Vintage Books

Vintage 1960 hardcover book. Best in Children’s Books. 

Nelson Doubleday publishers.

Book measures about 5 34 x 8 1/2 inches with 160 pages.

Book is used with wear around the cover edges and some soiling to the covers.

10 - 15 pages have been lightly scribbled on with pencil, some shown in the photos.

Interior pages have some age toning but are in good condition. Binding is tight.

 Lots of colorful illustrations.

Vintage 1951 hardcover book. Brownie Scouts Handbook.

By Ray Mitchell. Illustrations by Ruth Wood.

Book measures about 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches with 95 pages.

Book is used with quite a bit of wear around the cover edges and some soiling to the covers.

Former owners name written inside front cover.

Interior pages have some age toning but are  in good condition. Binding is tight.

just about every page has super cute illustrations.

Vintage circa 1920 hardcover book. Lucky or Plucky. A Story for Boys and Others.

Cover shows a man driving an antique car, possibly a Packard.

By Walter E. Schuette.

No interior illustrations.

Book measures about 5 x 7 3/8 inches with 63 pages.

No copyright date.

Book is used with quite a bit of wear around the cover edges and some soiling to the covers.

Former owners name written inside back cover.

Interior pages are age toned but in good condition with some soiling. Binding is tight.

Sniffy the Skunk Paint Book.

Vintage 1957 Coloring Book by Merrill Company Publishers. Book number 4864.

Book measures 8 1/4 inches wide x a little over 10 7/8 inches long.

Front cover features an adorable anthropomorphic skunk standing on a drum and holding a paint tray and paint brush.

Approximately 50 pages in this book.

Book is in good condition with 5 or 6 pages that have pencil writing or have been colored. All used pages are shown in the photos.

Super cute children’s coloring book!

Activity Tree Play Book.

Vintage 1965 Coloring Book by Stephen’s Publishing Co. of Sandusky, Ohio. Book number 570.

Book measures 8 1/4 inches wide x a little over 10 7/8 inches long.

Front cover features a little girl and little boy under a tree. An owl is peeking out from a hole in the tree. 

Approximately 100 pages in this book.

Book is in good condition with 5 or 6 pages having been worked. All used pages are shown in the photos.

Cute children’s coloring book!

Dot to Dot. Vintage 1956 Coloring Book. Book number 2951.

Book measures 6 3/4 inches wide x a little over 7 1/2 inches long.

Front cover features a little girl wearing a blue dress with two blue bows in her hair. Also has a winding trail of colorful dots, a colored pencil, crayon and a paint brush. Back cover is a solid pink with some discoloration around the edges.

Approximately 45 pages in this book.

Good unused condition with former owners name written on the upper left corner of the front cover.

Adorable children’s coloring book!

Vintage Saalfield Oversided Coloring Book.  Follow the Dots and color the Pictures. Circa late 1940s. Book number 5285.

Large book measuring almost 10 3/4 inches wide x 14 inches long.

Front and back covers are in full color and feature a bunny rabbit holding a Daisy. Yellow fence and two butterflies in the background.

Estimating 100 pages in this coloring book.

Good used condition with 8 pages used (all are shown in the photos).

Covers are good with obvious wear and light soiling.

Adorable children’s coloring book!

The Cat that would be King

Vintage Saalfield Softcover Children’s book number 527.

Book measures about 6 x 5 1/4 inches and has 12 pages including the front and back covers.

Copyright date of 1964.

Book is used with some wear and light soiling to the covers.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears. Former owners name written inside front cover.

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Cute cat illustrations.

The Naughty Puppy.

Vintage Saalfield Softcover Children’s book number 523.

Book measures about 6 x 5 1/4 inches and has 12 pages including the front and back covers.

Copyright date of 1964.

Book is used with some wear and light soiling to the covers.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Sweet illustrations.

Vintage Sturdi Contour Children’s book by Wonder Books 5513.

My Easter Egg Book.

Book measures about 6 7/8 x 8 inches and has a plastic comb spine.

Copyright date of 1966.

Book is in good used condition with some over all light wear.

Former owners name written inside front cover.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Colorful illustrations.

Vintage Whitman Hardcover Tell-a-Tales Children’s book.

A Child’s Friend.

Religious book by Robbie Trent.

Illustrated by Egon Weiniger.

Book measures about 5 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches.

Copyright date of 1953.

Book is used with light wear to the covers and an old price sticker on the front cover.

Former owners name written inside front cover.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Colorful illustrations.

Vintage Whitman Hardcover Top Top Tales Children’s book number 2460.

Authorized Hanna-Barbera Edition of The Flintstones and Dino.

By Kay Rausch Patrinos.

Illustrated by Peter Alvarado, Robert Hefner and William Lorencz.

Book measures about 6 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. 

Copyright date of 1961.

Book is used with wear and light soiling to the covers.

Former owners name written inside front cover.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Cute illustrations.

Vintage hardcover Whitman Top Top Tales Children’s book number 2478.

Mother Goose.

Numerous children’s rhymes.

Illustrated by Marguerite K. Scott.

Book measures about 6 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. 

Copyright date of 1955, 1960.

Book is used with wear and some soiling to the covers.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Sweet illustrations.

Vintage hardcover Whitman Top Top Tales Children’s book number 2475.

Poppyseed. A freckled dog that lives at the zoo.

By Betty Ren Wright.

Illustrated by Florence Sarah Winship.

Book measures about 6 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. 

Copyright date of 1954.

Book is used with wear and some soiling to the covers.

Former owners name written inside front cover.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Sweet illustrations.

Vintage Whitman Hardcover Top Top Tales Children’s book number 2463.

Animals to See 1 2 3.

By Patricia Martin Zens.

Designed and illustrated y Lois Ehlert.

Book measures about 6 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. 

Copyright date of 1964.

Book is used with wear and some soiling to the covers.

Former owners name written inside front cover.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Sweet illustrations.

Vintage Whitman Hardcover Top Top Tales Children’s book number 2480.

Teena and the Magic Pot.

Illustrated by Louise Jack Myers.

Book measures about 6 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. 

Copyright date of 1961.

Book is used with wear to the covers.

Former owners name written inside front cover.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Sweet illustrations.

Vintage Whitman Hardcover Top Top Tales Children’s book number 2477.

Twinkles and Sanford’s Boat.

The story of Twinkles the elephant and Sanford the parrot.

Written by Leo Dorfman.

Illustrated by Mel Crawford.

Book measures about 6 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. 

Copyright date of 1962.

Book is used with wear to the covers.

Former owners name written inside front cover.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

Click on photos for a close up view.

Cute illustrations.

Vintage Whitman Hardcover Top Top Tales Children’s book number 2461.

Sneezer. The Little Train.

Written by Estelle McInnes Upson.

Illustrated by Ben D. Williams.

Book measures about 6 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. 

Copyright date of 1955.

Book is used with wear to the covers.

Former owners name written inside front cover.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Cute illustrations.

Vintage Whitman Hardcover Top Top Tales Children’s book number 2467.

The Busy ABC.

Illustrated by Eloise Wilkin.

Book measures about 6 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. 

Copyright date of 1950.

Book is used with wear to the covers.

Former owners name written inside front cover.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Really cute illustrations.

Vintage Whitman Hardcover Top Top Tales Children’s book number 2479.

My Prayers. 

Illustrated by Rachel Taft Dixon.

Book measures about 6 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. 

Copyright date of 1959.

Book is used with some wear and soiling to covers. Also small circular sticker residue spot on front cover.

Former owners name written inside front cover.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Really cute illustrations.

Tom and Jerry in Tom’s Happy Birthday.

Drawings by M-G-M Cartoons, Inc.

Adopted by Harvey Eisenberg and Gene Wolfe.

1955 hardcover Whitman Tell a Tale book.

Book measures about 5 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches. 

Condition is used with wear to the cover edges and spine. 

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Really cute illustrations.

Puddle Jumper. Written and illustrated by Dorothea J. Snow. 

1949 hardcover Rand McNally Junior Elf book about a little trolley car.

Book measures about 5 x 6 5/8 inches. 

Condition is used with soiling and wear to the cover, edges and spine. Also has a clear plastic coating on the cover which is peeling in spots.

The cover is also starting to separate from the inside pages.

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Really cute illustrations.

Socks by Betty Molgard Ryan. Illustrated by Florence Sarah Winship.

1949 hardcover Whitman Tell a Tale book about a little black kitten with white feet, white tipped tail and a white star under his chin.

Book measures about 5 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches. 

Condition is used with wear to the cover edges and spine. Also has a small amount of pink crayon scribble on the last page and inside back cover (shown in the photos.

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Really cute illustrations.

Favorite Little Golden Books for Christmas.

2012 boxed set.

5 hardcover books included.

Titles are:

The Christmas Story

The Animals’ Christmas Eve

The Pokey Little Puppy’s First Christmas 

The Night Before Christmas 

The Little Christmas Elf

Books measures about 6 5/8 x 8 inches. 

This is a previously owned set.

The books are all in unread like new condition. The cardboard cover has some wear.

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Really cute illustrations.