Illustrated Poems and Songs for Young People by Mrs Sale Barker (ed) - 1885

George Routledge and Sons Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 189 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth board. Contains black and white illustrations. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Hinges are moderately cracked with exposed netting. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Minor tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Visible wear marks to boards.

London, England: George Routledge and Sons, 1876. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 4 1/4" x 6 1/2. FAIR / NO JACKET. 128, 32 pp. Text clean and unmarked except for gift inscription i pencil at free front endpaper. Pages slightly toned. Illustrated with a full color frontispiece and 120 b/w engraved illustrations throughout the text. Blue cloth boards decorated in black and gilt at front and spine, with two small chromolithographs pasted on at front, both chromolithographs badly chipped, with losses. Board soiledcorners rubbed, spine top and tail frayed. Front hinge cracked, but holding, back hinge starting to crack, first signature loose. With a 32 page publishers catalogue bound in at the back.

London/New York: Frederick Warne and Co.Ltd, 1974. Facsimile Reprint . Hardcover. Good+. Greenaway, Kate. Charming miniature book designed to record birthdays of family & friends, with verses by Mrs. Sale Barker complemented by the lovely Victorian illustrations of Kate Greenaway.Most are small pen-and-ink ones, with many full-page, full-color ones mixed in. Orig. published in the late 1800s, this is a later facsimile reprint (no date, but c. 1970s due to presence of ISBN), earlier than later reprints that added "for children" to the title. Miniature hardcover with textured & decorated tan cloth boards is in Good+ condition: some light soil/staining to exterior boards & outside page edges; interior clean. Old gift inscription on front endpapers; NO other writing/underlining, or highlighting; NOT ex-lib. One entry had been filled in in pencil, now erased. Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same… Read More

Frederick Warne, n.d.. Reprint. Leather Bound. Good (no DJ). Square 24mo, pp. unnumbered, color plates, page decorations. Head of spine pulled, leather scuffed at rear and beginning to split at spine edges, gift inscription.

New York: Derrydale/ Crown, 1980. 1st Edition thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Art by Kate Greenaway. 10658 CF shelf. Smaller glossy pictorial beige bds, tiny scratch upper front cover. No names, nothing filled in. Short poems for each day of the year, with 382 illus. in color & b/w. Issued on the 100th anniversary of the original book

London / New York: Frederick Warne, 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book. With verses by Mrs. Sale Barker. London / New York: Frederick Warne, no date [circa 1970s]. Printed in Great Britain. Description: 32mo, beige cloth,126 pages (only the pages with verses are numbered, not the opposite blank page with lines for entering names), illustrations throughout with small one-color illus. next to each date, and 12 full-page color plates. Blank lined pages for birthday notes. Originally published in 1880, this is a reprint edition from the mid 1970s or later - price on jacket is $2.95. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: book is like new (there were two penciled names that have been erased leaving no markings); jacket is like new excepting it is clipped on the lower front flap (but not the price), very light toning to edges. A lovely copy.

UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover.

UsedLikeNew. Remainder mark

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-02-06. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.

Evanston, Illinois: Row, Peterson and Company, n.d. [copyright 1936]. Hardcover. First Edition, no additional printings listed. First-grade reader in the Alice and Jerry basal reader educational series. Red cloth over boards with blue & yellow titles and illustration of a dog and duckling. Good+. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown, a few penciled notes. Sewn binding is straight and tight. Corners and spine ends bumped. Covers clean and bright. Not from a school or library. See photos. 156 pages with color illustrations on every page. Word list.

The story focuses on the rivalry between two sheepdogs and their masters, and chronicles the coming of age of a boy who is caught between them. David M'Adam, the boy, was half-orphaned by the death of his mother, and is left to the care of his father, Adam M'Adam, a sarcastic, angry alcoholic with a few redeeming qualities. M'Adam is the owner of Red Wull, a huge, violent dog who herds his sheep by brute force.
Doubleday & McClure, 1899. Hardcover. Condition: vg+. .356 pages Find copy in Dark Blue Boards . copyright Doubleday & McClure (New York), 1889. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Rare first edition original 1899 edition by Doubleday and McClure Company New York. Nice copy all on hand laid paper. Deckled edges. Bob Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant. Copyright 1889. Some browning of pages. In a navy cloth binding. Externally sound. Some shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked/,

Crow Publishing, Victoria, 1971, 30 pages, 6.5" x 8.5", Near Fine, Comb Bound Softcover. An uncommon self published companion to "Ronny Meets The Sasquatch".

1978 - 16th printing- vintage Bedtime Stories - Little Red Riding Hood - book: very good - all pages are clean and unmarked - edge wear on boards good for age - pages show some toning at edges - ELEMENT: includes a little red riding hood/big bad wolf as grandma flip doll - doll is professionally sewn with intricate details

Fred Rogers: First Experiences Book Series: Going To the Doctor (1986 1st Ed. 3rd Pr. Thus, G.P. Putnam)RARE in this first hardcover edition. Quite the find. Used. VG/VG condition unclipped dust jacket, printed price $12.95 Mr. Rogers appears on the back dj panel wearing a pale blue sweater. "In this book, real life photos are used to help young people feel more comfortable with interacting with other children and making new friends. A Note From Fred Rogers: A child's first visit with a pediatrician usually comes soon after birth. It may be months or even years later, though, that a child first shows fear about going to see a doctor. The worry of an injection or some other unfamiliar medical procedure can trigger that fear. It can also appear because another family member may be feeling medical anxieties. And, of course, new body awareness and needs for privacy develop naturally in children's early years, so all these feelings can make it very hard for them to let doctors investigate the workings of… Read More

The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.

Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2

Lucky You: What Science Has Done For Us J.B. Lippincott Stated First Edition. SCIENCE. Artfully illustrated by MUNRO LEAF. Good EXLIB in a Good unclipped $2.25 orig. price dust jacket. Last page states: 152 4.

A special copy of The Little Prince translated into the Venetian (Venetan/Veneto) language, also called dialeto del mar – the dialect of the sea. Included is the bookmark from the bookstore - Libreria Acqua Alta. Great gift for any Little Prince collector. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.