Search Results: Childrens - Story Collections from Deja Vu Books

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. Blue hardcover binding clean square and tight, some rubbing along bottom edge. Name written on ffep. 116 pages. Price-clipped dj has some closed tears and shelfwear. Stories told a thousand years ago in America by Indians and Eskimos. Writte for ages 6-12, this is a series of short stories and legends.. Illus. by Floethe, Richard. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Stated. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Very Good.

Albermarle Street, London: John Murray, 1954. Pictorial hardcover binding has some soiling, rubbing along edges, bumped corners. Mostly clean and tight interior - some smudges. Inked out spot on copyright page. Beginning of hinge crack inside back cover. 62 pages of nonsensical verse and delightful illustrations. Edited and introduced by Angus Davidson and Philip Hofer.. Illus. by Lear, Edward. Small 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. 2nd. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket.

New York: Bokland Juvenile - Carlton Press, 1980. Blue cloth binding clean and tight. DJ has some light wear. Trilogy of delightfully illus poems for children: Snowflake - amusing sequel to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer story; Blue Bear and Pink Mouse - charming story about two animals whose mother sends them outside to play in the snow; Three Little Boys - dealsw tih the boys' relationship with their grandmother. 32 pages.. Illus. by White, Jill. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1959. Gray boards binding clean and tight. Yellowing interior pages. DJ has minor shelfwear. 152 pages.. Illus. by Arno, Enrico. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Near Very Good.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1955. Green hardcover cloth binding has minor wear at corners, clean square and tight. Name on fep and back endpaper, else interior clean and bright. DJ is price clipped, else crisp with only a couple of minor closed tears. 194 pages with index of first lines of poems. Foreword by May Hill Arbuthnot. Richards is the daughter of Julia Ward Howe. She wrote these poems for her daughter. According to the foreword: ".no hurdy-gurdy ever turned out gayer tunes or made a more joyful noice than Laura E. Richard's Tirra Lirra.". Illus. by Davis, Marguerite. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 5th. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Viking Press, 1937. Beige cloth binding with red imprint of toys on front cover. Foxing on binding, page edges. Else clean and tight. Illus endpapers. 193 pages with a directory of where the toys in the various stories of Early America may be seen.. Illus. by Paull, Grace. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket.

David McKay 1st 1944 VG w/Good+ DJ. Dj missing small chip on spine, light wear. Wonderful color and b/w illus by Grace Paul. An entertaining collection of truly American stories with settings from the early days of the United States. 14 stories, 144 pages.. Hardcover.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux 3rd 1970 (1968) VG w/good dj. Gift inscription on ffep. Chips on dj, else good. Pictures by Margot, Zemach. Jewish tales for children - "they have the sweep, the direct voice-to-ear simplicity, the easy familiarity which make all folks literature universal". 1969 Newbery Honor. Hardcover.