Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1935. Very Good/Fair. Clean blue cloth boards with red lettering on cover and spine. Binding is tight & square, no cracking at hinges. No names, writing or bookplates inside. Pages are clean and bright, with a little discoloration to endpapers only. 390 pgs. Colorful dustjacket with scene of boat at sea on cover, but DJ has sizeable corner chips at two front corners and base of spine, small chips at rear corners. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Boys Fiction. View More...
Clean hardcover (color illustrated cloth-covered boards with imbedded metal spiral binding). Stated First Edition, first printing. No names, writing or marks. All pages are clean, lavishly illustrated with full color photographs, page decorations. Clearly written, delicious recipes that any child can make...such as strawberry shortcake, gingerbread men, brownie slowpokes (they look like turtles!), meatballs, salads, sandwiches and more. How to set the table, use kitchen knives safely, how to measure accurately. 156 pages with Index. View More...
Very Good+ large format clean book with illustrated cover, very clean interior printed on linen, with six full color illustrations. 8-1/2" x 10-3/4". Small spots of wear to spine ends, else no rubbing, creasing or chipping. Unpaginated (14 pages). No date of publication, circa 1900. View More...
Rochester, NY: Very Good+. Clean green wraps, string bound, with brown frog prince illustration and brown lettering on cover. No chipping or creasing, very slight wear to edges. Pages are clean and bright, with no names, writing or marks. Unpaginated. A children's marionette play dramatized from an old Chinese tale and silk-screened by the Rochester Folk Art Guild, with color cut-out figures (all bright and intact) bound in. 7" x 9-1/2". Play. View More...
First Edition, SIGNED by the author. Clean blue cloth boards with darker blue illustration (three children at a garden gate), dark blue lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or fraying. Very slight fading to spine cloth. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Slight browning to right edge of front free endpaper; pages and edges are clean. Inscribed and signed by author on front free endpaper: "Faithfully yours, Jane Abbott." Color frontispiece illustration by Franc Root McCreery, with three additional wonderful full-page black & white illustrations by McCreery. 300 pages. View More...
Clean hardcover book in color-illustrated jacket. Gray tweed boards with "A Biff Brewster Mystery Adventure" and a compass on cover, black lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean decorated endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Pages and edges are clean. 182 pages. Clean dust jacket has edge wear and a few small edge chips; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. View More...
Clean light green cloth boards with black lettering, airplane on cover, black lettering on spine. A few faint areas of fading to cloth. Slight wear at spine corners, no fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or marks. Clean bright illustrated endpapers. Illustrated by J. Clemens Gretter. 216 pages. View More...
Fine hardcover book in very clean original dust jacket. Clean red cloth boards with compass decoration and profile of General Brock on cover, black lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Clean illustrated endpapers. Preface by the author. 178 pages with Index. Clean bright dust jacket with 195/195 at top corner of front inside flap, some small chips at upper and lower spine ends. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Rare in this ni... View More...
Solid hardcover book in original dust jacket. "Young Readers of America Selection." Light blue cloth boards with red an burgundy wreath decoration, burgundy lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Very slight hint of browning to edges. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Clean illustrated endpapers, with child's bookplate (no name) on front free endpaper. Pages and edges are clean. Illustrated by Leonard Vossburgh. 182 pages with index. Dust jacket is clean, has a few short closed edge tears, shallow chipping at top spine edge, one small corner chip on rear p... View More...
New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good +/Fine . Turi MacCombie, Illustrator. First Edition, First Printing, in clean unchipped jacket. Clean glossy illustrated boards, no bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Tasteful previous owner bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Illustrated by Turi MacCombie. 63 pp. Clean dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. View More...
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, 1928. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Very Good. Benny Larsen, Illustrator. First Edition in scarce dust jacket. Clean green cloth boards with very clean unworn color paste-on illustration on cover. No fraying, fading or wear-through. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Clean endpapers illustrated with maps. Illustrated by Benny Larsen. 288 pages. Clean color illustrated dust jacket is not price clipped (1.50 on front inside flap), has chips and closed edge tears, surface scrape at top edge from sticker removal (size of a ni... View More...
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1974. First American Edition (stated). Very Good+/Fine. Victor Ambrus, Illustrator. Stated First American Edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Yellow cloth boards with black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear, quite clean and bright. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean turquoise endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated by Victor ambrus. 160 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, no tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A wonderful tal... View More...
Philadelphia / Toronto: International Press, 1954. Very Good+. Complete set (title page states "In Twelve Volumes" and all are present). Clean hardcover books with very little wear. Red faux leather print boards with black cloth spines, gold lettering and decoration on spines. No fading or fraying - bindings are tight and hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean (previous owner name neatly stamped on title page of each book). Amazing and clearly written stories of twentieth century industry, science, nature, transporation, communication and other marvels of the world. Profusely illustrated ... View More...
Clean gray and white illustrated paper-covered boards with red lettering, green cloth spine. Rubbing and wear to board edges, corners. Binding is tight, pages are clean. Red and black illustrated title page. Wonderful full page illustrations by the author in color, plus black and white drawings. Printed by Thos. Forman and Sons, Nottingham, England. Unpaginated, undated (circa 1909). Clean endpapers, with small "ThisBook Belongs to (blank)" sticker in upper left corner of front fixed endpaper. View More...
Beige cloth boards with illustration of football players on cover in green, orange, brown and black; crisp black lettering on cover and spine, black decoration on spine. No fraying or wear-through, very light soiling; rear board has bump at lower outside corner with resultant crease to cloth. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Decorated endpapers are clean; under "This Book is the Property of " a name is written in pencil (R. T. Custer - Xmas - 1908 ). Frontispiece illustration. All pages are clean, but tanned. 168 pages. View More...
Very clean and solid book. Dark green cloth boards with large unchipped color paste-on illustration on cover, black lettering on cover; bright gold lettering and black illustration on spine. No bumping or fraying; very light surface wear to spine corners. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean and bright with clean endpapers (previous owner name and place in light pencil - easily erasable if so desired). A little dust speckling to top page edges. 256 pages. View More...
Clean hardcover book with paste-on color illustration of boy with rifle and hunting dog on cover (clean illustration, no chipping or wear). No date of publication, circa 1910. Clean burgundy cloth boards, gold lettering with black illustration on spine. Tiny spots of wear to two corner tips. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound-no cracking. Tasteful and attractive bookplate on front fixed endpaper (no name). Pages are clean. 287 pages. View More...
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1884. Later printing. Very Good/No Dust jacket. Circa early 1900s (Copyright date 1884 by Porter & Coates). Red cloth boards with black illustration of boy on spine, large colorful and clean paste-on illustration on cover. Slight fading to cloth; a few small spots of wear at lower board edges. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Previous owner name and address neatly penned on front free endpaper (dated 1914). 303 pages. View More...
Clean hardcover book in original illustrated dust jacket. Clean yellow boards with blue and black decoration on cover, blue title box on spine, black lettering. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean. Clean illustrated endpapers. Brief previous owner inscription on half-title page; no other marks. Illustrated by C. L. Hartman. 192 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, price clip at upper corner of front inside flap. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The story of the hard-riding, fearless m... View More...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Very Good+. First Edition, First Printing, in clean unclipped jacket. Clean brown boards with blind-stamped decoration on cover, black cloth spine with bright gold lettering. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Tasteful previous owner bookplate on front free endpaper. Beautiful full-color illustrations. Clean dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, hint of very slight edge wear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. View More...