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A LITTLE COCKNEY.
Edition: First edition.
London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1903. Hardcover first edition - The story of a little girl, a privileged city child, who goes to spend several months with her grandmother in a country cottage. Gaye, a rather prolific author, is best known for her books on nature, and much of this book is an account of the "little Cockney" learning about the wonders around her. Illustrated with a full color frontispiece and half title page. The title page only indicates S. G. as the author, but Selina Gaye appears in full on the spine. 187 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Very good overall in dark green boards with illustrations on the front cover and spine, lettering in gilt (offsetting to endpapers, a bit of very light scattered foxing, some wear to the corners and edges of the boards. Uncommon.
Book ID: 83875More details Price: $45.00 -
FRIGHTFUL'S DAUGHTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A continuation for younger readers of the George's wilderness series books, begun 40 years ago with 'My Side of the Mountain' which introduced Sam Gribley and the peregrine falcon, Frightful. This is the story of Oksi, the young daughter of Frightful, beautifully illustrated in full color by San Souci. A wonderful collaboration between an award winner writer and illustrator. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-525-469079.
Condition: SIGNED on the title page by San Souci and dated in the year of publication. Fine in glossy illustrated boards in a fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 31147More details Price: $35.00 -
FRIGHTFUL'S DAUGHTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A continuation for younger readers of the George's wilderness series books, begun 40 years ago with 'My Side of the Mountain' which introduced Sam Gribley and the peregrine falcon, Frightful. This is the story of Oksi, the young daughter of Frightful, beautifully illustrated in full color by San Souci. A wonderful collaboration between an award winner writer and illustrator. INSCRIBED on the title page by San Souci. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-525-469079.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards in a fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 60964More details Price: $37.50 -
IN THIS WE ARE NATIVE: Memoirs and Journeys.
Edition: First printing.
Guilford, Connecticut: Lyons Press, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Combines a passionate argument for saving the wilderness with a memoir of love and loss and rebirth by this Montana author and film producer. 304 pp. ISBN: 1-585742465.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (remainder line, inked comment at bottom of table of contents).
Book ID: 67595More details Price: $12.50 -
BIRD OF PASSAGE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1977.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Two stories set in during pioneer times are linked by the migration of the Great Blue Heron from the the coastal marshes of Georgia (where an Indian boy and his mother take refuge from raiding white settlers) to those of Gloucester in Massachusetts, where the daughter of an imigrant cobbler from England learns to survive in a new world. Illustrated with drawings by Caldecott Medalist.Ted Lewin. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper. "with many hours of good reading, David" and dated in the year of publication. 109 pp. ISBN: 0-316-83452-1.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (toning to the spine of the dust jacket.) Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 44597More details Price: $30.00 -
WALT DISNEY'S VANISHING PRAIRIE: A True-Life Adventure.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1955) dj. Hardcover - Based on the Film Narration by James Algar, Winston Hibler, and Ted Sears. Foreword by Walt Disney. Illustrated throughout with color photographs. Glossary, index. 124 pp. Illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Near fine in green illustrated boards with a gray cloth spine, in a good dust jacket (overall chipping and edgewear to the dj, original price of $2.95 still present).
Book ID: 75357More details Price: $18.00 -
VERMONT RIVER.
Edition: First printing.
Piscataway, NJ: Winchester Press, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A nonfiction book by this award-winning New England novelist and short story writer. As it describes a year in the life of a fisherman, it is also a celebration of fly fishing, the natural world, and a river valley and the life in it, as well as a book about the character of New England's small towns. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late noted collector Larry Owens. Illustrated with drawings by Gordon Allan. 149 pp. ISBN: 0-832903655.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81516More details Price: $35.00
