Offered here is a vintage antique children's series Book: "Dora Thorne" New Columbus Series", title page states "by the Author of Madolin's Lover", actually by Charlotte Breame, N. Y. International Book Company, ca. 1880's-1900. Wonderfully illustrated, embossed red cloth - black titles and illustration. Minor rub and frayed cloth at extremities, tanned - typical pulp paper - front hinge pulling. Very cool book!
Offered here is a vintage children's series book: "Dorothy & Her Friends", by Ellen Olney Kirk, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899, first edition, wonderful condition. Grey cloth boards with stamped black titles and gilt sky in cover illustration - gilt blind stamp to spine. Glossy illustrated frontis with tissue protective paper intact. Nice book!
Offered here is a great old children's series book; "Dorothy Dixon Wins Her Wings", by Dorothy Wayne, Goldsmith Publishing Company, 1933!! Bright blue cloth boards with dark navy titles and design. Light scuff/rub ate xtremities. Cheap paper is starting to tan. Dust jacket is torn about an 1 1/2" at cover flap folds and chipped at spine head an heel and small pieces missing at spine head and heel.
Offered here is a vintage children's young adult girls hardcover series book: "Ethel Morton's Holidays", Mabel S. C. Smith, The New York Book Company, New York, 1915, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Illustrated light brown cloth boards with black titles in salmon and black. Cloth slightly bent at spine head and heel. Illustated frontis and throughout. This is the nicest you will find!!
Offered here is a vintage antique children's hardcover series book: "Frank On The Lower Mississippi", Harry Castlemon, M. A. Donohue & Company, Chicago, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Light grey/tan cloth boards with Green and black pictorial cover of Frank on a sailboat. Line drawn illustrated endpages. List of five books by Castlemon on back of title page with this title listed second onlist, no date (ca. 1907). 256 pp. Some dirtines on spine and cover, hint of bumps on corners. Frank's adventures continue, here on the lower Mississippi after the fall of Vicksburg. Following his escape from the rebel prison, he joins the river gunboat "The Boxer" and is in turn joined by his cousin Archie as paymaster on board. He sees much action on the great river against the rebels and is a particpant in many land adventures, earns promotion, and finally achieves his own command.
Offered here is a vintage children's Horatio Alger series book, "In A New World", by Horatio Alger, Donohue Edition, ca. 1910. Light grey paper boards - color illustrated cover with blue titles. Pages light grey, typical of books by NY Book and Donohue etc. Frontis and title page missing - previous owner's stamp on first blank endpage. A nice book!!
Offered here is a vintage antique children's series book: "Jack Hazard Series; Lawrences Adventures Among Ice-Cutters,Glass-Makers, Coal-Miners, Iron-Men, and Shgip-Builders", by J. T. Trowbridge, Porter & Coates Philadelphia, 1870. Light blue cloth boards with red, black and blue ornate design. Light rubs at extremities - more at spine head, light dirtiness acorss covers. Very dark navy endpages, name written at top edge of first blank endpage, glossy illustrated frontis, four pages of adds at the end of the book, index, Numerous illustrations throughout. This is a wondeful first edition book. It will be very tough to find one a lot better.
Offered here is a vintage version of a classic childrens series book,: "Little House In The Big Woods", Laura Ingalls Wilder, text copyrighted 1932, illustrations by Garth Williams copyrighted 1953, Harper & Row, Publ. The DJ has some chips at the spine head and at the flap top and bottom bend, there is a light wrinkle near the bottom right of the DJ, price clipped. The book is wonderful and seems unread - has a hint of rub at the extremities. It repeats the illustration on the DJ.
Offered here is a vintage Indian related Children's Book: "Little Papoose Listens", by Ellen Miller Donaldson, illustrated by Hildergarde Lupprian, McLoughlin Bros. Inc., 1934. Bright cloth boards - black decorations and titles - bumps at extremities. Pages tanned and brittle at the edges. First illustrated endpages, frontis and title page chipped at the right edge. Frontis has illustration of Indian maiden in a canoe. there is a single wormhole at the center of the right edges -does not affect text.
Offered here is a vintage children's series book is; "Little Prudy's Captain Horace", in a nice Dust Jacket, Leon & Cupples, Publ. These are scarce, especially in the Dust Jackets -undated but likely about 1915-1920. This book has wonderful grey cloth boards with black titles and a black and red repeate of the DJ illustration on the cover. Just a hint of marks on the extremities. Very nice Book!!!! It has an illustrated frontis and some illustration throughout - the DJ has rubs at the edges and chips on the fold edges and spine head and heel. By the way, these are re-published from the original 1860's books. The front hinge is ever so slightly beginning to pull.
Offered here is a vintage children's adventure novel; "Lost In The Wilds of Brazil", James H. Foster, 1933, A. L. Burt Company, Publisher, New York and Chicago. Good, Fine, Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Dark orange clothboards with Black titles. One of the Exploration Series. Glossy illustrated frontis - panther with deer. Illustrated endpages, last one missing. Over-all nice book. Spine a littleloose - red top page edges.
Offered here is a vintage mary Poppins children's series book: "Mary Poppins Comes Back", by P. L. Travers, Illustrated by Mary Shepard, Reynal & Hitchcock, Publ. N. Y. First American Edition. Light green cloth boards with blue cover illustration and titles. Light rubs at extremities - more at spine head and heel, dirtiness across covers. Light green illustrated endpages. Numerous illustrations throughout.
Offered here is a vintage children's Mary Oppins Story book: "Mary Poppins Opens The Door", by P. L. Travers, Illustrated by Mary Shepard, Reynal & Hitchcock, Publ. N. Y. First American Edition, stated second printing, 1943. Light blue cloth boards with blue cover illustration and titles. Light rubs at extremities - more at spine head and heel, dirtiness across covers. Illustrated white endpages. Numerous illustrations throughout.
Offered here is a vintage military related children's series book; "Miss Navy Junior - DJ and Mylar - 1946 1st Ed". The blue cloth cover has bump at the lower right corner and ahint of rub at spine heel -red titles - else very nice. Pages nice and white. The DJ has corner chips and piece smising. It has a wonderful image on the cover of a yong lady in a flight uniform.
Offered here is an antique children's picture, story book, "Oliver Optics New Story Book", "Fireside Series", Hurst & Company, New York, Publisher, 1902, 193 pages plus numerous blank endpages. Pictorial colored chromolithographed paper boards (wonderful illustration) with light blue cloth binding (dirty with small tears etc) - corners have minor rubs and rounding - tiny chips in the papewr along the edges. The back cover has moisture stains - I do not see where it has gone onto the pages. The colored frontis is torn. This is filled with literally hundreds of wonderful B & W illustrations.
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