Valley Grows Up (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. Edward Osmond (illustrator). 2nd Impression. 82pp. HARDCOVER Pictorial printed boards. Strong binding. Abrasion apparent to frt. board with loss (3" x 1/2") to bottom right corner of illustration. Light foxing to eps. at both ends. No inscriptions. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket.**A tidy, functional copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 82pp. illus. Ex-lib with usual stamps etc. Lib binding with thick card boards sunned adjacent to spine.

Pictorial Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+ DJ. Reprint. Finely illustrated with b&w and colour illustrations by the author. Winner of the 1953 Carnegie Medal. Tail corner of front cover bumped, otherwise fine condtion. DJ torn in 3 places along tail edge and worn/creased along head edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. viii, 228 pages : 2 maps ; 25 cm ; ISBN 9780598116369, 0598116362 ; OCLC 484939 ; LCCN 65-24600 ; Old Petersburg and the Broad River Valley of Georgia details colonial life at Petersburg, Georgia, at the junction of Broad and Savannah Rivers. A town that grew, flourished, and eventually disappeared, Petersburg was once a valuable and unique outlet for river trade. This volume highlights various aspects of this river town, including its founding, politics, businesses, and religious practices. ; Contents: I The Upper Savannah River Country -- II The Virginians of the Broad River Valley -- III Life in the Broad River Valley -- IV The Founding of Petersburg -- V Rivers, Roads, Bridges, and Ferries -- VI Petersburg Grows Up -- VII Politics and Duels -- VIII Tobacco and Cotton -- IX Merchandising and Other Businesses -- X Society and Amusements -- XI Education and Religion -- XII The Decline of Petersburg and the Broad River Valley ; FINE. Book.

paperback. Condition: New. Paperback. Pub Date: 2019-03-01 Pages: 90 Language: Chinese Publisher: Hunan Education Press In order to meet the diverse and quality extracurricular reading needs of young people. the Reading to Grow series is selected from the rich traditional Chinese culture It has 12 themes. which are targeted at the readers of 6-18 years old.

A first edition, first printing published by Oxford University Press 1953. A very good without inscriptions, in like unclipped wrapper with wear and tear to the spine tips and corners. It features an imaginary English valley over the course of seven thousand years, from 5000 BCE to 1900. Osmond won the annual Carnegie Medal, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.[2] In more than seventy years only a handful of nonfiction books have been so honoured.