Children’s Fiction & Literature
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through
the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, tell the story of a young
girl in a fantasy world filled with peculiar, anthropomorphic
creatures. The classic tale of literary nonsense takes the reader on an
exploration of logic and absurdities. The Alice books — sometimes
combined or referred to with the abbreviated title Alice in Wonderland —
have been translated into at least 97 languages with over a hundred
different editions.... Read more
the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, tell the story of a young
girl in a fantasy world filled with peculiar, anthropomorphic
creatures. The classic tale of literary nonsense takes the reader on an
exploration of logic and absurdities. The Alice books — sometimes
combined or referred to with the abbreviated title Alice in Wonderland —
have been translated into at least 97 languages with over a hundred
different editions.... Read more
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Commonly named among the Great American novels, The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, is generally regarded as the
sequel to his earlier novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; however, in
Huckleberry Finn, Twain focused increasingly on the institution of
slavery and the South. Narrated by Huckleberry “Huck” Finn in Southern
antebellum vernacular, the novel gives vivid descriptions of people and
daily life along the Mississippi River while following the adventure of
Huck and... Read more
Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, is generally regarded as the
sequel to his earlier novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; however, in
Huckleberry Finn, Twain focused increasingly on the institution of
slavery and the South. Narrated by Huckleberry “Huck” Finn in Southern
antebellum vernacular, the novel gives vivid descriptions of people and
daily life along the Mississippi River while following the adventure of
Huck and... Read more
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
The full title of Charles Dickens' most famous work is technically A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas. This novella was published on December 19, 1843, and the first edition run of 6000 copies were sold out by Christmas Eve of that year. The publication of the first edition was fraught with complications, and even though the book was received to positive reviews, profits of the book fell far below Dickens' expectations, and the financial strain caused rifts between Dickens and...
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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. The story was originally serialised in the children's magazine Young Folks under the title The Sea Cook over a period of several months from 1881-82.Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is the classic pirate tale, known for its superb atmosphere, character and action. It is one of the most frequently dramatised of all novels. The influence of Treasure Island on popular perception of...
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The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the antebellum South on the Mississippi River in the town of St. Petersberg, based on the town of Hannibal, Missouri.
The Wind In the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie. The Wind in the Willows was in its thirty-first printing when then-famous playwright, A. A. Milne, who loved it, adapted a part of it for stage as Toad of Toad Hall in 1929.
A Child's Garden Of Verse
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rediscover the delight and innocence of childhood in these classic poems from celebrated Scottish author, Robert Louis Stevenson.From make-believe to climbing trees, bedtime stories to morning play and favorite cousins to beloved mothers.Here is a very special collection to be treasured for ever.
First published in 1885, the first printing of A Child's Garden of
Verses ran 1000 copies by Longhaus, Green and Co in London. This
book was not illustrated until the 1896 edition, published 2 years... Read more
First published in 1885, the first printing of A Child's Garden of
Verses ran 1000 copies by Longhaus, Green and Co in London. This
book was not illustrated until the 1896 edition, published 2 years... Read more
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
In Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe, the title character Uncle Tom is a long-suffering slave, loyal to both his faith and his master. Presented with an opportunity to escape, he instead chooses to remain in slavery to avoid embarrassing his master. After being sold to a slave trader, Tom suffers brutal treatment and is eventually beaten to death for his refusal to betray his friends — made to represent an ideal of true Christianity. Enormously popular (it was the best-selling novel of the...
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The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers is a novel written by Alexandre Dumas. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a guard of the musketeers. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title, which refers to Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, three inseparable friends who live by the motto: "All for one, one for all" ("Tous pour un, un pour tous"). The story of d'Artagnan is continued in Dumas' Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne. The three...
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Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. The book became tremendously popular as soon as it was published.
The Night Before Christmas
by Clement C Moore
"A Visit from St. Nicholas", also known as "The Night Before Christmas" and "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously in 1823.
This famous poem helped to cement the image of Santa Claus from the description of his appearance, his transportation, and how he brings the gifts to children on Christmas eve.
