De Brunhoff, Laurent

BABAR And The WULLY - WULLY

New York: Random House, 1975. 1st thus. Color pictorial boards. Unpaginated. With color illustrations by the author. Folio. pos at ffep .

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Book number: 26940

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Bryan, Ashley

LION And The OSTRICH CHICKS

New York: Atheneum, 1986. 1st edition. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the author. Yellow cloth binding. Dust jacket. 87 pp. Illustrated by Bryan (some color). 8vo. NF/NF. Inscribed by Bryan on the ffep & with the title page signed.

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Book number: 19399.1

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Buck, Pearl S[ydenstricker. 1892 - 1973]

The BIG FIGHT

New York: The John Day Company, 1965. 1st edition. Blue cloth binding. Orange & yellow dust jacket. 47, [1] pp. Illustrated by Mamoru Funai. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2". NF/VG+ (publisher production sticker to front panel/front flap lower corner clipped [$2.95 present at flap top]). Uncommon in jacket.

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Book number: 12621

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Burley, Major Andrew S.

The ARMY BOYS ALONG PERSHING'S TRAIL. The Army and Navy Series

Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company, (n. d.). Circa late 1920s / early 30s. Green cloth binding with black stamping. Color pictorial dust jacket, with depicts a saluting doughboy. 252, [12] pp. 10 pages of adverts at rear, last leaf blank. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 5". VG (paper beginning to yellow, as expected)/VG (general wear & soiling/some browning to rear flap). This edition not in Mattson, though see 03900 for an apparent earlier publication.

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Book number: 32667.1

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Burnett, Frances Hodgson [1840 - 1924]

PICCINO And Other Child Stories

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894. 1st edition (BAL 2086). Olive green cloth binding with dark green, orange & gilt stamping. Pale yellow eps. viii, [2], 203, [17] pp. 16 pp of advertisements at rear. Frontis + 14 full-page illustrations by Reginald Birch. Plates included in pagination scheme. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 6-1/2". Rear hinge starting. POS to ffep. A VG copy.

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Book number: 32220

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Burtis, Thomson

FLYING BLACK BIRDS. Air Combat Stories for Boys #4

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932. Ca 1934. Green cloth with black lettering. Red pictorial eps. Red top stain. Dust jacket. v, [1], 242 pp. Frontis. 12mo. NF (sq & tight/po name stamp & signature)/VG+ (light soil to rear panel). A quite nice copy.

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Book number: 4517.5

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Burtis, Thomson

FOUR ACES. Air Combat Stories for Boys #2

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932. Circa 1937. Lime green cloth with black lettering (Mattson variant #3). Orange pictorial eps. Dust jacket. [6], 216, [2] pp. Adverts last 2 pp. Frontis on coated paper. 12mo. NF/VG (avg wear). Rear flap advert lists through "War Wings".

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Book number: 1602.4

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Burtis, Thomson

REX LEE, NIGHT FLYER. Rex Lee Series #5

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Circa 1929. Green cloth binding with black & orange lettering/pictorial. Dust jacket. 239 pp + 10 pp of adverts at rear. Frontis. 12mo. VG+ (slight lean)/VG+ (light wear & soiling)..

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Book number: 2469.2

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Burtis, Thomson

WING For WING. Air Combat Stories for Boys #3

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932. Ca 1937. Green cloth with dark blue stamping. Red topstain. Orange pictorial eps. Color pictorial dust jacket. [6], 212, [6] pp. Adverts last 6 pages. Frontis. 12mo. VG+ (slight lean)/VG+ (modest edgewear)..

