France

Chaplet of Pearls. Yonge/Strang Page, 1926/1868, 1st printing thus.

The Chaplet of Pearls.

A romance of 16th century France. Note: This book has been sold.

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$22.00

 

Family Sabbatical.

Family Sabbatical.

With her usual warmth Brink tells how the Ridgeways from Family Grandstand, Susan, George, and Dumpling, go to France. They meet a real princess, loose a precious doll, find their dear Mademoiselle again. Based a sabbatical taken by Brink's own family. Note: This book has been sold.

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$100.00

 

Hilda and her Doll.

Hilda and her Doll.

Hilda played happily in her Granada, West Indies home, unaware that she was soon to be sent thousands of miles away, to France, to school. Her father felt the experience of "finding her level" would be good for her character, but for a long time she was miserable at school. Her classmates teased her for the wonderful gift her nurse had given her, a beautiful handmade West Indian doll. The international flavour of this book keeps it from being a Sunday School tract.

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$55.00

 

Madeline's Rescue.

"Poor Madeline would now be dead, but for a dog that kept its head."

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$50.00

 

Madeline.

Every generation of little girls falls in love Madeline!

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$35.00

 

The Boy and the River (L'enfant et la riviere).

A poetic tale of a boy and the river that calls to him.

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$22.00

 

The Fox in the Island (Le renard dans l'isle).

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$12.00

 

Adventure at Mont-Saint-Michel.

Little Centauree longs to follow the sea and find out where it goes, but when she does, the threatening sea swirls around her. An atmospheric book with the figures rendered very expressively in big blocks of colour, blues and browns and olive greens.

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$15.00

 

The Troubadour.

How Aubrey, knight of the Red Cross, travelling in the guise of a troubadour, plotted with 10 year old Marjolaine to retake the Ornac Castle from the evil baron. Accurate and relatively easy to read historical fiction, set in 13th c France.

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$8.00

 

Contes en Vers et en Prose.

An inclusive collection in an attractive French '30's paperback.

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$18.00

 

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