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Three Little Maids

By: Turner, Ethel

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited:

Seller ID: 007678

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original maroon cloth lettered and decorated in gold on boards. Ethel Turner was a well-loved author of children's books in Australia. One reviewer suggested this novel might be autobiographical. Book shows edge wear all around, but is reasonably clean and sound. 315 pp.
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Thornton's Courage

By: Unidentified

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead, and Co.:

Seller ID: 012713

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Highly-decorated beige cloth with pastedown panel on boards. Neither author nor illustrator is known. Thornton has a habit of bragging, which ends after he is treed by a calf which he took to be a bear. 62 pp. Estimated date of origin is 1895.
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Uncle Frank's Fables for Children; The Ant and the Caterpillar

By: Unknown

Price: $200.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Murphy, Wm. H.:

Seller ID: 000363

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original paper booklet ca. 1850, very similar to the Henry Milner stories. Seventeen half-page woodcuts. Title page reads "Uncle Frank's Select Fables for Good Boys and Girls," while back cover reads "Moral and Entertaining Fables for Children." This booklet is No. IV in the series of 6, and contains l7 short fables. Very good condition. Cover paper is light yellow. Paginated 1, then 172-204. See my Henry's Walk and Henry's Visit listed separately.
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Sunday Evening Readings

By: Unknown

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Carlton and Porter: 1861

Seller ID: 001264

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

Original maroon blind-stamped cloth with faint gilt spine lettering on boards. No DJ. Poignant woodcut frontispiece of Carrie in front of store window. Another moralizing story for the Sunday School Union. Rubricated woodcut chapter headings. Foxed throughout, and some tiny tears, yet complete and readable. Some corner wear. 53 pp plus ads.
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New Cobwebs to Catch Little Flies

By: Unknown

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Robert Carter and Brothers: 1850

Seller ID: 005391

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original blue-green cloth with two children blowing bubbles in gold on blindstamped boards. Part I begins with words of 3 letters, progressing to words of 6 letters. Part II begins with words of two syllables, progresing to words of five syllables. Dialogues between Mamma and Frank are expanded to include Ann, John, and Tom. By the halfway point Mamma is lecturing Frank about basic Christian doctrine. There are also stories about a lighthouse and chamois-hunting. The book is in quite good condition, with only light foxing on the tissue over the first of two title pages. Since the first...
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The Wonderland Picture Book

By: Various

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited:

Seller ID: 004665

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair to Good

Original full colour, full pastedown of girl among large birds. Rear full pastedown has thumb-size portion missing. Many drawings and photos, with three colour plates. Various stories and poems to delight the children. The Raggle-Taggle Elves (Christine Chandler), Betty's Christmas Toys (Blanche Winder), and Lucy Runs Away(T.H. Scott) are among the stories. Ink inscription (1931). Lower end of front hinge glued. Comical circus endpapers. Edge and corner wear. 72 pp.
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The Maple Leaf Book of Stories

By: Various

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., McLoughlin Brothers: 1900

Seller ID: 005839

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original grey cloth on boards illustrated with two birds, nest, and leaves. Tape removal residue. Previous owner's name stamp. One leaf torn full width (unrepaired). Brilliant 4-colour frontispiece and 3 additional colour plates. Many b/w drawings. Several short stories and poems by various authors. Unpaginated. 100 pp. approx.
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Juvenile Round Table - Second Series - Stories By the Foremost Catholic Writers

By: Various

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Cincinnati, Chicago, Benziger Brothers: 1905

Seller ID: 013177

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original mustard cloth with brown lettering and vignette of a girl and a boy in green and brown on the cover. Gift inscription. Spine sunned. Twenty moral tales aimed at children. Most of the authors are women. Scarce. 174 pp. plus a 17-page catalogue of Benziger Brothers books at the back.
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The Crackerjack Book for Children

By: Various; Cover By Varty

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, The Children's Press:

Seller ID: 004235

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Minus

Original colour pictorial laminated boards. 3/5 of spine missing, but covers well-attached. Light pencil underlines on Contents page. 124 pp.
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A Terrible Feud and Other Stories for Children

By: Velvin, E. And Haverfield, E.L.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson and Sons: 1901

Seller ID: 005599

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original brown cloth with five children and a doll on boards. Church library bookplate and pencil scrawls inside front cover. Light foxing inside rear cover. Six of 13 illustrations missing. 189 pp.
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Aesop's Fables

By: Vernon-Jones, V.S.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Avenel Books: 1912

Seller ID: 012922

ISBN: 0517171988

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Brown composition boards. DJ showing wrinkles in lamination. This book introduces the child to some outstanding names in the world of books, from the Introduction by G.K. Chesterton to the colour art by Arthur Rackham. One short story, The Blackamoor, introduces two sensitive subjects (Slavery and Race), while several stories concern a donkey, or donkies, referred to by their Biblical names. 224 pp.
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Our Little Norwegian Cousin

By: Wade, Mary Hazelton

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Page Company: 1932

Seller ID: 009515

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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The Real Story Book

By: Wadsworth, Wallace C. (Ed.)

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: Chicago, Rand McNally & Company: 1927

Seller ID: 002411

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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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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One Hundred Stories for Boys

By: Wallace, Archer

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Abingdon Press: 1947

Seller ID: 001137

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Original maroon cloth on board. DJ lightly repaired inside. Brief accounts of heroic figures in history, with three handy indices of titles, persons, and subjects. Great for a quick reference. 171 pp. Wallace was at the time associate editor of the United Church of Canada Publishing House, yet this volume was published by the Methodist Publishing House of Nashville, Tennessee (Abingdon). He was also editor of "Onward" a youth paper of 100,000 circulation. Central Baptist Church stamp, but no evidence of "ex-library", so not described as such.
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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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