Showing 141-160 of 258
Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: Montreal, Editorial Associates Limited: 1945
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012347
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. View more info
By: Kringle, George
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Philadelphia, H.L. Kilner and Co.: 1884
Seller ID: 002734
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. View more info
By: L. Frank Baum
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: 1991
Seller ID: 012939
ISBN: 0688099971
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. View more info
By: Lane, Estella H.
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Boston, The Pilgrim Press: 1928
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 004370
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Original blue cloth with full airplane pastedown on boards. A book of stories for children. 142 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, John C. Winston Company: 1934
Seller ID: 008881
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. View more info
By: MacMillan, Rev. Alexander (Ed.)
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, United Church Publishing House: 1937
Seller ID: 012275
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. View more info
By: Mahy, Margaret
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 2006
Edition: First (No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 010692
ISBN: 0-571-23015-6
Condition: Good Plus to Very Good
Black paper boards. Minor wear to DJ. Previous owner's name. Garland Maddigan is 12, and the daughter of Fantasia's ringmaster. When three strange children join the circus, things take a turn for the worse. Also on BBC TV. 441 pp. View more info
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co., Ltd.: 1968
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 006537
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. View more info
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Grosset & Dunlap:
Edition: NOISBN Juvenile. Fiction.
Seller ID: 007115
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. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, J. B. Lippincott Co.: 1943
Edition: Tenth Impression
Seller ID: 010805
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. View more info
By: McGregor, R. J.
Price: $30.00 USD
Publisher: London, Sheldon Press: 1928
Edition: First
Seller ID: 008164
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 ... View more info
By: Meade, L.T.
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., Grosset and Dunlap:
Seller ID: 001255
Condition: Good
Original beige cloth decorated in floral green with large colour pastedown of girl in pink dress. No DJ. Noticeable wear and soil to cover. Front. torn 1 1/2 inch at bottom. 288 pp. plus several ads. View more info
By: Meade, L.T.
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: London, W. & R. Chambers, Limited:
Seller ID: 005072
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. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: London, Ernest Nister:
Seller ID: 006948
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. View more info
By: Mee, Arthur
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton:
Seller ID: 000681
Condition: Very Good
Original bright orange cloth with sunrise motif suggestive of art deco, in black and yellow, on boards.. Black lettering cover and spine. A marvelous, serious, substantial look at world history and geography for the young reader, but I like it, too! PON on pictorial EP. Greatly undervalued. Hinge paper cracked, but still firmly and solidly bound. Dozens of photos and colour art works. 316 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00 USD
Publisher: London, Victory Press: 1965
Seller ID: 000797
Condition: Good
Original pictorial boards, no DJ. A Girl Guide story. 120 pp. View more info
Price: $50.00 USD
Publisher: Chicago, Fairbanks & Palmer Publishing Co.: 1888
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 013137
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. View more info
By: Misheiker, Betty
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd.: 1963
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 005039
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. View more info
By: Molesworth, Mrs.
Price: $15.00 USD
Publisher: N.Y., A.L. Burt:
Seller ID: 005081
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. View more info
By: Molesworth, Mrs.
Price: $25.00 USD
Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry Altemus Company: 1899
Seller ID: 008789
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. View more info