Publisher:
Lake Bluff, Illinois, The Book House for Children, 1956
Published:
1971
Alibris ID:
16514886506
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Good. No Dust Jacket. Book Small quarto, hardcover, cover lightly scuffed else good in white pictorial boards. 224 pages. Beautiful pictorial endpapers. illustrations throughout. Contains the acorn and the pumpkin, the bells, Casey at the bat, the cloud, David the shepherd boy, Gigi and the magic ring and many others.
Publisher:
Lake Bluff, Illinois, The Book House for Children, 1956
Published:
1956
Alibris ID:
12312805349
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Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Book Small quarto, hardcover, near fine in green pictorial boards with paste-on of windjammer. 224 pages. Clean and unmarked. Beautiful pictorial endpapers. Collectible. Tales and adventure; Lavishly illustrated. Work by Thomas Pringle, Jonathan Swift, Alfred Noyes, John Masefield, George Eliot, Tennyson, and others; selections from the Arabian Nights Illustrated by b/w & color artwork.
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Very good No DJ. Previous owner name in pencil on front free page. I find no other markings in book. One page is browned from paper that was laying there. Binding is tight. Stain on pages in the spine area from front free page to page 11.
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Normal Wear. No Jacket. Volume 8. Good/--. Normal wearing. Illustrated boards. 34th printing. Black and white & colored drawings. [Children's Literature] Volume 8. Illustrated front board. Blue with gilt lettering. Corners and spine ends are edge worn. Interior is clean, binding tight. 35th printing. Stories and poems are illustrated with color and black and white drawings. 224 pages but there is heavy creasing and crumpling to back page and free page. [Children's Literature]
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Normal Wear. No Jacket. Volume 10. Illustrated front board. Blue with gilt lettering. Corners and spine ends are edge worn. Binding tight. Interior is clean with only a few finger markings. Bottom edge has a water spot. 34th printing. Stories and poems are illustrated with color and black and white drawings. 240 pages. [Children's Literature]
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VG. Later printing. 7" x 9 1/2" hardcover bound in green cloth with a colo r plate on the front cover. Very Good condition. This copy is an ex-re ference Library copy with name stamps on the fly leafs. Book plates on the endpapers. No other library markings. Tiny bumps to the book's co rners. Some dusting to the edges of the book's upper page block.
Publisher:
Lake Bluff, Illinois, The Book House for Children, 1956
Published:
1956
Alibris ID:
12312805357
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Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Book Small quarto, hardcover, near fine in blue pictorial boards with paste-on. 216 pages. Clean and unmarked. Beautiful pictorial endpapers. Collectible. Contains the Bugle Song, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Marko, champion of Serbian liberty, the melting pot, the new colossus, under the Greenwood tree, Robin Hood, your America and others with great illustrations throughout.
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Very good. Navy cloth boards and color plate on FC. Gilt titles. Corners and spine ends bumped. Binding tight. Unmarked. Light browning of pages. No DJ 100% of this purchase will support literacy programs through a nonprofit organization!
This series, My Book House, was intended originally to be an affordable anthology to promote literacy. Things have changed in the years since it was first published, but my 5-year-old delights as much in reading these as her mother did; which is the hallmark of classic books.
Kathleen D
Dec 15, 2011
Great memories
a childhood favorite of my husband. It was great to find these for him at a very reasonable price.
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