Children's Fiction

Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 186 pages. Jeff tables his dreams of directing movies when his dream girl, who left town to become a theatrical star, returns as an unwed mother. PW called this an "engrossing story of lopsided love," but added that "the term YA is really too elastic; this story requires a reader more mature than a 12-year-old." Dust jacket price-clipped otherwise like new.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth covers stamped in red, 148 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by the Haders. Clean copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, reprint, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with a green and black decoration to the front cover. 4 b&w plates by George Varian. Light shelf wear. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige cloth stamped in green. First Printing (with the requisite "A" & colophon, no numbers (which would indicate a later printing) of this beloved novel about the Baxter family in the Big Scrub of inland Florida, centering on the boy, Jody, & his relationship with the little fawn. Winner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize & basis for the 1946 film starring Gregory Peck & Jane Wyman. In 428 pages, with pen-and-ink illustrations throughout text by Edward Shenton. Covers with light soiling, tanning to front edge, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1st printing of this reissue, square 8vo, cloth backed boards, twelve tales illustrated in line by Nonny Hogrogian. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan covers stamped with a black and green design. 283 pages plus 4-page catalog in back. 21 b&w line illustrations by W.A. Rogers. No date on title page, copyright page states 1882. No other printings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Slim, square hardcover in color illustrated paper covered boards. Illustrated endpapers. 32 pages. Illustrated with color drawings. Pencil name on front fly leaf, covers with mild soil, paper chipped on spine. Otherwise clean. The charmingly illustrated escapades of Toby and Sue and Cinder (the cat) and Chalky (the little white dog).

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 176 pages. B&w illustrations by Paul Galdone. A young boy of the Louisiana Bayou wants to be hunter and fisherman like his father. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 335 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Lockwood. Review copy with laid in slip. Edgewear. Dust jacket with soiling, chipping, large chunk missing from top of spine, small chunk from bottom. Brodart cover. Rust residue from metal paperclip on half title page.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 2nd Ed., 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Second Edition stated, 10-5 L-U, (November 1945), the classic children's novel, 131 pages. Tan cloth binding with illustration in dark green and white on front cover. Garth Williams drawings. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st thus, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in red. 195 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Helene Carter, Great Puppet Theatre illustration on end papers in blue. Color illustrated title page and facing page, single page color illustrations between pages 60 and 61, 102 and 103, 126 and 127 and 176 and 177 plus many black and white illustrations. No date but appears to be 1930s. Mild shelf wear, spine faded otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial green cloth with 3-color and gilt decoration, 385 pages plus publisher's ads. Sic b&w plates by H.C. Edwards. Name, date on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, New World Publishing Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 158 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Red cloth cover boards, blue title on spine and designs on front cover board. Dust jacket price clipped. Original bookstore price tag on dust jacket front flap, some agewear to dust jacket (see image).

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth covers with gilt and 2-color decoration, 277 pages. Sixteen b&w plates by Warwick Reynolds. Front flap copy glued to front fly leaf. This is the story of Naju, fourth son of the great African king of Nuan who is sent out to find his way in the world. Spine darkened, clean copy.

Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with yellow lettering. 286 pages illustrated in b&w by Gordon Grant. Follows the popular The Half Deck, which he wrote in 1933. The Monarch, under Capt. McFarlane, leaves the Firth of Clyde for Africa, the Barbadoes, New Orleans, and back. War is declared while in Africa, and the ship tries to outrun a submarine. Small name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A gold Signed Cooy sticker is affixed to front. SIGNED BY BOYLE on a tipped-in page in front, T.C Boyle is an acclaimed author, winner of the Pen/Faulkner award and finalist for the National Book Award. Described as "both a suspenseful trip across America and a moving story about language, love and identity from one of America's most versatile and entertaining novelists" this story of a 33 year old deaf woman whose identity has been stolen is the closest thing to a thriller Boyle has written.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin/Ariel, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. color paste-down on front cover. Color illustrations by Chris Van Allsburg. Clean copy

Hardcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, six issues of the bi-monthly bound in tan cloth. Clean. Articles by and about Geoffrey Trease, Eric Kimmel, Children's Bookstores, Alvin Schwartz, M.E. Kerr, The Dillons, Mildred D. Taylor, Paula Fox, John Tunis, many more. Dozens of book reviews, ads.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 134 pages. When his cousin Katy is kidnapped at night by a Grabbly, Rupert enlists the aid of flying pirates and a kindly badger to rescue her from the Wizard of Castle Dread. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with color cover label, 209 pages. First published in 1921, this a 30s reprint with a F-B code on the copyright page. With 13 full-page illustrated plates-some black-and-white, some color, including frontispiece. Black-and-white tipped in illustration at beginning of Chapter 1. Other drawings scattered throughout. CLEAN COPY.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 9 in The Bedtime Story Book series (per the number on the spine). 192 pages, b&w drawings by Harrison Cady. Copyright 1944 but a later reprint. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, 12 issues bound in two volumes, black calf spines with gilt lettering, pebbled cloth over boards . 1056 pages. A collection of the best juvenile writing and illustration of the day. Includes Chuggins, the Youngest Hero with the Army by H. Irving Hancock; Goops by Gelett Burgess (a few parts); The Sole Survivors by George A. Henty (6 parts); much more. Clean copy, no library marks. Hinges cracked. Light scuffing to top and bottom of leather spines. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with a pictorial label on the front cover, 146 pages. B&w and 2-color illustrations by Neely McCoy. Rose, Dick and Jim Dandy run away on an adventure, wishing that they were at the circus. Dick just doesn't want to go to the photographer! Instead, they find an apple tree elevator, where they find a fairy who will take them away to the land of Up.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, reprint, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in red, 319 pages, color frontis, endpapers and b&w drawings by Lofting. Copyright page states 13th impression.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 8th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by David Levine. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 311 pages. Illustrated in b&w by David Small. Remainder mark to top edge otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st thus, 1953 , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, Illustrated in color and b&w by Schucker. This is the storybook version of The Black Stallion, aimed a younger readers. First thus with 1953 copyright date and 1.00 on inside front cover, No dust jacket issued. Sound but fragile copy, mild soil to covers, name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Lodestar / E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Drusie Valentini feels she is trapped on a merry-go-round, going nowhere. She doesn't fit in with the rest of her arty family: her extravagant puppeteer father, his gypsylike assistant Fey who moved in when her mother left; even her pesky brother Punch. At a party a boyfriend talked her into giving ends in disaster-and in getting sent to a strict boarding school. In a year where it seems that everyone is pulling her strings, Drusie is forced to come to terms with her life with the people she loves best-and with the person she is, and hopes to be. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige cloth with black stamping, 48 pages illustrated in b&w by Jay Yang. Clean copy.

