Search Results: Children's from heytotobooks

New York: The Vanguard Press (1938, early printing). Hardcover with illustrated black paper boards with red cloth binding. No dust jacket. Front and rear covers show shelf wear; edges show heavy wear; cardboard is exposed at the corners; wear to head and tail of spine. Faint residue from price sticker removal at top right front corner. The illustrations on the front endpapers progress from small hats to large hats (progression reversed on rear endpapers), indicating it's not the 1st printing. Child's period bookplate at bottom of ffep, with child's name in black crayon, with some of the black crayon transferring to the opposite endpaper. Text block is solidly sewn and firmly attached to boards.

Akron, OH: The Saalfield Publishing Company (Presumed 1st Edition, 1936). Small hardcover, 61 pages. No dust jacket, as issued. Previous owner's name and 1936 date on FFEP. Covers show heavy wear, with serious erosion to the top free corners of both covers and pages at same location--see our photos. Covers are age soiled, with wear to the edges, as well as spine edges and extremities. Endpapers and pages are toned; pages are soft. Text unmarked, with 15 fantastic illustrations of dogs by Diana Thorne. Binding is straight and text block is intact.
About the Book: TRUE DOG STORIES is a collection of short stories detailing the stories of ordinary dogs and their extraordinary exploits, written for children by the prolific author of dog-based stories, Albert Terhune.
About the Author: Albert Payson Terhune (1872 – 1942) was an American writer, dog breeder, and journalist. He was popular for his novels relating the adventures of his beloved collies and as a breeder of collies at his Sunnybank Kennels,… Read More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap (Presumed 1st Edition, 1916). Hardcover with green boards and paste-down illustration in full color to front cover, 245 pages. No dust jacket, if issued. General age wear and soiling to covers and spine. Pages toned. Still solidly bound, with a straight spine. Gift inscription on FFEP; very small "Return to" notation on RFEP; otherwise unmarked.
ABOUT THE BOOK: This is the eighth book in the "Bobbsey Twins" series. In it Flossie and Freddie find, in a big snow storm, the lost father of Tommy Todd, a boy who lives with his grandmother in a poor section of Lakeport.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Laura Lee Hope is a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the Bobbsey Twins and several other series of children's novels. Actual writers taking up the pen of Laura Lee Hope include Edward Stratemeyer, Howard and Lilian Garis, Elizabeth Ward, Harriet (Stratemeyer) Adams, Andrew E. Svenson, June M. Dunn, Grace Grote and Nancy Axelrad.

San Diego: A Voyager/HBJ Book (1st thus/16th printing, 1983). Trade paperback, 215 pages. Clean and unmarked, with a straight, tight binding. Book 2 in The Borrowers series.

San Diego: A Voyager/HBJ Book (1st thus/2nd printing, 1982). Trade paperback, 298 pages. Clean and unmarked, with a tight, straight binding. Previous owner's information obscured with white out inside front cover. Book 5 in The Borrowers series.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company (Possibly later edition, Copyright 1920). Hardcover with light green boards, illustration with moose affixed to front cover, 363 pages. No dust jacket. Illustration on front cover marred where sticker removal has apparently damaged it (see our photos). Very minor wear to edges and spine; small dark stain midway on spine. Previous owner's vintage bookplate affixed inside front cover. FFEP has been neatly removed. Pages toned. Binding square and tight.
ABOUT THE BOOK: The Burgess Animal Book for Children is a book about Peter Rabbit finding out about the animals around him in the Green Meadows and Green Forest. Old Mother Nature gets him under her wing and teaches him about her four-footed friends. Each day brings another story about one or two North American animals such as Grasshopper Mouse, Mountain Beaver, Flying Squirrel, and Grizzly Bear. Through these warmhearted stories, this book provides many amazing information about the wildlife in North America. 70+ color… Read More

