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| White, Paul, Illustrated by Graham Wade: Jungle Doctor Sees Red
Book Number: 24800
Exeter: Paternoster Press, 1968 First edition. 8vo. hardcover. 120pp. b/w illus. very good+, some minor foxing to outer page edges. / very good+ d/w with bookseller sticker on inside front flap. A very nice copy.'
Keywords: children fiction jungle doctor
Price: $150.00 |
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| Martin, Robert.: Joey and the Detectives
Book Number: 24863
London, Nelson, 1963. 1st Edition 8vo. softcover. 114pp b/w illus. very good, page edges yellowed. / very good, clipped d/w.
Keywords: children fiction novels joey
Price: $35.00 |
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| Chauncy, Nan.: Tangara.
Book Number: 24955
don: Oxford University Press, 1961. 8vo hardcover 180pp very good, owner's name on fep. / very good d/w.
Keywords: australian children fiction novel
Price: $18.00 |
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| Mabey, Richard: Street flowers
Book Number: 24988
Harmondsworth Kestrel Books 1976 8vo hardcover 77pp colour illus. good / good d/w
Keywords: Wild flowers --Great Britain.Kensington Sarah. Street flowers Mabey Richard
Price: $18.00 |
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| Carey, Janet Lee: Molly's Fire
Book Number: 25194
New York Atheneum Books May 2000 8vo hardcover 208pp fine. / near fine d/w. From Kirkus Reviewsn The daughter of a WWII fighter pilot is the only one who refuses to believe that he has been killed when his plane is shot down over Holland. Molly lives a perfectly normal life in a small fishing town in Maine until her father enlists in the air force, disrupting their heretofore routine lives. The 13-year-old adores her father, with whom she has always had an especially close relationship. Father and daughter even have a special place to which they often go to talk—the ruins of an old church on a cliff by the sea. Molly’s fears are realized when the dreaded telegram comes—plane shot down; pilot presumed dead. Despite her family’s attempt to get Molly to accept what appears to be the truth, Molly steadfastly refuses to believe that her father is dead. Throughout the novel, Molly works on a project of excavating a stained glass window whose pieces are buried in the old churchyard with the goal of reconstructing it as a Christmas present for the father she is firmly convinced will return. She also watches her mother, now presumably a widow, become involved with the father of the school bully. During the course of the story Molly befriends the rich boy in town and also becomes friends with a half-Asian classmate, who is quickly relegated to the role of scapegoat by insensitive students and townspeople. Unfortunately, the writing tends towards the pedestrian, and many of the characters are straight out of central casting—the poor misunderstood rich boy, the token Jew whose family is caught up in the Holocaust, and the brave, noble, and unfairly treated Asian-American. A well-meaning but so-so story burdened with an ending that’s awfully hard to buy. (Fiction. 9-14) -- Copyright © 2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. nnBook Descriptionn nn The telegram says that her father's Thunderbolt aircraft was shot down by the Germans over Holland -- and that Lieutenant George Fowler is presumed dead. But for Molly, that's impossible. She knows she would feel it in her heart if her father were truly dead. After all, he had been shot down once before and survived. She feels certain that he has found a way to survive again. And she secretly clings to that belief as she stands alongside her mother and brother at the memorial service.
Keywords: Children's Books History Historical Fiction Fiction Military Wars Molly's Fire Carey Janet Lee
Price: $18.00 |
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| Stevenson, P. M.: William Carey
Book Number: 25233
London, Edinburgh, and New York: Oliphants Ltd. 19 8vo hardcover 96pp colour frontis. very good / very good, clipped d/w.
Keywords: children fiction novel india adventure
Price: $25.00 |
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| Bill, Helen E. ; pictures by Louis Slobodkin: Shoes Fit For a King
Book Number: 25353
Surrey, The World's Work. 1959. 4to. illustrated boards, hardcover. colour illus. very good.
Keywords: childrens fiction
Price: $25.00 |
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| Bowman, Sarah: Pigs
Book Number: 25416
New York [London]. Souvenir. 1981 4to hardcover 144pp colour illus. very good / very good d/w. Uses a variety of literary forms to celebrate the pig.
Keywords: English literature Pigs Bowman Sarah
Price: $15.00 |
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| Haviland, Virginia: Favourite Fairy Tales Told in Norway
Book Number: 25419
London, Bodley Head, 1974. Small 4to hardcover 90pp colour illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Favourite Fairy Tales Told in Norway Haviland Virginia
Price: $22.00 |
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| Lear, Edward: Nonsense Songs and Stories
Book Number: 25399
London, Chancellor Press, 1984 8vo illus. maroon cloth hardcover 144pp b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Nonsense Songs and Stories Lear Edward
Price: $38.00 |
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