Offered here is a vintage children's baseball story hardcover series book: "The Boys of Columbia High on the Diamond or Out for the Hockey Championship (that is what it says)", Graham B. Forbes, Grossett & Dunlap, New York, 1911, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Pictorial mustard/tan pictorial of boys in football hockey and baseball uniforms on cloth in red, tan and blue. Title is second on list of five titles on copyright page. Pictorial frontis. Nice creamy white pages. Slight lean. Extremities bumped, slight cloth wear to spine edge cloth - missing at head of spine.
Offered here is a vintage children's series book "The Go Ahead Boys On Smuggler's Island", by Ross Kay, The Goldsmith Publishing Co., with Dust Jacket - with some edge chuipping and inside tape repair, 1916. Light blue cloth boards with extremely minor marks at extremitites. Nice copy of this likely reprint addition.
Offered here is a vintage hardbound childrens book: "The Little Colonel Maid Of Honor", by Annie Fellows Johnston, illustrated by Etheldred B. Barry, The Page Company, Boston, copyright, 1906, Thirteenth Impression, 1920, several pages of adds at the back and a birthday message on the first blank endpage. Tan cloth boards illustrated with red, white, green, black, and tan. Minor rub at extremities, spine lightly sunned with a slight lean. Glossy illustrated frontis with protective tissue and 7 others tipped in. Top page edges lightly dirty from dust. This is a nice book.
Offered here is a vintage children's series book: "The Little Colonel at Boarding School", by Annie Fellows Johnston, illustrated by Etheldred B. Barry, The Page Company, Boston, copyright, 1903, Twenty-Fourth Impression, 1919. Mustard cloth boards illustrated with yellow, red, green, black and mustard. Very light rub and bump at extremities, spine lightly sunned. Glossy illustrated frontis with protective tissue. Top page edges lightly dirty from dust. This is a nice book!
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Offered here is a vintage old children's or young adult's adventure series book; "The Rocket's Shadow - Rick Brant Electronic Adv.", by John Blaine, Grosset and Dunlap, Publ., 1947. Otange/tan tweed cloth with black titles and symbol on cover. Minor 'dings' on extremities. Illustrated endpages with Bright White pages insidew. Illustrated frontis. First Edition with Dust Jacket illustrated with Rick and fiend and rocket being launched. Stressing at folds with rubs and chips at spine head and heel of DJ. Some tape repair on plain inside of DJ and on front flap outside.
Offered here is a vintage girl's yong adult series book: "The School Queens", by Mrs. L.T. Meade, New York Book Company, Publ. Lime cloth boards with stamped green decoration and titles - pasted illustration on cover. Corner 'dings' and bumps. Light dirtiness on cover. Some age holes along the front gutter.
Offered here is a vintage Shirley Temple Children's Book: "The Shirley Temple Edition of Captain January by Laura E. Riachrds, The Little Colonel by Annie Fellows Johnston", Random House, with Dust Jacket Photos repeated on Hardcover and DJ. Some very minor chipping and stressing at the extremities. Pages starting to tan at the edges - loaded with photos from the movies. Copies with dust jackets by no means numerous - copies this nice very hard to find.
Offered here is a vintage children's series, "The Story of Mexico by Charles Morris / The Story of Panama Canal", by L. T. Myers, 1913. This is a wonderful "flip book". read one side then flip it to read the other. Maps icluded. First blank endpage on Mexico side missing. Story of General Pancho Villa with photos. Numerous photos of Mexico during the Revolution as well as after. Numerous photos of the Panama Canal during construction. Notebook pages in the center for notes etc. Some writing there. The cloth covers are a little rubbed and worn.
Offered here is a rare vintage adventure book for young adults, "The Winter Bell", Rideout, Henry Milner - 1922 - VERY RARE. Duffield and Company. Dark Green cloth boards with gilt titles. Bumps at corners, Several numbers written on frist blank endpage. The book has an Extremely Rare Dust Jacket, which has a piece missing from the bottom spine and bottom 1/4 of the back - clear tape on inside of DJ - still this books is almost never seen with the dust jacket! Illustrated by F. R. Gruger.
Offered here is a vintage and scarce book: "The Wizard of Oz", L. Frank Baum, pictures by W. W. Denslow, Bobss-Merril Co., Indianapolis, Hardcover Good with no dust jacket; early printing black-and-white and color; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 208 pages; Cover and spine titles are The Wizard of Oz; title page The New Wizard of Oz. Illustrated with eight color plates and numerous other plates in black and white. Green cloth lettered in black, 208 pages, illustrated dustjacket. The book is externally worn, with edgewear and rubbing to the corners and edges, heavy rubbing to the spine edges and a large chip to the spine head above the spine lettering, spine faded, Green cloth boards with darker green titles and lion no dot after author's name - heel cloth shreaded - pasted orang, green and white illustration on cover - well worn, spine loose. 1924 Christmas message on first blank endpage.
Offered here is a vintage Horatio Alger children's hardcover: "The Young Adventurer; or, Tom's Trip Across the Plains", Horatio Alger, Jr., Porter & Coates Edition, Philadelphia, Publ., ca. 1880, 285pp. The first edition was published by Loring in 1878. The last page ends with a statement that : Those of my readers who would like to learn how Tom and his friends fared in the land of gold will find their furture adventures chronicled in the second volume of this series, - The Young Pioneer; Or, Tom Nelson in California", the first edition of The Young Pioneer was published by Loring in 1879, The last Loring title that was published in 1880. thus this is a very early edition of Young Adventurer. Brown blind stamped decorated cloth boards with cloth binding with gilt ornate decorations etc - cover worn at extremities - minor bumps and rubs at the extremities and spine head and heel. Dark Green endpages. Double elaborately illustrated frontis with protective tissue.
Offered here is a wonderful antique and very scarce children's book: "The Young Outlaw; Or, Adrift in The Streets", "Tattered Tom Second Series", by Horatio Alger, Jr., Loring, Publ, Boston, 1875, Likely First edition - later printing, wonderful illustrated frontis and illustrated first title page - followed by a plain title page. The endpages and first several pages have a stain at the bottom edge. Green embossed cloth with bright gilt titles and decoration on the spine. Some minor rub at the extremities. Next title is listed, "Sam's Chance", No. III, but "IV" is there with no book title on the adds at the front. Next title, "Sam's Chance", is listed at the very end of the text for this book, as well. A Wonderful book!!!
Offered here is a great old vintage antique 19th century children's series book; "Tom Brown's School-Days", brown embossed cloth titled "Tom Brown at Rugby, Alta Edition" on the cover. This 239-page hard cover book is titled by Thomas Hughes, Author of "Tom Brown at Oxford" and published by Porter & Coates, Philadelphia. There is no publication date. There is a "Preface to the Sixth English Edition", 16 pages of adds at the back. "Bumps" and 'dings' at the extremities. Pages are tanned. This is a nece old book.
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