This famous poem helped to cement the image of Santa Claus from the description of his appearance, his transportation, and how he brings the gifts to children on Christmas eve.
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
Published in 1820 by author Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe is an influential historical romance novel set in medieval England. Ivanhoe represents a departure from Scott’s other novels, and remains his most well-known work. Scott explores many different themes in Ivanhoe, chief among them the rivalry and tension between the Saxons and Normans, feudal injustice as well as the oppression of England’s Jewish communities at the time.Critical reception was very positive at the time of publication, and Scott is...
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The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden, written by Frances Hodgson Burnett, has remained one of the most popular children’s books since its publication in The American Magazine in 1910. The story tells of childhood emotions and experiences while keeping the central theme - if something is cared for, it will thrive. The Secret Garden introduces us to a sour little girl, Mary Lennox, who is NOT a pleasure to be around. In fact, she yells like a little princess, can't make friends, and simply despises everything.She...
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The Call Of the Wild
by Jack London
Jack London’s The Call of the Wild is an
anthropomorphic canine’s unforgettable tale of survival. Set during the 1890s
Klondike Gold Rush, the novel’s main character, Buck, a large and powerful St.
Bernard-Scotch Shepherd, is stolen from his ranch home in Santa Clara Valley,
California, and sold into service as a sled dog. At first, Buck experiences
violence and struggles for survival, becoming progressively feral in the harsh
environment. By the end, Buck relies on his instinct and learned... Read more
anthropomorphic canine’s unforgettable tale of survival. Set during the 1890s
Klondike Gold Rush, the novel’s main character, Buck, a large and powerful St.
Bernard-Scotch Shepherd, is stolen from his ranch home in Santa Clara Valley,
California, and sold into service as a sled dog. At first, Buck experiences
violence and struggles for survival, becoming progressively feral in the harsh
environment. By the end, Buck relies on his instinct and learned... Read more
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women (or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy) is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, it was published in two parts in 1868 and 1869. The novel follows the lives of four sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March—and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters.
Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell
First
published under the full title: Black
Beauty: His Grooms and Companions. The Autobiography of a Horse.
Translated from the Equine, by
Jarrold
and Sons London in 1877, the novel now known as simply Black
Beauty was
written
by English author Anna Sewell. The first American editions from 1890
have the added title 'The
“Uncle Tom's Cabin” of the Horse' as
promoters of the novel hoped it would do for animal welfare what
Stowe's novel did for the abolition of slavery.
Anna Sewell was
born in 1820 in... Read more
published under the full title: Black
Beauty: His Grooms and Companions. The Autobiography of a Horse.
Translated from the Equine, by
Jarrold
and Sons London in 1877, the novel now known as simply Black
Beauty was
written
by English author Anna Sewell. The first American editions from 1890
have the added title 'The
“Uncle Tom's Cabin” of the Horse' as
promoters of the novel hoped it would do for animal welfare what
Stowe's novel did for the abolition of slavery.
Anna Sewell was
born in 1820 in... Read more
Anne Of Green Gables
by L M Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables is the first novel by Canadian author
Lucy Maud Montgomery. The story tells of the adventures of Anne Shirley, an
11-year-old orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert,
a middle-aged brother and sister who had intended to adopt a boy to help them
on their farm in Prince Edward Island.
Like many of her contemporaries, Montgomery did not consider
submitting her first novel to a Canadian publisher, convinced that a more
lucrative deal could be made with an... Read more
Lucy Maud Montgomery. The story tells of the adventures of Anne Shirley, an
11-year-old orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert,
a middle-aged brother and sister who had intended to adopt a boy to help them
on their farm in Prince Edward Island.
Like many of her contemporaries, Montgomery did not consider
submitting her first novel to a Canadian publisher, convinced that a more
lucrative deal could be made with an... Read more
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe. It was first published in 1719, and is sometimes considered to be the first novel in English. The book, although based on the true story a Scotsman, Alexander Selkirk, is a fictional autobiography of the title character, a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives, and mutineers before being rescued.
