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The Arabian Nights. Their Best - Known Tales.
Nora A. Wiggin, Kate Douglas and Smith, Maxfield Parrish
Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, March 15, 1909)A collection of the best-loved tales from the Arabian Nights with color illustrations by Maxfield Parrish.
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The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne, N.C. Wyeth
1988 (Charles Scribners' Sons, Nov. 30, 1988)After using a helium-filled balloon to escape from the Confederate Army, five men find themselves being swept across the ocean by hurricane winds
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Mr. Fong's Toy Shop
Leo Politi
Library Binding (Charles Scribner's Sons, May 1, 1978)A toymaker and his young friends prepare a shadow puppet play for the Moon Festival in Chinatown in Los Angeles.
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The Lathe of Heaven
Ursula K. Le Guin
Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, Nov. 1, 1971)George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for better or for worse. In desperation, he consults a psychotherapist who promises to help him -- but who, it soon becomes clear, has his own plans for George and his dreams.The Lathe of Heaven is a dark vision and a warning -- a fable of power uncontrolled and uncontrollable. It is a truly prescient and startling view of humanity, and the consequences of playing God.
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Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
Barry Lopez
Hardcover (Charles Scribner & Sons, March 1, 1986)A portrait of the landscape, animals, and people of the Arctic captures the beauty and peril of this harsh region and explains what an understanding of this unknown land means to the modern, urbanized world
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Rocket Ship Galileo
Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Voter
Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, March 15, 1947)Robert A. Heinlein's first juvenile novel for Scribner's, first published in 1947, follows the adventures of a rocket scientist and 3 young men embarking on an expedition to the Moon. The book was scientifically accurate for the time and the basis for the Academy Award-winning American film Destination Moon.
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David Balfour: Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad
Robert Louis Stevenson, N. C. Wyeth
Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, Sept. 1, 1994)Ten magnificent full-color plates complement Stevenson's action-packed sequel to Kidnapped, as David Balfour struggles to exonerate James Stewart, becomes a captive, and romances Catriona Drummond.
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Plum Pudding for Christmas
Virginia Kahl
Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, March 15, 1956)A delightful children's book for reading aloud to children with nice catchy descriptions. The story centers around the Queen wanting Plum Pudding but she has no plums.
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The Fourth of July Story
Alice Dalgliesh, Marie Nonnast
Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, Aug. 16, 1956)Book is used and has been withdrawn from service from a Library. Book has a Library Binding and the usual Library Stamps, Stickers, Card Holder, Library Markings. May or May Not have a Dust Jacket.
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Have Space Suit - Will Travel
Robert A Heinlein
Hardcover (Charles Scribner's Sons, March 15, 1958)Book Club edition / Hardcover/ First Edition 1958 Glossy Cover Imagination at its best!!
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The Columbus Story
Alice Dalgliesh, Leo Politi
Library Binding (Charles Scribner's Sons, March 1, 1955)Events in the life of Columbus, the Admiral, including his efforts to obtain ships and money to sail to the West, his first voyage, and his discovery of the New World.
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The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
Paperback (Charles Scribner's Sons, Jan. 1, 1970)In the socially dislocated period after World War I, an American expatriate and a British peeress conduct a hopeless love affair