Postage is extra.
THE HAPPY ORPHELINE, Natalie Savage Carlson, hb, pictures by Garth
Williams, 7 x 9, 1957, Harper Row,98 pp, exc cond, xlib, "Story of a
little girl named Brigitte who lived in an orphanage near Paris & is very
happy living with other little girls & doesn"t want to be adopted & taken
away. Madame Flattot had always wanted twenty children, so the orphelines
in her charge felt like a huge family. The first book about these happy
French children who prefer their orphanage. ", $20
LITTLE LUCY'S WONDERFUL GLOBE, Charlotte Yonge, 1878, hb, Colonial Press,
Boston, 138 pp,23 wood cut illustrations which are beautiful, "When
Lucy is sick in bed she is given a magic globe from which children of
different lands appear and tell their stories. " decorative cover but
soiled from age, first inside page is half removed and has a gift
inscription but could be removed, ^$25
CAPTAIN LIGHTFOOT, Burnett, Knopf, hb, 1954, 214 pp, ""...exciting and
witty story of a young eighteenth-cenutry Irish highwayman and of his
many adventures in Kilkenny, Scotland and Dublin"; basis for 1955 film ,
exc cond, $7
ANDY JACKSON'S WATER WELL, William O. Steele, hb, xlib, The adventures of
Tennessee lawyer Andy Jackson, the future President. The hilarious
adventures of Andy Jackson and his indian friend Chief. 1959, $7
AMERICAN
GIRL SERIES:
MEET SAMANTHA, American Girl Collection of 1904, sc, vg cond, book 1,
1986, $2 Or a Hardback (exc cond xlib) copy with dj for $4
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ALL-OF-A-KIND FAMILY, Sydney Taylor, Dell Yearling pb, 189 pp, 1989
ed, front cover and first 29 pp have a 1cm closed tear, otherwise exc
cond,'' $4 ( I have a 1972 ed with yellowed pp, for $2)
ALL OF A KIND FAMILY, by Sydney Taylor, 8 x8 sc, 188 pp, back cover has
about a 1 in corner missing, illus by Helen John, Follett pub,
Charles Follett Award 1951, sown binding ( I think this is a good quality
issue), 1G under 1965/Macmillan Reading Spectrum, vg cond, $6
MORE ALL OF A KIND FAMILY, SYDNEY TAYLOR, 1954/1963, HB, xlib, Follett
Pub, pictoral cover, oversized, some tears on edges of title page, 5th
printing, clear tape over spine, book is tight, $7
MR. WIDDLE AND THE SEA BREEZE, Jo Ann Stover, a delightful nonsense tale,
Dell Yearling, pb, 1966, 119 yellowing pp, " Mr. Widdle, in pursuit of
perfect happiness, builds himself a village, plants in it three unusual
inhabitants and settles down to live strictly according to schedule. When
a particularly strong sea breeze and a strange little man named Bump Jump
visit the village, Mr. Widdle's entire schedule goes awry, and he is
forced to discover a surprising new life in which happiness does not
depend on schedules." $4
JEPTHA AND THE NEW PEOPLE, Marguerite Vance, hb, xlib, E P Dutton, 1960,
First Edition stated, 113 pp chapter book, set in a Maine coastal town,
an elementary age boy makes friends with a new boy in town, overcoming
tragedy and prejudice, all in an adventurous summer, $3
UNDERSTOOD BETSY, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, hb,"Shy, sheltered, fearful
Elizabeth is sent to Vermont to live with distant relatives. She
experiences lots of new things and finds that she can change and be
someone else." xlib, mylar dj, 1917/1972, first revised edition, $18
THE SHADOW OF ROBBERS' ROOST, hb, Helen Rushmore, set in Black Mesa
country," A young 12 year old boy lives in the Oklahoma territory, near
the Cimarron cut off of the Santa Fe trail. There are robbers raiding and
taking steers, so far no one has taken his, but he is always frightened
someone will. A real western adventure for young people to read." bce,
World pub, 1960, 186 pp, $3
Beverly Cleary:
RUNAWAY RALPH, Dell Yearling pb, $1
RALPH S. MOUSE, Dell Yearling pb, name on side of book, some folded pp,
RL 6.3, $1 , or a HB with dj copy for $4
SOCKS, Cleary, Dell Yearling, pb, $2
HENRY HUGGINS, hb/dj, illus by Darling, Morrow Jr. book, xlib,1966, 155
pp, $6
HENRY HUGGINS, PB, vg cond, $2
RIBSY, Beverly Cleary, hb, xlib, 1964, covers soiled, $2
RAMONA AND HER MOTHER, pb, vg cond, ''$2
RAMONA QUIMBY, AGE 8, pb, gooc cond, Newbery Honor book, $2
MEET THE AUSTINS, Madeleine L'Engle, hb, newbery award winning author,
dj, xlib, "L'Engle beautifully puts to paper the unspoken thoughts, the
elusive feelings, the strong and unseen fibers that make a happy family
so precious and firm a part of one's life" , tape mends the back cover
