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Night Cars

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"...Night Cars is an intriguing book, simple though it may seem. The illustrations, portraits of street life from a bedroom window, chronicle a night in the city. From taxi cabs and garbage trucks, snow plows and fire engines, a young baby and his…

Night Cars

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"...Night Cars is an intriguing book, simple though it may seem. The illustrations, portraits of street life from a bedroom window, chronicle a night in the city. From taxi cabs and garbage trucks, snow plows and fire engines, a young baby and his…

Newfoundland's Politics Loses Gusto

St. John's, Nfld.

Article written on location from St. John’s, Newfoundland. Desbarats explores the strange, mystified, and almost familial nature of Newfoundland politics at the time. This traditional political style was being weakened by a new,…

Mythologiae (Mythologies) [original]

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Binding: good ; white alum-tawed leather ; leather with embossed detail ; some discolouration ; front and back cover detail is clear ; FRONT: pressed with "PCWA," "1590," crest with "DES H:R[E]ME[.]KFLSERTVMWAPP[AV]" below, embellishments, "TEMP,"…

My Very first Mother Goose

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"What can be said about yet another Mother Goose book? Quite a lot in this case. The book is not a definitive Mother Goose, with familiar rhymes such as Old Mother Hubbard missing and less familiar ones included, and there are no footnotes or…

Munchkin Cthulhu

Front cover of Munchkin Cthulhu
This is a 1st Edition, 4th printing

Players: 3-6
Playing Time: 1 hour
Ages: 10 and up

Game Objective:
The stars are right... and the Munchkins are kicking down the doors in places where Man Was Not Meant To Go. They're Investigators,…

Munchkin

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This is the 1st Edition, 19th Printing

Players: 3-6
Playing time: 1 hour
Ages: 10 and up

Game Objective:
Munchkin captures the dungeon experience... with none of that stupid roleplaying stuff. All you have to do is kill monsters and grab…

Mrs. Trimmer's Spelling Book OR The Little Spelling Book for Young Children [original]

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Binding: good to very good ; bound in paper (marbled paper, perhaps over a more sturdy brown paper) ; the front cover seems to have become partially detached and then been reattached ; back cover is separating from spine (at head) ; front cover…

Mr. Grumpy's Outing

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"Mr. Gumpy lives by a river. One sunny day he decides to take a ride in his small boat. It is such a perfect idea, for such a perfect summer day, that he soon has company: first the children, then the rabbit, the cat, the dog, the pig, the sheep, the…

More More More Said the Baby

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A book for parents, grandparents, and other significant adults to enjoy with their littlest ones. This trio of gentle vignettes shows three toddlers gathered up and cuddled by grownups. Little Guy's daddy throws him up high, swings him around, and…