Search Results: Titles starting with F from D'Qualitas Books, Et. Al.

New York: Weathervane Books, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/Good + . 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Arthur Rackham. 1977 Reprint. Fifth Printing (e,f,g,h). 288 pp. 12 illustrations in color and numerous black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Includes numerous hard-to-find fairy tales such as The Little Match Girl, The Shepherdess and The Chimney-Sweep, Elder-Tree Mother, and many favorite fairy tales. Book has green-textured paper with engraved creatures on front cover with title, author, and illustrators' name on the spine. Cloth quarter binding. Pastedowns and freps with silhouettes of people from an earlier time near a swan-filled pond. Book with soft spine tail bends,1 worn corner tip, and owners' last names (Bond-Mosher). of Crease on rear fep. Dust jacket with spine ends' wear, occasional edge chipping and wear, 2 small closed tears, and small bottom flap crease. Ex-libris, from Don Mosher's personal library in The Villages, Fl. Don Mosher was a… Read More

New York, N.Y.: Viking/Penguin , 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Isabelle Brent. 1st Edition, 1st printing, 1995. Book Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Collected and with an introduction by Neil Philip. Twelve fairy tales - a nice mixture of known and not so well known tales. Blue cloth over boards with gilt spine print. Blue patterned endpapers. Pages with giilt borders and decorative edges. Book is clean with no writing or remainder mark. Sporadic edge rubbing, a few pages with finger indents, and one small spine tail bump line. One light crease on front endpaper. Unclipped price on dust jacket corner. Jacket has one small area of edge wear and slight edge and front cover rubbing. Slight to light sporadic top edge creasing.

Minneapolis, Mn: Juniper Berry Press, 2004. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Lisa Spencer. Stated "First Edition." Glossy illustrated front and back covers with beautiful full-page illustrations on cardstock (?) paper. Clean, no writing. 23 unpaginated pages. Bright covers with heavy stock paper. Pages in excellent condition. Front cover creases, two < .25" and one approximately 1.25". Creasing not easily seen, but can be felt. A tad of tail wear. Remainder mark. Summary: A gentle tale of a boy fairy who falls asleep. Upon awakening, he finds his wings are gone. After asking various woodland creatures, he discovers that they were taken for a good cause.

USA : Harper, 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Robin Preiss Glasser. Stated First Edition, 1st printing (No line 10 to 1). Unpaginated (32 pages). Oversized book - approximately 11.5 " tall. Protected with mylar cover. Vibrant illustrations. Ages 4-8. Nancy bought a tree topper with her own money, but the unexpected happens. All ends well for Nancy and she enjoys a splendiferous Christmas.

State of Kansas, 1946. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Armstrong Sperry. Third Reader, Level 1. See photograph. Copyright 1940. Cover panels are in near fine condition. Clean with no underlining or writing - aside from owner's name on front pastedown. Wear is confined to spine ends: some bending of cloth and a few indents. A well preserved book. Includes a glossary and a word list. Great for teaching word recognition, vocabulary, and reading comprehension.

San Diego, CA New York London: Harcourt, Inc./Gulliver Books, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. E.B. Lewis. Signed on title page by author. 1st Edition, 1st printing ("A" in letter line). Unclipped original corner flap price. 32 unpaginated pag'es. 4to (over 9 3/4" -12"). Clean with no writing or remainder mark. Faint sporadic rubbing to glossy title page - visible if book tilted. Illustrated covers with matching dust jacket. Dust jacket with two small upper corners tears - .25 " or less.Spine head area crimping, light wear in this area, and a crease line in same area near top edge. Summary: A father returns to his former homeland in Ethiopia, and his young daughter hopes he will love his family enough to return the family who live in Portland, Oregon. A dilemma many immigrants face: Stay in the new homeland or return to the former.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1929 copyright. 1957 renewal. Blue cloth covers with gold and silver printing. Facsimile signature of Hemingway with silver stamped feather Blue endpapers and pastedowns. Rough cut pages. 8.5 " tall. 314 pp. Clean with no writing. Spine ends' bends. Light rubbing to corner tips.

Racine, Wisconsin: Golden Press, Golden Books, 1980. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Maggie Swanson. 1980, 1st Edition, 1st printing (Number line starts with "A". Giant Golden Book featuring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets. Sewn book. Laminated covers. Interior clean aside from 1 line mark in white space margin, approx. .25". Spine bumping and dings. Synopsis: Farley, a Sesame Street Muppet, is hesitant to visit the doctor for a check-up. The friendly doctor lets him give his teddy bear a check-up similar to his check-up. He leaves the doctor's office happy and ready to give his stuffed animals check-ups.

Canada: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (a Sunburst Book), 1992. Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. William Steig. Copyright 1974, Reprint Sunburst Edition 1992. The book looks new. Tight, possibly unread. Clean with no writing. Corner creases. Synopsis: A rollicking tale about a farmer pig and his hired hand, a donkey named Ebenezer who have mishaps on their way home from the market. The text and illustrations with the pig pulling the harness while the donkey rides and offers encouraging words, "Attapig, Palmer. You're not doing badly" and the donkey not missing a photo opportunity to snap a picture of the pig working while the donkey does nothing are just a couple of the hilarious episodes. A jolly good read.

