sattley helen (9 risultati)

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Soft cover has a vividly colored front cover. Spine is white with red and black lettering. Pages are clean and tight. Pages not numbered. Extensively illustrated with 63 colorful, original pictures by children from around the world. Includes pictures and poems by children in English, Czech, French, German, Japanese, Hebrew, Polish, Greek, Persian, etc. Shape is rectangular; Color Illustrations; 10 x 9; 114 pages; Cover has some rubbing/scuffing, shelf wear, minor fading, few very small marks.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Very Good. Monroe, Katherine (illustratore). Rec cloth binding is clean, square, tight. Price-clipped dj has minor edgewear. Author's grandfather, caught in the Chicago fire of 1871, lost the house he had secured for his wife and seven children arriving from London. This is the story of that first Chicago year as seen through the eyes of the oldest daughter, Annie Sarah Rowland, 13. Father is excited about the new land, but it takes awhile for the rest of the family to catch his enthusiasm. Author and illus are both neices of the heroine, Annie - who is 100 when this book is published. Genuine and treasurable Americana for 10-14 year olds. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Mary Stevens (illustratore). First Edition. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed & Inscribed By Author.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. No Jacket. Stevens, Mary (illustratore). First Edition. Scarce. Boards are a little soiled and worn. Book.

Unknown Binding. Condizione: Good. Good+ Small tears to Dj in mylar wrap. Owner's name on fep. Clean, tight copy.

1968. (4to) Very good plus, no dust jacket. 192pp. Black and white and color illustrations, maps, index. The spine is lightly faded and the front cover has a small spot at the bottom. "Believing that Sir Winston is at his best when describing the great people of history whom he most admired, five of us - three schoolteachers, a librarian, and an editor - have selected from his four-volume HISTORY the passages that bear specifically on these individuals. This means inevitably in so long a work that much expository material has been left out" - from the Editors' Note. Abridged & renamed from A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. Edited by Edward Dodd, Charles Jones, Marjorie Jones, Claire Oglesby & Helen Sattley. (Juvenile, History--England, Juvenile).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good+ book in a very good dust jacket with small chips, small closed tears, and light edge wear.

Illus. by Mary Stevens, 10.25 x 8", yellow cloth-like boards, unpaginated, covers rubbed, edges worn, extremities bumped, hinges loose else a decent copy in a rubbed, spotted, edge-torn dustjacket. INSCRIBED "To Margaret.who like the story before it was one.October, 1958" AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, HELEN SATTLEY. The recipient, however, has crossed out her last name with a wide marker.

Condizione: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. (juvenile fiction, empire state building, new york) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.