Miss Pooky Peckinpaugh and Her Secret Private Boyfriends Complete with Telephone Numbers
by THOMPSON, Kay
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970. Boards. Near fine/very good. Joe EULA. [JUVENILE FICTION: TEENS] [ABECEDARIAN]. Joe EULA, illustrator. First edition. 4to; [30pp]; white paper over board with stamped illustration of a girl on front cover; title, author and publisher stamped on spine in black; unclipped dust jacket; light age toning to edges of white cover and dj; 2" closed tear to top edge and 2 short tears to bottom edge dj, light soiling to dj; near... Read More
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The Gardener's Assistant: Practical and Scientific. A Guide to the Formation and Management of the Kitchen, Fruit, and Flower Gardens, and the Cultivation of Vegetables, Fruits and Flowers; with Select Descriptive Lists of the Best Varieties in Each Department, And a Copious Calendar of Garden Operations; New Edition, Revised and Extended
by THOMPSON, Robert and Thomas MOORE
London: Blackie and Son, 1878. Cloth. Very good. Small 4to; 956pp + 4 advertisements; green pebbled cloth over beveled-edged boards, black stamped decoration, gilt-stamped spine; brown glazed endpapers; heavy book, binding holding tight; color frontispiece plus 11 additional color inserted plates and 20 plates in black and white precede text, all numbered; b&w illustrations and tables throughout text; bookplate to rear pastedown; damp staining to bottom edge, scattered foxing to the first 15 pages as well as some... Read More
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Handy Book of the Flower-Garden being Practical Directions for the Propagation, Culture, and Arrangement of Plants in Flower-Gardens all the Year Round
by THOMSON, David
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1868. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine. First edition. 8vo; xii, 364pp, 7 fold-out plates + 20pp publisher's ads; gilt-stamped green cloth with beveled edges; brown endpapers; binder's ticket to rear pastedown; a few spots, small closed edge tear to one plate; near fine. The author, David Thomson (1823-1909), was the chief caretaker at the Archerfield Estate walled and house garden in the mid-19th century. The garden was formed in the 18th... Read More
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Northern Provinces of the United States, Thomson's New General Atlas
by THOMSON, John
[Edinburgh]: John Thomson, 1817. Very good. N.R. Hewitt. 21 1/4'' x 24 3/4''; 19 3/8'' x 23'' within the neat line; original folds; a few light creases; very good. Map includes and identifies rivers, lakes, mountains, state boundaries, several forts, native peoples' lands, bank and ledges off the eastern shore and parts of the country of Canada. What is now the state of Maine, appears as the District of Maine. An area identified as Indiana appears in the... Read More
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Baby Animals, Paintings and Stories; No. 874
by THORNE, Diana
Akron, Ohio and New York: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1932. Wraps. Very good +. Diana THORNE. [CHILDREN] [ANIMALS] [PICTURE BOOK]. Diana THORNE, illustrator. 4to (12 ½" x 10 ½"); [12]pp; color pictorial stiff wrapper, 3 staple binding; 12 full-page color illustrations with text; light scuffing and wear to edges, ¼" closed tear and light creasing to front fore-edge; very good plus. This edition located in 8 OCLC libraries. Wonderful soft-view paintings of animals by Diana Thorne [Ann Woursell]... Read More
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Farm Friends, Diana Thorne's New Animal Book
by THORNE, Diana
Racine, Wis: Whitman Publishing Co, 1941. Wraps. Near fine. Diana THORNE. [CHILDREN] [ANIMALS] [PICTURE BOOK]. Diana THORNE, illustrator. 4to (12 7/8" x 9 ½"); [12]pp; color pictorial wrapper on textured stock; "923" on upper front wrapper; 14 large color illustrations with simple text all on textured stock; small closed 1/8" cut to bottom through all layers, light rubbing to edges; near fine. No copies located in OCLC. Diana Thorne's wonderful animal illustrations are presented in a large, bright... Read More
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Honey Bunch: Her First Twin Playmates
by THORNDYKE, Helen Louise. [Stratemeyer Syndicate pseudonym]
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1941. Wraps. Fine/Very good. Harry LANE. Later printing, c. 1952. 12mo; 179pp; brown stamped pictorial on tan tweed paper, portrait of Honey Bunch in oval on front; color pictorial endpapers; b&w frontispiece on plain paper; light glue burn to eps; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, "9595" and "70-100" pricing on front flap, listing of series through Her First Visit to Puppyland, published in 1952, light rubbing of front and rear panels, scuffing... Read More
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Honey Bunch: Her First Trip In A Trailer
by THORNDYKE, Helen Louise. [Stratemeyer Syndicate pseudonym]
