Children's from heytotobooks

New York: The Macmillan Company (1st Edition, November 1926). Lilac cloth boards with faded spine, 136 pages. Dust jacket missing. Pages age toned; creasing along bottom fore edge of front endpaper and first few pages appears to be a production flaw (see our photos); text clean and unmarked; binding square and tight. Hand-colored frontispiece and other illustrations. Protected by clear… Read more about this item

Chicago: Rand McNally (1st Edition, #8562, 49 cents, 1972). Like new hardcover, unpaginated. ABOUT THE BOOK: A Start-Right Elf Book: Books in this series are factual, fanciful, humorous, questioning and adventurous. Time is a mystery to a child. Five minutes of time is an eternity. TIME FOR EVERYTHING is a delightful story in rhyme. How long does it take… Read more about this item

New York: Barse & Hopkins (1918). Hardcover with green pictorial cloth boards, 242 pages + 5 pages publisher's adverts. No dust jacket, if issued. FFEP has been removed. Previous owner's name on following page, but otherwise clean and unmarked, with solid hinges and binding. Text block sound; pages toned. ABOUT THE BOOK: Book 4 in the Polly Pendleton series. Polly Pendleton… Read more about this item

New York: Cupples & Leon Company (1st Edition, 1918). Hardcover with tan cloth boards, blue and brown titles and decorations on spine and front cover, 202 pages + 10 pages listing other books in the publisher's catalog. Dust jacket missing, if issued. Previous owner's name on FFEP. Frontispiece has been removed. Pages toned, clean and unmarked. Binding solid and square.… Read more about this item

New York: Cupples & Leon Company (1st Edition, 1918). Hardcover with tan cloth boards, brown and blue titles and decorations on spine and front, 208 pages + 4 pages of other books in publisher's catalog. No dust jacket, if issued. Child's vintage book plate affixed inside front cover. FFEP has been removed. Previous owner's name on reverse side of frontispiece,… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap (Presumed 1st Edition, 1916). Hardcover with green boards and paste-down illustration in full color to front cover, 245 pages. No dust jacket, if issued. General age wear and soiling to covers and spine. Pages toned. Still solidly bound, with a straight spine. Gift inscription on FFEP; very small "Return to" notation on RFEP; otherwise unmarked. ABOUT… Read more about this item

Akron, OH: The Saalfield Publishing Company (Presumed 1st Edition, 1936). Small hardcover, 61 pages. No dust jacket, as issued. Previous owner's name and 1936 date on FFEP. Covers show heavy wear, with serious erosion to the top free corners of both covers and pages at same location--see our photos. Covers are age soiled, with wear to the edges, as well… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap (Sleepy-Time Tales, Presumed 1st Edition, 1915). Pictorial hardcover with tan boards, black and red titles and illustration, 112 pages. No dust jacket, if issued. Penciled gift inscription dated Dec 25, 1916 on FFEP. Pages soft and toned. Straight spine; binding and hinges somewhat loose, but text block intact. Defects: Boards age worn with some… Read more about this item

Racine, WI: Western Publishing Company (50th Anniversary Edition, #312-29, R/Revised, 1992). A Little Golden Book with gold foil spine. Clean and unmarked, with a square, tight spine. Pages bright white. Covers bright; lightly scuffed. Wonderfully illustrated by Tibor Gerely. (MF) ABOUT THE BOOK: THE TAXI THAT HURRIED was written by Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Irma Simonton Black and Jessie Stanton with illustrations… Read more about this item

~~NON-PERSONAL INSCRIPTION BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE~~ Kansas City Star Books (Stated 1st Edition, 2007). Softcover. Clean and unmarked, binding tight. Colors on cover bright. ABOUT THE BOOK: This little-known book has the complete, well-researched story of William Allen White, the "Sage of Emporia," written for the lay reader. The author, Beverly Olson Buller, is a former librarian from Winfield,… Read more about this item

Kansas City Star Books (Stated 1st Edition, 2010). HARDCOVER. No dust jacket issued. Like new condition: clean, unmarked, binding tight. Gift quality. ABOUT THE BOOK: In her brief life, Mary White's spunk and spirit left their mark on her hometown. After she died in a riding accident, her father poured his heart and his renowned storytelling skills into a loving essay… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster (1st Edition/Stated 2nd Printing, 1939). Hardcover, red cloth boards in very good condition, with dust jacket in rough condition, 85 pages. Small address sticker from previous owner inside front cover; book is otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows general age wear: scuffing, edge and corner wear, chipping, closed tears. Binding is square and tight. About… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster (1st Edition/Stated 3rd Printing, 1939) Hardcover with red cloth boards, 85 pages. Dust jacket missing. Corners of front cover very lightly bumped. Clean and unmarked, with a square, tight binding. Pages lightly toned. A really nice copy! About the Book: WACKY, THE SMALL BOY, a best seller in 1939, was an affectionate account of Fred Schwed's… Read more about this item

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co. (#803, undated). Hardcover, 188 pages. No dust jacket, as issued. Pages toned and brittle; clean and unmarked. Covers and spine show age wear, with corners bumped and spine extremities chipped. Front cover has been re-attached with clear archival book tape. Binding is weak; spine is shelf cocked. Wonderful art deco cover design. Frank and Fearless was… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie Armand Colin (Stated 2nd Printing, Prix 45 cent,1910). Small book with stiff board covers, rust with cream titles and decorations, cream backstrip, 82 pages (pages numbered 74-156). Book is somewhat fragile; pages are toned and brittle. Stitched binding is intact. Edges of covers show wear and front top corner is worn through to the cardboard. Wonderfully illustrated. This is… Read more about this item

Great vintage wooden puzzle featuring a happy Halloween scarecrow with black cat and pumpkins. Colors are vivid. 14"x16" with 10 puzzle pieces. Appears to be from the 1970s. Possibly homemade using a cardboard decoration widely available at that time. Printed in the U.S.A.

Set of three vintage (1950s) Whitman children's cardboard frame tray puzzles featuring children playing cowgirl, feeding the chickens, and raking the leaves. Large size scroll cut pieces. Original box missing. Puzzles have some wear and tear but are in good shape for their age. See our photos.

Scrapbook containing Laura Ingalls Wilder and Little House on the Prairie ephemera from the 1970s through the 1990s (most of items are from the 1980s). Red covers with gilt borders, screw-post binding (very good condition). Construction paper-type pages; age toned. Only about half of the pages have been used. Most clippings are from the Kansas Farmer magazine. Many are from… Read more about this item

SUE BARTON SERIES, group of 3 books (Visiting Nurse, Rural Nurse, Neighborhood Nurse) ABOUT THE BOOKS AND CONDITION: VISITING NURSE, #3-- Boston: Little, Brown and Company (Stated 13th Printing, November 1949). Hardcover with gray boards and red titles, 244 pages. Very nice dust jacket protected with mylar cover; colors bright; a small amount of wear to corners and edges. Book is… Read more about this item

Set of four books from the PATTY LOU Christian adventure series written in the 1940s by Basil Miller: Patty Lou in the Coast Guard (#4) Patty Lou, The Flying Nurse (#5) Patty Lou, The Flying Missionary (#6) Patty Lou in the Wilds of Central America (#7) CONDITION NOTES: IN THE COAST GUARD: Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan (Stated… Read more about this item