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By: Clemens, Samuel L.; Twain, Mark
Price: $7.00
Publisher: New York, Peebles Press:
Seller ID: kb009363
Condition: Good
283 pages; black cloth with gilt-stamped design & text; 3/4" ding in front cover where cloth is scraped away; corners bumped, some light soiling; Twain spent seven years writing HUCKLEBERRY FINN--the book Hemingway claimed is the basis for all American fiction. The story of Huck's and Jim's quest for freedom on a raft on the Mississippi provides a panoramic view of Southern society, which Twain saw as beset by greed, violence, and coldhearted brutality in the guise of virtue. At the end of the book, Huck definitively abandons the hypocrisy and cant on which he has been raised when he ma... View more info
Price: $0.99
Publisher: New York, Dell Yearling: 1985
Seller ID: kb008896
ISBN: 0440434467
Condition: Good
320 pages; spine creasing, edge wear; Hans Brinker and his sister Gretel live in Holland, a country where everybody learns to skate. But they are so poor they can't afford skates, so when they hear that a great race is to be held on the ice with the prize of a pair of silver skates for the fastest, Hans and Gretel enter. View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: New York, The Platt & Munk Co.: 1935
Seller ID: kb012535
Condition: Good
222 pages; edge wear to boards, corners lightly bumped, some edge wear, tattering to jacket; Abridged/excerpted stories of Alice in Wonderland, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,. Tiny Tim, Little Women, Heidi, Little Nell, Hans Brinker, and The Little Lame Prince. Illustrated by John Rae and others; View more info
By: Peck, Richard
Price: $1.99
Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1980
Edition: Book Club
Seller ID: kb007115
Condition: Very Good
438 pp. edge wear to jacket, light discoloration on white jacket, corners bumped. In 1911 in England, eighteen-year-old Mary Cooke is hired as personal maid to the willful and arrogant Amanda Whitwell and is astonished to find that her new employer is her near-double, a coincidence that has lasting consequences for Mary, especially when she accompanies Amanda on the Titanic's fateful voyage. View more info
By: Sawyer, Ruth
Price: $1.49
Publisher: New York, Puffin: 1964
Seller ID: kb010418
Condition: Fair
186 pages; ex-library with usual markings some edge wear, spine crease; Set in New York City during the 1890s, this is the story of Lucinda, a free-spirited 10-year-old tomboy who is living with a family friend while her parents travel through Europe. Pleased to be living with the relaxed Miss Peters, Lucinda spends her days rollerskating through the city, making friends with the junkman, chatting with friendly police officers, and playing with Tony, a boy whose father runs the local fruit stand. B&w illustrations accompany the text. Winner of the 1937 Newbery Medal. View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Racine, WI, Whitman (Western Publishing Co.): 1953
Seller ID: kb014672
Condition: Good
Whitman Tell-A-Tale 2504; some soiling to white boards, edge wear, some crayon markings on a few pages; View more info
