Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Citizen of New Salem

Horgan, Paul · 1961

$7.20 (€6.53 | £5.45 | ¥1,150)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine study of the childhood and youth of Abraham Lincoln Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities...

Gypsy Bird Song

Roth, Susan L. · 1991

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a...

Stopping by Woods on a Snowly Evening

Frost, Robert · 1978

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

New York, E.P. Dutton, 1978. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn and a bit soiled, ...

Dick Whittington, and Other Stories

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$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

Hodder & Stoughton, New York & London, . . Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Lightly soiled boards, clean interior. Paste-down intact, but front board shaken a bit. Colorful pictorial boards, sc...

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Browning, Robert · 1960

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Merrimack Publishing Co., . Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Good-looking, structurally sound softcover format, bright and colorful illustrations galore, with text by Robert Browning, illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Publication date not g...

We Fell in Love with the Circus

Fawcett, Claire Hallard · 1949

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, H.L. Lindquist Publications, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. St...

Mr. Yowder and the Lion Roar Capsures

Rounds, Glen · 1976

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

New York, Holiday House, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, lightly sunned exterior, clean, unmarked interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Illustrated and written by Glen Rounds. Unpaginated, with roughly...

The Brown Owl

Ford, Ford Madox · 1966

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, A Venture Book, by George Braziller, 1966. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, ...

Nursery Tiles: The Boys' and Girls' Painting Book

C.D.B. · 1880

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Boston, Massachusetts, D. Lothrop & Company, . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 32mo 4" - 5" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being only one additional copy available on-line currently. No date of publication, but appears to be 1880s or thereabouts. Oblong format, ...

Ching Ling and Ting Ling

McCrady, Elizabeth F. · 1937

$6.40 (€5.81 | £4.84 | ¥1,022)

New York, The Platt & Munk Co., 1937. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Square 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Housed in a s...

The Ancient Hawaiians: Who Were They? How Did They Live?

Hazama, Dorothy · 0

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Honolulu, Hawai'i, Hogarth Press, . First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Glossy pictorial wraps, replete with black-and-white and full-color illustrations, tightly staple-bound, clean and unmarked of interior. No date of publication, but appears to be early-mid '...

Hansje En Zihn Vrienden

Harlingen, S.G. van · 1909

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Bussum, Amsterdam, Holland, J.A. Sleeswijk, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 12mo 7" - 7. Oblong format, a Good condition copy of a beloved Dutch language children's books, Hansje en Zihn Vrienden, with iv, 89 pp. with plentiful black-and-white illustrations by A....

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Browning, Robert · 0

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, Frederick Warne & Col., . . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A nice-looking exemplar of a beloved children's classic, and illustrated beautifully by Kate Greenaway. Bound handsomely in illustrated cloth over boards, bumping to, scuffing of spine head and foot, rubbe...

Dragon, Dragon: An Other Tales

Gardner, John · 1975

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover copy in reprint state, having been issued first in 1962 in a stapled sheets format. Clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in tw...

Holiday Story for Boys

Stratemeyer, Edward; James D. Keeline, annotated and introduced · 2012

$68.00 (€61.70 | £51.47 | ¥10,859)

Los Angeles, California, 24 Palmer Street Press, 2012. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Exceedingly scarce in the trade. This LETTERED Limited Edition exemplar (O of 15 copies thus) was produced in honor of the joint meeting of the Zamorano Club of ...

Victor Horton's Idea

Stratemeyer, Edward; James D. Keeline, annotated and introduced · 2012

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Los Angeles, California, 24 Palmer Street Press, 2012. . . Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. This LETTERED Limited Edition exemplar was produced in honor of the joint meeting of the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles and the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, 2012. James A. Keeline provides an...

My Grandma Lived in Golligulch

Base, Graeme · 1990

$6.40 (€5.81 | £4.84 | ¥1,022)

New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1990. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A good-looking, structurally sound copy of the author's first book. My Grandma is set in the Australian Outback and is filled with fanciful, loving depictions of koalas, wombats, kookaburr...

Busy Little Tractor

Pesci, Francesca · 2021

$6.40 (€5.81 | £4.84 | ¥1,022)

Melville, New York, Little Hippo Books, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Perfect little board book for ages 1-5, near flawless of presentation, plush, squishy exterior, glossy pictorial covers, rounded edges. Written and illustrated by Francesca Pesci. ...

Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?

Waddell, Martin and Barbara Firth · 1988

$6.40 (€5.81 | £4.84 | ¥1,022)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Candlewick Press, 1988. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Lovely illustratiosn by Barbara Firth augment this fine children's book for young readers. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean but for a Sharpied-out inscripti...

The Big Umbrella

Bates, Amy June, with Juniper Bates · 2018

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

New York, A Paula Wiseman Book, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Adults, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 12mo 7" - 7. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the red cloth-over-boards exterior, bright interior, unmarked. A big umbre...