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Thomas Nelson. Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. HC/DJ - near fine/good. Green cloth hardcover is clean and unmarked, slight spotting outer edge of pages and slight fading to edges. Jacket has several small edge tears, scuffing/light scratches and an chip (approx 2" x 1") out of rear top, price clipped. Adventures of a 17-year old officer of the Royal Americans as he joins an expedition for copper headed for Fort Mackinac, Lake Superior during the time between the French and Indian Wars and the American Revolution. (475); 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 263 pages .

Harcourt Brace. New. 1998. First Edition. Softcover. 0152022686 . Excellent condition, only very light wear overall, no markings. Young adult reading. .14 year old Marina and 16 year old Jed accompany their parents' religious cult, the Believers, to await the end of the world atop a remote mountain, where they try to decide what they themselves believe. (os) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

London: Heinemann. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce hardcover edition. By the author of Morning's at Seven. Ex-library with only partial spine sticker to jacket . A few other library markings and partially removed back pocket with some glue residue. Edgewear very light - jacket clean, tiny peeled area on spine, light soiling outer edge of pages, not price clipped. Pages all intact and clean other than the library stamps, 3 lines underlined on 2nd to last page and a little soiling on first endpage. Gaylord, that incredibly charming 7 year old, handles everyone (or so he imagines) with devilish cunning. It's only in Momma that he meets his match - and though he would be horrified by the suggestion, in his small cousin, the dreaded Emma. For, with appalling suddenness, the close-knit Pentecost household is disrupted by the arrival of three young visitors: David, an enignma; the lovely Jenny, who to Momma's alarm, "likes mature… Read More

New Readers Press. Very Good. 1988. First Edition. Softcover. 0883363151 . Ex-library book, but still in very good condition - sturdy laminated cover and usual ex-lib type markings. Light wear to corners of laminate. Pages clean and tight. B/w illustrations. Juvenile/Young adult. Ghostly adventure stories set in the barrio. Each story comes with a word study guide. 79 pages. (200osl) ; 8vo .

ON: Napoleon Publishing. Very Good+. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0929141482 . Signed/inscribed by author on title page: "To ___, Best Wishes! ! David A. Poulsen" . Very nice, clean, tight condition. Pages unmarked. Cover has light edge/corner wear, light scuffing, a little upturning of front cover. "Twelve year-old Billy Gavin and seventeen year-old John "Bearman" Ridell, two boys from seemingly different backgrounds, discover that they in fact have a great deal in common - they are both runaways. When the news of a downed plane and a missing rodeo cowboy in the woods and mountains reaches them, Bearman becomes obsessed with the thought of finding a lost man. The boys find themselves faced with the greatest challenge of their lives. " [osl-233] ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .

TX: Arte Publico Press. Very Good+. 1997. First Edition. Softcover. 1558852131 . Tight, clean copy. Retired library book with sturdy laminated cover & usual type markings. Cover wear is very light. Internal pages clean, slight soiling to outer edges. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; "Eighteen-year-old Val leaves his West Texas hometown to search for his long-lost father. The quest takes him to the gaming table of Reno, Nevada and offers Val an escape from an impending marrieage and an existence in a town where life has been difficult because his mother is Mexican. Ultimately, the reunion not only gives him the father he'd thought dead but also a newfound pride in his Mexican heritage and the courage to follow his dream. " (431-noto? ) .

Dell Publishing. Very Good. 1964. First Edition. Softcover. Dell Pub. , first printing 1964. Clean, tight condition. Pages are clean other than name and small bookstore stamp on endpage, age tanning to page edges and inside cover. Bottom corner of back cover has a small piece torn from it. Cover otherwise VG with only very light edgewear and some fading to spine. (155noto) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Saalfield Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1942. Hardcover. Cover very good with light spotting to spine and upper edge, light wear at corners. Pages all intact, and clean other than inscription and small Christmas sticker on endpage. Partial paper split with small tears at spine at front, a little moreso at rear. Contents page has a closed tear at bottom edge. Age tanning to interior. Dave Dawson joins the Air Corps to help fight the Nazis during WWII. Young adult series. [291]; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Macmillan. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 0333141652 . First printing. Hardcover has minimal wear. Pages are clean and intact with no markings. Jacket is clean and bright, with light edge wear and several small tears, one larger chip from back cover (1 1/2" x 1" approx) , not price clipped. Adventure novel set in 1770 about a young man's trip from Hudson Bay south to the Great Lakes, and his encounters with Indians on the way. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 255 pages .

