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This is a list of all our online catalog entries in section "pics". Browse through the list and put a check mark next to the ones you want to remember. When you are finished, you can review the selections you made and print or order them.

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Abbreviations I've used are: Ill.=illustrated or illustrator; f/p=full-page; b/w=black and white; FE=first edition (may be the first edition by this illustrator); DJ=dust jacket; o/w=otherwise; dec=decorative; Ex-lib=ex-library book with markings accordingly; FFEP=front free end papers; c=copyright; BCE=book club edition; FIAR=five-in-a-row book.

The grading I've used: Mint=like new; F=fine; VG=very good, better than average; G=good, average wear and tear; Fair, reading copy, but all there. If there are two gradings (i.e. VG/VG), the first is the book, the second the dust jacket.

Sizing is as follows: 6"-7", 16mo; 7"-8", 12mo; 8"-10", 8vo; 10"-12", 4to; larger than 12", folio.

PICTURE BOOKS – FICTION
Aesop. THE AESOP FOR CHILDREN, With Pictures by Milo Winter. Checkerboard Press 1919, 1986. Full-page and ¼-page color ill. by Winter. Ambleside 1. Sonlight B, C. NOT ex-lib. Near-Fine, previous owner’s name blanked out. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Alexander, Martha. NOBODY ASKED ME IF I WANTED A BABY SISTER. Dial Books 1971, 1977. Hardcover. Ill. by the author. Good, library card pocket. $4.photo of the actual item
    
Andersen, Hans Christian. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN’S FAIRY TALES, Selected and illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger. Michael Neugebauer Book/North-South Books 1991. First published in German. Ambleside 2. Brand-New. $15.photo of the actual item
       
Andersen, Hans Christian. THE NIGHTINGALE. Picture Book Studio 1984. Ill. by Lisbeth Zwerger. Translated from the Danish by Anthea Bell. Hardcover. Ambleside 2. 0907234577. NOT ex-lib. Near-Fine, previous owner’s name. $3.50.photo of the actual item
     
Anderson, Lena. STINA’S VISIT. Greenwillow Books 1989, 1991, first Am. edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, first published in Swedish. Ill. by Anderson. Stina and her grandfather go to visit an old sailor named Stretchit, who seems to stretch his tales for the sake of a good story. Illustrations are adorable and comical. 0688096654. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good with a little warping to one corner of some pages. $4.photo of the actual item
    
Anno, Mitsumasa. ANNO’S ALPHABET. HarperCollins 1975, first U.S. edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Playful, 3-dimensional alphabet book with each letter matched with a wit-twisting picture. All kinds of creatures and objects are in the borders for clever observers to discover. 0690005415. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Anno, Mitsumasa. ANNO’S COUNTING HOUSE. Philomel 1982, first Am. Ed. Hardcover. Ill. Anno. Die-cut windows in the houses provide the background for an interactive counting game. Cute! 0399208968. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Anno, Mitsumasa. ANNO’S U. S. A. Philomel 1983, first edition. Pictorial hardcover. Without words and with intricately detailed illustrations, Anno gives us a panorama of scenes of people and activities across America, past and present. Ex-lib. Good with repairs to three tears. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Barber, Antonia. THE MOUSEHOLE CAT. Macmillan 1990, first American edition. Hardcover. Ill. Nicola Bayley. Wonderfully creative, very-English story of a “quayside” cat and her own pet, old Tom, who, when he was not looking after Mowzer, passed the day in his little boat catching fish for Mowzer’s dinner and the village of Mousehole. Charming story of warmth, love, and courage as they faced “the Great Storm-Cat” to get food for the starving children. A winner! 0027083314. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $6.photo of the actual item
  
Bedford, Annie North. FROSTY THE SNOWMAN. Barnes & Noble 1997. Hardcover. Ill. Corinne Malvern. Adapted from the song of the same name. Brand-New. $4.50.photo of the actual item
    
Brown, Margaret Wise. (Golden MacDonald). THE LITTLE ISLAND. Doubleday 1946. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Leonard Weisgard. Caldecott Medal 1947. Author and illustrator have interpreted with rare imagination and beauty the magic of nature, the changing of seasons on the little island in the middle of the sea. Living Science. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good with previous owner’s nameplate; dust jacket Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Bryant, Beatrice. LET’S BE FRIENDS. Children’s Press 1947, 1954. Hardcover. Ill. by Becky. Butch has never played with other children. When he starts kindergarten he gets off to a bad start, but soon learns to make friends. Good with some interior spots. $4.photo of the actual item
  
Burton, Virginia Lee. MIKE MULLIGAN AND HIS STEAM SHOVEL. Houghton Mifflin 1939, 1967. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ill. by Burton. CM Alveary. FIAR. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Caldecott, Randolph, illustrator. SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE, One of R. Caldecott’s Picture Books. Hart Publishing 1977, first published in the 1880’s. Hardcover with dust jacket. Eight full-color and 20 b/w illustrations by the renowned illustrator, for whom the award is named. Ex-lib. Book Good; dust jacket Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Cooney, Barbara, illustrator. WHEN THE SKY IS LIKE LACE, by Elinor Lander Horwitz. Viking 1975, 2004. Hardcover with dust jacket. Wonderful story celebrating the magic of a bimulous night (a summer night that feels like magic) with dancing otters and swishing trees, pineapple spaghetti, and other dreamy subjects, all with creative, fun language and incredible artwork by Cooney. Exceptional, delightful challenge for a child’s imagination! Library “withdrawn” stamp and front free endpaper removed; otherwise book and dust jacket Very Good. $7.photo of the actual item
    
Cooney, Barbara, illustrator. WHEN THE SKY IS LIKE LACE, by Elinor Lander Horwitz. Viking 1975, 2004. Hardcover with dust jacket. Wonderful story celebrating the magic of a bimulous night (a summer night that feels like magic) with dancing otters and swishing trees, pineapple spaghetti, and other dreamy subjects, all with creative, fun language and incredible artwork by Cooney. Exceptional, delightful challenge for a child’s imagination! NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $7.50.photo of the actual item
    
Damjan, Mischa. THE CLOWN SAID NO. North-South Books 1987, first published in Switzerland in 1986. Translated by Althea Bell. Hardcover. Ill. Jozef Wilkon. The clown was tired of laughing and crying and playing the fool (he wanted to tell stories); the donkey was tired of the stubborn donkey act (he was not at all stubborn); Louise the giraffe, Gus the Lion, and Otto the Dog were also tired of their silly acts. So the friends ran away and started their own circus just the way they wanted it. Delightful illustrations. Almost new, with previous owner’s name erased. $5. photo of the actual item
  
deBrunhoff, Jean. THE STORY OF BABAR, THE LITTLE ELEPHANT. Random House 1933, 1961, Translated from the French. Hardcover. Ill. by the author. Ambleside 0. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
de Paola, Tomie. CHARLIE NEEDS A CLOAK. Prentice-Hall 1973. Hardcover with dust jacket Ill. by de Paola. Laminated plate inserted signed and inscribed with sketch by de Paola. Living science. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $6.photo of the actual item
    
Fox, Dorothea Warren. MISS TWIGGLEY’S TREE. Parents’ Magazine Press 1966. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. by the author. Warm and hilarious story with the message “When emergencies come, you don’t think about you. You help all you can and you never ask why.” NOT ex-lib. Good. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Fujikawa, Gyo. GYO FUJIKAWA’S A TO Z PICTURE BOOK. Barnes & Noble 1974, 1999. Hardcover. Enchanting illustrations by Fujikawa accompany this alphabet picture book. Like-New. $6.photo of the actual item
   
Gag, Wanda. SNIPPY AND SNAPPY. University of Minnesota Press 1931, 2003. Hardcover. Ill. by Gag. Two little country mice go in search of a “cupboard full of cheese,” something they have never experienced, and come upon a house, which is also something they have never seen. Cute story. Small format. 0816642451. Ex-lib. with just a small date stamp. Fine. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Ginsburg, Mirra. MUSHROOM IN THE RAIN, Adapted from the Russian of V. Suteyev. Aladdin1974, 1990. Hardcover. Ill. Jose Aruego & Ariane Dewey. When the rain began, an ant, then a butterfly, a mouse, a sparrow, and a rabbit miraculously found refuge under a very small mushroom. And how could this be? NOT ex-lib. Fine. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Golden Book. WALT DISNEY’S SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS. Golden Press 1952, 1980. Hardcover. Giant Golden Book. Story adapted by Jane Werner. Good, wear at spine ends and corners. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Golden Book. MY DOG, MY FRIEND IN PICTURES AND RHYME, by Sidney Rafilson. Golden Press 1966, 1973. Hardcover. Giant Golden Book. Photos of many dog breeds along with illustrations by Sidney Rafilson and poems by Betty Ren Wright, Marchette Chute, Tom Robinson, others. Folio. Very Good. $4.50.photo of the actual item
    
Golden Happy Book. WHO SAYS HOO? By Murray Tielman. Golden Press 1963. Simple text with big, bold, colorful illustrations. NOT ex-lib. Good. Clean and sound; wear to corners. Rare. $8.photo of the actual item
   
Gudel, Helen. DEAR ALEXANDRA, A Story of Switzerland. Sound Prints 1999, first American edition. First published in Switzerland in 1991 titled Liber Alex. Hardcover with dust jacket. Beautiful illustrations of the Swiss countryside by the author. In letters throughout the year, as she awaits Alexandra’s visit, Alexandra’s grandmother describes the routines and celebrations that make up life in her little village in the mountains of Switzerland. Brand-New. $8.photo of the actual item
     
Harvey, Jane. CHESTER THE MOUSE OPPOSITES BOOK. Princess House 1990. Hardcover. Large, bright, eye-catching pictures illustrate in/out; noisy/quiet; sunny/cloudy; fierce/timid, etc. Folio-size. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
    
Hegg, Tom. PEEF AND HIS BEST FRIEND. Waldman House 2001, first edition. Hardcover. Written by Author of Peef the Christmas Bear. Signed by author and illustrator. Ill. Warren Hanson. Like-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
  
Hoban, Russell. BREAD AND JAM FOR FRANCES. Harper & Row 1964. Hardcover. Ill. Lillian Hoban. Ambleside 0. Ex-lib. Good. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Jacobs, Joseph. JOHNNY-CAKE. G. P. Putnam’s Sons 1933. Ill. Emma L. Brock. Hardcover. Very reminiscent of the “Gingerbread Man.” Ex-lib. Library binding. Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Keats, Ezra Jack. JOHN HENRY, AN AMERICAN LEGEND. Alfred Knopf 1965, 2014. 50th Anniversary Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by Keats. Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Ezra Jack Keat's vibrant retelling of this beloved African-American folk ballad in this beautiful hardcover book! Brand-New. $4.50.photo of the actual item
    
Kerr, Judith. MOG THE FORGETFUL CAT. Parents’ Magazine Press 1972. Hardcover. Ill. by the author. Mog is a nuisance until the end of the story when she stops a burglary and becomes a hero. Good, wear at top of spine. $4.photo of the actual item
    
Kipling, Rudyard. HOW THE LEOPARD GOT HIS SPOTS. Rabbit Ear Books 1989. Hardcover. Kipling’s original text with colorful illustrations by Lori Lohstoeter. Ambleside 0. NOT ex-lib. 0887081118. Like-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Kitchen, Bert. ANIMAL ALPHABET. Great Britain: Lutterworth Press 1984, 1991. Hardcover with dust jacket. No text. Names of animals, some of which are quite unusual, are given on the last page. Brand-New. $4.photo of the actual item
     
Knight, Hilary. THE CIRCUS IS COMING. A Golden Book. Golden Press 1978. Hardcover. Vibrant, colorful illustrations by Knight. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $8.photo of the actual item
  
Krasilovsky, Phyllis. THE COW WHO FELL IN THE CANAL. London: Egmont Children’s Books 1997, first published in 1957. Ill. by Peter Spier. Hendrika was an unhappy and bored cow who lived in Holland, but when she falls in the canal and has a romp through the big city, she is never again bored and unhappy. Fun story with very-ethnic illustrations by the Dutch artist Peter Spier. Very Good+ with previous owner’s name. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Krauss, Ruth. A VERY SPECIAL HOUSE. Harper Collins 1953, 1981. Pictorial hardcover. This is a little boy’s hymn of joy to the house of his dreams, where he and a giant and several animals have an extraordinary time in rhythm and rhyme. Very appropriate, hilarious illustrations by Maurice Sendak. NOT ex-lib. Two scuff marks on cover; one page has repaired tear. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Ladybird Books. THE DISCONTENTED PONY, by Noel Barr. United Kingdom: Ladybird 1951. Hardcover. Ill. P. B. Hickling. Very Good. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Lindgren, Astrid. THE TOMTEN AND THE FOX. Coward-McCAnn 1966, 1967. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. Harald Wiberg. The tomten protects the little farm in Sweden as the family sleeps. Ex-lib. Good. $6.photo of the actual item
   
Lund, Doris Herold. ATTIC OF THE WIND. Parents’ Magazine Press 1966. Hardcover. Vivid, airy illustrations by Ati Forberg. In lilting rhythm the author ponders where all the things go that are blown away by the wind. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good+. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Mayer, Mercer. THERE’S SOMETHING THERE! Three Bedtime Classics. Barnes & Noble 2003. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. by Mayer. Three stories in one volume: There’s Something In My Attic; There’s a Nightmare In My Closet; There’s an Alligator Under My Bed. Like-New. $8.50.photo of the actual item
   
Mayhew, James. KATIE IN LONDON. London: Orchard Books 1988, 2015. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. by Mayhew. Katie and Jack set out on an amazing and magical tour of London with the lion from Trafalgar Square as their guide. Rare in hardcover. Like-New. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Mayhew, James. KATIE’S PICTURE SHOW. Bantam Little Rooster 1989. Hardcover with dust jacket. On a rainy day in London, Katie visits a museum, and with the help of five famous artists and their paintings has several adventures. 0553058460. NOT ex-lib. Book Like-New; dust jacket Fine. $6.photo of the actual item
 
McNulty, Faith. MOUSE AND TIM. Harper & Row/Weekly Reader 1978. Hardcover. Ill. Marc Simont. A boy and a mouse each from his own point of view reflect on their relationship. Cute story. Good. $3.photo of the actual item
    
Milne, A. A. THE POOH STORY BOOK. Dutton Children’s Books 1926, 1956, recent printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color ill. by Ernest H. Shepard. Stories: “In Which A House is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore;” “In Which Piglet is Entirely Surrounded by Water;” “In Which Pooh Invents a New Game and Eeyore Joins In.” Ambleside. 0525375465. NOT ex-lib. Near-Fine with touch of wear to edges of dust jacket. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Moss, P. Buckley, illustrator. REUBEN AND THE BLIZZARD, written by Merle Good. Good Books 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket. When the biggest blizzard in years sweeps across their Amish farm, Reuben faces new adventures. He and his father come to the rescue with their sleigh and horses when the neighbor cannot get his car out in an emergency. Dramatic illustrations by highly acclaimed folk artist P. Buckley Moss. Brand-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Munari, Bruno. BRUNO MUNARI’S ZOO. Chronicle Books 2005, first published in 1963. Hardcover with dust jacket. Bright, bold illustrations and text with wry humor that will be appreciated by older readers. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
   
Nelson, Marilyn. SNOOK ALONE. Candlewick Press 2010, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. with wit and warmth by Timothy Basil Ering. Abba Jacob is a monk who lives on a faraway island with his loyal rat terrier, Snook. But when the two are separated by a ferocious storm Snook must learn to fend for himself in the wild. Brand-New. $5.photo of the actual item
    
Ness, Evaline. SAM, BANGS & MOONSHINE. Holt, Rinehart & Winston1966. Hardcover with dust jacket. Signed by the author. Ill. by the author. Imaginative and humorous story that creatively emphasizes the importance of the difference between “moonshine” and reality in a child’s life. Book and dust jacket Very Good, library card pocket. $8.photo of the actual item
  
Ness, Evaline. SAM, BANGS & MOONSHINE. Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1966. Hardcover with dust jacket. Caldecott Medal 1967. Ill. by the author. School library stamp. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Peet, Bill. RANDY’S DANDY LIONS. Houghton Mifflin 1964 BCE. Hardcover. Ill. by Peet. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Perrault, Charles. PUSS IN BOOTS. Farrar Straus Giroux 1990, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. The illustrations are a visual feast by Fred Marcellino. NOT ex-lib. Book Like-New; dust jacket has ¾” tear and a touch of wear to corners. $4.50.photo of the actual item
    
Peterson, Hans. THE BIG SNOWSTORM. Great Britain: Burke Publishing 1976, first published in Swedish in 1974. First English language edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by Swedish artist Harald Wiberg. This is the picture-book story of an isolated farmhouse and the family who live in it in the beauty and starkness of a Swedish winter. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $6.photo of the actual item
    
Polacco, Patricia. THUNDER CAKE. Philomel 1997. Hardcover with dust jacket. Signed with sketch by Polacco. Ill. Polacco. Another story taken from Polacco's childhood, this one tells of how her Babushka - her grandma - helped her overcome her fear of thunder when she was a little girl.  Her grandmother turned a frightening thunderstorm into an adventure and ultimately. . .into a celebration! Brand-New. $8.photo of the actual item
  
Politi, Leo. THE NICEST GIFT. Charles Scribner’s 1973. Hardcover. Ill. by Politi. Introduces young children to the Mexican culture and language. Just before Christmas Carlito loses his Dog Blanco, who is his dearest friend. How and where he finds him makes a satisfying ending. Ex-lib. Library binding. Good, some creases. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Politi, Leo. SONG OF THE SWALLOWS. Charles Scribner’s 1948, 1987. Hardcover with dust jacket. Caldecott Medal 1949. Ill. by Politi. Story of a friendship between the gardener at the Mission of San Juan Capistrano and little Juan. Together they welcome the swallows as they make their annual return to the mission. A children’s classic! NOT ex-lib. Book Fine; laminated dust jacket has sticker under laminate on front cover. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Price, Margaret Evans. HANSEL AND GRETEL. Green Tiger Press 2005, reprint of a book first published in 1916. Heavy stock, flexible covers. Illustrated by Price. 159583012X. Brand-New. $4.photo of the actual item
  
Price, Margaret Evans, illustrator. MY BOOK OF OLD-TIME FAIRY TALES, first published in the 1920’s. Barnes & Noble 2007, first edition thus. 17 stories: “Beauty and the Beast;” “Jack the Giant-Killer;” “Rumpelstiltskin;” “The Teeny-Tiny Woman:” etc. 13 full-page color illustrations and numerous half-page color ill. Folio-size. NOT ex-lib. Very Good with faint stain at bottom of front cover. $5.photo of the actual item
    
Provensen, Alice and Martin. OUR ANIMAL FRIENDS AT MAPLE HILL FARM. Random House 1974. Hardcover. Delightful book for little people with large, simple, happy illustrations by the Provensens. The animals have fetching personalities. Folio, more than 12”. Sonlight Preschool 3-4. NOT ex-lib. Good+ with touch of wear at spine ends and two corners. $6.photo of the actual item
    
Sandwall-Bergstrom, Martha. GOLDIE AT THE ORPHANAGE. Edinburgh:Floris Books 2004, first published in Sweden in 1986. This is the first in the "Goldie" series, sweet and funny stories of a little girl who lost her parents in a shipwreck and was turned over to the local orphanage.  Goldie finds a friend there from whom she is separated when they are each "purchased" by different foster parents.  Goldie is somewhat relieved when she is claimed by a be-whiskered but kindly old farmer. Like-New. $7.photo of the actual item
     
Say, Allen. THE SIGN PAINTER. Walter Lorraine Books 2000, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by Say. A haunting story of dreams and choices for readers of all ages. Brand-New. $6.photo of the actual item
   
Scarry, Richard. RICHARD SCARRY’S CARS AND TRUCKS AND THINGS THAT GO. Golden Books 1974. Hardcover. Original unabridged edition. Ill. by Scarry. Very Good, touch of wear to corners. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Schlein, Miriam. AMAZING MR. PELGREW. Abelard Schuman 1957. Hardcover. Ill. Harvey Weiss. What a delightful story! Steven and Mr. Pelgrew are neighbors and very good friends. But Steven is puzzled by Mr. Pelgrew’s job description. There is a surprise ending when Steven goes into town and sees Mr. Pelgrew at his job. NOT ex-lib. Good with previous owner’s name inside front cover. $6.photo of the actual item
  
Sendak, Maurice. HIGGLETY PIGGLETY POP! Or There Must Be More to Life. Harper & Row 1967. Not first but early edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by Sendak. Jenny the Sealyham terrier packs her black leather bag and goes out into the world to look for something more than everything. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine. $4.photo of the actual item
    
Sendak, Maurice. KENNY’S WINDOW. Harper & Row 1956. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by Sendak. Sendak’s first book. In a dream, Kenny is given seven life questions to answer and with some help from his dog, his toy soldiers and his teddy bear, he answers the questions. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $6.50.photo of the actual item
     
Dr. Seuss. THE 500 HATS OF BARTHOLOMEW CUBBINS. The Vanguard Press 1938, 1965. Hardcover with dust jacket. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $6.photo of the actual item
  
Dr. Seuss. 500 HATS OF BARTHOLOMEW CUBBINS. Random House 1938, 1988. Hardcover. Ill. Seuss. Like-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Sigurdardottir, Ingibjorg. FLOWERS ON THE ROOF. Mal Og Menning 1985, 2000. Translation by Julian Meldon D’Arcy; illustrations by Brian Pilkington. This is a story from Iceland. Eccentric Granny Gunn can do anything! And when she moves from the country to an apartment in town, she proves just that when she makes a home for her animals as well as a garden on the roof of her apartment. Hilarious story. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $6.50.photo of the actual item
     
Soule, Jean Conder. NEVER TEASE A WEASEL. Parents’ Magazne Press 1964. Hardcover. Ill. Denman Hampson. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Thompson, Kay. KAY THOMPSON’S ELOISE. Simon & Schuster 1955, sixth printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. The 3-color illustrations by Hilary Knight perfectly complement the story of this mischievous, obnoxious and utterly endearing little monster who knows everything about the Plaza. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good, previous owner’s name blacked out. $7.photo of the actual item
  