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1939. Later printing. Wraps. Fine/Very good. Harry LANE. Later printing, c. 1952. 12mo; 178pp; brown stamped pictorial on tan tweed paper, portrait of Honey Bunch in oval on front; color pictorial endpapers; b&w frontispiece on plain paper; light glue burn to eps; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, "9595" and "70-100" pricing on front flap, listing of series through Her First Visit to Puppyland, published in 1952, light rubbing of front and rear panels,... Read More
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Honey Bunch: Her First Little Pet Show
by THORNDYKE, Helen Louise. [Stratemeyer Syndicate pseudonym]
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1948. Later printing. Wraps. Fine/very good. Harry LANE. Later printing, c. 1952. 12mo; 184pp; brown stamped pictorial on tan tweed paper, portrait of Honey Bunch in oval on front; color pictorial endpapers; b&w frontispiece on plain paper; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, "9595" and "70-100" pricing on front flap, listing of series through Her First Visit to Puppyland, published in 1952, light rubbing of front and rear panels, scuffing and chipping to... Read More
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Honey Bunch: Her First Visit to the Zoo
by THORNDYKE, Helen Louise. [Stratemeyer Syndicate pseudonym]
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932. Later printing. Wraps. Fine/Very good. Harry LANE. Later printing, c. 1951. 12mo; 184pp; brown stamped pictorial on tan tweed paper, portrait of Honey Bunch in oval on front; color pictorial endpapers; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, "8585" and "70-100" pricing on front flap, listing of series through Her First Tour of Toy Town published in 1951, sunning of spine, small closed tears to top edge and light soiling to rear panel; fine... Read More
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How We Got There From Here, Remembering the Days of Steamers, Trolleys & Model Ts in Maine
by THORNDIKE, Virginia L.
Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1997. First Printing. Stiff wraps. Fine. First printing. 4to; ix, [i], 134pp; stiff color pictorial wrapper; sepia tone illustrations and text; fine. ISBN: 0-89272-410-2. Recollections and stories from around the state of Maine by its residents. Photographic illustrations in sepia tones accompany the text.
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The White Deer, Illustrated by the Author and Don Freeman
by THURBER, James
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945. First Edition. Boards. Near fine/very good. James THURBER and Don FREEMAN. A Wartime Book. First edition. 8vo; 115pp; white-stamped title and author name on green cloth over board; b&w illustrations in text; 4 color illustrated plates by Don Freeman inserted; age-toning of endpapers; color pictorial dust jacket lacking price, sunning of spine, age-toning, a few scuffs; near fine in a very good dj. A children's fairy tale about 3 brothers, sons... Read More
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The Tiger Who Would Be King
by THURBER, James
New York: Enchanted Lion Books, 2015. JooHee YOON. [JUVENILE]. JooHee YOON, illustrator. First printing, first edition thus. Small 4to square; [34]pp; brightly colored pictorial boards lacking lettering; color pictorial eps; illustrations every page with text; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with title, author and illustrator on front and spine; price on rear panel; fine in fine dj. From the dust jacket front flap: "I'll be king of beasts by the time the moon rises," said the tiger. And so... Read More
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My Life and Hard Times & Other Observations
by THURBER, James
London: The Folio Society, 1980. Pictorial boards. Fine/very good. James Thurber. 8vo; 253pp; cream cloth over board with stamped illustration to front and back covers and gilt stamped title, author and publisher to spine; colored endpapers; owner's book plate to front pastedown; lime green slipcase; fine in very good slipcase. Classic humor and cartooning by James Thurber.
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Miss Petticoats
by TILTON, Dwight
Boston, Mass: C.M. Clark Publishing Company, 1905. Cloth. Very good/very good. Copyright 1902. 12mo; 377pp, [6]pp publisher's ads; gray cloth over board, lettering in black on front, illustration of a girl on the front dressed in a red cape and muff trimmed in fur, and a long black skirt; black lettering on spine; ownership in neat ink dated "1906" on ffep; fp with tissue guard and an additional 6 b&w illustrated plates; publisher's glassine dust jacket; light damp... Read More
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No Can Do
by TOBIAS, Charlie
New York: Robbins Music Corporation, 1945. Ephemera no binding. Very good +. 12 1/8" x 9 1/8"; 3 [1]pp; color pictorial front wrapper; ad for America's Favorite Songs on rear wrapper; very good plus. Featured in Monte Proser's Copacabana Revue.
