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CHARMOUTH GRANGE. A Tale of the Seventeenth Century. by Groves, J. Percy - 1884

by Groves, J. Percy

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CHARMOUTH GRANGE. A Tale of the Seventeenth Century. by Groves, J. Percy - 1884

CHARMOUTH GRANGE. A Tale of the Seventeenth Century.

by Groves, J. Percy

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London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. All edges gilt; Presentation bookplate; Very slight wear ; 12 plates .
  • Bookseller Gravelly Run Antiquarians US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1884

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The Reluctant Heart 1950
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The Reluctant Heart 1950

by Janet Lambert

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#09020c48e72eThe Reluctant Heart by . Penny Parrish Series. Published by E.P. Dutton, NY. Copyright 1950. Stated First Edition. RARE book. Good - Hardcover, No DJ. Medium Scuffing, faded spine, bumped corners. Inside is Like New. Tight binding. No foxing. 192 pages, 5-1/4x7-3/4. Owners name written in front: Pat Perrin.
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A Child's Garden of Verses
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A Child's Garden of Verses

by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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Akron, Ohio: Saalfield. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1930. Hardcover. 60 p. 30 cm. Moisture stains on rear board has caused slight warp to upper corner and edge. Corners lightly bumped. Some wear to spine ends and corner tips. Moisture spotting on upper board. Overall light rubbing. Small piece missing from one corner of paste-down illustration. Tiny tear to edge of title page. Some foxing within, particularly to rear side of plates. Occasional light soiling to pages, but really quite bright and presentable. Includes 13 full colour and attractive watercolour plates by Clara Burd. This is a rare cloth-bound (black) edition, with a colour paste-down illustration of children raking leaves on the upper board. Book is heavy and will require extra postage to most destinations. .
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Little Folks Picture Story Book
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Little Folks Picture Story Book

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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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London: Thomas Nelson and Sons. Very Good-. [1920]. Hardcover. 159 p. 26 cm. Sound and square with cloth backed spine. Coloured pastedown illustration on upper board. Corners rounded and worn through. Edges worn. Bottom of spine is slightly frayed. Upper board has a couple of small pull marks and stains. Lower board has darkened has has a stain along the bottom front corner. Inside, the endpapers are discoloured, the front free heavily so. The pages have occasional soiling, mostly in the margins, and are slightly age toned. One plate has a closed tear that extends 1" into the illustration and which has been repaired with acid free PVA. Still quite attractive, overall. A collection of stories and poems by such authors as Ethel Talbot and Angela Brazil, with six full colour plates by Scottish illustrator Anne Anderson, and pen and ink illustrations by her and her husband Allan Wright. .
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Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
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Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen: A New Translation with Over Two Hundred Illustrations

by Hans Christian Andersen

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Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, a New Translation with over 200 illustrations, by Harrison Weir, V. Pederson, M.I. Stone, A.W. Bayes, and Others,
Published by Porter & Coates, Philadelphia. No date, but very early date – see info below on "Alta Edition."
Includes detailed sixteen-page introductory biography: "Life of Andersen". Green cloth boards, black embossed cover and spine design with vine and leaves. Title in the black book on front cover and Alta Edition in an outlined box lower middle of cover. On the spine is the title, the word, "Illustrated" and publisher's name which is not as clear as the other two. Cover and spine are faded and rubbed with edge wear. The ends of spine are fraying. Small chip on the back cover. Binding intact, but loose. First three pages have detached from the hinge. Interior clean and unmarked except for previous owner's name on two of the fly pages. In addition to the owner's name there is a little stick figure. Several of the pages have small tears on the… Read More
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Steel Drums and Ice Skates
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Steel Drums and Ice Skates

by Mclean & Anderson

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9780888992581 / 0888992580
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Bethel, Connecticut, United States
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Signed by author Dirk McLean. No jacket, but has illustrated full color exteriors. Front cover-faint surface scratches. Scratches on front end paper. Small black mark on exterior page edges. Unpaginated. Kids picture book. Fiction about immigration. Canadian fiction. 8" X 9.25" X 0.25 Fully color illustrations by Ho Che Anderson. When her parents went to Canada to find work, they left Hollie behind in Trinidad with her Tanty Millie. But one day her parents send for her to join them. She must fly north to a strange new land to reunite with parents she hardly knows. Will she like snow and living with her parents again?
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Penrod Jashber

