Maroon cloth decorated in gilt on boards. Prelude dated 1854. Apparently composed by Thackeray and others while on a visit to Italy. Previous owner's name. One corner fold corrected. 173 pp. View More...
Original grey-blue tweedy cloth lettered in yellow on boards. Religious songs for boys and girls under the age of five years. DJ chipped head and foot, with rear flap missing. No writing or other marks. 99 pp. including index of first lines. View More...
Original maroon cloth with large pastedown of Ameliaranne on an elephant. Corner damage to pastedown. Ameliaranne and the other children do odd jobs until they have enough to take a bus to the zoo. Full colour drawings of alternate pages. Small piece of paper with word, "orange", on inside cover. Approx. 60 pp. View More...
Original brown tweed on boards. Price-clipped DJ has a few tiny edge tears and chips. After Norman breaks Honey Bunch's Japanese toy bird, they visit the Tokyo Shop to buy a new one. They meet two new friends and solve two mysteries ! 182 pp. View More...
Original tan pictorial cloth on boards. DJ present, but chipped on edges and torn on fold, with small pieces missing top and bottom. SEE SCAN. Lists to title on EP, but lists to Her First Little Pet Show on DJ. Library sticker on spine, card envelope, and stamp. P.O.N. RFEP marked in purple. 182 pp. View More...
Original brown lavishly illustrated cloth on boards. Contents leaf secured by tape, and same gathering glued in. Gutter strain at 66-67 glued. Eventually, Paul sees the Pope. 130 pp. View More...
Original grey cloth with young colonial rifleman in grey and black on red background, on boards. No DJ. FFEP and one leaf between Contents and Illustrations are missing. Illustrations are present. 385 pp. View More...
Original maroon cloth lettered and decorated in gold on boards. Ethel Turner was a well-loved author of children's books in Australia. One reviewer suggested this novel might be autobiographical. Book shows edge wear all around, but is reasonably clean and sound. 315 pp. View More...
Highly-decorated beige cloth with pastedown panel on boards. Neither author nor illustrator is known. Thornton has a habit of bragging, which ends after he is treed by a calf which he took to be a bear. 62 pp. Estimated date of origin is 1895. View More...
Original blue-green cloth with two children blowing bubbles in gold on blindstamped boards. Part I begins with words of 3 letters, progressing to words of 6 letters. Part II begins with words of two syllables, progresing to words of five syllables. Dialogues between Mamma and Frank are expanded to include Ann, John, and Tom. By the halfway point Mamma is lecturing Frank about basic Christian doctrine. There are also stories about a lighthouse and chamois-hunting. The book is in quite good condition, with only light foxing on the tissue over the first of two title pages. Since the first... View More...
Original maroon blind-stamped cloth with faint gilt spine lettering on boards. No DJ. Poignant woodcut frontispiece of Carrie in front of store window. Another moralizing story for the Sunday School Union. Rubricated woodcut chapter headings. Foxed throughout, and some tiny tears, yet complete and readable. Some corner wear. 53 pp plus ads. View More...
Original paper booklet ca. 1850, very similar to the Henry Milner stories. Seventeen half-page woodcuts. Title page reads "Uncle Frank's Select Fables for Good Boys and Girls," while back cover reads "Moral and Entertaining Fables for Children." This booklet is No. IV in the series of 6, and contains l7 short fables. Very good condition. Cover paper is light yellow. Paginated 1, then 172-204. See my Henry's Walk and Henry's Visit listed separately. View More...
Original mustard cloth with brown lettering and vignette of a girl and a boy in green and brown on the cover. Gift inscription. Spine sunned. Twenty moral tales aimed at children. Most of the authors are women. Scarce. 174 pp. plus a 17-page catalogue of Benziger Brothers books at the back. View More...
Original grey cloth on boards illustrated with two birds, nest, and leaves. Tape removal residue. Previous owner's name stamp. One leaf torn full width (unrepaired). Brilliant 4-colour frontispiece and 3 additional colour plates. Many b/w drawings. Several short stories and poems by various authors. Unpaginated. 100 pp. approx. View More...
Original full colour, full pastedown of girl among large birds. Rear full pastedown has thumb-size portion missing. Many drawings and photos, with three colour plates. Various stories and poems to delight the children. The Raggle-Taggle Elves (Christine Chandler), Betty's Christmas Toys (Blanche Winder), and Lucy Runs Away(T.H. Scott) are among the stories. Ink inscription (1931). Lower end of front hinge glued. Comical circus endpapers. Edge and corner wear. 72 pp. View More...
Original colour pictorial laminated boards. 3/5 of spine missing, but covers well-attached. Light pencil underlines on Contents page. 124 pp. View More...
Original brown cloth with five children and a doll on boards. Church library bookplate and pencil scrawls inside front cover. Light foxing inside rear cover. Six of 13 illustrations missing. 189 pp. View More...