Tip-Top Elf Book. PENNY AND PETE’S SURPRISE, by Ruth Lewis Shuman. Rand McNally 1949. Hardcover. Ill. Clare McKinley. 35-cent price. Fine. $4.photo of the actual item
  
Titus, Eve. ANATOLE. McGraw Hill 1960. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Paul Galdone. Anatole is the happiest, most contented mouse in all France who became the official cheese taster at the Duval Cheese Factory. A children’s classic! NOT ex-lib. Book has slight rippling to one corner of pages. Dust jacket Good with small chips. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Tresselt, Alvin. HOW FAR IS FAR? Parent’s Magazine Press 1964. Hardcover. Ill. Ward Brackett. Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Tresselt, Alvin. THE MITTEN, An Old Ukrainian Folktale. Lothrop Lee & Shepard (Scott, Foresman Edition) 1964. Hardcover. Ill. Yaroslava. Good+. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Tresselt, Alvin. THE RABBIT STORY. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 1957, 1989. Hardcover. Ill. Carolyn Ewing. First edition with these watercolor illustrations. Quiet and gentle story of a wild rabbit who is born in a snug, fur-lined burrow, then trapped and put in a cage by the farmer’s son. She escapes and joyously returns to the wild, eventually sharing her own burrow with four tiny rabbits. Wonderful illustrations. NOT ex-lib. Fine with previous owner’s name. $8.photo of the actual item
       
Tudor, Tasha. ALEXANDER THE GANDER. Henry Z. Walck 1939, 1961. Hardcover. Unattractive cover with no dust jacket, but delightful interior! Alexander’s weakness for heliotrope pansies gets him into trouble but all ends well with Sylvie and Mrs. Fillow having tea on the doorstep. Clean interior with no tears or writing; cover has tape marks and wear to edges. Hard-to-find title. $15.photo of the actual item
     
Visconti, Guido. THE SCARECROW WHO WANTED A HUG. Great Britain: Floris Books 2002, first published in Italian. Hardcover. Ill. Giovanna Osellame. Barnaby was a happy scarecrow who let his friends peck at the grain in the field in exchange for their help in carrying messages to Gwendoline, the lady scarecrow whom he loved very much. Brand-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
     
Watts, Mabel. COME PLAY WITH ME. A Big Golden Book, Western Publishing 1963, 1971. Caldecott Medal 1964. Wonderful photos of winsome puppies and kittens with text in their words. Folio, more than 12” Very Good. $7.photo of the actual item
    
Weil, Lisl. LET’S GO TO THE CIRCUS. Holiday House 1988, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by the author. One library stamp. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Wildsmith, Brian. THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE, Based on a Fable by La Fontaine. Oxford University Press 1966, 1996. Hardcover. Brand-New. $5.photo of the actual item
       
Wilkin, Eloise. ELOISE WILKIN STORIES, A Little Golden Book Collection. A Golden Book 2005. Includes eleven stories written and illustrated or just illustrated by Wilkin. 0375829288. Corners worn. Good. $6.50.photo of the actual item
   
Wilkin, Eloise, illustrator. MY PUPPY, by Patsy Scarry. Little Golden Book/ Western Publishing 1955, 1993. Hardcover. 0307001474. Very Good, previous owner’s name. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Wilkin, Eloise, illustrator. WE HELP DADDY. Little Golden Book. Golden Press 1962, later printing. Very Good. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
Wilkin, Eloise, illustrator. WE HELP MOMMY, by Jean Cushman. Golden Press 1979. Hardcover. Very Good. $6.photo of the actual item
   
Williams, Vera B. and Jennifer. STRINGBEAN’S TRIP TO THE SHINING SEA. Greenwillow Books 1988, stated first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Stringbean Coe, his big brother Fred, and their dog Potato are driving from Kansas to California in a pickup truck with a little house built on the back. Reading the postcards they send home every day is the next best thing to having a cross-country adventure all your own. Brand-New. $4.photo of the actual item
     
Yashima, Taro. CROW BOY. Viking 1955. Hardcover. Ill. by the author. Caldecott Honor book 1956. This story of childhood in Japan is a tender tale of a neglected outsider and the power he gains from being accepted. Folio, more than 12”. Ex-lib. Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
PICTURE-BOOK BIOGRAPHY
Blos, Joan W. THE DAYS BEFORE NOW, An Autobiographical Note by Margaret Wise Brown. Simon & Schuster 1994, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by Thomas B. Allen. Here, in her own words, are brief, early recollections by Margaret Wise Brown, describing the “brick city” in which she was born at the turn of the century and her family’s move to the beaches and woods of Long Island. Brand-New. $5.photo of the actual item
      
Brenner, Barbara. THE BOY WHO LOVED TO DRAW, Benjamin West. Houghton Mifflin 1999. Hardcover. CM Alveary. Brand-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
d’Aulaire, Ingri & Edgar. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Doubleday 1939, 1957. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by the d’Aulaires. Ambleside 2. CM Alveary. Library card pocket on front fee endpaper, no marks on dust jacket. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $18.photo of the actual item
 
Demi. COLUMBUS. Amazon Publishing 2012, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Demi’s exquisite illustrations use Chinese paintbrushes and inks, gold overlays, and Italian marbled paper from Italy. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Fine. $6.50.photo of the actual item
     
Visconti, Guido. THE GENIUS OF LEONARDO. Barefoot Books 2000, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Bimba Landmann. Leonardo’s new apprentice watches closely as his wise and eccentric master sets the broken wing of a bird, invents new machines, plays the harp, and paints masterpieces like the Mona Lisa. Like-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
CHILDREN’S NON-FICTION / HISTORICAL FICTION PICTURE BOOKS
Bouchard, David. IF YOU’RE NOT FROM THE PRAIRIE. Summer Wild Productions 1993. Hardcover with dust jacket. Prairie paintings by Henry Ripplinger. “If you’re not from the prairie, you don’t know the wind. You can’t know the wind.” Nostalgic pilgrimage to a unique lifestyle. Ex-lib., no marks on dust jacket. Book and dust jacket Fine. $6.50.photo of the actual item
   
Costabel, Eva Deutsch. A NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE. Atheneum 1983, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Intricately detailed illustrations by the author. The author, transplanted from Europe, tells about the homes, the farms, the schools, the shops and the craftspeople in a village in New England in the early part of the 19th century. Book and dust jacket Very Good, card pocket removed. $6.50.photo of the actual item
   
INSPIRATIONAL PICTURE BOOKS
Arch Books. THE MAN CAUGHT BY A FISH, The Book of Jonah for Children, by M. M. Brem. Concordia SOFTCOVER 1967. Fine. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
Bulla, Clyde Robert, translated by. NOAH AND THE RAINBOW, An Ancient Story, retold by Swiss poet Max Bolliger. Thomas Y. Crowell 1972, printed in Switzerland. Hardcover with dust jacket. Exquisite paintings by Helga Aichinger. Folio, more than 12”. Ex-lib. with perfect dust jacket card pocket in back of book. Near-Fine. $8.50.photo of the actual item
    
Peretti, Frank. ALL IS WELL, The Miracle of Christmas in July. Integrity Publishers 2002. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Gary Glover. Peretti gently reminds each of us that through the provision of our loving God and the kindness of others, we can celebrate the joy of Christmas all year long. NOT ex-lib. Book Fine, dust jacket Near-fine. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Wilkin, Eloise, illustrator. THE GOLDEN BOOK TREASURY OF PRAYERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, selected by Esther Wilkin. Golden Books Publishing 1975, 1999. Hardcover with dust jacket. Folio-size, more than 12”. 0307102211. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Wilkin, Eloise. PRAYERS FOR A SMALL CHILD. Random House 1984. Hardcover. Sweet illustrations by Wilkin. Fine. $4.photo of the actual item
 
SOFTCOVER CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOKS
Anderson, Lena, illustrator. ANNA’S SUMMER SONGS, poems by Mary Q. Steele. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 1984, 1991. Anna’s joyous songs celebrate everything that grows. Very Good. $2.75.photo of the actual item
 
Anno, Mitsumasa. ANNO’S COUNTING BOOK. HarperCollins SOFTCOVER 1977. Created to provide children with an opportunity to arrive at the ultimate understanding of numbers in a natural and pleasant way. 0673816982. Like-New. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Brett, Jan. GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS, Retold and illustrated by Brett. G. P. Putnam’s 1987. SOFTCOVER. Fine. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Flack, Marjorie. THE BOATS ON THE RIVER. Troll SOFTCOVER 1946, 1974. Ill. Jay Hyde Barnum. Caldecott Honor Book 1947. A classic, especially for any little boy who loves boats! Very Good. $2.75.photo of the actual item
 
Galdone, Paul. OVER IN THE MEADOW, An Old Nursery Counting Rhyme. Trumpet Club SOFTCOVER 1986, 1992. Ill. by Galdone. Very Good+. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Provensen, Alice and Martin. OLD MOTHER HUBBARD. Random House Picture Back 1977. SOFTCOVER. Delightfully illustrated by the Provensens. Fine. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Provensen, Alice and Martin. OUR ANIMAL FRIENDS AT MAPLE HILL FARM. Aladdin SOFTCOVER 1974, 2001. Delightful book for little people with large, simple, happy illustrations by the Provensens. The animals have fetching personalities. Folio, more than 12”. Sonlight Preschool 3-4. 0689844999. NOT ex-lib. Near-Fine. $4.50photo of the actual item
   
Wilkin,, Eloise, illustrator. LITTLE PRAYERS, selected by Esther Wilkin. A Golden Look-Look Book. Western Publishing 1975, 1980. SOFTCOVER. Very Good+. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
POETRY FOR CHILDREN / YOUNG PEOPLE
Attenborough, Liz, compiler. POETRY BY HEART, A Child’s Book of Poems to Remember. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 2003. 4to. Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Attenborough, Liz, compiler. POETRY BY HEART, A Child’s Book of Poems to Remember. Scholastic/The ChickenHouse 2001, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Wide-ranging collection includes poetry from Roald Dahl, William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickinson, Langson Hughes, others. Variety of illustrators. Foreword by Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate, UK. 4to. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Auslander, Joseph and Hill, Frank Ernest. THE WINGED HORSE ANTHOLOGY. Doubleday Doran 1929. Hardcover. This from the “Foreword“, speaking of many anthologies they had perused, “. . .there was not among them a single volume seeking to encompass the best verse done in English, in whatever form – and only the best.” Includes Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Shakespeare, William Cowper, John Milton, Wordsworth, Keats, and many, many others. 669 pp. with index of titles, authors and first lines. One small school stamp. Worn spot on back spine edge. Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Brewton, Sara and John E. BRIDLED WITH RAINBOWS, Poems About Many Things of Earth and Sky. Macmillan 1949, 1966. Hardcover with dust jacket. Decorations by Vera Bock. Delightful poems such as “Seascape,” Langston Hughes; “Sleet Storm,” James Tippett; “Apple Season,” Frances Frost; and “The West Wind’s Secret,” Mary Jane Carr. 191 pages with index of titles, authors, and first lines. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Brooke, L. Leslie, illustrator. RING O’ ROSES, A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book with drawings by L. Leslie Brooke. Clarion Books 1992, first published 1922. 21 traditional Mother Goose rhymes with illustrations that bring to life the amusing, outlandish, and noble characters that have amused children and adults for generations. Brand-New. $8.photo of the actual item
    
Burns, Robert. HAND IN HAND WE’LL GO, Ten Poems by Robert Burns. Thomas Y. Crowell 1965, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Nonny Hogrogian. Ten classics to introduce young readers to Burns. Favorites such as “A Red, Red Rose;” “My Heart’s in the Highlands;” “To a Mouse.” 29 pp. plus glossary. Ex-lib. with stamps. Book and dust jacket Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Clark, Betsey, illustrator. HELLO, SUNSHINE! Charming and Delightful Proverbs to Warm the Heart. Hallmark Crown Editions 1972. Hardcover with dust jacket. These timeless thoughts and Betsey Clark’s charming little people will add sunshine to every day. Book and dust jacket Very Good with tiny chip in front of dust jacket; previous owner’s name. $4.photo of the actual item
    
Cole, William, selected by. THE SEA, SHIPS & SAILORS, Poems, Songs and Shanties. Viking Press 1967, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Drawings by Robin Jacques. Includes favorites such as “Sea Fever” by John Masefield; an excerpt from “The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner,” by Coleridge; “Old Ironsides,” Oliver Wendell Holmes; “Loss of the Royal George” by Cowper; etc. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Conkling, Hilda. POEMS BY A LITTLE GIRL. Frederick Stokes 1920, 1923. Hardcover. Just delightful! Cover is paper over boards with cloth binding/gilt lettering. Ambleside 3. NOT ex-lib. Good+. $25.photo of the actual item
     
Conkling, Hilda. SHOES OF THE WIND, A Book of Poem. Frederick Stokes 1922, second printing. Hardcover. Green cloth over boards, library rebound. Ambleside 3. Finger smudges on a few pages; library card pocket in back of book. Good. $25.photo of the actual item
  
Conkling, Hilda. SUMMER-DAY SONG. Random House/L. W. Singer 1969. Pictorial hardcover. These poems originally published in Poems by a Little Girl copyright 1920. Ill. Marian Morton. Captivating poems for young children, written by a young girl. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $18.photo of the actual item
   
de la Mare, Walter. COME HITHER, A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages Made by de la Mare. Alfred Knopf 1923, 1980. Hardcover with dust jacket. Decorations by Warren Chappell. 500 poems by 150 authors. Index of authors, titles, and notes. 771 pp. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good+. $8.photo of the actual item
 
de la Mare, Walter. TOM TIDDLER’S GROUND, A Book of Poetry for Children, chosen and annotated by Walter de la Mare. Alfred Knopf 1961, first edition. Pictorial hardcover. 42 pages of de la Mare’s notes in back of book, charmingly written, giving insight into background and meaning of many of the poems. 253 pp. with index of authors and index of first lines. Ex-lib. Good+. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Esbensen, Barbara Juster. SWING AROUND THE SUN. Carolrhoda Books 2003, poems first published in 1965. First edition with these illustrations. A collection of beautiful poems that celebrate the seasons, with illustrations for each season by a different Minnesota artist: Cheng-Khee Chee, Janice Lee Porter, Mary GrandPre and Stephen Gammell. Living Science. Brand-New. $6.photo of the actual item
    
Ferris, Helen. FAVORITE POEMS OLD AND NEW. Doubleday 1957, later printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Leonard Weisgard. CM Alveary. Sonlight G. Like-New. $12.photo of the actual item
 
Field, Eugene. WYNKEN, BLYNKEN, AND NOD. E. P. Dutton1982, stated first edition. Hardcover. Ill. Susan Jeffers. A wonderful, imaginative and cuddly interpretation of Field’s most famous children’s poem. Ambleside 0. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $10.photo of the actual item
      
Florian, Douglas. BOW WOW MEOW MEOW, It’s Rhyming Cats and Dogs. Harcourt, Inc.2003, first edition. Hardcover. Ill. by Florian. Comical animal poems that kids have to love! 0152163956. Fine. $3.photo of the actual item
   
Florian, Douglas. SUMMERSAULTS, Poems and Paintings. Green Willow Books 2002, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Highly creative poems and paintings that add up to the best summer imaginable. 0060292679. Brand-New. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Flynn, Harry Eugene; MacLean, Ray; Lund, Chester. VOICES OF VERSE, BOOK TWO. Lyons & Carnahan 1943. Ill. Marion Humphreys Matchitt. Classic poems with short discussion suggestions. Good. $8.photo of the actual item
    
Fujikawa, Gyo. MOTHER GOOSE. Sterling 2007. Hardcover. Adorable illustrations by Fujikawa. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
     
Gray, Lucy, editor. ODE TO CHILDHOOD, Poetry to Celebrate the Child. London: Batsford 2014, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Anthology of poetry celebrating childhood – from the magical times and memories of childhood, through to the unconditional love a parent has for a child, by poets such as William Blake, William Cowper, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman. Illustrated with museum prints. 1849941335 . Brand-New. $5.photo of the actual item
   
Hader, Berta and Elmer. PICTURE BOOK OF MOTHER GOOSE. Derrydale 1987, first published in 1930. Hardcover with dust jacket. Wonderful b/w and color ill. by the authors. Book and dust jacket Like-New with touch of wear to dust jacket. $8.50.photo of the actual item
        
Hopkins, Lee Bennett, Selected by. AMERICA AT WAR. Margaret K. McElderry 2008, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Stephen Alcorn. Collection of fifty poems that trace emotions of warfare from the American Revolution to the Iraq War. Pays fitting tribute to those who have served, those now serving, and those who have given their lives so we all may live in peace. 1416918329. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
     
Jackson, Leroy F. THE PETER PATTER BOOK, Rhymes by Leroy F. Jackson. Barnes & Noble 2007, first published 1918. Hardcover. Ill. Blanche Fisher Wright. 88 pp. Folio-size, 12”. Brand-New. $6.photo of the actual item
     
Koch, Kenneth and Farrell, Kate. TALKING TO THE SUN, An Illustrated Anthology of Poems for Young People. Henry Holt and Metropolitan Museum of Art 1984. Hardcover with dust jacket. Splendid and diverse treasures of the Metropolitan Museum of Art increase a young reader’s enjoyment and understanding of these classic children’s poems. 112 pp. with index. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Brand-New with slight flaw in dust jacket. $6.photo of the actual item
     
Lawson, Robert, illustrator. UNDER THE TENT OF THE SKY, A Collection of Poems About Animals Large and Small, selected by John E. Brewton. Index of authors, titles and first lines. 205 pp. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $6.50.photo of the actual item
    
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. HIAWATHA, Illustrated by Susan Jeffers. Dial Books 1983. Enthralling illustrations illuminate some of the poem’s most lyrical verses depicting Hiawatha’s boyhood. Folio-size, more than 12”. Ambleside 0. Library card pocket, no marks on dust jacket. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. HIAWATHA, Illustrated by Susan Jeffers. Dial Books 1983. Enthralling illustrations illuminate some of the poem’s most lyrical verses depicting Hiawatha’s boyhood. Folio-size, more than 12”. Ambleside 0. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
McFarland, Wilma. FOR A CHILD, Great Poems Old and New. Westminster Press 1947. Hardcover. Adorable illustrations by Ninon with familiar and not-so-familiar poems by a variety of children’s poets. 96 pp. 4to. Ex-lib. Library binding. Very Good. $6.50.photo of the actual item
  
McFarland, Wilma. FOR A CHILD, Great Poems Old and New. Westminster Press 1947, first edition. Hardcover. Sweet illustrations by Ninon in b/w, two-colors and full-color. Poems to delight young children written by William Blake, Aileen Fisher, Dorothy Aldis, Edna St. Vincent Millay, many others, with poems such as
“Our house is small – The lawn and all
“Can scarcely hold the flowers;
“Yet every bit, The whole of it,
”Is precious, for it’s ours!”
by Dorothy Brown Thompson.
Beautiful condition! Clean with a touch of corner wear; no tears, no writing, no creases. $8.		photo of the actual item
      
Noyes, Alfred. THE HIGHWAYMAN. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich1990, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Stirring narrative, classic poem by early 19th century English poet with provocative watercolors by Neil Waldman. “The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees. . .And the highway man came riding-riding-riding. . . up to the old inn-door.” Ambleside 6. NOT ex-lib. Book Good with wear to bottom edge; dust jacket has one 3” tear and some edge wear. $6.50.photo of the actual item
    
Opie, Iona, Editor. MY VERY FIRST MOTHER GOOSE. Candlewick Press 1996, first U. S. edition. Hardcover. Simple, child-friendly illustrations by Rosemary Wells. 107 pp. 1564026205. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
     
Poetry for Young People. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, Edited by Dr. Alan Liu. Sterling Publishing 2003. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. James Muir. Includes favorites “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” “My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold,” “The Solitary Reaper” and excerpts from “Immortality.” Ambleside 4. 0806982772. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $18.photo of the actual item
   
Prelutsky, Jack, Selected by. THE RANDOM HOUSE BOOK OF POETRY FOR CHILDREN, A Treasury of 572 Poems for Today’s Child. Random House 1983. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Arnold Lobel. 394850106. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Rosen, Michael (Children’s Laureate of Britain), selected by. CLASSIC POETRY, AN ILLUSTRATED COLLECTION. Candlewick Press 2009. Flexible covers of heavy stock. Ill. Paul Howard. Portrait and biographical background of each poet. Alfred Lord Tennyson, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Walt Whitman, 32 others. 160 pp. Sonlight H. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Rossetti, Christina. GOBLIN MARKET. Franklin Watts 1969. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Poetic story first published in 1862. Rossetti’s first book. 42 pp. Ambleside 2. Ex-lib. with stamps and card pocket. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $12.photo of the actual item
   
Rossetti, Christina. WHAT IS PINK? Macmillan 1971, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by Jose Aruego. Ambleside 2. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good+. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Sage, Alison, editor. TREASURY OF CHILDREN’S POETRY. Great Britain: Hutchinson 1998. Hardcover with dust jacket. 319 pp. with Index of Titles; Index of Poets; Index of Illustrators. Illustrations by Tony Ross, Kate Greenaway, Arthur Rackham, Jessie Willcox Smith, Shel Silverstein, Charlotte Voake, Eleanor Farjeon, many others. Poetry by William Blake, Margaret Wise Brown, Robert Browning, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsey, Walt Whitman and a host of others. NOT ex-lib. Book Fine; dust jacket clean with a ½” tear at one corner. $8.photo of the actual item
    
Smith, Jessie Willcox. THE JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH MOTHER GOOSE. Derrydale 1986, first published 1914. Hardcover. 750 nursery rhymes with twelve full-color plates and others in b/w. Ambleside 0. Very Good. $10.photo of the actual item
    