Penrod Jashber

by Tarkington, Booth

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1st
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Granville, New York, United States
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NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1929. First Edition, first printing. Hard cover. Published NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1929. Illus. by Gordon Grant. Blue cloth with yellow lettering and cover illustation. Spine faded, otherwise very good - tight, straight, text clean, pages very bright, no markings.. 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Gordon Grant. 8vo.. Illus.
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Chappie and the Others
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Chappie and the Others

by Heward, Constance

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1st Edition
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Hardcover
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Clarence Gardens, South Australia, Australia
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London: Frederick Warne and Co.. 1926. 12mo. [17x12cm]. Good condition in dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. Dustjacket is price-clipped with some loss to spine ends and corners. Book has corresponding fading and a tiny tear to top of spine. Corners a little rubbed. Illustrated with lovely colour and black & white pictures by Savile Lumley. 54 pages. Constance Heward was the author of the popular Ameliaranne series. Savile Lumley was a popular book illustrator and poster designer. He also provided the drawings for several magazines and comics including The Boy's Own Paper, The Champion Annual, Chatterbox and Little Folks. During the First World War he designed the famous poster, Daddy, what did you do in the Great War? . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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Sooky (dear Sooky)  Letters from Skippy
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Sooky (dear Sooky) Letters from Skippy

by Crosby, Percy

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Taylor, Texas, United States
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Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good+ in Fair Dust Jacket. 1929. Hardcover. From rear DJ panel: "the fragile and beautiful sequel to "skippy", this book is a collection of random letters of a small boy, Skippy, to Sooky, which, in philosophy and pathos, represent the very height of contemporary humour. All 7 tipped-in illustrations by the author are present. Very hard to find with DJ. Edgewear is minimal with the minor exception of head and heel of spine, the second page in the book has been torn out so I don't know what page it was. Title page, copyright page, frontispiece and front free endpaper still present. This torn-out page was between the ffep and illustrated frontispiece and I suspect it was a second ffep which had a signature on it (you can see the mirror image on the first ffep. DJ is chipped and torn, and has the list of other G&D children's books listed on the back. DJ was taped back together on the underside. All the 'enclosed' letters on front… Read More
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Munachar & Manachar: An Irish Story

Munachar & Manachar: An Irish Story

by Rockwell, Anne (Illus); Jacobs, Joseph (Auth)

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Used - Near Fine
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First Edition
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Torrington, Connecticut, United States
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New York: Thomas Y. Crowell (1970). Yellow cloth with light shelf wear; color pictorial dust jacket with light soil and age-toned. An old Irish folk tale about two leprechauns, one who does the work and the other who benefits (much to the dismay of the other). Bright and hilarious artwork accompany the equally amusing tale. Very difficult to find title.. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Anne Rockwell. Oblong 4to.
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Mary had a Little Lamb and other Nursery Songs
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Mary had a Little Lamb and other Nursery Songs

by Rey, H.A.

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First Edition
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Unknown
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Puffin Picture Books, Penguin Books, 1951. First Edition. Songbook of ten popular nursery rhymes illustrated by Hans Augusto Rey (1898 -1977). A German Jew who escaped the Nazis in 1940 on a home-made bicycle with his wife and collaborator, Margret Rey, Hans Rey is renowned for his best-selling children's book, "Curious George", the original manuscript for which was one of the very few things they took with them when they fled. (Puffin picture book lithographed in England by Balding and Mansell Ltd., Wisbech.). Oblong octavo, bound in illustrated paper wrappers, 18 x 23 cms, 23 pages, a very good copy.
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Charmouth Grange a Tale of the Seventeenth Century

Charmouth Grange a Tale of the Seventeenth Century

by Groves, J. Percy

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By Dunblane, United Kingdom
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London: Samson Low Marston & Co Ltd. Decorative Cloth. Good. Bound in attractive decorative dark purple cloth with gilt titling. In good condition. Fading to cloth colour at cover edges and spine, minor rubbing to cover edges. Hinges are weak, but binding is good and secure. Free front end paper is missing. Light foxing to first and last couple of pages, otherwise clean internally. 242 pages with colour frontispiece and 4 additional illustrations. No date given, circa late 19th century. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole

Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole

by Engle, Joanna

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First Edition
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Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780394856438 / 0394856430
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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Day In and Day Out (The Alice and Jerry Books, Reading Foundation Series)
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Day In and Day Out (The Alice and Jerry Books, Reading Foundation Series)

by Mabel O'Donnell; Alice Carey

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Arlington, Virginia, United States
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Evanston, Illinois: Row, Peterson and Company, n.d. [copyright 1936]. Hardcover. First Edition, no additional printings listed. First-grade reader in the Alice and Jerry basal reader educational series. Red cloth over boards with blue & yellow titles and illustration of a dog and duckling. Good+. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown, a few penciled notes. Sewn binding is straight and tight. Corners and spine ends bumped. Covers clean and bright. Not from a school or library. See photos. 156 pages with color illustrations on every page. Word list.
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Bob Son of Battle
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Bob Son of Battle

by Alfred Oliphant

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first
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Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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The story focuses on the rivalry between two sheepdogs and their masters, and chronicles the coming of age of a boy who is caught between them. David M'Adam, the boy, was half-orphaned by the death of his mother, and is left to the care of his father, Adam M'Adam, a sarcastic, angry alcoholic with a few redeeming qualities. M'Adam is the owner of Red Wull, a huge, violent dog who herds his sheep by brute force.
Doubleday & McClure, 1899. Hardcover. Condition: vg+. .356 pages Find copy in Dark Blue Boards . copyright Doubleday & McClure (New York), 1889. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Rare first edition original 1899 edition by Doubleday and McClure Company New York. Nice copy all on hand laid paper. Deckled edges. Bob Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant. Copyright 1889. Some browning of pages. In a navy cloth binding. Externally sound. Some shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked/,
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Ronny Meets the Cadborosuarus
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Ronny Meets the Cadborosuarus

by Elmay Crow

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Crow Publishing, Victoria, 1971, 30 pages, 6.5" x 8.5", Near Fine, Comb Bound Softcover. An uncommon self published companion to "Ronny Meets The Sasquatch".
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Bedtime Stories
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Bedtime Stories

by Tenggren, Gustaf: Illustrated by

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1978 - 16th printing- vintage Bedtime Stories - Little Red Riding Hood - book: very good - all pages are clean and unmarked - edge wear on boards good for age - pages show some toning at edges - ELEMENT: includes a little red riding hood/big bad wolf as grandma flip doll - doll is professionally sewn with intricate details
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El Principe Picenin – The Little Prince
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El Principe Picenin – The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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A special copy of The Little Prince translated into the Venetian (Venetan/Veneto) language, also called dialeto del mar – the dialect of the sea. Included is the bookmark from the bookstore - Libreria Acqua Alta. Great gift for any Little Prince collector. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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The House That Jack Built
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The House That Jack Built: The Old Woman and Her Pig

by Rodney Peppe

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Pocket sized reproduction from Pleasewell Series of the 1890s. This edition is reversible with The Old Woman and Her Pig also featured when the book is flipped over. Each story has reproduced lithographs from the original publication. No creasing, no age spots, Like New !
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Foreign Agent
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Foreign Agent

by Thor, Brad

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Used - Very Good
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Very Good
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First
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Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781501147494 / 1501147498
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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New York: Atria Books, 2016. Signed on fep First Edition with full number line This is a limited, signed edition with an exclusive, to this edition, additional chapter. Please note what looks like a "Signed Edition" sticker on the front of dust jacket. It is not a a sticker; it is part of the design of the jacket. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 338 pages PLUS additional chapter "exclusively for Target customers." Target is US-based department store. From jacket: "Scot Harvath has exactly the skills the CIA is looking for. He's a former Navy SEAL with extensive experience in espionage. Working for a private intelligence company, he will provide the CIA, and more important, the President, with absolute deniability. But deep within the Russian Caucasus, Moscow also has its own special kind of operative... When a clandestine American operations team is ambushed near Syria, all signs point toward a dangerous informant in Brussels..." A new book, but with… Read More
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Going To the Doctor (First Experiences Series)

Going To the Doctor (First Experiences Series)

by Fred Rogers

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3rd Printing Thus
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Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780399212987 / 0399212981
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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… Read More
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The Man Who Lost His Head
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The Man Who Lost His Head

by Claire Huchet Bishop

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Reprint Edition
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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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