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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, endpapers toned, . Christmas 1945 gift inscription on verso of frontispiece.. 1945. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Newbery Award-winning novel about an itinerant Florida family of strawberry pickers. Graced with Lenski's winsome illustrations. Green and red strawberry endpapers. Green pictorial cloth. xii, 194pp.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
The Goblin's Glen by Gaze, Harold - 1924: A Story of Childhood's Wonderland
by Gaze, Harold
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The Goblin's Glen: A Story of Childhood's Wonderland
by Gaze, Harold
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Purple cloth with elaborate gilt design of pixies and fairies on front boards. Six color plates, silhouette endpapers, and many other black and white illustrations by the New Zealand born artist. ix, 241pp. Boards lightly worn, corners bumped, gift inscription on front pastedown endpaper, jacket toned and tattered. Uncle Hal and his young friends Norman and Ruth venture into a fantasy world of pixies, the King of Trees, magical creatures, Snow Maidens, and penguins.
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- Publisher Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication Boston
- Date Published 1924
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- Keywords BIBLIO-LIVE-2, antiquarian children's books
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Strawberry Girl
by Lenski, Lois
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Alphabet
by Karimov, X.
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Stalinabad [Dushanbe]: Tajikistan State Publishing House. Good with no dust jacket; Boards toned and worn, dings to top edges of . front boards, pages toned, front hinge cracked.. 1956. Hardcover. Gray cloth spine with color illustrated paper-covered boards. Text in Tajik. Many illustrations. Folded printed alphabet sheet laid in. School primer published during the era of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic. Many illustrations reflect Russification policies with depictions of obedient children studying, tractors and orderly agricultural scenes, factories, military equipment, Moscow landmarks, Lenin, and women hard at work with sewing machines. Not in WorldCat. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 96 pages .
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Brave Mr. Buckingham
by Kunhardt, Dorothy
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NY: Harcourt, Brace & Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, water spot on front boards, spine cracked, some light fingersoiling.. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth binding. Vibrant illustrations by the author. Though she is best known for her soothing titles like Pat the Bunny and Junket is Nice, this bizarre and terrifying tale involves a little boy named Billy Buckingham who climbs a tree dressed in his American Indian costume to avoid having his loose tooth pulled out by a string by his mother. His maternal uncle spins a tale about a brave Native American named Mr. Buckingham who endures dismemberment by various accidents until he is only a disembodied head being spoonfed strawberries by his Caucasian granddaughter. Makes Struwwelpeter seem tame. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Town & Country
by Provensen, Alice; Provensen, Martin
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NY: Crown Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Head of spine bumped.. 1984. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0517555948 . Signed by the author-illustrator team and embellished with two drawings on half title page. Glossy illustrated boards. A sophisticated children's picture book by the Caldecott medalists about the differences between urban and rural living. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
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Cinderella
by Evans, C. S.
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Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co. and William Heinemann. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, gift inscription on half-title . page, boards toned, some pages lightly soiled and stained.. [1919]. Hardcover. Orange cloth with illustrated paper-covered boards. Tipped-in color frontispiece and many other silhouette illustrations by Arthur Rackham. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 110 pages .
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The Sea Dog
by Dennis, Morgan
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NY: The Viking Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Long gift inscription on half-title, boards soiled, jacket tattered and waterstained at spine, with minor loss at head of spine.. 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. 978-0670626090 . Written and illustrated by Morgan DennisGreen illustrated cloth. Vintage children's book about a family that builds a houseboat to live on in Key West, Florida with their Irish water spaniel named Splash. Evocative black and white illustrations throughout. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 42 pages .
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Town & Country
by Provensen, Alice; Provensen, Martin
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NY: Crown Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Head of spine bumped.. 1984. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0517555948 . Signed by the author-illustrator team and embellished with two drawings on half title page. Glossy illustrated boards. A sophisticated children's picture book by the Caldecott medalists about the differences between urban and rural living. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
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Petit Buffon Illustre
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Paris: Hachette. Very Good with no dust jacket; Pages toned, boards lightly soiled and . worn, hole at tail of spine, spine cracked.. 1928. Hardcover. Yellow cloth spine, color illustrated paper-covered boards. Text in French. 31 color plates plus cover illustration by R. De la Neziere, a widely published French illustrator. Unpaginated. Engaging stories of animals and birds, mostly from the farmyard, but some exotics like lions, polar bears, and crocodiles. Thirty-one one page stories each face a full-color plate. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
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The Fir-Tree Fairy Book: Favorite Fairy Tales
by Johnson, Clifton (editor)
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- Used - Good with no dust jacket; Usual library stamps and markings, pages toned and finger soiling throughout, spine cocked.
