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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
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Watson and Dwyer: 1985
Edition: Third Printing
Seller ID: 011971
ISBN: 0-920486-04-5
Condition: Good Plus
Photo-illustrated softcover. An account of the "Home Children" who were brought at a young age from England to work on farms in Canada from 1870 to 1930, when the Depression put an end to the program. 271 pp. View more info
By: Hawse, Alberta
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Chicago, Moody Press: 1971
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 006350
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
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 info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Chicago, Henneberry Company:
Seller ID: 011552
Condition: Very Good
Maroon embossed cloth on boards. Gift note dated 1922. Note: This book follows The Wonder Book (which should be read first). More retelling of Greek myths, the details of which are somewhat softened. Just the thing for a future Jeopardy champ ! 308 pp. View more info
By: Hayle, Felicity
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Sampson Low: 1958
Seller ID: 006889
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Original colour illustrated paper boards. Several British expressions, but illustrations help to follow the story. Bottom corner tip wear. gift note. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Racine, WI, Whitman: 1944
Edition: Authorized
Seller ID: 000739
Condition: Very Good
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 info
Price: $40.00 USD
Publisher: London, Georghe G. Harrap & Co., Ltd: 1939
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 008690
Condition: Good to Very Good
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 info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Frederick Warne and Co.: 1887
Seller ID: 007656
Condition: Good
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 info
By: Hope, Laura Lee
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Akron, OH, The Saalfield Publishing Company: 1940
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 003895
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
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 info
By: Hope, Laura Lee
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Akron, OH, The Saalfield Publishing Co.: 1940
Seller ID: 003897
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
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 info
By: Hope, Laura Lee
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Grosset and Dunlap:
Seller ID: 008671
Condition: Fair
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 info
By: Hope, Laura Lee
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Grosset and Dunlap:
Seller ID: 008681
Condition: Good
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 info
By: Itani, Frances
Price: $100.00 USD
Publisher: Fredericton, N.B., Brunswick Press: 1979
Seller ID: 003207
ISBN: 0-88790-108-5
Condition: Very Good Plus
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. Th... View more info
By: James, Hartwell
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: Philadelphia, A.J. Holman Company: 1923
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 007956
Condition: Very Good
Original purple cloth with pastedown on boards. DJ lightly chipped. 236 pp. No writing or damage. View more info
By: Jenkins, Alan C.
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., W. W. Norton: 1963
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 001744
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. View more info
By: Jerrold, Alice (Mrs. Adolphe Smith)
Price: $825.00 USD
Publisher: London, Marcus Ward & Co.: 1875
Seller ID: 004304
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. View more info
Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton/ Children's Book Club: 1960
Seller ID: 009384
Condition: Near Fine
Original beige paper boards. Unclipped DJ has very light hand soil on rear panel. Book has dusty top edges, otherwise Fine. A story for lovers of nature about wild life in the Highlands of Scotland. Lightly cocked. 192 pp. View more info
By: Johnson, Clifton
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Chicago, Goldsmith Publishing Co.: 1935
Seller ID: 004030
Condition: Good
Original red cloth with black lettering on boards. DJ has several edge tears repaired inside. Sleeping Beauty and seven more folklore stories. 117 pp. View more info
By: K. M.
Price: $40.00 USD
Publisher: New York, Protestant Episcopal Society for the Proomotion of Evangelical Knowledge: 1867
Seller ID: 011434
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. View more info
By: Kalman, Bobbie
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Crabtree: 1987
Seller ID: 000732
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! View more info