Category: Children's Books

Rough and Ready, or Life Among the New York Newsboys

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Alexandria, Virginia, Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans : 1997

Seller ID: 002981

279 pp. Nearly new, no markings, fresh. Dark blue cloth and gilt lettering with pictorial glossy board on front cover showing 2 young men playing sports. A collector's edition reprint sponsored by the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans. With slipcase. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Surprise Stories

By: Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co : 1924

Seller ID: 009180

Binding: Reinforced Cloth

Condition: Good +

110 pp. Front cover faded to pale pink, rear cover less faded reddish pink, with edge wear. Corners and spine edges bumped. Text clean. Tape reinforcing the joints (possibly part of the original printing process -- the book is described as "unbreakable.") Previous owner's name "Josephine" in pencil on front endpaper (Association copy -- From the estate of newspaper publisher Herbert "Tippen" Davidson Jr.; likely a copy owned in childhood by his wife, Josephine Field Davidson, deceased executive editor and co-publisher of the Daytona Beach News-Journal). Front cover colored pastedown showing fa...
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The Road to Oz

By: Baum, L. Frank

Price: $3.00

Publisher: NY, NY: Watermill Press, 1985 : 1985

Seller ID: 001301

ISBN-13: 9780816704712

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ISBN:0816704716. 174 pp. No markings, light wear. An unabridged Watermill Classic edition of Dorothy's adventure from Kansas to Oz. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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The Clumsy Cowboy

By: Bethell, Jean

Price: $9.00

Publisher: NY, Wonder Books : 1963

Seller ID: 0503003724

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good +

61 pp. Light soil and a couple of dings near spine and upper corner on front cover. Moderate yellowing of pages. Text clean, no writing or markings. Two-color illustrations, orange and black on every page. A Wonder Books Easy Reader. Tale of Clyde, a young boy and would-be cowboy who can't stay on a horse. A cow befriends him and helps him stop a bank robbery. Simple vocabulary for a first or second-grader.
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Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever: My Story

By: Bieber, Justin

Price: $8.00

Publisher: NY, Bieber Time Books (HarperCollins) : 2010

Seller ID: 009473

ISBN-13: 9780062039743

Binding: Color Photo Pictorial Boards

Condition: Near Fine

236 pp. Numerous color photos on nearly every page. Photos front and rear covers. Dent near top of spine, spine edges bumped, corner page crease on p. 23. Else perfect, no writing or markings. No poster included. First-person chat about Bieber's music career and life story up through his 16th birthday. Issued to promote a world tour by the Canadian teen music star. Size: 4to --10 Inn
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Lives of Girls Who Became Famous

By: Bolton, Sarah K.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: NY, Thomas Y. Crowell : 1925

Seller ID: 007115

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair +

338 pp. Ex-library, with stampings. Previous owner's named stamped on bottom edge. Spine cloth torn. A few preliminary pages with previous owner's names detached but still present. Frontispiece shows photo of Helen Keller. A collection of 25 profiles of famous women, ranging from Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Clara Barton to Lucretia Mott. Faded, soiled front cover has a silhouette of a woman writer. Size: 8vo -- 8 in Tall Revised And Enlarged Edition, 7th Printi.
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Daddy's Bed Time Animal Stories

By: Bonner, Mary Graham

Price: $35.00

Publisher: NY, Frederick A. Stokes Co. : 1916

Seller ID: 009449

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

120 pp., plus frontispiece and 3 full-page color illustrations. Rubbing on most of rear cover and spine edges. Front cover has colored oval pastedown showing a Mother Rabbit in a chair with a baby rabbit in her lap. A first name in pencil on front endpaper, and a couple of squiggles on rear endpapers. No markings in text, which is lightly toned. A collection 40 very short stories about various talking animals, including Br'er Rabbit, Billy Porcupine, Billy Beaver, the Gloomy Gnu, the Waltzing Mice, the Big Dog who was Frightened by a Bug, et al. Each story has a thumbnail b&w drawing at its be...
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The Boys' Life Book of Mystery Stories

By: Boys' Life Editors

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Random House Audio : 1963

Seller ID: 005877

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Corners rubbed, spine bumped, some fading. No markings. With frontispiece. An anthology of juvenile suspense stories, including "Peril on the Gorge" "Wailing Waters" and "The Phantom Moth," by Hugh B. Cave.
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Granny's Wonderful Chair

By: Browne, Frances

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Akron, Ohio, Saalfield Publishing : 1928

Seller ID: 005770

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good +

247 pp. Darkish mottling on blue front cover and spine. Spine sun-faded. Light to moderate edge rubbing. Textblock toned, with some foxing on page margins, and a larger splotch of foxing on p. 29. Hinges split but binding still fairly sturdy. Previous owner's name in pencil on front endpaper. No markings in text. Several line drawings interspered through text. Size: 12mo -- 7.5 In Tall
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Billy Elliot

By: Burgess, Melvin

Price: $4.05

Publisher: NY, Scholastic : 2001

Seller ID: 003534

ISBN-13: 9780439312288

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

221 pp. Light crease on front cover, spine uncreased, remainder mark on fore-edge, no other markings. A novel based on the screenplay of the successful film about a boy in a gritty English mining town who is pressured to adhere to the macho ways of his father and older brother, prefers ballet to boxing. The narrative is told in turns from the viewpoints of 11-year-old Billy, his relatives and his best mate Michael, who has a crush on Billy. Contains a few coarse words.
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Flower Power

