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New York : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1976. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Steig, William. Light blue linen-like cloth over boards with silver spine print. No writing. Clean interior. Tight. Appears unread. Book with some fade. Spine ends' crimp lines. Bright pictorial jacket. Jacket wear with chipping, tears, and top back soiling. See picture. Summary: Abel, a mouse, has been living a secure and soft life until flood waters dump him on an inhabited island. Developing new skills and talents in order to survive, he adjusts to in his new some what hostile environment and re-examines his former life. This awakening brings him to a more meaningful life.

Lincolnwood, Illinois: Jamestown Publishing/Contemporary Publishing Groups, 1998. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Readability grades 2.2 -3. Interest level grades 3-6 . 10 Tales. Excellent short stories to build vocabulary and reading comprehension. Multiple choice format: story elements, comprehension, and vocabulary. Open-ended critical thinking questions included. The tutor can ignore the multiple choice questions and simply discuss story with the student. No answer key, however, an adult tutor would be able to discern correct answers easily. Progress chart and graph included.

New York: Scholastic Press, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Arthur Howard. Stated First Edition, complete no. line(10-1) and date of year. Covers with blue paper and quarter plum-colored cloth binding. 103 pp. 8.5" tall. Embossed ghost horse rider and gilt spine print. Original price intact on dust jacket flap. Arthur Howard has illustrated Mr. Putter and Tabby books by Cynthia Rylant plus Gooseberry Park, and When I Was Five. Ms Cuyler has written several chapter books and was inspired by the history of her 300 year old house and the Hessian soldier who haunted it. Book is clean with no writing or remainder mark - just a spine head crunch. The dust jacket also has a spine head crunch and a closed tear on the back of approximately .60" with an adjacent light creasing on the jacket's bottom This story is about a Revolutionary soldier who was killed in the Battle of Princeton and haunts the house of a… Read More

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. Book Club Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Helen Sewell. Weekly Reader Children's Book Club. No indication of printing. No writing, clean. Unpaginated. Tight, appears unread. Well-preserved panels and spine. Spine crush mark near spine tail. Not issued with jacket. Larger print with blue, black, and white illustrations. The tale of an 8 year old boy who treks to Hemlock Mountain to get an iron pot from his Aunt Emma. Scared of bears, he constantly chants "There are no bears on Hemlock Mountain" - but are there?

New York, N.Y. USA: Little Brown And Company, 2010. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Jame Simmons. 1st U.S. Edition, previously printed and titled Beryl Goes Wild by Orchard Books. Shelf rest bends on spine ends. No writing or remainder mark. Trade book. 216 pp. Approximately 8" tall. Dust jacket with no tears. Small spine area of slight discoloration. Summary: After being mistreated on a farm, Beryl, a pig, heads out to find a better home. She discovers some wild pigs but has preconceived notions about them. Will she stay or leave? Can she find happiness and a home with those who are not so cute and little? An appealing and gentle book for the 8 - 12 ages.

Nashville, New York : Thomas Nelsen Inc Publishers, 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good +. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. One previous edition published in 1956. This is a trade edition published March 1978 - no printings listed. Ages 9+. Blue textured paper with a cloth quarter binding. Red stamped cabin with a tree and mountains. Red spine print. 125 pages. 9.25" x 6". Covers appear almost new. Slight spine ends' wear (shelf wear). Remainder dot. Unclipped original dust jacket price of $5.95. Jacket with a few edge tears. Spine ends' chipping. Summary: The President is a comin' to Razorback Ridge and the folks are planning a contest to entertain him. Nancy and her cousin Jodey are hoping to win the contest. But strange things are happening on Razorback Ridge.

np: Scholastic Book Services, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Keith Ward. 1941 copyright, 1968 copyright renewal. Scholastic Book Services soft cover, 7th printing, 1979. No ISBN. TX1913. No dust jacket. Approximately 7.5" by 5,25". 241 pp. Black and while illustrations. Very tight, appears unread. No writing aside from owner's name on bookplate on front pastedown. Corner or corner tip creasing. Covers with light indentations and a few small light creases. Partial light spine crease line. A few pages with corner tip creases. Remainder mark. Soil dusting on covers and fore edges. Toning. Not an obviously worn book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Bonny Shields. Stated First Edition with full number line 1,3, 5 ... (1st printing). Book with no tears or writing. Clean. Trade edition. Black and white illustrations, except for colorful pastedowns and feps with a young colt. 79 numbered pages. 9.75" x 7.5". Corner and spine tail bumping. One corner with a dot of wear. Dust jacket with one back panel tear near spine head ( approx. .5"). Back panel with few light scratches and a little chipping near spine head, and rubbing.

