Offered here is a vintage children's book about outer space, "Across the Space Frontier", by KAPLAN, Joseph, Dr. Wernher von BRAUN, Heinz HABER, Willie LEY, Oscar SCHACHTER, Fred L. WHIPPLE Edited by Cornelius RYAN, full-color illustrations by Chelsey Bonestell, Fred Freeman and Rolf Klep, uses photos, drawings charts etc. as well. Publisher, 1953, stated second print, 147 pp including the index. Pictorial Dust jacket - light steel gray cloth with silver illustrations - illustrated endpages. This is a wonderful Book!!! There is a name Tommy written at the top of the inside front DJ flap.
Offered here is a vintage children's hardcover: "Child's History of Animals; A Natural History for the Young ", "Profusely Illustrated - With 100 Beautiful Color Plates, Full-page Half-tone Engravings and Other Instructive Illustrations", by Frederick Lonnkvist, PhD. John C. Winston, CO. Publ., 1901, about 7 1/4" X 9 3/4", 240pp, 8 full-color plates. Blue cloth bound with white stamped titles and black decorations - pasted illustration of lions on front cover center medallion, bumps and light rubs at extremities - spine head and heel beginning to fray. A name and address written on the third blank endpage. A wonderful book !!
Offered here is a vintage folio size natural history book for children: "Some Native Birds For Little Folks", Cover title is "Bird Portraits For the Young", New York. Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 1888. First Edition. Original full gilt stamped gray cloth binding. Illustrated throughout with full page sepia and duotone photograveurs by Howard Darnell. 4to. Covers mildly rubbed. Head and tail pieces a bit chaffed. Corners gently bumped and rubbed. Some flocking on many of the images. A Very Good copy. What a GREAT book!!!!!
Offered here is a vintage and scarce Thornton Burgess Book for children "The Burgess Bird Book For Children", by Thornton Burgess, Boston: Lilttle, Brown And Company, 1919. First Edition, October 1919, 1920 on title page - thus later print; Meadow Lark illustration pasted to front board. Hardcover xvi, 353 pp. with index plus 2 pp. adverts. 8vo. Robin's egg blue hardcover light run at extremities. Both a story book for children and an authoritative handbook on bird identification. 32 Fuertes full color plates. Former owner"s inscription and address marked out on front free endpaper.
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