Search Results: Children's adventure stories from The Owl at the Bridge

Originally published in Italian in 1882; this translation originally published in Australia by Consolidated Press, 1944. "Showing unerring sympathy for the original, unsentimental spirit of Collodi's tale, Innocenti's exquisite paintings endow Pinocchio with fresh life-- and the power to enthrall many generations to come." -- dust jacket. 142 p., color illus.; 30 cm. Color pictorial dj price-clipped, old sticker remains on rear; VG. Includes copy of extensive NYTimes review of November 1988. Stock#2062.

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. Hard Cover. 6 leaves, 235, [1] pages, frontispiece, illus.; 23 cm. "Three brothers decide to run away and try their hand at living and surviving like outlaws, on Brendon Chase. A classic story of survival and adventure, enhanced by a wealth of natural history lore and superb illustrations by the author." Stock#43187. Vg / no dj.

Boston, Ticknor & Fields, M DCCC LXV [1865, but copyright 1856]. First edition. The popular Victorian writer of adventure stories for boys, the king of the dime novel, combined sentimentality with realism. Hard Cover. 1 leaf, iv, 356 pages, frontispiece, 12 illus., 16.5 cm. Pencil inscription dated November 1865 on flyleaf. Good+; rebound in green library cloth. Stock#101516.

NY, Burt [191-?]. Hard Cover. With Eight Page Illustrations by Gordon Browne. Contents include A Fishing Excursion; A Rising Tide; Alone in the World; To the Dark Continent; Lost in the Forest; A Hostile Tribe; A Negro's Story; A Fugitive Slave; A Christian Town; Amazons of Dahomey; Captive in Coomassie; Invasion of Fanti Land; Attack on Elmina; White Troops; Advance to the Prah; Battle of Amoaful; Capture of Coomassie. iv, 367, [8] p., illus., 19 cm.; blue cloth boards decorated in black & red; minor wear to spine ends & corners, no dj; VG. Stock#34109 (S-B). Another copy, pages darkened, red-ink owner's stamp, bottom of spine chipped. Stock#34109b.

Scholastic Book Services [1968]. Starline Edition. Soft Cover. 155 pages, illus.; 17.5 cm. Paper; pages rippled from water, lacks 'Fooj' recipe, still a good story. Stock#32567.

The Mershon Company, Rahway & NY [c1901]. "'Colonel Thorndyke's Secret' is a story so far out of the ordinary that it will not be inappropriate to speak a few words regarding the tale... The plot of the story hinges upon the possession of a valuable bracelet of diamonds, stolen from a Hindoo idol by a British soldier in India. This bracelet falls into the possession of Colonel Thorndyke... The secret concerning the bracelet is told to the Colonel's brother, a country squire, and the treasure is left to younger members of the Thorndyke family. As is well known to-day, the theft of anything from a Hindoo temple is considered an extraordinary crime in India, and when this occurs it becomes a religious duty for one or more persons to hunt down the thief and bring back the property taken from the heathen god. The members of the Thorndyke family soon learn that they are being watched. ...They would give the bracelet up, but do not know where it is hidden... In this quandary the young hero of the… Read More

NY, Worthington Co. [191-?]. Hard Cover. "There are few figures in history who have individually exercised so great an influence upon events as William Wallace and Robert Bruce. It was to the extraordinary personal courage, indomitable perseverance, and immense energy of these two men that Scotland owed her freedom from English domination. ...Mr. W. Burns... in his masterly and exhaustive work, 'The Scottish War of Independence'... has displayed Wallace as he was, a high-minded and noble patriot. While consulting other writers, especially those who wrote at the time of or but shortly after the events they record, I have for the most part followed Burns in all the historical portions of the narrative." Contents include Glen Cairn; Sir William Wallace; Capture of Lanark; Barns of Ayr; Cave in the Pentlands; Battle of Sterling Bridge; Battle of Falkirk; Robert the Bruce; Battle of Methven; Castle of Dunstaffnage; Colonsay; A Mission to Ireland; Heiress of the Kerrs; Siege of Aberfilly; Escape from… Read More

New York, Grosset & Dunlap [1919]. Hard Cover. 3 p. l., 319 p. front., illus. 19.5 cm. "The sixth book of Burroughs' tales of the ape-man. This collection of short stories explores the life of the young Tarzan, his adventurous boyhood and teen years among the great apes and other wild creatures that were his only family." Twelve stories: 1. Tarzan's First Love 2. The Capture of Tarzan 3. The Fight for the Balu 4. The God of Tarzan 5. Tarzan and the Black Boy 6. The Witch-Doctor Seeks Vengeance 7. The End of Bukawai 8. The Lion 9. The Nightmare10. The Battle for Teeka 11. A Jungle Joke 12. Tarzan Rescues the Moon. Stock# 102,213. Good+ / no dj.

