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Canada: Overlea House, 1986 Very Good Plus In Unclipped Very Good Minus Unclipped Dust Jacket Which Has Some Shallow Chipping To Lower Rear Edge. Stated First Printing, Full Number Line. Set In World War Ii Calgary About A Regular Boy With A Musical Gift.

U.S.A.: Tundra Books, 1986 This Is The First Canadian Edition And First Printing By Tundra Books In 1986. Born Marcia Schonfeld In Queens Ny, Dayal Kaur Khalsa Took A Sikh Name In The 1970'S After Moving To Canada. She Was Living In Montreal When This, Her First Children's Book Beyond Some Infant Boardbooks Was Published And She Died Of Breast Cancer Three Years Later, But Not Before Completing Twelve Children's Books In Her Colorful Style. This Book Has Very Light Wear And Is In Very Nice Condition With No Writing Or Marks. It Is In A Protective Cover Which Has Some Marks Where Price Tag And Tape Were Removed.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Philomel Books, 1987 First Edition, First Printing Of This Wonderful Collaboration By Neil Philip And Charles Keeping. 103 Pages In As New Condition Unclipped Dj No Writing, No Marks Or Creases Save Minor Price Tag Residue On Rear Cover. Philips, In His Note On Sources, Credits T.H. White And R.S. Loomis, As Well As Medieval Primary Sources The Welsh Mabinogion And Chretien De Troyes. "An Authentic Retelling Of The Archetypal Story Of Sir Gawain Of Orkney From Our Roots With Drawings That Will Stir You!"

New York: Duell, Sloan And Pearce, 1964 As The Artist, Janusz Grabianski Is The Star Of This Collection Of Fairy Tales Published By Duel Sloan And Pearce New York 1964, Translation By Charlotte Dixon From The Original Published In Vienna. Copiously Illustrated In Colour And In Brown And White. The Red Book Is In Near Fine Condition In A Clipped Dust Jacket Showing Very Light Wear.

Calgary: Winrose, 1994 This is a Calgary, Alberta, Canada publication by two members of the Calgary Police Service, a collection of humourous anecdotes and drawings about life on the police force. Missinjg ffep. Signed by first authour. In good condition. Cover has surface wear but book is essentially solid. Clean interior.

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1972 This Is A 1973 Printing Of The First Thus 1972 Macmillan Paper Back Of The 1936 Original. It Appears Unread, Has No Reading Creases Or Writings, But Does Have Some Light Toning And Shop Wear, Including A Small Blemish On The Front Cover. It Is Illustrated With Black And White Photographs. In This Edition At Least, Grey Owl/Archie Belaney Refers To Himself As Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin. His Caption For A Canadian Forestry Association Photograph Is, "It Should Be The Aim Of Every True Canadian To Assist In Saving For The People, Large Areas Of Original Forest As National Monuments To Be Inviolate For All Time To Come."

U.S.A.: Fawcett, 1976 Fawcett Crest 2-2944-0 Cover Price $1.50. Clean With Intact Yellow Edge Tint, Spine Slant And Mottled Cover But No Apparent Moisture Problems. May Be Missing Ffep.

London: Orbis Publishing, 1982 This is a new edition published in 1982 by Orbis of the Hamlyn, 1976, first english edition of the original czech edition by Artia. It is in very good minus condition in a very good minus dust jacket. Fos on inside endpaper, no other marks, clean and crisp interior. Unclipped dust jacket has been cello taped to the dust jacket, and there is a three inch pull on back endpaper where some of the tape was removed. Otherwise this is a lovely book in near fine condition. Good quality paper with superb colour and black and white illustrations by Jaroslav Serych. Tales of ghosts, demons, evil spirits and etc.

London: Guild, 1990 Very Good plus in very good plus unclipped dust jacket, first thus edition, Guild Publishing (Children's Bookshelf), illustrated by Patricia Mac Carthy. very attractive and giftable. No writing or marks, clean crisp pages, light wear, dj has a rubbed spot at lower rear corner.