Racine, WI: Western Publishing Company (A Golden Book, 1st Edition/3rd Printing, #13579, 1975). Oversized hardcover (10.5"x12"x.5"), 61 pages. No dust jacket issued. Glossy hardcover, colors bright, solidly bound, corners and spine extremities lightly bumped. Brief gift inscription inside front cover.
Once upon a time, in a summer forest, there were fourteen bears . . . so begins a sweet story of a bear family's life throughout the year, told in loving and simple detail. This book features two popular stories written by Evelyn Scott and illustrated by Virginia Parsons.Not to be confused with the noted Southern writer Evelyn Scott (who died in 1963 and whose real name was Elsie Dunn), Evelyn G. Flebbe was the daughter of screenwriter/author Beulah Marie Dix and book importer Georg Heinrich Flebbe. She married film editor David Scott in 1935. Evelyn F. Scott worked for decades in Hollywood as a story editor at MGM.Virginia Parsons, born in Hollywood, California, though London was her home for many… Read More

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co. (#803, undated). Hardcover, 188 pages. No dust jacket, as issued. Pages toned and brittle; clean and unmarked. Covers and spine show age wear, with corners bumped and spine extremities chipped. Front cover has been re-attached with clear archival book tape. Binding is weak; spine is shelf cocked. Wonderful art deco cover design.
Frank and Fearless was first published in 1897.
Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age. Alger's name is often invoked incorrectly as though he himself rose from rags to riches, but that arc applied to his characters, not to the author. Essentially, all… Read More

~~NON-PERSONAL INSCRIPTION BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE~~ Kansas City Star Books (Stated 1st Edition, 2007). Softcover. Clean and unmarked, binding tight. Colors on cover bright.
ABOUT THE BOOK: This little-known book has the complete, well-researched story of William Allen White, the "Sage of Emporia," written for the lay reader. The author, Beverly Olson Buller, is a former librarian from Winfield, Kansas, and has mined all the resources on White in the state. A fresh group of photos, many from the White archives at Emporia State University, give the book visual strength. The White story has never been better told. Amazon review.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born and raised in Winfield, Kansas, Beverley Olson Buller is a teacher and librarian. She is the author of four books. "From Emporia: The Story of William Allen White" and "A Prairie Peter Pan: The Story of Mary White" were both named Kansas Notable Books and chosen for the Kansas Reading Circle catalog and the William Allen White Award master lists. She… Read More

New York: Cupples & Leon Company (1st Edition, 1918). Hardcover with tan cloth boards, blue and brown titles and decorations on spine and front cover, 202 pages + 10 pages listing other books in the publisher's catalog. Dust jacket missing, if issued. Previous owner's name on FFEP. Frontispiece has been removed. Pages toned, clean and unmarked. Binding solid and square. Some age soiling to covers.
ABOUT THE BOOK: The Khaki Boys at the Front; or, Shoulder to Shoulder in the Trenches, #1 in the Khaki Boys series -- "The Khaki Boys reach France, and, after some intensive training in sound of the battle front, are sent into the trenches. In the raids across No-Man's land, they have numerous tragic adventures that show what great work is being performed by our soldiers. It shows what makes heroes." -- 1918, Cupples & Leon.
ABOUT THE SERIES: This World War I series was published by Cupples & Leon in 1918-20. While authorship of the series is generally attributed to Josephine Chase (using the pseudonym… Read More

New York: Cupples & Leon Company (1st Edition, 1918). Hardcover with tan cloth boards, brown and blue titles and decorations on spine and front, 208 pages + 4 pages of other books in publisher's catalog. No dust jacket, if issued. Child's vintage book plate affixed inside front cover. FFEP has been removed. Previous owner's name on reverse side of frontispiece, but otherwise clean and unmarked. Pages are toned. Solidly bound, with a slight lean to the spine. Covers lightly age soiled.
ABOUT THE BOOK AND SERIES: THE KHAKI GIRLS OF THE MOTOR CORPS: OR, Finding Their Place in the Big War (#1 in the Khaki Girls series) -- "Joan Mason, an enthusiastic motor girl, and Valerie Warde, a society debutante, meet at an automobile show. Next day they go together to the Motor Corps headquarters and in due time are accepted and become members of the Corps, in the service of the United States. The two girl drivers find motoring for Uncle Sam a most exciting business. Incidentally they are instrumental in rendering… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster (Stated 3rd Printing, Oct. 15, 1942, #6 in The Little Golden Library). Pictorial hardcover with blue cloth binding, 40 pages. No dust jacket (as issued). Beautifully illustrated by Rudolf. Some wear at edges of covers, else a nice clean tight copy. December, 1947 gift inscription inside front cover. Pages toned; clean and unmarked. 8"x6-3/4"x1/4". 6.1 oz.THE LITTLE RED HEN asks important questions about when we are obligated to help one another. A red hen finds some seeds on the ground and decides to plant them to grow wheat for bread. For each of the steps required to make the bread, she asks the other farm animals—the pig, goose, cat, and duck—for assistance, but they all decline to help. The little red hen responds, "Then I will do it myself." This cycle continues until the hen finishes baking the bread. When she finishes her bread, they all chime and agree to help her eat the bread, but the little red hen decides to eat it all herself. The Little Red Henis an… Read More

