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Many of our customers love tried-and-true vintage books -- those which reflect old-fashioned values, innocence in worldview, a simpler lifestyle, or a detailed approach to fine illustrations. We've created this category for them! Please note that many of these titles are published prior to the mid-70s and may provide a health risk to young children. If you are a book collector, or you need more information about titles in this category, please feel free to contact HSLB!

 

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A Child's Garden of Verses (illustrated by Gyo Fujikawa - oversized)
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A Child's Garden of Verses (illustrated by Gyo Fujikawa - oversized)
Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
Reading Level: PK-6
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

First published in 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson's collection of children's verse is now a classic. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), born and educated in Edinburgh, was both a poet and a novelist. His adventure stories for children, "Kidnapped" and "Treasure Island" are regarded as classics as ...

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A Roman Villa (Inside Story - oversized - out of print)
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A Roman Villa (Inside Story - oversized - out of print)
Author: Morley, Jacqueline
Reading Level: GR 5-12
Type: Ex-Library Hardcover
Condition: Like New

Illustrations and text describe life in the villa of a wealthy family situated in the countryside outside Rome during the first century A.D.

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Adventures and Discoveries of Marco Polo (Landmark #W-3 - out of print)
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Adventures and Discoveries of Marco Polo (Landmark #W-3 - out of print)
Author: Walsh, Richard J.
Reading Level: GR 3-9
Type: Ex-Library Hardcover
Condition: Good/Very Good

Traveling with his father and uncle to China when he was 17, the young Marco Polo soon became a favorite of the powerful Kublai Khan. Impressed by his intelligence and keen observation powers, the Khan hired Marco to work for him. Over the course of his 24-year journey, Polo would become one of t...

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America Grows Up: A History for Peter (copyright 1960 - out of print)
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America Grows Up: A History for Peter (copyright 1960 - out of print)
Author: Johnson, Gerald W.
Reading Level: GR 3-6
Type: Ex-Library Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

This excellent history of the United States from the revolution through the term of President Wilson is the second member of a trilogy in which "America Is Born" was the first volume (and "America Moves Forward" is the third). Written critically and in an animated manner, "America Grows Up" handl...

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Ancient Greece (DK Eyewitness - OUT OF PRINT - oversized)
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Ancient Greece (DK Eyewitness - OUT OF PRINT - oversized)
Author: Pearson, Anne
Reading Level: GR 3-9
Type: Softcover
Condition: New - Publishers Remainder

This Eyewitness guide to the Ancient Greek world provides information on the mythical heroes and gods as well as the temples and statues still surviving today.

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Anne Frank (Great Lives)
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Anne Frank (Great Lives)
Author: Leigh, Vanora
Reading Level: GR 3-6
Type: Ex-Library Hardcover
Condition: Good/Very Good

Traces the life of a young Jewish girl who kept a diary during two years she and her family hid from the Germans in an Amsterdam attic.

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Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum (signed by author - 1983)
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Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum (signed by author - 1983)
Author: Bryan, Ashley
Reading Level: GR 3-6
Type: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Condition: Very Good

Here are five Nigerian folktales, retold in language as rhythmic as the beat of the story-drum, and illustrated with vibrant, evocative woodcuts.

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Bedtime for Frances
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Bedtime for Frances
Author: Hoban, Russell
Reading Level: PK-4
Type: Ex-Library Hardcover
Condition: Good

Famed for her many adventures, Frances made her debut with this title over thirty years ago. In this first Frances book, the little badger adroitly delays her bedtime with requests for kisses and milk, and concerns over tigers and giants and things going bump in the night. Long a favorite for the...

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Bradford of Plymouth (copyright 1951 - 3rd impression - out of print)
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Bradford of Plymouth (copyright 1951 - 3rd impression - out of print)
Author: Smith, Bradford
Reading Level: GR 9-12
Type: Ex-Library Hardcover
Condition: Good/Very Good

The fortunes of the Pilgrims are traced through the career of William Bradford in England as a farmer and participator in the violent religious ferment of the time, the years in Holland, his position of leadership in the Colony, and a study emerges of a man of integrity, an anxious, relentless pu...

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Carl Sandburg (Poetry for Young People - staplebound)
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Carl Sandburg (Poetry for Young People - staplebound)
Author: Bolin, Frances Schoonmaker
Reading Level: GR 3-9
Type: Softcover
Condition: Very Good

Travel around the country with Carl Sandburg, a twentieth-century poet who has been called the voice of America. Hop aboard his poetry train on which each amazing poem leads to a different destination - some quiet and serene, others alive with zest and humour. More than 30 of his wonderful poems ...

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Cherry Ames: Island Nurse (vintage - copyright 1960)
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Cherry Ames: Island Nurse (vintage - copyright 1960)
Author: Wells, Helen
Reading Level: GR 3-9
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

Little does Nurse Cherry realize when distinguished Sir Ian Barclay is rushed by his nephew Lloyd to Hilton Hospital that her newest case will carry her north to misty, sea-beaten Balfour Island, off the rugged coast of wind-swept Newfoundland. "Sudden hemorrhage of a peptic ulcer," Dr. Joe Fortu...

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Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan (Landmark Book #56 - out of print)
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Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan (Landmark Book #56 - out of print)
Author: Kuhn, Ferdinand
Reading Level: GR 3-9
Type: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Condition: Very Good

For more than 200 years Japan had kept herself sealed from the rest of the world. No foreign ships had been allowed in her waters. No visitors and no traders had set foot on her soil. Yet Commodore Perry went there on order of the President of the United States with the mission to open a door ...

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Daniel Boone: Wilderness Scout
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Daniel Boone: Wilderness Scout
Author: White, Stewart Edward
Reading Level: GR 5-12
Type: Ex-Library Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

Illustrated by James Daugherty, this is a beautifully executed book which tells the complete story of the American hero, Daniel Boone. Title page reads as follows:

Daniel Boone: Wilderness Scout

The Life Story and
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Davy Crockett (Junior Deluxe Edition - vintage out of print)
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Davy Crockett (Junior Deluxe Edition - vintage out of print)
Author: Rourke, Constance
Reading Level: GR 5-12
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

When a country is young it discovers its heroes, and these are not always leaders in battle. They may only be men who have had adventures others long for. They may show admired traits, or strange ones. They may talk or laugh in a fashion which others enjoy. Always stories are told about them....

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Evening Echoes: A Volume of Lyrics (out of print - copyright 1930)
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Evening Echoes: A Volume of Lyrics (out of print - copyright 1930)
Author: Kircher, Julius
Reading Level: GR 7-12
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Good

A book of Christian verse created by the son of a German immigrant family. Contains a thorough summary of his life and work to further the cause of Christ. Black-and-white glossy photos are protected with tissue paper dividers. This book is inscribed on the front fly leaf: "Presented with book...

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