to the last page, 191 pp, well used, $4
DOZENS OF COUSINS, by Mabel Watts, pictures by Roger Duvoisin, Whittlesey
House, McGraw-hill, 1950, hb, 47 pp, no dj, exc cond, 7 x 9, The Bingle
family of Boston travel the world (to their cousins' homes) to find
Grandma's lost china cat for her upcoming birthday
present, adorable story, $15
THE PLAIN PRINCESS, by Phyllis McGinley, hb with mylar cover, xlib, 1945,
drawings by Helen Stone, "Esmeralda was not pretty but- to give away
right off the secret of the story- she became so by a wonderful and
delightful process." recommended for girls between 7- 11, $5
PIPPI GOES ON BOARD, HB, Astrid Lindgren, xlib, 1957, VIking Press, vg
cond, solid, tight library strong hardback, $2
THE TUCKERS, THE ADVENTURES OF PLUM TUCKER, by Jo Mendel, hb, 282
pp, "The Tuckers,The Wonderful House, first of six of the Tuckers
Series. It's Tucker time. Go to the first page of this book where you
meet Mother and Father Tucker, Tina, Merry, Terry, Penny, Tom and
funny old Toby the dog and Sugar the cat. Something exciting is always
happening at their house so after you"ve met them, keep watching for
all the other stories about this fun family. In this adventure, the
Tuckers find that no one knows where the trouble came from but all the
Tuckers know something has to be done about it. And each of them
tries, in his own remarkable way."1961, yellowing pp, first blank page
torn out, Whitman pub, small doodle on title page/not hitting any
words at all, $7
MRS. 'ARRIS GOES TO PARIS, Paul Gallico, hb with dj, xlib, 157 pp, 1958,
cover is loose from book, $2
CLASS RING, Rosamond Du Jardin, hb, a Tobey Heydon Story, LIppincott, 207
pp, 1951, $1
THE FIDDLER OF HIGH LONESOME, by Brinton Turkle, 1968, second
printing,"Crotchety old-man Fogle and his rambunctious sons didn't think
much of Bochamp, their new kinfolk. He appeared out of nowhere, saying
he'd come to live with them because he was lonesome. And they all but
sent him packing when they learned that he didn't hold with killing
critters. Why, everybody in the mountains hunted and shot varmints! But
there was magic in Bochamp's fiddle that the Fogles couldn't resist, and
they let him stay. Never had there been such dancing on Saturday nights
as when Bochamp played his rollicking tunes! "vg cond, xlib with mylar
cover, $4
THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF ARCHIE AND THE FIRST HOT DOG, 1964, hb, xlib, a
tall tale involving a legend with George Washington and the Potomac, vg
cond, $2
THE DARK FRIGATE, HB, dj, Charles Boardman HAwes, frontispiece in color
by Anton Otto Fischer, Atlantic Monthly Press, Little, Brown,
1923, "Wherein is Told the Story of Philip Marsham Who Lived in the Time
of Kind Charles and Was Bred a Sailor But Came Home to England
After Many Hazards By Sea and Land and Fought for the King at Newbury and
Lost a Great Inheritance and departed for Barbados in the same
ship, by curious chance, in which he had long before advenued with the
pirates" . a great pirate fiction, xlib, vg cond, 247 pp, last blank
inside page gone, $7
PEGGY LAND THEATER STORIES, Grosset and Dunlap, PEGGY ON THE ROAD,
Virginia Hughes, 1963 hardback, 177 pp, looks like a Nancy Drew series
book, $5
GEORGIE AND THE MAGICIAN, by ROBERT BRIGHT, 1966, 48 pp, hb, xlib, vg
cond, elementary age, $2
MOLLY MULLETT, written/illus by Patricia Coombs, hb, 8 x 10 xlib, mylar
dj, "Though everyone doubts she can do it, young Molly Mullet
sets out to rid the village of a marauding ogre" 1975, Lothrop, Lee &
Shepard Co, $7
THE KING WITH SIX FRIENDS by Jay WIlliams, HB, illus by Gobbato, 1968
Parents magazine,vg cond, $3
JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH, A Children's Story, Roald Dahl, ages 8-12,
rl 4.5, vg cond, $1
THE BOY WHO WOULD NOT SAY HIS NAME, Follett Beginning to Read Award, Eliz
Vreeken author, hb/dj, 1959, 30 pp, exc cond, dj has some tears,
$2
MISS AMERICA, 1945, BESS MYERSON'S OWN STORY, xlib, hb, dj, 1987, first
edition, 229 pp, "....this book evokes America in the thirties
and forties while telling the story of the formative years of one of
America's best-known women and the first Jewish Miss America.",
written for adults, $5
VINETA: ROMANE AND NOVELLEN E. Werners, published in Leipzig, German hb,
364 pp, some yellowing, quality paper, no date, very fancy cover
wiht beautiful artwork, circa 1900, $18
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