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Precious Moments Coloring Book. All Through The Year. Artwork by Sam Butcher and William Biel.

Copyright 1983. 

Book measures  8 inches wide x 10 3/4 inches long.

Approximately 60 pages to color.

Pictures to color include:

• Spring
• Summer
• Fall
• Winter
• Birthday
• Birth of Brother/Sister
• Valentine's Day
• Palm Sunday
• Good Friday
• Easter Sunday
• Mother's Day
• Graduation Day
• Wedding Day
• Father's Day
• Fourth of July
• Grandparent's Day
• Thanksgiving
• Christmas

Condition is good with no marks or coloring inside. 

Covers are also  good with some wear along the spine and edges.

Super sweet pictures in this book!

2 antique German children's story book by Christoph von Schmid.  Both are softcover books, each measuring 6 1/2 x 9 inches with 32 pages. Pretty blue and pink floral border on the covers.

Die Zwei Bruder and Das Täubchen Kupfermünzen und Goldstücke

I believe the title for the book on the left translates as:

The Cup of Copper Coins and Gold Pieces

Book on the right translates as:

The Two Brothers

Condition for both is good with wear and soiling to covers. Age toning and some soiling to pages. No rips, tears or marks on pages.

All Around the Town by Phyllis McGinley. 1948 Hardcover First Edition ABC Book.  Illustrated by Helen Stone.  Published by J.B. Lippincott Company.

ABC book featuring sights and sounds around the city.  Alternating color and black and white illustrations for the letters of the alphabet.

Book measures 7 3/4 inches wide x 9 7/8 inches tall.  Unpaginated. Hardcover.  No dust jacket.

Good used condition with edge and corner wear to the front cover.  Edge and corner wear to the back cover, along with some small spots of paper loss.  Inside front cover has a couple of ink circles near the upper right corner. And the first few pages have some soiling and a pencil scribble.  Otherwise interior pages are very good with no marks or tears.

A very cute ABC book!

Antique Children's Book.  Friends in The Field ABC. 1911 Samuel Gabriel Sons & Company New York. Linen No. 510. Drawings by W. F. Stecher. Front and back cover are heavy card stock weight.  Interior pages are linen.

Book measures 8 1/2 inches wide x 10 7/8 inches tall.  16 pages including front and back covers.  Color and black and white illustrations for the letters of the alphabet.

Good condition with normal handling wear for a book over one hundred years old.  Some small creases, soiling and wear to the covers.  Interior pages are good with some group of tiny pin holes in the upper left corner of the first page.

A sweet antique children's book!

Vintage Little Golden Book 517. Baby Animals by Garth Williams. Copyright 1956, 1952 by Golden Press. Cover price of 29 cents. Cute story about all sorts of baby animals with color illustrations through out. This is an I, 9th printing book.

Condition is very good with some cover scuffs and wear and tear along gold spine paper. Title page has a couple of small tears along the edge, minor soiling on a few pages. No marks or writing in book. One page has a tape repair to a tear. Really cute kids book!

Vintage Children's Book.  Bible Stories and ABC's for Little Tots to Learn with Ease.  I'm unable to find a date of publication or publisher information in this book. Dates to circa 1930s or 1940s.

Front half of the book has the ABC's along with an illustration for each. 

Second half of the book has the following three stories:

1. David and the Giant Goliath
2. The Good Samaritan
3. Peter Denies his Master

Softcover linen book measuring about 6 3/4 inches wide x 9 1/4 inches tall.

16 pages including the front and back covers.  Color and blue and white illustrations throughout.

Condition is good some soiling and wear to covers and pages.

Sweet religious ABC book!

Big Helpers. Rand McNally Junior Elf book. By Irma Wilde.  A book about Tractors, Cranes, Fire Trucks, and Dump Trucks.  Cute children's picture book.

Each page is filled with handsome color illustrations of heavy equipment, by George Wilde.

Book number 8047. Copyright date of 1953. Original price printed on cover 15c.

Hardcover book measuring 4 7/8 x 6 3/8.

Condition is good with scuffing and wear to covers, and age toning to pages. No rips, tears or marks on pages.

Busy Baby.  Antique Saalfield Children's Book. Copyright 1912.

Softcover all linen book with 12 pages.

Book measures 7 3/4 inches wide x 8 3/4 inches tall.   Half the illustrations are in color.

Poor condition with obvious signs of wear, including staining, creasing, soiling, creases, and edge wear.  All pages are shown in the photos.

Still a very sweet vintage children's book!

Choo Choo The Little Switch Engine by Wallace Wadsworth. Illustrated by Mary Jane Chase.

Rand McNally Elf book number 8394. Copyright date of 1954. Original price printed on cover 25c.

Book measures about 6 5/8 inches wide x a little over 8 1/4 inches long with 20 pages.  Condition is good with wear to cover corners and edges, and some scuffing. Also has the 23 stamped on the front cover and an ink scribble starting at the train's eyes down through the bottom of the book. 

Interior pages are good with inscription written inside front cover in ink, name written on title page in black crayon, and a letter T written at the top of the third page in ink. Last page has a small vertical crease along the right edge, along with a tiny tear near the bottom of the crease.

Color illustrations throughout.

Very cute children's story book for your collection!

Clementina The Flying Pig A Surprise Dell Book.  Vintage 1950 softcover children's book by Oskar Lebeck.  Illustrated by Louis Myers. Published by Dell Publishing Company of New York, N.Y.

I believe this book was given out by Gold's of Nebraska.  There is a Gold's sticker on the lower left corner of the front cover.

Softcover book measuring 7 1/4 inches wide x 5 1/8 inches tall with approximately 40 pages. Cute color illustrations throughout.

Condition is good with wear to the covers.  Back cover also has a tear near the center of the top.  Pages are very good with no marks or tears but they are age toned.

Super cute book for your collection!

Dionne Quintuplets Play Mother Goose.  1938 softcover book published by Dell Publishing Company.

Each page features one or two nursery rhymes with accompanying black and white photo of the quints acting it out.  Back cover features a full page KARO Syrup advertisement that also features the quintuplets.

Book measures 9 1/2 inches wide x 10 1/2 inches long with 20 pages.

Condition is fair with the pages being somewhat somewhat brittle and having small tears, and wear, along the out edge.  The cover shows wear with corners missing,small edge tears, and edge wear. Please click on the photos for a close up view.

A nice Quintuplets collectible!

Vintage Whitman Tell-A-Tale children's book, Walt Disney's "Donald Duck's Lucky Day". Book number 2589. Copyright date of 1951.

Condition is very good with some wear and soiling to covers. Interior pages are very good with no markings or tears. Nice book!

Vintage 1960's Teen Chapter Book Dr. Dorothy's Choice by Elizabeth Wesley. Original copyright 1963. This is the Second printing from May, 1966. Softcover children's chapter book measuring about 4.25 inches wide x 7 inches tall, with 127 pages.

Condition is very good with some light wear to covers. Some age toning to pages. Nice tight binding.

Dr. Kildare, Assigned to Trouble. Hardcover Whitman Authorized TV Adventure Children's Book. Copyright 1963. Written by Robert C. Ackworth. Illustrated by Robert L. Jenney.

Book measures 5.5" x 8", with 212 pages. Book is in Very good used condition. Light wear/soiling to cover. Binding is tight and pages are clean with some age toning. Nice book.

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Eight Cousins. Hardcover Whitman book with glossy cover. Copyright 1955. Written by Louisa May Alcott. Illustrated by Robert Doremus.

Book measures 5.5 inches x 8 inches, with 284 pages. Book is in Very good used condition. Glossy coating is starting to peel in a couple of spots along the spine. Light wear/soiling to cover. Binding is tight, front end paper is loose from book but present, and pages are clean with some age toning.

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Famous Mouse Stories, including The Lion and the Mouse, Three Blind Mice, and Perez the Mouse. Vintage 1944 Children's Book.  Illustrations by Mary and Wallace Stover.

Softcover book measuring 8 3/8 x 11 inches with 24 pages.  Stapled spine.  Published by Perks Publishing of New York. A Mary Perks book number 705.

Condition is good with some wear and soiling to covers.  Interior pages are nice with no marks or tears.  There are some small soiled spots along the edges of some pages.

Cute illustrations that could be used as artwork or in craft projects.

Rand McNally Junior Elf book, "Feathered Friends" by Mabel Watts.  Illustrated by Marge Opitz. Book number 8090. Copyright date of 1957. Original price printed on cover 15c.

Book measures about 5 x 6.5 inches.  Condition is good with wear to covers including a chip out at the top of the spine. Also has the number 12 in a circle, which is stamped on the front cover.  Interior pages are very good with no marks or tears. 

1950s Hardcover Whitman book, "Ginny Gordon and the Mystery at the Old Barn". Copyright 1951 & 1954. Written by Julie Campbell. Illustrated by Margaret Wesley.

Book measures 5.5" x 7.75", with 282 pages. Book is in good used condition with owners name written inside front cover. Covers show some light wear with plastic over coating starting to peel in spots along the spine. Pages are clean with some age toning.

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Hopalong Cassidy Comes to Rimrock. Starring William Boyd. Vintage softcover children's coloring book published by Samuel Lowe Company 1950.

Each two page spread has a colored image on the left and an exact uncolored image on the right side to color.

Book measures approximately 5 x 5 inches with 28 pages.

Cover shows wear at the corners and spine and some soiling.  Interior pages are good with a few pages having some soiling and some chips along the edges.  None of the pages have been colored.  You can also see a round 1/2 inch long hole, and smaller 1/4 inch hole, running through the outer edge of the center pages.

Great collectible coloring book!

I Like To Be Little. Cute story telling all the good things about being little.

Written by Ann Matthews. Illustrated by Eleanor Mill. A Tell-A-Tale book by Whitman Publishing Co. Copyright 1976. 28 pages. Hardback. Measures approx. 5 1/2" x 6 1/4". Cute color illustrations throughout.

Condition is very good with bumps to corners and some scuffing to covers.  Pages are very clean with no marks or tears.

Super cute book for your collection!