Search Results: Children's Literature from CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB

London: "Girl's Own Paper" Office/Religious Tract Society/R.T.S. Book. Illus. by Silas, Ellis. Very Good. Cloth (hardcover). 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. No date, but early printing, c. early 1930s. Blue lettering and design to red cloth hardcovers. Some light rubbing/shelfwear to edges/corners. Neat school presentation bookplate, dated 1935. Slight foxing to edges, and to front and rear leaves. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat. Colour frontispiece. 222p..

New York: Harper & Row, 1976. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pictorial cloth boards with matching dust wrapper. Clean. bright, tight, sharp and completely unmarked copy in nice wrapper showing a little wear. Very nice..

New York: Harpercollins, 1994. Book. Near Fine. Wraps (soft-cover). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat. Illustrated. x,224p..

New York: Scholastic, 1995. Book. Illus. by Baynes, Pauline. Near Fine. Wraps. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Some slight rubbing to extremities. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat..

London: Burns & Oates, 1961. Book. Illus. by Walford, Astrid. Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Some light rubbing to covers. Owner's name. Small bookseller's sticker to front endpaper. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book in similar lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Very neat..

London: Henry Frowde -- Hodder & Stoughton Book. Illus. by Aldin, Cecil. Very Good. Boards. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [1913]. Light olive/tan paper-covered boards. Black titling to front and spine; Colour plate to front. Very bright all around, with some slight "furring" of paper surface at extremities. Pictorial endpapers. A clean, tight and unmarked book in very good to near fine condition -- a superb copy. Six colour illustrations by Aldin -- one is over two pages..

London: Griffith and Farran, 1863. Book. Fair. Decorative Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original gilt and stamped decorative blue cloth hardcovers. Expertly rebacked with original spine laid down; new corners, and new marbled endpapers. Wear and rubbing to cloth hardcovers. Spine titles still just legible, but front brighter. Title-page lost. Toning to edges. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Frontispiece. Two-page advert's for Kingston books, as well as 32-page publisher's catalogue (dated 1863) at rear. 2[ads.]+xii,282+2[ads.]+32[ads.]p..

London: S. W. Partridge Book. Very Good. Boards. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. c.1920. Illustrated glossy paper-covered boards. Some light rubbing wear to covers/extremities. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat, a sound copy. Illustrated. Numerous adverts. to front and rear endpapers..

London: Raphael Tuck & Sons Book. Illus. by Davie, Howard. Good. Cloth-backed boards. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Olive quarter-cloth binding over illustrated paper-covered boards. Black lettering to spine. Some moderate wear, rubbing and loss to extremities of covers. Occasional foxing to text. Otherwise a clean and unmarked book. Neat. Colour plates throughout, all present. 106+6[ads.]p..

Toronto: William Briggs, 1906. Book. Illus. by Campbell, V. Floyd. Poor. Cloth-backed boards. First Canadian Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Green quarter-cloth binding over green grey paper-covered boards. Colour plate set to front cover. Moderate wear and rubbing to extremities. Text-block is loose from binding, with many loose pages and attendant edge-wear. There is significant loss to one colour illustration, but no loss to text. A few pages have closed tears. Rear endpaper is lost. A damaged (or well-used) example of the scarce Canadian issue of the first edition, with cancel title-page with the Toronto imprint. Interesting thus, and still readable, with all the entertaining colour prints and line illustrations. 180p..

Don Mills, ON, Canada: Stoddart Publishing Book. Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First Canadian Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A clean, tight and unmarked book in similar unclipped dust jacket. Very neat..