Toronto: Totem Books. Very Good. 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Cover has light edge and corner wear, small peel to upper corner where sticker was likely removed. Interior clean and intact. Age tanning to page edges and inside cover. A different world.. The inlet is narrow, the small bay exposed to Pacific gales. There is a government dock and across the water a reserve. A few houses are scattered along the shore below the tree-clad mountains. It is wild country and very beautiful. Andrew had lived there briefly as a child and had come back to look for his father's grave. In his parent's derelict house an Indian family of nine was living. Helen Morgan was one of them. She was 17, intelligent and proud.... (300-noto) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Scholastic. Very Good. 1976. First Edition. Softcover. 0590026232 . Pages clean and intact, age tanning to page edges and inside covers. Cover has light edgewear and moderate scuffing, light creasing. Stories of the weird and macabre. Authors: Ambrose Bierce, Lafcadio Hearn, and Sheridan Le Fanu. (115os) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; .

Scholastic Book Services. Very Good+. 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Tight, clean condition. Pages are unmarked other than small lending library stamp on endpage, age tanning to page edges. Cover has light edge & corner wear & small library sticker on spine. No other library markings. "Sixteen year old Cathy has always been a happy person; but now her adoptive mother is dead and she's faced with having to live with relatives. Good old Morris wants her but his wife doesn't. Lawrie is about to be married and Dale has a problem with concerns Cathy....Why is the family so tense & divided? Why will no one explain? What secret lurks in the past?" (*shipping will be reduced after checkout on this lighter item) [osl] ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Clarke, Irwin & Co.. Very Good+. 1978. Third Printing. Softcover. 0772013144 . Excellent condition, clean and unmarked. Light edge and corner wear to cover, price sticker on rear. "Michael turned 14 in May. By June, both his parents have died, victims of a car crash. And for Michael, who has lived all his life in a small Newfoundland outport community, this means being suddenly uprooted and sent to live with relatives in St. Albert, hundreds of miles away. Hold Fast is the story of Michael's struggle in his new environment. In vivid prose, it depicts his fight against an array of enemies — loud-mouthed schoolmate Kenston, who ridicules his speech, and his uncle, who tries to rule his home life with an iron hand. It is also the story of the friendship that develops between Michael and Curtis, his cousin, and his uncertain new feelings for Brenda. " [223-osl] ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 170 pages .

New York: Curtis Books. Very Good. 1970. First Edition. Softcover. 0502050047 . Pages intact, with no markings, age tanning to pages and inside covers. Cover has light edge/corner wear and light creasing. It's a real spook-out, when rock's coolest supergroup invades a mansion filled with ghosts and deadly danger. (os-110,4-24) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Laurel Leaf. Very Good. 1971. Softcover. 0440942039 . Laurel Leaf 1971 printing. Pages clean and intact, age tanning to pages and inside covers. Cover has light edge and corner wear, light creasing to rear. "High school senior Tom Curtis is faced with the choice of two worlds: the predictable world of a college education ... Or the unknown, untried world of jazz musicians ..... He slowly begins to find himself as an artist, and as a person...." [81-osl]; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Whitman. Near Fine in Fair dust jacket. 1950. Hardcover. Whitman 1950 printing. Edited for Young Readers. HC/DJ - near fine/Fair. Hardcover is clean with light wear at corners. Pages clean other than a couple very small ink markings, age tanning to interior. Jacket has numerous small tears and chips to edges, tanning, not clipped. "Zane Grey's story of two famous bordermen, Jonathan Zane and Lew Wetzel, is an exciting tale of pioneering in the Ohio valley. " (400-noto) ; 8vo .

Oxford University Press. Very Good. 1990. Hardcover. 0192714805 . 1990 reprint. Hardcover, no jacket as issued. Excellent condition, clean and unmarked, wear is minimal. A young boy is stunned by the death of his English teacher and has reasons to doubt the verdict of suicide. Not just an exciting thriller, but a masterly study of a boy driven by suspicion , divided loyalties , and the desire to find out the truth. Young adult. (205os-3-24) ; 8vo; 120 pages .

Zebra Books. Very Good. 1995. First Edition. Softcover. 0821749099 . Clean, tight condition. School library stamps on endpage and very light stamp top edge, otherwise unmarked. Cover has light edge & corner wear. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 256 pages; Young Mickey Rawlings stumbles across a murder in 1912 Fenway Park, where he learns an entirely new lesson about foul play as he becomes the number one suspect in a case that forces him to launch his own investigation. [128-notosl] .

Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0679890351 . New book, not a used item. SUMMARY: "Jaime has just finished her life in Phoenix, her life with boyfriend Buddy, and her life as a girl. Now she's ready for a new beginning as a woman at a sophisticated Eastern college where she can forget about the girl she used to be--the girl whose father gambled away her college fund and is now awaiting trial for embezzlement...." Young adult reading. (400noto) ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Nelson Canada. Very Good+. 1984. First Edition. Softcover. 017602087X . Very light wear to corners, tiny tear spine top. Interior clean, tight and unmarked. Has a back pocket but no other indication of this being a library book. "Why does a little town like Harmony need two John A. Macdonald lookalikes? And why does one John A. Have a suspicious-looking sidekick like Hairy Ears? Ten-year-old Andrew Tolliver's big mouth lands him right inthe middle of the mystery..." (os) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .