Rainy Daze Books

Our New Friends Cathedral Ed.

Catholic Reading Series

The NEW OUR NEW FRIENDS

The rev. John A. O'Brien, writtten by William S. Gray and Marion Monroe .

Published by Scott Foresman ande company in 1952 .

Excellent condition with light wear to the covers . Inside covers have no stamps or names , inside pages are minty condition .

DICK AND JANE SREETS AND ROADS SET

DICK AND JANE ~ STREETS AND ROADS SET

Streets and Roads and More Streets and Roads

Written by William S. Gray, Marion Monroe, A. Sterl Artley, Published by Gage and Company . You Get both 31 and 3.2 readers of part of the New Basic Readers, Curriculum Foundation Series.

Good used condition with light wear to edges and corners inside front cover in the 31 streets and roads is a few names and a number on flypage both books have some rubbing bottom edge. Inside pages has nothing torn, missing or written ,

At Play ~ A Mac and Muff Primer 1940

At Play A mac and Muff Primer 1940

At Play: Easy Growth in Reading, Primer

Written by Hildreth, Gertrude and illustrated By Waterall,

Corirnne Paul.
Published by John C Winston; in 1940

Stories have Nancy and Bob and Baby , and Mac and muff !!

Condition is Near Mint with only very light wear to the covers and inside pages are mint and free of marks, stamps, tears, smudges .

Sunny Boy and His Playmates

Sunny Boy and His Playmates

Written by Ramy Allison White

Illustrations by Howard L. Hastings

Condition is excellent cover shows very light wear .

Dust jacket is in excellent condition with no tears or folds .

Inside book is free of marks, tears, fold, stamps or names .

The Patchwork Girl of OZ 1913 MINT

The Patchwork Girl of OZ

Written by L.Frank Baum - author The Wizard in OZ,

Illustrated by John R. Neill

Published by The Reilly & Lee Co. Chicago in 1913

Condition is mint , free of marks tears, smudges, stamps, names .
A very clean and tight book with white , bright pages and covers .

DICK AND JANE ~GOOD TIMES WITH OUR FRIENDS ~TE MINT

Vintage Dick and Jane Readers, Primers

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GOOD TIMES WITH OUR FRIENDS ~ 1954 RARE TEACHERS EDITION !!

Written by Dorothy Baruch and Elizabeth Montgomery, illustrated by Eleanor Campbell, Published by Scott Foresman and Company in 1954. The Teachers part is in the front with the students in the rear .

THIS IS PART OF THE OF HEALTH AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT SERIES .

Condition is Mint cover shows only VERY light wear to corners and edges, no school stamps or names inside cover.

Inside pages clean and free or marks, tears , names, smudges !

STORIES THAT NEVER GROW OLD WATTY PIPER

STORIES THAT NEVER GROW OLD

Watty Piper and illustrated by George and Doris Hauman, published by Platt and Munk, New York, 1969 .

This is another large size (10" x 12" ) 68 pages book Platt and Munk are famous for and color illustrations are on every page !

Stories

The Ugly Duckling

The Bremen Town Musicians

The Fox and the Stork

The Boy and the North Wind

Hansel and Gretel

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Billy Goat Gruff

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Marriage of Robin Redbreast and the Wren

The Little Engine That Could

The Lion and the Mouse

Condition is excellent with normal wear to the covers, no stamps or names in the covers . Inside pages are in mint condition and is free of ANY marks, tears or folds , smudges !

ELSON - GRAY BASIC READERS Book 2

ELSON - GRAY BASIC READERS Book Two

Condition is Good Used , Has normal wear to the covers, however the cover are in very nice condition .

Inside cover is a name neatly written at the top . No school stamps or check-out cards .

The pages havea few tears that have been repaired with tape, the back fly page has a crayon mark and page 234 has it also no within the story. The pages have some age stops/stains , would make a great reader copy or a first starter copy .

The Brimful Book,Mother Goose Rhymes animal Stories 1939

The Brimful Book,Mother Goose Rhymes animal Stories 1969 Edited by Watty Piper,With Illustrations by Tasha Tudar, Margot Austin and Welsley Dennis.

Published by The Platt and Munk Co. Inc New York, This is one big book it Measures 12X101/8X1/2.

With the most outstanding pictures you have ever seen , This is one Watty Piper and Platt and Munk are know for . If you have never owned a Watty Piper book this is one to have to pass down !!

Book is in good condition with normal shelve wear , no torn or missing pages, no marks in the pages, just in excellent condition !

DICK AND JANE ~ MORE PEOPLE AND PROGRESS ~ 1956

DICK AND JANE ~ MORE PEOPLE AND PROGRESS ~ 1956

DICK AND JANE ~ MORE PEOPLE AND PROGRESS ~ 1956

Written by William S. Gray, Marion Monroe, A. Sterl Artley, Published by Scott, Foresman and Company in 1956. The 6.2 reader part of the New Basic Readers, Curriculum Foundation Series.

Good condition with normal wear, with alot of bumping to edges and corners. Has a stamp inside cover. Inside pages are free of marks, tears, stamps, missing pages . Pages inside are very nice condition with the pages being clean and bright .

