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CHILDREN'S BOOKS • FICTION • S — U

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.

Sacred Well of Sacrifice by Henry Bamman & Robert Whitehead (1974) $5.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Berthold Tiedemann. 72 pages.
Benefic Press [Printing Unknown]
Book is Very Fine Plus.

The Sailor by Dick Bruna (1968) UNAVAILABLE
Hardcover. Illustrated by Dick Bruna. 32 pages.
Follett Publishing Company [Second Printing]
Book is Fine.

Sam and the Firefly by P.D. Eastman (1958) $3.00
Hardcover w/ Dust Jacket. Illustrated by P.D. Eastman. SRP: $1.95.
Random House #B-6 [First Printing]
Book is Fine.

Sandy Steele Adventure: Danger at Mormon Crossing
by Roger Barlow (May 1963) $2.00
Softcover. 158 pages. SRP: 50¢.
Tempo Books #T-36 [First Printing]
Book is Very Good. (Some water damage lower right of book.)

Santa Mouse by Michael Brown (1980) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Elfrieda de Witt. 20 pages.
Grosset & Dunlap [Printing Unknown]
Book is Very Fine.

The Screaming Grave by Steven Otfinoski (1982) $5.00
Hardcover. 108 pages.
Weekly Reader Books [Book Club Edition]
Book is Very Fine. (Near Mint saver for some rubbing on back cover.)

Sea Tales of Ireland for Children Edited by Joan Ryan & Gordon Snell (1983) $12.00
Hardcover. Illustrated. 160 pages.
The Glendale Press [First Printing]
Book is Fine Plus. (Some minor corner wear, a few spots wear
the plastic coating on the cover have created some fine ripples.)

Secret of the Tiger's Eye by Phyllis A. Whitney (October 1978) $3.00
Softcover. 152 pages. SRP: $1.50.
Signet Books/The New American Library #W8298 [First Printing]
Book is Very Fine Plus.

The Secret Three by Mildred Myrick (1963) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Arnold Lobel. 64 pages.
Harper & Row, Inc. [First Printing]
Book is Very Fine Minus. (Some mild edge and corner wear.)

Seven Great Detective StoriesEdited by William H. Larson (1968) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Michael Lowenbein. 212 pages.
Whitman Publishing Company #1627 [First Printing]
Book is Very Good Plus. (Edge and corner wear.)

The Shadow of Robber's Roost by Helen Rushmore (1960) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Albert Orbaan. 192 pages.
World Publishing Company [First Printing]
Book is Very Good. (Corner wear.)

Sheldon's Lunch by Bruce Lemerise (1980) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Bruce Lemerise. 44 pages.
Parents' Magazine Press [First Printing]
Book is Near Mint.

A Ship in a Storm on the Way to Tarshish by Norma Farber (1977) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Victoria Chess. 36 pages.
Greenwillow Books [First Printing]
Book is Fine. (Some sticker residue and mild soil on cover.)

The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek by Evelyn Sibley Lampman (February 1967) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated by Hubert Buel. SRP: 50¢.
Scholastic Book Services #TX-409 [Third Printing]
Book is Very Fine Plus.

Sir Toby Jingle's Beastly Journey by Wallace Tripp (1976) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Wallace Tripp. 36 pages.
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan [Book Club Edition]
Book is Very Fine Minus.

Skeleton Cave by Cora Cheney (March 1964) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated by Paul Galdone. SRP: 35¢.
Scholastic Book Services #TX-150 [Fifth Printing]
Book is Very Fine Plus save for ¾" crease on lower left corner of back cover.

The Slave Ship by Emma Gelders Sterne (April 1973) $2.00
Originally published as The Long Black Schooner.
Softcover. Illustrated by David Lockhart. 188 pages.
Scholastic Book Services #TX-316 [Fifth Printing]
Book is Fine.

Small Deer's Magic Tricks by Betty Boegehold (1977) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Jacqueline Chwast. 64 pages.
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc. [Book Club Edition]
Book is Very Fine.

Smarty Pants by Barbara Painter (1950) $32.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Nena. 64 pages.
House-Warven [First Printing]
Book is Fine.

