London: Methuen, 1924-1928. First editions. When We were Very Young is the second issue with page ix numbered... Read More about Complete set of first editions of the Pooh books, comprising When We Were Very Young (1924);...
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London: Aldine Publishing Company, [1895, 96]. Read More about The Island School. A story of school life and adventure
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London: "Boys of England" Office, 1899. Harkaway Series Nos. 12 & 13. Both books were originally issued in parts (21 & 12 pts, respectively), "but here reissued as one of the sixpenny volumes in the Harkaway series of complete novels." (James & Smith). Read More about Edwin J. Brett's Jack Harkaway and His Son's Adventures in Greece. Complete in Two Volumes. WITH:...
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London: [Edwin J. Brett, "Boys of England Office"], [ca. 1890]. Original 65 weekly numbers. Read More about The Young Apprentice, or The Watchwords of Old London
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[London: W. Lucas (?), ca. 1890]. Weekly penny parts. A collection of Ching-Ching adventures from “the boys’ Charles Dickens,” Edward Burrage (1839-1916). Ching-Ching rivaled the popularity the Victorian-era boys’ adventure hero Jack Harkaway. Read More about Cheerful – Daring – Wonderful Ching-Ching [With:] The Wild Adventures of Jam Josser &...
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London: Published by George Emmett, at the Office, Hogarth House, St. Bride’s Avenue, [ca. 1885]. Early edition. James & Smith tentatively attributed this boys’ adventure to George Emmett, who appears here as the publisher. The illustrations, at least one of which is signed “Phiz,” have been attribited to Hablot Knight..... Read More about Young Tom Wildrake’s Adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America
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Windsor[, Vermont]: Printed by Oliver Farnsworth, 1815. First Edition. In referring to Bradley’s “An Improved Spelling Book,” similar in format to this one and published the same year, Nietz informs us that “this book was different from many others in several respects. First, Bradley frankly acknowledged that ‘the extracts have..... Read More about A Spelling Book, formed upon an easy, systematical plan, and designed for small children and...
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1906. First Edition. A CLASSIC. Read More about Peter Poodle Toy Maker to the King
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. Wiese, Kurt. First edition. Read More about Freddy and the Popinjay
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New York: Harper & Brothers, [1956]. First edition. Read More about The Silver Nutmeg
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Brown, paul. First edition. With a fine sepia pencil portrait of War Paint's head with feather hanging down and a warm inscription "To Laura Adams [sister of Fredrick B. Adams, Jr.] May you count many co--- Very sincerely Paul Brown '36." Read More about War Paint, An Indian Pony
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London: Addey and Co, 1852. First edition. Read More about Home and its Pleasures: Simple Stories for Young People
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New York: John Day, [1944]. First Edition. INSCRIBED TO HER SECRETARY. INSCRIBED by Buck to her secretary of 30 years, "To Mrs. Shaddlinger and her children. With warm regards, Pearl S. Buck" Read More about The Dragon Fish
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New York: John Day, [1943]. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to her secretary’s daughter, Jackie Shaddlinger, "For Jackie [Shaddlinger] with appreciation and good wishes. Pearl S. Buck." Read More about The Water-Buffalo Children
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New York: John Day, [1945]. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to her secretary’s daughter, Jackie Shaddlinger, "For Jackie [Shaddlinger] Pearl S. Buck." Read More about Yu Lan: Flying Boy of China
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Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Company, 1859. First edition, with frontispiece inserted and both printer and stereotyper's names on copyright page. Read More about The Age of Chivalry. Part I. King Arthur and His Knights. Part II. The Mabinogeon; or, Welsh...
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New York: published by William Burgess Juvenile Emporium [R. & G. Wood, Printers], 1831. First edition. Costume Plates. Read More about A Geographical Present: being Descriptions of the Several Countries of Asia, &c. Compiled...
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New York: Scribners, 1886. First edition, later issue. A CHILDREN'S CLASSIC. Read More about Little Lord Fauntleroy
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, [1912]. First edition. Read More about My Robin
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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [co. 1914]. Reprint. Inscribed by Burroughs to 'Jane'. Inscribed by Burroughs to Maureen "Jane" Farrow on the ffep, "… with all good wishes from her old friend and admirer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzana, California, January 31, 1938." Maureen O'Sullivan Farrow (1911-1998) played Jane alongside Johnny... Read More about Tarzan of the Apes
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New York: printed and published by I. Riley, 1811. "Next to Defoe’s original version, the most popular adaptation was Campe’s New Robinson Crusoe … published in two volumes at Hamburgh in 1779. It was in the form of a dialogue between a parent and his children. To make Robinson Crusoe’s..... Read More about An Abridgment of the New Robinson Crusoe; An Instructive and Entertaining History, for the Use of...
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Montreal: Publié pour A. Bowman à L'Imprimerie de lane et Bowman, No. 7, Rue St. Francois Xavier, 1816. Imprimées sur la Quatrème édition d'Avignon revue et corrigée. Read More about Instructions Chretiennes pour les Jeunes Gens; Utiles à Toutes Sortes de Personnes; melées de...
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Philadelphia: Uriah Hunt & Son, 1845. Improved edition. Read More about Story of Jack Halyard, the Sailor Boy; or, The Virtuous Family
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Los Altos, CA: William Kaufmann, Inc, printed by the Stinehour Press, [1981]. The Cenntenial Edition. No. 219 of 395 copies. Colophon signed by Martin Gardner, Charles Mitchell, Selwyn H. Goodacre, and Roderick Stinehour. Read More about The Hunting of the Snark. The Annotated Snark by Martin Gardner. The Designs for the Snark by...
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Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers, [ca. 1880's]. Facsimile of this chapbook, this bearing the numerals “ix. 3” along the lower margin. Read More about History of Fair Rosamond, otherwise Eleanor Clifford; and her Royal Paramour, Henry the Seond,...
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Portland [ME]: Printed for Daniel Johnson [John McKown, Printer], n.d. [1805-06]. Read More about Letters on the Improvement of the Mind. Addressed to a Lady
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