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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company Inc. This book was first published in 1949 and was the winner of the 1950 Newbury Medal. This edition states a 1949 copyright, but a list of titles by the author within includes books published up to 1964. This volume is circa 1964 when the last book in the list within was… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1956. Originally published in 1944, this reprint is circa 1956. It is volume 37 in the series. Two sets of male/female fraternal twins, Bert and Nan and Freddie and Flossie, are the principal characters in this series created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and written under the pen name of Laura Lee Hope. The original series… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Wonder Books, 1953. A Two-In-One Wonder Book - Turn Upside Down for Another Story 8vo size pictorial hardcover; unpaginated - about 20 pages with brightly colored illustrations by Beatrice Derwinski. One side of the book gives a Good Night story and the other side a Good Morning story. Frank Luther (1899 - 1980) was a… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Wonder Books, 1952. This is book number 569 in the series. 8vo size pictorial hardcover board book with sewn binding, color illustrated endpapers; unpaginated - about 20 pages with full color illustrations The fill-in bookplate is blank. Edgewear, worn and bumped corners, chip to top and bottom of spine and middle of spine on back.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Evanston, IL: Row, Peterson and Company, 1951. The Alice and Jerry Basic Readers 8vo size green clothbound pictorial hardcover; 192 pages with brightly colored illustrations throughout Contents are divided into four sections: David's Shoes David's New Wagon David's Pennies David's First Train Ride Edgewear, bumped and worn head and heel of spine and corners, school stamp on… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Company, 1966. 8vo size pictorial hardcover; 47 pages with color and black and white illustrations throughout Includes instructions to make: Simple Mobile Mask Mobile Fish Mobile Valentine Mobile Beachcomber's Mobile Pen and Pencil Mobile Spy-Eye Mobile Tin-Can Mobile Boards are slightly warped and covers have significant edgewear. Ex-classroom library with only a label… Saber más sobre este artículo

Chicago: Childrens Press, 1956. 8vo size gray clothbound hardcover; 45 pages with color illustrations Contents include: Wheels Roller Skates Flashlight and Electric Stove Racing Cards Bicycles Working Wheels Roly Poly Toys with Weights Walking Dolls Balloons Whistles Music Boxes Tops Electric Trains Notations on fep, small spots on both front and back cover. We noted impressions of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Chicago: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1962. 8vo size clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 140 pages From dust jacket: "Freckle-faced and red-haired, 11-year-old Marcus liked giving orders, especially to a girl like tomboy Clem and younger brothers like Jerry and his taglong little brother Davy." The discovery of an old canoe stored in the back of Clem's garage gave… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Wonder Books, 1960. Abridged 8vo size pictorial hardcover with sewn binding; unpaginated - about 20 pages Fill-in bookplate is blank. Light wear and soil to covers, very light crease on front cover; edgewear and small bump to bottom of front cover and bumped top corners. There is some penciled scribbling to inside back… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Random House, 1950. One of the Landmark Books Series 8vo size green clothbound hardcover with blue and red decorations on spine and front cover; illustrated endpapers; 183 pages with green and black illustrations throughout. From page 136: "Today you could get on an airplane at Dayton and be at Kitty Hawk in about three hours.… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1976. 4to size trade paperback; 48 pages with color illustrated cover and color and black and white illustrations throughout From Introduction: "In an exciting way this book tells the how of the war as soldiers and generals engage in battle after battle in the North and the South of our struggling, young Nation.… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1963. Stories, Songs, Facts and Fun from Five Countries Being Assisted by the United Nations Children's Fund Very Rare Title 4to size staple-bound softcover with color illustrated front cover; 64 pages with black and white illustrations, maps, photographs and sheet music. From back cover of Book 4: "(This book) has information… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1961. Stories, Songs, Facts and Fun from Five Countries Being Assisted by the United Nations Children's Fund Very Rare Title 4to size staple-bound softcover with color illustrated front cover ; 64 pages with black and white illustrations, maps, photographs and sheet music. From back cover: "(This book) has information about the… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Random House, 1967. Book number 8 in the series 8vo size pictorial hardcover with illustrated endpapers; 184 pages with black and white illustrations. From page 39: "Djaro nodded emphatically. '(The silver spider) has been stolen and a substitute put in its place. But the substitute won't do. unless I can find the… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc, 1940. Stated First Edition Wide 8vo size blue clothbound hardcover with color illustrated dust jacket. Black and white and color illustrations by the author/artist throughout. Unpaginated - about 80 pages. From dust jacket: "Everynight before going to sleep (Hannah and Sally) played a game of making believe they… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc, 1937. First printed in 1936. Wide 8vo size pictorial hardcover with matching color illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. Black and white and color illustrations by the author/artist throughout. Unpaginated - about 60 pages. From dust jacket: "Lydia is a little Amish girl who lives on a farm… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945. 8vo size pictorial hardcover with blue cloth spine; unpaginated - about 38 pages with color and black and white photographs, many full page. This is volume 13 in the Little Golden Books Library. The inside front cover has a "This Book Belongs to" field, which is blank and waiting to be filled… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958. Adapted by Anne Terry White 8vo size pictorial hardcover with blue foil spine with silver and red stars; 72 pages with color illustrations throughout. The Book Belongs to field is blank. Contents include: The Ugly Duckling The Nightingale Thumbelina THe Swineherd Clumsy Hans The Princess and the Pea The Wild… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1960. 8vo size pictorial hardcover; back cover includes a list of other series titles. Endpapers are map of Spindrift Island; 181 pages with a few full page black and white illustrations. Red topstain. From back cover: "Rick Brant is the boy who with his pal Scotty lives on an island called… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company Copyright 1944, published between 1944 and 1959 when it was accessioned into the library. 8vo size custom clothbound hardcover; 54 pages with color illustrations throughout, many full page. Blue cloth cover has a green/gold print on front cover. The back cover is plain. The spine has white print titles. … Saber más sobre este artículo