Children & Youth from Ayers Books/Livres Ayers

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1881. Hardcover, 35 cm., 9 3/4 inches. Paper covered boards, cloth spine, 32 pages. Book of images after Caldecott, Kate Greenaway, Miss Casella and others. Full-page colour illustrations with captions, patterned endpapers. Name of previous owner (Jessie Owens) appears on verso of frontispiece. Poor condition with stains, torn front endpaper and loose hinges. … Read more about this item

Toronto and Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin and Company Limited, 1973. Hardcover, 22.5 cm., 8 3/4 inches. Unpaged: 16 leaves. Orange cloth boards, illustrated dust jacket. First edition, later printing. Algonquin legend of how the chipmunk got its stripes, retold by the author and illustrated throughout with drawings by Laszlo Gal. Very good book with a fair dust jacket that has material… Read more about this item

Boston: Ginn and Company, 1914. Hard cover, 7 inches, 18 cm., 297 pages. Preface by J.H. Stickney. First Series means that the book "should be sufficienty easy for children of eight or nine years old." Charming black and white illustrations, some full page. Edgewear and some fading. Gift incription on ffep. Good+ condition. . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1851. Hardcover, 8 cm.,7 ¼ inches, 192 pages. Original brown embossed canvas with faded gilt titling on the spine. The Young American Library edition. The stories of the skirmishes and battles leading to the American Revolution. With an illustrated frontispiece and five plates. Well-worn copy with loss at foot of spine and foxing; hinges intact but… Read more about this item

Boston: Jordan, Marsh & Company, 1888. First edition (though copyrighted in 1887.) Printed by H.G. Houghton and Company.  Hardcover, 7 3/4 inches, 19.5 cm., 394 pages. Illustrated with black and white drawings in the text and six full-page plates. American youth story with twelve chapters, each with a different adventure taking place in Boston. Pictorial cover and spine with… Read more about this item

Paris: Je Bouquine, 1985. Moby Dick, le Jeune Mamelouk en BD Couverture souple, 113 pages. + puzzles, jeux, articles. Dessins par Sempé sur les gardes. Bon état.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Sempé, André Juillard, Christian Rossi. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bound Magazine.