CARPENTER, FRANCES; ESCOURIDO, JOSEPH

African Wonder Tales

Illustrated by Joseph Escourido. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket; Hardcover; Doubleday; First Edition; 1963; 215 pages, bound in sky blue cloth. Clean cover, a few faded spots; solid binding. Interior clean, free of names or markings; endpapers toned. Jacket lightly soiled; foxed on edges & underside; rubbed at folds & back panel; several shallow tears.Original price of $3.95 intact on flap. Stories include: The Boom-Boom-Y Beast, Clever Kadra, The Tortoise and the Magic Drum, Who Can Break a Bad Habit?, Two Ways to Count to Ten, The Little Black Men and the Honeybees, a Dream of the Sphinx, The Monkeys and the Little Red Hen, The Girl Who Lived with the Gazelles, The Enchanted Tortoise, The Six Horseman, The Proud Camel and the Rude Monkey, Bomba The Brave, The Jinni's Magic Flute, Polo The Snake-Girl and more. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall.

-- Mount Hope Books

Book number: 24953

Catalogue: Children's Literature

CARPENTER, FRANCES.

The Elephant's Bathtub: Wonder Tales from the Far East.

Garden City, NY. Doubleday & Co. 1962. Hard Cover, 8vo. B/w illus. 16 countries of the East are represented by one or more fables characteristic of the area. 219 pp. Ex-Library, o/w Good/No Jacket.

-- The Book Bin, Inc. - Corvallis

Book number: SEA-06637

Catalogue: SE Asia

Keywords: Folklore;

CARPENTER, FRANCES

Holiday in Washington

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1966; Illustrated by George Fulton; 3rd Printing; ex-library copy with the usual blemishes, else GOOD, solid hardcover , pictorial boards, no dust jacket.

-- ReBook

Book number: 14020

Catalogue: Children's Books/Educational

Keywords: Washington history juvenile nonfiction

CARPENTER, FRANCES

The Mouse Palace

McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. New York, NY, 1964. Second Printing, Hardcover, Illustrated by: Adams, Adrienne. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. Illustrator: Adams, Adrienne. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 pounds.

-- Lotzabooks

Book number: 23182

Catalogue: Children

Keywords: Children; Juvenile Fiction; NOISBN Juvenile Fiction

FRANCES CARPENTER

The Mouse Palace

. Pictoral hardcover, no DJ, ex-library. McGraw-Hill, 1964, second printing. In very good condition, usual library markings. Illustrated by Adrienne Adams. A story of old Siam and a tiny house made for white mice, as it might have happened.

-- The Book Faerie

Book number: 003364

Catalogue: Children's Easy to Read

Keywords: Siam

CARPENTER, FRANCES

The Mouse Palace

McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1964. McGraw-Hill, 1964. ( hb no dj, x-lib w/usualmarkings, cover worn, o/w in good cond. )

-- The Book Nook

Book number: 47393

Catalogue: Childrens Literature

CARPENTER, FRANCES

Our Neighbors Near and Far

American Book Company, 1946. American Book Company, 1946. ( hb no dj, cover worn, ink writing fep, o/w in good cond. )

-- The Book Nook

Book number: 47700

Catalogue: Geography & Atlases

CARPENTER, FRANCES,

Our Neighbors Near and Far.

New York, American Book Co., 1946. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall, Hard Cover Good/No Jacket. Orange boards are scuffed and finger smudged, edges are worn. School stamps on end pages. No markings in book. Page 121 is torn, with old partial repair. Binding is tight.

-- Top Notch Books

Book number: 200537

Keywords: Textbook Home School Social Studies

CARPENTER, FRANCES

Our Neighbors Near and Far Our World and Ourselves.

American Book Company 1939.. . G+/NONE. Red and black cloth boards with light normal wear and tear. Minor staining. Endpapers are red and white illustrations of Columbus landing, etc. Nice frontispiece of children around the world in their native costumes by Curtis Sprague. Book is clean. ; Book Club Edition; 10x73/4; 262 pages; Order number is SVW32-84. Binding is Hardcover..

-- Seneca Valley Books

Book number: 4336

Keywords: Geography

CARPENTER, FRANCES

Pocahontas and Her World

NY: Knopf, 1957. 8vo 241pp. 1st. hardcover. Kihn illus. Several 1/4" tears and a bit of wear to DJ. "Jamestown 1957" penned on front end paper. Pretty nice copy of this scarce book.. VG+/VG .