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Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. Good with no dust jacket; Usual library stamps and markings, pages toned and finger soiling throughout, spine cocked.. 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy rebound in orange patterned reinforced cloth. xii, 333pp. Black and white plates and many other smaller elegant illustrations by Alexander Popini. A collection of 41 fairy tales from Grimm and Andersen, as well as traditional fairy tales from Greece, Norway, Roumania, Ireland, India, Turkey, China, and some other countries. Johnson notes in his introduction that he has edited the stories to remove "savagery, distressing details and excessive pathos", and removed references to cruel fathers and wicked stepmothers. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper?
by Morrison, Toni; Morrison, Slade
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- 9780743222471
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- 0743222474
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NY: Scribner. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Front free endpaper wrinkled, jacket . lightly worn and has one inch tear at head of spine.. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0743222474 . Signed by the late Nobel Laureate, Toni Morrison, and her late son, Slade Morrison, on the front free endpaper. A frisky graphic novel version of Aesops classic fable. Photos of the Morrisons and Lemaitre on rear jacket panel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Goblin's Glen: Adventure in Fairyland
by Harold Gaze
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Prahran, Victoria, Australia
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Angus & Robertson, Australia, 1989. First Australian Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 144 pp, 4to, beautiful illustrations, dedication note on front free end paper, dust jacket , in protective cover. Size: Quarto. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Quantity Available: 1. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 000687. .
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The Goblin's Glen : a Story of Childhood's Wonderland
by Gaze, Harold
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Fayetteville, New York, United States
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Boston: Little, Brown & Co.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1924. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Pictorial endpapers and titie page; 6 color plates by the author. Spien ends and corners lightly rubbed; endpapers faintly yellowed; firest few pages lightly soiled and foxed; otherwise a clean, tight copy. First US Edition. ; 12mo; 241 pages .
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The Goblin's Glen: A Story of Childhood's Wonderland
by Gaze, Harold
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, corners bumped, gift . inscription on front pastedown endpaper, jacket toned and tattered.. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Purple cloth with elaborate gilt design of pixies and fairies on front boards. Six color plates, silhouette endpapers, and many other black and white illustrations by the New Zealand born artist. ix, 241pp. Uncle Hal and his young friends Norman and Ruth venture into a fantasy world of pixies, the King of Trees, magical creatures, Snow Maidens, and penguins. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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The Goblin's Glen: A Story of Childhood's Wonder (First Edition)
by Harold Gaze
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Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -/Good - . Illustrated. First Edition. Publisher's illustrated cloth. Worn and rubbed. Color frontispiece. Color illustrations. Dust jacket has adhered to rear board. 241pp. Full refund if not satisfied.
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The Goblin's Glen: A Story of Childhood's Wonderland.
by GAZE, Harold
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- Used - A bright, very near fine copy in a jacket with some very slight use along the edges, and a few inoffensive spots.
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Rochester, New York, United States
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Boston:: Little, Brown and Company,, 1924.. First edition.. publisher's pictorial gilt-stamped brown cloth, in dust jacket illustrated in color.. A bright, very near fine copy in a jacket with some very slight use along the edges, and a few inoffensive spots.. 8vo,. With Illustrations by the Author (six full color plates)..
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Bedtime Stories
by Tenggren, Gustaf: Illustrated by
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1978 - 16th printing- vintage Bedtime Stories - Little Red Riding Hood - book: very good - all pages are clean and unmarked - edge wear on boards good for age - pages show some toning at edges - ELEMENT: includes a little red riding hood/big bad wolf as grandma flip doll - doll is professionally sewn with intricate details
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Day In and Day Out (The Alice and Jerry Books, Reading Foundation Series)
by Mabel O'Donnell; Alice Carey
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Evanston, Illinois: Row, Peterson and Company, n.d. [copyright 1936]. Hardcover. First Edition, no additional printings listed. First-grade reader in the Alice and Jerry basal reader educational series. Red cloth over boards with blue & yellow titles and illustration of a dog and duckling. Good+. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown, a few penciled notes. Sewn binding is straight and tight. Corners and spine ends bumped. Covers clean and bright. Not from a school or library. See photos. 156 pages with color illustrations on every page. Word list.