DICK AND JANE ~ More Days and Deeds ~1955

DICK AND JANE ~ More Days and Deeds ~ 1955

Written by William S. Gray and others. Published by Scott, Foresman and Company in 1955 The New Basic Readers-- Curriculum Foundation Series. The 1955 . Designed for use during the Fifth grade, second semester.

Condition is good plus has light wear to covers, at the edges and corners with some rubbing from other books. Inside front covers is a stamp and the number , no names or other marks . Inside pages have nothing torn , missing or written and are very clean and bright .

DICK AND JANE ~ More Days and Deeds ~1955

DICK AND JANE ~ More Days and Deeds ~ 1955

Written by William S. Gray and others. Published by Scott, Foresman and Company in 1955 The New Basic Readers-- Curriculum Foundation Series. The 1955 . Designed for use during the Fifth grade, second semester.

Condition is good plus has light wear to covers, at the edges and corners with some rubbing from other books. Inside front covers is a stampand the number , no names or other marks . Inside pages have nothing torn , missing or written and are very clean and bright . Nice clean copy !

JOLLY STORIES 1905 ~ LINEN BOOK

JOLLY STORIES 1905 ~ LINEN BOOK

A FOUR PAGE LINEN BOOK , AUHTOR UNKNOWN.

HAS FOUR CHARMING LITTLE STORIES IN THE BOOK .

CONDITION IS VERY GOOD FOR A CLOTH BOOK IN 1905 !!, WITH LIGHT WEAR TO THE CLOTH COVERS ,CORNERS HAVE TURNED UP A LITTLE . OWNERS NAME IN INK ON THE FRONT COVER? CAN'T MAKE IT OUT . HAS NO TEARS OR MARKS .

OUR STORY BOOK MUFF & MAC BIG BOOK !!

OUR STORY BOOK MUFF & MAC BIG BOOK !!

Written By Gertrude Hildreth , Mabel J. Henderson, Allie Lou Felton

PUBLISHED BY THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY IN 1940

ILLUSTRATED BY CORRINE PAULI WATERAL .

This book is huge 20 X 15 œ with a spiral binder. The teacher would use it in front of the class room for the whole class. Has 40 awesome watercolor like pictures !

Has all the developemental work of the pre-primer. Part of the Easy Growth In Reading Series , we all know as Mac and Muff . Printed in the U.S.A.

Condition is excellent , it has no tears or marks, the cover has a few scraches from the storage and I am sure a whole lot of turning those BIG pages ! Some pages have a few stains from use and storage . Still has a whole lot of life left in it as a book or could be used for framing , just don't tell me if you do LOL .

Counting Rhymes ~ Whitman Math book 1944

Counting Rhymes

By the famed illustrator Florence Sarah Windship. Well known and loved for her pictures -soft cover book filled with her charming artwork ! measures approximately 13" in length and 9 1/2" wide

The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Work of

ALFRED LORD TENNYSON

COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

1st Baron Tennyson of Aldworth and Freshwater

Poet Laureate

Published by Grosset & Dunlap 1913

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Condition excellent free of marks, tears, stamp, fraying .

Inside pages have started to yellow from age .

A very clean tight RARE book !

See photo a bottom of page

A Little History

English author often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry. Tennyson succeeded William Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in 1850; he was appointed by Queen Victoria and served 42 years. Tennyson's works were melancholic, and reflected the moral and intellectual values of his time, which has made them especially vulnerable for later critic.

"Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,
And slips into the bosom of the lake.
So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip
Into my bosom and be lost in me."
(from 'The Princess')

Alfred, Lord Tennyson was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, the fourth of twelve children. His father, George Clayton Tennyson, was a clergyman and rector, who was notoriously absentminded and suffered from depression. His dark moods often overshadowed the family. Alfred began to write poetry at an early age in the style of Lord Byron. His first drama in blank verse Tennyson wrote at fourteen. After four unhappy school years at Louth, where he was bullied by his big boys and masters, he was tutored at home. Tennyson then studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, but he did not aim at academic excellence. He joined the literary club 'The Apostles', where he met Arthur Hallam who became his closest friend. The undergraduate society discussed contemporary social, religious, scientific, and literary issues. Encouraged by 'The Apostles', Tennyson published POEMS, CHIEFLY LYRICAL (1830), which included the popular 'Mariana'. He travelled with Hallam on the Continent. By 1830, Hallam had become engaged to Tennyson's sister Emily. After his father's death in 1831 Tennyson returned to Somersby without a degree.

Tennyson's next book, POEMS (1833), received unfavorable reviews, and he ceased to publish for nearly ten years. Hallam died suddenly on the same year in Vienna. It was a heavy blow to Tennyson. He began to write 'Im Memorian' for his lost friend the work took seventeen years to finish. A revised volume of Poems, which included the 'The Lady of Shalott' and 'The Lotus-eaters'. 'Morte d'Arthur' and 'Ulysses' appeared in the two-volume POEMS (1842), and established his reputation as a writer. In 'Ulysses Tennyson portrayed the Greek after his travels, longing past days: "How dull it is to pause, to make an end, / To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!"

