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Books published by publisher John C. Winston company

  • Lassie Come-Home

    Eric Knight

    Hardcover (John C. Winston, Jan. 1, 1940)
    First edition. Illustrated throughout by Marguerite Kirmse. A lovely copy of a classic. Boards very bright, with a hint of shelf wear at the spine ends, previous owners name and date Christmas 1940 written in pencil on the free front endpaper. Dust jacket has a little loss at the head of the spine and a few minor chips and short tears. Map endpapers show the long path Lassie took to get home. The book was made into a movie in 1943 with Roddy McDowell and Elizabeth Taylor in her film debut. ix , 248 pages. pictorial cloth, map endpapers, dust jacket.. 8vo.
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  • The Children's Classics: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

    Lewis Carroll

    Hardcover (The John C. Winston Company, Jan. 1, 1923)
    This is a classic tale in a classic book. It is from The Children's Classics series published in 1923. It is beautifully illustrated and a pleasure to read in the beautifully perserved book. The cover is a deep burgandy with Sharp Gold lettering There is a picture of a mounted horseman in gold on the front cover.
  • Up and Down the River

    Rebecca Caudill, Decie Merwin

    Hardcover (John C. Winston Co., July 6, 1951)
    Bonnie and Debbie Fairchild occupy center stage in this story of a summer season in the lovely hills of Kentucky of the early 1900 s. This is the Book 3 in the Fairchild Family series.
  • Door To The North

    Elizabeth Coatsworth, Frederick T. Chapman

    Hardcover (John C. Winston, July 6, 1950)
    In 1360 AD, King Magnus Eirikson rules over a united Sweden and Norway-a Christian Scandinavia. When a rumor reaches the king that the colonies in Greenland have fallen back into pagan ritual, along with an alarming report that the inhabitants of the Western Settlement have mysteriously disappeared, Magnus entrusts Paul Knutson to make contact with Greenland and to verify the truth of these stories. Among these men are Olav Sigurdsson-a young man sailing to prove his bravery to the king and to reclaim his father's lost honor-and Eirik the Laplander, deeply loyal to Olav's family, but a pagan viewed with suspicion by the other Christian Scandinavians. Upon confirming the disappearance of a whole settlement, Paul and his party follow a sparse trail of clues south across the seas toward "Vinland"-convinced that some of the colonists may still be alive.
  • Stories from the Old Testament: Joseph, Moses, Ruth, David

    Maud Fuller Petersham

    Hardcover (The John C. Winston Co, March 15, 1938)
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  • Islands in the Sky

    Arthur C. Clarke

    Hardcover (John C.Winston, Jan. 1, 1952)
    Islands in the Sky is a 1952 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It is one of his earliest and lesser known works. Clarke wrote the story as a travelogue of human settlement of cislunar space in the last half of the Twenty-First Century. This is one of the thirty-five juvenile novels that constitute the Winston Science Fiction set and which were published in the 1950s for a readership of teen-aged boys. The typical protagonist in these books was a boy in his late teens who was proficient in the art of electronics, a hobby that was easily available to the readers. In this case, though, Roy Malcolm is in expert in aviation, its history and technology.
  • Stories of American explorers and settlers,

    Sarah Dow Heard

    Hardcover (The John C. Winston company, March 15, 1933)
    1933. Stories of American Explorers and Settlers by Sarah Dow Heard and M.W. King. Published by the John C. Winston Co.
  • Leif Erikson the Lucky

    Illustrated by Norman Price Kummer, Fredick A.

    Hardcover (John C. Winston, 1939, March 15, 1939)
    SYNOPSIS: "Historical fiction biography: Navigator and explorer Leif Erikson, son of Red, grew up in Norway and Iceland. This is his story and of his adventures guiding his Viking team to land in North America. Much is learned about Viking life, artifacts, and folklore."
  • The citadel of a hundred stairways,

    Alida Malkus

    Hardcover (The John C. Winston Co, March 15, 1941)
    On the terraced mountain side lived Titu, a Quechuan Indian boy, with his family in their tiny home. Then came the American Mr. Selden, seeking a way to remove gold from his mines by using underground water systems. And with him was his son, Tony.
  • The Water Babies: A Fairy Story for a Land Baby

    Charles Kingsley, Ethel F. Everett

    Hardcover (The John C. Winston Co., March 15, 1930)
    Great condition. It's been on a shelf in a dark room for decades!
  • The story of a bad boy,

    Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Edwin John Prittie

    Hardcover (The John C. Winston Company, Aug. 16, 1927)
    The Story of A Bad Boy
  • My Poetry Book: An Anthology of Modern Verse for Boys and Girls

    Grace Thompson Huffard, Laura Mae Carlisle, Helen Ferris, Willy Pogany, Marguerite de Angeli

    Hardcover (John C. Winston, Jan. 1, 1956)
    A book of over 400 poems, organized by topic for \both boys and girls.Printed in 1934, this book is a classic