Original white pictorial laminate on boards. Library card pocket removed, small Dewey number sticker on spine. Clean inside. Protected by clear plastic wrapper. Divided into French and German sections by origin. 245 pp. View More...
Original blue cloth on boards. Title page soiled. An embellishment of the siege of the Alamo by Santa Ana. 292 pp. plus bio. Intended for younger readers. View More...
Original colour illustrated paper boards backed in olive cloth. Edgewear. Previous owner's name and inscription. Retold for children by Louey Chisholm, who saw it in a book entitled, "The Parent's Assistant", when she was a little girl. 64 pp. View More...
Original blue paper boards. Unclipped DJ. Top edges dusty, otherwise Fine. Dolphins in Romney Marsh off the Sussex shore seem fascinated by the girls and their boat.. When they go for a midnight swim is it one of the same dolphins who saves Tamzin ? 192 pp. View More...
.Original yellow paper on boards. Unclipped DJ. Top edges dusty. No writing. The Hawkes family has a sheep farm in Romney Marsh. Something has been killing their sheep, usually at dawn. Is it Glen, their own dog ? They stay up all night to solve the mystery. 192 pp. View More...
Original bright red paper boards. Unclipped DJ. While the parents are on holiday in France a wild deer gets in with the cows. The youngsters tackle the project with gusto ! 256 pp. View More...
Original blue cloth lettered and decorated in black on boards. There were 10 colour plates, but 3 are missing. A little lump of coal tells his life story to all the other Things in the nursery. It is true because Things don't lie. He has to hurry, since he will soon be thrown into the fire. 95 pp. View More...
Grey-green cloth showing lance, hatchet, bow, quiver, and shield in colour on boards. No date, but prior to move to Springfield, MA, in 1920. First free endpaper missing. Colour frontispiece shows Wolf Ear, the Ogalalla, with little Edith. Many more illustrations by Comstock. The story is set in South Dakota about 1890, when relations between natives and the white settlers were still uneasy. Brinton Kingsland, age 17, had met Wolf Ear earlier, but their friendship was strained by relations between the larger groups. Text browning. One tiny edge tear to frontispiece. No writing. 119 ... View More...
Green paper boards backed in beige cloth. Woman's Missionary Society stamp and seal. No other writing or marks. Six stories about sharing. 64 pp. plus 2-page list of "Something to Do" after reading. Frontispiece in colour. View More...
Illustrated white boards backed in yellow cloth. Colour frontispiece, line drawings, and six stories about China. Woman's Missionary Society stamp and small label. 66 pp. See The Red Friendly Book listed separately. View More...
Colour-illustrated paper boards backed in red cloth. Gift note at top corner, inside cover. OW Near Fine. Purchasd in Prague, 2009. The Black Princess. The Three Spinners. The Golden Hill. The Devil and Kate. The Clever Princess. Fire Bird and Red Fox. Long, Broad and Sharp Eyes. The Princess with the Golden Star on Her Forehead. Boil, Pot, Boil ! Illustrations in colour. 115 pp. View More...
Original red cloth, pictorial and highly decorated in black, white, and gilt, on boards. Large prize plate on FFEP, below stamp of West Ham Education Committee, Godwin Road School. Seal of West Ham Education Committee embossed centre of rear cover. Ever so slight wear at corner tips, OW Very Good. SEE SCAN. 371 pp. plus brief Warne's catalogue. View More...
Original red blind-stamped cloth on boards. Good DJ with only minor chips top and bottom. Lovely oval cover portrait on DJ. Cloth covers are glossy and bright. SEE SCAN. Also see my other listings of Elsie's Womanhood and Elsie's Motherhood by the same publisher, both with fair DJs, and Elsie At Home, published by Donahue(earlier). This book has 323 pp. View More...
Original red blind-stamped cloth on boards, fair DJ. SCAN shows DJ cover, but nearly 1/3 of DJ spine is missing, and fragile on all folds. Companion volume to my other listings, Elsie's Children and Elsie's Motherhood. See also an earlier volume, Elsie at Home, published by Donohue. This book has 343 pp. View More...
Original blind-stamped red cloth on boards. No DJ. Gilt spine dec. and lettering. Cover shows four children dancing around a Maypole and elaborate floral corners. Back cover identical. This is from the first children's series, My Uncle Toby's Library, issued in 12 volumes by Reverend Wise in 1853. At least four more series followed. Somehow he found time to hold various pastorates (Methodist) from 1837-52, edit the Sunday-School Messenger from 1838-44, and write several books. He edited the Zion's Herald from 1852-56, then took on the editorship of all Methodist Sunday School publicati... View More...
Original dark green full leather on flexible board. A story in praise of wild animals. However, either the child will have to be an advanced reader or the teacher an advanced performer in order to make sense of the mother rabbit's Devon accent. Troubling , too, is the snobbery of the mother red-deer, who teaches her fawn that he is superior to the trout, with whom he must never associate. Perhaps the best use of the book is as a Social Studies assignment in Junior High or High School. Rear hinge is cracked full-length. 212 pp. View More...
Original blue blind-stamped diamond design in cloth on boards. Gilt spine titles. Frontispiece and two more engravings. Ellen, the farmer's daughter, takes an interest in teaching the itinerant hop pickers, with religious overtones. Previous owner's name and date, 1861. Resembles a Tract Society book. Obviously posthumous, since author is referred to as "The Late." Could find no bio on this author. Mild foxing, waterstain, and corner wear. 86 pp. View More...
Original red cloth on boards. No DJ. Previous owner's names (3). Another of the series, this one about jumping horses. 224 pp. Binding strained, but not separated. View More...
