New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1876. Hard Cover.
Pencil name on front paste-down endpaper of one volume. All volumes: Boards lightly rubbed, board corners bumped.
Complete four volume set. Red cloth, gilt and black titles and decorations. Engraved illustrations throughout. "The object of this series is to assist girls to.....
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Massachusetts: Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1857. Small Hard Cover.
Boards heavily rubbed, surface tear to title page obscuring text, hinges weakening, pencil markings to rear endpaper.
68 - 96 pp. Part of the Rollo Storybook series for young readers. CONTENTS: Causey Building; Sand Men; The Gray Garden; A Contract; Instructions;.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1925. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Jacket rubbed with some small chips and creases. Bottom edges of boards lightly bumped, address label on front free endpaper.
300 pp. "It was all very mysterious to Winsome Pearce. Didn't Uncle Oliver want her, that he stayed so long in.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Quarter inch by half inch chip along top edge of rear jacket panel, minor chips to jacket spine head and jacket spine base. Ink name on half-title page.
248 pp. It was just Theo's luck that the new girl should see.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1924. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Jacket edges rubbed. Faint smudge on spine, front hinge starting.
281 pp. "He who laughs last, laugh best," goes the saying. But it is a question in the Romley family who will be the last. Certainly not Sidney, though, who at.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1936. Gretter, J. [Joseph] Clemens. Hard Cover.
Front jacket flap loosening from joint but still holding, jacket edges rubbed, jacket reverse mended with tape. Page ridges rubbed, ink name and address on FFE.
iii, 211 pp. Jacket art and endpapers by Joseph Clemens Gretter, who.....
Tokyo, Japan: Seihei Okuyama, 1953. Huga, Fusako. Hard Cover.
Spine and board edges rubbed, one-and-a-half inch tear along bottom edge of front free endpaper.
38 pp. Color and monochrome illustrations by Fusako Huga, brightly decorated endpapers. Only two copies located in OCLC. "Designed for children from four years of age.....
Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co. Hard Cover.
No publisher date. No jacket. Board edges rubbed, board soiled, pages toned.
159 pp. Illustrated boards with gilt accents. Woodcuts by various artists.
London: W. B. Conkey Company, 1895. Hard Cover.
Boards rubbed, pencil name and date on free endpapers, pages toned.
A carefully selected collection of entertaining stories and poems, suitable for young readers, and including sketches and poems by such well known authors as Olive Thorne, Edgar Fawcett, Laurie Loring, Celia.....
Cleveland, Ohio / New York: The World Syndicate Publishing Co., 1935. Hard Cover.
No publisher date (ink date 1935). Some chips, tears and creases to jacket edges, rear jacket flap joint torn most of the way down but still holding. Ink name and date on front free endpaper.
252 pp.....
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893. Hard Cover.
Boards soiled, mull exposed at hinges, ink name on front free endpaper and on second blank, tissue guard drawn on.
258 pp. Twenty pages of publisher ads follow text. A collection of stories about girls and with a flower theme.
Chicago / New York: M.A. Donohue & Co. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Reissue. No publisher date. General wear, rear hinge starting.
357 pp. Color frontispiece and picture plate mounted on front board. Some later Donohue printings have black-and-white frontispiece. With two young sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys.....
. Belford, Clarke & Co., 1884. Hard Cover.
Hinges weakening, boards rubbed with portion of front cover paste-down lost, ink name & date ('Dora E. Covey, Christmas 1884') on front endpaper.
206 pp. Tall 8vo. A collection of short stories and poems released in the late 19th century. Includes several.....
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition (BAL 167 indicates the UK edition preceded the US by sixteen days). Includes all plates. Some loss from titles on spine and front board, binding slightly shaken, corners rubbed.
252 pp. Dark red cloth (BAL calls it 'terra.....
Chicago: The John C. Winston Company, 1928. Burd, Clara M. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Good in fair jacket. Front jacket flap detached but included, jacket edges rubbed with some loss, light stain to fore edge of front jacket panel and to margin of one picture plate, ink gift note on front.....
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1892. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. First state (no ads for other New World series titles). Ink name on second blank, rear hinge starting.
iv, 352, 12 pp. A historical tale based on the California Gold Rush, with black-and-white illustrations.
Chicago: Thompson & Thomas, 1902. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Spine titles rubbed away, front hinge weakening.
294 pp. "An orphaned sixteen-year-old sets off on a circuit of adventure during which time he has experiences as a bootblack, detective, deckhand, champion whistler, Indian captive, boy philanthropist, and.....
New York: Hurst & Company, 1906. Hard Cover.
No publisher date (circa early 1900s). No jacket. Spine slightly cocked.
252 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Horatio Alger Jr. (/'æld??r/; January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was an American writer of young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from.....
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1880. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Ink name on front free endpaper, pages lightly toned.
285 pp. After rejecting job offers from condescending and exploitative employers, sixteen-year-old Ben Stanton, a resourceful and self-reliant orphan, ventures out West to California to seek his fortune. ABOUT THE.....
Chicago / New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1928. Schaeffer, Mead. Hard Cover.
1928 printing. Multiple chips, tears and stains to jacket.
x, 492 pp. Color frontispiece, plates, and endpapers by Mead Schaeffer. Tales of a wandering French boy.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1976. Szyk, Arthur. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Reissue. Includes clear acetate jacket.
Originally published in 1991, this collection of classic fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by internationally acclaimed artist Lisbeth Zwerger, has been expanded -- three stories added -- and completely redesigned.
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1945. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. Jacket edges rubbed with a couple minor tears.
86 pp. "Here's what Lanky Bates said about the new coach at Dodge City High School: "He's worse than Simon Legree--that guy." But Coach Southern won the admiration and.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1917. Hard Cover.
Copyright page lists series through book 20. Chip from spine head, boards rubbed, front hinge weakening.
iv, 218 pp, [2] publisher ad. "Tom Swift is a fictional young inventor in five different series of juvenile science fiction and adventure novels. The character.....
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1965. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Jacket corners lightly rubbed. Ink gift note on FFE, some pages creased.
158 pp. "Following the time-honored tradition of sea stories, this account of a tense three-day struggle to save a ship (S.S. Kariba) is told in vigorous.....
London: Hodder and Stoughton / Wyman & Sons Limited, 1935. Bloomfield, Paul; Payne, A.B.; Salisbury, Sylvia; Tourtel, Mary; Watson, A.H.; Pares, Bip; Foxwell, Herbert S.; Brightwell, R.L.; Jones, Laurian; Whistler, Rex. Hard Cover.
Good in fair jacket. Boards lightly soiled, edges foxed, jacket stained with wear, chips, and tears along.....