Brilliant multi-colour cover on yellow cloth shows girl in native costume and wooden shoes. One of the Little Cousin Series, originally published in 1903. Coloured frontispiece and five additional plates. DJ is missing several pieces. Mari, the protagonist, already has learned to obey her parents without delay and to shake hands rather than to kiss upon meeting. Mari goes to school only half the year since her village is small and can't afford a full-time teacher. Fishing, ski-lobing, and other sports are favourite activities. Small pencil scribbles on last free endpaper. 116 pp. View More...
Original green cloth with large colour pictorial pastedown on boards..About a dozen small edge tears have been repaired - two of them affecting illustrations. Except for a bumped top right cover corner, there is no other damage. Page edges have barely begun to tan. Adorable four-colour drawings, many full-page, make this a book to be appreciated by all ages. In addition to illustrating many other children's books, Price assisted her husband, Irving Price, and his partners in the founding of the Fisher-Price Company. Twenty classic children's stories on 136 pp. View More...
Original dark green cloth, white spine lettering, on boards. Fair DJ has chips and tears top and bottom, repaired inside with invisible tape. DJ waterstained. 221 pp. View More...
Original blue cloth on boards. Very clean, with corner tip wear. Originally published in 1922, and brought up to date with this revision. Leif the Lucky, Mr. Radishes and Mr. Gooseberry, and The Man Who Read the Stars are among the important explorers you'll meet here. 165 pp. plus Epilogue. View More...
Original blue cloth, highly decorated in black and yellow, on boards. No DJ. See SCAN. This is the l942 edition of the 1928 one, which was a larger format and contained 8 plates, rather than the four in this edition. Sad to say, the wartime binding has not withstood wear, and the colour plate of Little Bo-Peep is torn its full width(Left as is). Racial and religious slurs are present, as well as various violent scenes of shooting, beating, and cutting. Still, for the student of folklore, a valuable reference embellished by hundreds of small drawings and the four full-page colour plates. ... View More...
Original illustrated brown cloth on boards. Frontispiece and five additional drawings by A.L.T. and A. Hopkins, among others. Recurring theme is "On Christ the Solid Rock I Stand" by Rev. Edward Mote, Baptist pastor at Horsham, West Sussex, for 26 years. Previous owner's name (2). 128 pp. plus catalog. View More...
Original highly decorated green cloth on boards. Front endpaper missing. The author (1819-1895) was widely-known for her first novel,The Wide Wide World, which she wrote under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Wetherell in 1850. A little less successful was her Queechy two years later. It is interesting to note that her lawyer father had lost his business in the Panic of 1837, thus pressuring his elder daughter to help support the remaining family ( His wife, Anna Bartlett, had died while Susan was still young). Notwithstanding the success of her first novel and the only slightly less successfu... View More...
Red cloth on boards. Half-title and p. 3 have extraneous marks not affecting readability. Set in a hot, Spanish-speaking country, occupied in part by gypsies. No racial prejudice in evidence. Chickens and other animals are seen. Two leaves have very short (1-inch) gutter tears at bottom. Cover a bit grubby. 15 illustrations in colour, and 7 in b/w. 135 pp. View More...
Original blue pictorial cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. One of the most colourful, and thickest, volumes I have seen by this most prolific writer of air and sea adventures. 256 pp. View More...
Original colour pictorial on laminated boards. Published in 1954, near the end of Westerman's long writing career, this one appears to be set in Africa. The cover shows a white man in pith helmet confronted by a group of black natives led by a witch doctor. Previous owner's name in light pencil with no other marks or damage. 90 pp. View More...
Original grey-green cloth with black letters and design on boards, no DJ. FFEP missing. Soiled and lightly worn. Small hole in list of illustrations page. 214 pp. View More...
Original faux marbled boards on 3/4 leather design in black on red cloth on boards, no DJ. A rather scarce edition of a very popular book. Owner's name pencilled inside cover, and inscription in ink on half-title. RFEP and facing leaf carelessly separated at top. 180 pp. plus ads. View More...
Original blindstamped blue cloth on boards. Church stamp and negligible pencil marginalia. History of the Church of England as organized around biographies of prominent persons. 135 pp. View More...
Original decorative blue cloth with black lettering, no DJ. Thick paper stock. Coloured frontispiece and two B/W drawings. Previous owner's name. Title page lettering lightly filled in with pencil. No other significant marks. 159 pp. View More...
Red paper boards backed in faded red cloth. Woman's Missionary Society stamp. Strained gutter glued. Colour frontispiece, b/w drawings, and six stories. See The Yellow Friendly Book No. 2, stories from China, listed separately. 61 pp. View More...
Original brown blindstamped cloth with gilt spine titles on boards. Spine and edge wear. Front hinge cracked and glued. Frontispiece badly spotted. Balance generally clean and readable. No writing. The author, an outspoken and well-written pacifist and abolitionist, was a close associate of William Lloyd Garrison. 180 pp. View More...
Original maroon cloth with oval colour pastedown on boards. Previous owner's name. Includes a Bible alphabet printed in colours. A well-known children's author tells the Bible stories in simple language. Laid in is a 4-page copy of Beginner's Bible Stories for Autumn Quarter, showing two girls building a tower of blocks with the subtitle, "Good Friends." 296 pp. View More...