By: Carbone, Courtney

Price: $7.00

Publisher: NY, Golden Books (Random House) : 2014

Seller ID: 010268

ISBN-13: 9780385373968

Binding: Illustrated Boards

Condition: Near Fine

24 unpaginated pages. color illustrations on every page. Two dot-sized dings on gilt spine strip, else as new. No markings. Bat Girl and Wonder Woman join forces to battle poison ivy monsters. Part of the "Little Golden Book" series. Size: 8vo -- 8 in
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass; The Hunting of the Snark

By: Carroll, Lewis

Price: $35.00

Publisher: NY, Boni and Liveright : 1925

Seller ID: 009223

Binding: Cloth and Boards

Condition: Good

351 pp. Spine cloth tape and boards with red and white diamond pattern. Slight half circle whitish mark on front cover, probably a beverage stain. Moderate soil and fading to spine. Title label partly rubbed away. Corners bumped and edges heavily rubbed. Hinges starting, but binding still fairly firm. Top edge gilt is soiled. Frontispiece intact. Gift card pasted on front endpaper has an inscription in verse to the young Herbert Marc Davidson, later to become a newspaper publisher in Florida. It reads: "When you, dear Marc, grow up, perhaps you may go to the S of J (School of Journalism?); Or,...
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Pedro the Pig

By: Cawthon, Dorothy

Price: $40.00

Publisher: NY, Exposition Press : 1960

Seller ID: 009700

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

31 pp. Tear on jacket spine, rubbed at foot of jacket spine; boards rubbed along bottom edge. Text clean, end papers have foxing bands. No markings. Rare copy of a tale about a toy pig carved from a pecan shell and his journey when a boy tosses him out of a window. B&w illustrations on most pages. Size: 8vo-- 8.25 in Tall
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You Read to Me, I'll Read to You

By: Ciardi, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: NY, Harper & Row : 1987

Seller ID: 002755

ISBN-13: 9780064460606

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good +

64 pp. Nearly new, rear cover has corner crease. No markings. Charming collection of poetry for children; half are simple enough for a young child to read; the other half are for the parent to read. With Edward Gorey's scary illustrations for poems about shark's teeth, cats chasing mice, etc.
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Paul and Virginia

By: De Saint Pierre, Berardin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Porter and Coates

Seller ID: 005366

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

195 pp. Moderate edge rubbing of maroon and black cloth cover with raised floral design No publication date but pencilled inscription indicates 1885. Hinges cracked but binding still fairly firm. Rear endpaper has a half-inch section sliced out. Diagonal crease on upper right corner of cover. Light foxing of front endpaper. Text still fairly bright. A once popular children's tale, written in florid Victorian prose. Includes an introductory chapter on the life of the author. Size: 12mo -- 7.25 in Tall
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Disney's Beauty and the Beast

By: Disney, Walt Co.

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Grolier Enterprises

Seller ID: 004934

ISBN-13: 9780717283279

Binding: Glossy Pictorial Boards

Condition: Near Fine

Unpaginated, approx 42 pp. Nearly new, lightly read, tight, bright, no bumping or marks. Gift quality. "E" printing. Part of the Disney's Wonderful World of Reading, with logo in upper right corner. Color drawings on every page. Size: 8vo - 8.75 in. Tall
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The Prince of Egypt

By: DreamWorks

Price: $3.00

Publisher: NY, Dutton Children's Books (Penguin)

Seller ID: 007034

ISBN-13: 9780525460541

Binding: Glossy Boards

Condition: Near Fine

48 pp., nearly new, gift quality. Collector's Library Edition (produced for Walmart). Many color illustrations on every page. Tied in with DreamWorks animated movie. Pointers for parents at rear of the text. Size: 4to -- 11 in Tall
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Little Bear (An I Can Read Book)

By: Elsa Holmelund Minarik; Maurice Sendak

Price: $4.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Harper Trophy : 1978

Seller ID: 009797

ISBN-13: 9780064440042

Binding: Trade Papeback

Condition: Good +

63 pp. Some dampstaining, including minor tan discoloration on rear cover, tanning spotting near bottom joint of pp 56-64, and light pinkish bleeding in upper right corners pp.1-34. Overall, however, the text and Sendak's charming pastel illustrations of Little Bear and his mama bear appear clean. Vocabulary suitable for K thru grade 2. Adventure-seeking Little Bear tries to fly to the moon but falls from a tree to the ground, and ends up going home for lunch and taking a nap. Size: 8vo --8 in Tall
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The Family Treasury of Children's Stories, Book Three

By: Evans, Pauline Rush, Ed.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Co. : 1956

Seller ID: 009217

Binding: Grey Spine Cloth and Boards

Condition: Good

318 pp. Moderate wear, corners bumped, moderate spine slant, small dent in middle of front cover, a few pencil marks and foxing bands on endpaper. Text clean. Cover has several illustrations showing Lincoln, a knight on horseback, cowboy, frontiersman, shark, , African mask, etc. An anthology of about 40 stories and excerpts from novels and biographies to give young readers a sampling of literature and adventurous narratives. Authors represented include Mark Twain, Dickens, Stevenson, Longfellow, A.E. Housman, Shakespeare, John Mason Brown, et. al. Size: 8vo -- 8.5 In. Tall
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The Old Willow-Tree and Other Stories

By: Ewald, Carl

Price: $8.50

Publisher: NY, Frederick A. Stokes Co. : 1921

Seller ID: 009763

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

151 pp. Tan cloth with color illustration of bear and tree pasted to front cover. Minor rubbing along bottom edge. 8 full page color illustrations, including frontispiece. One, opposite p. 40 is detached but laid in. Translated by A. Teixeira Mattos. Collection of 9 nature stories for children; suitable for readers in the 8-12 age range. They include tales of talking trees and flowers and animals. Size: 8vo -- 8.5 In.
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Category: Children's Books