TWO CHILDREN OF TYRE
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1932. Hardcover. Scarce juvenile title retelling tale of David and Esther. Orange cloth stamped in black in pictorial dustjacket chipped about edges, spine browned. Review copy, with slip laid-in. More
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GROW UP TO FLY (and) AIR MEN AND WINGS
NY: Robert M McBride & Company, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two titles by the same authors on aviation for the juvenile reader. In uncommon dustjackets. GROW UP (1930, first edition) dustjacket is printed in stark red, white and black, rendering a primitive but bold Art-Deco style. Solid book. Dustjacket is..... More
Monarch The Big Bear of Tallac
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth, oval pictorial pastedown, titles in gilt. Narrow stain running along bottom edge of leaves first grouping of pages not affecting text. Solid copy. With 100 drawings by author Seton, More
THE ADVENTURES OF MARIO
NY: Junior Literary Guild, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Story of boy facing the harshness of nature and becoming a man, by German children's author (and noted pro-Nazi, ant-Semite) Waldemar. Translated for American publication by Whittaker Chambers who at the time, ironically was a Commie and Soviet spy before he spilled..... More
THE SECRET EMPIRE: A BOY WITH LA SALLE
NY: Coward-McCann, 1930. Hardcover. Brown pictorial cloth in scarce dustjacket, with pictorial by Cheney, who did pictorial endpapers and text drawings. Book near fine, dustajcket moderately worn at edges, soiled/ chipped at spine, . Juvenile adventure set in French colonization of Canada; young man seeks missing father in Canadian wilderness..... More
THE CHILDREN WHO FOLLOWED THE PIPER.
NY: The Macmillan Company, 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Beautifully preserved copy in worn and used dustjacket. Lovely illustrations, including dustjacekt pictorial and pictorial endpapers by Walker Bluie cloth stamped in yellow white and balck pictorial in soiled dustjacket (especially at spine) with obvious chips and loss to edges and spine..... More
THE FORGE IN THE FOREST
NY: The Macmillan Company, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1928 printing after the first of 1925. An unusually well preserved copy in worn dustjacket. Exuberant cover design, decorations and pictures by Russian-born Artzybasheff ingeniously partnered with Irishman Colum in this retelling of Medieval fable. Internals almost as new, Dustjacket soiled, especially..... More
WHITE SAILS TO CHINA
NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unused copy, internals as new. Yellow cloth a bit spotted. Unclipped dustjacket modest wear along folds and spine tips. A collectibel copy. A seafaring childrens/ juvenile title. More
THE KING OF IRELAND'S SON
NY: The Macmillan Company, 1926. Reissue. Hardcover. Originally copyrighted 1916, copyright page states New edition, 1921, Reissued January 1925 and this copy reprinted July 1926. Green cloth, gilt to spine a wee dulled, else a beautifully restored issue in scarce dustjacket a bit soiled and moderately chipped along top edge..... More
DENIZENS OF THE DEEP
NY: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Publsher's green cloth with titles in gilt and pictoirial stamped in green, white and black. Owner inscription dated 1904, year of publication, on the ffe. Solid copy of the first edition. More
WHEN SPAIN WAS YOUNG
NY: McBride, Robert M., 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon juvenile with Spanish medieval history as theme, with distinctive woodcuts by Skinner. Review copy with slip tucked in a half title with attendant offsetting. Solid copy. More
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