Resultados de búsqueda: Juvenile Fiction from Minotavros Books

New York: Cupples and Leon, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. full red buckram. 218 pp. B&W frontis. Light rubbing to extremities. Dust jacket is price clipped, worn and lightly chipped to spine ends and corners, rubbed to spine.

Toronto: Thomas Nelson and Sons (Canda) Ltd, 1949. 1st Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full black paper boards. 176 pp. Dust jacket is edge worn, rubbed, chipped to head of rear cover.

United States: The Franklin Library, 1988. Hardcover. As New. Johnson, David.. 8vo. The Franklin Library Mystery Masterpieces Series. 241 p.p. Cloth. A.E.G. Triangle design to endpapers. Title stamped on spine. Boards and interior clean. Frontispiece designed and illustrated by Johnson, David.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Valentine, D.G.. 12mo. Full blue cloth. 93 pp. Pictorial endpapers. B&W illustrations in-text. Spine slightly tilted, spine ends lightly bruised. Dust jacket is price clipped, 1" tear to head of front joint, light bumping and rubbing to extremities. The story of a young iceberg who was born in the Antarctic Ocean and travelled further north than any iceberg had ever been before. With his friend Blowhard the Whale he made an adventurous journey toward the equator. The water grew warmer and Blueberg grew smaller, but his curiosity led him on until, when at last he was playing round the shores of a tropical island, he was in danger of melting away altogether.

New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo. Orig. tan cloth, stamped vignette to front board. 212 pp. B&W frontis. Spine tilted. Boards are coxed and rubbed to extremities, worse at spine. Soiling to boards. Rust staining to rear endpapers. Sporadic spotting to interior. Cracking to inner hinge at p. 89.

London: Phoenix House Ltd, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 18mo. Full yellow paper over board. 158 pp. Four full-page B&W illustrations. Spine tilted. Crease to upper corner of rfep. Dust jacket is price clipped, chipped to spine ends and top edge of front cover, torn to head of front joint and foot of rear joint, some creasing to edges. The exotic islands of the West Indies are the scene of Bob Moran's latest adventure, where he and a young Frenchman land on a small island off the coast of Zambara, ruled by a tyrannical dictator. They surprise the tyrant's henchmen in what they hope is the discovery of a seventeenth-century buccaneer's treasure - but the coffer is empty.

Toronto: Maclean-Hunter Learning Materials Company, 1978. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Kletke, Donald A.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Three volumes from The Mounties Series. Soft cover. 90; 90; 92 pp. Colour illustrations in text. Some foxing and a few stains to covers. Front covers somewhat curled. Damp staining and foxing to edges of text blocks. Removal of acidified tape to title pages, with acid migration through to copyright pages. With several pages of student activities and quizzes.

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Scott, Janet Laura. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full brown paper boards. B&W illustrated endpapers. A.E.R. 216 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Bumping and rubbing to spine ends, spine cocked. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, chipped to spine ends and corners, short tear and creasing to foot of front joint.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Newell, Peter. 12mo. Red publisher's cloth w/ pictorial onlay. ix, 231 pp. [9] plate illustrations, incl. frontis. B&W illustrations in text. Cloth slightly soiled, a few small damp stains to rear board, bumping to spine ends and corners, light rubbing to extremities. Ink gift inscription and previous owner label to ffep, sporadic light soiling and rust spots to interior. A whimsical collection of children's stories featuring fantastical animal protagonists.

New York: A.L. Burt, 1895. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo. Orig. green publisher's cloth. 314 pp. B&W plate illustrations. Spine titled, cloth rubbed at edges. Some scuffing to rear board. Rear hinge cracked. Library envelope and due date list pasted down to rear endpapers. Bookseller's ticket to ffep. Ownership inscription to ffep and gutter of p. 73. Label of Strathallan College, Hamilton to flyleaf.

Erin, Ontario: The Porcupine's Quill, 1980. Soft cover. Near Fine. Rampen, Leo. 8vo. SIGNED with inscription by author to half-title. Soft cover. 102 p.p. B&W illustrations. Some darkening to top edge of text block. This is a satisfying, fast-moving story, full of incident and detail about colonial life. It climaxes with the wrecking of Mackenzie's printshop and press by a band of young Tories acting with the implicit approval of the government, at the end of which Alex finds a single capital R, his souvenir of life as a printer's apprentice.

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1988. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 4to. Blue cloth spine, colour pictorial boards.[27] pp. Fully illustrated to interior. Orig. price tipped in at front. Fine.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Ross, Larry. Full blue paper boards. 136 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Bruising to top edge of front board. Spine tilted. Dust jacket lightly bumped to extremities, small chips to corners, some damp staining to tail edge of rear cover (mostly visible to reverse).

Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo. (n.d., ca. early 1930s). Orig. green cloth. 251 pp. Damp stain to lower corner of front board, Creasing to spine and bumping to spine ends. Slight cracking to front hinge. Gift inscription to ffep dated 1934. Dust jacket is chipped and bumped at spine ends, worn to rear cover.

New York: C.S. Francis & Co, 1856. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Harvey. 18mo. Brown cloth boards, gilt tooling at spine and blind tooling to boards. 376 p.p., [20 p.p. ads]. B&W illustrated frontis + title, [4] plates B&W engravings. Rebacked with partial original spine laid down. Wear to corners and edges. Spine tilted. Ink inscription to fly leaf. Foxing to interior. An important work by Canadian author Catharine Parr Traill, considered the first Canadian children's novel.

Chicago: The Goldsmith Publishing Company, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full tan cloth, black stamped titling and football player device. 251 pp. Bumping to spine ends, rubbing to extremities and fading to lettering at front board. Interior age toned. Dust jacket is price clipped and cropped to flaps, foxed, chipped to spine ends and corners.

Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Company. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo. [N.d., ca. 190-? Per gift inscription date]. Orig. dark teal cloth. 313 pp. Light rubbing to titling on spine and front board. Spine darkened. Bumping and rubbing to spine ends and corners. Ink gift inscription to ffep. Some bumping and chipping to fore edge of a few pages.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Varian, George. 8vo. 341 p.p. Four B&W plates, incl. frontis. Turquoise cloth boards with stamped vignette and titling to spine. Bumping to spine ends and corners, damp staining to spine. Dust jacket has some large chips and long tears and perforations, bumping to edges, damp staining to front cover. Some light foxing throughout and to edges of text block. Prize copy inscribed to FFEP: "A prize presented to Lillian Brown by Mr. Wallis for her excellent paper written on the twelve lessons taught in the Northern Messenger on Temperance, Mar. 1929." A story of alert, red-blooded, likeable boys and girls, with an attractive Irish setting.

London: W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo. The Foulsham Henty Library. [n.d., ca. 1955]. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering. 224 p.p. Colour frontis. Foxing to top edge of text block. Dust jacket bumped and creased at edges and corners, small chips to spine head and corners, small perforation to head of front cover, darkening to spine. This is a sea story of the days of sail, with a salty tang in it that will delight every boy.

Cleveland: A.R. Mueller Printing Co, 1939. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Vol. 12, No. 6. November 1940. Illustrated wrappers. 52 pp. Illustrated throughout. Covers are age toned, wear to spine and spot of wear to head of front cover.