Original blue cloth on boards. Includes New Old Stories and Verses as well as The Entertaining History of Giles Gingerbread in addition to Goody Two Shoes. Two colour plates and ten b/w line drawings. Illustrated endpapers. 96 pp. View More...
Original olive cloth on boards with black lettering. Cloth is split at top and bottom edges of spine. Corner wear. Ex-library book with sticker and pocket. Child's name in front. Mary Grannan was a popular writer and radio host in New Brunswick. 153 pp. View More...
Minor tape to DJ, but look inside ! Here are dozens of familiar drawings of Maggie and her friends on every page ! Eleven stories include "The Lost Shoe" and "The Snake Mittens." Book is clean and sound. 153 pp. View More...
Red paper boards. DJ has two small top tears. No writing. Ten stories, including Mrs. Tab's Party, Admiral Nelson, and Wing Feathers. Innocent, clean fun for your little one. 128 pp. View More...
Original blue cloth, pictorial illustration in red, brown, and black, on boards. No DJ. Front hinge repaired and front. reinserted. Adventure story set early in WW 1. 2-3" scuff on back cover, half-inch wide, missing cloth. 286 pp. View More...
Green cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. Wear to head and foot of spine. Hinges cracked and showing mesh backing. All text legible. Numerous small edge tears. 342 pp. View More...
Original brown cloth with illustrated pastedown on boards. Helen's Babies has been around since 1876, but this copy looks as though it came out last week. Adventures of a Brownie is even older, by four years. 48 pp. in each of the two stories, with several ads. No writing or damage. View More...
Original green grained plasticized cloth on boards. Signed, "Alberta Hawse, I John: 5:11,12." Long gift note and previous owner's name. DJ unclipped. Vinegar Boy's regular job is carrying vinegar wine and myrrh to the crucifixion hill. Today he had hoped to meet a man who was gaining a reputation as a miracle worker, to see if he could remove the ugly birthmark on the boy's face. However, he was called to work - there were to be 3 crucifixions today. 176 pp. View More...
Original colour illustrated paper boards. Several British expressions, but illustrations help to follow the story. Bottom corner tip wear. gift note. View More...
Original green plastic-covered boards with orange lettering. DJ edge-tattered and repaired inside. SEE SCAN. Jane Withers was a long-playing star from the age of 8 (With Shirley Temple in "Bright Eyes") until semi-retirement in 1947. She returned to the movie screen in 1956, in "Giant". TV viewers might remember her as Josephine the Plumber in Comet commercials in the 60's and 70's. 248 pp.Whitman 2301. View More...
Original colour printed boards show six children around a campfire over which a pot suspended from a tripod is cooking. Peggy, from whom I bought the book, is now in her 70's. You can see where she printed her name twice on the endpapers. I have erased it as best I could. Cover edges and corners are gently worn. Binding is secure. Approx 56 pp. View More...
Original grey-green cloth on blindstamped boards. Wear to spine ends and wrinkles to back cover. No front free endpaper. Front hinge cracked. Seth Baker was 9 or 10, and his brother, Chips, two years older. The boys survive by selling chips on the street. 87 pp. View More...
Original green cloth with large colour pastedown on boards. No writing. 2-inch vertical tear from top of page 43-44 taped. Brown stain on back cover. The only date shown is the 1907 copyright. The gang spends the night in an old barn when the carriage breaks down. 211 pp. View More...
Original dark blue cloth on boards. Wraparound pictorial DJ. The other two of the first three titles are listed separately. All three are from the same home, and were originally priced at 39 cents in pencil. Hinges are starting to crack, but there is no other damage and no writing. 252 pp. View More...
Original green cloth on boards. Wraparound DJ has light wear head and foot. Hinges starting to crack. No names, marks, or damage otherwise. An early Saalfield issue, believed to be 1940 or soon thereafter. We have listed the other two of the first three titles in similar condition separately. 252 pp. View More...
Original green cloth on boards with large pastedown of a boy and girl sharing flowers. The Bobbseys head for the West Indies and discover buried treasure. Clean and readable inside, but covers worn and spine tear repaired. 248 pp. View More...
Soft cover children's picture book illustrated by Canadian artist, Molly Lamb Bobak. "Born in Vancouver, Molly Lamb Bobak's career as an artist was launched during World War II as an official war artist, the first woman to be given that title. Posted around the country and then overseas, she recorded the day-to-day, ordinary activities of the Canadian Women's Army Corps" (from her artist profile at Gallery 78). Her husband, Bruno Bobak, is also an artist. The cover is a colour watercolour of a family on the beach. Inside, the story and the illustrations are printed in blue ink. The author... View More...
Original mustard cloth on boards. Pictorial DJ is price-clipped and has minor edge tears and scratches. The wild animals of Camargue in the South of France are admired by Paul Christophe, who covets one of the horses for his own. 112 pp. View More...
Original reddish-brown blindstamped cloth with floral pastedown decorated in black and lettered in gold on bevelled boards. General wear; worn through at corners and head and foot of spine. All six chromolithographs by Kate Greenaway are present and excellent except for 1/2 inch edge tear in frontispiece. Chromograph Series. Each illustration is accompanied by a well-known, appropriate poem. There is light foxing to endpapers, but interior is essentially clean and easily readable. There are no names or any other writing. 140 pp. plus publisher's catalog. View More...