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through
the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, tell the story of a young
girl in a fantasy world filled with peculiar, anthropomorphic
creatures. The classic tale of literary nonsense takes the reader on an
exploration of logic and absurdities. The Alice books — sometimes
combined or referred to with the abbreviated title Alice in Wonderland —
have been translated into at least 97 languages with over a hundred
different editions.... Read more
the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, tell the story of a young
girl in a fantasy world filled with peculiar, anthropomorphic
creatures. The classic tale of literary nonsense takes the reader on an
exploration of logic and absurdities. The Alice books — sometimes
combined or referred to with the abbreviated title Alice in Wonderland —
have been translated into at least 97 languages with over a hundred
different editions.... Read more
The Little Prince
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Little Prince, published in 1943, is French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's most famous novella. Saint-Exupéry wrote it while living in the United States. It has been translated into more than 180 languages and sold more than 80 million copies making it one of the best selling books ever. An earlier memoir by the author recounts his aviation experiences in the Saharan desert. He is thought to have drawn on these same experiences for use as plot elements in The Little Prince.
The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
RUDYARD KIPLING was born in Bombay in India in 1865 to British parents, and brought by a Portuguese 'ayah' (nanny) and an Indian servant, who would entertain him with fabulous stories and Indian nursery rhymes. He was sent back to England when he was seven years old, and lived in a boarding house with a couple who were cruelly strict. Fortunately he returned to India aged 16, to work as the assistant editor of a newspaper in Lahore. He began publishing stories and poems and eventually had great success...
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Heidi
by Johanna Spyri
Heidi is a classic children's book first published
in 1881 in Germany by Swiss author Johanna Spyri in two parts: Heidi:
Her Years of Wandering and Learning, and Heidi: How She Used
What She Learned. Subtitled: "Geschichten für Kinder wie
auch für Solche, Welche Kinder lieb haben von Johanna Spyri” Stories for children as well as those that love children by Johanna
Spyri). It is one of the best-selling books ever written, and one of
the best-known pieces of Swiss literature.Heidi tells the story of... Read more
in 1881 in Germany by Swiss author Johanna Spyri in two parts: Heidi:
Her Years of Wandering and Learning, and Heidi: How She Used
What She Learned. Subtitled: "Geschichten für Kinder wie
auch für Solche, Welche Kinder lieb haben von Johanna Spyri” Stories for children as well as those that love children by Johanna
Spyri). It is one of the best-selling books ever written, and one of
the best-known pieces of Swiss literature.Heidi tells the story of... Read more
Children’s Fiction & Literature Books & Ephemera
Artemis Fowl
by Colfer, Eoin
Twelve-year-old villain, Artemis Fowl, is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom. But he's taking on more than he bargained for when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance Unit). For a start, leprechaun technology is more advanced than our own. Add to that the fact that Holly is a true heroine and that her senior officer Commander Root will stop at nothing to get her back and you've got...
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When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh)
by Milne, A. A
Dutton Books for Young Readers, 1988. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$5.99
Child's Garden of Verses
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Avenel, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Children's Classics, 1985 1985 Edition, Later Printing, 119 Pages, Illustrated By Jessie Wilcox Smith In Colour And Black And White.Vg+ In Like Jacket. There Is A Line Of Ink About Three Inches Long Down The Hinge On Ffep, Otherwise No Writing Or Marks And Appears Unread. One Of The Colour Plates Is 'The Land Of Counterpane.' I Had As A Child A Much Less Luxurious Edition, But With A Similar Picture, And I Was Told That Robert Louis Stevenson Had Been Ill A Great...
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Item Price
CA$28.00
James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl
Puffin Books, 2007. Paperback. 146pp, 12mo. Spine is tight. Cover and pages are shelf-worn. Text is unmarked. Used - Good
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$3.99
The Railway Children
by E. Nesbit
Dover Publications, Incorporated, 2000. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Item Price
$5.99
The Secret Garden: Large Print (Reader Classics)
by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Paperback. Very Good.