After marrying in 1850 During his later years Tennyson produced some of his best poems., whom Tennyson had already met in 1830 and who had been the object of his affection for a long time, the couple settled in 1853 in Farringford, a house in Freshwater on the Isle of Wright. From there the family moved in 1869 to Aldworth, Surrey. Tennyson's life was then uneventful. In London he was a regular guest of the literary and artistic salon of Mrs Prinsep at Little Holland House. Tennyson's mother died in 1865. On the funeral day he wrote in his diary: "We all of us hate the pompous funeral we have to join in, black plumes, black coaches and nonsense. We should like all to go in white and gold rather, but convention is against us."

Among Tennyson's major poetic achievements is the elegy mourning the death of his friend Arthur Hallam, In Memoriam (1850). The personal sorrow led the poet to explore his thoughts on faith, immortality, and the meaning of loss: "O life as futile, then, as frail! / O for thy voice to soothe and bless! / What hope of answer, or redress? / Behind the veil, behind the veil." Among its other passages is a symbolic voyage ending in a vision of Hallam as the poet's muse. Some critics have seen in the work ideas, that anticipated Darwin's theory of natural selection. "Who trusted God was love indeed / And love Creation's final law - / Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw / With ravine, shriek'd against his creed ", Tennyson wrote. He was born in the same year as Darwin, but his view about natural history, however, was based on catastrophe theory, not evolution.

The patriotic poem 'Charge of the Light Brigade', published in MAUD (1855), is one of Tennyson's best known works, although at first Maud was found obscure or morbid by critics ranging from George Eliot to Gladstone. Later the poem about the Light Brigade inspired Michael Curtiz's film from 1936, starring Errol Flynn. Historically the fight during the Crimean war brough to light the incompetent organization of the English army. However, the stupid mistake described in the poem honored the soldier's courage and heroic action.

During his later years Tennyson produced some of his best poems. ENOCH ARDEN (1864) was based on a true story of a sailor, thought to be drowned at sea but who returned home after several years obly to find that his wife had remarried. In the poem Enoch Arden, Philip Ray and Annie Lee grow up together. Enoch wins her hand. He sails abroad and is shipwrecked for 10 years on a deserted island. Meanwhile Annie has been reduced to poverty. Philip asks her to marry him. Enoch returns and witnesses their happiness, but hides that he is alive and sacrifices his happiness for theirs. An Enoch Arden has come to mean a person who truly loves someone better than himself. The poem ends simply with the lines, "So past the strong heoic soul away. / And when they buried him, the little port / Had seldom seen a costlier funeral." IDYLLS OF THE KING (1859-1885) dealt with the Arthurian legeds, which had fascinated Tennyson since his youth, and THE ANCIENT SAGE (1885) and AKBAR'S DREAM (1892) testified the poet's faith in the redemption offered by love. Despite Tennyson pessimism about the human condition, he believed in God.

In the 1870s Tennyson wrote several plays, among them poetic dramas QUEEN MARY (1875) and HAROLD (1876). In 1884 he was created a baron. Tennyson died at Aldwort on October 6, 1892, and was buried in the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. Soon he became the favorite target of attacks of many English and American poets who saw him as a representative of narrow patriotism and sentimentality. Later critics have praised again Tennyson. T.S. Eliot has called him "the great master of metric as well as of melancholia" and that he possessed the finest ear of any English poet since Milton

Mark Twain's Works ~ The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain's Works ~ The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

Written by Mark Twain Published by P.F.Collier in 1920

Condition is exellent it is old !! Cover is in great condition and show normal wear to corners and edges .

The inside pages have no marks, tears or repairs. The pages have started to yellow. The inside binding is giving way On the cover and fly age , could easily be fixed !

Helen's Babies 1902 Edition Near Mint

Helen's Babies
Written By John Habberton
Published by Jamesieson-Higgins & Company in 1902

Condition is near mint and the pictues just so charming Only Flaw is light shelf wear " Had the plastic cover on win scanned "

DICK AND JANE THE MORE STREETS AND ROADS

DICK AND JANE THE MORE STREETS AND ROADS

Written by William S. Gray, Marion Monroe, A. Sterl Artley, Published by Gage and Company The 3.2 reader part of the New Basic Readers, Curriculum Foundation Series.

Good used condition with light wear to edges and corners cover has some rubbing bottom edge. Inside pages has nothing torn, missing or written , Inside front cover has a VERY light stamp impression . pages are clean and in very good condition .

The Twins Tom and Don A Mac and Muff Primer

The Twins Tom and Don

Easy Growth in Reading "A Mac and Muff primer " This is the 2nd primer in the series .

Written by Gertrude Hildreth, Allie Lou Felton, Mabel J. Henderson, and Alice Meighen. Illustrated by Corinne Pauli

Waterall. Published in 1940, by the Johnson C. Winston Company .

Cover shows very light wear, with no creases, no stamps, no names !

Inside pages are minty,with no tears, no marks, folds, no smudges .