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Dr. Seuss: The Butter Battle Book. 1984, Random House First Edition, Stated 14th Printing Thus. EXLIB. USED. Good- Condition/ No DJ as issued in the library edition. Orange Buckram Library Binding. HAS BECOME RARE. Large format 8 X 11 1/8. Illustrated by Dr. Seuss. Summary: Engaged in a long-running battle, the Yooks and the Zooks develop more and more sophisticated… Read more

Drayton, Grace. My Dolly Dingle Notebook Dover Publications, 1989. A Dover Little Activity Book. 4 ¼ X 5 ¾. Unused. VG Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. A blank Journal with blue pages. Cover Art by American Female Cartoonist Grace Drayton, creator of the Dolly Dingle cartoon character and of "The Campbell Soup Kids". ISBN0486253015. A hard-to-find item.

Battaglia, Aurelius. Captain Kangaroo Storybook Random House 1963. Used. VG/ No DJ as issued. LARGE FORMAT. 9 ½ X 13. $44.95. HARD TO FIND. A clean, solid copy.

Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920's. Douglas, Ann. Farrer First Noonday Press Edition, 1996. Softcover. Used. 6 1/8 X 9 1/8 606 pages, indexed. Summary: "Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan In The 1920's" is the biography of a decade, a portrait of the soul of a generation - based on the lives and work of more than a… Read more

Kipling, Rudyard: Puck Of Pook's Hill. Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co, FIRST U.S. EDITION, FIRST PRINTING THUS. STATES OCTOBER, 1906. ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM. Used – VG/ No dj included if originally issued. Gilt topstain. 277 pages, deckle-edge. 5 ½ 8 ¼. Nice First Printing of the First American Edition, published two months prior to the English… Read more

Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.

The Case-book Of Sherlock Holmes. By Arthur Conan Doyle. Publisher: John Murray, 1929 Short story anthology. Detective fiction. Used. Clean and square. Protected in a mylar wrap. Good Condition/Good- ORIGINAL DUST JACKET illustrated by J. Abby. 1929 Cheaper Edition, first printing thus. published in 1929, Blue blind-stamped cloth. Some tanning as is typical of this edition. 320… Read more

MacDuff, J.R. : Memories of Olivet. Tales of the Garden of Gethsemane. RARE ANTIQARIAN TITLE. BIBLE. HISTORY. CHRISTIANITY. RELIGION. Illustrated. RARE. 1868 First Edition Published by James Nisbit And Co. Apparently Quite Rare. 5 1/8 X 8. 373 pages plus adverts. Gilt tilting and ornamentation is present remains fairly bright, including spine. Some underlining noted toward end of the… Read more

The Poison Belt. 1913 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. By Arthur Conan Doyle. Hodder & Stoughton/ George H. Doran. States Hodder & Stoughton on the spine. RARE. Illustrated. Red Boards with gilt titling. Gilting still bright. All 16 B&W plates, including frontis, present and affixed to binding. 2nd TITLE OF THE PROFESSOR CHALLENGER SERIES. "Being an account of Another Amazing… Read more

Mulford,Clarence Edward: Bar-20, 1907 First Edition, The Outing Publishing Company, New York. Title page states MCMVII. HOPALONG CASSIDY #1. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth and F.E. Schoonover. Used. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Red boards with Large gilt titles. Black titling on spine. Hinges cracked. N.C. Wyeth Illustration at center front shows Hopalong "Hoppy" Cassidy sitting… Read more

Ultimate Sticker Collection: Spider Sense Spider-Man, 2009 by DK Publishing. 96 pages. VG Pre-owned, unused condition. ISBN 9780756652050. 96 Softcover. Large format 8 ½ X 11. Bright and tidy, a nice Spidy.

Bruno Munari's ABC. 1960 First American Edition, The World Publishing Company. Impression COHW. 8 ¾ X 11 7/8. EXLIB. Good condition/ Good+ original price-clipped dust jacket. Rare in jacket. Protected in mylar wrap. The alphabet as envisioned and and presented by brilliant Italian Artist and educator Bruno Munari, Father of: Modern Graphic Design,The Futurist Movement, Useless Machines, Mobiles,… Read more

RARE OCTOBER, 1908 HARPER & BROTHERS. UNEXPURGATED FIRST EDITION. INCLUDES THE WATERMELON PAGE. COLOUR PRINTS. ILLUSTRATED BY PETER NEWELL. HOLE-DRILLED. ANTIQUARIAN. Good condition/ No DJ Included. USED. Front paper past-down is scuffed. Binding is tight and all plates look in good shape. Finger marks noted. 7 3/8 X 8 7/8. This is so much fun! Like watching animation go… Read more

Krauss, Ruth: The Carrot Seed. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson, author, illustrator of the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. 1945, Harper & Brothers FIRST EDITION. States 1945 on the title page. Beige Boards. USED. Good Condition/ no dust jacket is included. A nice solid copy. 6 X 8 ¼. "Ruth Krauss's book about a little boy who… Read more

By Peter Newell, author of "The Hole Book". The Rocket Book, Harper & Brothers Stated October, 1912 First Printing. USED. GOOD+ CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET INCLUDED. 7 1/8 X 8 7/8. Seller's Note: Sadly, (no one is sadder than me) the Front paper paste-down label has been removed from cover. Almost no glue remains on gray cloth front board.… Read more

Heyward, Du Bose. The Country Bunny And The Little Gold Shoes. 1939 Houghton Mifflin First Edition, First Printing Thus. QUITE RARE in this first printing. No other printings listed. ILLUSTRATED BY MARJORIE FLACK. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket Included. Library Bound. Nice condition. Bright red pictorial boards with red, green, and gold ornamentation. Shows some wear at corners.… Read more

741GagGreenBunny. The ABC Bunny BY WANDA GA'G. Coward-McCann 1933 First Edition Twentieth Printing Thus. Good Condition. No DJ. Exlib. Library- bound edition. Hand lettered by Howard Ga'g. Green boards with red titling in white front center panel in nice condition. Green and white wraparound alphabet wall poster still affixed to binding. $200.00

Russell, Bertrand. Satan in the Suburbs, and Other Stories. Bertrand Russell's First Book Of Fiction. Copyright 1953, Simon and Schuster Stated Second Printing Thus. Used. Very good/ Good price-clipped original grey and yellow DJ. Short Story Anthology. Stories Included Here: Satan in the suburbs or horrors manufactured here, The Corsican ordeal of Miss X, The Infra-Redioscope; The guardians of… Read more

Norton, Mary: The Borrowers Afloat, 1987 Harcourt, Brace. 3rd book in the story series. Illustrated by Beth and Joe Krush, First Edition, Impression "U". Exlib. Formerly owned by Cornerstone Christian School. VG/VG original floating teapot dustjacket. No price appears on dj front flap. A clean, solid copy. Pages bright. See stock photo.

Mantell, Paul: X Men Second Genesis. Paul Mantell; Avery Hart Marvel ISBN 0679860126. Random House/ Bullseye. X-Men Marvel Entertainment Group. All rights reserved. Cover Printed in USA. Adapted by Paul Mantell and Avery Hart. 1994 number line begins with 2. Used. Softcover. Very Good to VG- Condition. Based on 1991 Marvel Milestone Edition: Giant Size X-Men #1.… Read more