(pictorial boards) [wear to edges and corners all around (most pronounced at top of spine), bumping/softening to corners, a couple of shallow dents in top edge of front cover; book is still solidly-bound, with light age-toning to pages, and has a Christmas gift inscription (dated 1971) on the inside front cover]. (The Big Little Book, no. 1402) Series (cartoon illustrations) Chester Gump (son of Andy) accompanies an intrepid explorer on his attempt to circumnavigate the earth via the North and South Poles. View More...
[nice-looking copy, slight fading to cloth along top edges, pencilled gift inscription from 1951 (in child's hand) on half-title page but otherwise unmarked; jacket shows minor wear at edges/corners, a couple of itsy-bitsy tears at top edge]. "Once there was a baron whose whole name was Baron Frederick Charles Henry Maximilian Francis Avoirdupois. But his name was not easy to remember, so everyone called him The Fat Baron -- and he certainly was fat. More than anything else in the world he liked to eat. Then along came Sir Reginald the Fierce, who saw The Fat Baron's plump cows and chick... View More...
(pictorial covers; no dust jacket) [the "Putnam Guaranteed Library Binding," although this is NOT an ex-library book; moderate soiling to covers, light bumping/fraying to a couple of corners, internally clean]. (The Wonders of Science Library) Series "There are robots all around us. They do not clank, neither do they resemble the tin woodman in The Wizard of Oz. Many robots are smaller than the home thermostat, which is itself a robot. [The author] describes how man designs robots to control certain anticipated happenings. A robot is not required to think, but it does 'feel' or 'see' or 'he... View More...
(pictorial front cover label; no dust jacket) [worn copy, external soiling, rear hinge cracked, fraying with exposure of boards at corners, tiny white stain at front joint, small nick in cloth at bottom edge of rear cover -- and SEE NOTES about enhancements and scribblings in text]. (color plates, line drawings) The author's second Little Jack Rabbit book (the first, the "Big Blue Book," was published in ____), presenting another visit to "Rabbitland, where Make Believe is the open sesame -- that state of mind in childhood which makes possible all things visible and invisible."... View More...
(gilt pictorial boards; no dust jacket) [slight splitting/fraying to binding at lower front hinge, otherwise a nice clean book with just a bit of wear at the corners, some minor spotting on the rear cover; binding is intact (no broken hinges); one bookplate on front pastedown, another on the ffep, and a gift inscription on the verso of the frontispiece plate, reading "To Micky / Much love / from Mother" (see notes)]. Beautiful vintage children's book, with 17 full-color plates illustrated by Charles Robinson (all present, with tissue guards with printed captions intact); there are als... View More...
[moderately worn, light spotting to cloth, two small tape marks on each pastedown, bottom corner of ffep torn away; jacket edgeworn but quite presentable, small piece missing from bottom right-hand corner of front panel, old tape reinforcement across both ends of spine, two small tape marks on each jacket flap]. (color frontispiece; no illus. in text) The story of Sammie and Susie Littletail, "two little bunny rabbits who lived with their Uncle Wiggily [and] were good little rabbits, and they had wonderful fun and adventures with their Uncle Wiggily." This title is the last of 8 Wiggily title... View More...
[solid copy, bound in green cloth with paste-on front cover illustration (especially nice with only light rubbing), slight bumping/wear at all corners, small faded spots at extremities of spine cloth, one-time owner's initials in pencil at top of ffep; jacket is worn, with small tears and a bit of paper loss at all corners (but no loss of text or illustration)]. (frontispiece + 3 B&W plates) Book no. 23 in the popular series -- "books that charm the hearts of the little ones, and of which they will never tire." I am by no means a specialist on these books, but this would appear to be a 1931 p... View More...
[beautiful copy, with no discernible wear to book; jacket is also very nice, with just a bit of wear along the right edge of the front panel and at the corners; the "Slotties" page (laid in, not bound in) is completely intact, with none of the pieces having ever been removed]. (Slottie Library) Series (color illustrations) A "Slottie Library" book (the 14th in the series), based on an old American folk tale, about "the most amazing and exciting things [that] happen at Bean Blossom Hill when handsome young dreamer Punkin Johnny buys three magic pumpkin seeds from the old peddler." (Essentiall... View More...
(paper-covered boards; no dust jacket) [nice clean copy, some wear at corners and edges, damage/tearing to bottom 3/8" of spine; no child's name or other markings of any kind to inside of book]. Adorable illustrations. If you like rabbits. But who doesn't? View More...
[moderate edgewear to covers, internally Fine except for the expected and inevitable age-toning to the pages]. (cartoon strips and panels) A remarkably well-preserved example of this rare vintage coloring book (OCLC reports only four library holdings), containing mostly undated reprints of George McManus's newspaper comic strip, "The Newlyweds," generally considered the first American "family" strip. Created by the then 20-year-old McManus for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World in 1904, the strip ran for twelve years, at various times as both a daily and Sunday feature; when McManus left the W... View More...
[minor shelfwear, light dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket slightly torn with a bit of paper loss at top of spine, tiny tears and minor paper loss at a couple of other corners, edgeworn along front hinge (and somewhat less elsewhere), moderately rubbed, printed price label affixed to front flap on top of original printed price]. (pen and ink drawings) The first of the two "House of Arden" books, about an adventurous brother and sister. Originally published in 1908 and followed the next year by the sequel, "Harding's Luck." "First re-issued in this edition 1958," per the copyright pag... View More...
[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 View More...
(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, and others. View More...
[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... View More...
(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 "... View More...
[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 and world culture, encoun... View More...
(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... View More...
[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 View More...
(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... View More...
(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... View More...
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