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E. M. Maurice Books is dedicated to providing its customers with the highest quality children's and illustrated books from all eras and in many areas of interest, including:
Early 20th Century gift books
Modern picture books from Great Britain and the US
Foreign language children's books
Caldecott Medal & Newbery Medal Winning books
Illustrated classics
All of our books are carefully researched and cataloged, available via abebooks.com, or through our frequent catalogs and email lists.
If you don't see what you want in our inventory, we are happy to accept your Want Lists.
We are always looking for quality children's books and buy entire collections as well as single volumes.
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Folk Lore. Bourke, Myles (Retold by). Badoli the Ox . ill. Stella Bailey. Cape Town, SA: Howard B. Timmins, First Trade. Thick 4to. VG / VG. [1950]. Green cloth, white mark to rear cover, bottom of spine frayed, dark marks to endpaper; dust jacket with small losses at spine ends. A collection of Bantu legends written to appeal to a European market. Illustrated with twelve very beautiful tipped in color plates with tissue guards, other decorations in black and sepia. Nice book, uncommon. $125.00
Carle, Eric. Secret Birthday Message. NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1972. 1st Am. Ed. 4to. VG / Good. Pictorial boards, shelf wear, bold gift inscription, crease to rear endpaper; dust jacket with chip from front panel, closed tears. A maze of cut-outs lead the reader to a fun birthday surprise. Scarce Carle title. $85.00
Coblentz, Stanton A.. Wonder Stick. ill. S. Glanckoff. NY: Cosmopolitan, 1929. 1st Ed. 8vo. NF / VG. (1929). 309 pgs. Tan cloth lettered in green, slight spine lean, previous owner's name on endpaper; dust jacket gently worn with mild dust soil, price intact ($2.00). A fantasy set in prehistoric times. Full page b&w woodcuts by Glanckoff. Uncommon juvenile fantasy. $75.00
Gipson, Fred. Old Yeller (Newbery Honor). ill. Carl Burger. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1st Ed. 8vo. NF / VG. (1956). Correct jacket price and code. Hard cover in dust jacket, 1/2" piece from top of spine, else VG. Touching story of a boy and his dog which was the basis for the popular film of the same title. Scarce Newbery Honor. $125.00
Ungerer, Tomi (Illus): Selsman, Millicent E. (Auth). Seeds and More Seeds (An I Can Read Science Book). NY: Harper & Brothers, 1st Ed. 8vo. Fine / Very Good to NF. (1959). Correct jacket price ($2.50 overprinted, stamped $1.95 next to it), correct ads. Pictorial boards with cloth spine; dust jacket slightly age-toned, edge tear to rear panel. The first I Can Read Science book, illustrated in color by Ungerer. Scarce. $125.00
Timothy Forry, owner of E M Maurice Books, has always been a book person. He began the business of selling children's books in 2003. The business has grown, offering books to the public through quarterly printed catalogs, selling online through abebooks, biblio and the ABAA website and exhibiting at book fairs on the East Coast, but hopes to venture further in the years to come.
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Telephone: 860.361.6063
12 Minerva Lane
Litchfield CT 06759
Open by appointment
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