Search Results: Titles starting with T from Frogtown Books, Inc.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1991. Second printing. Maroon paper covered boards. Spine stamped in gold. Fine book./In fine dust jacket.. Illustrated by Wil Clay. This picture-book version brings out all the drama and spookiness of the story. Well composed for dramatic and spooky effect, Clay's vivid acrylic paintings in his first picture-book artwork show a strong narrative sense . . . . Middle-school kids might be mesmerized by whal and Clay's dramatic rendition." - Booklist. "If you ever see a creature crawling through your wall with a great, big, long tail . . . don't take your hatchet and WHUMP! cut that thing's tail off. 'Cause the THING will come after you, calling, Tailypo, tailyhpo. All I want is my tailypo. And if what happens in this story happens to you, it might just get its tailypo back

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1943. Comb bound. squarish 8vo. 8-3/4" x 8-7/16". Color paper covered boards. Pictorial endpapers. Four mechanical full color illustrations plus 18 more illustrated pages. Fine condition.. Illustrated and Animated by Julian Wehr.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1977. Third Printing 1977. 2 large 8vo. volumes. Beige paper covered boards stamped in gold. Top edges of text block stained an attractive dark green. Total pages 1090. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown on both volumes. Spines slightly faded. Otherwise near fine condition./Slipcase is sturdy, attractive and near fine.. Translated with an Introduction by Edward G. Seidensticker..

Platt & Munk, 1941. Hard Cover. fine. George and Doris Hauman.

New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1881. First edition. Small 8vo. 7-3/8" x 5-3/16". Green cloth covered boards with blind stamped rules and title stamped in gold on spine. 432 pp. Brown endpapers. A few finger smudges, small white spot on spine Old Sunday School library stamp on ffep. A touch of rubbing to extremities. Overall a very good copy.. Frontispiece illustration of Allfather in Hildskjalf. The Great-Grandmother is the old lady of history, of poetry, of romance, and religion, whose only business is to remember. In the ancient Norse tongue she is called Edda, and you will learn that there is an elder and a younger Edda; but the younger is the direct descendant of the elder, and derives all her knowledge and importance from her. Therefore, we might aptly call them Great-Grandmother and Grandmother Edda. The two Eddas, as you may know, are two Icelandic books containing the oldest account of Norse mythology and legend; and I shall explain to you how it happens that nearly all we know of ancient… Read More

London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, 1923. 8vo. 6-1/2" x 8-5/8." Beige cloth stamped in gold and brown. Top edge gilt. Pictorial chocolate brown endpapers. Black and white head pieces and tail pieces. Title page printed in red and black. Fine condition.. Illustrated by Frank C. Papé with eight color plates and twelve black and white plates.. These tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakspeare, for which purpose his words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in; and in whatever has been added to give them the regular form of a connected story, diligent care has been taken to select such words as might least interrupt the effect of the beautiful English tongue in which he wrote; therefore, words introduced into our language since his time have been as far as possible avoided.

Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait and Co, 1848. Revised Edition. Blind stamped green cloth covered boards. Spine stamped in gold. 16mo. 4-5/8" x 5-11/16." 137 pp. Previous owner's inscription dated 1852 on free front endpaper. Curious thin thread sewn through front flyleaf with a few stitches, probably to affix a label or note which has long since disappeared. Heavy foxing throughout. The last signature is beginning to loosen a bit. Overall a very nice copy.. Twenty-one chapters of adventure from witnessing the eruption of Mt. Etna to adventure on the high seas and travels through Africa.

Harper Trophy, 1987. 1st Harper Trophy edition. paperback. fine.

Grosset & Dunlap, 1940. reprint. hardback. very good/fair - big chips.