Smoke in the Sky by Ruth Wheeler (1956) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated by H.D. Wheeler. 208 pages.
Pacific Press Publishing Association [First Printing]
Book is Very Good Plus. (1½" crease lower left back corner.)

Snow Dog by Jim Kjelgaard (1948) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Jacob Landau. 234 pages.
Grosset & Dunlap [First Printing]
Book is Very Good. (Numerous pencil marks on last few pages, counter wear.)

Snowed Up by Rosalie K. Fry (1970) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Robin Jacques. 124 pages.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux [Book Club Edition]
Book is Fine Plus.

Something Queer Is Going On by Elizabeth Levy (1973) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Mordicai Gerstein. 52 pages.
Delacorte Press [Book Club Edition] Book is Fine. (Mild edge and corner wear.)

Song of the Trail by Mabel Earp Cason (1953) $8.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by H.W. Munson. 242 pages.
Pacific Press Publishing [First Printing]
Book is Fine.

A Sound of Crying: A Ghost Story by Rodie Sudbery (1970) UNAVAILABLE
Softcover. 148 pages.
Scholastic Book Services #TX-1898 [Third Printing]
Book is Fine.

The Space Hut by Ester Wier (1967) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Leo Summers. 94 pages.
Stackpole Books [Book Club Edition]
Book is Fine Plus. (Minor corner wear, some foxing to edge of pages.)

Space Science Fiction Series: Ice Men of Rime
by Henry Bamman, William Odell & Robert Whitehead (1970) $5.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by George Bohrer. 74 pages.
Benefic Press [First Printing]
Book is Fine.

Space Science Fiction Series: Milky Way
by Henry Bamman, William Odell & Robert Whitehead (1975) $7.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Roger Herrington. 72 pages.
Benefic Press [First Printing]
Book is Near Mint Minus.

The Spanish Cave by Geoffrey Household (August 1948) $12.00
Softcover. Illustrated by Gould Hulse, Jr. 182 pages.
Comet Books #12 [First Printing]
Book is Very Good Plus. (Creases on covers along spine.)

The Sparrow's Nest by Helen Frances Stanley (1969) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Irma Wilde. 28 pages. SRP: 25¢.
Rand McNally & Company [First Printing]
Book is Fine. (Minor corner wear.)

Splish, Splash, and Splush by Donna Lugg Pape (1962) $3.00
hardcover. Illustrated by Irma Wilde. 32 pages. SRP: 35¢.
Whitman Publishing Company #2627 [Printing Unknown]
Book is Very Good Plus. (Some corner wear, mild rubbing.)

Squanto and the Pilgrims by A.M. Anderson (1962) $12.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by John Osebold. 156 pages.
Harper & Row #51-50032 [Printing unknown]
Book is Very Fine.

Stevie and His Seven Orphans by Miriam E. Mason (1964) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by John Gretzer. 138 pages.
Houghton Mifflin Company [Book Club Edition]
Book is Fine Plus.

The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant by Jean de Brunhoff (1933) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Jean de Brunhoff. 48 pages.
Random House [Printing Unknown]
Book is Good. (Wear and peeling of plastic coating along spine.)

Story of Piney Bear by Helen Ogston (1970) UNAVAILABLE
Softcover. Illustrated by Robert W. Meyers. 24 pages.
The Cody Enterprises [Fourth Printing]
Book is Very Good. (Cover creasing, some wear to edge of spine.)

The Story of the Three Bears (1979) $5.00
"This Book Is a Replica of the Antique Original."
Softcover. Illustrated. 16 pages.
Merrimack Publishing Corp. [Facsimile]
Book is Fine. (Minor creasing to upper die-cut extremities.)

The Story of Zachary Zween by Mabel Watts (1967) $12.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Marilyn Hafner. 44 pages.
Parents' Magazine Press [First Printing]
Book is Fine Plus. (Light damage upper corner spine, otherwise nice.)

The Strange Hotel by Marci Carafoli (1975) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Jozef Sumichrast. 32 pages.
Follett Publishing Company [First Printing]
Book is Fine.

