Frances G Wright (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 64 pages. Illustrated. A S Forrest "A Ramble In The British Museum" / H G Lothair "Maradar The Tailor" / Edgar Wright "The Forbidden Wood" / Oliver Bookworm "The Animals on the Roof of the World" / Edith L Elias "The Green Monster" / W Francis Rankine "Gardening For Boys And Girls - VI-The Garden In August" / Elizabeth Harley "The Brave Dogs Of St. Bernard" / Frances Smith "A Little Heroine of the Lifeboat" / Constance M Foot "The Shilling Dog" / Wee Willie Winkie Goes Boating / Tom Pierce Cowling "St. George's Club Songs - No.1" (SL#19).

First edition (as stated upon copyright page). Hardcover. Dust jacket rubbed; white rear panel soiled and stained; chipping at top of rear panel with shallow losses/nicks at spine and flap fold ends; front flap is not price-clipped. Red cloth. Text block's top edge soiled with a few stains; deckle fore-edge. Slight toning to endpapers; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding is firm.

Minimal foxing of pageblock edges, else as new.

Minimal foxing of pageblock edges, else as new. [Gen-0005(13)].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Minimal foxing of pageblock edges, else as new.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Green cloth boards, a unique drawing on p.11 else a fine copy. Genealogy of the Stewart family beginning with immigrant ancestor James Stewart and his wife Catherine Graham who settled in Virginia as early as 1677 (54 pp.) Also includes section on the allied Wright family of colonial Massachusetts (99 pp.). Index. Scarce.; MCN25921; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Green cloth, gold lettering, nice shape. Virginia.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. [184] p. : ill. (1 col.) ; 26 cm. "Good stories for mothers to read at bed time "-- Cover ; Stories originally published in John Martin's book, a magazine for children ; LCCN 32015193 OCLC 15051041 LC PZ5.J613 Te ; green and black cloth with designs ; spine shaken ; Contents: Snoozles and the babies -- The Alphabet man -- The King of all the birds -- The Birds' Christmas tree -- Little brown Ben -- Funny Questions, Silly jokes -- Nonsense for some little folks -- Peter's friends the animals -- The white dove, and Ark story -- Tommy elephant discovers the railroad -- The stranger thing -- How the woodpecker came -- Tommy elephant and the ants -- Mary's little teeth -- Come play -- The lady who smiled -- Seeds and flowers -- Catchy questions can you guess? -- When to get ready -- The Pilgrim fathers -- Our Pilgrim fathers -- The juggling jumbos -- The discontented cat -- Catskin -- The little girl who kissed her elbow -- Riddles 4 U My [Deer] -- When Mozart was a boy -- Our country's ancestor -- Saint George and the dragon -- The race between Peter and Patsy -- More riddles -- Bucephalus, the story of a famous horse -- How the corn got his ear -- Peeny Pen Pone -- The first dandelions, -- The magic apple -- The story of King Alfred -- Daniel the fearless -- The story of the wild rose -- Jack Junior, a railroad story -- The dog that swallowed a fairy -- The Bulldog -- Chippy Chipmunk -- The way to live, a little thought to think -- The Easter hare -- The sabre-cut of Saadi, the reward of truth -- The simple truth -- A Spring prayer -- Our bird neighbors, a true story for all the year around -- The days of the week -- How the days got their names -- How the dove of peace came to the tribe -- The great deed -- Saint Francis and the robbers -- A magic -- Riddles -- A story of the months -- St. Martin's mitten, or how the first cat came -- The story of Daniel Boone -- Jack Frost's gift -- St. Francis and the wolf -- Mr. Snail, a story of his life ; signature on the half-title of a very young of Edward William Girard (1930-2020), a Boeing engineer and Rockwell Missile Systems Division operational analysis manager that served in the Navy during the Korean War. He was instrumental in proposing national re-emphasis on maritime strategy in the wake of the Israeli Six-Day War in 1967 and earlier, in 1961, the use of war games to function as pseudo-experiments, producing data for analysis ; scarce, pages brittle, repair to spine, else G. Book.

Hard cover. Condition: Very good. No dust jacket. W.J. Aylward, W. Hatherell, Walter King, Kerr Eby, George Wright, Robert Stewart, Frances Rogers, Vernon Howe Bailey, T.K. Hanna (illustrator). 824 p. Includes illustrations. Contents include: Unpublished chapters from the Autobiography of Mark Twain, Parts I and II, With Dickens in America, Part I, by M.A. de Wolfe Howe, Driftng Leaves, by Kenneth L. Roberts, Washington Monument by Night, by Carl Sandburg, More New Facts in Psychical Research, by J.D. Beresford, Intimate Strangers, by Booth Tarkington, Psychology of Labor by Edward Thorndike, etc. Many illustrations, some in color. Maroon cloth binding, faded on spine. Ex-library with the usual indicators, but no other marks.