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The Children's Country by Burdekin, Kay; [Burdekin, Katharine]; [Constantine, Murray] - 1929

by Burdekin, Kay; [Burdekin, Katharine]; [Constantine, Murray]

The Children's Country by Burdekin, Kay; [Burdekin, Katharine]; [Constantine, Murray] - 1929

The Children's Country

by Burdekin, Kay; [Burdekin, Katharine]; [Constantine, Murray]

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NY: The Junior Literary Guild. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Jacket heavily tattered and chipped with some loss to title on front panel and spine, pages toned. 1929. Reprint. Eight charming color plates by Beth Krebs Morris. Blue-green cloth binding with black lettering stamped on front boards and spine. August 1929 Junior Literary Guild newsletter laid in. A children's fantasy novel about two siblings, Carol and Donald, who receive a fairy message about going to the Standing Stones on St. John's Eve to have an ADVENTURE. They follow the instructions and end up in the Children's Country, a magical land where children are the rulers. Burdekin wrote many other works of feminist and speculative fiction for adults under her given name, Katharine Burdekin and under the pen name of Murray Constantine. Originally published in Great Britain as "St. John's Eve". The author is most renowned for her dystopian novel "Swastika Nights". This title is her only book for children. Much of the research on Burdekin's work comes from Daphne Patai. 262 pages .
  • Bookseller Old Saratoga Books US (US)
  • Illustrator Beth Krebs Morris
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Jacket heavily tattered and chipped with some loss to title on front panel and spine, pages tone
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  • Edition Reprint
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher The Junior Literary Guild
  • Place of Publication NY
  • Date Published 1929
  • Keywords 1930s Childrens Books, Speculative Fiction, FEMINIST Literature
Christopher Lee’s New Chamber of Horrors

Christopher Lee’s New Chamber of Horrors

by Peter Haining

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9780285621527 / 0285621521
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binding generally clean, straight & tight. Internals are clean, though pages have darkened which is common enough with many of these UK titles due to the paper stock selected. Unclipped wrapper has rubbing/dust dulling but no tears, chips or creases.
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The Ghouls
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The Ghouls

by Haining, Peter ed

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Used - Very Good+
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Very Good
Edition
Second Printing
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Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780813813653 / 0813813654
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Stein & Day, New York, 1972 (Second Printing- first published 1971), 8vo., 383. quarter red cloth over green paper boards
Book has a rear lower bumped corner and a bump to lower front. There also is some soiling(red) to the front and rear boards. Internals very clean. Unclipped jacket has a "scrunch" with accompanying "waves" to the lower rear with a crease extending to the flap fold. (please see images).
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The Man Who Lost His Head
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The Man Who Lost His Head

by Claire Huchet Bishop

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Reprint Edition
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The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.
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The Elephant's Child: Just So Stories Series
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The Elephant's Child: Just So Stories Series

by Kipling, Rudyard

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Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2
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Little May and Her Friend Conscience
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Little May and Her Friend Conscience

by Marianne Parrot

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Little May and Her Friend Conscience. Used. Very Good+ Condition. RARE/SCARCE. ANTIQUARIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK. Thomas Nelson & Sons First Edition, 1876. Color front paper paste-down label is in good shape. Complete. Dark Blue, blind-stamped boards. Pocket-size. 70 pages plus adverts.
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A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth

A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth

by Verne, Jules

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Book Club Edition
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Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."
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The Case Against Satan
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The Case Against Satan

by Russell, Ray

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First Edition
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black cloth binding. First Printing. boards have light edgewear, corners curved in slightly. Unclipped wrapper has a 15 mm open tear on the front at the top, minor soiling. Overall, a very tidy copy of Russell's first novel.
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The Bone People
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The Bone People

by Hulme, Keri

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Stated 2nd Edition
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Hulme, Keri: The Bone People. Louisiana State University Press, A tale of New Zealand. Stated United States First Edition, 1985. 450 pages, indexed. WINNER OF THE PEGASUS PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AND THE BOOKER PRIZE. Used. Very Good/Very Good unclipped original $17.95 dust jacket. Summary: "The Bone People, first published in 1984 by Spiral, New Zealand. About this book: The Bone People is an unusual story of love. It is unusual in the telling, the subject matter, and the form of love that the story depicts. This is in no way a romance; it is filled with violence, fear, and twisted emotions. At the story's core, however, are three people who struggle very hard to figure out what love is and how to find it. Hulme won New Zealand's Pegasus Prize for Literature (1984) for The Bone People. Then the book went on to win the prestigious Booker Prize (1985).
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The Book of Life: A Novel
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The Book of Life: A Novel: All Souls Trilogy, Book 3

by Deborah Harkness

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Black boards with gold writing on spine; author's initials embossed in gold on front board. Top and bottom of book spine rumpled; illustrations on inside of front and back board. Shelf wear to top and bottom of dust jacket spine; pages and binding still look in excellent condition. Cover price of $30.00 and 0714 on front dust jacket flap.Viking First Edition; Seventh Printing as indicated by complete number line ending in "7 9 10 8" on copyright page. Signed by author on title page.The third and final book in the All Souls trilogy, Harkness' novel "deepens her themes of power and passion, family and caring, past deeds and their present consequences." Hardcover and original unclipped dust jacket protected by archival Mylar cover.
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Strategem and Other Stories (Short story index reprint series)
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Strategem and Other Stories (Short story index reprint series)

by Crowley, Aleister

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Hardcover, Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, New York. 139p.This 1971 edition reprinted from the 1929 Mandrake. Silver titles on spine, Book for Libraries emblem blind-stamped lower right front board. Front pastedown has ghost of a bookseller's sticker; rear pastedown shows what appears to be an Army/Navy surplus stamp in red. A few tiny dark marks near the blind stamp and some soiling to top rear board. Minor blemishes withstanding, this is a very nice, collectible copy.Inv. # 32586 bds 2022
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