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Ning's Pony (1953 Cadmus Special Edition) by Hawkes, Hester - 1953: Illustrated by Kurt Wiese

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Ning's Pony (1953 Cadmus Special Edition) by Hawkes, Hester - 1953

Ning's Pony (1953 Cadmus Special Edition): Illustrated by Kurt Wiese

by Hawkes, Hester

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HARD TO FIND. E.M. Hale, 1953. Cadmus Books library bound Special Edition. Exlib. Good condition/ no dj if originally issued. ILLUSTRATED BY KURT WIESE. Boards show wear. A clean, solid copy with a few finger smudges. Summary: "A little Chinese boy, Ning, is given a sturdy black pony. The pony has no bad habits except one, which exasperates Ning's father so much that he wants to sell the horse, but Ning figures out how the pony's trouble can be cured, so all are happy, especially Ning. Beautifully illustrated. "
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  • Illustrator Wiese, Kurt
  • Format/Binding Cadmus Books Binding
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  • Edition Cadmus Special Edition
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  • Publisher E.M. Hale and Company
  • Place of Publication Eau Claire, WI
  • Date Published 1953
  • Keywords China, Horses, Pony, Family, Illustrated Editions, Kurt Wiese,
  • Size 6 3/4 X 8 3/4
Harold's Fairy Tale
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Harold's Fairy Tale

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HAROLD'S FAIRY TALE, FURTHER ADVENTURES WITH THE PURPLE CRAYON. HARPER & BROTHERS FIRST EDITION. Exlib. Acceptable Condition. No Dust Jacket is included. RARE.
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The Man Who Lost His Head
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The Man Who Lost His Head

by Claire Huchet Bishop

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THE MAN WHO LOST HIS HEAD. Ex-lib. Library-bound. oblong format. Good Condition/ No DJ included. The Viking Press. First Published October, 1942. This is the stated Ninth Printing Thus, December, 1959. Glossy finish decorated blue and white boards with Black titling. A solid copy. Both gutters are intact. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Corner bumps and finger smudges noted. A fantasy by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it. RARE.
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Freddy And The Ignormus
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Freddy And The Ignormus

by Brooks, Walter R.

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Freddy and the Ignormus. First Edition, Jan 1951 5th Printing thus. Brooks, Walter R. EXLIB. GOOD/ NO DJ INCLUDED. Hardcover. Alfred A. Knopf, Copyright 1941, ILLUSTRATED BY KURT WIESE.
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Freddy And The Men From Mars
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Freddy And The Men From Mars

by Brooks, Walter R.

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Freddy And The Men From Mars. Brooks, Walter: Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Alfred A. Knopf , 1956 First Edition 2nd Printing Thus. Used. Very Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice copy.
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A Picture For Harold's Room
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A Picture For Harold's Room

by Johnson, Crockett

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Johnson, Crockett: A Picture For Harold's Room, A Purple Crayon Adventure. First Edition, Harper & Brothers 1960. Ex-lib. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Rare/scarce. 64 pages 6 1/4 X 8 3/4
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Harold's Fairy Tale
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HAROLD'S FAIRY TALE, FURTHER ADVENTURES WITH THE PURPLE CRAYON. HARPER & BROTHERS FIRST EDITION. Exlib. Acceptable Condition. No Dust Jacket is included. RARE.
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The Man Who Lost His Head
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The Man Who Lost His Head

by Claire Huchet Bishop

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THE MAN WHO LOST HIS HEAD. Ex-lib. Library-bound. oblong format. Good Condition/ No DJ included. The Viking Press. First Published October, 1942. This is the stated Ninth Printing Thus, December, 1959. Glossy finish decorated blue and white boards with Black titling. A solid copy. Both gutters are intact. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Corner bumps and finger smudges noted. A fantasy by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it. RARE.
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Freddy And The Ignormus
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Freddy And The Ignormus

by Brooks, Walter R.

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Freddy and the Ignormus. First Edition, Jan 1951 5th Printing thus. Brooks, Walter R. EXLIB. GOOD/ NO DJ INCLUDED. Hardcover. Alfred A. Knopf, Copyright 1941, ILLUSTRATED BY KURT WIESE.
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Freddy And The Men From Mars
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Freddy And The Men From Mars

by Brooks, Walter R.

