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The Arbuthnot Anthology of Children's Literature
by May Hill Arbuthnot, compiler
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Published
- 1953
- Binding
- Blue linen boards with black and white art on front cover. Hinges tight.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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GAHANNA, Ohio, USA
- Item Price
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$22.00
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Scott, Foresman and Company, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, New York 1953. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 419 pp. Text white glossy, clean, unmarked, with no prior owner attribution. A hardcover compilation of three single-volume editions of Time for Poetry; Time for Fairy Tales, Old and New; and Time for True Tales and Almost True. Believed to be a first… Read more about this item Item Price
$22.00
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A Light in the Attic
by Shel Silverstein
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Stated first scholastic printing, September 1996
- Published
- 1996
- Binding
- Blue cloth boards with gilt author's signature on front cover. Corners lightly bumped on spine
- Quantity Available
- 1
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GAHANNA, Ohio, USA
- Item Price
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$35.00
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HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, 1996. Hardcover. States first scholastic printing, September, 1996. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket condition: Very Good. 176 pp. Text white and clean. Prior owner attribution on front free endpaper. Pages 35-50 have become detached from spine. Item Price
$35.00
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German Household Tales
by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1897
- Binding
- Scuffed brown boards with title and author stamped on cover and spine
- Quantity Available
- 1
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GAHANNA, Ohio, USA
- Item Price
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$60.00
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Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston, New York and Chicago, 1897, Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. 241 pp. Text unmarked, ivory (typical of age and materials used), clean with no prior owner attribution. Front hinge is cracked, but intact. Title page and front free endpaper detached but included. Book is part of the Riverside Literature Series, Numbers 107 and 108.… Read more about this item Item Price
$60.00
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Jack the Giant Killer and other stories
- Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1905
- Binding
- Colored pictorial front board. Spine torn from top. Water damage on back cover.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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GAHANNA, Ohio, USA
- Item Price
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$35.00
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Henry Altemus Company, Philadelphia, 1905. Hardcover. First edition. Condition: Good+. No dust jacket. 96 pp. Text clean and unmarked. Prior owner attribution on front free endpaper. Color illustration on frontisepiece with over 100 b/w drawings and etching throughout. Item Price
$35.00
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Walt Disney's Storyland
by Frances Saldinger
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1962
- Binding
- Pictorial cartoon over red boards and spine. Corners crisp. Hinges taut.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio, USA
- Item Price
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$40.00
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Golden Press, New York, 1962. Hardcover. First edition. Condition: Near fine. No dust jacket. 320 pp. Text clean, white unmarked. No prior owner attribution. Prolific illustrations throughout by the Walt Disney studio. Remarkable condition for its age. Item Price
$40.00
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The Illustrated Treasury of Children's Literature
by Margaret E. Martignoni, editor
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Published
- 1955
- Binding
- Red boards with gilt illustrated figures on cover. Corners crisp, hinges tight.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio, USA
- Item Price
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$45.00
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Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., New York, NY 1955. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 512 pp. Text clean and unmarked. Page edges have some soiling. Prior owner attribution on front pastedown. Decorated endpapers. Illustrated throughout with original illustrations compiled under the direction of P. Edward Ernest. Very rare collection of children's favorite literature in one large volume. Item Price
$45.00
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Poems and Rhymes Childcraft The How and Why Library
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Published
- 1966
- Binding
- Grey cloth boards, gilt title embossed in maroon box on cover.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio, USA
- Item Price
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$40.00
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Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, Chicago, IL, 1966. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket issued. 304 pp. Childcraft's 50th year commemorative edition. Volume One Poems and Rhymes only. Every page illustrated with color or b/w photographs or drawings. Text clean and unmarked. Former library book with stampings and check-out pocket. Item Price
$40.00
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Prattles For Our Boys and Girls
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Published
- 1912
- Binding
- Blue cloth boards with color pictorial on cover. Spine sunned.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio, USA
- Item Price
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$33.00
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The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., New York, NY, 1912. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 192 (unnumbered) pp. Text clean, unmarked with deckled outer edge. Leaves of heavy stock paper has yellowed typical of age. Corners bumped, hinges cracked. Illustrated throughout with three full color glossy plates and many b/w drawings. A reprint with 1912 copyright by Hurst… Read more about this item Item Price
$33.00
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Neighbors on the Hill
by Marjorie Flack and Mabel O'Donnell
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Published
- 1961
- Binding
- Green and white pictorial boards with title on white spine. Hinges tight.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio, USA
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$22.00
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Row, Peterson and Company, Evanston, Illinois and Elmsford, New York, 1961. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good, no dust jacket. 192 pp. Text white, clean and unmarked except for former library markings on title page and endpapers. Profusely illustrated with color drawings by Florence and Margaret Hooper. Unusual for a former library book to be free of markings. Corners lightly bumped, but… Read more about this item Item Price
$22.00
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The World Treasury of Children's Literature, Volumes I and II
by Clifton Fadiman, compiler and commentator
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1984
- Binding
- Blue cloth covered boards with gold embossed drawings on front and back covers and spine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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GAHANNA, Ohio, USA
- Item Price
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$65.00
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Little Brown and Company, Boston and Toronto, 1984, Hardcover. Stated First Editions. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 629 pp white, clean text without markings. Drawings in both black and white and full color throughout with Leslie Morrill providing additional illustrations. Prior owner attribution embossed on title page of each volume. Rare to find this two-volume set with dust jackets.… Read more about this item Item Price
$65.00
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Jimmie Dale and the Blue Envelope Murder
by Frank L. Packard
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1930
- Binding
