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1928008746New York: Macmillan 1928 Pink cloth titled in green cloth slightly faded gift inscription to half-title page marginal tear to plate opposite pg. 32 not affecting image; dust jacket with small losses and overall wear price clipped. Humorous stories about Mercy an ambitious cat. Wonderful illustrations by Peggy Bacon full and partial page. Scarce. First Edition. Cloth Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Peggy Bacon. 8vo. Macmillan hardcover
1935012874Rand McNally & Company 1935. Pictorial hardcover binding has title block in orange and b/w photo of kitten dressed in an apron cooking. Clean tape repair along bottom couple inches of spine. Ffep had been detached and previous ownr had used clear tape to repair and attach. A few pages have some closed tears along spine one picture colored in purple crayon but rest is in pretty good shape. Black and white photos every page of kittens dressed illustrating a story about a fuzzy little kitten named Gwendolyn Daphne Stella Arabella Marguerite - but everyone called her Snuggles. This is not the Golden Books edition - this is original edition. Scarce. Overall a good reading copy. Pictures upon request. Size: 8vo - Square 1st Printing. Illus. by Frees Harry Whittier - photographs. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Rand McNally & Company Hardcover
195116655Dover Publications. 1951. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good end page browning in volume 2 from something laid in minimal wear. Very good dust jackets minor edge wear. Dust jackets are in protective covers. A publishers 4 page sheet laid in that states this is a limited edition of 1250 copies this limit is not indicated in the books. Two volumes. ; 182 Photographs. ; 244 316 pages . Dover Publications hardcover
1953011949Cleveland and New York: World Publishing 1953. Blue hardcover cloth binding clean square and tight dj has chips and tape repairs protected from further damage in clean Brodart jacket. Not pice-clipped. 180 pages - clean bright and tight interior. INSCRIBED by the author on ffep. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 1st Printing. Illus. by Shenton Edward. Signed by Authors. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. World Publishing Hardcover
000010209Edgewood Publishing Company 586 pages very clean mild wrinkle to backstrip previous owner's signature stain from old flower. No apparent date. Many illustrations. Circa 1890. Edgewood Publishing Company hardcover
19277979London: Methuen & Co. . 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Spine sunned. Light foxing throughout. ; Riding to hounds in Britain. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 253 pages . Methuen & Co. hardcover
1963BOOKS063507IWashington DC: Smithsonian Institution 1963. HC. very good brown leather presentation copy hardcover. A compilation of ten lectures broadcast in the Museum of Natural History including: birds mammals Native Americans fossils etc. Specially bound copy with page imprinted: "Presented to Dr. Leonard Carmichael by The Smithsonian Museum Service on the occasion of his retirement as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution January 31 1964." 55pp. Smithsonian Institution unknown
1925DEMO007066IJoliet: P. F. Volland Company 1925. Eleventh edition. Hardcover. Fine. Ve Elizabeth Cadie. 8vo blue pictorial paper over boards; in the publisher's box which lacks an inch of the side. <br/><br/>"Happy Children" series. Illustrated by Ve Elizabeth Cadie. P. F. Volland Company hardcover
1946010531New York: Highfield Publishing 1946 Color printed pictorial wraps with light wear. A version of Three Little Kittens about a mother cat and her naughty little kittens. Adorable color artwork on every page by Barbara Dempster. I could only locate one institutional copy and virtually no information about the artist. Not in Necker. Pictorial Wraps. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Barbara Dempster. Small 4to. Highfield Publishing unknown
1925DEMO010638IJoliet: P. F. Volland Company 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Katherine STURGIS. 12mo unpaginated pictorial green boards a few marginal tears tips rubbed. <br/><br/>The Sunny Book series. P. F. Volland Company hardcover
1889BOOKS075043IWashington DC: Government Printing Office 1889. HC. good original wraps bound in black cloth hardcover. B&W ill plates. Original edition wraps bound in black cloth - light edgewear to cloth owner's names front free endpaper. Of the 86 plates indexed to follow the text -- CANCELLED as stated in the list of plates WERE: 80 81 82 84 and 85. Plate 83 is in color followed by index. 525pp. Government Printing Office unknown
19790047491979. Hardcover. Good. Publisher: Reston Publishing Company 1979 Good HB ISBN: 0-8359-1903-X hardcover
1966006960London New York Toronto: Abelard-Schuman 1966 Red pictorial cloth faint damp stain to boards and at edges of endpaper 2 quarter-sized areas of discoloration to rear board; dust jacket worn with losses and edge tears damp stain price clipped. The story of the misadventures of a cat named Henrietta. Lively artwork on every page by the cartoonist Boris Drucker a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. This copy is signed on the endpaper. Scarce title. Necker 619a. Signed by Artist. First British Edition. Good/Good Minus. Small Oblong 8vo. Abelard-Schuman hardcover
1951013484London: Collins 1951. Turquoise hardcover cloth binding square and tight sun-faded along edges. 254 pages some foxing pages yellowing else clean interior. DJ has some shelfwear rubbed along edges and a couple of small chips. Map of story on endpapers. Set in Romney Marsh this includes characters from The Summer of the Great Secret The Midnight Horse and The White Riders. Tamzin and Rissa learn a ship is carrying a cargo of horses to be taken abroad and slaughtered. They are determined to rescue them. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall 1st Printing. Illus. by Whittam Geoffrey. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Collins Hardcover