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Freddy And The Men From Mars. Brooks, Walter: Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Alfred A. Knopf , 1956 First Edition 2nd Printing Thus. Used. Very Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice copy.
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A Picture For Harold's Room
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A Picture For Harold's Room

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Johnson, Crockett: A Picture For Harold's Room, A Purple Crayon Adventure. First Edition, Harper & Brothers 1960. Ex-lib. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Rare/scarce. 64 pages 6 1/4 X 8 3/4
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Three Seeds.

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Coward-McCann,, 1956.. hardcover. Used, acceptable. Rated only "acceptable" because about a third of one page has been torn away taking almost half of the text on the front and back pages. This is a large thin yellow softcover with green cabbage on front cover, no jacket, 1956, no additional printings indicated, unpaginated. Cover a little worn (fraying on most corners), very lightly soiled; interior about like new except for page as mentioned above. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA.
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Best in Chrildren's Books Volume 31: Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the Far  West By,...

Best in Chrildren's Books Volume 31: Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the Far West By, Tattercoats, Singh Rajah and the Cunning Little Jackals, Middle Bear, Chips, the Story of a Cocker Spaniel, Picnic Basket, Windy Wash Day and Other Poems, Go Fly a Kite,

by Burnham, Smith, Joseph Jacobs Mary James Baldwin Frere Eleanor Estes Connie Moran and Diana Thorne, Margery Clark Dorothy Aldis, Harry Edward Neal Hester Hawkes

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Nelson. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean, straight copy, in a bright DJ with closed tears, and corner wear. Light tone throughout text. From 1957- 1961 the Doubleday Book Clubs, under the Nelson Doubleday imprint, published a multi-volume work entitled Best in Children's Books. In all, there were 42 volumes published, each issued with a full color dust jacket. Maurice Sendak; 8vo .
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LEE PO'S SEARCH

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Coward - Mccann, Inc.. Good. 1958. Hardcover. Green cover, tight spine, few library markings, nice inside ; Ex-Lib Good+ with no dust jacket .
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Wally's burro

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Golden Gate Junior Books, 1962. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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Wallys burro

by Hester hawkes

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san carlos, ca: golden gate junior books, 1962. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. ex school book library dj in cell wrap slight edge wear on top dj. george bartell. 30 p.
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BEST IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS: Lewis & Clark: Explorers of the Far West / Tattercoats / Singh, Rajah and the Cunning Little Jackals / the Middle Bear / Chips / the Picnic Basket / Windy Wash Day and Other Poems / Go Fly a Kite / Cornelia's Jewels / 3 Seeds

by Burnham, Smith / Frere, Mary / Estes, Eleanor / Thorne, Diane & Moran,, Connie / Clark, Margery / Aldis, Dorothy / Neal, Harry Edward / Hawkes, Hester

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Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1960. pink pictorial boards with gray binding, colored & pictorial endpapers with list of contents on ffep & bfep, deckled side edges, corners & head-heel of spine are bumped, clean & tight. Volume 31 iin series. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak, etc. Young adult novels, short stories, non-fiction, nursey rhymes, etc. in each volume.. 1st Printing Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5.5" x 8.5" Tall.
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Wally's Burro

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Golden Gate Junior Books, 1962. Ex-Library. Good. Hardcover. Light edgewear to boards. Inside very clean..
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WALLY'S BURRO.

WALLY'S BURRO.

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CA: Golden Gate Junior Books, (1962) Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Illustrated by George Bartell. 32 pages, reinforced cloth. After a drought, the Jensen's Arizona ranch is saved when Wally's burro finds water. FINE in lightly soiled & worn dust jacket..
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Lee Po's Search

Lee Po's Search

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New York: Coward - McCann. Very Good in Good dust jacket. ©1958. Hardcover. 28 cm. Copyright date only. Sound and square binding in blue, cloth-covered boards. Light wear to the corners, with bottom fore-corner lightly bumped. There is a price stamp on the rear endpaper. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Dustjacket has edgewear, with paper loss at the spine ends and corners, and some tiny tears and chips. The spine is darkened and white areas of both panels are soiled. Not price clipped. The story of a young Chinese boy named Lee Po and the animal friends he makes as he searches for fire fuel in the mountains. .
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Tami's New House;
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Tami's New House;

by Hester 1900- Hawkes

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The Polynesian Triangle

The Polynesian Triangle

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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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Mansions of the Sun : The Indian Desert Thaar

