An Adventure with the Apaches

By: Ferry, Gabriel

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Benziger Brothers: 1900

Seller ID: 000769

Condition: Good

Original blue-grey highly-decorated cloth on boards, no DJ. 151 pp. plus lengthy catalog. Library bookplate and several stamps, OW good. View more info

Elsie's Children

By: Finley, Martha

Price: $45.00 USD

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

Seller ID: 000770

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. View more info

Elsie's Womanhood

By: Finley, Martha

Price: $25.00 USD

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

Seller ID: 000771

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. View more info

Wigwag Weigand

By: Fitzhugh, Percy Keese

Price: $30.00 USD

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

Seller ID: 001535

Condition: Very Good

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

Arthur Ellerslie; or, The Brave Boy

By: Forrester, Francis (Esq.) (Rev. Daniel Wise)

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Brown, Taggard, and Chase: 1858

Seller ID: 001125

Condition: Very Good

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 se... View more info

The Story of a Red-Deer

By: Fortescue, Hon. J.W.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Limited: 1905

Seller ID: 008000

Condition: Good to Very Good

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 Hi... View more info

The Young Hop-pickers

By: Fry, Sarah Maria (The Late)

Price: $17.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Henry Hoyt: 1859

Seller ID: 003406

Condition: Good Plus

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 info

Teen-Age Nurse Stories

By: Furman, A.L. (Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Grosset and Dunlap: 1959

Seller ID: 000776

Condition: Very Good

Original red tweed paper on boards, no DJ. The Teen-Age Library. Front hinge repaired and slightly cocked, OW very good. View more info

Hilda's Adventures

By: Garrard, Phillis

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Blackie and Son:

Seller ID: 001365

Condition: Good

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 info

The History of Little Goody Two Shoes

By: Goldsmith, Oliver (Attributed)

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company: 1930

Edition: First -(No Additional printings)

Seller ID: 009176

Condition: Very Good

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 info

A Cadet of Belgium; An American Boy in the Great War; A Story of Cavalry Daring - Bicycle and Armored Automobile Adventures

By: Grant, Captain Allan

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Doran: 1915

Seller ID: 000447

Condition: Good

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 info

Household Stories By the Brothers Grimm

By: Grimm, The Brothers

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.:

Seller ID: 011012

Condition: Fair

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 info

Helen's Babies/ The Adventures of a Brownie (The Pleasant Hour Series)

By: Habberton, John/ Mulock, Dinah Maria

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Barse and Hopkins:

Seller ID: 006686

Condition: Near Fine

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 info