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By: Barrie, J. M.
Price: $150.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1902
Edition: 1st American Edition
Seller ID: 020813
Condition: Fine
Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Gilt decoration on the front cover shows a scenic garden. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4." 349 pages, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Very minimal surface and edge wear. A Fine copy. J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) was a Scottish author and playwright best-known for writing the book, Peter Pan (also published under the title, Peter and Wendy). This book, The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens, marks the first appearance of "Peter Pan." View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Akron, OH, The Saalfield Publishing Company: 1919
Seller ID: 020202
Condition: Very Good
Original publisher's red cloth binding with multicolored illustrated dust wrapper. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4." 216 pages, complete. One black and white plate, complete. A couple pages of advertisements for other books in the back. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Dust wrapper is clean and intact overall but has small chips along the top edge. This book is third in the Air Service Series. There are six books total in the series. In this book, friends Tom Raymond and Jack Parmly embark on a dangerous mission across German enemy lines. View more info
By: Bennett, Arnold
Price: $75.00
Publisher: The Limited Editions Club. Oxford. 1941.: 1941
Seller ID: 530
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Cloth backed boards in dust wrapper. Boards illustrated with floral pattern; gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated dust wrapper front cover and spine. Two volumes, 729 total pages. No. 910 of 1500 copies signed by illustrator. Measures 7 3/4 x 11 3/4. With an Introduction by Frank Swinnerton and a Preface by the Author. The author writes about the England he loved and some of the local characters. View more info
By: Blackmore, R.D.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and Company.: 1930
Seller ID: 7141
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
(1930). Publisher's black cloth. Eight full page color illustrations. 646 pages. View more info
By: Blackmore, R.D.
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Springfield, Mass., Milton Bradley Company: 1921
Seller ID: 9821
Condition: Collectible-Fine
Bradley Quality Books for Children. 351 pages; 14 color illustrations; bound in publisher's cloth with color illustration glued to the front cover, gilt lettering to the spine. Inscribed in the front is 'Happy Birthday to Peggy, from Aunt Frances. March 1922'. Clean copy with sound binding. View more info
By: Blocher's
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Gettysburg, PA, Blocher's: 0
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019787
Condition: Fine
Original publisher's beige wrapper with a multicolored illustration showing portraits of Generals Robert E. Lee and George G. Meade and the High Water Mark Monument. Multicolored illustration of the Lincoln Speech Memorial with accompanying reprint of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on back cover. No date, circa 1919. 10 1/2" x 8 3/8." Forty-seven pages, complete. Forty-six black and white reprinted photographs and illustrations, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. A fine copy. As the title suggests, this is a picture book that "describes" (with minimal t... View more info
Price: $37.50
Publisher: New York, Thomas Seltzer: 1924
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 4493
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Illustrated dust wrapper; chipping spine top and bottom; stain spine top; tape on back. Uncut page edges. Offsetting to front and back end papers. Tear bottom page 47, text unaffected. Ink notation front end paper. Translation of this book by Adele Szold Seltzer. Poems done into English by Arthur Guiterman. Although written for adults, this book has also been adopted as a book for children. From the dust wrapper: "The main character is the Sprite." "He has been banished from his own home and comes to live on earth among trees and plants, may-beetles, hedgehogs, frogs, owls, larks, ... View more info
By: Bowman, James F.
