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When You Go Stories

By: Walker, John Curry

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Fleming H. Revell Company: 1942

Seller ID: 005026

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original maroon cloth on boards. No other copies found. Previous owner's name in light pencil, with no other writing and no damage. The author shares many of his travel experiences in order to broaden the lives of young readers. Reverend Walker was co-pastor of Church of the Pilgrims (Congregational) in Brooklyn in 1934, but resigned that post in 1935. In the preface to this rare book, he gives his location as Second Congregational Church, Waterbury, Conn. 155 pp.
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The Field of Honour; Another Hundred Stories for Boys

By: Wallace, Archer

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson: 1949

Seller ID: 000608

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

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.
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By Star and Compass

By: Wallace, W. Stewart (Ed.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press: 1953

Seller ID: 006141

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes

By: Walter, L. Edna (Ed.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Black: 1942

Seller ID: 000620

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Fair

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. ...
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Saved at Sea; A Lighthouse Story

By: Walton, Mrs. O.F.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Religious Tract Society:

Seller ID: 007604

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

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.
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The Little Camp on Eagle Hill (Warne's Star Series)

By: Warner, Susan

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne and Co.: 1887

Seller ID: 006307

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair to Good

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...
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Coco the Goat

By: Wells, Rhea

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday Doran & Co., Inc.: 1935

Seller ID: 012547

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

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.
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The Good Ship "Golden Effort"

By: Westerman, Percy F.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Blackie and Son Ltd.:

Seller ID: 002381

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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The Ju-Ju Hand

By: Westerman, Percy F.

Price: $28.00 USD

Publisher: London, Blackie & Son Limited:

Seller ID: 002932

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

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.
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Sunny Boy in the Big City

By: White, Ramy Allison

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Barse and Hopkins: 1920

Seller ID: 000757

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

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.
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Faith Gartney's Girlhood

By: Whitney, Mrs. A.D.T.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., New York Book Company: 1910

Seller ID: 000755

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

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.
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Founded Upon a Rock: Stories for Children from English Church History

By: Wilmot-Buxton, E.M.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Skeffington & Son: 1895

Seller ID: 007602

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

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.
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Pat Joins the Laughing Band

By: Wilson, Theodora Wilson

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Every Girl's Paper Office:

Seller ID: 001278

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

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.
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The Brownie Scouts in the Circus

By: Wirt, Mildred A.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Cupples & Leon Company: 1949

Seller ID: 008299

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Original bright orange cloth on boards. DJ has tiny nick at foot, otherwise Near Fine. No. 2 in the series. The leader, Miss Gordon, takes the girls on various trips and outings, and in this story they go to the circus ! Connie and Veve get locked inside the circus train, which adds a whole new spirit of adventure ! 212 pp.
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The Red Friendly Book No. 4; Stories From Africa

By: Wray, Muriel R.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Edinburgh House Press: 1935

Seller ID: 010512

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

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.
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A Kiss for a Blow; Or, a Collection of Stories for Children; Showing Them How to Prevent Quarreling

By: Wright, Henry C.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, B.B. Mussey: 1842

Seller ID: 003411

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

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.
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The Child's Bible Reader; Designed for the 52 Sundays in the Year

By: Yonge, Charlotte M.

Price: $36.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, John C. Winston Company, Limited: 1898

Seller ID: 009263

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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