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£5.10
Good Wives
by Alcott, Louisa M
London: The Studley Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1948. Reprint; First Printing. Hardcover. Missing DJ, corners bumped, some cover grime, gutters starting, Christmas gift message dated 1950 to front endpaper. ; Assumed first printing in this edition as last in series listed at rear. Sand cloth boards with brown lettering to spine, top edge yellow. Good reading copy. Undated but assumed 1948. Colour frontis by Vise. ; The Children's Classics Series; Vol. 10; 312 pages; The sequel to Little Women,...
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€7.25
Ballet Stories
by Woodward, Ian (Ed)
London: Carousel Books. Very Good+. 1983. Reprint; Second Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Light shelf wear. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside. ; B&W Illustrations; 132 pages; Eight sparkling tales from Noel Streatfeild and other thrilling ballet authors. .
Item Price
€3.50
William - in trouble / by Richmal Crompton ; illustrated by Thomas Henry
by Crompton, Richmal (1890-1969)
London : George Newnes, 1938. Early Edition. Hardcover. Good copy only in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands worn and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Text remains in fine condition. Physical description; 261 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. Subjects; William (Fictitious character from Crompton) ; Juvenile fiction. Children's stories, English. Boys England ; Juvenile fiction.
Item Price
$21.60
Grammatographia
by LEFÈVRE D'ÉTAPLES, Jacques
(Grammar for Children)
LEFÈVRE D'ÉTAPLES, Jacques (1450 ?-1537)
Grammatographia. Paris: Simon de Colines, June 1533 [Bound with:] Jacques LEFÈVRE D'ÉTAPLES. Clavis tesserarum Grammatographiae. [Paris: S. de Colines] 1530.
Two works in one, Small Quarto (204 x 145mm), [60, 14] ff. collates A-P4, a-c4 [d2], Printed in red and black (two minor marginal repairs). Modern calf tooled in blind to a Renaissance style.'Second edition of one of Colines' most ingeniously impressive typographic achievements'... Read more
LEFÈVRE D'ÉTAPLES, Jacques (1450 ?-1537)
Grammatographia. Paris: Simon de Colines, June 1533 [Bound with:] Jacques LEFÈVRE D'ÉTAPLES. Clavis tesserarum Grammatographiae. [Paris: S. de Colines] 1530.
Two works in one, Small Quarto (204 x 145mm), [60, 14] ff. collates A-P4, a-c4 [d2], Printed in red and black (two minor marginal repairs). Modern calf tooled in blind to a Renaissance style.'Second edition of one of Colines' most ingeniously impressive typographic achievements'... Read more
Item Price
$12,500.00
Treasure Island / by Robert Louis Stevenson ; illustrated by Rowland Hilder
by Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894) [author]. Hilder, Rowland [illustrator]
London : Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, 1944. Later Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy bound in the original title blocked cloth. Wear and tear as with age. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 238 pages. Subjects; Treasure Island (Imaginary place) ; Fiction. Treasure troves ; Fiction. Pirates ; Fiction. Adventure stories. Pirates ; Juvenile fiction. Buccaneers ; Juvenile fiction. Treasure troves ; Juvenile fiction. Adventure stories. Pirates. Treasure...
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$21.60
Little Lord Fauntleroy
by Burnett, Frances Hodgson. Illustrated By Reginald Birch
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Published 1946. Scribner's Illustrated Classics. Good in fair dustjacket. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, mounted color cover illustration, color frontis, 246 pages. The book is in good condition with light spotting over the cover cloth, a well preserved cover illustration, gilt lettering quite legible, very gently rubbed corners and spine ends, sound text block, good hinges, gift inscription on front pastedown, otherwise clean pages with no other...
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$22.99
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
by Montgomery, L.M
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1936. Hardback. Very Good/Good. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper. Green cloth, black titles to front cover and spine, small floral decorations to spine. 351 pages. Spine bumped with slight wear at base. Cover edges lightly rubbed. Book leans to one side. Foxing. "The Book of the Film" dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped with loss, mainly to top rear corner. Extensive old tape repairs on verso have dried and browned.