NY, Beaufort Books, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Enroute to his grandparents in Vermont in search of some answers, a lonely teenage hitchiker meets Hannah who claims she is a witch. Hannah is dying and searching for her own special cure. They join forces, and Joey is suddenly swept into a dangerous and fantastic world of magic and miracles as they comb the silent New England countryside. 140 pages, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran and Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in black, illustrated in color and b&w by De Angeli. INSCRIBED BY DE ANGELI on the dedication page, dated 1966. No dust jacket. With his German family, Eli crosses the Atlantic on The Charming Nancy. From Philadelphia, oxen pull their wagon into Penn's Woods, where they make their new home in the Skippack area. Eli loves outdoor work and play, but Mom says he must go to school. Though Eli expects the teacher to be cross, Master Christopher Dock is kind, firm, and patient.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Griffith and Rowland Press, 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth covers stamped in white and dark blue. Story of survival based on a wreck in the China Sea of the Ketrel, a full-rigged ship bound from Liverpool to Yokohama, Japan. 360 pages, illustrated in b&w, one plate not present (the map on pg. 135). Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop Publishing, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black and gilt. 339 pages, b&w frontis. Bright copy with name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 230 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. B&w decorative illustrations by Ellen Raskin. Dust jacket with light tanning, price-clipped. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books , 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This copy SIGNED on title page, by Timberlake, with the inscription "Keep loving, keep fighting!/Amy Timberlake"). Pearl and brown boards w/silver spine lettering. A young girl unafraid to fight injustice finds herself in a battle against the richest woman in town. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Historical tale of a 16-year old during the Crusades. B&w illustrations by the author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and soiled dust jacket. 233 pages. Set in New England at the outskirts of a small town. Terrorists seeking the return of their homeland hijack a school bus. Story told from the perspectives of a hostage, a terrorist, the Army General involved in the rescue and his son, recruited as a go-between. Author also of youth classics 'The Chocolate War' and 'I am the Cheese'. Remainder stamp to bottom edge. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige cloth covers stamped in red with Suzette holding her fish catch on front cover. Stated first edition on copyright page. 208 pages, b&w illustrations by Lenski. Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in black and gilt. 163 pages plus publisher's ads. Eight b&w illustrations by W.L. Sheppard. Four stories about boy's adventure in the Civil War that originally ran in Harper's Young People. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with silver lettering on spine, decoration on cover. 121 pages, illustrated by De Angeli in b&w. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth stamped with gilt lettering and flower blossoms on front cover. 304 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. B&w illustrations by Jessie McDermot, frontis with tissue guard. Small price sticker to front fly leaf, otherwise bright and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 189 pages, illustrated in b&w by Erik Blegvad. Book Club Ed. Clean copy. By the author of the beloved "Borrowers" series, this book combines 2 of the author's earlier works (1943, 1957), "The Magic Bed-Knob" & "Bonfires and Broomsticks,'' into a single volume, magically illustrated by Erik Blegvad. A Book Club edition from 1971, this hardcover book has bright blue cloth-covered boards with black lettering to spine.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Joyce does not mind living near a garbage dump, except for the incessant teasing from the kids at school, but being different does not bother Mrs. Fish, the new school custodian, who turns out to be the one person who understands what it is like to be an outsider. Previously published in 1980 under the title "Mrs. Fish, Ape, and Me, The Dump Queen". Clean copy.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, chipped dust jacket. Based on the Harold Gray comic strip. Illustrated with comic book style art. When Annie and Sandy stopped in the little town of Butternut, a train robbery and an abandoned mine threaten to entangle the two of them in a mysterious maze of circumstances. Front hinge partially cracked, paper tanning. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Typical Malley - to avoid being shipped off to boarding school, she takes off with some guy she met online. Poor Richard - he knows his cousin's in trouble before she does. Wild Skink - he's a ragged, one-eyed ex-governor of Florida, and enough of a renegade to think he can track Malley down. With Richard riding shotgun, the unlikely pair scour the state, undaunted by blinding storms, crazed pigs, flying bullets and giant gators. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with black lettering, 231 pages. B&w illustrations by Erick Berry.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with pictorial cloth, 275 pages, b&w drawings by Jacob Bates Abbott. Midnight is a colt who was born wild and never tamed. His mother, Lady Ebony, belonged to Major Howard ran away to join the band of wild mares which the chestnut stallion was leading. Midnight learned a lot from his beautiful mother who sacrificed herself for the young stallion. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Company, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 issues bound in one volume, black pebbled cloth over boards, gilt lettering on spine. 526 pages, b&w illustrations. A collection of the best juvenile writing and illustration of the day. Clean copy, no library marks. Each issue of St. Nicholas includes stories, often by well-known authors, as well as dozens of charming illustrations, photos, riddles, poems, letters, and non-fiction articles written for young people. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Vanguard Press, 3rd pr., 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 204 pages. When 16 year old Catrin went for a short visit to Wales before settling down for work in London, she little suspected she would stay for the summer and longer because of a sick aunt. How she coped with the situation, became the custodian of an historic building, overcame the wariness of the villagers, participated in the Welsh national life, and found friendship and romance in the colorful, picturesque community.

Hardcover. NY, Walker and Co., 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth, b&w illustrations by Laura Lydecker. Short essays interspersed with poetry. No dust jacket.