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Boston, Massachussetts, Gould and Lincoln: 1852
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 12711
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
461 pages; ads in back; brown cloth binding (faded) with bowing to the binding. Fading to the binding, especially the spine. R.M. Ballantyne lifted the plot of this work for his novel 'The Coral Island', which in turn inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to visit the south seas and write 'Treasure Island'. See Eric Quale EARLY CHILDREN'S BOOKS: A COLLECTOR'S GUIDE (London, 1983) on pages 193-194, for a discussion of the relationship among these books. Very good copy. View more info
By: Bragg, Clare A.; Wilbur D. Nesbit (Verses)
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Chicago, IL, P. F. Volland Company: 1913
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019455
Condition: Very Good
Original publisher's cloth-backed illustrated boards. 11 3/4" x 8 3/4." 123 pages, complete. Thirty illustrations, complete. Illustrations by cartoonist Clare A. Briggs (1875-1930) with accompanying poems by Wilbur D. Nesbit (1871-1927). Pages are intact; binding is tight. A few of the illustrations are colored in crayon by a former owner. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York and London, The Century Co.: 1927
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019060
Condition: Fine
Publisher's red cloth with black lettering. Dust wrapper with very light chipping top and bottom of spine. 50 photo illustrations. A very clean and complete copy. 7 x 10 inches. 106 pages, including index. View more info
By: Bryon, Lord George Gordon Noel
Price: $100.00
Publisher: London, The Art-Union of London: 1855
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 017151
Condition: Very Good
Original green cloth that is half bound with gilt lettering and design on spine. Raised bands and all gilt edges. 8 1/2 X 11 1/4 inches. 122 pages. This beautiful copy has 30 illustrations. All plates are fully intact. Marbling on insides of front and back covers. Some scuff marks on front and back cover and also lightly sunned on front cover and spine. Corners are bumped. Dampstain on top edge of 52 pages. Foxing throughout copy, some lighter then others, however this beautiful copy is clean and complete and binding is tight. View more info
Price: $37.50
Publisher: New-York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1895
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 3856
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
BAL 2088. Gilt decoration and lettering front cover and spine. Full-page illustrations. 191 pages. Several pages of publisher's advertising. Offsetting to pages 58-59. Orphan twin brother and sister, Meg and Robin, live with their Aunt Matilda on her large Illinois farm. Aunt Matilda's home is cold and austere compared to the loving and cozy home they had shared with their parents. They talk and dream about life beyond the farm, in the City Beautiful. View more info
Price: $37.50
Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1916
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019025
Condition: Very Good
Publisher's blue cloth with illuistrated front cover. In scarce dust wrapper, chipped along top edge. Price cut out of dust wrapper spine (as usual) leaving a lightened spot on spine of book.Illustrated. Bibliography of American Literature number 2123. 5 x 7 1/2 inches. 55 pages, complete. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1912
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019026
Condition: Very Good
Dust wrapper chipped at spine extremities, not affecting lettering. Color illustrations. Publisher's green cloth. Bibliography of American Literature number 2118. 4 3/4 x 7 1//4 inches. 42 pages, complete. View more info
Price: $37.50
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1895
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 020828
Condition: Near Fine
Original publisher's blue cloth binding. Gilt lettering and decorations on front cover and spine. Illustration on the front cover that shows a boy and a girl traveling somewhere amid a backdrop of thorned scrollwork bordered by decorative seashells. 7" x 8 1/2." 191 pages, complete. Twelve black and white plates, complete. Sixteen additional pages of illustrated advertisements for other children's books in the book. Former ownership inscription in black ink on front free endpaper: "Claire Randall." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Minimal edge and corner wea... View more info
By: Burns, Robert
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Ernest Nister. London.:
Seller ID: 644
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Circa 1910). The Laurel Wreath Series. Color illustration front cover. Color illustrations. Pages have black and white floral border. Small tear bottom front cover at spine. Book measures 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. A poem of family in Scotland. View more info
By: Byron, Lord
Price: $750.00
Publisher: London., The Fanfrolico Press: 1929
Inscription: Signed by Illustrator(s)
Seller ID: 14951
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Publisher's full vellum, with gilt letter and illustration on front cover. All edges gilt. Number 27 of 30 copies only and signed by the artist at the colophon. Black and white textural illustrations and purple and white full page illustrations by Carter. Unpaginated but complete. In custom made slipcase. A beautiful book. View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: San Francisco, Philips and Van Orden Company: 1919
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019779
Condition: Fine
Original publisher's gray wrapper with an illustration on the front cover. 5" x 6 3/4." 117 pages, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. A clean, fine copy. Book is divided into two parts: "Rainbow Stories" and "Indian Myths." (The latter of the two comprises stories by the author, so while this part of the book is not a collection of traditional myths, Caldwell looked to Native American culture for inspiration.) Stories in "Rainbow Stories" include: "The Flight to Fairyland"; "The Fair... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Claremont, (Privately printed): 1951
Seller ID: 8298
Condition: Collectible-As New
Original blue wrappers printed in black. Two page introductory note by Foster original to this edition. The original title for this children's novel is: "Story of Jack Halyard,the sailor boy, or the virtous family, designed for American children, in families and schools." It was first published in the 1820's. The booklet was also printed by Foster, who was director of the fine printing department of Scripps College. Printed in a small edition. 26 pages. View more info
By: Carroll, Lewis
Price: $175.00
Publisher: London, England, Macmillan and Company: 1893
Edition: First Edition of Both Volumes.
Seller ID: 13163
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
1889 and 1893. 2 volumes; publisher's red cloth binding with gilt lettering and gilt edging to pages. Fading and soiling to the spines. I: xxiii, 400 pages; illustrations; index. II: Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, xxxi, 423 pages; [5] pages ads in back; illustrations; index. Collection of stories gathered by Carroll in two volumes. View more info
