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.
Offered here is a vintage children's sports related series hardcover book, "Over The Line", Harold M. Sherman, Goldsmith Publishing Company, 1929, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall, First Edition. Light grey cloth boards with Black lettering. Bumps at corners and spien edge cloth bent from shelf - slight rub. Discolored are on cover near right center - darkened grey. Volume in the All American Sports Series. Juvenile football story. From introduction: `This book deals with the mental hazard that has been the downfall of so many chaps. But Judd Billings overcomes his obstacle whils still at high school and how he later makes a name for himself at college, makes this a book that ... Four pages of adds in back. DIscoloration on inside covers from flap coverage. Dust Jacket illustrated in color iwth image of football palyers making a tackle. Chips and rubs along edges. Page edges dirty from dust.
Offered here is a vintage antique Western novel, "Pardners", Rex Beach, Cover is well illustrated green cloth on boards, with black printing on the front. Four pages of adds at back of book. 1905 A.L. Burt & Co.
Offered here is a vintage and very scarce Children's Series Book: "Peggy Stewart Navy Girl at Home", by Gabrielle E. Jackson, Illustrated by Norman Rockwell, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1920, first edition. Light blue cloth boards with light orange flowers and pasted illustration by Rockwell - repeated as frontis, very minor rub at extremities, end pages have light flocking - dark stain on page ends at bottom 1/8" onto pages at that place. Cloth has light wrinkling at bottom edge. A very scarce book!
L. T. Meade (Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith) was a prolific writer of novels for girls and women. During her writing career, she wrote over 280 books, as well as short stories and articles for magazines such as The Strand Magazine and Lady's Pictorial. During her most productive period, she published more than ten novels a year. Elizabeth Thomasina Meade was born in County Cork, Ireland in 1844, and was the eldest daughter of a Protestant clergyman. She developed an early ambition to write, a prospect which horrified her father. Upon the death of her mother, her father remarried and Meade moved to London where she prepared herself for her writing career by studying in the Reading Room of the British Museum. She married Alfred Toulmin Smith in September 1879. Mrs. Meade was best known for her novels of girl adventure, especially her stories of girls at school, of which she wrote over 30. However, she also experimented with a variety of other genres, including sentimental and evangelical stories, historical novels, adventure stories, romances, sensational stories and detective fiction. She also co-edited Atalanta, a magazine for girls (previously titled Every Girl's Annual), 1887-93. Always active in women’s issues, she joined and remained active in the feminist Pioneer Club
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