332 pages, 9 color plates by Frank E. Schoonover, decorated end leaves, green cloth stamped in gilt and white with mounted color illustration, 9 3/4 x 7 1/2". Nice copy, clean and tight, with a Christmas inscription. Adventure story for young readers based on Prescott's Conquest of Mexico. View More...
No. 4 of 9 in the series. Original publisher's green cloth binding with multicolored illustrated dust wrapper. The illustration on the dust wrapper shows Billie Bradley overlooking an oceanside scene. 5 3/8" x 7 5/8." 204 pages, complete. One black and white frontispiece, complete. Eight pages of advertisements in the back for other titles in the Billie Bradley series and similar books and series such as the Barton Books for Girls, the Ruth Fielding series, the Betty Gordon series, the Linger-Not series, the Radio Girls series, the Girl Scout series, and the Ruby and Ruthy series. Insid... View More...
No. 2 of 9 in the series. Original publisher's green cloth binding with multicolored illustrated dust wrapper. The illustration on the dust wrapper shows Billie Bradley overlooking an oceanside scene. 5 3/8" x 7 5/8." 206 pages, complete. One black and white frontispiece, complete. Six pages of advertisements in the back for other titles in the Billie Bradley series and similar books and series such as the Betty Gordon series, the Ruth Fielding series, the Linger-Not series, the Barton Books for Girls, and the Ruby and Ruthy series. Inside of dust wrapper also has advertisements for boo... View More...
No. 5 of 9 in the series. Original publisher's dark green cloth binding with multicolored illustrated dust wrapper. The illustration on the dust wrapper shows Billie Bradley overlooking an oceanside scene. 5 3/8" x 7 5/8." 204 pages, complete. One black and white frontispiece, complete. Eight pages of advertisements in the back for other titles in the Billie Bradley series and similar books and series such as the Barton Books for Girls, the Linger-Not series, the Ruth Fielding series, the Betty Gordon series, the Girl Scout series, the Curlytops series, and the Ruby and Ruthy series. I... View More...
xxx, 358 pages, illustrations by Orson Lowell and Gustav Verbeek, decorated cloth, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4". Nice copy with bookplate. Good, clean fun for boys. View More...
Original publisher's blue cloth binding. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 308 pages, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. Gilt lettering on front cover. Gilt lettering and decorations on spine. Pages and covers are clean and intact. Listed in Wright II, no. 2717. Adeline Dutton Train (A. D. T.) Whitney (1824-1906) was an American poet and writer. She wrote more than twenty books for girls. View More...
(1936). Colorful dust wrapper, showing spear carrying native hunters surrounding a none to pleased tiger. From a farm in North Dakota, our hero "Jep Gillette" travels to New Orleans where he meets his uncle. The two go off to hunt "the far-famed white tiger of Jepal." 255 pages, plus advertising section with selections of other novels by the publisher at the end. View More...
Original publisher's wrapper with a multicolored illustration of two boys wearing buckskin outfits, standing side by side in the wilderness by a river. No. 18 of Beadle's Frontier Series. 4 3/4" x 7." Ninety-eight pages, complete. Advertisements for other books on back cover and last five pages. Light chipping on spine. A very clean copy. View More...
162 pages; illustrations; publisher's binding, no fading to the covers. Young woman's novel by a noted children's writer. Very good clean copy, View More...
Inscribed by the author twice on the front flyleaf. xi, 344 pages; illustrations; gray cloth binding with white and green lettering on the cover and spine. Kate D. Wiggin (1856-1923) was a children's author of note. Her most famous work being 'Rebecca of Sunnybrooke Farm' published in 1903. She was the first teacher of kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878, and later lived in Maine writing here stories. Very good clean copy. View More...
First French Edition. Limited Edition, no. 1005 of 1200 copies. Text in French. Contemporary green paper-covered boards backed with light brown leather. Boards faded to mostly light brown. Gilt lettering on spine. Beautiful green and white marbled endpapers. Original paper spine tipped in on a front flyleaf. 5 3/4" x 8," 338 pages, complete. Table of Contents in back. Front colophon: "It a ete tire de cet ouvrage douze cents exemplaires sur papier velin du Marais tous numerotes. No. 1,005." Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for the occasional small mark, minuscule ag... View More...
7 color illustrations. Gilt decoration and lettering front cover and spine. 514 pages. Small gouge center of pages 223-262, through some text but is readable. The author notes that these poems were meant to be read between a child's third and tenth years. Poems are arranged by category: Lullabies; Birds, Beasts, and Flowers; Out-of-Doors; House and Home; History and Native Land; Legends and Stories; Humor; Prayers, Graces, Cards, and Meditations. Poets include: Sir Walter Scott; William Shakespeare; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Caroline Narien; Helen Hunt Jackson; Emily Dickinson; Rudyard Kipling; R... View More...
288 pages; illustration; light tan cloth binding with design on cover, white lettering, under dust jacket in mylar (chips missing at the top and bottom of the spine). Frank Wing (1873-1956) was an early cartoonist out of Minneapolis before WWI and drew/wrote a series of booklets of his country humor. Charles Schultz of Peanuts fame was greatly influenced by him. A very good clean copy with the dust jacket under mylar. View More...
'THE WINDERMERE SERIES'. 441 pages; 8 color plates (complete); bound in black cloth with color illustration pasted on the cover with silver color lettering. Former owners gift presentation on the front fly leaf, slightly shaken. Very good clean copy. View More...
Original publisher's yellow and green paper wrappers with staple binding. Illustration on front cover of a camp in the woods. No date, circa 1938-1940s. Fifty-six pages, complete. Small black-and-white, in-text illustrations, complete. Pages are very clean and intact except for slight age toning and the occasional small mark. Covers are very clean and intact except for a former owner's inscription ("Gold Hill") in pen at top on front, slight rubbing, light soiling, and slight wear to extremities. A Very Good copy. A collection of 4-H Club camp songs. Each song is brief and comes with ... View More...
