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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: A. L. Burt. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Published between 1929-49. Reprint. Endpapers sketches by Will James dated 1929. Waldorf-Astoria with an hyphen - hyphen eliminated in 1949. Book was presentation to ____________ on his eleventh birthday with bookplate indicating the child was at the Waldorf-Astoria. Information on W-A bookplate on first endpaper. Brown buckram covers with black front cover and spine print. Brown topstain. Frontis of three frontiersmen in a canoe. Will James' endpapers and pastedowns of a stagecoach attack by indians. A clean book with no writing aside from bookplate writing. Bumped tips and a corner. Spine ends with soft bends with slight-light wear. Bottom cover edge indent. Soft bumping on some top corner pages - from cover bumping - approximately 140 pages gradually decreasing in degree. A small pull on paper from bookplate. Tanning to endpapers and pastedowns. Toned pages.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1939. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good +. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Grace Paull. A Read Aloud or intermediate reading, ages 8-10. 1st Ed., 1st printing 1939. No other printing information given. Assumed 1st printing. 8vo. Unpaginated. 60 pp. Missing dust jacket. Illustrated paper over boards with brown cloth spine. Book's white areas are not worn but original book's appearance. Panels in very good condition. Spine with light wear. Edge wear. Corner tip wear to boards. Clean interior with no writing. One page with corner crease. The book has a very good appearance, unless examined closely. Summary: Dody, a young girl of the Victorian Age in history, is contented with her life, family, and house. Her elderly next-door neighbor raises parakeets. After visiting her neighbors many times, she tells the lady that she would like to buy a parakeet. Eventually, she gets the parakeet she wants; however, she… Read More

Helena, MT: Farcountry Press, 2002. Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Mussulman, Joseph, maps. 2nd Edition which includes east of the Mississippi. Clean, no writing. Edge wear in places. Summary: An excellent guide for a family or group of campers following the Lewis and Clark Trail. Contains campgrounds and RV sites, lodges, motels, cabins, B&B's,and regional restaurants. Along with touring and historical information are detailed maps. 28 chapters plus index and "Things to do after the journey and further exploration.

New York: Dell Publishing Company/Yearling Book, 1975. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Mayer, Mercer. Copyright 1975. 4th Dell printing, July 1978. Clean interior with light tanning. Original price $1.25. Cover, edge, corner, and spine wear. Cover and spine creasing. Small area of cover coating missing at top of front cover. Synopsis; Tom Fizgerald aka The Great Brain returns to his home town in Utah in the 1890's after spending a year away at the Catholic School for Boys. Adenville now has a school for seventh and eighth grade students. Continuing with his schemes and conniving ways, he is put on trial by his peers and convicted. Will he reform in order to earn their friendship and trust? A chuckling tale of a brilliant and scheming boy.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Yearling/Bantam Doubleday Dell Books For Young Readers, 1988. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Mercer Mayer. 65th printing. A clean and very tight book, unread. Smooth spine. No writing or remainder mark. Toning, faint scratches and faint indents on rear wrap. Light front wrap corner crease and 2 leaves with corner creases. Synopsis: The Great Brain, aka Tom D. Fitzgerald age ten, is an irritant to such people as the mean schoolmaster; however, some children have faith in his great brain in dire situations.

New York, N.Y.: Frederick A. Stokes Company , 1936. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good +. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Attractive bright cover panels. No dust jacket. No writing aside from owner's name on pastedown. 271 pages plus 6 extra leaves and one front and one rear grey endpaper leaf. Buckram covers (?). Light white mark on back cover. Hinges a bit loose. Spine secure. Corner wear to boards. Spine ends' wear with tail fraying. Light spine edge wear. Tanning on pages with a few scattered foxing marks. Soiling on bottom pages edges. Some foxing and sunning to edges. Small crease on pastedown.

Toronto, Ontario: Greey de Pencier Books, 1994. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Allan Cormack, Deborah Drew-Brook, Jock McRae. Greey de Pencier Books, 1st ed, 1st printing, 1994, (Number line begins with "A"). No dust jacket. Clean with no writing. Negligible panel wear. Spine nicks, spine tail wear, and light corner wear. Light rubbing. Synopsis: This book contains large and easy-to-understand text with numerous illustrations about nature. Plants, animals, and types of grasslands as well as explanations of the desert, lake, river, ocean, and coral reef are provided. In addition, close ups of air, soil, and grasslands are shown and explained. A glossary is included.

Cambridge, Mass: Candlewick Press, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. T. White. Stated 1st Edition, 1st printing (Full number line beginning with no. 1 on right side). The book appears unread despite inscription to owner. Panels and corners with virtually no wear. No writing other than owner's inscription. Interior is clean and unmarked. Fresh pages. Dust jacket corner price intact. Remainder mark. Book spine ends' area wear with tiny tail bump. Jacket rubbing. Using newspaper clipping from World War I to the Gulf War, the author retells the story of the Trojan War and emphasizes the parallel between the world of Homer's Iliad and our own.

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.

