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Adopted by an Owl : The True Story of Jackson the Owl

by Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuyzen

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Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
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First edition
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Hardcover
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen. Quarto-sized (oversized). Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. Sticker on front cover of dj indicating this book is a signed copy. Small bookplate that has been blackened over with marker on front free endpaper. Signed by author and illustrator. Unpaginated with illustrations. The entertaining story of the author and illustrator's care for Jackson, a great horned owl.
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Applebet : an ABC

by Watson, Clyde. Illustrated Wendy Watson

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  • near fine
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Used - Near fine
Edition
First edition
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Hardcover
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New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good, price clipped. Thin octavo (standard size). SIGNED and inscribed by the author AND illustrator on dedication page, with a small drawing of a mouse added. Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. A farmer and her daughter go to the county fair in fall, and their adventures are told in rhymed verse.
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Arthur's TV Trouble

by Brown, Marc

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Used - Very good
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First edition
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Hardcover
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thin squarish octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Small nick in dj at spine. Full number line 10 to 1. 21st in the Arthur series, but uncommon in a nice, clean, first printing.
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Cupid

by Cole, Babette

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  • very good
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Used - Very good
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First edition
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Hardcover
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thin quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dj. SIGNED and inscribed by the author / illustrator on title page. Cupid joins his parents, the goddess of beauty and the god of thunder, in visiting Earth, but steals a bow and arrow and flies around making people fall in love until things get out of hand.
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Did You Say Ghosts?

by Michelson, Richard. illustrated by Leonard Baskin

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  • very good
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Used - Very good
Edition
First edition
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Hardcover
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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New York, NY: Macmillan, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. A series of monsters, each scared of the one that comes after. For older children.
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Dixie Dobie: A Sable Island Pony.

by Johnson, Margaret S., and Helen Lossing Johnson.

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  • very good
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Used - Very good
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First edition, second printing
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Hardcover
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945.. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. Very good/good. Very good octavo hardcover in good clipped dust jacket. Some wear to the edges corners of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine. The dj has some wear and chipping to edges, with the largest chip at the rear cover. Light foxing to the page edges. Address label of former owner on first endpaper. 90 pages with illustrations. The adventures of a wild pony on Sable Island and Nova Scotia.
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An Egg is Quiet

by Aston, Dianna. illustrated by Sylvia Long

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Used - Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket
Edition
First edition
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Hardcover
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Oversized. Slight wear to edgs and corners. A charming book about eggs, from hummingbird to ostrich, with lovely illustrations by Long, who is well known for her illustrations of nature and of books with Native American themes.
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Elmer Buys a Circus

by Gilbert, Paul T.

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  • Hardcover
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Used - Good in Fair dust jacket
Edition
First edition
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Hardcover
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New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Good in Fair dust jacket. Octavo (standard size). Dj has wear to edges and corners, with small tears and chipping. Front cover still bright. Some wear to edges and corners of boards. Some staining to edges of textblock. Book is slightly musty.
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Firebrat

by Willard, Nancy. illustrated by David Wiesner

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Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Edition
First edition
Binding
Hardcover
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New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. , 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Octavo (standard size). SIGNED and inscribed on title page with a drawing of a quarter moon with face and a star by Willard. Some wear to edges and corners of dj, less so to boards. 2 friends discover an old subway station station, which is a gateway to the Crystal Empire and it's curse of the Firebrat.
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Hamburger Heaven

by Yee, Wong Herbert

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  • Hardcover
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Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Edition
First edition
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Hardcover
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Quarto-sized. SIGNED and hand illustrated. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. Bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. Unpaginated illustrated children's book. Title page features an inscription and hand-drawn illustration by the author/illustrator of Pinky Pig playing the clarinet. Pinky Pig saves her job and her boss's restaurant with her odd creations, in order to get her beloved clarinet.
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How Brown Mouse Kept Christmas

by Watson, Clyde. illustrated by Wendy Watson

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  • near fine
  • Hardcover
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Used - Near fine
Edition
First edition
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Hardcover
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New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Squarish, thin duodecimo (smaller than standard). SIGNED and inscribed by the illustrator on tile page, with a small drawing of mouse's head added. Slight wear to edgs and corners of dj and boards. Front dj flap has old sticker residue. The first Christmas of Brown Mouse, who goes with his attic-living family to see it. Uncommon signed.
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In the Language of Loons

by Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie

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Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Edition
Third printing
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Hardcover
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New York, NY: Cobblehill Books / Dutton, 1998. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Small octavo ( standard size). SIGNED with small inscription on tltle page. Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. A boy spends a summer with his grandparents in Vermont and learning to run and gaining lessons about life from his grandfather's tales and the loons in the local lake.
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Just for Fun : a Collection of Stories and Verses Illustrated by Robert Lawson

by Lawson, Robert illustrator. various authors

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Used - Very good
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First edition
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Hardcover
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New York, NY: Rand McNally & Company, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/poor. Thin quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Corners lightly bumped. Spine slightly faded. Name of former owner written in ink on endpaper. Dj is in poor condition, with small tears at edges, and to large tears at lower front ( one previously taped with residue marks). Some soiling to dust jacket. Dj is clipped. Illustrated endpapers. A collection of works by others, illustrated in b&w line drawings by Laeson. One of his more uncommon titles.
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The Lion Tamer ( Tales from the East )

by Revich S. J.

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  • Hardcover
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Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Edition
Second printing
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Hardcover
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Princeton, NJ : Bristol. Rhein, and Englander, 2001 (1990). Second printing. Hardcover in attractive red patterned binding. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Thin octavo ( standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. A bit of sticker residue at rear. A tale of a young orphan Jewish boy working in the private menagerie of the King of Navarre in medieval Spain who is caught up in a plot against the King. part of a series of Jewish historical tales for young readers
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Little Sister and the Month Brothers

by de Regniers, Beatrice Schenk

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Used - Very good
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First edition
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Hardcover
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New York, NY: Seabury Press, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good, unclipped. Thin quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dj. DJ has more wear and a couple very small tears. SIGNED by the author on a pasted in complimentary card from the publisher on the endpaper. A retelling of a Slavic folktale where a mistreated little girl gains the help of the 12 months to end her hard times.
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The Night Before Christmas

by Moore, Clement Clark. Watson, Wendy, illustrator

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  • very good
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Very good
Edition
Second [ 2nd ] printing
Binding
Hardcover
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New York, NY: Clarion Books, 1990. Second [ 2nd ] printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thin quarto (standard size). SIGNED and inscribed by the illustrator on the half title page with an ink drawing of a cat with small stars on one side. Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. A lovely version of this classic tale, showing the illustrator's vision of Christmas, with illustrations on every page. Uncommon signed.
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Once Upon a Pond.

by Guthrie, Jr., A. B.

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Used - Good in Good dust jacket
Edition
First edition
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Hardcover
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Good in Good dust jacket. Carol B. Guthrie.. Good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Wear and rubbing to edges of boards. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with some small closed tears including 3 tears of an inch in length on the front cover and an inch chip missing from heel of spine. Dj is also lightly scuffed with a few small blue dots on covers. Gift inscription to previous owner, not by author, on front pastedown endpaper. Signed by both the author and illustrator on the dedication page. 91 pages with illustrations. A collection of stories about the adventures of the animals around Pond Placid in Montana.
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Orlando the Marmalade Cat : A Trip Abroad

Orlando the Marmalade Cat : A Trip Abroad: First edition, first printing

by Hale, Kathleen O.B.E.

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Used - Good in Rough dust jacket
Edition
First edition
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Hardcover
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London: Country Life, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Good in Rough dust jacket. Folio. Price clipped dj has tears at front bottom and at right front corners, and a pieces missing from lower spine and back cover. Upper left corner of dj back crinkled. Cellophane tape stains to areas around tears. Corners and lower edges of boards have noticeable wear. Front board illustration bright, with only light soiling to covers. Interior clean and bright, no marks. British illustrator Kathleen Hale (1898-2000) is best known for her Orlando books, of which this is the second in that series of 19 books. For her beloved work she was recognized when she was given the Order of the British Empire in 1976. Uncommon, more so in a dust jacket of any condition. A good addition to any collection of British illustrators.
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Portly McSwine

by Marshall, James words and pictures

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Used - Very good
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First edition
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Hardcover
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Squarish, thin, octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Sticker residue on rear panel of dj. Name of former owner writen on the pastedown and again on the flyleaf.
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Watch for the Ghost (a Pied Piper Book)

by Haigh, Sheila

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Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Edition
First edition
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Hardcover
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London: Methuen Children's Books, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Small (7 3/4") duodecimo. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dj. 128 p. w/ a few black and white illustrations. An illiterate runaway in trouble breaks into a house where he thinks a ghost is staying, and comes face to face with his problems and their solution.
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