Surfboard Summer by Jane Sears (1965) $5.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Pat Rosado. 216 pages.
Whitman Publishing Company #2343 [First Printing]
Book is Fine Minus. (Corner wear, tanning of pages.)

Surfing Country by A.E. Bunting (1974) $5.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Dale King. 64 pages.
Childrens Press [First Pressing]
Book is Very Good. (Ex-library; spine label, card pocket first page, some wear.)

The Swiss Family Robinson by Felix Sutton (1976) $6.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by William Barss. 64 pages.
Grosset & Dunlap [Printing Unknown]
Book is Very Fine Minus. (Minor corner wear.)

Tahara: Among African Tribes by Harold M. Sherman (1933) $6.00
Hardcover. 252 pages.
The Goldsmith Publishing Company [First Printing]
Book is Very Good. (Edge and corner wear, some pencil marks last page.)

Tahara: Boy King of the Desert by Harold M. Sherman (1933) $3.00
Hardcover. 252 pages.
The Goldsmith Publishing Company [First Printing]
Book is Good.
(Tanning to edges of pages, heavy water stains back cover and lower spine.)

Tales From the Crypt: Volume One Adapted by Eleanor Fremont (1991) $5.00
Cover art by Jack Davis. Reprints various panels from original EC comics.
Softcover. Illustrated. 96 pages. SRP: $2.99.
Random House #81801 [First Printing]
Book is Very Fine Plus.

Tales From the Crypt: Volume Three Adapted by Richard Wenk (1993) $3.00
Cover art by Jack Davis. Reprints various panels from original EC comics.
Softcover. Illustrated. 96 pages. SRP: $2.99.
Random House #81801 [Third Printing]
Book is Very Fine Minus.

Tales of Mr. Pengachoosa by Caroline Rush (1973) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Dominique Michele Strandquest. 56 pages.
Crown Publishers [Book Club Edition]
Book is Very Good Plus.

Tales of Magic and Spells by Corinne Deane (1980) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated by James Watling. 48 pages.
Troll Associates [First Printing]
Book is Very Fine.

Tales of Terror (1989) $8.00
This textbook includes "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs
& "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" by Rod Serling.
Softcover. Illustrated. 64 pages.
Houghton Mifflin Company [First Printing]
Book is Fine. (A couple of stress marks along spine.)

Tale of the Strawberry Fairies by Mary R. Berardi (circa 1960s) UNAVAILABLE
Softcover w/ Clear Plastic Dust Jacket. Illustrated by G. Venzi. 56 pages. SRP: 35¢.
The Daughters of St. Paul [First Printing]
Book is Very Fine. (Crease on first page.)

Tales to Tremble By Edited by Stephen P. Sutton (1966) $10.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Stephen P. Sutton. 214 pages.
Whitman Publishing Company #163 [First Printing]
Book is Fine. (Some edge and corner wear.)

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1964) $20.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Al Andersen & Jess Marsh. 286 pages.
Whitman Publishing Company #1507 [First Printing]
Book is Near Mint Minus. (Some very minor corner wear.)

Teddy Ruxpin: Lost in Boggley Woods by Will Ryan (1986) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated. 36 pages.
Worlds of Wonder [First Printing] Book is Fine Minus.

Teen-Age Sea Stories Edited by David Thomas (1948) $3.00
Includes contributions from Arnold Bateman, Hawthorne Daniel & George C. Lane.
Hardcover. 252 pages.
Grosset & Dunlap [Printing Unknown]
Book is Fine Minus. (Corner blunting, mild crushing to top and bottom of spine.)

The Teeny Tiny Woman by Margot Zemach (May 1972) $2.00
Softcover. Illustrated by Margot Zemach. 16 pages.
Scholastic Book Services #TX-1109 [Ninth Printing]
Book is Fine.

Ten Tales Calculated to Give You Shudders Edited by Ross R. Olney (1972) $6.00
Includes contributions from Robert Bloch, William Hope Hodgson & Frank Belknap Long.
Hardcover. 212 pages.
Whitman Publishing Company #1617 [First Printing]
Book is Fine. (Corner wear.)