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Book number: 3768.3

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Byron, John [1723 - 1786]

BYRON'S NARRATIVE, CONTAINING ACCOUNT Of The GREAT DISTRESS SUFFERED By HIMSELF And COMPANIONS On The COASTS Of PATAGONIA; From the Year 1740, till their Arrival in England 1746, with a Description of St. Iago de Chili, And the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants; Also a Relation of the Loss of the Wager Man of War, One of Admiral Anson's Squadron. Juvenile Library

London: Printed for S. and A. Davis, Radcliffe Highway. J. Jordan, Printer, 1818. 1st edition thus. Not in the Hill Collection Catalogue. Period black leather spine over marbled paper boards. Flat back. Gilt stamping to spine. 168 pp. Frontis leaf included in pagination. Frontispiece. 3 internal plates. 16mo. 5-1/2" x 3-1/2". Usual wear & scuffing to binding. Chipping at backstrip extremes. Slight lean. Age-toning & foxing to paper. Bookplate to front paste-down [appears 20th C]. Lacks ffep. Long pencil poi to frontis recto giving brief Byron biography. Still, a sound Very Good copy. "Vice-Admiral Byron was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer. He earned the nickname 'Foul-Weather Jack' in the press because of his frequent encounters with bad weather at sea. As a midshipman, he sailed in the squadron under George Anson on his voyage around the world, though Byron made it only to southern Chile, where his ship was wrecked. He returned to England with the captain of HMS Wager." Not in the NUC. OCLC records just a single institutional holding [Western University in Ontario]. COPAC adds one additional: The London Library. A very rare children's account of Byron's Narrative.

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Book number: 49147

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Calandrelli, Susana. [Jose Hernandez, Luis Ramon Macias - Contributors]. Athos Cozzi - Illustrator

MARTIN FIERRO. Sintesis del Poema de Jose Hernandez

Buenos Aires: San Jorge, 1957. 1st edition. Beige color illustrated paper wrapped boards. 43, [3 (blank & index)] pp. Many intratextual color illustrations. 7" x 5-5/8". Tanning to spine, light aging to endpapers. A VG+ copy.

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Book number: 37984

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Caldecott, Randolph [1846 - 1886]

A FROG HE WOULD A-WOOING GO. Randolph Caldecott's Picture Books #11

London: Frederick Warne & Co, (n. d.). Ca 1890s. Color pictorial wrappers, sewn. 24 pp. Pagination includes wrappers. Printed by Edmund Evans. Every page has an illustration including 6 full page colour illustrations, Oblong 8vo. 7-7/8" x 9-3/8". VG (some wear & soiling).

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Book number: 26401

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Caldecott, Randolph [1846 - 1886]

The PANJANDRUM PICTURE BOOK. Containing -- 'Come Lasses and Lads.' 'ride a Cock-Horse to Banbury Cross, and A Farmer Went Trotting Upon His Grey Mare.' 'Mrs. Mary Blaize.' 'The Great Panjandrum Himself.'

London: George Routledge & Sons, (n. d.). Ca 1893. Brown pictorial cloth. 24 pp each. Each story separated paginated, with bastard title for each story. Printed by Edmund Evans. Every page has an illustration including 6 full page colour illustrations per story. Oblong 8vo. 8" x 9-1/8". VG (modest wear/bpt).

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Book number: 26402

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[G. Caldwell]

A NEW HISTORICAL CATECHISM; Containing Answers to Questions in Ancient History, Relative to the Light of the Heathen World - the Miracles that Happened at Our Saviour's Birth - the Usurpation, and Miserable Death of Herod - the Death of Pontius Pilate, etc.

Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers, (n. d.). Ca. 1800s. Printed paper wrappers, stitched. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 24 pp. Woodcut to front wrapper. 7" x 4-5/16". Modest wear to wrappers (rubbing to edges, age-toning to rear wrapper especially). An about VG example. Rare in the trade.

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Book number: 40608

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Campbell, Bruce

The RIDDLE Of The STONE ELEPHANT. Ken Holt Mysteries #2

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1949. Later printing, ca 1956. Linen cloth with dark black lettering & top edge dark green. Green pictorial eps. Greet topstain. Dust jacket. vii, [3], 213, [1 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece. 12mo. VG (slt lean/poi in red ink to top of h-t page)/VG (average wear). Series adverts list through "Vanishing Magician".

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Book number: 3973.2

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