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A collection of riddles of various traditional types including queer-word, hidden-answer, neck, leg, rebus, and tricky-question riddles

Paperback:

9780064460576 | Reprint edition (Trophy Pr, April 1, 1987), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A collection of riddles of various traditional types including queer-word, hidden-answer, neck, leg, rebus, and tricky-question riddles

Library:

9780397320301 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1983, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: A collection of riddles of various traditional types including queer-word, hidden-answer, neck, leg, rebus, and tricky-question riddles.

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All types of bears abound in this compilation of fifty legends, myths, tall tales, anecdotes, and factual accounts about bears spanning the ages from prehistoric times to the present

Hardcover:

9780374322915 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 1, 1984, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: All types of bears abound in this compilation of fifty legends, myths, tall tales, anecdotes, and factual accounts about bears spanning the ages from prehistoric times to the present

Paperback:

9780374422738 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1987), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: All types of bears abound in this compilation of fifty legends, myths, tall tales, anecdotes, and factual accounts about bears spanning the ages from prehistoric times to the present

Seven eerie tales about ghosts, skeletons, graveyards, talking corpses, and strange happenings offer beginning readers a howling good time
By Alvin Schwartz and Dirk Zimmer (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780023791758, titled "A First Course in Business Statistics" | 6th bk&dk edition (Prentice Hall, February 1, 1995), cover price $73.00 | also contains A First Course in Business Statistics
9780060252717 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, March 1, 1984, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Seven eerie tales about ghosts, skeletons, graveyards, talking corpses, and strange happenings offer beginning readers a howling good time

Paperback:

9780061336133, titled "In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories" | Pap/com edition (Harperfestival, July 1, 2008), cover price $9.99
9780064440905 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, October 1, 1985), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Seven eerie tales about ghosts, skeletons, graveyards, talking corpses, and strange happenings offer beginning readers a howling good time

Library:

9780060252748 | Harpercollins, March 1, 1984, cover price $17.89 | About this edition: Seven eerie tales about ghosts, skeletons, graveyards, talking corpses, and strange happenings offer beginning readers a howling good time

Reinforced:

9780606003100 | Demco Media, October 1, 1985, cover price $12.47 | About this edition: Seven eerie tales about ghosts, skeletons, graveyards, talking corpses, and strange happenings offer beginning readers a howling good time

Prebinding:

9781442005204 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $12.99

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Thirteen secret languages and dialects such as Boontling, Flash, Pig Latin, and Kinyume are presented in the form of riddles, jokes and tales which demonstrate how they function
By Alvin Schwartz and Margot Zemach (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780374312244 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 1, 1985), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Presents instructions for speaking thirteen secret languages, including Pig Latin, one of the best known and easiest codes to learn, and Boontling, developed by people in a California town.

Prebinding:

9780808551768 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $11.80 | About this edition: Presents instructions for speaking thirteen secret languages, including Pig Latin, one of the best known and easiest codes to learn, and Boontling, developed by people in a California town.

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Humorous and thought-provoking word puzzles, jokes, and verbal somersaults comprise this carefully chosen assortment of conundrums by a renowned collector of American folklore

Paperback:

9780064440769 | Reprint edition (Trophy Pr, April 1, 1985), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: A collection of riddles selected from folklore around the world.

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Presents examples of folk speech used during the period 1815 to 1950. Identifies their meaning and the regions in which they were collected.

Library:

9780397318704 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1979, cover price $12.89 | About this edition: An illustrated compendium of American folk sayings and expressions highlights the down-home wit and wisdom of rural America

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Humorous and serious recollections from around the turn of the century

Hardcover:

9780397317264 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, October 1, 1978, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Brief statements from people whose childhoods were in the period 1890-1914 on such areas of their past lives as food, social life, music, holidays, and health present glimpses of life in the United States at that time.

An introduction to the day-to-day operations of almost forty different kinds of stores reveals how storekeepers select merchandise, maintain inventories, satisfy customers, and make profits

Hardcover:

9780027813104 | Atheneum, April 1, 1977, cover price $10.35 | About this edition: An inside look at the day-to-day operations of forty typical stores.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780694507795 | Harpercollins Childrens, June 1, 1973, cover price $8.98

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An anthology of tongue twisters in English as well as in other languages designed to entertain children and further the development of speech skills
By Glen Rounds (illustrator) and Alvin Schwartz (compiler)

Hardcover:

9780397313877 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, October 1, 1972, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A collection of tongue twisters, both traditional and new in prose and verse.

Traces the growth of labor groups from pre-Revolutionary War societies to the AFL-CIO merger and discusses the organization and activities of unions today.

School and Library:

9780670740987 | Viking Pr, April 1, 1972, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Introduces the high school student to the history of the American trade unions and labor-management relations

This handbook of indoor activities includes quiet and active games, arts and crafts, hobbies, science experiments, jokes, riddles, puzzles, tongue twisters, recipes, and lists of story books.

Hardcover:

9780671606060 | Simon & Schuster, March 1, 1958, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Science activities, arts and crafts projects, quiet games, and stories to read aloud especially for rainy days at home

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