- Black boards with red stamped title on front cover and spine. Hinges tight. Corners bumped.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio, USA
- Item Price
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$28.00
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Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., Garden City, New York, 1930. First Edition. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 289 pp. Text sunned typical of age, clean and unmarked except for prior owner attribution on front free endpaper. Faded rent tint on top edge and deckled outer edge. This story has a great… Read more about this item Item Price
$28.00
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Czechoslovak Fairy Tales
by Parker Fillmore
- Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1919
- Binding
- Blue cloth boards with title and pictorial drawing on cover. Hinges loose but intact. Corners bumped.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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GAHANNA, Ohio, USA
- Item Price
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$30.00
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Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1919. Hardcover. First edition. Condition: Good-. No dust jacket. Spine and covers show significant shelf wear. Former library copy. Bottom half of frontispiece is missing. 244 pp. Text yellowed typical of age with light foxing. Numerous pencil markings throughout and on front free endpapers.… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00
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All Around Us
by Wilbur L. Beauchamp, Gertrude Crampton and William S. Gray
- Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Published
- 1951
- Binding
- Green cloth boards with pastedown illustration on cover. Corners bumped and frayed.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio, USA
- Item Price
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$35.00
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Scott, Foresman and Co., Chicago, 1951. Condition: Good+. No dust jacket. Hardbound. 80 pp including teaching instructions on the last three leaves. Text profusely illustrated with full color drawings. Many pages repaired with scotch tape, which has browned. Despite repairs, all leaves attachedand unmarked. Stamps on title page indicating property of… Read more about this item Item Price
$35.00
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Jim Davis
by John Masefield
- Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Pictorial board with green cloth gilted spine. Hinges tight. Corner's lightly bumped.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio, USA
- Item Price
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$50.00
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David McKay, publisher, Philadelphia, PA. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No dust jacket. 244 pp. Text clean, unmarked and lightly sunned, typical of age and materials used. Deckled outer edge. Pastedown full color art on front cover. Eight full-page, full color illustrations by Stephen Reid scattered throughout text. No date stated,… Read more about this item Item Price
$50.00
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The Little Engine That Could
by Watty Piper
- Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Edition
- Never Grow Old Series
- Published
- 1930
- Binding
- Pictorial boards with red cloth spine. Covers show moderate wear. Corners bumped, hinges intact.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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GAHANNA, Ohio, USA
- Item Price
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$30.00
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The Platt & Munk Co. Inc. Publishers, New York, 1930. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. 21 pp. Text white on high-grade paper. Leaves 6-7 have brown crayon circled text. Other pages have light pencil initials. Top one-and-a-half inches of spine is missing. Rear cover is lightly soiled and has a waterstain in lower outer… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00
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Lassie Come-Home
by Eric Knight
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Published
- 1964
- Binding
- Grey paper-covered boards with red backstrip and silver lettering on spine. Outside front cover has small dent.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio, USA
- Item Price
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$27.00
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Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York, Chicago and San Francisco,1964. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 221 pp. Rough cut edge text is clean and unmarked with no owner attribution. One-inch closed end tear from top edge of title page. Color Frontispiece and B/W line drawings throughout by Lilian Obligado. Illustration… Read more about this item Item Price
$27.00
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The Young Folks' Shelf of Books Vols. 1-10
by Mabel Williams and Marcia Dalphin, Editors
- Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jackets
- Edition
- Popular Edition Illustrated
- Published
- 1948
- Binding
- Multicolored covers with illustration stamped on front cover and gilt title on spine. Hinges tight, corners crisp.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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GAHANNA, Ohio, USA
- Item Price
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$180.00
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P. F. Collier & Son Corporation, 1948. Popular Editions Illustrated. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jackets issued. A rare collection of children's classic literature in 10 volumes. Each volume contains approximately 360-400 pp with full color and monocolor illustrations throughout. All volumes have illustrated brown pastedown and free endpapers. Texts clean, unmarked with… Read more about this item Item Price
$180.00
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Tales From the Arabian Nights
- Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1924
- Binding
- Color illustrated paper over boards of belly dancer and two men. Hinges loose.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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GAHANNA, Ohio, USA
- Item Price
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$40.00
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The Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron, Ohio, 1924. Condition: Fair. First Edition. No dust jacket. 152 pp with 100 illustrations by Frances Brundage. Text clean and unmarked, except for prior owner attribution on front free endpaper. Full color illustration on frontispiece (detached, but included). Good reading (fully intact) copy of this rare book. Spine fragmented, but holding… Read more about this item Item Price
$40.00
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The Shortstop
by Zane Grey
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Orange cover with black lettering and a black illus of a short stop. Corners crisp. Hinges tight.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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GAHANNA, Ohio, USA
- Item Price
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$30.00
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Grosset & Dunlap, New York,1937. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket: Very Good. 310 pp plus 7 pp of advertising. Text sunned typical of age and materials used. Dust Jacket has 2 inch closed tear on spine from bottom edge. Pictorial pastedowns and free endpapers. A story of a small-town boy who overcomes obstacles… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00
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Cornelli, Her Childhood; Uncle Titus in the Country; and Maxa's Children
by Johanna Spyri
- Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jackets
- Edition
- First Editions (?)
- Published
- 1926
- Binding
- Full color illustration pastedown on covers. Hinges mostly tight.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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GAHANNA, Ohio, USA
- Item Price
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$36.00
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The Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron, Ohio, New York:1926. Hardcopy. Three volumes of the Every Child's Library Series, includes: Cornelli, Her Childhood; Uncle Titus in the Country; and Maxa's Children. All three presumed First Editions of 1926. All translated by Clement W. Coumbe and illustrated by Frances Brundage.
Cornelli, Her Childhood. Condition: Very Good. 250 pp. … Read more about this item Item Price
$36.00