U.S.A.: Bowmar, 1974 This Children's Book Was Published In 1974 By Bowmar In Glendale California, Written By Albert G. Miller Who Also Wrote For Sesame Street. I Is Considered Scarce And The Hardcover Version Seems To Be Even More So. Former Owner Name On Ffep, No Dj If Issued White Spine With Turquoise Letters And Yellow Boards. Intact Corners And Spine Ends. One Small Spot On Front Board About 1/8 Inch In Diameter But Generally Solid And Clean.

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated, 1998 3Rd Printing Of This 1998 Shambala Edition In Very Good Condition, Possibly Unread With Light Wear To Corners, No Writing Or Marks. According To The Jacket The Author, Georg Feuerstein, Is "Arguably Today's Foremost Yoga Resarcher."

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co, 1992 Extremely cute and lively story, very nicely illustrated, of transformation and imagination bringing happiness to a young princess (in the form of cats) despite her bossy mother's materialism; First printing, first edition, 1992,closed tear at jacket upper front else very good.

U.S.A.: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1984 Near Fine Set Of Three Little Books In Slip Case. Reprint Published 1984. Slip Case Is Near Fine. All Dust Jackets Are Unclipped. Published By Henry Z. Walck, Inc. Of The Three Books Which Are Just Over 5-1/2 Inches High, More Prayers Has A Small Gouge On The Front Board. The Dust Jacket For First Graces Has A Very Minor Crumple At Spine Top.First Prayers Has No Evident Flaws.

U.K.: Methuen, 1985 Simon Bond, creator of Paddington creates `Teddy`` a whimsical forway into all the ways Teddy could appear in a wide range of roles and shapes and sizes, including the Black Hills of North Dakota. Like new save a few light marks on front cover. Beautiful crisp interior, may be unread. Probable first.

New York: Rand McNally, 1944 Very pretty 1957 reprint of the 1944 original, near fine orange boards with navy vignette and lettering. Rub to lower spine, No writing or marks. Beautiful endpapers and colour illustrations by Pelagie Doane throughout. Matte pictorial jacket is clipped, has some splitting at edges and some rubs or scratches on back panel. Price tag pull on upper front panel, but still a very attractive book, full of innocence.

Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1981 Near Fine remainder mark first edition 1981 first printing. Accolades from various critics including Graham Greene. Hughes stated to be one of the best novelists living. Near fine condition in Near fine jacket.

New York: Pocket Books, 1972 Assumed first paperback edition, Pocket Books 78556 cover price $1.50, first printing 1972, Very Good condition, save age toning to pages and very light surface and edgewear. Appears unread, no spine creases. Clean interior no writing save pencilled price. Red tinted edges. Cover picture shows black and white graphically enhanced photo of old apartment building.

New York: Viking Press, 1959 The Tenement Tree, written and illustrated by Kate Seredy and published by The Viking Press. States Published in 1959 on copyright page. Seredy was an outstanding illustrator and writer of children's books, born in Hungary and emigrated to the U.S. after the first World War. Her life and her works show clearly her love of nature and strong antiwar beliefs. This book, in particular, presents what seems akin to a 21st Century ecological worldview. Very Good+ in a Very Good unclipped Jacket showing the original $3.00 price. The Jacket is chipped at corners and top and tail but is essentially complete. The boards remain fresh and unblemished, green topstain is intact. No writing or ownership details. Something sticky befell page 61 and there is some slight damage to it as well as to the facing page when they were unstuck.Otherwise a very well preserved small quarto.

Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Fawcett Books, 1980 Fawcett 1975 Later Printing, 140350 Coverprice $1.75 Very Good, No Writing Or Marks, May Be Unread, Yellow Edgetint, Slight Spine Slant.

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Hyperion Books for Children, 2005 Second Printing Of This Entertaining Book By Jon Agee In Which The Curmudgeon Is Taught By A Parrot To Lighten-Up! Book Is Near Fine In A Very Good Minus Dust Jacket Which Has A Tear To Rear Upper Spine And Lower Front Edge Of Front Panel. Large Format May Require Extra Postage.