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By: Escott-Inman, Rev. Herbert
Price: $100.00 USD
Publisher: London, Warne: 1905
Seller ID: 000690
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. View more info
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
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
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
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
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 several books. He edited the Zion's Herald from 1852-56, then took on the editorship of all Methodist Sunday School publicati... View more info
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 High or High School. Rear hinge is cracked full-length. 212 pp. View more info
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
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
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
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
By: Grannan, Mary
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Thomas Allen, Limited: 1956
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 007769
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Original light green cloth on boards. Previous owner's name neatly printed inside cover. Twelve more stories by the favourite children's story-teller and author from Fredericton. 150 pp. View more info
By: Grannan, Mary
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Thomas Allen, Ltd.: 1959
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012726
Condition: Good Plus
Blue cloth on boards. Spine faded. Previous owner's name. Eleven stories. 154 pp. View more info
By: Grannan, Mary
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Thomas Allen Limited: 1958
Seller ID: 012746
Condition: Good Plus
Red paper boards. First free endpaper removed. Twelve stories, including Chocolate Eggs, The Flying Trapeze, and The Magician. 152 pp. View more info
By: Grannan, Mary
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Thomas Allen Limited: 1950
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 012777
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
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 info
By: Grannan, Mary
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Thomas Allen Ltd.: 1957
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012832
Condition: Near Fine
Flawless copy appears unread. No marks or damage. 13 stories, including Karen and the Pigeon, Little Good Arrow, and What Happened in Puddleduck. Mary taught school in New Brunswick before joining the staff of CBC in Toronto. 150 pp. View more info
By: Grannan, Mary E.
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Thomas Allen & Son, Ltd.: 1981
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 012747
ISBN: 0-919028-24-1
Condition: Very Good
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 info
By: Grannan, Mary E.
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Thomas Allen, Limited: 1953
Seller ID: 012926
Condition: Good
"Susan" in ink on cover. Author's portrait on rear cover. Tear in bottom of spine repaired. One of a number by a popular CBC storyteller, a former teacher in Fredericton. 138 pp. View more info
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
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