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By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, The Promotional Reprint Company Ltd.: 1993
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 08852
ISBN: 1856480410
Condition: Near Fine
Pictorial covers in a matching dust jacket. Barely a trace of wear. 207 pages with black and white and color illustrations. Written in 1807 to introduce young readers to the plays of Shakespeare. Fifteen of the best-known plays are retold in this edition, which adults will enjoy, too. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus & Cudahy/Jewish Publication Society: 1959
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 05639
Condition: Very Good
Foxing/spotting to top edge of page block. Illustrated endpapers and jacket. A title in the Covenant Books series for young readers, this book relates the life of Alfred Mordecai, an American Jewish hero of the Civil War. 178 pages, followed by a list of six Covenant books to date (1959). View more info
By: Alcott, Louisa May; Edited, Compiled, and with an Introduction and Narrative By Cary Ryan
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Bridgewater Books: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 09940
ISBN: 081673139X
Condition: Near Fine
From the publisher: "Excerpts from the girlhood diary of Louisa May Alcott, describing her family life, lessons, and experiences on a communal farm in the 1840s. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to this era." Forty-two pages with Chronology, Sources, and Index. View more info
By: Arnold, Katya
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, North-South Books: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 09472
ISBN: 1558582878
Condition: Near Fine
Rubbing wear to the dust jacket, more on the rear panel. Tiny nick on the front panel at the spine. Slight edge wear or bumping to the top and bottom edges. Protected now in a clear Mylar sleeve. Storyline from the publisher: "When she is sent by her cruel stepmother to the fearsome Baba Yaga, a clever young girl uses kindness to make her escape. Based on a story from the collection compiled by the nineteenth folklorist Aleksandr Afanas'ev and illustrated in a bold, colorful style inspired by Russian 'lubok' art." View more info
By: Arnosky, Jim
Price: $12.50
Publisher: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books: 1989
Seller ID: 06779
ISBN: 0688081622
Condition: Near Fine
Light sticker shadow to rear endpaper. Slight wear to bottom edge of jacket's rear panel. 28 pages View more info
By: Baker, Betty
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, Macmillan: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: SIGNED
Seller ID: 07530
ISBN: 002708230X
Condition: Very Good
Top edge only of boards worn, possibly from inscet damage. Rest of the book is fine. Story of a young girl on a quest to save the impoverishe kingdom of Sirrushany. A fast-paced plot that gently spoofs traditional fantasies. 134 pages with a fold-out map. Signed by the author to fellow children's author, and four-time Edgar winner, Joan Lowery Nixon: "For Joan Nixon, who's encountered a few dragons herself. Betty Baker 6/26/90." Formerly in the late Ms. Nixon's collection of association copies from fellow children's authors. See our other listings from this collection. View more info
By: Baldwin, Clara
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Abingdon Press: 1956
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 08841
Condition: Very Good
Mild shelf wear to boards. Dust jacket is edge-worn with some large chips and a tape repair on the inside of the jacket's spine as well as to a few short edge tears. View more info
By: Bannerman, Helen
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry Altemus Company: 1918
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 09121
Condition: Fair
A title in the Wee Books for Wee Folks series. Publication date not stated, but 1918 per Cary Sternick's "The Henry Altemus Company: A History and Pictorial Bibliography," (2005). Cloth spine split along the rear cover side. Edge wear, worn corners, and a small piece of the green letter "O" in SAMBO on the front cover is missing. Hinges just starting to crack. A child's name is written in the ownership space printed on the front free endpaper. Otherwise, the pages are free of any writing, but some show a slight soiling. Sixty-three pages followed by four pages of the publisher'... View more info
By: Barnes, Peter W. and Cheryl Shaw
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Lorton, Virginia, VSP Books: 2004
Edition: 2nd Printing
Inscription: SIGNED
Seller ID: 06739
ISBN: 1893622134
Condition: Fine
Just a trace of bumping to the top edge of the jacket, else a fine copy. "Autographed Copy" sticker on front panel of jacket. Signed by Cheryl S. Barnes on first page. About 25 pages (not numbered) with a "ballot" at the back of the book for the reader to vote for his or her favorite White House pet and explain why. A Bibliography is provided at the end of the book. View more info
By: Barrie, J.M. (Retold By Eleanor Graham)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1962
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 03678
Condition: Good
Shelf and edge-wear. Spotting to all edges of the page block. Jacket chipped and edge-worn. Deep scratch or tear to front panel with tape residue. Tear on rear panel, top-edge. Protected now in a new Mylar cover. This edition is a retelling of Barrie's classic story, preserving the unique quality and spirit of the original play. 175 pages with author and artist bios. Illustrated with color and black and white drawings. View more info
By: Baum, L. Frank
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1986
