Blue cloth boards with red stamped titles, 8vo, 390 pages. Boards are clean and square with mild wear at extremities, tanning in end papers, internally clean and sound, dust jacket is worn with a few small edge tears, mild creases, and heavy chipping at extremities, now in protective mylar cover. The American Boy was a monthly magazine published by The Sprague Publishing Co. of Detroit, Michigan from November 1899 to August 1941. At the time it was the largest magazine for boys, with a circulation of 300,000, and it featured action stories and advertising for the young boy. View More...
Once a month for twelve months you will receive one vintage hardcover book, printed between 1800 and 1975. Each book is carefully selected, wrapped and packaged with care. Books are in good to very good condition with varying signs of use and wear associated with old books. Part of the fun is the vintage appeal! All are complete and intact with no major flaws, such as broken bindings, missing pages, unpleasant odors or excessive soiling. Where dust jackets are present, most are covered in protective mylar. You will receive a nice mix of picture books, readers, novels & stories, classics and a ... View More...
Once a month for three months you will receive one vintage hardcover book, printed between 1800 and 1975. Each book is carefully selected, wrapped and packaged with care. Books are in good to very good condition with varying signs of use and wear associated with old books. Part of the fun is the vintage appeal! All are complete and intact with no major flaws, such as broken bindings, missing pages, unpleasant odors or excessive soiling. Where dust jackets are present, most are covered in protective mylar. You will receive a nice mix of picture books, readers, novels & stories, classics and a b... View More...
Once a month for six months you will receive one vintage hardcover book, printed between 1800 and 1975. Each book is carefully selected, wrapped and packaged with care. Books are in good to very good condition with varying signs of use and wear associated with old books. Part of the fun is the vintage appeal! All are complete and intact with no major flaws, such as broken bindings, missing pages, unpleasant odors or excessive soiling. Where dust jackets are present, most are covered in protective mylar. You will receive a nice mix of picture books, readers, novels & stories, classics and a bit... View More...
Tan cloth with brown titles, 12mo, 216 pages; boards slightly bowed; price clipped dust jacket a bit worn, now protected in mylar. From the rear panel, "fly to adventure with Vivki Barr, the popular young heroine of a brand new series of exciting series for girls". View More...
Full green cloth stamped in peach, 9 1/4 x 6 inches, 244 pages, illustrated by the author. Offset toning in endpapers, dust jacket worn and tattered at top edge with several small chips out and small tears with some creases, chipping at spine ends, toned spine, still quite attractive in mylar cover. Autobiographical story of the author's childhood in a small Italian village at the turn of the century.A Newbery Honor recipient in 1939. View More...
2nd printing, one month after first edition. Grey cloth boards with blue lettering, illustrated endpapers; 8-1/2" tall; 139 pp; illustrated by Robert Lawson. Some soiling to boards and page edges, nice solid binding. White dust jacket has tiny hole to edge of front panel, price-clipped, sticker residue to spine panel. Overall, a nice copy of this Newbery Honor book (and one of my all-time favorites!) View More...
Illustrated cover board with white board on rear, 9x7 inches, 160 pages, illustrated throughout with black and white pictures taken by the author; slight edge wear to boards, previous owner's name penciled in on front free end paper, otherwise a bright, clean copy that has maintained it's vivid color; dust jacket has small chip to head of spine, tail of spine is worn, 1" closed tear to rear of wrapper. View More...
Green pictorial cloth, 12 mo, 342 pages; boards are mottled in places and edge worn, inscription on front free end paper dated 1912, text is clean with no markings, binding is sound; no dust jacket. View More...
Gray cloth with blue lettering, 9 x 6 inches, 346 pages, bold illustrations by Agnes Lehman throughout; head of spine bumped, tail turned in, text is clean and bright, binding sound; dust jacket has small chips to edges as well a few small scotch tape repairs applied to interior. View More...
First published April 1947 noted on copyright page, illustrated tan cloth, 4to, 63 pages, illustrated by George Schreiber, pictorial endpapers. Spine ends turn in, hint of fading along board edges; Dust jacket with price of $2.00 on front flap, rubbed and worn along extremities, a couple of tiny edge tears and a one inch closed tear at top rear edge. Set in Paris a few months after the end of World War II, the story follows Charles's quest to makes crepes for his little sister for Mardi Gras. Newbery Honor book of 1948. View More...
Blue cloth, 8 x 5.5 inches, 359 pages; very slight shelf wear to boards, previous owners name written on illustrated front free end papers; dust jacket is worn along edges and has some concentrated wear to head and tail of spine, now in protective mylar cover. View More...
Illustrated light blue cover boards, 8.5x5.5 inches, 159 pages, illustrated throughout with black and white pictures; slight edge wear to boards, otherwise a bright, clean copy that has maintained it's vivid color; head and tail of spine of dust jacket is rubbed. Aside from it's vintage allure, this volume has a disclaimer denoting it's compliance in printing, "under wartime conditions, in full compliance with government regulations for the conservation of paper and other essential materials. View More...
No statement of printing, $2.00 price in dust jacket flap, full red cloth with gilt title and decoration on front board, 4to, 120 pages, black and white illustrations by Robert Lawson throughout, pictorial map endpapers. Cloth faded in front and rear joints, dust jacket is lightly toned and a bit smudgy with mild edge wear, now in protective mylar cover. A very attractive copy of Bunyan's seventeenth century Christian allegory brought to a new life and light with Lawson's lively illustrations. View More...
Pictorial yellow cloth, 4to, not paginated, illustrated by Gelett Burgess throughout; a few blue ink splotches on endpapers; price clipped dust jacket is a bit rubbed now in mylar. From the dust jacket: A reissue- "by popular request of the best grandmothers"- of the Goop book which contains many of the funniest and most useful of Gelett Burgess's famous rhymes. 0 View More...
Blue cloth, 7.5 x 5 inches, 207 pages, illustrations by Harrison Cady; boards are just slightly edge worn, especially in respect to corners, illustrated end papers are bright, text is unmarked; dust jacket worn with a sunned spine, dust jacket now in protective mylar cover. Part of the Green Forest Series. View More...
Blue cloth, 7.5 x 5 inches, 205 pages, illustrations by Harrison Cady; boards are edge worn, especially in respect to head and tail of spine, illustrated end papers are bright, pages are age toned; dust jacket worn with a sunned spine, dust jacket now in protective mylar cover. Part of the Green Forest Series. View More...
Bright green pictorial cloth, 12mo, 221 pages, illustrations by George Kerr; head and tail of spine show light wear, illustration on cover is clear and bright, writing from previous owner penned onto front free endpaper; dust jacket shows a hint of wear, now protected in mylar. Delightfully illustrated children's stories of creatures in the forest. View More...
Blue cloth, 7.5 x 5 inches, 181 pages, illustrations by Harrison Cady; boards are edge worn, especially in respect to head and tail of spine, illustrated end papers are bright, text is unmarked; dust jacket worn with a sunned spine, dust jacket now in protective mylar cover. View More...