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A LOWDEN SABBATH MORN. Scribner’s 1898. Hardcover. B/w drawings by A. S. Boyd. A poem in dialect depicting a Scottish rural parish in Stevenson's youth. First published in 1887 in "Underworlds" without illustrations.The illustrator published this edition and dedicated the book to "the memory of Robert Louis Stevenson". 125 pp. Very dark green cloth over boards with gilt plate and top edges of pages gilt. Very Good, previous owner’s name. $8.photo of the actual item
    
Tarrant, Margaret. CHILDREN’S VERSE. Salem House 1986. Hardcover with dust jacket. Contains a collection of traditioinal nlursery rhymes with artwork by Margaret Tarrant, a foremost children’s illustrator whose work was first published in the 1920’s. The illustrations are magnificent! Book and dust jacket Near-Fine with previous owner’s name. $7.photo of the actual item
    
Tarrant, Margaret. NURSERY RHYMES AND FAIRY TALES. Treasure Press 1978, first published 1920’s. Pictorial hardcover. Color ill. by Tarrant. NOT ex-lib. Fine. DSC_5633,DSC_5634,DSC_5635,DSC_5636 $8.photo of the actual item
 
Tennyson, Alfred Lord. SELECTED POETRY OF TENNYSON, Edited by Douglas Bush. Random House Modern Library 1951. Hardcover. Ambleside 4. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $9.50.photo of the actual item
 
Tudor, Tasha. WINGS FROM THE WIND, Compiled and illustrated by Tudor. J. B. Lippincott 1964. Hardcover. Great selection of classic children’s poems by many different poets and delightful b/w and color ill. by Tudor. 119 pp. NOT ex-lib. Very Good, no dust jacket and spot on front cover. $8.50.photo of the actual item
     
Wilkie, Ellen. TIME FOR A RHYME. Start-Right Elf Book. Checkerboard Press 1966. Hardcover. Ill. Sharon Kane. Great start for rhyming words, with large, simple illustrations. Fine. $3.photo of the actual item
   
Wright, Blanche Fisher, illustrator. THE REAL MOTHER GOOSE. Rand McNally 1916, 1944. Hardcover with checkerboard cover. Ambleside 0. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Yolen, Jane & Peters, Andrew Fusek. HERE’S A LITTLE POEM, A Very First Book of Poetry. Candlewick Press 2007. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Polly Dunbar. Short poems that capture a young child’s delight in daily experiences and routines, written by A A. Milne, Myra Cohn Livingston, Jack Prelutsky, Langston Hughes, and others, and exuberantly illustrated by Polly Dunbar. Large format, 10 ½” x 11 ½” and 105 pp. $4.50.photo of the actual item
    
BIOGRAPHIES FOR YOUNG READERS
Aliki. A WEED IS A FLOWER, The Life of George Washington Carver. Prentice-Hall 1965. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Aliki. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Childhood of Famous Americans. BOY OF OLD VIRGINIA, ROBERT E. LEE, by Helen A. Monsell. Bobbs-Merrill 1937, no other printings listed. Silhouette illustrations by Clotilde Embree Funk. Truthquest Age of Revolution II grades 1-6. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
de Monvel, Maurice Boutet. JOAN OF ARC. The Grolier Society SOFTCOVER 1967. Illustrated. Ex-church. Truthquest Middle Ages grades 3-8. Very Good. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Forbes, Esther. AMERICA’S PAUL REVERE. Houghton Mifflin 1946. Hardcover. Wonderful color and b/w illustrations by Lynd Ward. 4to. 46 pp. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 3-6. Ex-lib. with card pocket. Book and dust jacket Very Good. One school stamp. Heart of Dakota. $6.50.photo of the actual item
  
Greene, Carol. MARCO POLO VOYAGER TO THE ORIENT. Children’s Press 1987. Hardcover. Ambleside 3. 0516032291. Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Judson, Clara Ingram. GEORGE WASHINGTON. Follett SOFTCOVER 1961. Beginning Social Studies. NOT ex-lib. Good. $2.75.photo of the actual item
 
Kaufman, Mervyn D. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. Garrard 1963. World Explorer Series. Truthquest Renaissance & Reformation grades 1-5. Ex-lib. Pictorial library binding. Good, two light crayon marks on endpapers. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Pollard, Josephine. LIFE OF WASHINGTON, In Words of One Syllable. McLoughlin Brothers 1893, 1976, SOFTCOVER. Full-page b/w illustrations. Like-New. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Step-Up Biography. MEET ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by Barbara Cary. Random House 1965. Hardcover. Truthquest Age of Revolution II grades 1-4. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Step-Up Biography. MEET ANDREW JACKSON, by Ormonde deKay. Random House 1967. Pictorial hardcover. Truthquest Age of Revolution II Grades K-3. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Step-Up Biography. MEET BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, by Maggi Scarf. Random House 1968. Hardcover. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 1-4. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Step-Up Biography. MEET CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by James T. DeKay. Random House 1968. Hardcover. Truthquest Renaissance & Reformation grades K-3. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Step-Up Biography. MEET GEORGE WASHINGTON, by Joan Heilbroner. Random House 1964. Hardcover. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 1-4. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Step-Up Biography. MEET THE MEN WHO SAILED THE SEAS, by John Dyment. Random House 1968. Pictorial hardcover. NOT ex-lib. Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Step-Up Biography. MEET THE PILGRIM FATHERS, by Elizabeth Payne. Random House 1966. Hardcover. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 1-3. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Step-Up Biography. MEET ROBERT E. LEE, by George Swift Trow. Random House 1969. Hardcover. Truthquest Age of Revolution II grades K-4. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Step-Up Biography. MEET THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by Ormonde de Kay, Jr.. Random House 1967. Hardcover. NOT ex-lib. Very Good+. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Step-Up Biography. MEET THOMAS JEFFERSON, by Marvin Barrett. Random House 1967. Hardcover. SCM. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 1-4. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Syme, Ronald. CAPTAIN JOHN PAUL JONES, AMERICA’S FIGHTING SEAMAN. William Morrow 1964. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. William Stobbs. CM Alveary Bio 1a-2b. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Syme, Ronald. DE SOTO, FINDER OF THE MISSISSIPPI. William Morrow 1957. Hardcover. Ill. William Stobbs. Truthquest grades 2-5. Ex-lib. Lib. binding. Good. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Tousey, Sanford. JOHN C. FREMONT, WESTERN PATHFINDER. Albert Whitman 1953. Hardcover. Ill. endpapers. Who Should We Then Read? Good, corner wear, spine ends worn. $5.photo of the actual item
   
BIOGRAPHIES FOR OLDER CHILDREN / YOUNG ADULTS
Adler, David A. GEORGE WASHINGTON, AN ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY. Holiday House 2004, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Full story of the life of George Washington told with quotes from his correspondence and accounts by his peers and accompanied with b/w detailed historical illustrations and maps every page. 274 pp. Ex-lib. with minimal marks. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Bober, Natalie S. ABIGAIL ADAMS, Witness to a Revolution. Atheneum 1995, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Bober, Natalie S. ABIGAIL ADAMS, Witness to a Revolution. Atheneum 1995, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 4. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Bodger, Joan. HOW THE HEATHER LOOKS, A Joyous Journey to the British Sources of Children’s Books. The Viking Press 1959, 1965. Hardcover with dust jacket. The author shares with readers the experience of seeing through her own and her companions’ eyes the country and people to which the children of the English-speaking world owe their most dearly loved books. Ambleside Geography 7. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $12.photo of the actual item
 
Buchan, John. SIR WALTER SCOTT. London: Cassel & Co., Ltd. 1932, 1946. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sir Hugh Walpole, “Let it be proclaimed that Buchan’s great work is his life of Sir Walter Scott.” NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Chute, Marchette. SHAKESPEARE OF LONDON. E. P. Dutton 1949, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 354 pp. plus appendix and index. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Felton, Harold W. JIM BECKWOURTH, NEGRO MOUNTAIN MAN. Dodd, Mead 1966. Hardcover with dust jacket. Truthquest Age of Revolution II grades 4-12. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Foster, Genevieve. GEORGE WASHINGTON’S WORLD. Charles Scribner’s 1941. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. by Foster. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 4-9. Ambleside 4. Heart of Dakota. Library stamp on dedication page. Very Good. $20.photo of the actual item
 
Franklin, Benjamin. A BENJAMIN FRANKLIN READER, The Essential Writings of a Colonial Sage, including The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and The Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin. Barnes & Noble 2005. Hardcover with dust jacket. SCM. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 8-12. 076077546x. Brand-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Giblin, James Cross. THE MANY RIDES OF PAUL REVERE. Scholastic Press 2007. Hardcover with dust jacket. Archival prints on almost every page. Giblin chronicles Revere’s life from his humble beginnings as a French immigrant son to his determined support of the rebel cause, chronicling his daring acts as the “rider for the Revolution.” Folio-size. Beautiful book! NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Hines, Stephen W. “I REMEMBER LAURA,” LAURA INGALLS WILDER. Thomas Nelson Publishers 1994, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Newly discovered articles – along with interviews and recollections of her daughter, friends, and neighbors – adds depth and breadth to the adult life of this beloved author. Photos, illustrations. 274 pp. Brand-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow. GIFT FROM THE SEA. Pantheon Books 1955, 1975. Hardcover with dust jacket. Twentieth Anniversary Edition. Eloquent musings and wisdom from Lindbergh. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Marrin, Albert. UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER, U. S. Grant and the Civil War. Atheneum 1994, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 10. 0689318375. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Muhlbach, L. MARIE ANTOINETTE AND HER SON, An Historical Novel. D. Appleton 1867, 1899. Hardcover. Translated from the German by Rev. W. L. Gage. Five full-page illustrations. Ambleside 9 Biography. NOT ex-lib. Very Good+. $12.photo of the actual item
 
Nicolay, John G. A SHORT LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Condensed from Nicolay & Hay’s Abraham Lincoln: a History. The Century Co. 1902, 1906. Hardcover. 555 pp. plus extensive index. Ambleside 10 Biography. NOT ex-lib. Near-Fine. $10.photo of the actual item
 
O’Hara, Mary. WYOMING SUMMER. Doubleday 1963 BCE. Hardcover with dust jacket. Mary O’Hara visits the ranch where Flicka was born, writing of real people and events – the material on which My Friend Flicka, Thunderhead, and Green Grass of Wyoming were based. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket has chip at top of spine and tear at base of spine. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Parker, Willis L., editor. SAMUEL PEPYS’ DIARY. Grosset & Dunlap Cameo Classics 1932. Hardcover in slipcase. Ill. Randolph Adler. 207 pp. with index. Original diary is 8 volumes. Covers the period when the restoration of King Charles II is under way and continues into the ninth year of his reign. Two calamities occur during this period: The Plague of London and the great fire of 1666. Book Near-Fine with sunned spine; slipcase quite worn at corners. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Peppard, Murray B. PATHS THROUGH THE FOREST, A Biography of the Brothers Grimm. Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1971, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 248 pp. plus index. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Plutarch. PLUTARCH’S LIVES, Translated by John Dryden and Revised by Arthur High Clough. Modern Library, no date. Hardcover. Dryden’s translation published at the end of the 17th century; Clough revised the work in 1864. Hardcover with dust jacket. 1309 pp. with index. Ambleside 7. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $18.50.photo of the actual item
 
Potter, Beatrix. LETTERS TO CHILDREN FROM BEATRIX POTTER, Collected and introduced by Judy Taylor. Frederick Warne 1992, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated with photos and Potter book illustrations. 240 pp. 0723237778. Brand-New. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Seaver, James E. THE LIFE OF MARY JEMISON. American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society 1949, first published 1824. SOFTCOVER. Illustrated. Good. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Signature Biography. THE STORY OF MARTHA WASHNGTON, by Jeanette C. Nolan. Grosset & Dunlap 1954. Hardcover with dust jacket. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 3-8. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket Good. $7.photo of the actual item
 
Simon, Charlie May. LAYS OF THE NEW LAND, Stories of Some American Poets and Their Work. E. P. Dutton1943, 1959. Hardcover with dust jacket. The brings alive 7 American poets with friendly warmth, especially appealing to young people. 11 to 14-page fascinating biographies including a few selections of their work. A treasure! Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Steele, Philip. ISAAC NEWTON, The Scientist Who Changed Everything. National Geographic 2007. World History Biographies. Hardcover. Like-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Stuart, Jesse. THE THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE, A Mountain School-Teacher Tells His Story. Charles Scribner’s 1949, 1958. Hardcover with dust jacket. The first day Jesse Stuart taught school he was 17 years old and his school was a dilapidated one-room structure in Lonesome Valley, Kentucky. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket Good. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Trapp, Maria von. MARIA, My Own Story. Creation House 1972, first edition, third printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fascinating photographs, many in full color. Ambleside. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good, previous owner’s name; dust jacket Good with tears in back. $7.photo of the actual item
 
Twain, Mark. LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. Harper & Brothers 1875, 1927. Hardcover. Color frontispiece and b/w full-page illustrations by Walter Stewart. Memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, and also a travel book, recounting his trip along the Mississippi River from St. Louis to New Orleans many years after the War. Black cloth over boards with paste-down cover illustration. Spine library marking and home-library stamp. Very Good with two scuff marks on cover. $12.photo of the actual item
   
White, Stewart Edward. DANIEL BOONE, WILDERNESS SCOUT. A Story of the Greatest Frontiersman. Junior Deluxe Editions 1957, 1972. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Henry Pitz. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
White, T. H. AMERICA AT LAST, THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF T. H. WHITE. G. P. Putnam’s 1965. Hardcover with dust jacket. Author of The Once and Future King. 250 pp. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
CHRISTIAN BIOGRAPHIES
Barrett, David. C. S. LEWIS AND HIS WORLD. United Kingdom: Marshall Pickering/Wm. B. Eerdmans 1987. Hardcover. Ill. with photos. 0802836399. Brand-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Fletcher, Jesse C. BILL WALLACE OF CHINA. Broadman Press 1963. Hardcover with dust jacket. Bill Wallace served as a medical missionary during the most turbulent years of the ancient kingdom’s history. It was in the late 1930’s when China was being harassed by Japanese invaders that Wallace became a legend among the people he served and became a martyr for Christ in a Communist prison cell. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good, previous owner’s name. Dust jacket in new protective cover. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Holzmann, John. WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, Britain’s Great Emancipator. Avyx SOFTCOVER 1996, 2014. Like-New with previous owner’s name sticker. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Livingstone, David. LIVINGSTONE’S AFRICAN JOURNAL, 1853-1856, Volume 1. London: Chatto & Windus 1963, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Edited with introduction by I. Schapera. Library card in back of book. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Loizeaux, P. J. THE TRUE STORY OF THE CONVICT DANIEL MANN And Other Stories. John Ritchie Ltd., no date, ca. 1900. Hardcover. Good. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Ludwig, Charles. NANCY HANKS: MOTHER OF LINCOLN. Valor Series. Baker Book House 1965. Hardcover. Tells the story of Nancy Hanks’ faith and its effect on her son. 88 pp. Ex-church with card pocket and stamp. Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Metaxas, Eric. BONHOEFFER: PASTOR, MARTYR, PROPHET, SPY, A Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich. Nelson Books 2010. Deluxe leather hardcover. Nearly-new with small ding to front cover. $12.photo of the actual item
   
Miller, Basil. GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER, God’s Ebony Scientist. Zondervan 1943. Hardcover. 166 pp. Ambleside 5. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Moody, William R. THE LIFE OF D. L. MOODY BY HIS SON. Fleming H. Revell 1900, first edition. Hardcover. Ill. with photos. 590 pp. Gray/green cloth overboards with gilt decoration and lettering. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $25.photo of the actual item
 
ten Boom, Corrie. FATHER TEN BOOM, GOD’S MAN. Fleming H. Revell. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated with photos. Ex-church library. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
ten Boom, Corrie with Sherrill, John and Elizabeth. THE HIDING PLACE. Barbour Publishing 1971, later printing. Hardcover. Deluxe leatherette/gilt binding. The Christian Library. Ambleside 11. 0916441806. Like-new. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Vision Biography. MOTHER SETON AND THE SISTERS OF CHARITY, by Alma Power-Waters. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy/Vision Books 1957, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Mother Seton is credited with founding the American parochial school system. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket has edge chips, small tears. $7.photo of the actual item
 
YOUNG READERS’ AMERICAN HISTORY / GEOGRAPHY
Cornerstones of Freedom. THE STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, by R. Conrad Stein. Children’s Press 1981. Hardcover. Like-New. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Educational Publishing. STORIES OF AMERICAN PIONEERS, Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Fremont, Kit Carson. Educational Publishing 1897. Hardcover. Fair. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Morris, Richard B. THE INDIAN WARS, American History Topic Books. First published in 1959 as The First Book of the Indian Wars. Lerner Publications 1985. Hardcover. Ill. Leonard Everett Fisher. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 3-7. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Real Books. THE REAL BOOK ABOUT COWBOYS, by Michael Gorham. Garden City Books 1952. Hardcover with dust jacket. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Wise, William. LEADERS, LAWS, AND CITIZENS, The Story of Democracy and Government. Parents’ Magazine Press 1973. Hardcover. Ill. Mila Lazarevich. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
YOUNG READERS’ WORLD HISTORY / GEOGRAPHY
Berenstain, Michael. THE CASTLE BOOK. David McKay 1977, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. A royal tour of a typical medieval castle – from its underground escape tunnel and dungeon to its lofty watchtowers. Brief text and pictures explore every nook and cranny and its occupants. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good. Unpaged. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Cohen, Daniel. ANCIENT EGYPT. Doubleday 1990, first edition. Hardcover. Ill. Gary A. Lippincott. Dramatic, vivid illustrations; brief text. 0385245866. Folio, more than 12”. NOT ex-lib. Near-Fine, wear to one corner. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Der Manuelian, Peter. HIEROGLYPHS FROM A TO Z, A Rhyming Book with Ancient Egyptian Stencils for Kids. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 1991, 1995. Truthquest Ancient Egypt grades K-6. Brand-New. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Hartman, Gail. AS THE CROW FLIES, A First Book of Maps. Bradbury Press 1991. Ill. Harvey Stevenson. Hardcover with dust jacket. CM Alveary. 0027430057. Brand-New. p= $8.50.
Peattie, Donald Culross. THE STORY OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATION. Grosset & Dunlap 1937. Hardcover. Ill. Naomi Averill. Period from the Pharoahs to the Caesars. For early elementary grades. Unpaged. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Preston, Edna Mitchell. MARCO POLO, A Story of the Middle Ages. Crowell-Collier Press 1968, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Edward Leight. Ambleside Geography 3. School stamp. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $16.photo of the actual item
 
Reid, Struan. CASTLE, See Inside the World of the Medieval Castle With See-Through Pages. Barnes & Noble 1996. Hardcover. Flip the see-through pages and see inside the castle. Truthquest Middle Ages grades 3-10. NOT ex-lib. Near-Fine. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Step-Up. THE STORY OF FLIGHT, by Mary Lee Settle. Random House 1967. Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
AMERICAN HISTORY / GEOGRAPHY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Coggins, Jack. SHIPS AND SEAMEN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Stackpole Books 1969. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by the author. Vessels, crews, weapons, gear, naval tactics, and actions of the War for Independence. Gives a picture of what naval warfare was like at that time, with a brief look at the ships, the guns, and the men. Profusely illustrated. CM Alveary 2A-3. 224 pp. 4to. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Dorian, Edith & Wilson, W. N. TRAILS WEST AND MEN WHO MADE THEM. Whittlesey House1955. Hardcover with dust jacket. The location of each trail taken by Spaniards, the French traders, mountain men and conestoga wagons is given, its history recounted, and the famous people identified who made and used it. Maps and b/w illustrations. Ex-lib. Book Good, dust jacket Fair. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Franklin, Benjamin. POOR RICHARD: THE ALMANACKS FOR THE YEARS 1733-1758. By Richard Saunders. The Heritage Press 1964. Hardcover in slipcase. Nine full-color, full-page illustrations by Norman Rockwell. “Wherein are retain’d in their Entirety the Author’s Prefaces, Proverbs, Verses, & entertaining Remarks; Together with those Chronological, Historical, and Scientific Observations which the Author has illumin’d with his characteristic Wit & Wisdom.” Contains the text of each of the 26 issues of Poor Richard’s Almanack published by Benjamin Franklin. Book measures about 8 x 12”. Book and slipcase Like-New. $10.photo of the actual item
    
Fisher, Margaret & Fisher, Mary Jane. COLONIAL AMERICA. Fideler Co. 1960, 1967. Hardcover. Ill. with photos, drawings, period prints. 132 pp. Chapter headings include “Homes,” “Colonial Kitchens,” “Earning a Living,” “Colonial Schools,” etc. Very Good. Ex-school. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Landmark Series. ETHAN ALLEN AND THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS, by Slater Brown. Random House 1956. Pictorial hardcover. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 3-8. Ex-lib. Fair. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Landmark Series. JOHN F. KENNEDY AND PT-109, by Richard Tregaskis. Random House 1962. Hardcover. Ill. with photos. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Landmark Series. ROBERT FULTON AND THE STEAMBOAT, by Ralph Nading Hill. Random House 1954. Hardcover with dust jacket. Truthquest Age of Revolution II grades 3-8. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket Good. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Landmark Series. THE STORY OF THE PARATROOPS, by George Weller. Random House 1958, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. with photos. NOT ex-lib. Book Like-New; dust jacket Very Good. $9.50.photo of the actual item
 
Landmark Series. U. S. FROGMEN OF WORLD WAR II, by Wyatt Blassingame. Random House 1964. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. with photos. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $9.50.photo of the actual item
 
Marrin, Albert. UPROOTED, The Japanese Experience During World War II. Albert Knopf 2016, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. with numerous photos. A Junior Library Guild Selection. For teens. 209 pp. plus notes and index. Brand-New. $10.photo of the actual item
 
North Star Books. DONALD MCKAY AND THE CLIPPER SHIPS, by Mary Ellen Chase. Houghton Millfin 1959. Hardcover. Ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Parkman, Francis. THE OREGON TRAIL. Doubleday 1946. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sixteen vividly colored illustrations by Thomas Hart Benton. Francis Parkman was fresh from college when he set out on his journey through the American wilderness. Here is a picture of the West before the days of railways and barbed wire. Ambleside 10 geography. NOT ex-lib. Book Good; dust jacket tattered, in new protective cover. $6.50.photo of the actual item
    
Reit, Seymour. BEHIND REBEL LINES, The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1988, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. SCM. Truthquest Age of Revolution II grades 3-12. Heart of Dakota. 0152004165. Brand-New. $10.photo of the actual item
 
WORLD HISTORY / GEOGRAPHY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Berton, Pierre. THE INVASION OF CANADA, 1812-1813. McClelland & Stewart 1980. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 9. NOT Ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket Fair. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Churchill, Winston S. THE BIRTH OF BRITAIN, Volume One, A History of the English Speaking Peoples. Dodd, Mead 1956, 1958, Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 7. NOT ex-lib. Book and dus jacket Very Good. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Churchill, Winston S. THE NEW WORLD, Volume Two, A History of the English Speaking Peoples. Dodd, Mead 1956, 1959. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 8. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Churchill, Winston S. THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, Volume Three, A History of the English Speaking Peoples. Dodd, Mead 1957. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 9. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Churchill, Winston S. THE GREAT DEMOCRACIES, Volume Four, A History of the English Speaking Iand dust jacket Very Good. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Keyes, Nelson Beecher. STORY OF THE BIBLE WORLD IN MAP, WORD AND PICTURE. C. S. Hammond 1959. Hardcover with dust jacket. 184 pages plus “Geographic Index” and “Subject Index.” NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good+. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Landmark (World). HERO OF TRAFALGAR, The Story of Lord Nelson, by A.B.C. Whipple. Random House 1963. Hardcover with dust jacket. Truthquest Age of Revolutioin II grades 3-10. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good+. $11.photo of the actual item
 
Landmark (World). THE SINKING OF THE BISMARCK, by William L. Shirer. Random House 1962. Pictorial hardcover. School stamp. Book Very Good. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Lansing, Alfred. ENDURANCE, Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage. McGraw Hill 1959, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. with photos. A true-life thriller! Ambleside Geography 11. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $15.photo of the actual item
 
Macaulay, David. CASTLE. Houghton Mifflin 1977, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Macaulay. Folio, more than 12”. SCM. Truthquest Middle Ages grades 4-12. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Portraits of Greatness. THE LIFE &TIMES OF NAPOLEON, ed. by Dr. Enzo Orlandi. Curtis Books 1967. Beautiful color ill. of period prints and maps. 75 pp. Folio. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $3.photo of the actual item
 
See Through History. TOMBS & TREASURES, by Catherine Charley. Viking 1994. Hardcover with dust jacket. Four detailed see-through spreads reveal the most fabulous tombs and treasures from around the world. Folio. 48 pp. 0670858994. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
MINNESOTA BOOKS
Gilbert, Jim. THROUGH MINNESOTA’S SEASONS WITH JIM GILBERT. Minnesota Landscape Arboretum 1987, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Text and color photographs by Gilbert. Drawings by Laverne Dunsmore. 210 pp. with index. Extraordinarily clean and nice. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine. $8.photo of the actual item
 
ART / MUSIC FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE
Barbauld, A. L. HYMNS IN PROSE FOR THE USE OF CHILDREN. India: S N Books, no date. Originally published in 1781. Hardcover. CM Language Arts. Brand-new. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Boni, Margaret Bradford, selected and edited by. THE FIRESIDE BOOK OF FAVORITE AMERICAN SONGS. Simon & Schuster 1952. Hardcover with dust jacket. More than 400 color illustrations by Aurelius Battaglia. Chapter headings are: “Only Yesterday: From 1890;” “Conflict and Expansion: From 1850;” “Independence – On to the West: from 1776;” “The Promised Land: Before 1776.” Index of First Lines and Index of Titles. 359 pp. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good with previous owner’s name; dust jacket is clean with chips. $8.50.photo of the actual item
  
Cassat, Mary. LULLABIES & GOOD NIGHT, A Collection of Classic Lullaby Poetry Illustrated with the Art of Mary Cassat. Ideals Children’s Books 1989. Hardcover. Ten beautiful Cassat paintings accompany poems by Tennyson, Isaac Watts, Sir Walter Scott, Eugene Field, others. NOT ex-lib. Some interior spots; rear free endpaper has piece torn off. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Foster, Walter T. ANIMALS ARE FOR FUN. Walter Foster Art Books 1987. By Ed Nofziger. Folio, larger than 12”. Like-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Funk & Wagnalls. DA VINCI, THE GREAT ARTISTS, A Library of Their Lives, Times and Paintings. Funk & Wagnalls 1977, 1978, first published in Italy in 1963. Folio-size softcover, more than 12”. Text by Mina Bacci; translated by J. Tanguy. Five-page biography and 14 pages of his paintings with one double-page, fold-out painting. Great art-study book. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Funk & Wagnalls. MONET, THE GREAT ARTISTS, A Library of Their Lives, Times and Paintings. Funk & Wagnalls 1977, 1978, first published in Italy in 1963. Folio-size softcover, more than 12”. Text by Alberto Martini; translated by Corinne Bellow. Five-page biography and 15 pages of his paintings with one double-page, fold-out painting. Great art-study book. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Funk & Wagnalls. RENOIR, THE GREAT ARTISTS, A Library of Their Lives, Times and Paintings. Funk & Wagnalls 1977, 1978, first published in Italy in 1963. Folio-size softcover, more than 12”. Text by Keith Roberts. Five-page biography and 14 pages of his paintings with two double-page, fold-out paintings. Some nudity. Great art-study book. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Funk & Wagnalls. VELAZQUEZ, THE GREAT ARTISTS, A Library of Their Lives, Times and Paintings. Funk & Wagnalls 1977, 1978, first published in Italy in 1963. Folio-size softcover, more than 12”. Text by Jose Lopez Rey. Five-page biography and 14 pages of his paintings with two double-page, fold-out paintings. Great art-study book. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Janson, H. W. and Janson, Anthony F. HISTORY OF ART FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. Harry N. Abrams 1987. Third Edition, Revised and Expanded. Illustrations nearly every page in color and b/w. 472 pp. with index. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. MILLET’S GLEANERS. Minneapolis Institute of Arts 1978. SOFTCOVER. Tells the story with many illustrations and two color paintings of Millet’s painting, “The Gleaners.” 51 pp. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Raboff, Ernest. PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR. Art for Children. J. B. Lippincott 1970. Hardcover. 0397322178. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Reader’s Digest. FAMILY SONG BOOK. Editor W. A. H. Birnie. Readers Digest Association 1969. Selections of songs from World War I era, Broadway hits, Music from the movies, the swing years, operetta and semi-classical, folk songs, inspirational. Music arranged and edited by Dan Fox. Spiral binding which allows it to lie flat. 252 pages. Clean, Very Good. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Seeger, Ruth Crawford. AMERICAN FOLK SONGS FOR CHILDREN in Home, School and Nursery School. Doubleday 1948, later printing. SOFTCOVER. Ill. Barbara Cooney. 190 pages including “Subject Index,” “Rhythmic Index,” “Index of Song Titles and First Lines.” NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $7.photo of the actual item
 
Seeger, Ruth Crawford. ANIMAL FOLK SONGS FOR CHILDREN, Traditional =Folk Songs for Children. Doubleday 1950. Illustrated by Barbara Cooney. 80 pp. Ex-lib. Library binding. Good. $8.photo of the actual item
    
Dr. Seuss. THE CAT IN THE HAT SONG BOOK, 19 Seuss-Songs for Beginning Singers. Random House 1967. Hardcover. Piano score and guitar chords by Eugene Poddany. NOT ex-lib. Good, corners worn. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Shafer, Sonya, Editor. SIMPLY CHARLOTTE MASON PRESENTS HYMNS IN PROSE FOR CHILDREN, by Mrs. Barbauld. Simply Charlotte Mason 2011. Originally published in 1781 with illustrations added in 1863. SOFTCOVER. CM Language Arts. Fine. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr I, SWAN LAKE. North-South Books 2002, first edition. First published in Switzerland. Hardcover. Retold with glorious full-page color illustrations by Lisbet Zwerger, opposite text every page. Translated by Marianne Martens. Zwerger bases her version on Tchaikovsky's original 1877 ballet, which had a happy ending unlike the later, more well-known 1893 version. Zwerger tells the haunting story of an enchanted swan princess with lyrical grace and beauty.  Like-New. $7.photo of the actual item
   
Westminster Press. WHEN THE LITTLE CHILD WANTS TO SING. Westminster Press 1935, 1956. Hardcover with dust jacket. For use with four- and five-year-olds in home, school, and church school. 99 pp. Previous owner’s name. Book Very Good; dust jacket Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
CHILDREN’S ACTIVITY BOOKS / COOKBOOKS / HOBBIES / CRAFTS
Beckham, Victoria. VICTORIA BECKHAM COLORING BOOK. Victoria Beckham Collection made especially for Target. 18 pages with heavy backing page for coloring. Brand-New. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Eager, Fred. THE ITALIC WAY TO BEAUTIFUL HANDWRITING, Cursive & Calligraphic. Collier/Macmillan 1967, 1979. SOFTCOVER. A teach-yourself guide to Italic handwriting. 109 pp. Like-New, no writing. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! A Four-Year Record Book for Birthday Boys and Girls, by Dian G Smith. Charles Scribner’s 1988. SOFTCOVER. Every page of this delightful book invites children to record four years of birthday celebrations, along with room to jot down annually the things they like the most, how much they have grown, and note the year’s important events. Some of the full-color illustrations are from the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Book is Like-New. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Selznick, David O. GONE WITH THE WIND COOK BOOK, Famous Southern Cooking Recipes. Abbeville Press 1991. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. 46 pages plus pages for your own recipes. Very Good++. $5.photo of the actual item
 
USBORNE BOOKS
Usborne. USBORNE FIRST NUMBERS, by Jo Litchfield and Felicity Brooks. Usborne 2001. Hardcover. Provides a gentle introduction to the exciting world of numbers, starting with counting to ten and covering number patterns and sequences, addition, subtraction and multiplication. 48 pp. 074604187x. Like-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
  
Usborne. USBORNE FARMYARD TALES CHILDREN’S COOKBOOK, by Fiona Watt. Usborne 2003. Hardcover. Ill. Stephen Cartwright. For young children. 47 pp. Folio. Fine. $4.50.photo of the actual item
   
Usborne. THE USBORNE BOOK OF EVERYDAY WORDS IN SPANISH, A Spanish Picture Word Book, by Jo Litchfield. Usborne 1999. Hardcover. Small, labeled pictures throughout the book tell you the words for things in Spanish. Number of hidden objects to find in every big scene. Over 500 words. Spanish/English dictionary at end of book. Near-Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
   
Usborne. GREEK MYTHS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN, retold by Heather Amery. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 2002. Sonlight B. Very Good, cover creased. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Usborne. THE USBORNE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANCIENT EGYPT, by Gill Harvey and Struan Reid. Usborne2002. Internet-Linked. Covers of flexible heavy stock. 0794522122. Usborne. THE USBORNE INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND WORLD WAR, Internet-Linked, by Paul Dowswell In Association with the Imperial War Museum. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 2005. Brand-New. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
LIVING SCIENCE / NATURE, OTHER NON-FICTION
Anderson, Lena, illustrator. NICKY THE NATURE DETECTIVE, by Ulf Svedberg. R & S Books 1991, originally published in Sweden in 1983. Translated by Ingrid Selberg. Nickey observes her surroundings all year long and can answer questions about why birds sing and how spiders spin webs, in a delightfully illustrated, informative guide for the beginning naturalist. 9129587867. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $7.photo of the actual item
    
Anholt, Catherine and Laurence. SUN, SNOW, STARS SKY. Viking 1995. Hardcover. Wonderful living science book about the seasons with captivating illustrations. Very Good. $3.photo of the actual item
  
Arnosky, Jim. CRINKLEROOT’S NATURE ALMANAC. Simon & Schuster 1999, first edition. Hardcover. Ill. by Arnosky. In his own entertaining, informative way, Crinkleroot describes the changes that take place in animals and plants throughout the four seasons. Living Science. Library card pocket in back of book. Near-Fine. $14.photo of the actual item
 
Arnosky, Jim. DEER AT THE BROOK. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 1986. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very simple text accompanies Arnosky’s detailed art, packed with information about wildlife and their habitat. Living Science. Ex-lib. Book and dust Good+. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Audubon. THE AUDUBON SOCIETY FIELD GUIDE TO NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS, Eastern Region (east of the Rockies). By John Bull and John Farrand, Jr., The American Museum of Natural History. Alfred Knopf 1977. Imitation leather binding. 484 full-color identification photographs. Visual organization grouped by color and shape. 784 pp. with index. Compact, pocket-size. Ambleside. Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Austin, Mary Hunter. THE LAND OF LITTLE RAIN. San Simeon Press 2014. Color photography by Walter Feller. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside Science 9. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good, tear in dust jacket. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Barker, Cicely Mary. FLOWER FAIRIES GARDENER’S YEAR. Frederick Warne 2000, first edition. Spiral-bound hardcover. Beautiful Barker flower fairies illustrations with copyrights 1923-1985. Provides guidance on various aspects of hortriculture and allows gardeners to note how their plants are performing, log the weather, keep propagation records, and more, with monthly reminders for jobs to be done. An exquisite book! Like-New. $10.photo of the actual item
    
Bauer, Margaret Jean. ANIMAL BABIES. M. A. Donohue & Co. 1949. Hardcover. Twelve full-page, beautiful color ill. by Jacob Bates Abbott. 88 pp. Large book, 10” x 12”. NOT ex-lib. Edges show wear, corners worn. $6.photo of the actual item
   
Berenstain, Stan & Jan.  THE BERENSTAIN BEARS’ NATURE GUIDE.  Random House 1975, 1984. SOFTCOVER. Everything small bears and kids need to know about the wonderful world of nature.  NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Borland, Hal. HOMELAND, A REPORT FROM THE COUNTRY. J. B. Lippincott 1964, 1969. Hardcover with dust jacket. Borland writes of the land he loves, the green-growing things that spring from it, and the creatures that people it. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Branley, Franklyn. MICKEY’S MAGNET. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 1956. Ill. Crockett Johnson. Living Science. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Branley, Franklyn. MICKEY’S MAGNET. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 1956. Ill. Crockett Johnson. Living Science. Includes magnet attached to back cover. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Buscaglia, Leo, Ph.D. THE FALL OF FREDDIE THE LEAF, A Story of Life for All Ages. Charles B. Slack 1982. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. with photos. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Carson, Rachel. THE SENSE OF WONDER. Harper & Row 1956, 1965. Hardcover. Photographs in b/w and color by Charles Pratt and others. Words and pictures to help you keep alive your child’s inborn sense of wonder, and renew your own delight in the mysteries of earth, sea and sky. Near-Fine. $5. photo of the actual item
 
Clarkson, E. Margaret. SUSIE’S BABIES. Wm. B. Eerdmans 1963. Hardcover with dust jacket. A charming story about a mother hamster and the birth of her young that will help parents explain with reverence and wholesome frankness how children are born. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Comstock, Anna Botsford. HANDBOOK OF NATURE STUDY. Comstock Publishing 1911, 1952. Hardcover. Illustrated. 908 pp. plus index. Ambleside 1-12. NOT ex-lib. Previous owner’s name. Exceptionally clean and sound. Very Good. $50.photo of the actual item
  
Dillard, Annie. PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK. Harper’s Magazine Press 1974, stated first U.S. edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. The author’s quote, “In nature I find grace tangled in a rapture with violence; I find an intricate landscape whose forms are fringed in death; I find mystery , newness, and a kind of exuberant, spendthrift energy.” NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $12.photo of the actual item
   
Doolittle, Bev, illustrator. READING THE WILD, by Elise Maclay. The Greenwich Workshop Press 2001, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Bev Doolittle’s famous detailed watercolor paintings, along with fascinating text, give us clues to understanding the animal life around us. Eight full-page color illustrations and many other half page paintings. Living Science. Folio-size. 086713061x. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $5.photo of the actual item
     
Florian, Douglas. INSECTLOPEDIA, Poems and Paintings by Douglas Florian. Hardcover with dust jacket. 21 spider and insect poems. Funny and informative. Living Science. Like-New. $3.photo of the actual item
   
Florian, Douglas. MAMMALABILIA, Poems and Paintings. Harcourt, Inc. 2000. Hardcover with dust jacket. From the howling coyote and the wood-chopping beaver to the daring ibex and the speeding tiger, here is a zooful of furry fun to please even your young guys! Living Science. NOT ex-lib. 0152021671. Book and dust jacket Fine. $3.photo of the actual item
  
George, Jean Craighead. MORNING, NOON, AND NIGHT. Harper 1999 first edition. Hardcover. Each day as the sun makes its dawn-dusk journey, the animals perform their daily routines. Written poetically with colorful paintings by Wendell Minor. Living Science. Library card pocket, no other marks. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Grosvenor, Donna K. THE WILD PONIES OF ASSATEAGUE ISLAND. National Geographic Society Books for Young Explorers 1975. Hardcover. Tells the story of the ponies of Assateague (Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry) with photographs by James L. Stanfield. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Halliburton, Richard. RICHARD HALLIBURTON’S COMPLETE BOOK OF MARVELS. Bobbs-Merrill 1937, 1941. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ambleside 5. Good. $39.photo of the actual item
 
Hedlund, Stephanie. WINTER. Minneapolis: Abdo/Magic Wagon 2004. Hardcover. What makes winter? Why? When? Winter Activites, etc. Simple, colorful illustrations by Stephanie Bauer.  1616419954. Brand-New. $5.photo of the actual item
   
Henry, Marguerite. ALBUM OF HORSES. Rand McNally 1951, 1974. Pictorial hardcover. Beautiful, full-page color ill. by Wesley Dennis. Heart of Dakota. NOT ex-lib. Very Good, previous owner’s name. $6.photo of the actual item
   
Herriot, James. ALL THINGS WISE AND WONDERFUL. St. Martin’s Press 1976,1977. Hardcover with dust jacket. The warm and joyful sequel to All Things Bright and Beautiful. Ambleside. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good; previous owner’s name. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Herriot, James. THE LORD GOD MADE THEM ALL, The Warm and Joyful Sequel to All Things Wise and Wonderful. St. Martin’s Press 1981, stated first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket has light edge wear. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Hippocrene. HIPPOCRENE CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATED RUSSIAN DICTIONARY. English – Russian: Russian – English. Hippocrene 2008. Sturdy SOFTCOVER. Brand-New. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Hutchins, Ross E. THE TRAVELS OF MONARCH X. Rand McNally 1966, BCE. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. Jerome P. Connolly. True and fascinating story of a Monarch butterfly tagged by a scientist in Canada and discovered by a young Mexican boy 2000 miles away. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Leslie, Clare Walker. A NATURALIST’S SKETCHBOOK, Pages from the Seasons of a Year. Revised and Expanded Edition of Notes from a Naturalist’s Sketchbook. Dodd, Mead & Co. 1987, first edition. 0396689895. Lirary card pocket and stamp; no marks on dust jacket. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Lewis, Richard, Editor. IN A SPRING GARDEN. The Dial Press 1965, 1978. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats. This charming collection of Haiku poetry follows a day in spring from the early-morning snail on a branch to a careless grasshopper to the glowing goodnight of a firefly. The illustrations by Ezra Jack Keats perfectly complement the delicate moods and images evoked by the verses. Wonderful! Living Science. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good, small piece missing top of spine. $8.photo of the actual item
       
Long, William J. WAYS OF WOOD FOLK. Ginn 1899, 1902. Hardcover. Long’s intent is to “speak to other boys as to fellow explorers in the always new world. . .and bring back to older children happy memories of a golden age when nature and man were not quite so far apart.” Narrative that will thrill young and old. NOT ex-lib. Very Good with previous owner’s nameplate partly removed. $16.50.photo of the actual item
 
Macaulay, David. MOTEL OF THE MYSTERIES. Houghton Mifflin 1979. SOFTCOVER. It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Truthquest Beginnings grades 3-12. 0395284252. Brand-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Maldaner, Gary & Cathy. POLITE MOMENTS, Volumes 1-5 in One Book. Plain Path Publishers 2000. SOFTCOVER. A great scripturally-based and fun way to learn proper and respectful behavior. 097641080x. Brand-New. $15.photo of the actual item
 
McClung, Robert. SPOTTED SALAMANDER. William Morrow 1964. Hardcover. Ill. by McClung. Ex-lib. Library binding. Good. $20.photo of the actual item
 
Morris, John D. NOAH’S ARK AND THE ARARAT ADVENTURE. Master Books 1999. Hardcover. Many questions answered about Noah’s ark and the Great Flood. 0890511667. NOT ex-lib. Near-Fine. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Morris, John D. & Ham, Ken. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO THE DINOSAURS? Master Books 1990, 2011. Hardcover. Ill. Jonathan Chong. SCM. Very Good. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Parker, Gary E. DRY BONES AND OTHER FOSSILS. CLP Publishers 1979, 1983. SOFTCOVER. Ill. Jonathan Chong. Sonlight Science F. Living Science. Truthquest Beginnings grades 3-9. SCM. 0890510563. Near-Fine. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Peterson, Roger Tory. A FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS. Houghton Mifflin 1934, 1947. Hardcover. Giving field marks of all species found east of the Rockies. Sponsored by National Audubon Society. Full-page illustrations by Peterson in color and b/w. 290 pp. Ambleside. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
   
Polseno, Jo. SECRETS OF REDDING GLEN, The Natural History of a Wooded Valley. Golden Press/Western Publishing 1973. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by the author. Lyrical prose and beautiful full-page paintings capture the sights, sounds, and smells of a secluded valley. Majestic! NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine with previous owner’s name. $7.50.photo of the actual item
   
