Search Results: Juvenile Fiction from Minotavros Books

New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1971. Soft cover. Very Good. Herman, Vic. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Soft cover. All edges yellow. 74 pp. Illustrated with line drawings in text. Covers lightly toned and rubbed, spine tilted. Interior age toned.

a la Haye: I. van Cleef, 1801. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo (small). Second edition. Quarter contemporary calf leather title and number labels to spine, paper boards. clx, 124; 250 pp. Fold-out map at rear. Light staining to boards, light wear to corners. Some light staining and yellowing to fore edges of text block. Vol. 1 lacks ffep. Pencil notation to endpapers. Originally published in 1788, this is one of the first historical fiction novels.

London: The Religious Tract Society. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 18mo. N.d., [ca. early 1900s, inscription dated 1906]. Green publisher's cloth. 64 pp., [16] pp. ads. Recased. Cloth is stained, rubbed at extremities, sunned to spine. Light foxing to interior, worse at endpapers. Ink gift inscription to front pastedown. 0.

Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company, 1922. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo (royal). Young Folks Classics Series No. 23. Quarter grey cloth, pictorial paper boards, unlettered spine. 128 pp. B&W illustration in text. Cloth and covers stained, edges worn. Ink ownership inscription to front board and ffep. Front hinge cracked at head. Interior deeply age toned.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Relf, Illusstrated. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Full red paper boards. viii, 120 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Tiny spot of wear to spine foot. Dust jacket is price clipped, edge worn, chipped to spine ends, soiled to rear.

London: J.M. Dent, 1966. Soft cover. Near Fine. Carroll, Lewis. 4" x 7" An Everyman's Paperback. vii, 103 pp. With B&W illustrations by the author. Some light soiling to rear cover, small spots of wear to head of front cover.

Gardeny City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Snell, Carroll C.. 16mo. Orig. blue cloth, black stamped titling and violin devices. 171 pp. Colour frontis, B&W illustration in text. Spine and edges sunned. Spine slightly cocked. Foxing to edges of text block. Ink ownership inscription, bookseller's ticket to ffep. A girl named Alice visits a symphony concert and, through the portal of a tuba's bell, enters Orchestralia, where a bass viol escorts her and introduces her to a variety of animated musical instruments.

Bath, UK: Robert Frederick Ltd, 2006. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Hudson, Gwynedd M.. 8vo. Full cream cloth, gilt titles and decoration to boards, colour pictorial onlay. Marble endpapers. Ribbon marker. 180 pp., [16 pp.] colour plate illustrations + B&W illustrations in text. Fine.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good. Tenniel, John. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Green paper boards. Pictorial endpapers. xi, 206 pp. Includes [16] illustrations by John Tenniel, B&W illustrations in text. Sunned to extremities, light spotting and staining to rear board. Stickers and ink gift inscription to flyleaf, but otherwise in very good condition.

Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1964. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. blue cloth, ivy device to front board. 91 pp. Illustrated. Near fine in matching publisher's slipcase.

London: George Allen and Unwin. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Soper, George. 8vo. [N.d., ca. 1911] Full burgundy cloth. Pictorial flyleaves. 192 pp. [6] plate illustrations, plus B&W line illustration in text. Rubbing to corners. Some foxing and small stains to interior. Gift inscription to front flyleaf. .1.5" tear to outer margin of p. 189. Fully rebound ca. 1940s-50s.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. SIGNED by author to half title. Soft cover. [n.p.]. 177 p.p. Laid-in Grandpa Ramsbottom postcard. Grandpa Ramsbottom is our endearing grumpy-old hero that brightens the day of his grandson Timothy with a never-ending imagination that leads them into the delightfully whimsical adventure of a lifetime. Together they decide to invent a "flying machine" that will transport them from their back garden in England across the Atlantic to Canada.

New York: Graphix. Soft cover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 2008-2012. Five volumes: The Stonekeeper, The Stonekeeper's Curse, The Cloud Searchers, The Last Council, Prince of the Elves. Soft cover. 187 pp.; 219 pp.; 199 pp.; 213 pp.; 199 pp. Spines slightly tilted, else fine. 0.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Sendak, Maurice. 5.5" x 7" Orig. blue cloth. 180 pp. B&W illustration in text. Spine and edges of boards sunned. Dust jacket price clipped, damp stained and sunned to spine, short tear to head of rear joint. About fine.

New York: Sterling Publishing Co, 2004. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. McKowen, Scott. 8vo. Full green cloth. Ribbon marker. vii, 304 pp. Some light staining to fore edge of text block, else fine in fine jacket. Anne Shirley, the fiery and fiercely independent heroine of Anne of Green Gables, has captivated generations of readers over the last century.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Tenniel, John. 4to. Full red cloth. xxviii, 312 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Fine. For over half a century, Martin Gardner has established himself as one of the world's leading authorities on Lewis Carroll. His Annotated Alice, first published in 1959, has over half a million copies in print around the world and is beloved by both families and scholars - for it was Gardner who first decoded many of the mathematical riddles and wordplay that lay ingeniously embedded in Carroll's two classic stories, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

Chicago: W.B. Conkey Company, 1900. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Quarter orange cloth, pictorial paper boards. Unpaged, [~34] pp. B&W line illustrations in text. Boards are stained, worn to extremities. Spine soiled and bumped at ends, some wear to cloth at joints. Interior is age toned, foxed, a few stains. Pencil ownership inscriptions to front pastedown dated December 1902 and 1932.

New York: Scholastic Inc, 1995. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 12mo. Soft cover. 164 pp. Some very minor wear and creasing to front cover, light age toning to edges of pages, else a fine copy. Don't live in the past. That's what they say. So Jenny's trying. Trying to forget all the horrible baby-sitting experiences that landed her in the hospital last year. But now Jenny's in a new house. In a new neighbourhood. And Jenny's new neighbour wants her to baby-sit. Poor Jenny. If only she could just say no to baby-sitting. Because someone is watching her. Waiting for her. Someone who hates baby-sitters. Someone who wants her...dead.

London: Hodder Causton, 1973. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Lee, Peter. 12mo. Pictorial paper boards. Unpaginated, [28] pp. B&W and colour illustrations. Bruising to spine ends, a few small spots of wear to boards and edges.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Wiese, Kurt. 12mo (large). Early reprint. Full tan cloth, green stamped titles and deer head to spine and front board. Top edge green. Pictorial endpapers. 293 pp. B&W illustrations. Bumping and rubbing to spine ends, some chafing to extremities. Acid migration to endpapers. Dust jakcet is price clipped, lightly worn and chipped to spine ends, sunned at spine, damp stained at spine foot.