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The Anxious Enquirer After Salvation Directed and Encouraged

By: James, John Angell

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Robert Carter & Brothers: 1866

Seller ID: 013506

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original green cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine. Cover cloth is wrinkled both front and back. Some waterstains to front endpapers. Christmas gift inscription dated 1869 inside front cover. This book was written for children, but the language would challenge many adults today! Scarce. 176 pp.
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White Horses and Black Bulls

By: Jenkins, Alan C.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., W. W. Norton: 1963

Seller ID: 001744

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

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.
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A Cruise in the Acorn

By: Jerrold, Alice (Mrs. Adolphe Smith)

Price: $825.00 USD

Publisher: London, Marcus Ward & Co.: 1875

Seller ID: 004304

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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.
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Edith Leigh's Prayer Book

By: K. M.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Protestant Episcopal Society for the Proomotion of Evangelical Knowledge: 1867

Seller ID: 011434

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Maroon cloth on boards. Previous owner's name. Dedicated to Little Patients in the Children's Ward of St. Luke's Hospital. A fictitious story with three very sharp illustrations with tissue covers. Moderate wear to head and foot of spine and corner tips. 250 pp.
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Forest Mammals; The North American Wildlife Series

By: Kalman, Bobbie

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Crabtree: 1987

Seller ID: 000732

Binding: Pictorial Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original pictorial plasticized cover on boards, no DJ. Very clean, with only minimal library stamp and numbering. Any lover of animals in the wild will appreciate the colour and b/w drawings. 57 pp. including glossary and index. A book for children, or put it on a coffee table!
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Baby Kangaroo and Lilly Lamb

By: Kilbourne, C.E.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, The Musson Book Co., Limited: 1944

Seller ID: 006884

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original blue cloth with pastedown colour illustration on boards. DJ complete bu with several repaired tears. One of the Baby Animals Stories Series. Readable print and simple vocabulary make this an ideal book for the beginning reader. Unpaginated. Approx. 48 pp.
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The Water-Babies

By: Kingsley, Charles

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited:

Seller ID: 009882

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Green cloth on boards. No writing. 18 full-colour plates in this colourful volume. Price-clipped DJ. Light foxing on the reverse of the DJ. 224 pp.
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Manco, the Peruvian Chief; or An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas

By: Kingston, W.H.G.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Collins:

Seller ID: 000700

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Fair

Original red cloth pictorial cover of canoeists chasing a moose(?) on boards, no DJ. Another of the colourfully-illustrated Kingston books. Eight full-page colour plates by Berkeley. Three-masted ship on spine. Book is soiled and worm-worn, but the drawings are unique ! 304 pp.
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The Children's Book of the Saguenay

By: Knott, Leonard L.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Montreal, Editorial Associates Limited: 1945

Seller ID: 012347

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Large, multi-coloured hardcover. All about larger passenger or cruise ships. Explains the various personnel and their tasks. Some local history, too, as the ship's names are given, and the statue in honor of Madeleine de Vercheres is described. Visit Quebec City, ride in a caleche, see the Manoir Richelieu, and learn to sing 'Alouette'. There are some crayon scribbles on the inside covers, but all text is easily readable. 29 pp.
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A Week with Twickingham; Sweet Peas; Wide World Rambles

By: Kringle, George

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, H.L. Kilner and Co.: 1884

Seller ID: 002734

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Origiinal blue cloth with black lettering and decoration on boards. Three stories bound into one volume. Cover states Premium Library. Frontispiece was glued inside front cover, but is tearing away. Many b/w illustrations. 67, 63, and 59 pp., respectively. Minor cover edge wear.
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The Road to Oz

By: L. Frank Baum

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: 1991

Seller ID: 012939

ISBN: 0688099971

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

This will bring back memories ! From The Way to Butterfield to The Birthday Celebration, these 24 chapters will have you joining Dorothy and her friends for adventures you've forgotten about ! Wonder Book Series. 267 pp.
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Come True Land Stories

By: Lane, Estella H.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, The Pilgrim Press: 1928

Seller ID: 004370

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original blue cloth with full airplane pastedown on boards. A book of stories for children. 142 pp.
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Ho-Ming, Girl of New China

By: Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, John C. Winston Company: 1934

Seller ID: 008881

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. Bellview School stamped inside front cover. Ho-Ming is twelve years old and living in old-fashioned China. As a friend shares new ideas with her over the next five years, Ho-Ming becomes part of New China. No writing or serious damage to book. Cover shows general wear from reading. 266 pp.
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Songs for Little Children

By: MacMillan, Rev. Alexander (Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, United Church Publishing House: 1937

Seller ID: 012275

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Maroon book on cloth boards. Approx. 125 songs and finger plays with recommendations for three age groups: Nursery (3 yrs.), Beginner (4-5 yrs.), and Primary (6,7, and 8 yrs.). Pp. 95-96 have a long tear, but are readable. 100 pp.
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A Book of Giants

By: Manning-Sanders, Ruth

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co., Ltd.: 1968

Seller ID: 006537

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original blue cloth on boards. Stories of giants from around the world. Although they are big and sometimes eat people, they can usually be conquered by quick thinking. School library stamp. 125 pp.
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Masterman Ready

By: Marryat, Capt. Frederick

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Grosset & Dunlap:

Seller ID: 007115

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark blue cloth on boards. Gift note. No other writing or damage. Preface describes the author's appraisal of Swiss Family Robinson (his children's favourite book) as having "difficulties which for me were insurmountable...It does not adhere to the probable..."- Preface. This book, then, can be expected to adhere to the probable, and to present to children a realistic picture of life, together with the occasional caution, "When people are too eager in their pursuit they run blindly into danger." - P. 85. 398 pp.
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The Biggest Bear on Earth

By: McCracken, Harold

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, J. B. Lippincott Co.: 1943

Seller ID: 010805

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Minus

Light blue cloth on boards. Author appears enamoured of large bears - and this is the largest ! Library card pocket and two short spine rips on front joint. Cover soil. Firmly bound. Colour frontispiece and several b/w. 114 pp.
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The Secret Jungle

By: McGregor, R. J.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: London, Sheldon Press: 1928

Seller ID: 008164

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original brown cloth lettered and illustrated in black on boards. A co-operative effort between the publisher, Sheldon Press, and the SPCK, this book was also awarded first prize as the "best boy's story with a missionary interest" by the United Council for Missionary Education, London. Previous owner's name, Betty Short, together with the very good condition, suggests that the book was hardly read. Satisfies First Edition guidelines in that it has the prescribed 160 pp. and the 16-page catalog at the back is dated 1928. I re-inserted the frontispiece. The author was Headmaster of ...
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Little Mary and Other Stories

By: Meade, L.T.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, W. & R. Chambers, Limited:

Seller ID: 005072

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original highly decorated red cloth on boards. Poor Dolly Dingle was not like all the other Dingles. She wasn't pretty, and she was naughty. She didn't like to wash her face or hands. As she grew older she began to wish for a baby sister. If only Dolly could have a little sister, she'd be a good girl ! 136 pp. Previous owner's name and date of 1901. Some edge wear and hand soil, but sound and easily readable.
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Queen of the Day and Other Stories

By: Meade, Manwell, Crompton

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Ernest Nister:

Seller ID: 006948

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original colour illustrated paper boards. A lovely little book. Queen of the Day by L.T. Meade, Miss Corny's Niece by M.B. Manwell, and The Moorland Brook by Frances E. Crompton. Gutter strain between pp. 32-33 necessitated gluing to prevent separation. No writing. Some spine abrasion. 40 pp.
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