001454Crown Book. As New. Soft cover. F. As New/As New. First Edition. Galley/Proof. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ISBN:0-517-59598-2. Crown Paperback
3T0026Hodder & Stroughton 1111. A fine green hardcover with pictorial cover featuring ducks flying with dust jacket in very good to fine condition. Dust jacket would be fine except for some moisture stains on spine. Dust jacket has paste-on color picture. No date. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good to Fine. Hodder & Stroughton Hardcover
1954010895New York: Harcourt Brace & Company 1954 Illustrated boards; matching dust jacket with minor wear to extremities original price intact but crossed out with two pen marks $4.50. Lisette's animals throw a part for her 76th birthday. A wonderful picture book the text is accentuated by Fischer's artwork executed with exuberant lines and just enough color. A 1955 AIGA 50 Best Books. Early Printing. Illustrated Boards. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Hans Fischer. Oblong 4to. Harcourt, Brace & Company hardcover
1962013967Dodd Mead & Company 1962. Dark orange hardcover binding clean square and tight. Interior clean and bright with no writing tears or marDJ not price-clilpped - $3.25 on front flap clean and crisp with small wrinkle top of front cover and minor shelfwear to spine 243 pages. Vance Wheeler is a lonely orphan befriended by Jim Raines - the gruff kindly perceptive trainer of horses and boys. Jim turns over his heritage of a run-down Kentucky stock farm and potential racehorses to Vance - if Vance will pitch in and help to train the horses along with a group of boys from the orphanage. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall 1st Printing Language: ENG. Illus. by McCann Gerald. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dodd, Mead & Company Hardcover
1915DEMO010537IBoston: Lothrop Lee & Shepard 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Good. set photos of animals. 8vo 252 pages pictorial blue cloth recased 1920 birthday inscription on flyleaf. <br/><br/>A juvenile book of animals posed in human clothing and photographed in human situations with text both by Harry Whittier Frees. Frees was accused of achieving these live photos thru cruelty to animals. Here he insisted "The difficulties encountered in posing kittens and puppies for pictures of this kind have been overcome only the the exercise of great patience and invariable kindness - Introductory Note." Lothrop, Lee & Shepard hardcover
2000BOOKS075034IAspen CO: LJM Press 2000. PB. very good wraps softcover small spot top edge book-block. ISBN 0971789509 Faint spot top edge of book-block. 218pp. LJM Press unknown
1965013158New York: Coward-McCann 1965. Hardcover decorated library binding square and tight usual library markings. Interior tight - some smudges stamps markings. Front pocket intact. DJ flap glued to inside front cover. A good reading copy. 159 pages. When Miss Van has to leave the club stables for two months ill has trouble getting along with the replacement trainer who seems to want to ruin her success in s howing the seal-brown jumper Jumping Jack. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Illus. by Savitt Sam - cover only. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Coward-McCann Hardcover
1963013154New York: Coward-McCann 1963. Hardcover decorated library binding square and tight usual library markings. Interior tight - some smudges stamps markings. Back pocket intact. A good reading copy. 157 pages. Sheila limps and wears a metal brace on her leg. The last thing she wants to do is humiliate herself by trying to ride a horse - until she meets the very unsociable Rogue who was a picador's horse and has the physical and mental scars to go with it. The two form a bond and learn to trust each other. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Illus. by Savitt Sam. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Coward-McCann Hardcover
21369<p>Boston: D. Lothrop 1882. unpaginated 63pp a.e.g. frontis. salmon cloth 8vo w/gilt titles & decorations: about Good/no dj hinges are cracked but holding; spine strip is age darkened with wear @ ends; endpp. show some foxing; else a clean & complete copy A charming woodland jaunt written for juvenile readers by the New Hampshire writer Amanda Bartlett Harris 1824-1917 with 14 illustrations including 12 full page sketches.</p> Boston: D. Lothrop hardcover
176<p>Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1898 1897. 270pp. illus. decorated cloth 8vo: about Good gilt cover titles are bright; spine strip is darkened; light shelf wear; hinges are cracked but firm; small oval personal library stamp on several pp.; couple of edge tears on pages; spot of foxing here and there; else a complete & tight copy According to Bruce Bickley writing in the New Georgia Encyclopedia Joel Chandler Harris was born in 1845 not 1848 as noted in most biographic sources. His mentor literary plantation owner Joseph Addison Turner who published the newspaper The Countryman from his Turnwold Plantation near Eatonton Georgia managed to get Harris a deferment from service in the Confederate army something of an historical question mark/sore point in Harris life. He is most famous for his Uncle Remus stories which made him second only to his friend Mark Twain in popularity as an American writer at the turn of the 20th century. Harris died in 1908 a couple of years before Twain. This book of children s stories features 24 marvelous llustrations by the Anglo-American artist Oliver Herford 1863-1935.</p> Boston: Houghton Mifflin hardcover
2008038844North Adams MA: Storey Publishing LLC 2008. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket/As Issued. 4to. Very good copy with minor shelfwear and mild foxing along upper page edges. Glossy pictorial cover with minor shelfwear. Storey Publishing, LLC hardcover