New York : Atheneum / Anne Schwartz Books, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Johnson, Steve; Francher, Lou. Atheneum, 1st Edition 1999, 1st printing (Number line 10-1).. Unclipped price corner. 4to. 47 pp. New protective mylar cover on jacket. Dust jacket has a closed tear less than 2mm. Top front jacket slight edge wear and a scratch.

New York, N.Y.: Cobblehill Books/Dutton, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Leslie Bowman. Stated 1st Edition, 1st printing (full no. line), 1996. Ages 8-Adult. Unpaginated. Original price corner unclipped. Only a few small spine tail creases, else fine. Book's interior is fresh and clean. The dust jacket has color coating rubbing on the fore edge (approximately 1") and tiny spine tail wrinkles with edge rubbing in a couple of places. Some sunning or toning on the jacket's flaps. Synopsis: Henry, a boy living up North in the 1900's, loves it when his grandfather comes whistling through the woods to visit the Pepin family's cabin. One night he and his grandfather skate on the Maurice River seeking the fiddler who could make the Northern Lights dance. Giving up their quest, they arrive back at the cabin and who appears but the fiddler who makes the Lights dance. The locals hear the music and are drawn to the cabin in fear and wonder. Find… Read More

New York: The World Publishing Company, 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Stated "First Printing April 1971." No other printings or dates listed. Original price of $5.95 on jacket flap. 214 pp. 8.5" tall. This book is the last novel listed under Ellery Queen novels. Red cloth covers with gilt spine print. Age fading to covers. Dust jacket with 3 several tears - largest approximately 1 ". Glossy paper peal on largest tear. Chipping to spine head and tail. " A man who lived by the numbers - until someone killed him and upset the system. Nine to make a baby, nine to make a murder, and a classic case for Ellery and the Inspector." The publisher

Boston and New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition, 1st printing (full no. line). Grade 4-6. May be too intense for grade 4. Orange paper over boards with black quarter paper binding. 270 pp. Corners, edges, and panels in fine condition. Pages are fresh and tight. Book has light spine edge bumping. Dust jacket with some rubbing and some light edge and corner wear. Summary: Griffin, a young bat, is sucked into the land of the dead. His father Shade tries to rescue Griffin before Shades' deadly foe finds the young bat. Will he reach him before the land of the dead claims his son? Can the father and son safety return even if Shade rescues his son?

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Stated First American Edition, no print line. Near Fine with tad of spine end wrinkling and warp o/w Fine. 64 pp. No dust jacket. See "Table of Contents". Index included.

Minneapolis, Minnesota USA: Milkweed Editions, 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Robinson, Charles. 1st Milkweed Edition, 1st printing (5,4,3,2,1). Originally published in 1982 by HBJ. No remainder mark. Dark green cloth covers with bright gilt spine print. Illustrated dust jacket. Black and white page illustrations. A lonely cow and lazy cattle egret form a friendship which is not broken when they are separated. A happy ending.

Guilford, Connecticut: Globe Pequot Press, 2006. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Tenth Edition, 1st Printing. 9" X 6". 422 pp. Everything one would want to know: Evolution, history, accommodations, restaurants, attractions, maps, getting there and getting around, and more. Includes index, and photographs. Clean with no writing. Faint corner bend and corner tip bend.

New York U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company/ Sandpiper Books, 1969. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bill Peet. Ages 4-7. Later printing.13 th printing ( No. line WOZ 20-13). Covers in nice condition. No writing aside for 3 letters on inside of front cover (5.0F) and light stamp stating "Property Of Title 1" on back cover. Pages are fresh aside for 2 leafs that stuck together at bottom of pages 6 -7. Dampstain at bottom of p. 5 in white margin. The author's watercolors are superb. The plot and illustrations enhance each other. A sparrow (Homer) and a pigeon (Sparky) blossom in their new life together.

New York, N.Y.: Random House Children's Books, 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fritz Siebel. 1st Bright and Early Playtime Book Edition, 1st printing, 2005. Scarce in 1st printing (Number line 10-1). No writing or remainder mark. A book with pull tabs and mechanical wheels. All the tabs and wheels work well. Spine ends' bumping. Light rubbing.

New York, N.Y. USA: Scholastic Inc. , 1993. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Eric Carle. First Scholastic printing, Jan. 1993. No. line 12-1. Fine. Ages 3-6. Vivid illustrations with simpler text. A tortoise removes his shell and finds light weight means a faster pace but ... Heavy card stock pages. unpaginated. Book appears unread.

Richmond Hill, Canada: Scholastic-Tab Publications, Ltd., 1970. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Kathryn Cole. 1st Scholastic-Tab ed, 1st printing, 1970. No. at bottom of back cover, INC 301. Clean with no writing - aside from owner's name on title page and on two page bottom margins. Pages are in very good condition. No tears, highlighting or underlining. Page and back cover tanning with foxing dots Many pages with corner tip bends or creases and a few pages with wrinkles. Cover spine ends' wear, edge wear, reader's hinge creasing and cover corner creasing. Doug, the protagonist, must save his friends from the Cruel Lord of Hunger and his friend ULOC - the guardian of the waters - from the evil power that has polluted ULOC's stream.