NY, Burt [191-?]. Hard Cover. "I have laid my story in the time not of the triumphs of Venice, but of her hardest struggle for existence-- when she defended herself successfully against the coalition of Hungary, Padua, and Genoa... The historical portion of the story is drawn from Hazlitt's 'History of the Republic of Venice'..." (Preface). Contents include On the Grand Canal; The Hut on San Nicolo; On Board a Trader; Attack by Pirates; Capture of the Lido; Battle of Antium; In Mocenigo's Power; Pirates' Raid; Battle of Pola; Recapture of the Pluto; Release of Pisani; Siege of Chioggia; Triumph of Venice. vi, 460, 12 pages, front., advertisements, 19 cm.; pale blue cloth decorated in red & black; faint waterstain to outer edge from p. 421; a bit shaken, corners & spine ends worn, covers scuffed, red-ink owner stamp inside front cover; good. Stock#34118 (S-B).

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, MDCCCCI [1901] 'First Impression October 12 1901' [DeVinne Press]. First Edition. Hard Cover. , and, in Elucidation of the Same, over 200 Drawings. By Ernest Seton-Thompson, Author of Wild Animals I Have Known, Trail of the Sandhill Stag, Biography of a Grizzly, etcetera & Naturalist to the Government of Manitoba. Krag the Kootenay Ram; A Street Troubadour: Being the Adventures of a Cock Sparrow; Johnny Bear; The Mother Teal and the Overland Route; Chink: The Development of a Pup; The Kangaroo Rat; Tito: The Story of the Coyote that Learned How; Why the Chickadee Goes Crazy Once a Year. 'My chief motive, my most earnest underlying wish, has been to stop the extermination of harmless wild animals; not for their sakes, but for ours, firmly believing that each of our native wild creatures is in itself a precious heritage that we have no right to destroy or put beyond the reach of our children.' 361 p., 30 plates; 21 cm.; bound in olive… Read More

Hyperion Press / Duell, Sloan & Pearce, NY [c1945]. From the original Arabian Nights' Entertainment. Story of Sindbad the Seafarer and Sindbad the Load-Carrier; Sindbad's First Voyage or The Island That Was Not an Island; Sindbad's Second Voyage or The Valley of Diamonds; Sindbad's Third Voyage or The Terrible, One-Eyed, Man-Eating Giant; Sindbad's Fourth Voyage or Buried Alive; Sindbad's Fifth Voyage or The Old Man of the Sea; Sindbad's Sixth Voyage or The Splendors of Serendib; Sindbad's Seventh Voyage or Sold into Slavery. Hard Cover. 72 pages, illus. (mostly color); 27.5 cm. Pictorial dj well worn, torn with pieces missing, poor; book clean & VG. Stock#37920.

NY, Burt [191-?]. Hard Cover. "The historical facts of the story are all drawn from Froissart and other contemporary historians..." Chapters include Hut in the Marshes; Thwarted Plot; Knight's Chain; Young Esquire; Off to the Wars; Siege of Hennebon; Jacob van Artevelde; White Ford; Cressy; Siege of a Fortalice; Capture of Calais; Black Death; Poitiers; Jacquerie; Victory and Death. vi, 391 pages, frontispiece, 19 cm.; brown cloth decorated in red & black; pages darkened; spine ends & corners worn, chipped, red-ink owner stamp inside front cover; good. Another copy, NY, Hurst & Co., no date, 313 pages, shaken (spine loosened), lacks all before frontispiece, dark green cloth boards stamped in black, green, brown, show a golfing scene!, spine ends chipped; fair. Stock#34121x (S-B).