Item Price
£20.00
It's in Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz
by Shannon, Jacqueline
New York, NY: Avon Camelot, 1998 For Ages 8-12 yrs.; new book / old store stock; clean, tight and square, no tears or creases, text is clean and unmarked, pages are lightly yellowed
Item Price
$7.98
ROBINSON CRUSOE
by Defoe, Daniel, `
New York: The Heritage Press, 1930. Light shelf/edge wear. Light to moderate rubbing to spine with a few tiny chips missing. This edition is from the original 1719 version, but updated with more modern punctuation and spelling. Decoration on the front cover is embossed in Bas relief. The box is well worn and the top is down to the card board.. First Limited Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Boxed- No Jacket. Illus. by Edward A. Wilson. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The...
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$25.00
The Story of California
by May McNeer
First edition hardcover, published by Harper & Brothers, 1944. No dust jacket. Part of a series of illustrated children's books on the regions of the United States published by Harper with illustrations by Cornelius Hugh de Witt. Unpaginated, approx 40 pages, 10-1/8" X 11-1/8". Generously illustrated with scenes of the history and geography of California in four color lithographs of de Witt, many of which are full page illustrations. Illustrated boards with brown cloth covered spine. Illustrated...
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$30.00
Path of Beasts
by Lian Tanner
Do you dare to join Goldie in her hardest task ever as she walks down the mysterious Beast Road, deep inside the Museum of Thieves? No one knows where it goes and no one has ever returned from it.The city of Jewel is in peril once again, as it is held captive by the frightful Fugleman, his band of Blessed Guardians, and an army of merciless mercenaries. There's no doubt that Goldie and Toadspit want to get their city back, but how can a small group of children fight against such overwhelming forces of...
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$4.00
The Secret at the Seashore (The Bobbsey Twins)
by Laura Lee Hope
The Bobbsey Twins have a summer at the seashore with their cousin and meet other friends, but strange and intriguing things keep happening too. Of course, they love mysteries, and in the end put all the clues together to find the answer. Good condition. Readable copy. Cover has some rubbing/bumping, some soiling and spotting and some edge/corner wear. Previous owner's name written in ink on front end paper. Top of page edges is green with some spots, side edges also have some spots/soiling. Inside pages...
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$10.00
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ABV. [ABC].
by Markusha, Anatoliy
In original illustrated binding. Illustrated endpapers.In good condition, edges slightly bumped, stains on the covers.Limited to 100 000 copies.First edition of these illustrations. The book was designed by Ilya Kabakov (b. 1933) conceptual artist, major figure in Moscow Conceptualism, one of the most important Russian artist of the XXth century . He studied at the V.I. Surikov State Art Institute in Moscow, where he learned graphic design and book illustration. Kabakov worked as an illustrator of...
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$330.00
The Tunnel Behind The Waterfall
by Corlett, William
London: Red Fox. Very Good+. 1999. Reprint; Third Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Very light edge wear. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside. ; The Magician's House Quartet; Vol. 3; 280 pages; It's summertime and the children return to Golden House once again. But news of development plans for Golden Water means that they must try to stop the destruction of the magical place. A difficult task indeed. .
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€4.75
Shade's Children
by Nix, Garth
London: Harper Collins Children's Books. Very Good+. 2004. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Minor shelf wear. ; Special edition produced for Ottakar's in 2004. Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover artwork by Elliot Earls. ; 336 pages; In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no child shall live past their fourteenth birthday. The mysterious Shade recruits the few children fortunate enough to escape, training them...
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€4.25
The Jungle Book
by Kipling, Rudyard
With lovely illustrations by Kurt Wiese, this 80+ year old copy of Rudyard Kipling's classic novel is in good condition with slight cover wear. There is a former owner's gift inscription on the front endsheet.
Item Price
$50.00