Ten Tales Calculated to Give You Shudders Edited by Ross R. Olney (1979) $3.00
Includes contributions from Robert Bloch, William Hope Hodgson & Frank Belknap Long.
Softcover. 212 pages.
Golden Press/Western Publishing Company #21617-2 [First Printing]
Book is Fine Plus. (Some wear along edge of spine.)

Tennis Champ by Evelyn Lunemann (1972) $5.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Rudolph Magnani. 72 pages.
Benefic Press [First Printing]
Book is Fine.

Terror at Sea and Other Incredible True Adventures by Don L. Wulffson (1986) $3.00
Originally published as Incredible True Adventures.
Hardcover. Illustrated. 108 pages. SRP: $8.95.
Weekly Reader Books [Book Club Edition]
Book is Very Fine. (Minor corner wear.)

Terror in the High Sierras by Bob Wright (1982) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated by Herb Heidinger. 48 pages.
Perspectives/Academic Therapy Publications [First Printing]
Book is Very Good. (Cover creasing.)

That Game from Outer Space by Stephan Manes (1983) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Tony Auth. 58 pages. SRP: $8.95.
E.P. Dutton [Book Club Edition]
Book is Fine Plus. (Some corner wear.)

The Thing in B-3 by Talmage Powell (1969) $3.00
Hardcover. llustrated by Aliki. 68 pages.
Whitman Publishing Company #1581 [Book Club Edition]
Book is Very Good. (Edge/corner wear, sticker
residue to cover, owner's plate on title page.)

This Is the House Where Jack Lives by Joan Heilbroner (1962) $3.00
Hardcover. llustrated by Aliki. 68 pages.
Harper & Row [Book Club Edition]
Book is Fine.

The Three Wishes by M. Jean Craig (November 1968) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated by Rosalind Fry. 48 pages. SRP: 45¢.
Scholastic Book Services #TW-1316 [First Printing]
Book is Fine.

Tibor Gergely's Great Big Book of Bedtime Stories
Edited by Tibor Gergely (1967) $10.00
Hardcover. llustrated. 384 pages.
Golden Press/Western Publishing Company #16529 [Printing Unknown]
Book is Fine. (Corner blunting to spine.)

To See the Queen by Katharine Gibson (1954) $3.00
Hardcover. llustrated by Clotilde Embree Funk. 154 pages.
Cadmus/E.M. Hale & Company [Book Club Edition]
Book is Very Good Plus. (Ex-library; nice save for card pocket
first page, various library stamps, Dewey number on lower spine.)

Tom Corbett, Space Cadet #1: Stand by for Mars!
by Carey Rockwell (1952) $8.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Louis Glanzman. 216 pages.
Grosset & Dunlap [First Printing]
Book is Very Good Plus.
(Staining lower back cover, some edge and corner wear, writing on first page.)

Tom Corbett, Space Cadet #2: Danger in Deep Space
by Carey Rockwell (1953) $16.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Louis Glanzman. 208 pages.
Grosset & Dunlap [First Printing]
Book is Very Fine Minus.

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1956) $3.00
Promotional giveaway premium with purchase of Nestle's Quik.
Softcover. 96 pages.
Golden Press [Promotional Use Only]
Book is Fine.

Tom Sawyer Detective by Mark Twain (March 1968) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated by William Hutchinson. 114 pages. SRP: 35¢.
Scholastic Book Services #TX-234 [Eighth Printing]
Book is Very Good Plus.

Tom Swift #2: Tom Swift and His Jetmarine by Victor Appleton II (1954) $4.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Graham Kaye. 208 pages.
Grosset & Dunlap #9102 [First Printing]
Book is Fine Minus. (Some wear to top and bottom of spine.)

Tom Swift #6: Tom Swift and His Outpost in Space by Victor Appleton II (1955) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Graham Kaye. 212 pages.
Grosset & Dunlap #9106 [First Printing]
Book is Very Good. (Corner wear.)

Tom Swift: Tom Swift and the Asteroid Pirates by Victor Appleton II (1963) $5.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Charles Brey. 178 pages.
Grosset & Dunlap #9121 [First Printing]
Book is Fine Plus.

