127 pages plus 34 pages of the publisher's book ads. Illustrations (hand-colored?) by E.W. De Guérin. Colors appear smudged or running on some of the illustrations. In the publisher's catalogue at the back of the book, Father Christmas's Stories is referenced as a volume in the Illustrated Shilling Juvenile Books series ("now numbering 9 vols."). O...
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Leagues Apart: The Men and Times of the Negro Baseball Leagues

By: Ritter, Lawrence S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Morrow Junior Books: 1995

Seller ID: 02669

ISBN: 0688133169

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Some bumping to boards, slight cocked spine. Clean copy, no marks, stains, or writing.
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A Child's Garden of Verses

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Gramercy: 1998

Seller ID: 09604

ISBN: 0517489244

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Just a scant trace of wear, else a fine, clean copy. 119 pages. Stevenson's timeless poetry paired with Jessie Willcox Smith's classic illustrations in full-page color as well as black and white chapter vignettes.
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Gypsy Bird Song

By: Roth, Susan L.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux: 1991

Seller ID: 08672

ISBN: 0374328250

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

"The inhabitants of a gypsy camp mend their pots, weave baskets, make music and stew, dance, and admire the Big Fat Moon Man."
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The King of the Golden River

By: Ruskin, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Akron, Ohio, The Saalfield Publishing Company: 1926

Seller ID: 03349

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Pictorial paper-covered boards in matching jacket. Shelf wear to boards. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper from a mother to her child, dated Christmas 1938. Vintage gift sticker at top of same page. Jacket edge-worn with tears and chips. Protected now in a Mylar sleeve. Unpaginated, illustrated with black & white drawings, including five full-page drawings.
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The Silver Fleet

By: Rydberg, Ernie

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green and Co.: 1955

Seller ID: 07890

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light shelf wear. Dust jacket has a black mark on the front panel, like an "X." and a name (Child's handwriting) on the front flap. A bit of rubbing to the rear panel of the jacket also. 150 pages, illustrated (frontispiece and a few page decorations). A young Portuguese-American boy gets a chance to work with his father on a tuna fishing boat.
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Little Annie of Christian Creek

By: Sanker, Thomas J.

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Seattle, Storytellers Ink: 1994

Seller ID: 06073

ISBN: 1880812169

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Small bump to the bottom edge. Autograph sticker on the front cover, ISBN/price sticker on the rear cover. Also on the front cover is a gold sticker indicating this book is a title in the Light Up the Mind of a Child Series. Story of an orphan moose struggling to survive a treacherous winter in Wyoming's high country. 49 pages, illustrated and photographed by the author.
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Hannah Szenes: A Song of Light

By: Schur, Maxine

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society: 1986

Seller ID: 05348

ISBN: 0827602510

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

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