THE ROYAL CHATTERBOX by Worthington, R - 1881

Goldsmith PUBL.Cleveland, 1906 HBDJ, 1906. Early reprint; BOOK VG/ DJ FAIR+, AS-IS, Red & black outlined Cloth Hard Cover with scuff to spine edges. Cloth. Very Good in slightly damaged BACK Side of dust jacket which has some chips out & Scuff in top area. FRONT DJ light wear & nice illustration with Tiny chips edges, Back Inner Flap dust jacket lists to "Nat Borden's Find." Very light rubbing to cover extremities; pages age-browned but not brittle; clean and tight. Dust jacket front panel bright and colorful (vintage image of two boys shooting at jumping buck), but moderately-to-heavily edgeworn and with 3"x3" damaged area at rear panel (tearing and scarring). .Pretty scarce volume of Juvenile fiction ! Competing newspapers. Good-guys' Herald prevails over bad guys' Eagle.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair.

Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, New York, 1914. HARDBACK NODustJacket, NOJACKET, 1st Edition, 1914, PreText Lists Thru This Title, GOOD/GOOD-, AS-IS, Interior Nice Tight FOXING, Wear, Few Stains, Aging, FEW dogeard pgs, 12 mo, Small illustation of boy with camera on Cover spine light Rub, wear Tiny Holes & Some Fade Bottom, Green & Red Illustrated Cover lotof Scuff marks , wear , Cloth Cover background are the most exciting of scenes; a rhinocerous attacking a tiger, a bear standing on its hind legs, a ship sinking and a building on fire being fought by the local fire brigade, 5"x7.5", Green & Red, Black Illustrated Cover of Boy with Movie Camera much Scuff & Rub, Back Cover Stains Wear & Spine Small Chips Wear, Interior , FoX, Wear , Stains some margins, O/W Nice Condition, 218 pgs + ADS, List thru Tom Swift & His Electric Locomotive, It is in GOOD- condition, some dings that come with age and use. . First Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1961. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Text is clean. Tan tweedy like binding. Cover shows light wear, slight slant to spine. Tan multi-scene endpapers. Dust jacket shows some wear, small scrape on front panel of DJ, light chipping at ends of spine. Several closed tears to top edge or rear panel. Rear panel of DJ lists 17 Tom Swift Jr. Titles, interior list gives 40 Hardy Boys Titles, rear flap gives 5 Bret King titles. MAD # 30300-40-6. AXE Format VI. Carpentieri 1961A-1.; Axe - Dust Jacket artwork by Rudy Nappi (1961 design). Last title issued with a dust jacket. ; Hardy Boys Mystery Stories; Vol. 40; ; 182 pages .

New York: Dutton, 1946 Illustrated boards, light shelf wear; matching dust jacket with sunned spine and light wear. A collection and explanation of hymns with soft and delicate artwork by Torrey. Caldecott Honor.. Stated First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Marjorie Torrey. 4to.

HBDJ, 1971. First Edition., VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD, AS-IS,  Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.  Octavo  . Green boards w/blue cloth backstrip, 176 pages. Light wear to spine ends, in price-clipped dust jacket w/a hint of wear to corners/spine ends. Most copies of this title seem to have been delivered into the ungentle hands of librarians, and are usually hammered half-way to Hell and back, but this one has been fortunate enough to escape those unkind attentions. A nice, acceptable copy.,  and shortly afterward they become involved with solving the mystery of a rare jade figurine stolen from a museum housing treasures from ancient Mayan tombs. Toby Burns never expected to meet a very Special Girl on the top of Maya Pyramid in Jungles of Guatemala. Nor did Pam Bacon have any thought of meeting a Special Boy. She was crouched on a Top Step near Temple of Giant Jaguar WHEN TOBY FOUND HER, frozen with Fear at prospect of getting Down from that great Height. With his… Read More

Edgar Rice Burroughs,inc. Publ, Tarzana, California, 1947. HBDJ, Bright Blue embossed Cloth lettered in Red, stated 1st edition , 1947, tiny Chips Extremities DJ, Crease extremities Flap Edge DJ, Piece missing spine DJ Top & Bottom bottom part affecting Word Burroughs, 314 pgs, Interior Nice, Tight , Clean, Back inner Flap DJ ad for Escape on Venus, Tear along Edge spine DJ, Back DJ ads Land of Terror & Escape on Venus with covers DJ pictured, top pgs edg es dyed pink red,side edges pages half way up slight darkening, Small mended Tears DJ, NF. First Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Harper & Brothers (1950) 184 pgs. Yellow pictorial cloth, wear to spine tips and corners, in a color illustrated dust jacket which is worn with a few small chips, tape repair on verso of DJ, price intact. A very clever and different approach to an alphabet book, one where the prose is alliterative and there actually is a plot! In addition to the wonderful text, Parrish added detailed and beautiful Victorian style drawings on which she spent a year making! Note lovely color pictorial endpapers.. First Edition. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Anne Parrish. 4to.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Text is clean. Previous owner gift inscription on front free endpaper. Front hinge shaken. Mustard colored boards with red and black multi scene cover decoration. Cover very clean, gentle bump to spine and corners, light slant to spine. Dust jacket shows wear, closed tear on front panel of DJ, chipping to corners and spine, rubbing along flap folds. Spine of DJ sun faded. Dust jacket, rear advertisement and interior titles list to this one. Page 180 does contain the original text "men were wealthy Jews", which was changed to "men were very wealthy" by the second printing. MAD 58500-31-2 (Dust Jacket 2B). ; Tom Swift; Vol. 31; 216 pages .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008 Pictorial boards in matching dust jacket. Lovely book illustrated in 3 colors. Awarded the Caldecott Medal in 2009.. First Printing. Fine/Fine. 4to.

New York: Macmillan, 1947 (1947) 82 pgs. Illustrated boards with shelf wear, spine ends chipped, corners worn, old book store sticker to FFEP; in matching dust jacket which is worn, missing 1/2" by 2" piece from top of spine and other smaller losses, jacket price intact ($2.00). One of Jones' most popular and scarcest titles about a little girl whose dolls come to life on Christmas. . First Edition. Very Good -/Good. Illus. by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Square 8vo.