Search Results: Children's Books from Walkabout Books

Landsdowne, PA: Hamilton Press, 1962. Softcover. Very Good. 7 pp, with illustrations, in original wrappers. Light shelf wear to wrappers, light toning to edges; contents clean. Alphabet book, likely produced as a Christmas greeting. Vintage woodcut illustrations of animals--one for each letter, A-Z, with English and French names for the animal and a brief Christman/Noel poem.

New York: Atheneum, 1981. Hardcover. Near fine/Near Fine. Unpaginated, approximately 50 pp. First American edition. Color illustrated autobiography of John Strickland Goodall with pertinent dates and places. Very slight spine slant, else as new, in like jacket.

New York: Viking Press, 1957. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Revised edition, inscribed on the half-title page "from the two people who made this book -- Mary Marsh Buff and Conrad Buff." Lower corners bumped, bookplate of Sheelley Amestoy on front pastedown, else fine, in a near fine dust jacket with slight edgewear. Original $3.00 price present.

New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1865. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes in one: 179; 198 pp, plus publisher's ads. Frontispiece of a hippo bathing in the Nile. Original green cloth, with blind-stamped decoration and faded gilt lettering on the spine. Corners and spine ends rubbed, evidence of a bookplate removed from front pastedown. Binding sound, text clean, with minor foxing. Fictional account founded on real experiences and adventures in South Africa in the early nineteenth century. Mendelssohn I, 986.

New York: Macmillan, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 74 pp, illustrated with silhouettes. Original brown cloth stamped in black, no dust jacket. Rear board has some soiling, front board lightly scuffed, corners rubbed. Binding sound, contents clean. Brief gift inscription on title page.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 276 pp, illustrated with four b/w plates, in original pictorial cloth. No dust jacket. Some minor staining to top edge of text block, foxing to first two leaves, one page with old finger smudges. Still an attactive, very good copy of this well written young adult historical novel of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication. Hardcover. Very Good. Undated, c. 1860. 4 x 6 inches, 271 pp, with 6 plates showing animals seen on the voyage. Original blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt decoration on the spine. Corners bumped, some fraying to spine ends. Binding tight, hinges secure, contents clean. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper.