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Dogs Don't Wear Sneakers [SIGNED]

By: Numeroff, Laura

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: (c.1993)

Seller ID: 8761

ISBN: 0-671-79525-2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice copy, minor corner-creasing to a couple of bottom page corners; jacket shows just a tiny bit of creasing along top edge]. INSCRIBED to previous owner (first name only) and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page, where she has also drawn a dialogue balloon above the illustration of two dancing cows, so that they're proclaiming "We love to read!" Terrific illustrations of animals doing quite unlikely things. Signed by Author
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Always Help a Bird (Especially With a Broken Leg)

By: Pintoff, Ernest

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: (c.1965)

Seller ID: 23651

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[a nice clean book, very light wear to extremities; jacket a little worn along bottom edge, "HarperCrest" gold-foil label at lower left corner of front panel, a little edgewear at front flap foldover]. How a "girl and boy rescue [an injured] bird -- and the part their mother plays in the bird's recovery -- are amusingly presented in this fresh and buoyant book." The first (and I believe only) children's book authored by Pintoff, a prolific television and occasional film director whose most enduring work is a group of five animated short films produced between 1957 and 1963, t...
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In Toyland

By: Robinson, Louise

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1914

Seller ID: 17194

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(pictorial cloth, no dust jacket) [well-worn but intact copy, bumped/frayed at all corners, boards exposed at bottom corners, finger-smudges on a few pages, a few turned-down page corners and small edge-tears, "Property of Parsons City Schools" stamped twice on each pastedown]. (color frontis., 3 color plates, line drawings) Simple child's tales, in a Dick-and-Janeish type narrative ("To-day is Saturday. Mary is going to Ellen's house. She has her dolls with her. Betty is her baby doll." etc.), interspersed with short verses by Charles Kingsley, William Blake, Eugene Field,...
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

By: Rowling, J.K.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic Press: 1999

Seller ID: 17514

ISBN: 0-439-06486-4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[book slightly twisted on axis, previous owner's inked name at top of ffep, two shallow dents in bottom edge of rear cover, a couple of tiny spots on fore-edge; jacket shows just a trace of handling wear]. Mary GrandPré Nice-looking copy of the first American edition of the second HP book (the first printing, with complete number line and "First American edition, June 1999" statement); the jacket is the first-state jacket, without the "2" on the spine.
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Ike & Mama and the Once-in-a-Lifetime Movie

By: Snyder, Carol

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Coward, Mccann & Geoghegan: (c.1981)

Seller ID: 10375

ISBN: 0-698-20501-4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[moderate shelfwear, small remainder(?) dot on top edge, slight rip in cloth at bottom edge of rear cover, "THANK YOU" stamped in red on ffep and front jacket flap, along with a "DISCARDED" stamp on the front pastedown and some miscellaneous writing on the ffep that indicates this may have once been part of a classroom book collection (I hestitate to call it "ex-library" since it otherwise bears none of the usual call numbers, stamps or labels); jacket shows some moderate soiling, and a light (mostly internal) dampstain around the spine (visible along lower part of rear...
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The 'Possum That Didn't

By: Tashlin, Frank

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1951

Seller ID: 21161

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

(paper-covered boards; no dust jacket) [heavily worn at spine, with significant deterioration of spine covering (although the entire title and author's name are still present), although the binding itself is intact; also worn and bumped at corners and edges, offsetting to endpapers, a few scrunched bottom page corners, gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep]. (line drawings) The second of Tashlin's social parables in fuzzy-animal guise -- the first was the renowned "The Bear That Wasn't" (1946) -- which are often referred to condescendingly as "children's books." Unlike "...
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The Story of Wilbur the Hat

By: Van Loon, Hendrik Willem

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York, Horace B. Liveright (Boni & Liveright): (c.1925)

Seller ID: 19700

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[very nice copy, with just a touch of wear to the bottom edge; jacket has some minor spotting on the front panel, short closed tears at front hinges, another tiny closed tear at bottom of front panel, light soiling to rear panel]. (color illustrations) "A true account of the strange things which sometimes happen in a part of the world which does not exist." An almost indescribable book, "written and drawn for the fun of it" by Van Loon, whose "The Story of Mankind" had been the Newbury Medal winner a few years earlier. A hat (sort of) travels through time and space a...
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International Spy: Doctor Doom Faces Death at Dawn

By: Vane, Conrad

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Racine WI, Whitman Publishing Company: (c.1937)

Seller ID: 25551

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(pictorial boards) [wear to edges and corners all around, gift inscriptions on inside front cover (in ink, dated 1970) and ffep (in pencil, undated but certainly preceding the other); normal light age-toning but still solidly bound]. (The Big Little Book, no. 1148) Series (cartoon illustrations) Globe-hopping espionage adventure, pitting a mysterious cloaked figure called "the Falcon" (looking like a cross between Dracula and The Shadow, and unrelated to the popular Leslie Charteris character), in the employ of the fictional country of Merovia (probably just south-southeast of Freedoni...
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A Gift for Miss Milo [SIGNED]

By: Wahl, Jan; illustrated by Jeff Grove

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Berkeley CA, Ten Speed Press: (c.1990)

Seller ID: 5692

ISBN: 0-89815-339-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[as new]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author opposite the half-title page. "Jan Wahl has created yet another inimitable story. Here is a mystic and entrancing tale of a lost love, as told by a sweetly serious little girl of yesteryear. Young and old will be charmed by it." -- Else Homelund Minarik,author of the Little Bear books. Signed by Author
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Favorite Stories of Famous Children

By: Willson, Dixie, ed.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Company: (c.1938)

Seller ID: 18292

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(no dust jacket) [ex-library book with general overall wear and various attendant details (call number label on spine, remnants of small rectangular labels on both front and rear covers, library property stamp on front pastedown, date-due slip and discard stamp on ffep); text from jacket flap glued to rear pastedown]. (B&W photographs, line drawings) Condensed versions of various classics, selected by various "famous children" (which for the most part actually means "children of famous people"). There are a number of movie-kids involved, e.g. the children of John Barrymore (Do...
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Windy Wayne and the Flying Wing

By: Winterbotham, R.R.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Racine WI, Whitman Publishing Company: (c.1942)

Seller ID: 25549

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

(pictorial boards) [light bumping to several corners, wear along hinges, front hinge cracked but not separated, minor tears at the edges of a few pages; birthday gift inscription (dated 1972) on inside front cover, previous owner's light pencilled name on ffep]. (The Better Little Book, no. 1433) Series (cartoon illustrations) World War II adventure, with intrepid U.S. Army pilot Windy Wayne flying a modernistic new warplane against the Japanese. (Be forewarned about the vicious wartime stereotypes.) This book has a "movie" (flip-book) incorporated in the upper-right corner of every...
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The Quiz Kids Blue Book

By: {The Quiz Kids}

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Akron OH/New York, Saalfield Publishing Company: (c.1941)

Seller ID: 7430

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

(pictorial boards, no dust jacket) [well-worn at edges/corners (boards exposed at corners), a couple of small peeled spots on rear cover, generally a good solid copy with clean text; pencilled word list on rear pastedown]. (B&W drawings) "Entertaining Questions and Answers" -- although the five kids pictured in the front cover photograph look anything but entertained by the whole enterprise. (It may be indicative of how expendable the "stars" of this popular radio program were that nowhere does the book identify the five kids pictured by name.)
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Category: Children's