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By: Arundel, Louis [pseudonym of George Rathborne]
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Chicago:, M. A. Donahue & Company,: 1913.
Edition: First Edition, Early Printing.
Seller ID: 009231
Motor Boat Boys Series #5. A series of adventure books featuring six teen-aged boys and their adventures on various waterways. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear, Three color front pictorial and spine decoration clean and vivid. 8vo; 231 pages with publisher adverts. 7 5/8 inches tall View more info
By: Bick, Peal S.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, John Day Company: 1945
Edition: Fourth Printing
Seller ID: 010310
The action takes place during World War II in Japanese occupied southern China. A young boy meets an American pilot and learns about airplanes.Fine in a Near Fine Price-clipped Dust Jacket. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, Minimal handling wear. Dust Jacket with a hint of aging on the white of rear panel. Fourth Printing; 8vo; 8.5 inches tall; 60 pages. Endpages illustrated each with a different scene. Illustrations by George T. Hartman. ... View more info
By: Birdsall, Jeanne
Price: $14.95
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2005
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 010420
No Flaws of Blemishes; Gift Quality. First Edition, Tenth Printing. National Book Award Seal Attached. 262 pages. Deliciously nostalgic and quaintly witty, this is a story as breezy and carefree as a summer day. View more info
By: Buck, Pearl S.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, The John Day Company: 1940
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Seller ID: 010204
First Edition, First Printing. Publisher's tan cloth with stamped navy blue titles. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal handling wear. Dust Jacket price-clipped is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has minor handling wear with small wear at spine tips and along the top edge. Oblong quarto: 8 by 7.25 inches; 48 unnumbered pages. Illustrated by Wenda Yap. -Pearl S. Buck, (1892 -1973) American author noted for her novels of life in... View more info
By: Buck, Pearl S.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York, The John Day Company: 1955
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Seller ID: 010411
Grandfather was very old and Mary Lou was only eight when he came to live with her family. The two of them had long talks and short walks and got along fine, so Mary Lou was surprised when her mother got very busy and worried. First Edition [no additional printings] 8vo; 8.25 inches tall; 63 pages. Illustrations by Esther B. Bird. Soft brown cloth boards with brown spine titles and front decoration. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning.... View more info
By: Chodsko, Alex; Translated from the Frebch by Emily J. Harding
Price: $95.00
Publisher: New York:, A. L. Burt Company,: [No date; circa 1900].
Edition: Early Reprint Edition
Seller ID: 007058
Contains seventeen stories, some in several parts: titles include The Abode of the Gods, The Maid with the Hair of Gold, The Spirit of the Steppes and Imperishable. From the French of Aleksander Borejko Chodzko (1804 - 1891) who was a Polish poet, Slavist, and Iranologist. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. 8vo; 7.5 inches tall. 327 pages; plus a 4-page publisher's catalog. View more info
By: Clark, Ann Nolan
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Wisconsin:, E. M. Hale,: 1943
Seller ID: 002061
Brown cloth covered boards with titles in a blue box. Decoration of Navajo girl in bark brown. Bindings firm, light shelf wear. Some hand soiling. Text clean.Library bound has stamp of a school on front end page. Title of subject "Indian" on front free endpage. No other ownership marks.....9 inches tall. 143 pages.Published same year as the 1st Edition. E. M. Hale with permission from The Viking Press, 1943. The beautiful rhythms of the Navajo life in R... View more info
Price: $39.95
Publisher: New York, Sterling Publishing: 2005
Seller ID: 010235
No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. A simple re-telling of the nativity story receives a strikingly handsome treatment, as special as Christmas itself. Every one of the six gilded and gloriously illustrated panoramas offers exquisitely crafted paperwork with windows that burst open to reveal such delicate, moving scenes as the Angel Gabriel attending Mary, the Holy Family in the manger, and the Three Wise Men worshiping the baby Jesus. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York:, Charles Scribner's Sons,: 1935.