-- Aardbooks

Book number: MAIN000591I

Catalogue: Juvenile

Keywords: Y Native Americans Colonial Era

CARPENTER, FRANCES

A Rebel Schoolgirl

London; Blackie. Hardcover. H/b; d/w; vg-/vg-; 8vo; 206pp; slightly worn with some foxing; d/w discoloured; pres label in fep dated 1951.

-- Peakirk Books

Book number: 73402

Catalogue: To Be Sorted

Keywords: Children's

FRANCES CARPENTER

A Rebel Schoolgirl

Blackie & Son Limited. 1950. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ill.: F. G. Moorsom. Book, Blackie & Son Limited, n.d. c.1950. Hardcover. Pale blue boards with title to front board and spine. Illustrated DW. Both very good condition; minor chipping and edgewear to DW, mild foxing to edges of text block. Ex-libris presentation plate to FEP dated 1950. Frontispiece illustration by F. G. Moorsom. Changes proposed by the new Head at Windmill School stirs heroine Betty Lyndon into action.. Kitsch 1950s schoolgirl trauma in the style of Dorothy Vicary and Angela Brazil. 19 x 12.5 cm. 206 pp. Librarius is a small UK-based family business and we pride ourselves on our customer service. Orders will be securely wrapped and usually dispatched same or next day. Full refunds will be given if you are unhappy with your purchase and return it within 10 days. Photographs of all of our books are available on request; please feel free to email with any enquiries. Very Good/Very Good.

-- Librarius

Book number: 001639

Catalogue: Children's & Young Adult

Keywords: F.G. Moorsomfirst Edition Chalet School Boarding Schoolgirl Tale Kitsch 1950s 50s Fifties Angela Brazil Dorothy Vicary Frances Francis Carpenter Rebellious Rebel Betty Miss Shepherd Hilary Twins Lyndon Windmill School Madge Maureen Beacon Hill Joy Blackie

CARPENTER, FRANCES,

A REBEL SCHOOLGIRL.

Blackie and Son, London, ND (circa 1950), 206pp, half tone frontis by F. G. Moorsom, light blue cloth lettered in dark blue at spine and upper board, coloured pictorial dustwrapper by F. G. Moorsom, lightly rubbed and faintly bumped at tips, edges sl. tanned, 5 line ink inscr. front free endpaper (dated Christmas 1950), light oily stain from fore-margin into text on six adjacent leaves (text legible), dustwrapper: a little rubbed with sl. loss at extrems., light overall soiling, repaired to reverse, good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

-- A Book for all Reasons

Book number: 38304

Catalogue: Children's and Illustrated

Keywords: children's juvenile

CARPENTER, FRANCES

South American Wonder Tales

Follett Publishing Co. 1969, First Printing. Decorative Cloth. Ill.: Creasman, Ralph. Ex-Library with typical Marks, Illustrated throughout with red and black woodcuts. Pages clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Pictorial boards, mostly clean, colors bright, a little shelf-wear to extremities, sunned spine. Minimal ex-libri distinctions. Folktales collected by author during her travels from the northern Caribbean shores to the southern tip of Cape Horn. Usual ex-libri markings. Very Good-/No Jacket.

-- Inga's Original Choices

Book number: 002553

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Children's Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Country & Ethnic, South America Vintage Books Travel & Geography Creasman, Ralph

CARPENTER, FRANCES

The Story of East Africa

Van Nostrand Reinhold. 1967. (ISBN: 0442299044). Paperback. Book, Clean unmarked tightly bound copy. 1983 printing, 140 pages on East Africa and various aspects of its land, people, culture, religion, animals etc. Seems geared to the older child. Securely packaged! i1. Very Good.

-- Niagara Fine Books

Book number: 239

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: 0442299044 AFRICA CULTURE east

CARPENTER, FRANCES,

Tales of a Chinese Grandmother.

Doubleday Doran & Company, 1944. Reprint. A fine copy in a near fine sl. edgeworn d.w.

-- Collectors Treasury

Book number: 54914

Catalogue: FOLKLORE

CARPENTER, FRANCES

Tales of a Russian Grandmother

New York: Junior Literary Guild and Doubleday, Doran, 1933. Illus. by I. Bilibine. 8vo. Blue cloth, stamped in red. x, 292 p. Stated "First Edition" (but with Junior Literary Guild binding & dust wrapper). Bookplate, light wear at extremities; else fine in lightly worn d.w..