Mansions of the Sun : The Indian Desert Thaar

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Al-falak Scorpion, 1982. Book. Illus. by Vivek Anand. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Illustrated with colour & b/w photos. The book has a previous owner's private bookplate on the endpaper but is otherwise both book & jacket are in excellet condition. Firmly bound and carefully read..
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THE MILITARY COLLAPSE OF CHINA'S MING DYNASTY, 1618-44
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THE MILITARY COLLAPSE OF CHINA'S MING DYNASTY, 1618-44

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New York: Routledge, 2014. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 291pp, numerous b/w illustrations. A very nice copy..
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Korea Through Her Arts

Korea Through Her Arts

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Yesul Chunchu Sa, Seoul, Korea, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Very interesting book which includes lots of illustration, many of which are tipped-in (color and b/w). There are also 6 records with representative Korean music. Size: 4mo - over 9 3/4" - 12" tall. 445 pp. Text is in Korean. Pages are yellowed, but are tight and clean. Spine working loose but still intact. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3-5 pounds. Category: Art & Design; Non-English Language::Korean; Korea; Korean Language; Sociology & Culture. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001394. . Additional shipping charges may apply.
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The Bengali Intellectual Tradition: From Rammohun Ray to Dhirendranath Sen

The Bengali Intellectual Tradition: From Rammohun Ray to Dhirendranath Sen

by Mukhopadhyay, Amal Kumar (editor)

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Calcutta, K.P. Bagchi & Company, 1979, hardcover, viii-289 pp, First edition, Good in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, name to front endpaper, spine-end and corner bumps, spine faded. Dustjacket, edge chips, rubs, a few spots to spine, in new Brodart sleeve. The result of a collective study by the Council for Political Studies, Calcutta, includes 12 essays on the great Bengali intellectuals of the past 150 years, by the author and others. Each essay concludes with notes and references. Index appended.
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Seven Pillars Of Wisdom, A Triumph

Seven Pillars Of Wisdom, A Triumph

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T.E. Lawrence. SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM, A TRIUMPH. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Privately Printed, 1926. First Published for general circulation 1935. First American Edition. States MCMXXXVI on the title page. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Garden City, NY. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET IS INCLUDED. 672 pages, indexed. Beige buckram boards. Spine has darkened a bit. 6 7/8 X 9 ½.
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Formless in Form: Kenko, 'Tsurezuregusa,' and the Rhetoric of Japanese Fragmentary Prose
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Formless in Form: Kenko, 'Tsurezuregusa,' and the Rhetoric of Japanese Fragmentary Prose

by Chance, Linda H

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Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Study of this medieval Japanese classic of brief 'essays' on various subjects; the author argues that Kenko's text is not an early example of 'zuihitsu' or informal essay, but rather "a deliberate, controlled effort by Kenko to force the reader to confront the impermanent and contingent nature of existence through experiencing the text." Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; first edition (first printing). Light wear to book; hint of fading to jacket spine; near fine, unmarked. Text clean; xxii, [2], 343 pages + 'colophon'; index, character list, lengthy bibliography, notes. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
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Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Vol. III
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Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Vol. III

by Parker, H. ( Collected and Translated by )

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London: Luzac & Co., 1914. SCARCE in 1914 First Edition. In original red cloth, top edge gilt, Very Good, 1 1/2" tear to cloth top edge at spine, cloth rubbed at tips, stamp and blindstamp of the highly-regarded Folklore Institute, Indiana University front end pages. Stories of cultivating caste, lower castes, Western Provinces & Southern India, & Sinhalese texts. With index, 479 pp. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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MAOIST INSURGENCY SINCE VIETNAM

MAOIST INSURGENCY SINCE VIETNAM

by Marks, Thomas A

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Great Britain: Frank Cass & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0714646067 . Book is Very Good + (plus). Clean and unmarked text. Tight and sturdy binding. Very light bump back cover corners. Rear cover surface faint 1/4 inch surface only stain. Single very faint and small page end -ends only - smudges front and bottom page ends. DJ is very good. Very light bumping to DJ cover corners and edges. 1/8 inch closed tear DJ top spine end corner. Sticker on rear DJ cover. 1/8 inch mark on DJ spine. ; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 303 pages .
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North from Malaya: Adventure on Five Fronts
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North from Malaya: Adventure on Five Fronts

by Douglas, William O

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Garden City: Doubleday, 1953. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Garden City: Doubleday, 1953, first printing. 8vo. 352pp., illustrated with b/w plates, map endpapers. Pale blue cloth with blue and white titles. Offset toning to two pages from laid in book reviews, minor dust foxing on top edge, else fine in near fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.
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