Search Results: Children & Youth from Ayers Books/Livres Ayers

Toronto: The Macmillan Company, 1935 Hard cover school text book, 338 pages. Green boards with black lettering and design on front cover. Geometry for high schools "Authorized for use in the Protestant Schools of Quebec." Black and white frontispiece photograph and many line drawings and figures in the text. Wear and fading to the edges, several stains or spots on the cover. School ownership stamp on front paste down endpaper. Interior very good. overall condition good+. First. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Boston: Ginn and Company, 1914. Hard cover, 7 inches, 18 cm., 297 pages. Preface by J.H. Stickney. First Series means that the book "should be sufficienty easy for children of eight or nine years old." Charming black and white illustrations, some full page. Edgewear and some fading. Gift incription on ffep. Good+ condition. . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Edna F. Hart. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Toronto and Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin and Company Limited, 1973. Hardcover, 22.5 cm., 8 3/4 inches. Unpaged: 16 leaves. Orange cloth boards, illustrated dust jacket. First edition, later printing. Algonquin legend of how the chipmunk got its stripes, retold by the author and illustrated throughout with drawings by Laszlo Gal. Very good book with a fair dust jacket that has material missing on the spine. A touching tale with charming illustrations. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Illus. by Laszlo Gal. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Jordan, Marsh & Company, 1888. First edition (though copyrighted in 1887.) Printed by H.G. Houghton and Company.  Hardcover, 7 3/4 inches, 19.5 cm., 394 pages. Illustrated with black and white drawings in the text and six full-page plates. American youth story with twelve chapters, each with a different adventure taking place in Boston. Pictorial cover and spine with gilt titles, faded on the spine. The back cover is darkened. Faint pencil signature of C. Urban Tirrell, 1889 on front free end paper. A good copy.. First. Hard Cover. Good. Illus. by F.G. Attwood. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1881. Hardcover, 35 cm., 9 3/4 inches. Paper covered boards, cloth spine, 32 pages. Book of images after Caldecott, Kate Greenaway, Miss Casella and others. Full-page colour illustrations with captions, patterned endpapers. Name of previous owner (Jessie Owens) appears on verso of frontispiece. Poor condition with stains, torn front endpaper and loose hinges. Interesting vintage picture book. . Hard Cover. Poor. Illus. by Cadwell Litho Co. NY. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paris: Je Bouquine, 1985. Moby Dick, le Jeune Mamelouk en BD Couverture souple, 113 pages. + puzzles, jeux, articles. Dessins par Sempé sur les gardes. Bon état.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Sempé, André Juillard, Christian Rossi. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bound Magazine.

Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1851. Hardcover, 8 cm.,7 ¼ inches, 192 pages. Original brown embossed canvas with faded gilt titling on the spine. The Young American Library edition. The stories of the skirmishes and battles leading to the American Revolution. With an illustrated frontispiece and five plates. Well-worn copy with loss at foot of spine and foxing; hinges intact but a bit shaky. First edition. . First. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.