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By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Dean & Son Ltd.: 1967
Seller ID: 003894
Original pictorial paper boards. Story book for teenage girls. Very light corner wear. No other damage and no names or other writing. Pictorial endpapers. 125 pp. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Toronto, Wm. Bryce: 1903
Seller ID: 003980
Original blue pictorial boards backed in blue cloth. Ship motif. General light edge wear and minor cracking to front hinge, but generally good condition for a heavy book for juvenile readers. 16 full-page drawings present, plus triple foldout frontispiece of polar bear. Many stories. 484 large pp. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $30.00
Publisher: London, Dean & Son Ltd.:
Edition: Not Stated
Seller ID: 006116
Original illustrated boards of two girls, two boys and a black Scottie dog with a wooden boat. Slightly taller than the Canadian version. First free endpaper missing. No date or edition listed. AM/20/63 in print at foot of Contents page. Perfectly clean with bright colour illustrations inside. Foxing freckles to edges. 220 pp. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited: 1964
Seller ID: 006888
Original illustrated, laminated colour boards. Small tear to foot of spine. No writing. A Son for Sir Ector, Merlin the Wizard, King of All England, Princess Guinevere, Knights of the Round Table, Lancelot of the Lake, and the Coming of Percival. Medium difficulty text, probably appropriate to Grade 4 to Grade 6. Illustrated endpapers. 91 pp. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Toronto, National Boys'Work Board of Religious Education Council of Canada: 1929
Seller ID: 007416
Original purple cloth on boards. This book has no connection to the Boy's Own periodical published in England. Instead, it is an organ of the Trail Ranger and Tuxis programs originating in the Y.M.C.A. A long inscription to "Gordon" is signed by R. Hunter Parsons, who has also signed his name as Mentor on the Membership Certificate page inside. Cover faded. Interior clean. 104 pp. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Blackie & Son, Limited:
Seller ID: 008023
Original bright light blue cloth on boards. Three stories: Mystery Camp, With the Speedwell Patrol, and The Island Camp. One small repaired tear top of spine. No writing and no other damage. 206 pp. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Religious Tract Society:
Seller ID: 011315
Blue cloth on boards. Nine short stories by various authors. Three splashes of light green paint to spine. Library bookplate and stamps. Stories are: A Race for Life; The Russian Lottery Ticket; The Clock We Were All Ashamed Of; The Young Fisherman of Heligoland; The Power of Music; The Flying Leap; David the Scholar; The Foundling of the Fens; and Anson Gregg's Wedding. 316 pp. View more info
By: "Clementia", Sister of Mercy Mary Edward
Price: $1,000.00
Publisher: New York, Benziger Brothers, Inc.: 1917
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 011798
Dark green cloth on boards. Title in black, framed by florals. Author is believed to be the head Sister of St. Patrick's Academy, Chicago, who was credited with a previous copyright to the title," Nancy", in 1911. DJ also by Charles Chambers is Very Good, with no writing or tears and only light surface wear and hand soil. Book could be rated Near Fine except for removed small address label on first free endpaper. Mary tells her uncle that she wants to make her fi... View more info
By: Acker, Helen
Price: $50.00
Publisher: N.Y., Thomas Nelson and Sons: 1944
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 003500
Original burnt-orange cloth with brown decoration and titles on boards. NOT EX-LIBRARY. A biography of Tolstoy, Gorky, and Chaliapine (Russian-born French basso noted for his role in Mephistopheles ). Intended for young readers. 258 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Association Press: 1913
Edition: First( No Additional Printings)
Seller ID: 011219
Blue cloth on boards. Church library stamps. Dated, but still pregnant with ideas for organizing young men in religious programs. "Minstrel show" not recommended, but there are other ideas for activities aplenty. Keep the fourfold nature of life in focus. Start from scratch if you have to - and keep scratching ! 284 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: N.Y., Hurst & Co.:
Seller ID: 008770
Original beige cloth with full cover pastedown. The cover got my attention, since I don't list Alger as a rule. Grit is a hard-working faithful son to his mother, who has made a bad choice in a second husband, who is about to get out of jail. 288 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: N.Y., A.L. Burt Company:
Seller ID: 005715
Original full colour pastedown cover on boards. When elderly Jacob Marlowe comes back to Lakeville after 20 years away, things begin to change for Bert Barton and his family. Cracked front hinge glued. Previous owner's name. 262 pp. View more info
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Chicago, M.A. Donohue & Co.:
Seller ID: 005975
Original illustrated blue cloth on boards. Unclipped DJ missing corner tip. Text ends with President Lincoln's favourite poem, "Oh ! Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud ?" by William Knox. 290 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: N.Y., Hurst & Co.:
Seller ID: 006155
Original dark blue illustrated cloth on boards. Unusually clean and sound Alger title. "A telegram for you, Andy !...'COME HOME AT ONCE. SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED. MOTHER'" - P. 3. Andy rises to the occasion, as always, but the ending is a surprise ! Lightly cocked. Blue edges. 272 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: N.Y., H.M. Caldwell Company:
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 008661
Original colour-illustrated cloth on boards, showing a man in a canoe. Previous owner's name stamp. Wear to head and foot of spine. 275 pp. Dean Dunham is a solid 16-year-old who lives with his aunt and uncle. Uncle Adin manages to sell a piece of land for a thousand dollars, which he wants to use to pay off the mortgage on his home. Squire Bates, who holds the mortgage, has other ideas. Before it's over, the neighbours have a much better idea of how Squire Bates ... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap:
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 009364
Beige illustrated cloth on boards. Cracked front hinge required gluing. Previous owner's name. Removal scars front and back, but no library evidence. Judging from the first few chapters, a credible story. Previous owner's name. 248 pp. View more info
By: Allen, Betsy
Price: $42.00
Publisher: N.Y., Grosset and Dunlap: 1953
Edition: First (Lists to Itself Inside)
Seller ID: 005629
Original tweedy tan paper boards. CBM in repeated script on spine. Eighth title in the series, and lists to itself inside. No writing, and the only damage is a tiny tear at the head of p. 49. Connie is snooping around in the dark when someone tries to strangle her with a stocking. Did they think she was someone else ? 213 pp. View more info
By: Andersen, Doris
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada: 1967
Edition: First
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 005179
Original bright red cloth on boards. DJ virtually complete, but worn and torn along front fold. The protagonist, who is 11, lives in a cabin in the wilds of Minnesota. He longs for a dog and adventure. When his uncle Erik arrives from Norway, they join a group emigrating to British Columbia. The boy, Nels, quickly makes a friend about his age, but the tribal shaman, Askankot, is a source of suspicion and anger, leading to more adventure than Nels had hoped for. 136... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: N.Y., Grosset and Dunlap: 1962
Edition: First
Seller ID: 006454
Original multicolour paper boards. First Edition. Lists to #18 on back cover. Tom nearly wrecks his atomic car when the master servo-control unit fails ! Was it sabotage ? No writing in this book, but corner tips are bent and lightly worn. 188 pp. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: N.Y., Grosset & Dunlap: 1958
Edition: First
Seller ID: 008505
Original blue tweed boards. Number 11 of the New Tom Swift Adventures. Lists to itself on DJ and inside. Back cover ad for Hardy Boys mysteries. No writing. Snag in DJ at head of spine. 184 pp. View more info