The Top of the Pizzas by Bill Basso (1977) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Bill Basso. 36 pages.
Dodd, Mead & Company [Book Club Edition]
Book is Very Fine.

Touchdown Twins by Philip Harkins (September 1957) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated by Ray Quigley. 248 pages.
Scholastic Book Services #T74 [Printing Unknown]
Book is Fine Minus.
(1½" crease lower right front corner of cover, some wear to top of spine.)

Trapped in the Ice by Ruth Harnden (November 1968) $2.00
Originally published as Golly and the Gulls.
Softcover. Illustrated by Dom Lupo. 80 pages. SRP: 50¢.
Scholastic Book Services #TX-1301 [First Printing]
Book is Fine.

The Treasure at Twenty Fathoms by Patrick O'Connor (1968) $4.00
Hardcover. Illustrated. 152 pages.
E.M. Hale & Company [Printing Unknown]
Book is Very Good. (Ex-library; displays some very light corner wear,
the remnants of a Dewey label on the lower spine, the remnants of a
card pocket on the inside cover--book itself is undamaged from removal--
and various library stamps.)

The Treasure Hunt of the S-18 by Graham M. Dean (1934) $3.00
Hardcover. 252 pages.
The Goldsmith Publishing Company [First Printing]
Book is Very Good. (Edge and corner wear, tanning to edges of pages.)

The Treasure of Kilvarra by Elizabeth Baldwin Hazelton (1974) $2.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Marilyn Miller. 184 pages.
Weekly Reader Books [Book Club Edition]
Book is Very Good Plus. (Edge and corner wear, book plate inside front cover.)

The Treasure of Kilvarra by Elizabeth Baldwin Hazelton (1974) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Marilyn Miller. 184 pages.
Weekly Reader Books [Book Club Edition]
Book is Very Fine.

Treat Truck and the Storm by Vern McKissacks (1974) $5.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Vern McKissack. 48 pages.
Benefic Press [First Printing]
Book is Very Fine.

The Tree House Mystery by Carol Beach York (1973) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Reisie Lonette.
Weekly Reader Books [Book Club Edition]
Book is Very Fine.

Triple Trouble for Rupert by Ethelyn M. Parkinson (February 1963) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated by Mary Stevens. 92 pages. SRP: 35¢.
Scholastic Book Services #TX-258 [Fourth Printing]
Book is Fine Plus.

The Trojan War by Bernard Evslin (1971) $3.00
Special Teacher's Printing with a 24-page teaching guide bound into center of the book.
Softcover. Illustrated by William Hunter. 160 pages.
Scholastic Book Services #TX-1533 [Fifth Printing]
Book is Fine Plus.

Trouble at Otter Creek by Wilma Pitchford Hays (1978) $3.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Marilyn Miller. 48 pages.
Xerox Publishing [Book Club Edition]
Book is Very Fine Plus.

Trouble in the Jungle by John Rowe Townsend (1969) $4.00
Originally published as Gumble's Yard.
Hardcover. Illustrated by W.T. Mars. 158 pages.
J.B. Lippincott Company [First Printing]
Book is Very Fine.

The True Mother Goose (1987) $10.00
"Replica of the Original Antique Published in 1833."
Softcover. Illustrated. 96 pages.
Merrimack Publishing Corp. [Facsimile]
Book is Very Fine.

Tumble: The Story of a Mustang by Wesley Dennis (1966) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated by Wesley Dennis. 24 pages.
Scholastic Book Services #TW-1079 [Fifth Printing]
Book is Very Fine.

Tunnel Through Time by Lester del Rey (April 1967) $3.00
Softcover. Illustrated by Hal Frenck. SRP: 50¢.
Scholastic Book Services #TX-1065 [First Printing]
Book is Very Fine Minus.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (April 1946) $5.00
Hardcover. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. 375 pages.
The World Publishing Company [First Printing]
Book is Very Fine.

Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories
by Arthur S. Maxwell (1976) $10.00
Hardcover. Illustrated. 192 pages.
Review & Herald Publishing [For Promotional Use Only]
Book is Near Mint Minus. (Includes pocket with three unused postcards on interior front cover.)


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