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The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens

By: Barrie, J. M.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1902

Seller ID: 020813

Binding: Hardcover

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."
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Air Service Boys over the Enemy's Lines; or, The German Spy's Secret (Air Service Series)

By: Beach, Charles Amory

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Akron, OH, The Saalfield Publishing Company: 1919

Seller ID: 020202

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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The Old Wives' Tale; Two Volumes

By: Bennett, Arnold

Price: $75.00

Publisher: The Limited Editions Club. Oxford. 1941.: 1941

Seller ID: 530

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Lorna Doone

By: Blackmore, R.D.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and Company.: 1930

Seller ID: 7141

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

(1930). Publisher's black cloth. Eight full page color illustrations. 646 pages.
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Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor. Edited By Carolyn Sherwin Bailey.

By: Blackmore, R.D.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Springfield, Mass., Milton Bradley Company: 1921

Seller ID: 9821

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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The Story of Gettysburg in Pictures; or, Historic Views of America's Greatest Battlefield: Gettysburg

By: Blocher's

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Gettysburg, PA, Blocher's: 0

Seller ID: 019787

Binding: Soft cover

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...
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Heaven Folk

By: Bonsels, Waldemar

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New York, Thomas Seltzer: 1924

Seller ID: 4493

Binding: Cloth in Dust Wrapper

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, ...
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Jack the Conqueror; or, Overcoming Difficulties; and Other Stories

By: Bowen, C. E.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Oakland, CA, Pacific Press Publishing Company: 1890

Seller ID: 021244

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First American Edition with the addition of two stories not in the British Edition. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 106 pages, complete. Black and white plates and illustrations, complete. One additional page in the back advertising another book in the Young People's Library. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. The Pacific Press Publishing Company was established 1874 and is one of two major publishing houses owned by Seventh-day Adventists. "Jack the Conqueror" is a story about persevera...
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Oh Skin-nay!: The Days of Real Sport

By: Bragg, Clare A.; Wilbur D. Nesbit (Verses)

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Chicago, IL, P. F. Volland Company: 1913

Seller ID: 019455

Binding: Soft cover

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.
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The Chilodren's Book of American Landmarks

By: Bryant, Lorinda Munson

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York and London, The Century Co.: 1927

Seller ID: 019060

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Thirty Illustrations of Childe Harold. The Original Drawings Produced Expressly For The Art-Union of London

By: Bryon, Lord George Gordon Noel

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, The Art-Union of London: 1855

Seller ID: 017151

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Two Little Pilgrims' Progress : A Story of The City Beautiful

By: Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New-York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1895

Seller ID: 3856

Binding: Illustrated Cloth

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.
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The Little Hunchback Zia

By: Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1916

Seller ID: 019025

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Two Little Pilgrims' Progress: A Story of the City Beautiful

By: Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1895

Seller ID: 020828

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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The Cotter's Saturday Night

By: Burns, Robert

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Ernest Nister. London.:

Seller ID: 644

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Manfred : a Tragedy

By: Byron, Lord

Price: $750.00

Publisher: London., The Fanfrolico Press: 1929

Seller ID: 14951

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Rainbow Stories and Indian Myths

By: Caldwell, George W.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Philips and Van Orden Company: 1919

Seller ID: 019779

Binding: Soft cover

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...
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Story of Jack Halyard, Selections Edited By Joseph Arnold Foster, Scripps College

By: Cardell, William S.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Claremont, (Privately printed): 1951

Seller ID: 8298

Binding: Soft cover

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.
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Sylvie and Bruno; and, Slyvie and Bruno Concluded

By: Carroll, Lewis

Price: $175.00

Publisher: London, England, Macmillan and Company: 1893

Seller ID: 13163

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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The Twin Mystery.; Or, the Face in the Shadow

By: Carter, Nicholas

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Street & Smith Corporation: 1901

Seller ID: 14856

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

"The New Magnet Library No. 1202". 205 pages; ads in the front and back sections; color illustrated cover, paper wrapper (4 7/8 x 7 inch). Tear at the base of the front cover, former owner's name on the cover. Very good copy.
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