Search Results: Children's Books from J.C. Bell

Halifax: Author, 1981. First Edition . Staple-bound Wrappers. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Ken Ward. Numbered from an edition of 300; gift insription (not by author); minor soiling.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First This Edition . Cloth. Very Good +/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. N.C. Wyeth. 328 pp, illus, black gilt-stamped cloth with pictorial pastedown on front board, pictorial endpapers, wartime reissue of 1916 edition; light bumping to two corners, small spots of soiling to page edges, especially fore-edge, dustjacket is in mylar & shows following flaws: some soiling, wear to upper & lower edges, incl. pieces missing. [97]

Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company, 1913. Decorative Cloth. Very Good -/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 251 pp., spine ends are bumped with wear, spine edge is worn, bumping to corners, front boards are slightly bowed, light edge wear, front & back hinges are starting, but intact. {00}

Blackie & Son Limited. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. William Rainey. Blue pictorial cloth with light blue, brown & black stamping depicting a charging moose on the front board, 367 pp, illus. minor wear & soiling.

Philadelphia: Edgewood Publishing Company, 1900. Probable First Edition . Boards. Good-/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Palmer Cox. frontis illo, 320 pp.; some rubbing & soiling to boards, little bumping to corners, light wrinkling/dampstaining to rear board, toning to pages, front & rear hinges are partially split but holding, ffep has been removed, one page is nearly loose, a few pages have small tears, some brittleness to paper, some page numbers written in red pencil. rare Cox edition. . {97}

Canadian Children's Press, 1998. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 152 pp, signed by the editor (with an inscription to the previous owner). [21]

Gananoque, Ontario: Shadow Press, 1976. First Edition . Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gene Day. [24] pp, features poems from the Alice books, illustrated by Gene Day; toning to front cover. A rare Carroll item.

Toronto: Oxford, 1983. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiv, 508 pp, biblio, index, illus. crease to spine, little curling to four corners, minor soiling. [01]

Halifax, NS: An-der-bo, 1971. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good -. Unpaginated, illus, groundbreaking anthology, general wear & soiling.

Toronto: Toronto Public Library, 2005. First Edition . Wrappers. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Helen E. Stubbs Memorial Lectures Number Seventeen, Ltd. to 500 copies, 24 pp. [05]

Toronto: Oxford Univeristy Press, 1969. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good -. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 32 pp, dustjacket show some edge wear (including a small tear that has been tape-repaired. [20]

London & Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited. Not Stated . Decorated Boards. Very Good -/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Honor C. Appleton. 64 pp., frontispiece colour plate included in 8 colour plates, 17 black-and-white illustrations; very slight bowing of the boards, edge wear with some rubbing (esp. at corners), light bumping to spine ends, light soiling to boards, rear boards corners are bumped with a little wear, light soiling on edges, inscription (dated 1939) on free front end paper, toning on half-title page, toning on last page of text, small stationer's label on lower edge of rear paste down. {04}

London & Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited. Not Stated . Decorated Boards. Very Good +/Very Good -. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Honor C. Appleton. 64 pp., frontispiece colour plate included 8 colour plates, 16 black-and-white illustrations; light bumping to spine ends & corners, very light edge wear on covers, light soiling on edges, dust jacket has light edge wear with a few small tears and with some soiling on back of dust jacket, some light creasing near top edge of front of dust jacket. {04}

London & Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited. Not Stated . Decorated Boards. Very Good -/Fair +. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Honor C. Appleton. 64 pp., frontispiece colour plate included in 8 colour plates, 13 black-and-white illustrations; some light edge wear including a bit of rubbing on edges, light bumping to spine ends, bumping with a little wear on corners, edges lightly soiled, small spot on front bottom cover where there is evidence of damp staining, there is a very short hinge tear between the front paste down & free front end paper but all the pages are intact, inked inscription (1936) on free front end paper for previous owner, a block of toning on the half-title, evidence of some damp staining in the margins to the edge on page 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, very short tear on bottom edge of page 16, very light soiling on margins of one of the colour plates, block of toning on page 64, small sticker residue on rear paste down near top edge, dust jacket… Read More

London & Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited. Not Stated . Decorated Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Honor C. Appleton. 64 pp., frontispiece colour plate included in 7 of 8 colour plates and 11 black-and-white illustrations; light bumping to spine ends & corners, light edge wear on covers, light soiling on edges, inked inscription to previous owner on free front end paper, toning on half-title, first colour plate is separated from the binding, one colour plate: "Quacky-Jack was peeping out and listening" is missing, one plate is starting to separate from the binding half-way up & the plate has a small fold on the binding edge, some soil spots on title page & illustration list page, binding is split slightly between page 32 & 33 but the pages are intact, light soiling on rear free end paper. {04}

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. Second Printing Revised . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Second impression, with minor revisiions; 301 pp, illus, index, checklist of Greenaway's work, gilt top edge; interior of book is solid & clean, endpapers show some soiling, some cracking to hinges, but still strong, pencil inscription by previous owner on ffep, considerable sunning to spine & portions of both boards, also signs of some dampstaining to front board, rubbing to spine ends, little splitting along upper spine edge on front board. In summary: interior is VG, covers are FR/GD. (Heavy book -- might require extra postage, depending on destination.) [11]

New York: Farrar, Staus & Giroux, 1973. First Edition . Pictorial Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. tiny spot of rubbing on front board, else Near Fine. [07]

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Edouard Perret. 54 pp, signed by the author (with an inscription to a previous owner) on the ffep; minor rubbing & soiling to boards. [05]

Zurich: Editions Nord-Sud, 1994. First This Edition . Boards. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Rowe. Previous owner's inscription on ffep; very minor wear, little sticker residue on rear board. [05]

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1988. First US Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Tjong Khing. 88 pp, illus.