Quayle, William A. IN GOD’S OUT-OF-DOORS. Abingdon Press 1902, 1924. Hardcover. The author writes, “The author’s wish is to people other hearts with love of flower and woodland path and drifting cloud. . . .and voices of bird and wind and cadence of the rainfaull and the storm, and to make men and women more the lovers of this bewildering world fashioned in loveliness by the artist hand of God.” 252 pp. with photographs nearly every page. Includes some poetry but more musings and creative descriptions of all things nature. Beautiful! Very Good, previous owner’s name. $16.50.photo of the actual item
    
Rey, H. A. THE STARS, A New Way to See Them. Houghton Mifflin 1952, 1988. SOFTCOVER. Enlarged World-Wide Edition. 0395248302. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Ryder, Joanne. CHIPMUNK SONG. Dutton 1987. Hardcover. Ill. Lynn Cherry. A small boy observes and imagines what it would be like to be a chipmunk. Living Science. Like-New. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Schoenherr, John. REBEL. Philomel 1995, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by the author. Each year mother and father goose return to the same pond and each year their goslings peck their way out of their eggs. But this year one of the newly hatched gosling turns out to be a curious and fearless rebel. Living Science. Book and dust jacket Fine. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Selsam, Millicent. HOW TO BE A NATURE DETECTIVE. Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science. HarperCollins 1958, 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket. Living Science. 0060234482. Ex-lib. with card pocket; no marks on dust jacket. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine. $6.photo of the actual item
     
Sidman, Joyce. SONG OF THE WATER BOATMAN & Other Pond Poems. Houghton Mifflin 2005. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Beckie Prange. Caldecott Honor Book 2004. A unique blend of whimsy, science, catchy poetry and hand-colored woodcuts introduces children to the world of the quiet, dramatic life of the pond. Living Science. Brand-New, with new laid-in bookplate. $6.50.photo of the actual item
  
Simon, Seymour. STRANGE CREATURES. Four Winds Press 1981, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Pamela Carroll. Here you will find animals that look strange, animals that behave in odd ways, animals that have strange abilities. Full-page illustration opposite text each page. Living Science. 0590077457. Ex-lib. Book Good; dust jacket Very Good. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Taylor, Paul S. THE GREAT DINOSAUR MYSTERY AND THE BIBLE. David C. Cook Chariot Books 1989. Hardcover. SCM. Heart of Dakota. 0896362647. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Thoreau, Henry David. THE MAINE WOODS. Bramhall House 1950, first edition. Arranged with notes by Dudley C. Lunt; illustrated by Hnery Bugbee Kane. This edition has been recast so the reader may accompany Thoreau around the whole swing of the Ktaadn country. 340 pp. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Tiner, John Hudson. EXPLORING THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, From the Ancient Physicians of Pharaoh to Genetic Engineering. Master Books 2009. SOFTCOVER. Heart of Dakota. Brand-New. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Tresselt, Alvin. RAIN DROP SPLASH. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 1946, 1995. Ill. Leonard Weisgard. Caldecott Honor Book 1947. Living science that introduces young children to the natural progression of rainfall from brook to lake to river to the sea. Sure to inform and fascinate kids! Very Good. $2.50.photo of the actual item
   
Tresselt, Alvin. RAIN DROP SPLASH. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 1946, 1995. Ill. Leonard Weisgard. Caldecott Honor Book 1947. Living science that introduces young children to the natural progression of rainfall from brook to lake to river to the sea. Sure to inform and fascinate kids! Brand-New. $3.photo of the actual item
   
Udry, Janice May. THE MOON JUMPERS. Harper & Row 1959. Hardcover. Ill. Maurice Sendak. A warm night living science experience with a “balloon of a moon.” CM. Living Science. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
   
Van Laan, Nancy. WHEN WINTER COMES. Atheneum Books 2000. Hardcover. Ill. Susan Gaber. Where do the leaves go? Where do the field mice go? Where do songbirds go? In lilting rhyme, the author explores and answers these and other questions. Fun and informative living science. Like-New. $4.photo of the actual item
    
Wynnejones, Pat. THE STORY OF ROBIN REDBREAST. Hedgerow Tales. Retold by Pat Wynnejones from Mrs. Gatty’s Parables of Nature. Great Britain: Lion Publishing 1984, 1987. Hardcover. Living Science. Good, with slight rippling to first pages. NOT ex-lib. $4.50. photo of the actual item
 
Wynnejones, Pat. THE STORY OF JEREMY CRICKET. Hedgerow Tales. Retold by Pat Wynnejones from Mrs. Gatty’s Parables of Nature. Great Britain: Lion Publishing 1984, 1987. Hardcover. Living Science. Fine. NOT ex-lib. $5. photo of the actual item
 
AMBLESIDE BIBLE
Bridges, Jerry. THE PURSUIT OF HOLINESS. NavPress 1978, 1985. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 7. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good+, previous owner’s name. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Macaulay, Susan Schaeffer. HOW TO BE YOUR OWN SELFISH PIG, and Other Ways You’ve Been Brainwashed. Chariot Books SOFTCOVER 1982, first printing. Ambleside 7 Bible. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $9.50.photo of the actual item
 
BIBLES, BIBLE STORIES / SCRIPTURE-BASED STORIES / DEVOTIONALS
Egermeier, Elsie. EGERMEIER’S BIBLE STORY BOOK. Warner Press 2007. Hardcover with dust jacket. Story revisions by Arlene S. Hall. 312 stories from Genesis to Revelation, 122 full-color, full-page illustrations by Clive Upton, helpful Bible information, maps. 636 pp. Sonlight A. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine with label covering previous owner’s name. $7.50.photo of the actual item
    
Henley, Karyn. THE BEGINNER’S BIBLE, Timeless Children’s Stories. Gold ‘N’ Honey 1989. Hardcover. Ill. Dennas Davis. Sonlight 2 Readers. Heart of Dakota. Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts. THE PINEAPPLE STORY. Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts 1978. Hardcover. A story from Dutch New Guinea that teaches the principle of yielding personal rights. Near-Fine, previous owner’s name. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts. THE EAGLE STORY, How to Conquer Habits. Institute In Basic Youth Conflicts 1982, 1984. Hardcover. Near-fine. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Jahsmann, Allan Hart & Simon, Martin P. LITTLE VISITS WITH GOD, Devotions for Families with Grade School Children. Concordia Publishing 1957. Hardcover. Ill. Frances Hook. Short, 2-page devotions with memory verses. Near-Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Loveland, Seymour. THE ILLUSTRATED BIBLE STORY BOOK, OLD TESTAMENT. Rand McNally 1923, 1944. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Milo Winter, many full-page. Ill. endpapers. 126 pp. Blue cloth with paste-down ill. cover. G. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Maxwell, Arthur. THE STORY BOOK, Character Building Stories for Children. Review & Herald 1964, 1980. SOFTCOVER. 21 4 to 7-page stories about “Courage;” “Greediness;” “Sharing;” “Sclf-Sacrifice;” etc. 0828005397. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Mears, Henrietta. WHAT THE BIBLE IS ALL ABOUT. Regal Books SOFTCOVER 1967, 1972. An easy-to-understand survey of the Bible. 674 pp. Truthquest Beginnings grades 2-6. Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Mears, Henrietta. WHAT THE BIBLE IS ALL ABOUT. Regal Books 1953, 1983. Hardcover with dust jacket. An easy-to-understand survey of the Bible, making the study of God’s word useful, interesting and challenging. 648 pp. Truthquest Beginnings grades 2-6. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Schoolland, Marian. MARIAN’S FAVORITE BIBLE STORIES. Wm. B. Eerdmans 1948, 1960. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. Dirk Gringhuis. Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Taylor, Kenneth N. THE LIVING BIBLE STORY BOOK. Tyndale House 1979, 1980. Hardcover. color illustrations by Richard and Frances Hook. 192 pp. Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Taylor, Kenneth N. GOOD NEWS FOR LITTLE PEOPLE, Stories About Jesus. Tyndale House 1991, first edition. Hardcover. Ill. Nancy Munger. Short devotionals with color illustration, a short prayer, discussion questions and a memory verse. For young children. Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
 
EASY READERS – HISTORICAL FICTION/NON-FICTION
Baker, Betty. LITTLE RUNNER OF THE LONGHOUSE. Harper & Row 1962. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Arnold Lobel. CM Alveary 1A-2B. Truthquest Age of Revolution grades K-3. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good. $3.photo of the actual item
 
EASY READERS – FICTION
Cordts, Anna. TOMMY O’TOOLE AT THE FAIR. Benefic Press 1957. Hardcover. Second-third grade level. NOT ex-lib. Good, cover soil. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Corson, Hazel. PETER, THE ROCKET SITTER. Benefic Press 1964. First grade level. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Erickson, Phoebe. JUST FOLLOW ME. A Follett Beginning-to-Read Book. Follett Publishing 1960. Hardcover with dust jacket. Level 1. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Farley, Walter. LITTLE BLACK GOES TO THE CIRCUS! Walter Farley Family Trust, originally published 1963. Ill. James Schucker. Brand-New. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
McCall, Edith S. THE BUTTONS, BUCKY BUTTON. Benefic Press 1960, 1962. Hardcover. Pre-Primer level. School marks. Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
McClintock, Mike. STOP THAT BALL! Grolier Beginner Books 1959. Hardcover. Ill. Fritz Siebel. Very Good, “50 cents” written inside front cover. $8.photo of the actual item
  
Minarik, Else Holmelund. LITTLE BEAR. Harper & Brothers 1957, very early edition. Hardcover. Pictorial paper over boards with black cloth binding. Ill. Maurice Sendak. CM Alveary. Ambleside 0. Sonlight Core A. Carol Seid list. NOT ex-library; NOT book club. Good, wear to corners; interior very good. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Minarik, Else. FATHER BEAR COMES HOME. Harper Collins 1959. An I Can Read Book. Hardcover. Ill. Maurice Sendak. Ambleside 0. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Murphey, Sara. THE ANIMAL HAT SHOP. A Follett Beginning-To-Read Book. Follett Publishing 1964. Level 1. Hardcover. Very Good. $2.50. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 8-12. SCM. Ambleside 9. NOT exlib. Like-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Pape, Donna. MRS. TWITTER THE ANIMAL SITTER. Garrard Publishing 1972. Hardcover. Ill. Dora Leder. Mrs. Twitter has many comical mishaps as she animal sits for a horse and then a seal. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
     
Taylor, Sydney. MR. BARNEY’S BEARD. A Follett Beginning-To-Read Book. Follett Publishing 1961. Hardcover. Level 1. Very Good. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Woods, Ruth. LITTLE QUACK. Follett Publishing 1961. Follett Beginning-to-Read Book. Hardcover. Ill. Mel Pekarsky. Ex-school. Good, some cover soil. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
CHRISTIAN, INSPIRATIONAL FICTION FOR CHILDREN / YOUNG ADULTS
Anderson, Ella. JO-JO. Pickering & Inglis 1959, 1967. Hardcover with dust jacket. Three young girls are thrilled to be invited to spend their vacation at the Little Creek Ranch in California, home to the Palomino horse Jo-Jo. Their lives are endangered when horse thieves enter the picture. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Arnold, Francena H. THE ROAD WINDS ON. Moody Press SOFTCOVER 1955, 1970. Fair. $1.50.photo of the actual item
 
Epp, Margaret. ANITA AND THE DRIFTWOOD HOUSE. Moody/Back to the Bible SOFTCOVER 1957. Good. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Epp, Margaret. THE PRINCESS AND THE PELICAN. Moody Press 1968, 1973. Prairie Adventure Series. Hardcover with dust jacket. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Fine, previous owner’s names sticker removed. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Harris, Beth Coombe. THE LITTLE GREEN FROG. School of Tomorrow 1971, 1993. Hardcover. Go with Biddy and see how her adventures with the little green frog help her share the gospel of Jesus Christ. Like-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Henderson, Lois T. ABIGAIL, A Novel. Guideposts 1980. Hardcover. Biblical fiction. Like-New. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Hutchens, Paul. HAUNTED HOUSE AT SUGAR CREEK. Scripture Press 1949. Hardcover. Good, previous owner’s name; some cover wear. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Johnson, Lissa Halls. BRIO GIRLS, Lot of 5 books, #1-5. Focus on the Family/Bethany House SOFTCOVER 2001-2002. Includes Stuck in the Sky; Fast Forward to Normal; Opportunity Knocks Twice; Double Exposure; Good-By to All That. All 5 books like-new. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Kauffman, Christmas Carol. FOR ONE MOMENT. Moody Press SOFTCOVER 1960, 1964. Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Kaufmann, Christmas Carol. LIGHT FROM HEAVEN. Moody Press 1948, 1965. SOFTCOVER. Although first written 68 years ago, this heartrending story is extremely relevant to today’s troubled families and points to the one true hope for all man’s miseries, the true Light from Heaven. A Christian classic! Near-Fine. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Lecomte, Eva. PAULA THE WALDENSIAN. Loizeaux Brothers 1942, 1948. Hardcover. A little orphaned girl from the Waldensian Valley in Italy comes to live with her rather worldly, well-to-do cousins in France, bringing with her a living, loving faith that eventually wins the family and neighbors. Sweet and tender, old-fashioned story with a clear gospel message. NOT ex-lib. Good. $12.photo of the actual item
 
Lewis, C. S. THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW. Chronicles of Narnia Book 1. Harper Trophy SOFTCOVER 1955, 2000. Full-color Collector’s Edition. Color Ill. by Pauline Baynes. Brand-New. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Morris, Gilbert. THE HOLY WARRIOR. House of Winslow #6. Bethany House SOFTCOVER 1989. Fine. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
Morris, Gilbert. THE UNION BELLE. The House of Winslow #11. Bethany House SOFTCOVER 1992. . Ex-lib. Near-Fine. $2.photo of the actual item
 
Oke, Janette. LOVE COMES SOFTLY. Love Comes Softly series #1. Bethany House SOFTCOVER 1979. Fine. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
Reid, J. Calvin. BIRD LIFE IN WINGTON, Practical Parables for Young People. Wm. B. Eerdmans 1948, 1977. SOFTCOVER. Ill. Reynold Weidenaar. Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
School of Tomorrow. THE MARTYR OF THE CATACOMBS, Author Unknown. School of Tomorrow 1995. Publication date unknown, but the book was salvaged from shipwreck in 1876 and reprinted. Truthquest Ancient Rome grades 5-10. Pictorial hardcover. Like-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Watson, Sydney. IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE. Fleming H. Revell 1921, 1933. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dramatic, imaginative, true-to-scripture story of what will transpire on earth at the coming of the Lord. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket Poor. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Woodrum, Lon. ROAD TO THE RIVER. Zondervan 1956. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fictionalized story of Naaman and his little Hebrew maid. Unforgettable story of faith and love. 157 pp. Book and dust jacket Very Good, previous owner’s nameplate. $5.photo of the actual item
 
CHILDREN’S/TEENS’ HISTORICAL FICTION
Baldwin, James. THE STORY OF ROLAND. Charles Scribner’s 1930, 1965. Hardcover with dust jacket. 9 color plates by Peter Hurd. Baldwin has gathered together all the stories of the adventures of Roland who was the nephew of Charlemagne and the greatest hero of the Middle Ages. Truthquest Middle Ages grades 7-12. Book Very Good; dust jacket has piece missing in front. From a private library with small remnants of card pocket. $8.50.photo of the actual item
  
Baumann, Hans. BARQUE OF THE BROTHERS. Henry Z. Walck 1956, 1960. Hardcover with dust jacket. Two young fishing lads take part in two ventures undertaken by the enigmatic Prince Henry the Navigator. Moving story based on the devotion between brothers. By the author of I Marched With Hannibal and Sons of the Steppe. Small library stamp; no marks on dust jacket. Book and dust jacket Very Good; chip in dust jacket. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Beatty, Patricia. JAYHAWKER. Morrow Junior Books 1991, first edition, Hardcover with dust jacket. There is adventure and suspense in this powerful story of the Bushwhackers and Jayhawkers in Missouri and Kansas in the days leading up to the Civil War. 0688098509. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Byars, Betsy. TROUBLE RIVER. The Viking Press 1969. Hardcover with dust jacket. A boy and his grandmother escape from the Indians and travel forty miles on a home-made raft. Wonderful story of pioneer resourcefulness and courage. Ill. Rocco Negri. Ex-lib. Library binding. Book Good; dust jacket Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
de Angeli, Marguerite. BLACK FOX OF LORNE. Doubleday & Co. 1956. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by de Angeli. Thrilling, heroic tale of twin brothers in 10th century Scotland. Ex-lib. Book Good; dust jacket Very Good. $20.photo of the actual item
 
DeJong, Meindert. THE HOUSE OF SIXTY FATHERS. HarperCollins 1956, 1984. Hardcover. Newbery Honor Book 1957. Ill. Maurice Sendak. A Chinese boy is devastatingly separated from his family and is “adopted” by sixty American airmen during World War II. Thrilling story of courage in the face of life-threatening danger. Sonlight F. Ex-lib. Library binding. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Edmonds, Walter D. DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK, 1775-1783. Little Brown 1936, 1937. Hardcover. Story of the Mohawk Valley during the American Revolution, a time when the farmers won the final battle of the long war, preserved their homes, and laid the foundations of a great and strong community. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Edmonds, Walter. THE MATCHLOCK GUN. G. P. Putnam’s 1941, 1989. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Paul Lantz. Truthquest Age of Revolution grades 2-6. Ambleside 3-4. CM Alveary. Heart of Dakota. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Forbes, Esther. JOHNNY TREMAIN, A Story of Boston in Revolt. Houghton Mifflin 1943, 1971. Hardcover with dust jacket. Newbery Medal 1944. CM Alveary Am. Rev. Ambleside 4. Sonlight D, E. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 4-12. One library stamp, no marks on dust jacket. Book Good; dust jacket Very Good. Dust jacket in new protective cover. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Henry, Marguerite. BENJAMIN WEST AND HIS CAT GRIMALKIN. Macmillan 1947, 1987. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Wesley Dennis. CM Alveary. Book and dust jacket Very Good+, two small school stamps. $12.photo of the actual item
 
Henty, G. A. THE CAT OF BUBASTES, A Tale of Ancient Egypt. Reada Classic SOFTCOVER 2011. Nice quality trade-size softcover. Truthquest Ancient Egypt grades 7-12. Heart of Dakota. Like-New. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas. THE SIGN PAINTER’S SECRET, The Story of a Revolutionary Girl. Silver Burdett 1991, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. It is 1777 and the British troops occupy Philadelphia as young Annie MacDougal must embark on a dangerous mission and go all the way to Valley Forge to meet General George Washington. 0382241509. NOT ex-lib. Brand-New. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Kilbride, Susan. OUR AMERICA. . .THE KING PHILIP’S WAR ADVENTURE. Funtastic Unit Studies 2012. SOFTCOVER. Second book in “Our America” series. Like-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Maier, Paul L. THE FLAMES OF ROME, A Documentary Novel by the author of Pontius Pilate. Doubleday & Co. 1981, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. “Every character in this crucial account of how Christianity reached Rome is authentic, and this book is quite probably the most accurate historical novel ever written.” NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Morrow, Honore. YONDER SAILS THE MAYFLOWER. Blue Ribbon Books 1934. Hardcover with dust jacket. This is the story of the gallant little band of adventurers who came to America on the Mayflower, specifically Desire Minter and Robert Cushman whose companions were Miles Standish and William Bradford. NOT ex-lib. Book Good+, dust jacket tattered. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
O’Dell, Scott. ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS. Houghton Mifflin 1960, 1988. Hardcover with dust jacket. Newbery Medal 1961. Beautifully written story of an Indian girl who spent eighteen years alone on the Island of San Nicholas in the 1800’s, a story of quiet courage, strength, loneliness and terror. SCM. Book has school stamp, no marks on dust jacket. Book and dust jacket Very Good+. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Orczy, Emmuska. THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL. Great Reads/Dalmatian Press 1905, 2010. Hardcover. SCM. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 8-12. Like-New. $6.50. photo of the actual item
 
Polland, Madeleine. TO KILL A KING. Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1971, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sequel to The Queen’s Blessing. 16-year-old Merca is foced to ride to London with the Scottish king to pay homage to William the Conqueror. There she meets Edward, a young Saxon, who tells her of his plot to kill the new king. 11th century England. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $7.photo of the actual item
 
Snedeker, Carolyn. THE FORGOTTEN DAUGHTER. AHSP SOFTCOVER 2005, first published 1933. Truthquest Ancient Rome grades 8-12. 0966706765. Brand-New. $18.photo of the actual item
 
Stevens, Carla. TROUBLE FOR LUCY. Clarion Books 1979. Hardcover. Ill. Ronald Himler. Story based on the actual journals of pioneers’ journey to Oregon in 1843. Truthquest Age of Revolution II grades 2-5. Ex-lib. Library binding. Good. $2.75.photo of the actual item
 
Sutcliff, Rosemary. WARRIOR SCARLET. Henry Z. Walck 1958. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dramatic and moving historical story of the Bronze Age in England. Rare in hardcover. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Treece, Henry. THE CENTURION. Meredith Press 1967, stated first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Vivid, action-packed adventure story of Roman Britain, beginning in 61 A. D. Truthquest Ancient Rome grades 7-12. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Treece, Henry. THE WINDSWEPT CITY, a Novel of the Trojan War. Meredith Press 1967. Hardcover. 110 pp. Truthquest Ancient Greece grades 3-9. Who Should We Then Read? Ex-lib. Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Vance, Marguerite. LADY JANE GREY, RELUCTANT QUEEN. E. P. Dutton 1952, 1966. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Nedda Walker. Truthquest Renaissasnce & Reformation grades 6-12. Ex-lib. Rear endpaper removed. Book and dust jacket Good+ with library marks. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
We Were There Series. WE WERE THERE WITH THE PONY EXPRESS, by William O. Steele. Grosset & Dunlap1956. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Truthquest Age of Revolution II grades 3-8. Near-Fine. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Wibberley, Leonard. TREEGATE’S RAIDERS. Farrar, Straus Giroux 1962, 1973. Hardcover with dust jacket. #4 in Treegate series. CM Alveary. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 5-12. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
CHILDREN’S, TEENS’ FICTION / LITERATURE
Addison, Joseph; Steele, Richard; Budgell, Eustace. THE SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY PAPERS. From The Spectator, London: 1711-1712. The Heritage Press 1945. Ill. Gordon Ross. Hardcover in slipcase. Ambleside 9 Lit. Book Like-New; slipcase repaired. Ambleside 9. $7.50.photo of the actual item
   
Aesop. AESOP’S FABLES. Barnes & Noble 1912, 2003. Hardcover with dust jacket. B/w ill. by Arthur Rackham. SCM. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Alcott, Louisa May. ROSE IN BLOOM. Grosset & Dunlap 1876, 1972. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sequel to Eight Cousins. The Louisa May Alcott Library. SCM. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Alcott, Louisa May. A GARLAND FOR GIRLS. The Louisa May Alcott Library. Grosset & Dunla 1877, 1977. Pictorial hardcover. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Alcott, Louisa May. A ROUND DOZEN, Stories by Louisa May Alcott. Viking Press 1963, first edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Tasha Tudor. Selected and with forward by Anne Thaxter Eaton. NOT ex-lib. Good with corner wear; no dust jacket. $22.photo of the actual item
    
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. THE STORY OF A BAD BOY. Grosset & Dunlap 1928. Hardcover with dust jacket. This is a semi-autobiographical novel fictionalizing Bailey’s experiences as a boy in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The text's opening lines admit that he was "not such a very bad, but a pretty bad boy". Packed with comical, typical-boy fun and adventure. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket poor but decent in new protective cover. $6.photo of the actual item
  
American Girl. REBECCA STORY COLLECTION, by Jacqueline Dembar Greene. American Girl 2009. Hardcover. Includes Meet Rebecca; Rebecca and Ana; Candlelight for Rebecca; Rebecca and the Movies; Rebecca to the Rescue; Changes for Rebecca. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Andersen, Hans Christian. ANDERSEN’S FAIRY TALES, retold by Friederun Reichenstetter. NorthSouth Books 2004, first published in Austria under the title Das Andersen Marchenbuch. Hardcover with dust jacket. Enchanting color illustrations by Silke Leffler. 13 stories; 92 pp. 0735821410. Exquisite! NOT ex-lib. Ambleside 2. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
    
Armstrong, William. SOUNDER. Harper & Row 1969. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. James Barkley. Newbery Medal 1970. Sonlight 100. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good; first or very early printing. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Asimov, Isaac. FOUNDATION’S EDGE. The Fourth Novel in The Foundation Series. Doubleday & Co. 1982. Hardcover with dust jacket. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good+. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Barrows, Marjorie, compiler. A BOOK OF FAMOUS POEMS. Whitman Publishing 1931. Ill. Janet Laura Scott. 125 pp. with index of authors and first line. NOT ex-lib. Interior Good; worn along spine. $6.photo of the actual item
  
Baum, L. Frank. THE SCARECROW OF OZ. John Morrow Books of Wonder 1997, facsimile reproduction of 1915 first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Reinforced hinges front and rear, making nice, solid binding. CM Alveary. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
    
Bonner, Mary Graham. 365 BEDTIME STORIES. Derrydale Books 1987, reproduction of a book published 1924. 16 very Victorian color plates by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis. A short and sweet story for each night of the year. 302 pp. Brand-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Brady, Lillian. THE SAGA OF A WHITETAIL. Ambercrest Books 1981, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Signed by the author. Ill. Jerome Connolly. Minnesota story by a Minnesota author. Moving story of a white-tailed deer who was only a few months old when a poaching hunter took his mother’s life and wounded him. The little fawn’s adventures of survival then began. Living Science. NOT ex-ib. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Brink, Carol Ryrie. CADDIE WOODLAWN. Macmillan 1935, 1973. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Trina Schart Hyman. Newbery Medal 1936. Impulsive, independent and mischievous, the red-haired tomboy of an 1860’s Wisconsin farm has entertained children for decades, displaying warmth and kindness of heart. Ambleside 3. Sonlight. Heart of Dakota. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket exceptionally nice. $9.photo of the actual item
 
Bryan, Ashley. THE CAT’S PURR. Atheneum 1985, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by author. West Indian folk tale explaining why the cat and the rat have become enemies to this day. Comical story and illustrations. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $10.photo of the actual item
  
Buchan, John. THE FOUR ADVENTURES OF RICHARD HANNAY: THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS; GREENMANTLE; MR. STANDFAST; THE THREE HOSTAGES. London: Hodder and Stoughton. Hardcover with dust jacket. CM Alveary. Ambleside 11. Ex-lib. with minimal marks. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. THE SECRET GARDEN. London: Folio Society 2006, 2007, first published 1911. Eight color plates by Charles Robinson. Beautiful collectors’ edition. Hardcover is green cloth over boards with gilt decoration. CM Alveary. Ambleside 4. SCM. Fine with previous owner’s name whited out. $9.photo of the actual item
    
Campbell, Sam. EENY, MEENY, MINEY, MO – AND STILL-MO. Bobbs-Merrill 1945. Hardcover with dust jacket. Lessons in living from five frisky red squirrels. The lesson the forest animals teach is that the everlasting goodness of Nature and of Nature’s God is waiting to restore and renew our faith in the midst of the man-made nightmare of war! NOT ex-lib. 237 pp. Book and dust jacket Very Good; dust jacket has edge tears. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Carlson, Natalie Savage. SAILOR’S CHOICE. Harper & Row 1966 BCE. Hardcover. Ill. George Loh. Wonderful story of a great black Newfoundland dog, a gruff but kind ship captain and a homeless little stowaway. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Carroll, Lewis. ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. Philomel 1989. Hardcover with dust jacket. Nicely illustrated with full-page color ill. by Peter Weevers. CM Alveary. Ambleside 3. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
  
Caudill, Rebecca. DID YOU CARRY THE FLAG TODAY, CHARLEY? Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1966. Hardcover. Ill. Nancy Grossman. Ex-lib. Good. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Chesterton, G. K. THE INNOCENCE OF FATHER BROWN. Impress 2010, first published 1911. Hardcover. Ambleside 8. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. ANDERSEN’S FAIRY TALES. Children’s Classics 1988. Out-of-print hardcover. Eight magnificent color plates by Troy Howell. 38 fairy tales. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. Ambleside 2. Brand-New. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. BLACK BEAUTY, by Anna Sewell. Children’s Classics 1986. Complete and unabridged. Out-of-print hardcover. Eight color plates by Lucy Kempo-Welch. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. Ambleside 4. SCM. Brand-New. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. CALL OF THE WILD, by Jack London. Children’s Classics 1991. Complete and unabridged. Out-of-print hardcover. Eight color plates by Paul Bransom. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. Ambleside 6. CM Alveary. Sonlight H.S. Lit. Fine. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. A CHILD’S BOOK OF COUNTRY STORIES, Written and compiled by Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner. Childrens Classics 1992, first published in 1925. Out-of-print hardcover. 8 color plates by Jessie Willcox Smith. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. Brand-New. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. A CHILD’S BOOK OF STORIES, Best-Known and Best-Loved Tales From Around the World. Childrens Classics 1986. Out-of-print hardcover. 8 color plates by Jessie Willcox Smith. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. SCM. Fine, previous owner’s name. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. A CHRISTMAS CAROL AND OTHER CHRISTMAS STORIES, by Charles Dickens. Children’s Classics 1987. Complete and unabridged. Out-of-print hardcover. 8 color plates by Arthur Rackham. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. Ambleside 5. Like-New. $7.50.photo of the actual item
    
Childrens Classics. FAIRY TALES FROM MANY LANDS, by Dina Craik. Children’s Classics 1989. Out-of-print hardcover. 8 color plates by Warwick Goble. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. Ambleside. Fine, spine a little faded. $7.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. GREAT DOG STORIES, by Albert Payson Terhune. Children’s Classics 1993. Out-of-print hardcover. Ten stories by Terhune. Eight color plates by Marguerite Kirmse. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. Ambleside 5. Very Good, small stain top of pages. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. THE LEGEND OF POCAHONTAS, by Virginia Watson. Children’s Classics 1995, originally published 1922. Out-of-print hardcover. 8 color plates by George Wharton Edwards. Retold by Karla Dougherty. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one. generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. Fine, previous owner’s name. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. THE SECRET GARDEN, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Children’s Classics 1987. Out-of-print hardcover. 8 color plates by Troy Howell. Complete and unabridged. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one. generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. CM Alveary. Ambleside 4. SCM. Like-New. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. THE SLEEPING BEAUTY And Other Classic French Fairy Tales, by Charles Perrault and Madame d’Aulnoy. Children’s Classics 1991. Out-of-print hardcover. 8 color plates by Edmund Dulac, Gustaf Tenggren and William Heath Robinson. Twelve fairy tales. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. Brand-New. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE, by Charles & Mary Lamb. Children’s Classics 1986. Complete and unabridged. Out-of-print hardcover. 8 color plates and b/w drawings by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. CM Alveary. Ambleside 1. SCM. Heart of Dakota. Fine, previous owner’s nameplate. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. TREASURE ISLAND, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Children’s Classics 1986. Complete and unabridged. Out-of-print hardcover. 8 color plates by Milo Winter. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. CM Alveary. Ambleside. Sonlight J. Heart of Dakota. Brand-New. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Childrens Classics. THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, by L. Frank Baum. Children’s Classics 1994. Complete and unabridged. Out-of-print hardcover. Six color plates and numerous b/w drawings by Charles Santore. Pictorial cover with bonded leather spine stamped in gold and acid-free paper that will enable this series to be passed from one generation to the next. 7 1/2” x 9 3/4”. Ill. endpapers. SCM. Fine. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Christopher, Matt. JOHNNY LONG LEGS. Little, Brown 1970, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Chute, Marchette. STORIES FROM SHAKESPEARE, The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare, Retold by Chute. World Publishing 1956. Hardcover with dust jacket. 351 pp. with index. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good, previous owner’s nameplate. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Coolidge, Olivia. THE KING OF MEN. Houghton Mifflin 1966, first edition. Hardcover. A novel based on the Agamemnon legend, incorporating the story of the Greek gods, the round, flat world of the Bronze Age, and the traditional stories of mythology. CM Alveary Ancient History 2A-3. Ex-lib. Good, no dust jacket. $7.photo of the actual item
 
Creswick, Paul. THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD. Reader’s Digest World’s Best Reading 1991, first published 1902. Hardcover. Color ill. by N. C. Wyeth. Heart of Dakota. Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Curwood, James Oliver. KAZAN THE WOLF DOG. Grosset & Dunlap Great Dog Stories 1914, 1941. Hardcover with dust jacket. A story of adventure set in the far north in which Kazan, one-fourth wolf and three-fourths husky, is torn between the call of the human and that of his wild wolf mate. NOT ex-lib. Book has heavy wear to corners; dust jacket is tattered with large pieces missing. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Dahl, Roald. CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. Alfred Knopf 1964, 2001. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Quentin Blake. CM Alveary. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Dickens, Charles. THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. Reader’s Digest World’s Best Reading 1988, first published 1841. Hardcover. Like-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Dickens, Charles. OLIVER TWIST. William Morrow Books of Wonder 1994, first published 1838 and first illustrated by Don Freeman in 1938. Nine color plates and nearly 50 exquisite line drawings. CM Alveary. Ambleside 5. SCM. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Fine with small chip in dust jacket. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. Random House/Modern Library 1943. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 11. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good+. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Estes, Eleanor. THE MIDDLE MOFFAT. Odyssey Harcourt 1942, 2001. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 3.5. Heart of Dakota. Ex-lib. with small sticker on title page; no marks on dust jacket. Three pages have creased corner. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Estes, Eleanor. RUFUS M. Odyssey Harcourt 1943, 2001. Hardcover with dust jacket. Rufus M isn’t just the youngest Moffat. He’s also the cleverest, the funniest and the most unforgettable. Ambleside 3.5. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Estes, Eleanor. PINKY PYE. Odyssey Harcourt 1951, 2000. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 3.5. Ex-lib. with stamps on front free endpaper; no marks on dust jacket. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Farley, Walter. THE BLACK STALLION. Junior Deluxe Editions 1941 BCE. Hardcover with dust jacket. NOT ex-lib. Heart of Dakota. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Farley, Walter. THE BLACK STALLION. Random House 1941. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Keith Ward. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good with previous owner’s name; dust jacket has edge wear. Heart of Dakota. $7.photo of the actual item
 
Farley, Walter. THE BLACK STALLION. Random House 1941, new reprint. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Keith Ward. With original illustrations. Identical to original 1941 edition. Brand-New. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Fitzgerald, John D. THE GREAT BRAIN. Puffin Books 1969, 2004. Hardcover. Ill. Mercer Mayer. Ambleside 4, 5, 6. Sonlight H.S. Lit. Brand-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Frost, Robert. THE POETRY OF ROBERT FROST. Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1969. Hardcover with dust jacket. Edited by Edward Connery Lathem. 607 pages including notes and index of first line and title. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Garis, Howard R. UNCLE WIGGILY AND HIS FRIENDS. Platt & Munk 1939, 1989. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. by the author. 0448405040. NOT ex-lib. Very Good+. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Gerstein, Mordicai. THE OLD COUNTRY. Roaring Brook Press 2005. Hardcover with dust jacket. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Gilbreth, Frank B. & Carey, Ernestine Gilbreth. CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN. Dell Yearling 1948, 1998. Hardcover with dust jacket. Large Print Edition. 0739418327. Brand-New. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Gruelle, Johnny. RAGGEDY ANN AND ANDY AND THE CAMEL WITH THE WRINKLED KNEES. Simon & Schuster 2001, first published 1924. Ill. in color by Gruelle. Like-New, small crease top of dust jacket. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Gruelle, Johnny. RAGGEDY ANN AND THE HAPPY MEADOW. Bobbs-Merrill 1961. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. Johnny Gruelle. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Gruelle, Johnny. RAGGEDY ANN’S LUCKY PENNIES. Simon & Schuster 1960, 2003. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by Gruelle. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good+. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Hale, Lucretia P. THE PETERKIN PAPERS. Nelson Doubleday 1955 BCE. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 4. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. THE GOLDEN TOUCH. St. Martin’s Press 1987. Hardcover with dust jacket. Taken from the book A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls. Beautiful full-page color ill. by Richard Salvucci. King Midas’s fondest wish, to have everything he touches turn to gold, backfires on him. 32 pp. 0312572840. NOT ex-lib. Near-Fine, previous owner’s name. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Henry, Marguerite. BLACK GOLD. Rand McNally 1957, 1962. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ill. Wesley Dennis. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $6.50.photo of the actual item
  
Henry, Marguerite. BORN TO TROT. Rand McNally 1950, 1951. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Wesley Dennis. Set in the colorful world of harness racing, this is the true story of Rosalind, world champion trotting mare, and the boy who owns her. NOT ex-lib. Book Near-Fine with previous owner’s name; dust jacket Very Good. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Henry, Marguerite. KING OF THE WIND. Rand McNally 1948, 1956. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Wesley Dennis. Newbery Medal 1949. Sonlight F. Ambleside 3. SCM. Heart of Dakota. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good, previous owner’s name. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Henry, Marguerite. MISTY OF CHINCOTEAGUE. Macmillan 1947, 1975. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. Wesley Dennis. SCM. Sonlight 4 Readers. Heart of Dakota. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket Fair. $10.photo of the actual item
  
Hughes, Thomas. TOM BROWN’S SCHOOLDAYS. London: J. M. Dent & Sons 1983, first published 1857. Hardcover with dust jacket. 19 line drawings by S. Van Abbe. 0460050036. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good, previous owner’s nameplate. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Keene, Carolyn. THE RINGMASTER’S SECRET. Grosset & Dunlap 1953, 1974. #31. Matte pictorial hardcover. Near-Fine, previous owner’s name. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Kepple, Ella Huff. BALTI. Bethany Press 1959. Hardcover with dust jacket. Full-page b/w illustrations by Jan Ross. The story of a little Mexican boy and his pet burro show the colorful life and customs of Mexico. Ex-church library. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Kipling, Rudyard. THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK. London: Macmillan 1984, first edition published 1895. Hardcover with dust jacket. Full-page illustrations in color and b/w by Maurice Wilson. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good with wear to corners of dust jacket. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Kjelgaard, Jim. BIG RED. Holiday House 1945, 1973. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Bob Kuhn. The story of a champion Irish setter and a trapper’s son who grew up together, roaming the wilderness. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good+. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Knight, Eric. LASSIE COME-HOME. Junior Deluxe Editions 1940, 1964, BCE. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Lilian Obigado. Ambleside 4. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Knight, Eric. LASSIE COME-HOME. Grosset & Dunlap 1940. Hardcover with dust jacket. Great Dog Stories series. Ambleside 4. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket has a chip and a couple of tears. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Lanier, Sidney. KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE, from Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur. Grosset & Dunlap Illustrated Junior Library 1950, 1990. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. by Florian. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Lofting, Hugh. DOCTOR DOLITTLE’S CIRCUS. Delacorte Press, Centenary Edition 1988, first edition thus, first published 1924. Hardcover with dust jacket. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Fine, sticker scuff mark on front free endpaper. $10.photo of the actual item
    
Lofting, Hugh. DOCTOR DOLITTLE’S PUDDLEBY ADVENTURES. J. B. Lippincott/Weekly Reader Book Club 1925, 1952. Pictorial hardcover. NOT ex-lib. Very Good, previous owner’s name. $4.photo of the actual item
 
MacBride, Roger Lea. LITTLE HOUSE ON ROCKY RIDGE. Rocky Ridge Years/Rose Years Book 1. Harper Collins 1993, stated first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. David Gilleece. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket almost like-new. $6.photo of the actual item
 
MacBride, Roger Lea. IN THE LAND OF THE BIG RED APPLE. Rocky Ridge/Rose Years Book 3. Harper Collins 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. David Gilleece. Story of the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Like-New with 1/8” tear at corner of dust jacket. $6.photo of the actual item
 
MacDonald, George. THE PRINCESS & THE GOBLIN. William Morrow Books of Wonder 1986, first thus. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. with nice quality color plates by Jessie Willcox Smith. Facsimile of 1920 edition. Ambleside 3. Library stamp top of closed pages; scuff mark on rear endpaper from label removal; no library marks on Like-New dust jacket. Book and dust jacket Very Good+. $8.photo of the actual item
 
MacLachlan, Patricia. SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL. Harper & Row 1985. Hardcover with dust jacket. Newbery Medal 1986. Ambleside 3. SCM. Sonlight D, E. Heart of Dakota. Ex-lib., no library marks on very nice dust jacket. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Marshall, Catherine. CHRISTY. McGraw Hill 1967 BCE. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ambleside 11. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket has ½” x 1” piece missing. $7.photo of the actual item
 
McCaughrean, Geraldine. GILGAMESH THE HERO. Eerdmans 2003. Hardcover. The Epic of Galgamesh is the oldest recorded story in the world. It is here retold by McCaughrean; illustrated by David Parkins. Gilgamesh and Enkidu are friends -- best friends. Together they can work wonders, fight monsters, brave earthquakes, travel the world! But waiting in the dark is the one enemy they can never overcome. 0802852629. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
McCormick, Dell J. TALL TIMBER TALES, MORE PAUL BUNYAN STORIES. Caxton Printers 1939, 1992, 17th printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Lorna Livesly. NOT ex-lib. Book like-new; dust jacket has a touch of wear to rear top edge. $3.50.photo of the actual item
   
Melville, Herman. MOBY-DICK Or, The Whale. W. W. Norton 1976, first published 1851. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Warren Chappell. Commentary by Howard Mumford Jones. Ambleside 10. SCM. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Milne, A. A. A GALLERY OF CHILDREN. David McKay 1976, first edition with illustrations by A. H. Watson. First published in 1925. A collection of twelve short stories of magic trees and princesses, not-so-nonsensical bears, extra special birthdays, and castles by the sea. Small book, 5 ¼” x 7”. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
  
Milne, A. A. WINNIE-THE-POOH. Dutton Children’s Books 1926, 1988. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Ernest H. Shepard. Ambleside 0. Library stamps in back of book. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Milne, A. A. THE WORLD OF POOH. The Complete Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner. E. P. Dutton 1958, first published 1926 and 1928. SOFTCOVER. Ill. in full color by E. H. Shepard. SCM. 0525433201. NOT ex-lib. Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Milne, A. A. THE WORLD OF CHRISTOPHER ROBIN. The complete When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six. E. P. Dutton 1958, first published 1924 and 1927. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. E. H. Shepard with 8 illustrations in full-page color. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Milne, A. A. POOH’S QUIZ BOOK. E. P. Dutton 1977, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. E. H. Shepard. Here are 30 delightful questions about Pooh and his adventures, each one answered by a quote from the stories and a charming Shepard drawing from the original books. Tiny, fun little book, 4 ¾” x 5 ¾”. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good, ½” tear in dust jacket. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Milne, A. A. THE POOH GET-WELL BOOK, by Virginia Ellison, inspired by the four Pooh books. E. P. Dutton 1973, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Ernest H. Shepard. Recipes and activites to help you recover from wheezles and sneezles along with quotes from Winnie and friends. Contents include “Puzzles, Poems, and Other Fun with Words;” “Strengthening Things to Drink and Eat;” “Pleazles to Make and Play While Getting Well.” Clever book to please a patient, large or small, who is a Winnie-the-Pooh devotee. Book Near-Fine; dust jacket has light wear. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Montgomery, L.M. ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, An Anne of Green Gables Book Series. Grosset & Dunlap 1908, 1970. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tan book and dust jacket with cameo portrait. CM Alveary. Heart of Dakota. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good, previous owner’s name. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Montgomery, L. M. ANNE OF AVONLEA, An Anne of Green Gables Book series. Grosset & Dunlap 1909, 1970. Hardcover. #2 in series. Tan book with cameo portrait on front. CM Alveary. Heart of Dakota. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Montgomery, L. M. ANNE OF WINDY POPLARS, An Anne of Green Gables Book. #4 in series. Grosset & Dunlap 1980, first published 1936. Hardcover. Blue with cameo portrait. CM Alveary. NOT ex-lib. Very Good, light corner wear. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Montgomery, Rutherford. BIG RED, A WILD STALLION. Caxton Printers 1971, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Story of a wild horse of the Western ranges who was forced to fight to save his mares from the slaughter of the meat hunters. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Morey, Walt. YEAR OF THE BLACK PONY. E. P. Dutton 1976. Hardcover with dust jacket. Story is of a 12-year-old boy in frontier Oregon whose family comes close to losing the struggle for survival when his father is killed in an accident. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Norton, Mary. THE BORROWERS. Harcourt Brace 1953, 1986. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Beth and Joe Krush. Ambleside 4. SCM. CM Alveary. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
O’Brien, Jack. SILVER CHIEF TO THE RESCUE. Grosset & Dunlap 1937. Hardcover with dust jacket. Thrilling tale of the Northland, a Mountie and his courageous Silver Chief. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket has edge wear and a piece missing. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Parkinson, Ethelyn M. NEVER GO ANYWHERE WITH DIGBY. Abingdon Press 1971. Hardcover with dust jacket. ,b>The Abingdon Award 1972. Joel Chamberlain is warned by his mother never to go anywhere with Digby Welch, but grown up people sometimes have a lot to learn. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $10.photo of the actual item
   