1931. First edition. hardcover. very good. Studley O. Burroughs.

New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1951. First edition. 8vo.8-1/4" x 5-5/8". 282 pp. Price on dust jacket front flap is $3.00. Dust jacket signed by Arno. Book is in fine condition./Jacket has a 1/2" deep chip at top of spine, a 1/4:" chip at bottom of spine and three much smaller chips along top and bottom edges.Also front panel has a 3" closed tear, a 1-1/2" taped tear with resulting creasing. So, I would only grade this a good jacket. It is still attractive in it's protective glassine.. A first edition of Vern Sneider's first novel, The Teahouse of the August Moon, is full of charm and gentle wisdom - and also very funny. In the debut of this first novel Sneider revealed himself as a brilliant talent, a writer of fluent invention with a gift of satire. This story was adapted for a Broadway play in 1953 and for a motion picture in 1956. John Patrick's adaptation won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1954. Sneider served in the Pacific during World War II and in 1945 was area supervisor at Tobaru, a village on… Read More

Philadelphia: Franklin Library, 1975. Full Leather. Fine. N C Wyeth. Editors Notes included.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1945. Stated First Edition. 4to. 9" x 6-7/8". Price clipped dust jacket is crisp and bright with one short closed tear.. Illustrated by the author. This book is part of a well-know series by the author of Fred and Brown Beaver Ride the River, for young readers who like lots of pictures and an exciting story with true historical details. Ted and his twin brother Harry were on the Oregon Trail, traveling with their family in a covered wagon, when Indians attacked them. Ted escaped and was befriended by Trapper Joe. An adventurous winter trapping furs was climaxed by the annual round-up of the fur-trapping Mountain Men. Ted might have stayed forever in the wild West - until one day in an Indian village a happy meeting took place.

New York: Pied Piper Books, 1946. 4to. 9-7/8" x 7-3/8". Unpaginated. Pictorial color inner boards. Edges of text block tinted pink. Book is in fine condition./Price clipped dust jacket has a 3/4" tear at top of back panel.. Illustrated with black and white and color illustrations throughout by Patricia Scheirer. Teddy Bear was the cutest, fattest, roly-poliest little bear you ever saw. He was a frisky little bear who didn't want to go to sleep for the winter when the rest of his family did. He thought of blueberries. He thought of honey. He thought of running and playing in the sun. He couldn't do that when he was asleep in bed. So, Teddy Bear crawled out of bed and went outside to play. From then on things began to happen.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. A Giant Golden Book, Second Printing, January, 1946. 4to. 13" x 10-1/4". Full color pictorial paper covered boards. 89 pp. Full color pictorial endpapers. Previous owner's name on free front endpaper. Overall condition is very good to fine with barely a touch of rubbing at extremities./Dust jacket has a little wear at bottom of spine. Overall very good.. Picture is truncated because my scanner is not big enough for this book. Tales from: Rip Van Winkle, Robin Hood, Heidi, Arabian Nights, Tom Sawyer, Gulliver's Travels, Rootabaga Stories, Dr. Doolittle, Robinson Crusoe, Uncle Remus, Treasure Island. In this story book are gathered together eleven childhood favorites from books that are loved and cherished all over the world. Stories by Daniel Defoe, Joel Chandler Harris, Washington Irving, Hugh Lofting, Howard Pyle, Carl Sandburg, Johanna Spyri, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain.

Toledo, Ohio: Buettner-Toledo, Inc, 1993. Perfect bound soft cover. 96 pp. A touch of light wear. Overall tight, clean and very good.. Illustrated with photos.. A look at the origins, the struggles, the boom years, the players, and the records.

New York: Macoy & Sickels, 1864. Sixth Edition. 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5-1/4". Brown blind stamped cloth boards. 570 pp. plus one p. publisher's ads. 1/8" of cloth missing from top of spine. A touch of rubbing at bottom of spine. Previous owner's name in pencil on free front endpaper. Otherwise very good to fine..

1986. 1st. hard cover. fine/very good.

First Edition. Oblong 4to. 10-3/8" x 8-1/4". Smooth semi-glossy pictorial paper covered boards. 40 pp. unpaginated. Red endpapers. Illustrations in every 2 pp. spread rendered in ink, watercolor and pastel chalk. As new/in as new dust jacket.. Pictures by David Small.

Marine Corps Foundation. First Edition - An Elaborate Production. A Rich Heavy Blue Cloth Binding with a Shiny Gold Medallion attached to the center of the front cover. fine.