-- Bibliomania

Book number: 64248

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: I. Bilibine Russia

CARPENTER, FRANCES

Tales of a Chinese Grandmother

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1949. Hardcover. Can see binding at 1/2 title page. Soiling and wear to fair boards. "C" "12" written on spine. POS with home school name and date written in ink on end paper. ; Illustrated by Malthe Hasselriis. Nice, tight, clean, and bright interior pages. Illustrated red butterfly end papers - yellow boards with red butterflies. Beautiful two color illustrations and other illustrations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 261 p.. Good with no dust jacket .

-- Attic Books and Treasures

Book number: 6211

Catalogue: Children/Young Adult

CARPENTER, FRANCES

Tales of a Chinese Grandmother

New York, Junior Literary Guild / Doubleday, Doran. 1937, First Edition. Hard Cover, 5.75 x 9 Inches. Ill.: Hasselriis, Malthe. Ex-Library, A sound, tight, 100% readable copy, in an orange decorative cloth library binding; text is lightly soiled, with a few marginal stains, small chips, and short marginal tears and numerous bent corners but no serious creasing or long tears; binding soiled, with bumped corners, short tears in cloth at spine ends, generally moderate wear; typical library markings, pocket, etc.; small hole punched through entire text at top corner near hinge. 261 pp, drawings, color plates. A collection of popular Chinese folk tales for older children to adults. Fair Plus/No Jacket.

-- Good Earth Books

Book number: 015292

Catalogue: Myths, Legends & Folklore

Keywords: Oriental Chinese Myths Folktales Folk Tales Folklore Traditional Stories Children Hasselriis, Malthe

CARPENTER, FRANCES; ILLUS. BY MALTHE HASSELRIIS

Tales of a Chinese Grandmother

Rutland/Tokyo, Tuttle. 1973, Reprint. (ISBN: 9780804834094). Trade Paperback, 8vo. 1973 copyright date only - much later printing.xiv,261pp, ills. Near Fine.

-- Global Village Books

Book number: 100737

Catalogue: Children

Keywords: Stories Folk Tales 9780804834094

CARPENTER, FRANCES.

Tales of a Korean Grandmother. Illustrated with Reproductions from Old Korean Paintings.

Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1947, 287 pp., illus. throughout in color and b&w.

-- Books on the Orient

Book number: 005915

Keywords: Korea

CARPENTER, FRANCES

Tales of a Korean Grandmother

Doubleday, 1947. Hardcover. 287 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

-- Hammonds Books

Book number: 85686

Catalogue: World History & Travel

CARPENTER, FRANCES

Tales of a Russian Grandmother

New York, New York, U.S.A. Doubleday. 1933, First Printing. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Ivan Iakovlevich Bilibin (Jean Bilibine). Hardcover, Scarce! Clean and tight ex-library book, published by Doubleday - Junior Literary Guild.Stamps and card pocket inside covers/front free end paper; shelf label on spine; has the minor scratches and scrapes one would expect in a 75-year old library book; Dust Jacket is missing. Good solid Reading Copy. Profusely illustrated by the famous Bilbin. Good/No Jacket.

-- ShelfMasters.com, Inc.

Book number: 0086442

Catalogue: Multicultural

Keywords: Multicultural, Fiction, Fairy Tales, Legends, Russian Folk Tales Ivan Iakovlevich Bilibin (Jean Bilibine)

CARPENTER, FRANCES

Tales of a Chinese Grandmother

London : Harrap, 1938.. 1st edition. Near VG hbk bound in yellow cloth, black decoration and lettering. Slight weakening to the front inner hinge. Illustrated by Malthe Hasselriis.

-- Philip Emery

Book number: 61807

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Frances Carpenter Malthe Hasselriis Chinese Folktales Fiction 1

CARPENTER, FRANCES

Tales of a Basque Grandmother

Junior Literary Guild, 1930. Cloth. 271pp. Color plates and frontispiece. B/w illustrations. Decorated endpapers. Tan cloth covers have green lettering and brown bust of a grandmother on front, and green lettering and brown stylized bird on spine. Covers have light soiling. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . Very Good/No Jacket.

-- LJs Books

Book number: TAM377

Catalogue: Children's / Fairy Tales