Pasternak, Boris. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. Random House/Pantheon 1958 BCE. Hardcover with dust jacket. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Poortvliet, Rien, illustrator. THE BOOK OF THE SANDMAN AND THE ALPHABET OF SLEEP, text by Wil Huygen. Harry Abrams 1989, first published in The Netherlands in 1988. Hardcover with dust jacket. Two travelers discover the secrets of sleep from the Sandman himself. Includes a book-within-a-book with helpful hints for both sleepyheads and insomniacs. Exquisite illustrations by Poortvliet. 0810915243. Book Like-New; dust jacket clean and bright with ¾” tear at spine edge. $6.photo of the actual item
    
Rackham, Arthur, illustrator. SLEEPING BEAUTY, Told by C. S. Evans. Laughing Elephant 2012. First published with these illustrations in 1920. Hardcover; decorative boards. Numerous silhouette illustrations by Rackham. Brand-New. $7.photo of the actual item
     
Ransome, Arthur. SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS. London: Jonathan Cape 1930, 2006. Ambleside 3. Heart of Dakota. Fine, spot on back of dust jacket. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. THE YEARLING. Charles Scribner’s 1939, 1955. Hardcover. CM Alveary. Twelve wonderful color plates by N. C. Wyeth, sharp and clear. Black cloth over boards with paste-down illustrations. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $14.photo of the actual item
    
Miss Read. BATTLES AT THRUSH GREEN. Houghton Mifflin 1976, first Am. ed. Hardcover with dust jacket. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good, slight spine slant. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Miss Read. NO HOLLY FOR MISS QUINN. Houghton Mifflin 1976. Hardcover with dust jacket. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Miss Read. GOSSIP FROM THRUSH GREEN. Houghton Mifflin 1982, first American edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Thrush Green Book 6. Front free endpaper removed, scuffed spine label. Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Showell, Ellen Harvey. CECELIA AND THE BLUE MOUNTAIN BOY. Lothrop Lee & Shepard 1983, stated first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. When Cecelia searches for a place where people love music and dancing as much as she does, she finds the path that leads to Blue Mountain. There, by a creek, Cecelia meets her true love. Lovely, romantic fantasy, which is set in the remote Appalachian countryside. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $6.photo of the actual item
    
Shakespeare, William. SONGS FROM SHAKESPEARE. London: Walker Books 1992. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color ill. Louise Brierley. 13 songs. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $3.50.photo of the actual item
    
Sharp, Margery. BERNARD THE BRAVE, A Miss Bianca Story. Little, Brown 1977, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Leslie Morrill. By the author of The Rescuers. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Spyri, Johanna. HEIDI. North South Books 2015. Deluxe edition. First published in Switzerland with these illustrations. Hardcover. Breathtaking color illustrations by celebrated Czechoslovakian children’s book illustrator Maja Dusikova. Ambleside 2. SCM. Brand-New. $8.photo of the actual item
    
Stevenson, Robert Louis. KIDNAPPED, The Adventures of David Balfour. Atheneum 1913, 1982. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fourteen color plates by N. C. Wyeth. CM Alveary. Ex-lib. with no marks on dust jacket. Book and dust jacket Near-Fine. $7.50.photo of the actual item
 
Stratton-Porter, Gene. MICHAEL O’HALLORAN. Grosset & Dunlap 1916. Hardcover. Ill. Frances Rogers. Ambleside 11. NOT ex-lib. Good. $14.photo of the actual item
 
Tarkington, Booth. PENROD. Grosset & Dunlap Thrushwood Book 1914. Hardcover. Ill. Gordon Grant. Ambleside 6. NOT ex-lib. Very Good, previous owner’s name. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Terhune, Albert Payson. A DOG NAMED CHIPS, The Life and Adventures of a Mongrel Scamp. Grosset & Dunlap 1931. Pictorial hardcover. Ambleside 5. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Terhune, Albert Payson. TREVE. Grosset & Dunlap 1924. Hardcover with dust jacket. Treve is a golden collie of the Dos Hermanos sheep ranch where straying sheep, a would-be dog thief, rustlers and a sheep-killing wolf play a prominent part. Ambleside 5. NOT ex-lib. Book in excellent condition; dust jacket has chips at spine ends. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Thackeray, William Makepeace. VANITY FAIR. London: Folio Society 1963. Hardcover in original slipcase. Full-page b/w illustrations by Robin Jacques. CM Alveary. Case is worn at corners. Bound in blue/mauve silk. Gilt title to spine. Internally very clean & binding firm; spot on front cover. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Thurber, James. THE THURBER CARNIVAL. Harper & Bros. 1911, 1945. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by Thurber. Ambleside 8. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Tritten, Charles. HEIDI GROWS UP, Sequel to Heidi, written by Johanna Spyri’s translator. Grosset & Dunlap 1938. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book Very Good; dust jacket Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Ullman, James Ramsey. BANNER IN THE SKY. J. B. Lippincott 1954. Hardcover with dust jacket. Newbery Honor Book 1955. Rudi Matt, whose father lost his life on the Citadel, Switzerland’s greatest mountain, feels compelled to conquer the mountain and plant his father’s shirt at the summit. Masterfully-written, thrilling story. Sonlight H. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Verne, Jules. A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH. Dodd, Mead & Co. 1959, 1984. With illustrations by Edward Riou from the French first edition of 1864. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good+. Dust jacket in new protective cover. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Wakabayasi, Hitomi; Sugita, Yutaka; Azume, Ituko.  STORY PICTURE BOOK, MUSEUM OF KODANSHA (15).  Japanese import 1990.  Text all in Japanese.  Hardcover with dust jacket.  Collection of stories including “Cinderella” and “The Brementown Musicians.”  NOT ex-lib.  Book Like-New; dust jacket Very Good. $8.photo of the actual item
    
Wells, Helen. CHERRY AMES, SENIOR NURSE. Grosset & Dunlap 1944. #2 in series. Pictorial cover; yellow spine. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Wells, Helen. CHERRY AMES, ARMY NURSE. Grosset & Dunlap 1944. #3 in series. Pictorial cover; yellow spine. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Wells, Helen. CHERRY AMES, FLIGHT NURSE. Grosset & Dunlap 1945. #5 in series. Pictorial cover; yellow spine. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
West, Jerry. THE HAPPY HOLLISTERS AND THE GHOST HORSE MYSTERY. Doubleday 1965. #29 in series. Book and dust jacket Very Good with small chip in dust jacket and previous owner’s name. $5.photo of the actual item
 
White, E. B. CHARLOTTE’S WEB. HarperCollins 1952, 1980. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Garth Williams. Modern classic that has been charming children for decades, with thoroughly enjoyable language and overall literary quality. CM Alveary. Ambleside 1. SCM. Sonlight B, C. 0060263857. NOT ex-lib. Like-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
White, T. H. THE ONCE & FUTURE KING. G. P. Putnam’s 1939, 1958. Hardcover with dust jacket. Retells the entire Arthurian Epic. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket Good+. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE. Harper Collins 1935, 1981. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by Garth Williams. #2 in series. Ambleside 2. 0060264454. Book and dust jacket Very Good, previous owner’s name. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. LITTLE HOUSE IN THE OZARKS, A Laura Ingalls Wilder Sampler, The Rediscovered Writings. Edited by Stephen W. Hines. Hardcover with dust jacket. Collection of more than 140 pieces sparkling with Wilder’s timeless wit and wisdom, 90% of which have never been published in book form. 315 pp. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Fine. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Yamasita, Haruo; Makino, Suzuko; Murakami, Tutomu. STORY PICTURE BOOK, ,MUSEUM OF KODANSHA (12). Japan import 1989. Text all in Japanese. Hardcover with dust jacket. Collection of stories including “Cinderella.” 96 pp. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $8.photo of the actual item
    
ANTIQUE, SIGNED, RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS
Blackmore, R. D. LORNA DOONE. Dodd, Mead 1943, first published in 1869. Hardcover. With illustrations from photographs of the Doone Country. This is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of seventeenth-century England.  After his father is slain by the lawless Doones, he makes his way to the valley of the Doones, where he is discovered by the beautiful Lorna. In time their childish fantasies blossom into mature love—a bond that will inspire John to rescue his beloved from the ravages of a stormy winter, rekindling a conflict with his archrival, Carver Doone, that climaxes in heartrending violence. Beloved for its portrait of star-crossed lovers and its surpassing descriptions of the English countryside. Ambleside 8. SCM. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $8.50.photo of the actual item
   
Bolton, Adeline, illustrator. THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. John C. Winston1924. Hardcover with pictorial paste-down. Four color plates and numerous b/w drawings. 256 pp. Good with wear to corners and top of spine. $6.photo of the actual item
  
Carmichael, Amy. THINGS AS THEY ARE, Mission Work in Southern India. Morgan & Scott 1903, 1908. Hardcover. Numerous photographs. NOT ex-lib. Good, previous owner’s name. $20.photo of the actual item
 
Dickens, Charles. DICKEN’S STORIES ABOUT CHILDREN. John C. Winston 1929. Hardcover. Retold and with an introduction by Elizabeth Lodor Merchant. Color and b/w illustrations by Clara Burd. Introduces young children to Little Nell, Tiny Tim, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, 9 others. Introduction states, “You want these boys and girls for your friends. The very best way to have that pleasure is to read the entire books. When you do read them, your pleasure will be all the greater for knowing some of the characters in advance.” Very Good. $7.50.photo of the actual item
  
Edmonds, Walter. THE MATCHLOCK GUN. Dodd, Mead & Co. 1941, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Paul Lantz. Truthquest Age of Revolution grades 2-6. Ambleside 3-4. CM Alveary. NOT ex-lib. Book Near-Mint; dust jacket has a chip at spine and edge wear. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Field, Rachel. HITTY, HER FIRST HUNDRED YEARS. Macmillan 1929, 1959. Hardcover with dust jacket. Unique and charming b/w illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Newbery Medal 1930. HItty is a doll of great charm and character and these are her memoirs of travels worldwide with Phoebe Preble, for whom she was made. CM Alveary. Truthquest Age of Revolution II grades 4-10. Heart of Dakota. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good, 1/2” tear in dust jacket. $10.photo of the actual item
  
Finley, Martha. ELSIE DINSMORE. M. A. Donohue, no date, ca 1930. Hardcover. Blue cloth over boards with embossed decoration. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Guerber, H A. STORY OF THE THIRTEEN COLONIES. American Book Co. 1898. Hardcover. Illustrated. SCM. CM Alveary. Sound binding, clean. Excetionally nice. $18.50.photo of the actual item
 
Hale, Lucretia P. THE PETERKIN PAPERS. Houghton Mifflin Riverside Bookshelf 1886, 1924. Hardcover. Four color illustrations and b/w drawings by Harold Brett. Ambleside 4. NOT ex-lib. Very Good, clean and sound with almost no wear to past-down illustrated cover. $7.50.photo of the actual item
   
Kingsley, Charles. THE WATER BABIES. John Winston 1930. Hardcover. Color ill. by Ethel F. Everett. A book written for Kingsley’s small son, “my little man,” in 1862. Sweet introduction by Katherine Carpenter. Ambleside 3. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $7.50.photo of the actual item
  
Lamb, Charles and Mary. TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE. Henry Altemus 1893. Hardcover. Small book, 4 1/8” x 5 7/8”. No illustrations. Ambleside 1. NOT ex-lib. Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Lovelace, Maud Hart. BETSY-TACY. Thomas Y. Crowell 1940, 30th printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Lois Lenski. Ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Good+, dust jacket has small piece missing at top of spine. Dust jacket in new protective cover. $15.photo of the actual item
   
Palgrave, Francis T. PALGRAVE’S GOLDEN TREASURY. Macmillan 1904, 1917. Hardcover, green leather with gilt binding and spine decoration. 279 pages including notes and index. Small, elegant book, 4 1/8” x 6 ½”. CM Alveary. NOT ex-lib. Excellent condition with no writing, no tears, no soil, no cover wear. $12.photo of the actual item
  
Rand McNally. NOAH’S ARK, by Dorothy Bell Briggs. Rand McNally Giant Book. Rand McNally 1952, 1961. Ill. Elizabeth Webbe. Story in rhyme with wonderful, large animal illustrations. Folio, more than 12”. Very Good. $10.photo of the actual item
   
Rankin, Louise. DAUGHTER OF THE MOUNTAINS. Viking Press/Junior Literary Guild 1948, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Newbery Honor Book 1949. Ill. Kurt Wiese. A young Tibetan girl chases the man who stole her beloved Lhasa terrier, from high in the Himalyas to the city of Calcutta. Exciting story, revealing much about the landscapes, people and customs of Tibet. Sonlight F. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good with some interior spots on first few pages. $12.photo of the actual item
 
Shipton, Anna. WAYMARKS OF MY PILGRIMAGE, POEMS. London: Morgan and Scott 1877. Hardcover. Decorative burgundy/gilt cover. Good. $10.photo of the actual item
 
Spurgeon, C. H. SERMONS IN CANDLES, Being Two Lectures Upon the Illustrations Which May be Found in Common Candles. London: Passmore and Alabaster 1891. Hardcover. A quote from his book, “I suppose a lecture signifies a reading but enough of my brethren use manuscripts, and I will not compete with them. If I can not speak extemporaneously, I will hold my tongue: to read I am ashamed.” Not much cover wear; lightly soiled. Interior clean and sound. One page has a notation at the bottom of the page; no underlining. Small book, 5” x 7” with 170 pp. Numerous b/w illustrations. Good. $12.photo of the actual item
 
Watts, Mabel. THE PATCHWORK KILT. E. P. Dutton (E. M. Hale ed.) 1954. Hardcover. Ill. by Watts. Biddie Biddlewee was a bonny wee lassie who lived on a farm in Scotland and loved to dance the Highland Fling more than anything else in the world. Ex-school. Good. $4.50.photo of the actual item
     
Yates, Elizabeth. SARAH WHITCHER’S STORY. E. P. Dutton 1971, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Nora Unwin. True story of Colonial New Hampshire. CM Alveary. Truthquest Age of Revolution I grades 1-6. Sonlight D. Heart of Dakota. Ex-lib. with card pocket, no marks on dust jacket. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $20.photo of the actual item
 
AMBLESIDE/SCM SOFTCOVERS
Montgomery, L. M. ANNE OF GREEN GABLES. Bantam Books SOFTCOVER 1992, first published 1908. #1 in series. CM Alveary. Ambleside 5. Heart of Dakota. Fine. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
Montgomery, L. M. ANNE OF THE ISLAND. Bantam Books SOFTCOVER 1992, first published 1915. #3. CM Alveary. Ambleside 5. Fine. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
Montgomery, L. M. ANNE OF WINDY POPLARS. Bantam Books SOFTCOVER 1992, first published 1936. #4. Ambleside 5. CM Alveary. Fine. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
OTHER SOFTCOVERS
Calhoun, Mary. HONESTLY, KATIE JOHN! Scholastic SOFTCOVER 1963. Ill. Paul Frame. Very Good. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Carlsen, Ruth Christoffer. MR. PUDGINS. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 1951. Good. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Grover, Wayne. ALI AND THE GOLDEN EAGLE. Sonlight Curriculum SOFTCOVER 1995, 1997. Sonlight F. 1887840265. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Gates, Doris. SENSIBLE KATE. Viking Press SOFTCOVER 1943. Ill. Marjorie Torrey. Good. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Haywood, Carolyn. BETSY’S PLAY SCHOOL. Dell Yearling SOFTCOVER 1977, 1989. Good, cover creased. $2.photo of the actual item
 
MacBride, Roger Lea. LITTLE FARM IN THE OZARKS. Little House, Big Adventure. HarperTrophy SOFTCOVER 2007. #2 in Rose Years. Like-New. $2.75.photo of the actual item
 
Taylor, Sydney. ALL-OF-A-KIND FAMILY UPTOWN. Dell Yearling SOFTCOVER 1978. Fine. $6.photo of the actual item
 
The Three Investigators. THE MYSTERY OF THE LAUGHING SHADOW, by William Arden. #12 in series. Random House SOFTCOVER 1968, 1978. Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Trixie Belden. THE SECRET OF THE UNSEEN TREASURE, by Kathryn Kenny. Golden Press SOFTCOVER 1977. #19 in series. NOT ex-lib. Near-fine. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Trixie Belden. THE MYSTERY OFF OLD TELEGRAPH ROAD, by Kathryn Kenny. Golden Press SOFTCOVER 1978. #20 in series. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Trixie Belden. THE MYSTERY OF THE CASTAWAY CHILDREN, by Kathryn Kenny. Western Publishing SOFTCOVER 1978, 1985. #21. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Trixie Belden. THE MYSTERY AT MEAD’S MOUNTAIN, by Kathryn Kenny. Golden Press 1978. #22. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Trixie Belden. THE MYSTERY OF THE GHOSTLY GALLEON. Golden Press SOFTCOVER 1979. #27. Near-Fine, one bottom corner clipped. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Trixie Belden. THE MYSTERY AT MAYPENNY’S. Golden Press SOFTCOVER 1980. #31. Like-New. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Trixie Belden. THE MYSTERY OF THE VANISHING VICTIM, by Kathryn Kenny. Golden Press SOFTCOVER 1980. #33 in series. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Wagner, Sharon. GYPSY FROM NOWHERE. Western Publishing 1972, 1980. Good. $2.photo of the actual item
 
READERS / SPELLERS / CURRICULUM
Alice and Jerry. NEIGHBORS ON THE HILL, by Marjorie Flack and Mabel O’Donnell. Row, Peterson 1947, 1951. Hardcover. Ill. Florence and Margaret Hoopes. Little wear. Very Good. $7.photo of the actual item
   
Alice and Jerry Books. THROUGH THE GREEN GATE, by Mabel O’Donnell. Row, Peterson & Co. 1939. Hardcover. Ill. Florence and Margaret Hoopes. 3rd reader. Good, cover wear, a few internal spots. Solid binding. $6.photo of the actual item
    
Alice and Jerry Books. THE NEW THROUGH THE GREEN GATE, by Mabel O’Donnell. Row, Peterson 1939, 1948. Hardcover. Good. Corners worn; previous owner’s name written on title page. Interior clean with no tears, no other writing. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
Alice and Jerry Workbook. ROUND ABOUT, The Alice and Jerry Basic Reading Program. Harper & Row 1948, 1957. SOFTCOVER. Accompanies Round About the Basic First Reader. Surprisingly nice condition. Five pages had light pencil marks which have been erased; also a name in pencil on back cover in appropriate space which has also been erased. Clean with no tears, no creases. A collectible treasure! $15. photo of the actual item
   
Dick and Jane. THE NEW FUN WITH DICK AND JANE, by William Gray, A. Sterl Artley and May Hill Arbuthnot. Toronto: W. J. Gage 1956. Hardcover. Ill. Keith Ward and Eleanor Campbell. Good. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Dick and Jane. THE WORLD OF DICK AND JANE AND FRIENDS. Grosset and Dunlap 1984, stated first edition. Hardcover. Includes Guess Who (1951); The New We Come and Go (1956); The New We Look and See (1956). Like-New. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Grover, Eulalie Osgood. THE SUNBONNET BABIES PRIMER. Merrimack Publishing, replica of antique original 1902 edition. Ill. by Bertha Corbett Melcher. NOT ex-lib. Very Good+. $5.photo of the actual item
   
Hillard, Rev. A. E., D.D and Botting, C.G., M.A. ELEMENTARY GREEK TRANSLATION BOOK. London: Rivington’s 1969. Hardcover. 209 pp. Very Good. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Laidlaw Readers. ON THE WAY TO STORYLAND, by Gerald Yoakam, Kathleen Hester, Louise Abney. Laidlaw Brothers 1947, 1955 Hardcover. Ill. Milo Winter. No level given, probably Grade 2. Good, some interior fingerprints, corner wear. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
McGuffey, William H. THE ECLECTIC SECOND READER. The Original McGuffey’s. For the Younger Classes in Schools. With Engravings. Truman and Smith 1836/Mott Media Mott Media 1982. Hardcover. Like-New, never used. $4.photo of the actual item
 
McGuffey, William H. THE ECLECTIC THIRD READER. The Original McGuffey’s. Containing Selections of Prose and Poetry from the Best American and English Writers. Truman and Smith 1837/Mott Media Mott Media 1982. Hardcover. Like-New, never used. $5.photo of the actual item
 
McGuffey, William H. THE ECLECTIC FOURTH READER. The Original McGuffey’s. Containing Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry from the Best American and English Writers. Truman and Smith 1838/Mott Media Mott Media 1982. Hardcover. Like-New, never used. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Pathway. DAYS GO BY, Grade 1 Primer. Pathway Publishers1975, 2007. Hardcover. CM Language Arts. Like-New. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Queen, Sandi. COPYWORK FOR GIRLS, Thematic Copywork Lessons. Queen Homeschool Supplies 2003. Spiral bound. Copywork and dictation exercises in your choice of themes. Very Good. Some cover wear, no writing or marks. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Scott, Foresman. THE NEW WHAT NEXT? PART 1, by Marion Monroe and A. Sterl Artley. Scott, Foresman 1963. Hardcover. Reading for Independence. Good. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Shafer, Sonya. SIMPLY CHARLOTTE MASON PRESENTS DISCOVERING DOCTRINE, A Personal Bible Study Grades 7-12. Simply Charlotte Mason 2006. Spiral bound. Fine; never used. $6.50.photo of the actual item
 
FICTION / LITERATURE - YOUNG ADULTS / PARENTS
Cather, Willa. SAPPHIRA AND THE SLAVE GIRL. Alfred A. Knopf 1940. Hardcover with dust jacket. The period is 1856, just before the Civil War and the setting is the beautiful Virginia countryside. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $7.50. photo of the actual item
  
Godden, Rumer. IN THIS HOUSE OF BREDE. Viking Press 1969. Hardcover with dust jacket. The story of the life in an enclosed house of nuns. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket Good with short tears. $5.photo of the actual item
 
BIOGRAPHIES / MEMOIRS - YOUNG ADULTS / PARENTS
Bjorn, Thyra Ferre. THE HOME HAS A HEART. Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1968, 1972. Hardcover with dust jacket. Mrs. Bjorn takes us back through the years to her childhood in the parsonage in Swedish Lapland and then to her life as a mother and housewife in Masssachusetts. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Bjorn, Thyra Ferre. THIS IS MY LIFE. Holt, Rinehart & Winston1967. Hardcover with dust jacket. Delightfully warm and funny autobiography by the author of Papa’s Wife and Mama’s Way. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Farjeon, Annabel. MORNING HAS BROKEN, A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae 1986. Hardcover with dust jacket. 0862032253. NOT ex-lib. Beautiful! Book and dust jacket Very Good. $14.photo of the actual item
 
Fredrickson, Olive A. THE SILENCE OF THE NORTH, The Incredible Story of a Woman’s Fight for Survival in the Wilderness. With Ben East. Crown Publishers 1972, first edition (per Identification of First Editions by Bill McBride). Hardcover with dust jacket. Photos. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket creased. $8.photo of the actual item
 
Richardson, Don. LORDS OF THE EARTH. Regal Books SOFTCOVER 1977. Another incredible-but-true story from the stone-age hell of Irian Jaya’s jungles by the author of Peace Child. Amazing! A must-read for every young serious Christian! Fine, with previous owner’s name and inscription inside front cover. $4.50.photo of the actual item
 
Skogsbergh, Helga. COMES THE DAY, COMES A WAY. Covenant Press 1960, 1967. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Roger Palmquist. Deeply-moving story of the Swedish immigrants who homesteaded along the shores of Lake Superior, across the lake from Duluth, toward the close of the 1800’s. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good with two small tears and a couple of chips in dust jacket. $16.photo of the actual item
 
Van Stone, Doris with Lutzer, Erwin W. DORIE THE GIRL NOBODY LOVED. Moody Press 1979, 1981. Hardcover with dust jacket. Signed by author. True story of a child who was rejected by her mother and sent to live in an orphanage where she was regularly beaten. She never knew love until a group of college students visited the orphanage and told her that God loved her. Book and dust jacket Very Good; previous owner’s nameplate. $6.photo of the actual item
  
RAISING, EDUCATING CHILDREN / FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
Beskow, Elsa. THE ELSA BESKOW BABY BOOK, Memories of Your Baby’s Early Years. Great Britain: Floris Books 2013, first published in Swedish as Mina forsta dr. Hardcover. Illustrated throughout in color and some b/w by Beskow. Beautiful! Brand-New. $10.photo of the actual item
  
Hunt, Gladys. HONEY FOR A CHILD’S HEART, The Imaginative Use of Books in Family Life. Zondervan SOFTCOVER 1989. Third Edition. Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Kendrick, Stephen & Alex. THE LOVE DARE. B&H Publishing 2008. SOFTCOVER. A 40-day challenge for husbands and wives to understand and practice unconditional love. Fine. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Marantz, Sylvia. PICTURE BOOKS FOR LOOKING AND LEARNING, Awakening Visual Perceptions through the Art of Children’s Books. Oryx Press 1992. SOFTCOVER. 208 pp. with index. Ex-lib. Good. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
Pearl, Michael & Debi. TO TRAIN UP A CHILD. Michael Pearl 1994, 1999. SOFTCOVER. Fine. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Quine, David & Shirley. LET US HIGHLY RESOLVE, Preparing Families to Enter the 21st Century. Cornerstone Curriculum Project 1996. SOFTCOVER. Like-New. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Stobaugh, James P. READING COMPANION FOR FIFTY CLASSICS. For Such a Time as This Ministries SOFTCOVER 2004. I haven’t read this one, but looks fascinating. The author writes “Their reclamation (of the classics) into American rhetoric is essential to our survival as a civilization. . .My prayer is that thoughtful Christians will be taking every thought captive to the gospel.” Like-New. $6.photo of the actual item
 
C. S. LEWIS
Hannay, Margaret Patterson. C. S. LEWIS. Frederick Unger Publishing 1981. SOFTCOVER. Modern Literature Series. NOT ex-lib. Good+. $7.photo of the actual item
 
Lewis, C. S. THE FOUR LOVES. Harcourt Brace & Co. 1960. Hardcover. Ambleside 9. NOT ex-lib. Very Good, previous owner’s name. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Lewis, C. S. A GRIEF OBSERVED. HarperSanFrancisco 1961, 1999. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like-New. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Lewis, C. S. MERE CHRISTIANITY. Macmillan 1943, 1981. Beautiful hardcover binding; burgundy with gilt lettering. Ambleside 7, 9. Fine, previous owner’s name. $10.photo of the actual item
 
McGrath, Alister. C. S. LEWIS, A LIFE. ECCENTRIC GENIUS. RELUCTANT PROPHET. Tyndale House 2014. Hardcover with dust jacket. Endorsed by Eric Metaxas, Timothy Keller, N. T. Wright, others. 431 pp. with index. Like-New. $12.photo of the actual item
 
OTHER NON-FICTION, ADULTS / YOUNG ADULTS
Bye, Erik. BLOW, SILVER WIND, A Story of Norwegian Immigration to America. Norwegian-American Culture Institute 1978, 1980. Hardcover with dust jacket. Graphics which eloquently illustrate the story are by Karl Erik Harr, one of Norway’s principal graphic artists. The book does not claim to be a “history,” but an enjoyable and informative “painting” in poetry and prose, giving a real sensation of the lives, feelings, and thoughts of the early Norwegian immigrants. 119 pp. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good; small edge tears in dust jacket. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Skogsbergh, Helga. SONGS OF PILGRIMAGE. Covenant Press 1962. Hardcover with dust jacket. The author of Comes the Day, Comes a Way has sought to give words to her reactions to the varied experiences of life – the beauty of nature, the glory of worship, the appreciation of the little things in life, etc. Beautiful collection of 52 poems. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $7.50.photo of the actual item
    
CHRISTMAS BOOKS
Bonsall, Crosby. TWELVE BELLS FOR SANTA. Harper & Row 1977. An I Can Read Book. Hardcover. Ill. by the author. Delightfully funny story! Several pages have small repaired edge tears. $3.photo of the actual item
    
Brett, Jan, illustrator. THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, by Clement Moore. G. P. Putnam’s 1998. Hardcover, no dust jacket. 0399231900. Fine. $4.photo of the actual item
  
Daily, Don, illustrator. THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS. Running Press/Courage Books 2000. Hardcover with dust jacket. Wonderful huge, colorful pictures. Folio, more than 12”. 0762407646. Brand-New. $5.photo of the actual item
   
dePaola, Tomie. AN EARLY AMERICAN CHRISTMAS. Holiday House 1987, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. dePaola. dePaola imagines what it might have been like for a German family, with its rich Christmas traditions from “the old country,” to move to a small New England town that shunned the holiday. Fine. $4.photo of the actual item
     
DiCamillo, Kate. GREAT JOY. Candlewick Press 2007, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Beautiful, tender story with soft, luminous illustrations by Bagram Ibatoulline. New York Times Bestseller, Time Top Ten Children’s Book, Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year. Brand-New. $8.photo of the actual item
     
DiCamillo, Kate. GREAT JOY. Candlewick Press 2007. Hardcover with dust jacket. Beautiful, tender story with luminous illustrations by Bagram Ibatoulline. New York Times Bestseller, Time Top Ten Children’s Book, Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year. Like-New. $6.photo of the actual item
   
Domanska, Janina, ill. THE FIRST NOEL. Greenwillow 1986. Words of the carol are accompanied by Domanska’s vivid, striking illustrations. 4to. FFEP torn and repaired. DJ NF. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Donovan, Jane Monroe. WINTER’S GIFT. Sleeping Bear Press/Thompson Gale 2004. Hardcover. Ill. by Donovan. This is a beautiful, tender Christmas story. A recently widowed elderly man is sad and lonely as he recalls Christmases past when he discovers a mare who is lost in the blizzard and is soon to give birth. In caring for her and her colt he finds a way out of his own unhappiness and proves that the best path out of loneliness is to care for another, perhaps more desperate than yourself. A treasure to be shared! Library stamp in back of book. Book Good; dust jacket Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
      
Engelbreit, Mary, illustrator. THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 2003. Fine. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
Francoise. NOEL FOR JEANNE-MARIE. Charles Scribner’s 1953. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. by Francoise. Ex-lib. Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
Godden, Rumer. THE STORY OF HOLLY & IVY. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 1957, 1985. Ill. Barbara Cooney, Ivy was a little girl who wished for a home. . .and a doll.  Holly was a little doll who wished for a little girl.  It's Christmas - a time for wishes to come true. Very Good. $2.75.photo of the actual item
 
Hegg, Tom. A CUP OF CHRISTMAS TEA. Waldman House Press 1982. Hardcover. Ill. by Warren Hanson. Like-New. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Hegg, Tom. PEEF THE CHRISTMAS BEAR. Waldman House Press 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket. Signed by the author. Like-New. $6.50.photo of the actual item
  
Herman, John. ONE WINTER’S NIGHT. Philomel 2003, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Leo and Diane Dillon. Martha is a beautiful spotted cow looking for a warm place to give birth to her baby and finds herself in the same stable where another miraculous birth is taking place. Book and dust jacket Brand-New. DSC_3786,DSC_3787,DSC_3788,DSC_3789_1, $5.photo of the actual item
 
Hodges, Margaret. THE WEE CHRISTMAS CABIN. Ruth Sawyer’s story retold by Hodges. Holiday House 2009, first edition thus. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Kimberly Bulcken Root. Oona Hegarty, homeless tinker’s child, spends her days minding the needy and tending the sick and old only to be turned out when her usefulness is spent and food is scarce in the Irish famine of 1840. The “Gentle People” of old Ireland, however, have no intention of letting her go unrewarded. Tender, haunting story. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Very Good. $3.50.photo of the actual item
     
Hoffmann, E.T.A. NUTCRACKER. Retold by Fiona Black. Barnes & Noble 1991. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by Scott Gustafson. 0760703752. Book and dust jacket Fine, previous owner’s name. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
Hoffmann, E.T.A. THE NUTCRACKER, ill. Robert Innocenti. Harcourt, Brace & Co. 1996, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. The story comes alive with richly detailed, complex color illustrations by Robert Innocenti. When Maria opens the one last gift tucked under the Christmas tree, she falls in love with the Nutcracker and so begins her journey. 11 ¾” x 10 ¼” with 135 pp. NOT ex-lib. Book Like-New; dust jacket Very Good with two small tears. $7.50.photo of the actual item
      
Hughes, R. Kent. THE GIFT, Seven Meditations on the Events Surrounding Jesus’ Birth. Crossway Books 1994, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Paintings by Ron DiCianni; Calligraphy by Timothy R. Botts. Folio. 48 pp. Book Fine, dust jacket Near-Fine. $4.photo of the actual item
 
Ideals. IDEALS CHRISTMAS. Ideals 1990. SOFTCOVER. Fine. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
Jackson, Kathryn. RICHARD SCARRY’S THE ANIMALS’ MERRY CHRISTMAS. Golden Book 1950, 2005. Big Golden Book. Hardcover. Ill. by Richard Scarry. Folio, more than 12”. Very Good. $5.photo of the actual item
    
Johnson, Lois Walfrid. AARON’S CHRISTMAS DONKEY. Augsburg Publishing 1974, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. All the children of Bethlehem mercilessly tease Aaron about his red hair, but when he gets a chance to return their unkindness or show them love, he decides for the latter and leads them to the manger in Bethlehem. Warm Christmas story. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; clean dust jacket rippled in one spot. $10.photo of the actual item
    
Kahl, Virginia. GUNHILDE’S CHRISTMAS BOOKE. Charles Scribner’s 1972. Hardcover. Ill. by Kahl. Ex-lib. Very Good. $9.50.photo of the actual item
   
Knight, Hilary. THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS. Simon & Schuster 1981, 2001. Hardcover with dust jacket. The words of the Christmas classic with dancing, colorful illustrations by Knight. When Bedelia Bear receives a holiday accumulation from her sweetheart, she turns her gifts into an event for everyone to share. Brand-New. $4.50.photo of the actual item
   
Lane, Julie. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF SANTA CLAUS. Santa Claus Publishing Co. 1932. Pictorial hardcover. Ill. by Hokie. This vintage book in excellent condition tells the story of Nicholas the Wandering Orphan who became Nicholas the Wood-carver and then a rosy old man who attains his ambition of a toy for every child in the village. It follows his story, telling how he came to drive a sleigh, why he came down a chimney, how he filled the first stocking, etc., and finally how he came to be known as Saint Nicholas and Santa Claus. 144 pp. NOT ex-lib. Very Good, front free endpaper removed. $15.photo of the actual item
 
Leighton, Maxinne. AN ELLIS ISLAND CHRISTMAS. Viking 1992 FE. HC/DJ. Young Krysia crosses the Atlantic to join her father in America and arrives at Ellis Island on Christmas Eve, fearful and uncertain. Ex-lib. VG/VG. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Lewis, Beverly. ANNIKA’S SECRET WISH. Bethany Backyard 2000. With CD. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Pamela Querin. Annika gives up her own wish for a wish for her brother when she finds the almond in her pudding, a turn-of-the-century Swedish Christmas custom. Audio CD enclosed with narration by Evie Tornquist Karlsson. 0764229400. Brand-New. $10.photo of the actual item
      
Lobel, Anita, illustrator. THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, by Clement Clarke Moore. Alfred A. Knopf SOFTCOVER 1984. A Victorian Vision of the Christmas Classic. Beautiful artwork! Very Good. $3.photo of the actual item
    
Lobel, Anita, illustrator. THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, by Clement Clarke Moore. Alfred A. Knopf 1984, first edition. A Victorian Vision of the Christmas Classic. Hardcover with dust jacket. Beautiful artwork! Book Good with cover wear. $6.photo of the actual item
    
Martin, Marcia. A LITTLE COWBOY’S CHRISTMAS. Wonder Books 1951. Hardcover. Ill. Eleanor Dart. Delightful story. A “little cowboy” wants only one thing for Christmas – a horse to ride. How his father makes this happen gives the reader a warm and wonderful story! Good. Clean and sound with wear to top and bottom of spine. Previous owner’s name. $10.photo of the actual item
     
Martinson, Tom. THE CHRISTMAS LOON. Wisconsin: North Wood Press 1990. Hardcover with dust jacket. Signed by the author. Illustrated with beautiful b/w and color nature photographs. This is a story of the author’s daughter who spends a summer observing and becoming attached to a loon on the lake. 1559710926. Book Like-New; dust jacket has tear. $3.50.photo of the actual item
 
May, Robert L. RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER. Applewood Books. Hardcover with dust jacket. Authentic reproduction of original edition of Rudolph, written for Montgomery Ward in 1939. Brand-New. $6.photo of the actual item
 
McCloskey, Joseph J. and Sharmann, Hermann J. CHRISTMAS IN THE GOLD FIELDS, 1849. California Historical Society 1959. Hardcover with dust jacket. The reminiscences of Joseph J. McCloskey & Hermann J. Sharmann with illustrations taken from contemporary letter sheets. 33 pp. NOT ex-lib. Book Very Good; dust jacket has wear to top edge with short tears and chips. $7.50.photo of the actual item
  
Metropolitan Museum of Art. LA CRECHE DE NOEL. Metropolitan Museum of Art 1981. Hardcover pop-up book. English translation: “The crib watercolor Borje Svensson Neapolitan Crech 18th century embossed. Adaptation copyright Fernand Nathan, Paris, 1981. The original edition of this book appeared under the title “The Nativity.” The pop-ups fold out from the center of the book and there are four “pages” of pup-ups, all in perfect condition. Magnificent book with text all in French. 8” x 12”. Fine. $18.photo of the actual item
  
Parish, Peggy. MERRY CHRISTMAS, AMELIA BEDELIA. Scholastic SOFTCOVER 1986, 2002. NOT ex-lib. Very Good. $2.50.photo of the actual item
 
Rackham, Arthur, illustrator. THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, by Clement C. Moore. Weathervane Press 1976, first published in Great Britain in 1931. Hardcover. Four nice quality color plates and b/w line drawings by Rackham. NOT ex-lib. Book Fine. $7.photo of the actual item
      
Miss Read. MISS READ’S CHRISTMAS BOOK. Houghton Mifflin 1992, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. Tracey Williamson. Miss Read introduces an illustrated collection of festive songs and stories of the real old-fashioned English Christmas as it might be celebrated in her own Thrush Green. 124 pp. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $5.photo of the actual item
     
Ringgold, Faith, illustrator. O HOLY NIGHT, Christmas With the boys Choir of Harlem. Book and dust jacket with unopened CD. HarperCollins 2004, first edition. Five illustrated carols. Book Like-New; dust jacket has 1” tear at spine edge; CD unopened. $8.photo of the actual item
     
Say, Allen. TREE OF CRANES. Houghton Mifflin 1991, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill. by the author. A little Japanese boy has a very special Christmas – his first in America. 039552024x. Book and dust jacket Like-New, touch of wear to edges of dust jacket. $7.50.photo of the actual item
   
Sharp, Evelyn. THE CHILD’S CHRISTMAS. Derrydale Books 1999. Hardcover with dust jacket. With illustrations by Charles Robinson reminiscent of a Victorian Christmas, eight in full-page color and numerous in b/w. Book Fine with previous owner’s name; dust jacket like-new. $4.50.photo of the actual item
    
Speirs, John. THE LITTLE BOY’S CHRISTMAS GIFT. Harry N. Abrams 2001. Hardcover with dust jacket. Magnificent, luminous paintings by John Speir inspired by centuries-old illuminated manuscripts accompany this charming story of a small boy who follows the wise men to take a gift to the baby Jesus. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
   
Thomas, Dylan. A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES. David R. Godine 2008; first published in Great Britain in 1978. Illustrated in color and b/w by Edward Ardizzone. Hardcover with dus t jacket. Brand-New. $6.photo of the actual item
 
Tudor, Tasha, illustrator. THE CHRISTMAS CAT, by Efner Tudor Holmes (Tasha Tudor’s daughter). Thomas Y. Crowell 1976. Hardcover, no dust jacket. A little cat, lost and alone in the cold forest, makes a thrilling surprise on Christmas morning for two little boys in a warm, snug farmhouse. NOT ex-lib. Good. $5.photo of the actual item
     
Tudor, Tasha. THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, written by Clement Clarke Moore. Rand McNally 1975, 1976, second printing. Hardcover. Folio, more than 12”. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $8.50.photo of the actual item
 
Wahl, Jan. THE GOLDEN CHRISTMAS TREE. Golden Books/Western Publishing 1988, first edition. Giant Golden Book. Hardcover. Ill. Leonard Weisgard. Gentle, peaceful story of the forest animals’ Christmas tree, with great illustrations by Weisgard. Fine. $5.photo of the actual item
 
Wallner, Alexandra. AN ALCOTT FAMILY CHRISTMAS. Holiday House 1996 FE. Hardcover. Ill. by the author. Fictional picture-book story of Louisa May Alcott’s family. 0823412652. Ex-lib. Near-Fine/Near-Fine. $3.photo of the actual item
 
Weisgard, Leonard, illustrator. THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, by Clement C. Moore. Back Pack Books 1997, first published 1949. Hardcover. 0760706859. NOT ex-lib. Fine. $4.50.photo of the actual item
   
Wildsmith, Brian. JESUS. Eerdmans Book for Young Readers 2000, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Wildsmith’s dramatic, intricately detailed scenes framed in gold illustrating the life and death of Jesus. Exquisite book! Folio, over 12”. Book and dust jacket Like-New. $8.photo of the actual item
   
Wojciechowski, Susan. THE CHRISTMAS MIRACLE OF JONATIAN TOOMEY. Candlewick Press 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket. A Christmas classic with breathtaking illustrations by P. J. Lynch. Tender, sweet story of a small boy and his widowed mother taking time for a lonely, bitter man; caring enough to turn his life around. Original, oversize edition. 1564023206. Brand-New. $8.photo of the actual item
  
Wojciechowski, Susan. THE CHRISTMAS MIRACLE OF JONATIAN TOOMEY. Candlewick Press 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket. A Christmas classic with breathtaking illustrations by P. J. Lynch. Tender, sweet story of a small boy and his widowed mother taking time for a lonely, bitter man; caring enough to turn his life around. Original, oversize edition. NOT ex-lib. Book and dust jacket Fine. $7.photo of the actual item
     

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