Original bright red cloth on boards. Gift notation, with no other writing and no damage. DJ flap, List of Contributors, laid in. Articles by 27 writers, suggesting how and where to have fun and learn something. No thumb smudges, scribbles, or tears suggests to me that the owner was either not a reader or not a "going concern," since either of these types would have received inspiration and ideas for any number of activities or projects from these pages. A book I would have devoured as a boy. 352 pp. Small ding to top edge of cover. View More...
Original red cloth on boards, with DJ and mylar wrap. Library stamps and card pocket, otherwise very good. I learned about the island of Surtsey from this book. 96 pp. View More...
Original brown cloth bordered and lettered in black, no DJ. Ex-library with customary evidence. Colour front and three additional full-page drawings by H.M. Brock. Cocked, and outer cover seems to have been lacquered to a hard, shiny finish.. 216 pp. View More...
Original grey pictorial paper boards. DJ duplicates cover. Faultless copy of this modern fable of weird animals like little dogs with wings that fly out of the Don River in Toronto. Discovered in a letter written by Margaret, a little girl who shares her family life. 25 unnumbered pp. View More...
Original green cloth with some foxing on blank leaves and water stains on back cover. This is a delightful book for children, especially for those who say they hate school. Homer Fink is one of those kids who appears never to be listening, but when one gets his attention he spouts facts and figures to the amazement of everyone, including the teacher. The author, Homer's fellow student, relates: "I don't suppose it ever occurred to Homer Fink that other kids weren't as concerned about learning as he was. To tell the truth, I'm not interested in half the things Homer knows about. But I list... View More...
Bobby's life on the farm is boring, but suddenly he becomes a knight to the rescue. He helps to bring in firewood. Piggy Wee gets out. Bobby's sailboat. 122 pp. Cover fading and repair to frontispiece. View More...
Original pictorial cover pastedown on boards. No DJ. Hinges cracked and glued. Cloth spine intact and sound. Previous owner's inscription dated 1893. Minor corner wear. Inch tear top of front free endpaper. Lots of line drawings inside. Two stories in one volume. 71 pp. One other seen. Back cover interesting facsimile of circulation statement of Belford's Magazine, duly notarized. View More...
Original blue illustrated cloth on boards. Previous owner's name, drawings, and business label on prelims. Rear hinge cracked and repaired. Gutter strains glued. Two boys of Virginia and their friends get to witness a battle of the Civil War in their own "backyard," and get a little more involved than they intend to. 156 pp. View More...
Origiinal dark green cloth with floral decoration on boards. A boy growing up in Temple Riston discovers another world. Ray Elliott makes good. Two moralizing stories. 128 pp. Previous owner's name. View More...
Original yellow centre panel on green borders, backed in red cloth on boards. Colour frontispiece. When Kitty Bulwer's father loses the farm, the family is desparate. Kitty makes use of her knitting needles. She outlasts a jealous rival, and even secures an unusual position on the highway. A Christian morality story. Prize note. Corner tips worn. 64 pp. View More...
Original maroon cloth on blindstamped boards. Lizzie has grown up helping her mother care for new babies until there are six of them. Suddenly Lizzie's legs give way, and her back is affected, too. She loves her father for taking care of her and worries about not being able to help her mother. Lizzie prizes a picture, a copy of Pilgrim's Progress, and a beautiful plant, and feels content with her lot. Her father begins going to "the preaching", and eventually Lizzie has a little Bible all her own. An inspiring story of family love, self-effacement, and genuine Christianity. Two previous... View More...
Original maroon blindstamped cloth on boards. Another very good example of a morality story for children. Very good condition. Previous owners' names. 152 pp. View More...
Original light blue paper boards. Unclipped DJ. In this first story of a new series, "Fred and I" and Uncle George have very unusual experiences. Fort X, where Uncle George hangs out, is in danger.189 pp. View More...
Original red cloth on boards. Walter runs away with the dream of becoming a soldier. Cover faded. Corner tear on p. 64. 124 pp. plus catalog. View More...
"A charming idyl of East Coast life." - Catalog. Captain January is a lighthouse keeper and a top-notch story teller. He rescued Star Bright after a shipwreck. After a half-hearted search for her relatives he keeps her for himself. Now a truant officer has entered the case because he didn't send her to school. And he's about to be replaced by a beaon. Reader, beware of racial slurs. 78 pp. View More...
Blue cloth on boards. Prize bookplate. Twenty animal stories for children, written by the wife of the man who was the third Governor of Alaska, from 1918-1921. 130 pp. View More...
Bright red boards, glossy pictorial DJ. When Sally leaves Somerset with her brother and grandmother in 1886 to seek a home in London, a series of events leads her to enter nursing. Suggested for girls, 10-14, but it won't hurt boys, either. The Crescent Library, No. 4. Slightly bent corners 127 pp. View More...
Original sparkling bright red cloth with black airplane and lettering on boards. Integral bookplate page is neatly filled in. Minor edge dust. Fingernail-size piece missing from top of DJ spine. Fourth book in the Great Ace Series. 208 pp. View More...
