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Companion Library and Best in Children's Books
These books are all hard covers, and are all in good reading condition.
All show moderate wear and bumps to corners, spines are tight and pages are mostly clean.
Exterior has normal wear for this vintage of books. Email me if you want pictures or a better description.



The Companion Library
of Classics

Here are some the the
time-honored stories wihich
every child should have an opportunity to read.

Throughout the 1950's, 60's and early 70's, Grosset & Dunlap issued at least forty-four different titles in this collection of classic novels. Early editions were published with dust jackets but the series soon converted to the picture cover format.
Price: $6.00 each


Companion Library
Aesop's Fables
Ill: William K. Plummer
Grosset & Dunlap
1963
Book # C/CL 001
Price $6.00

Companion Library
Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass
By: Lewis Carroll
Grosset & Dunlap
196's
Book # C/CL 002
Price $6.00


Companion Library

Little Men
By: Louisa May Alcott
Grosset & Dunlap
1963
Book #C/CL 003
Price $6.00
SOLD


Companion Library

The Prince and the Pauper
ByL Samuel Clemens
Grosset & Dunlap
1965
Book # C/CL 004
Price $6.00


Companion Library

Robinson Crusoe
By: Daniel Defoe
Grosset & Dunlap
1963
Book # C/CL 005
Price $6.00

Companion Library

Tanglewood Tales
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Grosset & Dunlap
1967
Book #C/ CL 006
Price $6.00
(2 copies)

Companion Library

Tom Sawyer Abroad
By: Samuel Clemens
Grosset & Dunlap
1965
Book #C/CL 007
Price $6.00

Companion Library

Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Grosset & Dunlap
1963
Book #C/CL 008
Price $6.00

Companion Library

The Little Lame Prince
By: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Grosset & Dunlap
1965
Book # C/CL 009
Price $6.00
The Companion Library
of Classics

Two-in-one Volumes
Throughout the 1950's, 60's and early 70's, Grosset & Dunlap issued at least forty-four different titles in this collection of classic novels. Early editions were published with dust jackets but the series soon converted to the picture cover format. At one point G&D issued at least 17 special two-in-one volumes.
Price $8.00 each

Companion Library
Two-in-one

Adventures of Pinoccho
By: Carlo Collodi
Story of King Arthur and
his Knights

By: Howard Pyle
Grosset & Dunlap
1965
Book # C/2CL 001
Price $8.00




Companion Library
Two-in-one

Adventures of Tom Sawyer
By: Samuel Clemens
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By: Samuell Clemens
Grosset & Dunlap
1963
Book # C/2CL 002
Price $8.00


Companion Library
Two-in-one

Arabian Nights
By:
Aesop's Fables
By:
Grosset & Dunlap
1963
Book # C/2CL 003
Price $8.00


Companion Library
Two-in-one

Black Beauty
By: Anna Sewell
The Call of the Wild
By: Jack London
Grosset & Dunlap
1963
Book #C/2CL 004
Price $8.00 (2)

Companion Library
Two-in-one

Gulliver's Travels
By: Jonathan Swift
Treasure Island
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
Grosset & Dunlap
1963
Book #C/2CL 005
Price $8.00

 


Companion Library
Two-in-one

Heidi
By: Johanna Spyri
Hans Brinker
By: Mary Mapes Dodge
Grosset & Dunlap
1963
Book # C/2CL 006
Price $8.00 (2)


Companion Library
Two-in-one

Rip Van Winkle
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other tales

By: Washington Irving
Toby Tyler or
Ten Weeks with a Circus

By:James Otis
Grosset & Dunlap
1967
Book # C/2CL 007
Price $8.00

Companion Library
Two-in-one

Little Men
By: Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
By:Louisa May Alcott
Grosset & Dunlap
1963
Book # C/2CL 008
Price $8.00
The Best In
Children's Books

The Best in Children's Books
was a series of anthologies published by The Doubleday Book Clubs from 1957 to 1961.
The volume designation is marked only by a number on the bottom right corner of the title page and on the back flap of the dust jacket. "A" volumes have one different story than their same numbered companions.
Each volume contains a mix of fiction and non-fiction, new and old works.
Nelson Doubleday, Inc.
Garden City, New York


1957
Volume 1
Apraham Lincoln
How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin
A Child's Garden of Verses
Hansel and Gretel
Mother Goose Rhymes
The Story of Gold
Puppet Play
What a Magnet Can Do
Animal Children
Angus and the Cat
Pancakes for Breakfast
This is Austraila
Book # C/BICB V01
Price $20.00

1958
Volume 10
Lassie Come-Home
Story of William Tell
Penny and the White Horse
Rumpelstiltskin
The Three Little Pigs
The Poppy Seed Cakes
Peanuts Are Not Nuts and Other Suprising Facts
The Sounds We Hear
Rhymes to Learn By
Animals of Africa
Traveling the Underground Railroad
Let's Visit Spain
Book # C/BICB V10
Price $15.00

1963
Volume 10A
Lassie Come-Home
Story of William Tell
Penny and the White Horse
Rumpelstiltskin
The Three Little Pigs
The Poppy Seed Cakes
Peanuts Are Not Nuts and Other Suprising Facts
The Sounds We Hear
Rhymes to Learn By
Animals of Africa
Fern and Wilbur from
Charlotte's Web
Theodore Roosevelt
Let's Visit Spain
Book # C/BICB V10A
Price $15.00

1959
Volume 20
Babar the King
Peary, Hero of the Great
White North
American Folk Rhymes and Chants
Bottles, Botle Tops &Soda Pop
Our Nation's Capital
Quite Mother and the Noisy Little Boy
Away Goes Jonathan Wheeler
Little Two Eyes
Legend of the Inchcape Rock
Peet the Parrakeet Finds a Friend
Let's Visit Yugoslavia
Book # C/BICB V20
Price $15.00

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1959
Volume 26
The Wild Swans
Sir Francis Drake
Timothy Titus
Georgie
A Horse for a Prince
Feeding the Birds This Winter
The War Whoop of the
Wily Iroquois
Unc' Billy Possum
Henry Huggins and Ribs
The Baker's Daughter
Let's Go to Portugal
Book # C/BICB V26
Price $15.00

1959
Volume 27
Robinson Crusoe
Michael Who Missed His Train
Princess on the Glass Hill
The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean
Clara Barton, Angel of the Battlefield
Card Games Are Fun
Why Men Hunt Rocks
The Story of Chan Yuc
Let's Go to Turkey
Book # C/BICB V27
Price $10.00
1960
Volume 33
Marco Polo's Travels
Discovering the Unknown World
Favorite Mother Goose Rhymes
Shaween and the Gander
Andrew Jackson, Pioneer Hero
Sophocles the Hyena
Water, from Reservoir to You
Nature's Home Builders
Chi-wee's White Boots
A Dime's Worth for Free
Let's Go to Peru
Book # C/BICB V33
Price $15.00

1960
Volume 34
Snow White and Rose Red
America's Wonderful
National Parks
The Little Fellow
Frederick Barbarossa
A Capital Ship
Old Whirlwind
The Mouse with Bobbed Whiskers
A Dangerous Day for
Mrs. Doodlepunk
The Heart of the Band
Let's Go to Five Little Countries
Book # C/BICB V34
Price $15.00

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