New York: Dell (No. 1, 1959). Comic book in very good condition. Pages are toned, but not brittle. Clean and unmarked. Spine is solid but has a bit of a lean. 1" vertical closed tear at bottom of spine connecting to front cover; the tear continues through page 5. Cover colors are bright. Front cover has a vertical crease the length of the spine from use. Front top corner a bit soft. Top corner of the back cover is creased. (See our photos for condition.) B/W ABOUT THE BOOK: Little Lulu is a comic strip created in 1935 by Marjorie Henderson Buell. The character, Lulu Moppet, debuted in The Saturday Evening Post on February 23, 1935, in a single panel, appearing as a flower girl at a wedding and mischievously strewing the aisle with banana peels. Little Lulu replaced Carl Anderson's Henry, which had been picked up for distribution by King Features Syndicate. The Little Lulu panel continued to run weekly in The Saturday Evening Post until December 30, 1944. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Marjorie Henderson Buell… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company (1st Edition, November 1926). Lilac cloth boards with faded spine, 136 pages. Dust jacket missing. Pages age toned; creasing along bottom fore edge of front endpaper and first few pages appears to be a production flaw (see our photos); text clean and unmarked; binding square and tight. Hand-colored frontispiece and other illustrations. Protected by clear plastic jacket.
About the Book: A MID-CENTURY CHILD AND HER BOOKS by Caroline M. Hewins (1926). Carolyn M. Hewins (1846-1929) was an influential figure in the movement to create children's libraries, whose memories of her mid-nineteenth-century childhood entertained and enlightened acquaintances in Hartford, Connecticut. Luckily for scholars of works for nineteenth-century American children, she left a record of the books she read as a child as part of her memoirs. Hewins' memoirs of growing up in Roxbury, Massachusetts, accentuates the charming: the family cow named for the glamorous wife of a presidential candidate;… Read More

Set of four books from the PATTY LOU Christian adventure series written in the 1940s by Basil Miller:

Patty Lou in the Coast Guard (#4)
Patty Lou, The Flying Nurse (#5)
Patty Lou, The Flying Missionary (#6)
Patty Lou in the Wilds of Central America (#7)

CONDITION NOTES:

IN THE COAST GUARD: Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan (Stated 2nd Edition, 1945). Hardcover with blue boards, 64 pages. Dust jacket somewhat faded and scuffed, with small, closed tears on edges; spine repaired with archival document tape. Pages are lightly toned, clean, and unmarked. Binding is tight, with a straight spine.

THE FLYING NURSE: Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan (Stated 2nd Edition, 1946). Hardcover with blue boards, 62 pages. Dust jacket somewhat faded, with a couple of small, closed tears on edges and some edge/corner wear. There's a small, inked stamp on the ffep: "Imperfect Book." This appears to be a reference to the pages being misnumbered at the front: after 1st page, the numbering starts with 8. No pages are… Read More