Boston, Massachusetts USA: Candlewick Press, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bagram Ibatoulline. 1st printing for Candewick Press (full no. line). A Newbery Honor Book. Contains a new afterword by the author. A clean book with no writing or remainder mark. Black paper over boards with bright silver print on spine. Price on flap corner. Wear area on book's front panel. Dust jacket in fine condition with rubbing. 116 pp. Three stories about a child who can lip-read stories whispered by others into a statue's ears. The artist's creations reveal truths.

New York, N.Y.: Green Willow (Beech Tree Book), 1997. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Eric von Schmidt. First Beech Tree soft cover edition, 2nd printing. Tight. Slight front cover corner curl with a tad of tip wear, slight back cover 1 inch edge crease, and light spine head wear.

New York: Schwartz & Wade Books, 2010. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. G. Brian Karas. First Edition, 1st printing, no. 10-1. Ages 4-8. No writing or remainder mark. In stock. Unpaginated. Pictorial book with matching dust jacket. Book with paper over boards. Illustrated pastedowns and free endpaper. Light wear to spine ends. Dust jacket with slight top edge roll. Original price on back of dust jacket. G. Brian Karas is a prolific illustrator of over 110 books. His noted whimsical signature style is shown also in this book. Synopsis: A tale about a young poor boy who has nothing to bring to a princess's gala 10th birthday. Not to be deterred, Jack trades for the ingredients for a splendid birthday cake. Along the way to the event, he encounters unsavory characters who each take a part of his cake. Arriving with nothing, he relates his honest tale to the birthday princess and wins her favor. A tale of resourcefulness,… Read More

New York: Roaring Book Press, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Lane Smith. Ages 5-9. Stated first edition,1st. printing, no. line 10-1. Pictorial cover with matching pictorial textured dust jacket. The dust jacket's paper is heavy paper, one of the most durable jackets this seller has encountered. The pastedowns and free endpapers are a lovely floral design. The pages are of heavier stock paper than usual. This is a tale of 2 children who wandered through the woods and encounter a house that appears abandoned. Climbing through an opened window, they explore it. They look at what the owners left and wonder why they left, who they were, and where did they move. A tale of mystery and discovery in poetic form, without sounding too rhymey.

New York : William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1983. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition, 1st printing (Full number line). 444 pp. Approximately 9.5" tall. Cream colored paper over boards with cloth quarter binding. Endpapers and pastedowns of maps. The book has unworn edges, corners, and panels. Only slight spine head bending. Scattered foxing on the edges, noticeable only if book is closed. The owner's name has been marked in a total five places on the pastedowns and free endpapers. The book, however, is tight and appears unread. The jacket has the original corner price. The folds and corners and adjacent areas are worn with closed and open tears plus a large chip on the spine head. Several edge tears on both the top and bottom edges. A spine crease that extends to the jacket's back. Creasing near top and bottom edges. A ragged and worn edge jacket with decent appearing panels and flaps. See photograph. Read More

New York, N.Y. USA: Kensinger Publishing Corp./Zebra Books, 1975. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Copyright 1975. Stated Sixth Printing, January 1984. No writing, no remainder mark, no stickers. Clean with page toning. Original price was $2.50. Creasing to spine and 2 creases extend to front and back wraps. Previously published as The Big Apple. A powerful organization is trying to eradicate Chadweel Carstairs and innocent people along the way. Carstairs was a threat as long as he fought. A thriller. All of our books are in stock.

Freemont, California : Worlds of Wonder, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. David High. A set of 3 books (1 shipping fee). All books 1st printings from Worlds of Wonder. All covers have minor wear to extremities and perhaps a little scratching or light scattered foxing. Take a Good Look (Near Fine), The Airship (Very Good), and Lullabies (Very Good -). Clean with no writing or remainder mark. Unpaginated.

Plymouth, MN: Crotalus Publishing, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Pictures by authors. 1st Edition, 1st printing, 2004. Black cloth over boards with gilt print and a gilt leaf. The dust jacket has rubbing with scratching and slight edge wear. Ron Schara is a well-known Minnesota radio and television commentator and a journalist who has been a part of the Midwest outdoor community for years. His own noted television programs are Minnesota Bound, Ron and Raven, and The Outdoor Channel. Many writers and photographers have contributed to this book. Synopsis: The authors through their photographs and text depict North as more than a particular direction or a specific location. It is a snowy winter scene on a lake, a taste of blueberries from a rocky inlet, a picture of an ancient writing on a rock as viewed from a canoe, the sight of muskie fishermen at sunrise or sunset, the silhouette of a hunter with his gun sighted on… Read More

Orlando, Fl USA: Harcourt, Inc., 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Stated First Edition, Printing A. 32 unpaginated pages. Book has been read. Dust jacket with lightly rolled edges and 3 scratches on inside of book flap. Hilarious illustrations depicting the "Go to" expert for Christmas toys. Oversized book. No extra shipping charge.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Stated 1st Edition, 11th printing, no. line 19-11. Book wirh black paper over boards and black quarter cloth binding. 356 pp. plus a page of "Acknowledgments". Signed by author on half title page. Book in "Fine" Condition and dust jacket "Near Fine". Dust jacket with John Berendt sticker on DJ front. Price of $24 on DJ front flap top. Dust jacket with rubbing to front and back covers. A harrowing tale of a soldier's walk back to his beloved at the end of the Civil War. The author reveals the dangers of solitude and man's relationship to the land. Publisher