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Rabbits Rafferty

By: Dumas, Gerald

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1968

Seller ID: 012681

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Rabbits and his fellow citizens save the town from takeover by the evil Mink Mumsey. DJ price-clipped. 196 pp.
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Gaston and Josephine

By: Duplaix, Georges

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harper and Brothers: 1936

Seller ID: 012818

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Gaston and Josephine are two very rosy French pigs who live with their mother and father on a little farm in the mountains in France. Their uncle in America has invited them to come and visit their little cousins. They begin with a look around Paris, but manage to miss their train. The Mayor lends them his bicycle, and they finally reach the ship. A fog closes in, but the little pigs squeak as loud as they can to warn other ships. In New York they receive the key to the city, but discover that they still have four days on the train, for their uncle's ranch is out west. "But we'll have such...
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Bumper Book of Girls' Stories; Lilac Story Book for Girls and Open-Air Adventure Stories for Girls

By: Duthie, Eric (Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hamlyn: 1978

Seller ID: 000610

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Original red cloth on boards, pictorial DJ with minor bottom tear, small piece missing from top, and price-clipped. 35 stories with over 170 illustrations. Very clean. 255 pp.
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The Three Sneezes; and Other Swiss Tales

By: Duvoisin, Roger

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Alfred A. Knopf: 1941

Seller ID: 004894

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

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.
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Lone Star Fight

By: Eberle, Ermengarde

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Dodd, Mead & Company: 1954

Seller ID: 002450

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

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.
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Simple Susan

By: Edgeworth, Maria

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd.:

Seller ID: 007476

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Minus

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.
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The Outsider

By: Edwards, Monica

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Collins/Children's Book Club: 1962

Seller ID: 009383

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

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.
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Killer Dog

By: Edwards, Monica

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: London, Collins/Children's Book Club: 1961

Seller ID: 009385

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

.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.
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Dolphin Summer

By: Edwards, Monica

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: London, Collins/Children's Book Club: 1963

Seller ID: 009386

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

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.
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The Little Black Coal

By: Eliot, Ethel Cook

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.: 1925

Seller ID: 005543

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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.
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Six Stories (The Arabian Nights' Entertainments)

By: Eliot, Samuel (Ed.)

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Boston Public Schools: 1880

Seller ID: 007391

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Original red cloth on boards. Stories of The Fisherman, The Three Sisters, Prince Ahmed, Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sindbad. Editor was Superintendent of Public Schools. In his preface he states that the appeal of these stories to the imagination of our children is the reason for introducing a few of the best of them into the schools. He acknowledges that the text is that of Dr. Scott, published in England in 1811, revised and simplified. Random gluing repairs to gutters to prevent separation of leaves. Lower corner tip of p.78 (Prince Ahmed) is missing, affecting about 12 lines. 210 pp.
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The Story of the Mass

By: Ellard, Gerald and Heeg, Aloysius

Price: $32.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Devotional Publishing Co.:

Seller ID: 010527

Binding: Soft Cover, Stapled

Condition: Good Plus

Delicate colour-illustrated booklet of 22 pp. Theme of giving in the Christian tradition. Inch tear at base of spine.
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Wolf Ear the Indian

By: Ellis, Edward S.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: New York, McGloughlin Brothers, Inc.:

Seller ID: 009628

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

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 ...
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The Yellow Friendly Book, A Story of China (The Friendly Books, No. 2)

By: Entwistle, Mary

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Edinburgh House Press: 1938

Seller ID: 010506

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

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.
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The Green Friendly Book; Stories of Friendship in an Indian Village

By: Entwistle, Mary

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Edinburgh House Press: 1934

Seller ID: 010713

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

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.
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Czech Fairytales

By: Erben, Karel Jaromir and Nemcova, Bozena

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Prague, Vitalis: 2008

Seller ID: 012118

ISBN: 978-80-7253-276

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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David Chester's Motto; Honour Bright; A Boy's Adventures at School and at Sea.

By: Escott-Inman, Rev. Herbert

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: London, Warne: 1905

Seller ID: 000690

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Elsie's Children

By: Finley, Martha

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Dodd, Mead: 1905

Seller ID: 000770

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Elsie's Womanhood

By: Finley, Martha

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Dodd, Mead: 1917

Seller ID: 000771

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Wigwag Weigand

By: Fitzhugh, Percy Keese

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Grosset and Dunlap: 1929

Seller ID: 001535

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Original red cloth, yellow letters, on boards. No DJ. Light handling cover soil. 214 pp. plus several series ads.
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