Kestrels House, Peppard Common, Henley-on-Thames: Cressrelles Publishing Company Limited, 1977. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 1st Edition, 1st printing, 1977. Assumed 1st printing, no other printing information indicated. No price indicated at top of jacket flap and price clipped at bottom. The books on the back jacket flap were printed before 1977. 8vo. 128 pp. Tight and very clean. Appears unread. or very gently read. Book with blue cloth over boards and bright gilt print on spine. Book with a few tiny spine ends' bump lines. Two faint indents. Dust jacket with edge roughness near top corner. Almost imperceptible bottom edge soiling near bottom right third edge of jacket front. Tiny ghost stickers on jacket rear flap. Jacket ISBN matches book ISBN. Back jacket with older picture of Stan McMurtry and information. Stan McMurty is MAC, the political cartoonist of the Daily Mail, whose cartoons… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Golden Press, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hamilton Greene. No other printing information. Checkered spine. Winged lion pastedowns and endpapers. Approximately 7.75" by 5.75. Golden Press is considered to be the original publication. No. 10212. 188 pages. Fiction for Boys and Girls on back cover panel. Brains Benton Mysteries with three listings: The Case of the Missing Message, The Case of the Counterfeit Coin, and The Case of the Stolen Dummy. Three listings for Kathy Martin Stories. Three Listings for Dig Allen Space Explorer Adventures. Each volume listed at $1.00. Wear to spine ends and corners. Two corners with more wear. Panels, edges, and spine other than spine ends in very good - near fine condition. Interior is clean with no writing. Toning and tanning to pages.

New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Charles Robinson. Grades 4-6. Weekly Reader. Very tight. Appears unread. Clean. No writing. Covers look new. Slanted spine. Page tanning. Synopsis: Joey tells his mother that he has lost his compass. He is worried because he is going to the Rockies with his father, and Joey feels that he will be lost without a compass. His mother teases him about his memory. When he and his father go hiking in the Rockies, they check out Mason's Mine.. Hearing a rumble, they run for the entrance, but his father gets trapped by fallen logs. Joey, a Club Scout without his trusty compass, must leave his father alone and seek help. Can he find help and not get lost?

Boston, Massachusetts USA: Little , Brown And Company, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Eric von Schmidt. Stated seventh printing (no date). No ISBN. Issued without dust jacket. Library book with 3 stamps and large rectangular glue residue from library signout slip on rear fep. Heavy buckram (very durable) covers with spine ends rubbing. No writing aside from library stamp no. Clean. 179 pp. 8" x 5.25". Black and white sketches by von Schmidt. 3 ffeps plus1 leaf with Feischman's first three books listed plus Chancy... as the fourth and last book. 4 feps at rear of book. Transference of regular glue mark to 2 of the leafs. The covers and text papers are in very nice condition. Replete with figurative language which creates humor. A nice hand-me-down.

Funk & Wagnalls, Inc., 1981. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Charles Schulz. Featuring electricity and magnatism. First printing. Wear to boards on spine ends, corner tips, and adjacent areas. No writing. Panels in very good conditions. Interior in near fine condition. Index. 47 pages plus index

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Garth Williams. Gray covers with rough cut pages. Early reprint. No other dates or printings indicated. Red stamped image of girl feeding pig with a baby bottle. Red spine print. 8 9/16" tall. 184 pp. No writing and clean. Soft spine bends and bumping. Upper corners with bumping.

Lincolnwood, Illinois: Jamestown Publishers, 1998. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A set of 4 books which are in stock. Reading Level 3. Interest Level 4-7. 1 shipping fee. 139 pages. 12 Tales. Covers look new. No exercises have been worked. No writing, numbers, stamps, highlighting, or underlining. Synopsis: These fifteen short stories can improve the struggling student's Language Arts skills. The parent/tutor can use the forced-choice format or generate open-end questions. No answer key, however, the tutor should be able to discern the correct answers easily. The short stories, many by well-known authors, help strengthen the student's reading comprehension, vocabulary, critical thinking, writing, literary, and vocabulary skills. These stories contain irony, unexpected twists, and surprise endings. A progress chart and graph are included.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. , 2006. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st American edition, 1st printing, full number line. Grades 4 - 6. Tight, appears unread. "A talking mouse takes a talented ballet dancer to an enchanted world where she explores, with the help of a kind monk, why she cannot speak." --publisher

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1964. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Don Lambo. 1st Edition, 1st printing ("A"). No dust jacket. Orange cloth over boards with black spine print and black stamped illustration of trolley. Clean with no writing or remainder/overstock mark. Panels and edges are in fine condition. Lightly worn spine ends' corners and corner tips. Soft spine tail bend. Pages in great condition. Summary: This book is a history of trolleys from horse drawn to electric. Black and white illustrations plus an index.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1987. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. David Small. 1st Edition, 2nd printing ( number line begins with 2). Trade Edition. Red cloth covers and black spine print with glossy illustrated jacket. Jacket price intact on jacket flap corner. Unpaginated. A little rubbing on jacket edge. Summary: A humorous tale of two aliens coming to town and overreaction of the hosts Moe and Shirley who later decide to welcome them. Humorous and pale watercolors enhance this tale.

New York : David Fickling Books, 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. !st Edition, 1st printing, 2005. No dust jacket. Very tight, unread. Appears new. Tiny indent on front cover corner. Coated pictorial cover over boards. Summary: A fourteen year old apprentice to the Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax is surrounded by gossip, scholars, and treachery. The apprentice Quint is send on a mission with the daughter of the Most High Academe and accidently invokes the curse of the Gloamglozer. This is the fourth title in the Edge Chronicles.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Seabury Press/ A Clarion Book, 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bornstein, Ruth. Weekly Reader. No Printing information. No dust jacket. Pictorial paperaper over boards. 32 unpaginated pages. Grey, white, and black illustrations. Two corner tips with tiny bump lines. Spine corners' rubbing. Summary: Joseph, a young boy, receives a pair of silver shoes from a dancing man that enables Joseph to dance through life bringing joy to others as he dances. Near the end of his life, he passes his dancing shoes to another young boy.