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
by Engle, Joanna
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- 9780394856438
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- 0394856430
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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Bob Son of Battle
by Alfred Oliphant
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Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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The story focuses on the rivalry between two sheepdogs and their masters, and chronicles the coming of age of a boy who is caught between them. David M'Adam, the boy, was half-orphaned by the death of his mother, and is left to the care of his father, Adam M'Adam, a sarcastic, angry alcoholic with a few redeeming qualities. M'Adam is the owner of Red Wull, a huge, violent dog who herds his sheep by brute force. Doubleday & McClure, 1899. Hardcover. Condition: vg+. .356 pages Find copy in Dark Blue Boards . copyright Doubleday & McClure (New York), 1889. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Rare first edition original 1899 edition by Doubleday and McClure Company New York. Nice copy all on hand laid paper. Deckled edges. Bob Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant. Copyright 1889. Some browning of pages. In a navy cloth binding. Externally sound. Some shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked/,
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Ronny Meets the Cadborosuarus
by Elmay Crow
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Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
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Crow Publishing, Victoria, 1971, 30 pages, 6.5" x 8.5", Near Fine, Comb Bound Softcover. An uncommon self published companion to "Ronny Meets The Sasquatch".
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El Principe Picenin – The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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A special copy of The Little Prince translated into the Venetian (Venetan/Veneto) language, also called dialeto del mar – the dialect of the sea. Included is the bookmark from the bookstore - Libreria Acqua Alta. Great gift for any Little Prince collector. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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The House That Jack Built: The Old Woman and Her Pig
by Rodney Peppe
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Orange, Virginia, United States
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Pocket sized reproduction from Pleasewell Series of the 1890s. This edition is reversible with The Old Woman and Her Pig also featured when the book is flipped over. Each story has reproduced lithographs from the original publication. No creasing, no age spots, Like New !
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Foreign Agent
by Thor, Brad
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- 9781501147494
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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New York: Atria Books, 2016. Signed on fep First Edition with full number line This is a limited, signed edition with an exclusive, to this edition, additional chapter. Please note what looks like a "Signed Edition" sticker on the front of dust jacket. It is not a a sticker; it is part of the design of the jacket. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 338 pages PLUS additional chapter "exclusively for Target customers." Target is US-based department store. From jacket: "Scot Harvath has exactly the skills the CIA is looking for. He's a former Navy SEAL with extensive experience in espionage. Working for a private intelligence company, he will provide the CIA, and more important, the President, with absolute deniability. But deep within the Russian Caucasus, Moscow also has its own special kind of operative... When a clandestine American operations team is ambushed near Syria, all signs point toward a dangerous informant in Brussels..." A new book, but with…
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Going To the Doctor (First Experiences Series)
by Fred Rogers
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- 9780399212987
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- 0399212981
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Fred Rogers: First Experiences Book Series: Going To the Doctor (1986 1st Ed. 3rd Pr. Thus, G.P. Putnam)RARE in this first hardcover edition. Quite the find. Used. VG/VG condition unclipped dust jacket, printed price $12.95 Mr. Rogers appears on the back dj panel wearing a pale blue sweater. "In this book, real life photos are used to help young people feel more comfortable with interacting with other children and making new friends. A Note From Fred Rogers: A child's first visit with a pediatrician usually comes soon after birth. It may be months or even years later, though, that a child first shows fear about going to see a doctor. The worry of an injection or some other unfamiliar medical procedure can trigger that fear. It can also appear because another family member may be feeling medical anxieties. And, of course, new body awareness and needs for privacy develop naturally in children's early years, so all these feelings can make it very hard for them to let doctors investigate the workings of…
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The Man Who Lost His Head
by Claire Huchet Bishop
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The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.
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