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Penelope's English Experiences; Penelope's Progress (Two Volumes) by Wiggin, Kate Douglas - 1900
by Wiggin, Kate Douglas
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Penelope's English Experiences; Penelope's Progress (Two Volumes)
by Wiggin, Kate Douglas
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. Book. Illus. by Charles E. Brock, Illustrator. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Holiday Edition.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. Holiday Edition. Very Good+/no dustjacket . Charles E. Brock, Illustrator. Two matching volumes, one of them (Volume II) inscribed and signed by author Kate Douglas Wiggin. VOLUME I: Penelope's English Experiences. Date on title page MDCCCC (1900). Olive green cloth decorated and lettered in gold on cover and spine, blind-stamped decorative border on rear board. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Light wear to spine corners. Pages and edges are clean, with gilt page edges. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Frontis illustration with clean tissue guard. Fifty-three illustrations by Charles E. Brock. 176 pages. VOLUME II - Penelope's Progress - Being Such extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton as relate to her Experiences in Scotland. Olive green cloth boards with gold decoration and lettering on cover and spine. Spots of wear to spine corners. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with gilt page edges. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper: "Give me Queen's weather, dear Sun, and shine a benison upon my wedding-morn! - Last page - Kate Douglas Wiggin." (She is quoting a line from the last page). Frontis illustration with clean tissue guard; fifty-five illustrations by Charles E. Brock. Date on title page MDCCCCI (1901). 301 pages..
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- Keywords PENELOPE'S EXPERIENCES - ENGLAND; KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, DECORATED AMERICAN TRADE BINDING, DATB, CHILDREN'S, TRAVEL, SCOTLAND, ENGLAND
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Sounder: Author's First Childrens Book
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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
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London, Jonathan Cape, 1962, hardcover, 159 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Good condition, lacking dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, wear to head and heel of spine, light bumps and scuffs to boards. The first book in the author's twelve-book, fictional history, 'Wolves' series. Illustrated from drawings by Pat Marriott.
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First edition and first full length Superman novel. With 10 full page illustrations - four of them in color- by famous Superman illustrator Joe Shuster. The Cover is in fair condition with shelf wear particularly along cover edges and wear and tears along spine. Light soiling and light age toning on a few pages. Pages predominantly in very good condition. Illustrations in excellent condition; however, the illustration on page 153 has separated from the binding. Book will be priority mailed to any domestic address.
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Miss Ulysses From Puka-Puka: The Autobiography of a South Sea Trader's Daughter
by Florence (Johnny) Frisbie
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The Easton Press, Children's Classics, 1987. Illustrated by Flora White and Francis D. Bedford. Hardcover. No dust jacket, as issued. Used - Near Fine. Easton Press bookplate with former owner's name affixed to the front fly leaf. Else Fine / As New. Bound In full (genuine) dark green leather with hubbed spine. Text block is tight and clean with no other ownership markings. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper with gilded edges. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints, silk moire fabric end leaves, and permanent satin ribbon marker. Photos are of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.
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by William H. Armstrong
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Dust jacket is very worn, now protected with a mylar book cover. Clipped dj. flaps inside, both ends. No Awards listed past 1969, see photos. Book iteself in near fine condition. States this is William Armstrong's first children's book, 1069 on dj.
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London, Jonathan Cape, 1962, hardcover, 159 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Good condition, lacking dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, wear to head and heel of spine, light bumps and scuffs to boards. The first book in the author's twelve-book, fictional history, 'Wolves' series. Illustrated from drawings by Pat Marriott.
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The Secret of the Ninth Planet
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Philadelphia, The John C. Winston Company, 1959, hardcover, 201 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight, bright, and clean with no markings, slight spine end and corner wear. Very brightly-colored, first state dustjacket with thirty-one titles on the rear panel, unclipped and bearing original price, tiny chips to spine-ends and corners, short closed edge tears to top front, and bottom rear panels, in new Brodart sleeve. A high school senior joins an Air Force expedition attempting the first circumnavigation of the solar system to determine the cause of the sudden dimming of light and drop in temperature around the world.
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Toronto, Penguin, 2008, hardcover, 464 pp, second printing, Fine condition, Signed by the Author on the title page. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in Fine unclipped dustjacket bearing original price. The award-winning author of more than 30 books for young people of all ages presents this authorized prequel to the famous Lucy Maude Montgomery series. We follow Anne's difficult early life before Avonlea, from being tragically orphaned as a baby, through a series of foster homes, surviving her dark reality with her books and the power of her vivid imagination. ISBN 9780670067213
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A Stitch in Time (The Quilt Trilogy)
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Penelope's English Experiences (1900)
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Martin Luther King Jr: A Picture Story
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The Sky and the Forest
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Samuel The Seeker
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Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.
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The Man Who Lost His Head
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The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.
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Going To the Doctor (First Experiences Series)
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Fred Rogers: First Experiences Book Series: Going To the Doctor (1986 1st Ed. 3rd Pr. Thus, G.P. Putnam)RARE in this first hardcover edition. Quite the find. Used. VG/VG condition unclipped dust jacket, printed price $12.95 Mr. Rogers appears on the back dj panel wearing a pale blue sweater. "In this book, real life photos are used to help young people feel more comfortable with interacting with other children and making new friends. A Note From Fred Rogers: A child's first visit with a pediatrician usually comes soon after birth. It may be months or even years later, though, that a child first shows fear about going to see a doctor. The worry of an injection or some other unfamiliar medical procedure can trigger that fear. It can also appear because another family member may be feeling medical anxieties. And, of course, new body awareness and needs for privacy develop naturally in children's early years, so all these feelings can make it very hard for them to let doctors investigate the workings of…
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Little May and Her Friend Conscience
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Little May and Her Friend Conscience. Used. Very Good+ Condition. RARE/SCARCE. ANTIQUARIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK. Thomas Nelson & Sons First Edition, 1876. Color front paper paste-down label is in good shape. Complete. Dark Blue, blind-stamped boards. Pocket-size. 70 pages plus adverts.
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The Fault in Our Stars
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Black boards with silver writing on spine; dings on top of front and back boards near corners. Top and bottom corners of front boards bumped; top and bottom of spine rumpled. Chip and wrinkles on top edge of front dust jacket; chip on corner of back dust jacket near fold to spine. Shelf wear on top and bottom of dust jacket spine; tight binding and pages still look in excellent condition. Cover price of $17.99 on front dust jacket flap, which has slight wrinkle at top of flap.Dutton First Edition; Thirty-First Printing as indicated by number line ending of "40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31" on copyright page. Signed by author on second interior page. Red cloud image with Target logo and advertising Bonus DVD from author with behind-the scenes looks at the movie.Green's second novel, which became his most famous one and has been made into a movie. Hardcover and original unclipped dust jacket protected by archival Mylar cover.
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A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
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Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."
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Four trade paperback editions of classic Doonesbury cartoons. The slipcase has minor wear but the books themselves are Like New and possibly never opened! Original political satire
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