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A Challenge for the Poppies

By: Middleton, Ivy F.E.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Victory Press: 1965

Seller ID: 000797

Binding: Pictorial Cover

Condition: Good

Original pictorial boards, no DJ. A Girl Guide story. 120 pp.
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Mother Truth's Melodies. Common Sense for Children. A Kindergarten

By: Miller, Mrs. E.P.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Chicago, Fairbanks & Palmer Publishing Co.: 1888

Seller ID: 013137

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Bright red hardcover with gilt and black titles and cover illustration. Spine is worn, frayed, sunned, and has a 3/4 inch tear at bottom of rear hinge. Slight folding to bottom corner at the hinge of pages 101-112, and cuts at bottoms of pages 225-230 (not affecting text). Patterned endpapers in cream and tan. Delightful rhymes for young children with hundreds of black and white illustrations. Includes all the classics such as Humpty Dumpty; Little Bo-Peep; Twinkle, Twinkle; Little Boy Blue; and Hi-Diddle Diddle. 352 pp.
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The Bear Who Wanted the Mostest and Other Stories

By: Misheiker, Betty

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd.: 1963

Seller ID: 005039

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original green pictorial cloth on boards. First free endpaper and library evidence neatly removed. 13 delightful animal stories will have the kids singing, "I've got the bestest cage in the zoo !" 126 pp.
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The Little Old Portrait; A Story for Girls and Boys

By: Molesworth, Mrs.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., A.L. Burt:

Seller ID: 005081

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original grey cloth with lovely pictorial of boy giving a girl a flower. The story is about some bright spots of life amidst the horror of the French Revolution. Clean, with no writing. One tiny nick to edge of rear cover. 236 pp.
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The Magic Nuts

By: Molesworth, Mrs.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry Altemus Company: 1899

Seller ID: 008789

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Original red shield on gold background on green cloth boards. No writing or damage. Young Leonore takes a train ride with her governess to Alton in the first chapter, Night and Morning. Next chapters are Apples and Nuts, It is Hildegarde, On the Way, What's O'Clock ?, Gnomeland, A Collation under Difficulties, Tree-Top Land, A Concert, The Blue-Silk Room, The Unselfish Mermaid, and The Unselfish Mermaid (continued). Corner wear. 198 pp.
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Kilmeny of the Orchard

By: Montgomery, L.M.

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, The Page Company: 1917

Seller ID: 001874

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Original violet cloth with oval portrait pastedown and gilt lettering. Front. duplicates cover board. Gilt spine lettering. The little-known but haunting tale of Kilmeny, who was never taken to church or sent to school, presumably because she couldn't speak. How she learned to express herself so beautifully with her violin is a delightful example to all, regardless of age or station. Minor corner bumps. Untrimmed edges. 256 pp.
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The Golden Road

By: Montgomery, L.M.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto and Halifax, Ryerson Press: 1947

Seller ID: 013223

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good Minus

Original blue cloth with yellow lettering and decoration on boards. Previous owner's name. Follows The Story Girl, as she returns to Carlisle and gets involved in publishing a magazine.. 369 pp.
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Out of the Sun

By: Montgomery, Rutherford G.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Musson: 1945

Seller ID: 000971

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Original yellow cloth cover on boards, no DJ except one flap enclosed. Colour front. plus several B/W drawings. Racial slang. Light cover soil, 2 P.O.N.'s,OW very good. 255 pp. plus ad.
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The Boys' Country Book

By: Moore, John (Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Collins: 1955

Seller ID: 007059

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Exploring Earth History

By: Moore, Patrick and Brinton, Henry

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Odhams Books Limited: 1967

Seller ID: 004852

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

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.
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Feversham's Fag

By: Mowbray, John

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Cassell: 1927

Seller ID: 001086

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

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.
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Rosy

By: Mrs. Molesworth

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., A.L. Burt:

Seller ID: 006604

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original illustrated blue cloth on boards. Gift note. A few light smudges.Hinges cracked. "How was it that Colin was so good-tempered and reasonable, Felix so gentle and obedient, and Rosy, poor Rosy, so very different? ...Rosy had always been a very fiery little person, but the great pity was that she had been sadly spoiled." - p. 12
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A Little Hero

By: Musgrave, Mrs.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Blackie:

Seller ID: 000775

Binding: Pictorial Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original pictorial cover on boards, no DJ. Except for scrawly gift inscription, it is flawless. 64 pp.
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Secrets at Sidleigh

By: Neill, Margaret P.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Pickering and Inglis: 1949

Seller ID: 000896

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original green paper boards, no DJ. By the author of Gwyneth at Work, Beauty for Ashes, et al. ll2 pp. P.O.N. and inscription.
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Dippers (Signed)

By: Nichol, Barbara

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Tundra Books: 1997

Seller ID: 004587

ISBN: 0887763960

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

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.
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The Travels of Jeremy Jukes

By: Odell, Bernard

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Leicester, England, Brockhampton Press Ltd.:

Seller ID: 013141

Binding: Paper Covered Boards

Condition: Very Good Plus

Bright, colourful pictorial cover on paper covered boards. Top and bottom of spine have minor rubbing. No writing or other damage. Pictorial endpapers. Jeremy Jukes is a young gnome who has trouble doing things correctly at home, and sets out to travel on the advice of his schoolmaster, Mr. Toad (animals talk in this book!). Delightful illustrations throughout. Great fun to read to a child! 64 pp.
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The Adventures of Homer Fink

By: Offit, Sidney

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., St. Martin's Press: 1966

Seller ID: 000091

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Good Minus

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 ...
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Summer at Cloverfield Farm

By: Orton, Helen Fuller

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1924

Seller ID: 011460

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

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.
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A Country Boy's Centennial / "Little Buttons"

By: Osborne, S. McAllester

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Belford Co.: 1890

Seller ID: 001703

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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.
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Two Little Confederates

By: Page, Thomas Nelson

Price: $22.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Charles Scribner's Sons: 1897

Seller ID: 007140

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

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.
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