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NY: E.P. Dutton, 1965. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. FINE in lightly soiled dustjacket. 211 pgs, cloth. Personal story of Maxwell's childhood & adolescence. Maxwell is author of RING OF BRIGHT WATER..

London: Patrick Hardy, 1983 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FINE in a Near Fine dustjacket. FIRST EDITION. Illus w/Ardizzone Christmas Cards. 48 pgs, cloth. Story of the friendship between two artists - Ardizzone & Augustin Booth. The bond of their friendship-a succession of Christmas cards..

NY: Dial, 1970 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Garland of Fancies for Victorian Children FIRST PRINTING. 272 pgs, boards. Extracts of 19th c. juveniles published between 1837 & 1880 from Temple's own collection. NEAR FINE, no dj..

Chicago: American Library Association, 1985 Book. Fine. Soft cover. FIRST EDITION. 157 pages, paper wraps. Annotated list of books set in these three states. FINE..

Harper & Row, 1985 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition. 184 pgs, boards. A study of reading that discusses what happens when we read & what happens to a book when we are reading it..

NY: Dial, 1970 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FINE in a Near Fine dust jacket. FIRST PRINTING. Garland of Fancies for Victorian Children. 272 pgs, boards. Extracts of 19th c. juveniles published between 1837 & 1880 from Temple's own collection..

NY: Stokes, 1927 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 6th printing. August 1935. 248 pgs, cloth. Becker talks to young people about their reading, one book-lover to another. Chipped & torn dustjacket..

NY: Knopf, 1994 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FINE in a Fine dustjacket. FIRST EDITION. Sponsored by The Children's Book Council. 74 pgs, hardbound cloth. Celebration of the great illustrators of American children's books who were selected by the Children's Book Council to create the posters celebrating Children's Book Week. All posters shown by year in full color..… Read more about this item

NY: Greenwillow, (1996) Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine in a Fine Dustjacket. First Edition. 198 pgs, boards. Funny, poignant, insightful & totally entertaining autobiography of this Newbery Medal Winner..

Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Viking, (1942) 6th Printing 1969. 356 pgs, softbound. A great storyteller shares her experiences & tells 11 of her best-loved stories. NEAR FINE..

MN: Univ of Minnesota Press, 1945 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. NEAR FINE in a Near Fine dust jacket. (FIRST EDITION) LIMITED EDITION 1/1500. 85 pgs, boards. Account by a former newspaperman of the career of Edmund D. Brooks, publisher & Minnesota's greatest bookseller that forms a little-known chapter of the state's cultural history..

NY: Sovereign Books, 1979. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Foreword by Katherine Paterson. FIRST EDITION. 242 pgs, wraps. Gives parents help & guidance in selecting & evaluating books for their children. Front cover has fold in corner. VERY GOOD..

New York: Harper & Row, 1986 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FINE in a FINE DUSTJACKET. FIRST EDITION. 185 pgs, boards. Memoirs of this author's fulfilled & joyful life as she looks back on her 80th birthday..

TX: Taylor Publishing, 1993 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Illustrated by author. Hard Cover. FINE in a Fine dustjacket. FIRST EDITION. 168 pages, boards. With over 300 color & black & white photographs & illustrations, Siegel traces the best & worst of more than a century of American gumshoes, snoops, shysters & PI's. Endpapers give a "Gumshoe timeline" from… Read more about this item

NY: Abrams, 1989 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. FINE in a Fine dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. 191 pages, cloth. Author has developed the personal histories of the artists in cooperation with Laurent deBrunhoff. 312 illustrations including 250 plates in color..

Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Viking, 1982. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. FINE in a FINE dustjacket. 177 pgs, cloth. Series of reminiscences by this novelist, poet, short-story writer & biographer..

MA: Harvard University Press, 1978. 4th Printing 1979. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. From Snow White to E.B. White. 280 pgs, heavy wraps. Includes chapters on Carroll, Potter, Grahame Kipling & Baum. VERY GOOD..

VA: Univ Press of Virginia, 1981 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Hard Cover. Very Fine. Carroll Studies No. 5. Lewis Carroll Society of North America. 95 pgs, cloth. Reprints for the first time the scarce catalogue of the auction sale + 3 rare 1898 bookseller's catalogues offering books from Dodgson's library..

NY: Clarkson Potter, (1976) Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Illustrated by Lynne Mayo. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 246 pgs, cloth. Unique Dictionary of mythology that provides accurate, concise information & endless fascination. FINE in lightly worn dustjacket..

London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1923 Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 184 pgs, boards. 21 illus, 8 in colour. Portrait of Lovat the Man, Artist, Decorator, Maker of Books, Trade Tracts, Posters & Cards. Boards show slight wear..