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The American Tour of Messrs Brown, Jones and Robinson, Being the History of What They Saw, & Did in the United States, Canada and Cuba
by TOBY [DOYLE, RICHARD]
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1872. Cloth. Very good. 4to; 74 pp; plate guards; pebbled blue cloth over board with white stamped gilt title and decoration on cover; 74 pp of black and white cartoon style illustrations with text; very good. Toby is one of the pseudonyms for the British author Richard Doyle (1824-1883). He was the son of a noted British cartoonist and the uncle of the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He was a staff... Read More
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All the Funny Folks, The Wonder Tale of How the Comic-Strip Characters Live and Love "Behind the Scenes
by [COMIC ARTISTS OF THE WORLD TODAY]
New York: The World Today, Inc, 1926. Boards. Very good. 4to; 112pp; green cloth over board with color illustrated paper onlay; illustrated endpapers; color comic illustrations; title printed on spine; scuffing to cover, light soiling to cover and pages, a few closed tears, very good minus.
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An American Girl Abroad, The Girlhood Series
by TRAFTON, Adeline
Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1872. [JUVENILE] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. Boson: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, and New York: Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, 1872. Later printing. 16mo (6 7/8" x 5 ¼"); 245, [1]pp + [8]pp publisher's ads; tan cloth over board, stamped portrait of a young girl and trunks on the front in red, lettering and decoration in red on spine; ownership on ffep; fp with tissue guard + 5 additional plates; plate numbered "157" inserted after page 158;... Read More
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Costume Design and Illustration
by TRAPHAGEN, Ethel
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1918. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very good. [SIGNED and INSCRIBED]. First edition. 4to; 199pp; brown stamped cloth over board with the title and author on front cover and spine; inscription to a student and signature on free front endpaper; signed on title page; illustrated throughout text and with full page black and white illustrations; tipped in Spectrum Color Chart and Value Scale; newspaper clipping laid in and verso last page several newspaper... Read More
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Mary Poppins in the Park
by TRAVERS, P.L.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Mary SHEPARD. [CHILDREN] [WOMEN AUTHORS]. Mary SHEPARD, illustrator. First American edition. Duodecimo (12mo); xii [iiii], 235pp; pale blue buckram over board, vignette portrait of Mary Poppins and lettering stamped in dark blue to front, blue lettering on spine; pink map endpapers; b&w frontispiece; b&w illustrations in text; unclipped pictorial pink dust jacket, rear flap has review for three other Mary Poppins series books:... Read More
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Mary Poppins Opens the Door
by TRAVERS, P.L. [Pamela Lyndon]
New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1943. First Edition. Cloth. Very good +/very good +. Mary SHEPARD and Agnes SIMS, illustrators. First edition. 12mo; 239pp; tan cloth over board, navy stamped title and vignette of Mary Poppins on front, lettered spine; pictorial endpapers; copyright page has declaration of wartime Governmental publishing; spotting to upper edge, minimal shelf-wear; unclipped blue and yellow pictorial dust jacket with price of $1.75 on the front flap, light wear to edges; very good plus.... Read More
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The Cattleman's Steak Book; Produced in Cooperation with The Cattleman Restaurant in New York
by TRUAX, Carol, recipes. S. Omar BARKER remarks and rhymes
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1967. First Edition. Faux Leather. Fine/Very good. First edition. 8vo; 128pp; brown mottled faux leather stamped with a facsimile cattle brand on front, spine stamped in cream with title, author and publisherl illustrated endpapers, printed in two colors of sepia ink; unclipped dust jacket; dj has chipping to head and tail of spine, light soiling to back cover; fine in very good dj. The Cattleman Restaurant was founded in NYC in 1959 (to... Read More
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Old Youngsters
by TUCKER, Elizabeth S.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, Publishers, 1897. Boards. Very good +. Maud HUMPHREY. 4to; [17 leaves]; color pictorial boards, green cloth shelf-back; thick paper stock printed recto; 6 color plates including frontispiece; line drawings in text; binding tight appearing unread; scuffing to board edges, bumping to corners, spotting to cloth shelf-back; very good plus. Located in 7 WorldCat libraries. Six wonderful color plates by Maud Humphrey show cherubic children, in high Victorian dress, busy with adult... Read More
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Washing
by TUCKER, Mary Wallace
Syracuse, New York: Syracuse Washing Machine Corporation, 1927. Stiff wraps. Very good. Wrapper title: Washing, Helps and Suggestions. 12mo; [1-2] 3-32; ivory colored stiff wrapper with title and author printed in black on front and green decoration; 2 staple binding; vignette illustrations in green ink; sunning and soiling to wrapper; very good. Not recorded. Interesting booklet on washing clothing, stain removal, as well as tips for cleaning other household furnishings.
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