Search Results: Authors starting with C from Deja Vu Books

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1952. Inscribed on half-title page by both author and illustrator. Blue cloth binding clean, square, and tight. Color frontispiece and double color center spread plus many b/w line drawings. No writing or marks in book, no tears. DJ has lots of wear- chips tears along edge of dj flap, rubbed spots - protected from further damage in clean Brodart jacket. This is a wonderful story about a riding academy horse who longs to be privately-owned. When she is purchased for an insecure boy because of her kindness and wisdom - not her looks! - she ends up helping to turn the young boy's life around. 120 pages.. Illus. by Mellin, Jeanne. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author AND Illustrat. 1st. Hardcover. Good+/Fair.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1956. Beige hardcover cloth binding clean square and tight. Lots of Foxing. DJ has shelfwear, some chips and light soiling. Not price-clipped. 124 pages. Signed on ffep by Nancy Caffrey and subject of book Karen Ann McGuire. This book is inscribed to a girl name Sandy and wished a speedy recovery. It is also signed by several other people, including Ted Wahl, who ran Round Hill Farm in Connecticut during the 1950s. True story of a young girl who writes a letter to Hanover Bank putting in a bid for horse. Touched by the letter, they help the young girl's dream come true. Story illustrated with photos of the girl and the horse she names Hanover's Wishing Star in honor of the bank.. Illus. by Photographs. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Good+.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1952. Blue cloth binding clean, square, and tight. Color frontispiece and double color center spread illustration plus many b/w throughout. DJ shows shelfwear, chips tears along edges, rubbed spots - protected from further damage in clean Brodart jacket. DJ flap is price-clipped. This is a wonderful story about a riding academy horse who longs to be privately-owned. When she is purchased for an insecure boy because of her kindness and wisdom - not her looks! - she ends up helping to turn the young boy's life around. 120 pages.. Illus. by Mellin, Jeanne. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Good.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1952. Blue cloth binding has minor shelfwear, bumped corners, a bit of soiling mostly to back cover, square and tight - interior clean and tight. Color frontispiece, double color center spread.Some foxing but overall clean interior with no writing. 120 pages. A couple of the pages have small closed tears. This is a wonderful story about a riding academy horse who longs to be privately-owned. When she is purchased for an insecure boy because of her kindness and wisdom - not her looks! - she ends up helping to turn the young boy's life around.. Illus. by Mellin, Jeanne. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket.

Frederick Warner & Co., Ltd Small pictorial hardcover binding ( 4.75" x 5.5") clean square and tight. Dustjacket clean and crisp, just minor siling and shelfwear. 1940s edition. 1942 Christmas dedication with previous owner name on half-title page. Price on dj flap - 60 cents. Contains three hunting tales with great illustrations in color and black and white: The Diverting History of John Gilpin by William Cowper; The Three Jovial Huntsmen, a Mother Goose rhyme; and An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith. Delightful little book!. Illus. by Caldecott, Randolph. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Viking Press, 1955. Clean square and tight, dj minimal wear. A book of sheep ranching and the boys who helped out.. Illus. by Landau, Jacob. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1979. Blue boards binding with paper rubbed in spots, front pocket removed, library marks. DJ minor edgewear. 150 pages. Children save injured whooping crane.. Illus. by Friedman, Marvin. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Near Very Good.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982. Binding square and tight, usual stamps and markings. DJ clean. 166 pages. JoBeth Cunningham is filled with guilt after her sister Ashley, who was so like Mother, died. Ashley had been popular and won blue ribbons at the horse shows. JoBeth was content with carved stone ponies. She struggles to overcome her grief by unraveling a mystery about the stone pony her museum-director father had acquired; she also befriends Luke, a boy with grief and guilt of his own. Together they learn to accept real-life challenges.. Illus. by Chabrian, Debbi (jacket only). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Good.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. Brown hardcover boards binding with brown cloth spine very clean and tight - no pocket was used on this book - Only a couple of stamps. VERY clean and bright interior. DJ on marks or tears. 137 pages. When his father disappears near the Mexian border at the end of the Civil War, 12-yr old Tyler decides to go after him and bring him home, acquiring on the journey a strange dog which he names Bigger. Bigger - made mean by cruelty but tamed by hunger and Tyler's desparate need of him, the dog's love supports the boy both in hope and in the heartbreak that follows. The courage, loyalty and friendship of the pair makes this a poignant, triumphant novel.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Very Good.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1932. Green hardcover cloth binding clean square and tight. Bit of wear bottom of spine. Some penciled notes from previous owner inside. Thirty-three illustrations. 294 pages with index. Previous owner also left some clippings and a piece of paper with an index of paintings in book. Foxing throughout.. Illus. by illustrated. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Good+.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1945. Green hardcover cloth binding clean square or tight, yellowing pages, name ffep. DJ has lots of chips and tears, protected from further damage by clean Brodart jacket. 237 pages. Wild-life philospher/author has a tale of baby squirrels which his family raises. Entwined in the story of the animals is the Captain Duke, spending his army furlough with the family.. Illus. by Forrest, Will. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Fair.

Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1954. Green hardcover binding with gilt title clean square and tight. Interior clean and bright. DJ has chips tears and shelfwear. Protected from further damage in clean Brodart jacket. 236 pages. The Campbells discover a raccoon family - one of the six cubs falls out of a tree and lands at their feet. He has a floppy let ear and a white streak on his face - and his mother is already a favorite of the Campbell family. Signed copy with a dj is scarce.. Illus. by Key, Alexander. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1948. Skyblue hardcover binding with orange and white titles and decoration on front is square and tight. Minimal shelfwear, front hinge starting to crack, back hinge good. Binding secure. Illustrated endpapers, 18 b/w illustrations throughout. DJ has some chips top and bottom of spine, some minor wrinkles and shelfwear but protected now in clean Brodart. 248 pages plus ads for other Whitman titles. No price on flap. Back flap lists famous classics for boys and girls.. Illus. by Jervis, Margaret. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good.

A.C. McClurg & Co., 1910. Orange cloth hardcover binding with picture pastedown on front and back cover. Pastedown decorated with four illustrations and title in orange. Rubbing along edges, boards showing through at corners. Slight tear to cloth bottom of front cover. Hinges not broken. Binding tight. Interior clean. Some foxing. Some stains to outside edges of pages. Frontispiece + four interior glossy full-page illustrations firmly intact. 366 pages.. Illus. by Norton, John W.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

London: Lutterworth Press, 1958. Red hardcover binding clean square and tight. Bookseller stamp ffep only mark. DJ has some shelfwear and light soiling. No price clipped. 151 pages. Carole is head girl at Old Gatehouse School and she starts the Gatehouse Cavalry, which will perform a musical ride on the school ponies at shows in the area.. Illus. by Frontispiece only. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Hodder and Stoughton, 1977. Brown hardcover binding clean square and tight. DJ has minimal shelfwear, interior clean and bright. DJ not price-clipped. Originally published 1950 by Collins. 152 pages. Alison decides to write a pony book - and has to school a pony to get first hand experience. Then her plot requires her heroine wins a gymkhana!. Illus. by Kennedy, Richard (jacket and frontispiece only). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st This Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Lexington KY: Eclipse Press - The Bloodhorse Magazine, 2007. Softcover in clean square and tight condition. Bookseller sticker fep, Author signed on ffep. 230 pages with glossy photo section in center of book.. Illus. by photographs. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Mexico: Ediciones de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma, 1940. Yellow hardcover buckram binding square and tight. lightly bumped corners, very light soiling to covers. Pages yellowed, some foxing to glossy plates. 139 pages of text followed by 135 pages of artwork in b/w. Artists: Augustin Lazo, Carlos Merida, Rufino Tamayo, Julio Castellanos, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco.. Illus. by Plates. Small 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket.

London: Lutterworth Press, 1969. Green hardcover binding is clean, square and tight. Previous owner name and address ffep. DJ is mostly clean and crisp - bottom corner front flap clipped, but price of 60p present. Back of jacket lightly soiled. Lists 11 other titles in the Crown Pony series. 125 pages. October's dream horse is the strawberry roan half-thoroughbred filly. It takes all the skill, love, and determination for the young owner to bring the beautiful 'pink' pony through her mishaps to her appearance at the County Show.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Near Very Good.

New York: Arcade Publishing Little Brown and Company, 1992. Maroon hardcover boards binding clean, square and tight - some general wear to interior. DJ clean and crisp. Unpaginated. Maggie Mab is poor but as kind and good-natured as a body could be. One evening while trudging home from work, she stumbles across an iron pot full of gold coins. A spirited adaptation of a traditional northern England tale. Fairy world magic.. Illus. by Westerman, Johanna. Small 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine.