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CHILDREN'S BOOKS • NON-FICTION • M — O

All entries are alphabetized by title and by series:

Please note that, due to the nature of their intended audience, many--if not the majority--of the books listed in this section have the owners' names written on the inside front cover or title page.

The Magic Moving Picture Book (1975) $5.00
Softcover. Illustrated. 32 pages. SRP: $1.75.
Dover Books [Printing Unknown]
Book is Fine Minus.

Magic Science Tricks by Dinah Moché (1977) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated by Lisl Weil. 64 pages.
Scholastic Book Services [First Printing]
Book is Fine Minus.

Magic Secrets by Gerald Ames and Rose Wyler (June 1970) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated by Talivaldis Stubis. 64 pages. SRP: 45¢.
Scholastic Books #TW-1223 [Fourth Printing]
Book is Fine Minus. (Small chip lower right corner front cover.)

Magic Tricks by Norman Hunter (1972) $3.00
Originally published as The Puffin Book of Magic.
Softcover. Illustrated. 128 pages. SRP: 95¢.
Penguin Books [Printing Unknown]
Book is Very Good. (Cover creasing on back, some corner wear.)

Magic Tricks by Pat Olney and Ross Olney (1975) $5.00
Softcover. Illustrated by Don Slagle. 64 pages. SRP: 69¢.
Golden Press/Western Publishing Company, Inc. #6300 [First Printing]
Book is Very Good Plus.

The Magic World of the Amazing Randi by James Randi (1989) $6.00
Softcover. Illustrated by Jose Luis Alvarez. 164 pages. SRP: $10.95.
Adams Media Corp. [Fourth Printing]
Book is Fine Plus.

Magnets and How to Use Them by Joseph Levine and Tillie S. Pine (May 1975) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated by Bernice Myers. 64 pages.
Note: Does not include original magnet.
Scholastic Book Services #TW-426 [Eleventh Printing]
Book is Fine Minus. (Mild damage/rust to interior of back cover where magnet had been taped.)

The Make-Believe Book by Crosby Newell (1959) $2.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Crosby Newell. 20 pages. SRP: 39¢.
Wonder Books #634 [First Printing]
Book is Very Good Minus.

Make This House Happy (1972) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated. 64 pages.
Houghton Mifflin Company [Printing Unknown]
Book is Very Good Plus. (Heavy vertical crease front cover near spine.)

Marvelous Michael Jackson by Barbara McCall (1984) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated. 64 pages.
Weekly Reader Books [Book Club Edition]
Book is Very Fine Minus. (Minor corner wear.)

Mathematical Puzzles and Other Brain Twisters by Anthony S. Filipiak (1942) $3.00
Hardcover w/ Dust Jacket. Illustrated. 120 pages.
Bell Publishing Company [Printing Unknown]
Book is Fine.
Dust Jacket is Very Good Minus. (Numerous tears and edge wear, cleanly repaired.)

Meet Elvis Presley by Favius Friedman (1971) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated. 128 pages.
Scholastic Book Services #TX-1859 [Sixth Printing]
Book is Fine Minus.

Men Who Won the West by Franklin Folsom (October 1962) $3.00
Abridged from Famous Pioneers.
Softcover. Illustrated by Dick Priest. SRP: 50¢.
Scholastic Book Services #TW-365 [First Printing]
Book is Fine. (Some light pencil indentations on cover.)

Menehune Meles: CoCo Joe's Hawaiian Calabash of
Little Poems for Little People
by Dolly Doo (1970) $16.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Jackie Black. 40 pages.
Hawaiian Publishing Company, Ltd./Kyoiku Shuppan Company, Ltd. [First Printing]
Book is Very Fine Minus.

Mickey and Friends at the Circus (1980) $12.00
Hardcover. Illustrated. 28 pages.
Colour Library International, Ltd./Mayflower Books [Printing Unknown]
Book is Very Fine.

Mickey Mouse's Riddle Book (1972) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated. 44 pages.
Random House, Inc. [First Printing]
Book is Fine.

Monsters by Dugald Steer (1996) $5.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Justine Peek. 14 pages. SRP: $10.95.
Note: Includes six prismatic holograms.
Simon & Schuster [First printing]
Book is Very Fine Plus.

Monsters of the Sea by Barbara Lindsay (January 1973) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated by William Bartlett. 48 pages.
Scholastic Book Services #TW-344 [Seventh Printing]
Book is Very Good Plus.

The Moon Explorers by Tony Simon (March 1970) $2.00
Softcover. Illustrated by Lloyd Birmingham. 128 pages.
Scholastic Book Services #TW-1555 [Second Printing]
Book is Very Good.

More Stories of Baseball Champions in the Hall of Fame
by Beryl Epstein and Sam Epstein (1973) $4.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Victor Mays. 96 pages.
Garrard Publishing Company [First Printing]
Book is Very Fine Minus.

The Mother Goose Cookbook by Frances Sheridan Goulart (1970) $5.00
Hardcover w/ Dust Jacket. 92 pages. SRP: $3.95.
Price/Stern/Sloan [First Printing]
Book is Very Fine.
Dust Jacket is Very Good Plus.

Movie Monsters by Alan Ormsby (September 1975) $6.00
Softcover. Illustrated by Alan Ormsby. 80 pages.
Scholastic Book Services #TW-3120 [First Printing]
Book is Good. (Complete, but heavy overall wear.)

Movie Monsters by Alan Ormsby (September 1975) $10.00
Softcover. Illustrated by Alan Ormsby. 80 pages.
Scholastic Book Services #TW-3120 [First Printing]
Book is Very Good Minus. (Creasing and edge wear.)

Movie Monsters by Alan Ormsby (September 1975) $20.00
Softcover. Illustrated by Alan Ormsby. 80 pages.
Scholastic Book Services #TW-3120 [First Printing]
Book is Very Good Plus.

Museums by Suzanne de Borhegyi (1962) $5.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Leonard Kessler. 52 pages.
Holt, Rinehart and Winston [First Printing]
Book is Very Good Plus. (Ex-libris; card pocket, plate, few markings.)

Music 'round the Clock Edited by Max T. Krone (1963) $5.00
Hardcover. Illustrated. 96 pages.
Follett Publishing Company [Printing Unknown]
Book is Fine Minus. (Some corner wear.)

My Big Book of Animals at Home (circa 1970s) $12.00
Hardcover. Illustrated. 22 pages.
Froebel-Kan Co. Ltd. [Printing Unknown]
Book is Fine Plus.

My First Counting Book by Robyn Supraner (1971) $2.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Sue Lundgren. 6 pages.
Nutmeg Press UK [First Printing]
Book is Fine.

My Greatest Day in Baseball by John P. Carmichael (1951) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated. 252 pages.
Grosset & Dunlap, Inc. [First Printing]
Book is Fine Minus.

My Indian Book by Bruce Grant (1968) $2.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Jack Merryweather. SRP: 49¢.
Rand McNally & Company #8158 [Printing Unknown]
Book is Very Good. (Edge and corner wear, mild soiling to cover.)

My Indian Book by Bruce Grant (1968) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Jack Merryweather. SRP: 49¢.
Rand McNally & Company #8158 [Printing Unknown]
Book is Fine. (Corner blunting, some edge wear.)

My Learn to Cook Book by Ursula Sedgwick (1967) $10.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Martin Mayhew. 64 pages.
Golden Press/Western Publishing Company [First Printing]
Book is Fine.

Mysterious Creatures from Outer Space by Pearl Wolf (1979) $5.00
Softcover. Illustrated. 48 pages.
Modern Curriculum Press [First Printing]
Book is Very Good Plus. (Mostly rub damage.)

The Mystery of the Loch Ness Monster by Jeanne Bendick (1976) $5.00
Softcover. Illustrated. 128 pages.
Xerox Publishing [First Printing]
Book is Very Good. (Corner wear.)

Myths and Legends by Brenda Ralph Lewis (1990) $8.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Rob McCaig. 160 pages.
Brimax Books UK [Fourth Printing]
Book is Very Fine.

Myths and Legends of Many Lands by Nicola Ann Sissons (1962) $7.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Robert Todd. 192 pages.
Hart Publishing Company [First Printing]
Book is Very Fine.

Nature's Smallest Gravedigger by Stan Applebaum and Victoria Cox (1974) $8.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Dorothea Barlowe. 32 pages. SRP: $2.50.
Golden Press/ Western Publishing Company #12753 [First Printing]
Book is Very Fine.

The New Macmillan Reading Program: Cycles by Alma Whitney (1975) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated. 96 pages.
Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc. [Printing Unknown]
Book is Near Mint.

The New Macmillan Reading Program: Secret Spaces by Alma Whitney (1975) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated. 142 pages.
Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc. [Printing Unknown]
Book is Near Mint.

The New Teacher by Miriam Cohen (1972) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated by Lillian Hoban. 32 pages. SRP: $1.25.
Collier Books #04239 [First Printing]
Book is Fine.

North American Indians by Douglas Gorsline and Marie Gorsline (1977) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated. 32 pages. SRP: $1.95
Random House, Inc. [Printing Unknown]
Book is Fine Minus. (Last name in felt marker on title page bleeds through to other side.)

North American Indians by Douglas Gorsline and Marie Gorsline (1977) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated. 32 pages.
Random House, Inc. [Book Club Edition]
Book is Fine Minus.

Nothing to Wear by Frank Jupo (1953) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Frank Jupo. 52 pages.
E.P. Dutton & Company [First Printing]
Book is Very Good Plus. (Ex-libris; glue from card pocket inside front cover; some stamps.)

Now You Can Read About... Robots by Harry Stanton (1985) $6.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Tony Gibbons. 20 pages.
Brimax Books UK [First Printing]
Book is Fine. (Some writing on inside back cover lower right corner.)

Now You Can Read About... Spacecraft by Stephen Attmoren (1985) $8.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Tony Gibbons. 20 pages.
Brimax Books UK [First Printing]
Book is Very Fine.

O.J. Simpson: Football's Record Rusher by Larry Felser (October 1974) $5.00
Illustrated. 92 pages.
Scholastic Book Services #TK-2866 [First Printing]
Book is Very Fine.

Odd Pets by Dorothy Hogner (October 1960) $4.00
Softcover. Illustrated by Lilo Hess. 128 pages. SRP: 35¢.
Scholastic Books #TX-265 [First Printing]
Book is Fine Minus.

Off We Go! (1969) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated. 40 pages.
The Zaner-Bloser Company [First Printing]
Book is Very Good Plus. (Nice save for .25" x .75" spot of sticker damage on front cover.)

Officer Bill by Michael A. Vaccaro (1978) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated. 36 pages.
Random House [First Printing]
Book is Fine.

One and Only Wacky Wordbook by Petr Lippman (1979) $10.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Peter Lippman. 48 pages.
Golden Books/Western Publishing Company, Inc. [First Printing]
Book is Fine.

Order of the Arrow Handbook (1964) $16.00
Softcover. Illustrated. 128 pages.
Note: Includes Information for New Members 12 page booklet.
Boy Scouts of America [Printing Unknown]
Book is Very Fine Minus.

Our 50 United States by Eugene Rachlis and Katherine Sharp Rachlis (1974) $8.00
Softcover. Illustrated by Ervin Gnat and Harry McNaught. 48 pages. SRP: 69¢.
Golden Press/Western Publishing Company #6208 [Printing Unknown]
Book is Very Fine Minus.

Our Friend the Atom by Heinz Haber (1956) $10.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by The Walt Disney Studio. 168 pages.
Golden Press #606 [First Printing]
Book is Very Good Plus. (Edge wear along bottom of boards.)

Our Indian Heritage by Richard Kirk and Clara Lee Tanner (1961) $6.00
Hardcover. Illustrated. 36 pages.
Follett Publishing Company [Printing Unknown]
Book is Fine Plus.

Our Mysterious World by DJ Arneson and Tony Tallarico (1981) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated. 96 pages.
Watermill Press [First Printing]
Book is Very Good. (Corner creasing, price scratched out.)

Out into Space by Neil Ardley (1981) $6.00
Hardcover. Illustrated. 40 pages.
Franklin Watts, Inc. [Printing Unknown]
Book is Fine Plus.


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