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 10068
ISBN: 0448189836
Condition: Very Good
Bump to the fore-edge, wear at the bottom corners, light rubbing. 120 pages with colorful illustrations credited to Maraja. Libico Maraja (1912-1983) was one of Italy's top post-World War II illustrators who illustrated many children's classics. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: San Antonio, Texas, The Naylor Company: 1953
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 02225
Condition: Very Good
Light wear at spine ends and corners. Binding solid, interior clean and bright with no writing, marks or stains. Jacket chipped at the spine ends and corners, with a larger piece missing on the top edge of front panel near the spine. Does not affect the title. Original price of $2.00 intact on front flap. Protected now in a Mylar sleeve. Story of a young Navajo boy who yearns to be a great Medicine Man, but, as he becomes a young man and receives an education from the white man, he struggles to reconcile his environment with his heredity. Aimed primarily at early teen readers, this book offers... View more info
By: Berry, Rotha McClain (SIGNED)
Price: $50.00
Publisher: San Antonio, Texas, The Naylor Company: 1953
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 02209
Condition: Very Good
Boards show a little wear, specifically a small cut or tear (less than 1/4 inch) into the bottom edge of the front and rear boards near the spine. Jacket chipped at the spine ends and corner folds, with a few tiny edge tears. Original price of $2.00 intact on front flap. Protected now in a Mylar sleeve. The author has inscribed this book to an unnamed author: "To an old friend: Good wishes from one author to another. Rotha M. Berry, Writers Conference, June 6, 1953" A young Navajo boy yearns to be a great Medicine Man, but, as he becomes a young man and receives an education from the w... View more info
By: Black, Gwenda
Price: $10.00
Publisher: London, Longman Group Limited: 1971
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 09680
ISBN: 058259216x
Condition: Very Good
Rubbing wer along the spine and rear cover. Stapled covers. 30 pages. Black and white illustrations. View more info
By: Blue, Rose
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Franklin Watts, Inc.: 1970
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 05690
ISBN: 0531019403
Condition: Very Good
Trace of soiling to upper area of front cover. Light bumping to corners. Jacket is edge-worn, chipped, and rubbed. Tape repair to small tear at the head of the spine. Small hole in the jacket's spine below the tape repair. A new Mylar protective cover improves the look and feel. Sonny is an African American boy in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood, known as Bed-Stuy, of Brooklyn, and this book is his story told in the lyrics of a song, page by page, with the final page containing the whole song and musical notation. The art work of Harold James illustrates each page and brings the story to l... View more info
By: Blume, Judy
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Bradbury Press: 1981
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 02677
ISBN: 0878881859
Condition: Near Fine
Light edge wear, rubbing to jacket. No tears, marks, or stains. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Huntsville, Alabama, The Strode Publishers, Inc.: 1976
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 07398
ISBN: 0873970950
Condition: Near Fine
97 pages, illustrated with drawings. A history of Mississippi through the Civil War, aimed at younger readers to interest them in the history of the state. This is the author's second book in a series about Mississippi history, the first one being "The Stone Amulet." View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Munchen, Josef Muller: 1936
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10038
Condition: Fair
Wear to edges and spine, chipped at the head of the spine. Light, scattered foxing. Binding tight. Unpaginated (about 20 pages). German text. Nine color illustrations by the Viennese author of this charming little children's book. View more info
By: Botkin, Gleb
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Villard: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 09521
ISBN: 0679451420
Condition: Fine
Written and illustrated by Gleb Botkin, son of the Tsar's physician for the children of the Russian Imperial family (Romanovs) when they were imprisoned following the 1917 Revolution, these stories, arranged in two 'Books,' feature the adventures of a bear trying to fend off a revolutionary band of monkeys and restore an imprisoned monarch to his throne. BOOK I is the Sacred Truth of the History of the Times of the Great Monkey Revolution. BOOK II is The Restoration of Monarchy on Finch Island After the Failure of the Monkey Revolution. When Tsar Nicholas II, members of his family, and Botkin'... View more info
By: Brooks, Bruce
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Row, Publishers: 1986
Edition: 4th Printing
Inscription: SIGNED
Seller ID: 07541
ISBN: 0060207094
Condition: Fine
A 16-year-old girl (Sib), who is a cello-playing musical prodigy, seeks her mother, who abandoned her at birth during the 1960s. Her father takes her to San Francisco in a Volkswagen minibus, providing a Sixties retrospective with music and stories from the era, hoping to give her some perspective on the times in which she was born as well as the mindset of her mother at the time. With expectations of an appalling hippie-mom, both Sib and her father are in for a surprise. 263 pages. Inscribed by the author to fellow children's author, and four-time Edgar winner, Joan Lowery Nixon: "For Joan- W... View more info
