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New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan Inc., 1978. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Stated First Paperback edition, published 1978 Large format softcover book - size approx. 8-1/2" x 11". Clean and bright illustrated cover. No creasing, small chip at base of spine. Hand-lettered by Howard G'ag. All pages are clean - no names, writing or marks. Wonderful songs, story along with illustrations by the author. .

New York: The Island Workshop Press, 1941. Book. Illus. by Marty Links, Illustrator. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. New York: The Island Workshop Press, 1941. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. Marty Links, Illustrator. Clean gray cloth boards with no lettering. Hint of slightest surface wear to corners, no fraying. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean, with small remainder mark on bottom page edges near spine. Tasteful child's bookplate on front fixed endpaper; no other marks. 96 pgs. Illustrated by Marty Links. Dustjacket is not price clipped, has some chipping and slight edge wear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Children's..

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Clean stated First Edition in unclipped original dust jacket - now in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Clean red cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks; slight dust speckling to text block edges. 343 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, has fading to spine; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..

Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1964. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1964. First Edition . Near Fine/Very Good+. First Edition in clean original dust jacket, complete number line on copyright page 123456789). Winner of the 1964 Charles W. Follett Award. Very clean gray and rust red cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean map-illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Jacket and endpapers by Albert John Pucci. 224 pages. Jacket is clean, with very slight edge wear, no chips, some peeling/chipping to Follett Award seal on front panel, not price clipped (3.95 on front inside flap). Author photo and bio on rear inside flap. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..

New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946. Book. Illus. by Illustrated by the Author. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Clean hardcover book in original dust jacket. Clean color illustrated paper-covered boards with red cloth spine. Very small dent to upper front board edge. No fraying to spine. Binding is tight. No names, writing or bookplates. Wonderful color illustrations throughout by the author. Dust jacket has two long closed tears to front panel, very light soiling; looks quite respectable in new archival quality mylar cover. Ollie and his nanny have all sorts of world travel adventures as he nods off to sleep and has a wonderful dream..

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1926. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition.. Blue cloth boards with red illustration of marching bear, red lettering on cover and spine. A couple of very small faint spots and very little wear - no fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Beautifully bright and clean illustrated endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with slight foxing only to title page. Two-color frontispiece illustration, many black & white drawings by James Daugherty. 105 pages..

Cleveland, Ohio: Fine Editions Press, 1946. Book. Illus. by Louis Slobodkin, Illustrator. Near Fine. Hardcover. Clean hardcover book, with black & white illustrations by Louis Slobodkin. Light rust cloth boards with maroon leather spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean with gilt top edges, clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. 303 pages..

Rochester, NY: Stecher Lithographic, 1921. Book. Illus. by Frances Brundage, Illustrator. Very Good+. Paperback. First Edition.. Clean color illustrated paper covers (both front and rear cover is illustrated) with stapled spine. No. 28. Size approx. 7-1/2" x 13-3/4". Three short closed tears to cover fore-edge. All pages beautifully illustrated in full color or two-color by Frances Brundage. No writing or marks. Unpaginated..

New York: Coward McCann, 1952. Book. Illus. by John Moment, Illustrator. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. New York: Coward McCann, 1952. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. John Moment, Illustrator. Clean solid ex-library with clean pages and edges, library markings on endpapers. 218 pgs. with illustrations by John Moment. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Slight wear to board edges. Clean bright dustjacket has very small chip at top corner of spine, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Brian and his sister Patsy spend a long summer vacation with a special horse named Jim, who disappears mysteriously..

Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1947. Book. Illus. by Ursula Koering, Illustrator. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1947. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. Ursula Koering, Illustrator. Very clean red cloth boards with small illustration on cover, black lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying; hint of surface wear at spine corners. Binding is tight & square, no cracking; clean illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Pages are clean and bright, page edges have slight dust-speckling. 210 pgs. Illustrated by Ursula Koering. DUSTJACKET has clean bright illustrated front panel, is not price clipped, has tiny bit of chipping at spine edges and corner tips, faint water spots along rear spine edge. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Excellent first edition of this scarce book..

New York: Dodd Mead, 1955. Book. Illus. by Kurt Wiese, Illustrator. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Dodd Mead, 1955. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Very Good+. Kurt Wiese, Illustrator. First Edition in clean original dust jacket. Clean orange cloth boards with black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean; previous owner gift inscription dated 1957 neatly penned on front free endpaper. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. 276 pages. Illustrated jacket is clean, small price clip at top corner of front inside flap, no chips, one short closed edge tear at spine fold; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A boy's adventures in Vietnam during wartime..