Seller ID: 002784
Black cloth covered boards with front color paste-on. Bindings square and tight, Front pictorial has rubbing. Text clean light even toning. Top edge stain, decorated endpages. View more info
By: Frame, Janet
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York, George Braziller: 1969
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Seller ID: 009760
First Edition, First Printing. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. minimal handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has light handling wear no chipping or tears. 8vo; 9.5 by 7.25 inches; 94 pages. noted illustrator and noted New Zealand author. View more info
By: Helprin, Mark
Price: $14.95
Publisher: New York, Viking/Ariel: 1996
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 010112
No Flaws or Blemishes to note; Still Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing. World Fantasy Award Winner Best Novella. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. View more info
![Image for <b> The Outdoor Girls in Florida, Or, Wintering in the Sunny South </b><br>[Florida - Fiction]](/assets/images/product/009625 (1).jpg)
By: Hope, Laura Lee (pseud.) [Stratemeyer, Edward L. syndicate]
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1913
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Seller ID: 009625
The Outdoor Girls series was one of the Stratemeyer Syndicate series and was published from 1913 to 1933 by Grosset & Dunlap.An original publication by Grosset & Dunlap, and fifth title in the "Outdoor Girls" series. The series focuses on the various activities of a group of girls who form a Camping and Tramping Club. They become known as the "Outdoor Girls" in their city of Deepdale, a city located on the Argono River in New York. In this story, t... View more info
![Image for <b>The Magic of the Circus </b><br> [pop-up book]](/assets/images/product/DSC_307.jpg)
Price: $145.00
Publisher: New York, Derrydale Books / Distributed by Crown Publishers: 1985
Edition: First US Editiion
Seller ID: 009564
Originally published in Czechoslovakia. Vojtech Kubasta was born in Vienna. His family moved to Prague when he was four years old and he lived there his entire life. He demonstrated his artistic talent at the age of four. He had a great desire to become an artist. His father, however, had different goals for his son. He wanted him to study law. Nevertheless, the young Vojtech persisted with his aspiration to become an artist and, eventually, his father agr... View more info
By: Lea, John [pseud. John Lea Bricknell.]
Price: $195.00
Publisher: London:, Gale & Polden, Ltd.,: 1917.<br>
Edition: First Edition – First Printing.<br>
Seller ID: 005012
Only other copy found in British Library!Verses by John Lea. Pictures by Joyce L. Brisley.This antique volume is bound in pictorial paper-covered front board, gray paper-covered rear board and red cloth spine. The book shows moderate external wear, with minor loss at the outside corners. The binding is sound. A previous owner's notation appears at the top of the front flyleaf. The pages exhibit occasional light foxing. Ref: OCLC: 561040720... View more info
![Image for <b>Hello Alaska.</b><br>[Kurt Wiese]](/assets/images/product/004543_4de2ec06c6f260afb26c26ec615d5e27.jpg)
Price: $12.95
Publisher: Chicago:, Albert Whitman & Company,: 1951.
Edition: Second Printing.
Seller ID: 004543
Ex. Library. Bindings sound. Text clean but for library stamps/blacked out. Wear to edges. View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York and Chicago:, Saalfield Publishing Company,: 1903.
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 002118
Author's First Published Book. Red cloth covered boards. Front titles and decorations in stamped black and green. Bindings tender. Cloth open front joint, front hinge open, lacking front-free endpage. I suspect that spine/hinge has been repaired (nicely, I will add) Light wear and minor hand soling. Text clean with a hint of toning. View more info
By: Milligan, Elsie
Price: $19.95
Publisher: London:, Pickering & Inglis,: 1968.<br>
Edition: First Edition, Second Printing.
Seller ID: 009046
Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal handling wear. Dust Jacket is price-clipped and in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has moderate shelf wear with small loss front corner. >Third book in the series View more info
![Image for <b> Little Faces from Far Places </b> [7 Unused/Uncut Paper Dolls]](/assets/images/product/010238_1)
By: Nordell, Julia
Price: $200.00
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1933
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 010238
An American Girl Traveling Across Europe in 1933 with Untouched Paper Doll Cutouts. First Edition, First Printing. With seven full-color paper dolls of Joanna and her friends in national costume never cut. A near-fine copy of a striking book. Original black cloth spine, color pictorial paper boards with "porthole" cut-out to upper board, color pictorial endpapers. Color illustrations throughout, seven full-page international paper dolls printed in full color. Ink... View more info
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By: Peary, Marie Ahnighito [Admiral Peary's Daughter] [AKA Snow Baby]
Price: $95.00
Publisher: New York, William Morrow & CO: 1930
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Seller ID: 009724
Marie Ahnighito Peary was born in Northwest Greenland on September 12, 1893, to arctic explorer Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary and his wife, Josephine Diebitsch Peary, of Portland, Maine, and Washington, DC. Their daughter became known world-wide as the "Snow Baby," a name given to her by the Greenland natives who had never before seen a white baby. In 1909, when Marie was 16 years old, Admiral Peary became the first white man to lead a successful expedition to the... View more info
![Image for <b>The Snow Baby. A True Story with True Pictures </b>[Greenland]](/assets/images/product/009738 (1).jpg)
Price: $125.00
Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Publishers: 1901
Inscription: Signed by the Author
Seller ID: 009738
SIGNED boldly on front fee end page without an inscription. 15th Printing, This autobiography of Robert E. Peary's daughter, born in Greenland during one of his Arctic expeditions, the narrative for children describes life with the Eskimo [Inuit] delightfully showing the culture and daily life. The illustrations are from photographs taken by Commander and Mrs. Peary and are of the greatest variety but give especial attention to the children. [PW]. View more info
