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Vintage Children's Library Bindings

These are actual old ex-library books from schools with the original text, stickers, markings, pockets, etc. inside. (Not to be confused with our recycled journals.) Wonderful graphic covers, and the smell of library paste will make you feel like a librarian is whispering, "Shhh," as you read.

Vintage Children's Library Bindings

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1 Adshead, Gladys Casco
Eau Claire, Wisconsin E.M. Hale and Company 1943 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Bostleman, Else 
Ex-library buckram binding with the usual stamps and markings. 63 pages. Wear and tear at top and bottom of spine. A charming tale of a baby seal. 
Price: 9.95 USD
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2 Asimov, Isaac The Chemicals of Life: Enzymes, Vitamins, Hormones
N Y Abelard-Schuman 1954 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 159 pages. 
Price: 14.95 USD
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3 Beatty, Hetty Burlingame Saint Francis and the Wolf
Boston Houghton Mifflin 1953 First Edition Hard Cover Good No Jacket 
Ex-library buckram binding with illustrated cover; usual library stamps and markings. Blurb from dust jacket pasted inside front boards. One inch tear on title page; slight marking. Beautiful brightly colored illustrations. 
Price: 35.00 USD
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4 Bond, Michael Paddington's Storybook
Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 1983 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 160 pages. Ten of the most popular Paddington stories. 
Price: 9.95 USD
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5 Bowman, James Cloyd Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time
Chicago, IL Albert Whitman 1967 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 296 pages. 
Price: 9.95 USD
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6 Brink, Carol Ryrie The Highly Trained Dogs of Professor Petit
N Y Macmillan 1953 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Henneberger, Robert 
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 139 pages. 
Price: 9.95 USD
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7 Brown, Beth The Wonderful World of Horses
N Y Harper & Row 1967 Hard Cover Good Good Shortall, Leonard 
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 211 pages. A collection of seventeen stories. Black and white illustrations by Leonard Shortall. 
Price: 9.95 USD
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8 Buehr, Walter Through the Locks: Canals Today and Yesterday
N Y. G.P. Putnam's 1954 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 
Ex-library buckram cloth binding with the usual stamps and markings. Brightly illustrated cover. 64 pages. 
Price: 9.95 USD
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9 Burnett, Constance Buel The Silver Answer: A Romantic Biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
N Y. Alfred A. Knopf 1961 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Foster, Susan 
Ex-library buckram binding with the usual stamps and markings. 216 pages. Poetic pictorial boards. 
Price: 9.95 USD
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10 Carroll, Lewis The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
N Y Modern Library Hard Cover Very Good Good XL Tenniel, John 
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Re-bound by library in bright red buckram cloth. Small tears on creased and worn dust jacket. 1293 pages. Interior pages clean and unmarked. No publication date - probably the eighties. 
Price: 9.95 USD
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11 Casanova, Richard An Illustrated Guide to Fossil Collecting
San Martin, CA Naturegraph Co. 1957 Hard Cover Good No Jacket 
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Pictorial orange cover with brontosaurus. 80 pages. Many illustrations. 
Price: 9.95 USD
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12 Cass, Joan The Cats Go to Market
England Abelard-Schuman 1969 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Stobbs, William 
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Illustrated buckram cover and gorgeous brightly colored illustrations inside by Kate Greenaway Medal winner, William Stobbs. 
Price: 18.95 USD
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13 Chapin, Henry The Remarkable Dolphin & What Makes Him So
N Y Young Scott Books 1962 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Rice, Richard D. 
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Bound in buckram cloth with a background that looks like a scientific notebook and graphic dolphin design on cover. 96 pages. Contents: What is a Dolphin?; The Herd and Family Life; Tursiops in Captivity; Several Cousins of Tursiops; The Machinery of Tursiops; The Perfect Hull; By Eye, Ear, and Echo; Brain Capacity and Use; Simo, Friend of Man. 
Price: 9.95 USD
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14 Comins, Jeremy Totems, Decoys, and Covered Wagons: Cardboard Constructions from Early American Life
New York Lothrop Lee & Shepard 1944 Hard Cover Good Good 
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind, although the margins are yellowing with age. 1976 seems so long ago, it was before they had book-whitening. Illustrated with drawings and photos. 127 pages. Build 100 percen recyclable post-consumer folk art pieces out of cardboard, both artifacts brought by settlers and made by Native Americans. Be the first on your block with a cardboard Kachina figure. Stop, don't throw out that refrigerator box, I see a Tinglit totem pole. You'll spend more on the box... 
Price: 9.95 USD
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15 De Regniers, Beatrice Schenk May I Bring a Friend?
N Y Atheneum 1965 First Edition Hard Cover Good No Jacket Montresor, Beni 
Ex-library buckram binding with the usual stamps and markings. Delightful line drawings and the story of a boy who brings his friends - a giraffe, a hippo, elephant, seal, lions... to visit the king and queen. Torn page. 
Price: 9.95 USD
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16 Earle, Olive L. Pond and Marsh Plants
N Y William Morrow and Company 1972 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 64 pages. Lovely black and white illustrations of plants and marsh animals. 
Price: 9.95 USD
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17 Earle, Olive L. The Swans of Willow Pond
N Y. William Morrow and Company 1955 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 
Ex-library buckram binding with the usual stamps and markings. Lovely pictorial boards. Black and white line drawings by the author. 
Price: 12.95 USD
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18 Ellis, Harry B. The Arabs
N Y World Publishing Company 1958 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Fisher, Leonard Everett 
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Many b&w illustrations. 124 pages. 
Price: 9.95 USD
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19 Epstein, Sam and Beryl The First Book of Mexico
N Y. Franklin Watts 1955 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Myers, Bernice and Lou 
Ex-library buckram cloth binding with the usual stamps and markings. Cool illustrated cover. 65 pages. 
Price: 9.95 USD
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20 Eskridge, Robert Lee Umi: The Hawaiian Boy Who Became King
Eau Claire, Wisconsin E.M. Hale and Company 1936 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. 104 pages. Brilliant color illustrations of the hunky Umi. Bright orange printed buckram cover. 
Price: 24.95 USD
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