Philadelphia / Toronto: John C. Winston, 1957. Book. Illus. by Harve Stein, Illustrator. Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. Philadelphia / Toronto: John C. Winston, 1957. Stated First Edition. Fine/Very Good. Harve Stein, Illustrator. Stated First Edition in clean illustrated dust jacket. Very clean light gray cloth boards with crisp red lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated by Harve Stein. 115 pages. Dust jacket is not price clipped (2.75 on front inside flap), has small chip at top left corner of front panel, slight price sticker residue at base corner of rear panel. Author photo and biography on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. True story based on historical facts of how the confederate warship ALABAMA attacked one Union merchantman after another for nearly two years until almost one-half of the Union Fleet had… Read More

New York: Crown Publishers, 1989. Book. Illus. by Bill Woodman, Illustrator. Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Crown Publishers, 1989. Stated First Edition. Fine/Fine. Bill Woodman, Illustrator. First Edition, First Printing, with full number line on copyright page. Clean blue cloth boards with silver decoration on cover, silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean pink endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 71 pgs. with illustrations by Bill Woodman. Clean unfaded dustjacket is unchipped, not price clipped, no tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A children's novel about two best friends who are bugs, living in the Empire State Building. 8vo. Children's..

New York: Delacorte Press/Eleanor Friede, 1980. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Clean stated first printing in unclipped original dust jacket (now in new archival quality removable mylar cover). Clean golden cloth boards with brown lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages are clean. Clean beautifully illustrated endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with drawings by Hillary Knight. 135 pages. Clean jacket is not price clipped, has one very small edge chip at top rear spine corner; enclosed in clear mylar cover..

New York: Random House, 1959. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. New York: Random House, 1959. Very Good+/Very Good+. Stated First Printing (but a nice book club edition) in original clean dust jacket. Clean green cloth boards with elephant illustration, black lettering on cover; black lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying, no fading, a few small wrinkles to spine cloth. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean decorated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Written and illustrated by the author. 142 pages. Clean illustrated dust jacket has slight edge wear and a few short closed edge tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Written for children' this is a journey through the rain forests of the world--to the Brazilian jungle and the jungles of the East Indies, the Belgian Congo and more..

New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1988. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition, First Printing.. Clean first edition hardcover book and dust jacket, SIGNED by the author. Light green paper-covered boards with darker green cloth spine, unchipped silver lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean. Clean green endpapers. No previous owner markings. Signed by the author on the title page, along with her drawing of a bird in flight - "Best wishes--Enjoy! - Elizabeth Wild." 184 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Several newspaper articles about the author are laid in. Set in a small Maine town, this book is a gentle, poignant story of true friendship and loyalty, and o a young girl's discovery of worlds beyond her own. Louis Berry is ten the summer her family takes in an injured stray bird, Crowberry, and nurses it… Read More

New York: D. Appleton, 1892. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: D. Appleton, 1892. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/No Dust jacket. First Edition decorated American trade binding. Clean green cloth boards with beautiful image of boy riding a diving sea turtle on cover, with gold decoration and black lettering. Spine has gold lettering, black decoration. Binding is in beautiful shape, with no fraying or wear-through, tight and square with solid hinges - no cracking. Tasteful custom previous owner bookplate on front pastedown; front free endpaper and blank fly leaf have additional previous owner names which someone has lightly "X'd" out - otherwise pages and edges are clean; rear endpaper has a large chip. Beautifully illustrated throughout with black and white drawings. 273 pages + publisher's advertising at rear of book. A story of camping and fishing adventures in company with a naturalist in Florida..

New York: Landmark Books (Random House), 1962. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. New York: Landmark Books (Random House), 1962. First Edition . Very Good/Very Good. Landmark Book No. 101 in clean dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with black title box, white lettering on cover and spine. Very light soiling, one tiny spot of wear to front board edge. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Magnificent photo decorated endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated with more than 60 black and white photographs. 190 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, has 3/4" tear at top spine edge. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A fascinating and detailed account of this remarkable accomplishment of a dedicated group of space pioneers. As with all books from the remarkable Landmark Series - written for young people, enjoyed by all..

Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1935. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1935. Very Good/Fair. Clean blue cloth boards with red lettering on cover and spine. Binding is tight & square, no cracking at hinges. No names, writing or bookplates inside. Pages are clean and bright, with a little discoloration to endpapers only. 390 pgs. Colorful dustjacket with scene of boat at sea on cover, but DJ has sizeable corner chips at two front corners and base of spine, small chips at rear corners. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Boys Fiction..

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1945. Book. Illus. by Arthur Szyk, Illustrator. Near Fine. Hardcover. Clean hardcover book and dust jacket. Clean decorated cloth boards with green cloth spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Color-decorated endpapers. Very brief previous owner inscription neatly penned on half-title page - no other writing or marks. Wonderful color illustrations by Arthur Szyk. 343 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped but has several closed edge tears, no fading; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. .