New York: Barse & Hopkins (1918). Hardcover with green pictorial cloth boards, 242 pages + 5 pages publisher's adverts. No dust jacket, if issued. FFEP has been removed. Previous owner's name on following page, but otherwise clean and unmarked, with solid hinges and binding. Text block sound; pages toned.
ABOUT THE BOOK: Book 4 in the Polly Pendleton series. Polly Pendleton is a resourceful, wide-awake American girl who goes to boarding school on the Hudson River some miles from New York. By her pluck and resourcefulness, she soon makes a place for herself and this she holds right through the course. The account of boarding school life is faithful and pleasing and will attract every girl in her teens. Barse & Hopkins, 1918.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dorothy Whitehill wrote several series of books for girls in the early part of the 20th century. In addition to the Polly Pendleton series, she wrote The Page Twins series and the Joyce Payton series.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR: Charles Lewis Wrenn (1880 - 1952), was… Read More

Kansas City Star Books (Stated 1st Edition, 2010). HARDCOVER. No dust jacket issued. Like new condition: clean, unmarked, binding tight. Gift quality.
ABOUT THE BOOK: In her brief life, Mary White's spunk and spirit left their mark on her hometown. After she died in a riding accident, her father poured his heart and his renowned storytelling skills into a loving essay that left its mark on American literature. William Allen White was a small-town newspaper editor with a national reputation as an author. Because of the compelling and often reprinted article he wrote about his daughter s life and untimely death, Mary White like Peter Pan has stayed forever young and alive. Using White s essay as a framework, author Beverley Buller tells about the life of Mary White in A Prairie Peter Pan: The Story of Mary White.. Buller is also author of a book about White's life, From Emporia: The Story of William Allen White, published in 2007.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born and raised in Winfield, Kansas, Beverley Olson… Read More

A TAB Club Book (Teen Age Book Club), an affiliate of Scholastic Magazines (1st thus, #T67, 1957). Softcover. Covers show general shelf wear, but colors are bright and there are no chips or tears. The binding is tight and the spine is uncreased; it does not appear to have been opened and read. Clean and unmarked, pages age tanned. Cover illustration by Mary Jane Dunton. (R) From the back cover: "Junk it!"--the insurance man said. Hap first saw the red M.G. in French's garage. Enormous silvery wire wheels--rakish scarlet body. It had a personality all its own--arrogant, insolent, challenging. When Hap saw the other side he groaned; crushed, caved in. "It cost you fifty dollars," said Frenchy. Hap's head swam dizzily. Could he find a way to make the RED CAR sing and race again--for him?

New York: Maxton Publishers (copyright date of 1939 shown, but Maxton didn't publish the first commercial edition of Rudolph until 1947; it can be no earlier than 1949 because there is a statement on the back cover about the "RCA Record and the Popular Song." CONDITION: Cream color pictorial paper wrappers: color drawing of Rudolph center front cover set on a green background; same color drawing, slightly smaller, center back cover. Color illustrations throughout. 32 pages, which includes front and back cover. Stitched binding is intact. 1" closed tear at bottom of spine on front cover; one page has bottom corner missing. Corner tips of cover and first few pages are slightly rolled. Pages are toned, with discoloration to the edges of the covers and age soiling. There are a couple of pages with grubby fingerprints. It was designed as an early reader, in which select vocabulary words are underlined in red (this was done by the publisher and is not a flaw). Child has used pencil to underline and count… Read More

SUE BARTON SERIES, group of 3 books (Visiting Nurse, Rural Nurse, Neighborhood Nurse)
ABOUT THE BOOKS AND CONDITION:
VISITING NURSE, #3-- Boston: Little, Brown and Company (Stated 13th Printing, November 1949). Hardcover with gray boards and red titles, 244 pages. Very nice dust jacket protected with mylar cover; colors bright; a small amount of wear to corners and edges. Book is clean and unmarked, with a square, tight binding. Endpapers are slightly toned, but text pages are white with no toning. RURAL NURSE, #4--Boston: Little, Brown, and Company (Stated 24th Printing, 1939). Hardcover with gray boards and red titles/decorations, 254 pages. Mylar-protected dust jacket. Ex-school library, with the expected labels and markings. Glue residue inside back cover where card pocket was removed. Toned pages are clean and unmarked. NEIGHBORHOOD NURSE, #6--Boston: Little, Brown and Company (Stated 12th Printing, 1949). Hardcover with gray boards/red titles, 236 pages. Mylar-protected dust jacket. Pages… Read More