Hardcover. NY, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped in black, 72 pages, illustrated in b&w by Nils Hogner. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Schocken Books, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket 128 pages, color illustrations by Michael Foreman.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a spine label, 192 pages, b&w drawings by Edward Ardizzone. Ex-lib with stamping, mild residue to endpapers.
NY, Burt/Blue Ribbon Books, reprint, circa 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, light green cloth with gilt & black decorated cover and spine labels. 258 pages. Four color plates by Charles Folkard, many b&w text drawings (not credited). Dust jacket chipped and worn. states translation by May M. Sweet, but title page gives M. A. Murray as translator. The mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. It is considered a canonical piece of children's literature and has inspired hundreds of new editions, stage plays, merchandising and movies, such as Walt Disney's iconic animated version and commonplace ideas such as a liar's long nose. No markings.
Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company, reprint, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt and black. Spine slightly cocked. Four b&w plates not credited. No date on title page, copyright page states 1890. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Alden was the best-selling Christian author of her time. Born in 1841, her first book, Helen Lester, was published in 1865. With that success, Isabella became a tireless writer of books and short stories that explained God's plan for salvation and reinforced Christian values. A talented writer, her inventive plots and wonderful dialog were featured in over 100 books, many of which were translated into different languages and sold around the world.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 227 pages. B&w illustrations by Victor Mays. Light blue cloth cover has fading around spine. Two teenage boys take a summer job along the Maine coast that turns into a mystery adventure. No markings.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. Color frontis and 8 b&w plates by George and Doris Hauman. The story of Deborah Owens and her adventures during the War of 1812 in a small Vermont town near the Canadian border, 272 pages. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Light shelf wear. Uncommon title.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , Reprint, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 431 pages. Black & whiite illust and color frontis and title page by F.D. Bedford. Some browning to end-papers. Front and spine of yellow cloth cover with black illust. Clear mylar dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 192 pages. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth with red and black design, 311 pages. Volume in the Motor Power Series for older boys. Previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Bonsall. An Early I CAN READ Book. Light marking on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 71 pages. Black & white illustrations by Jim McMullan, his first book. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Dust jacket price clipped. Creases, large tears, light soiling. Clear plastic protective cover.
Hardcover. NY, Whittlesey House, 4th pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket that's price-clipped. 184 pages illustrated by Lee Townsend. Another story of Toby Clark and his Shetland Pony on a New England Farm. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 114 pages. Illustrated with b&w drawings by Paul Galdone. In the days of King Arthur there stood a mighty oak tree within the walls of a castle. Peace reigned in the castle until the fearsome night when Lionel, longlost brother of Lord Weldon, returned to cause trouble and unhappiness. It was then that Shan, the son of Lord Weldon, took on the duties of a knight and hid the sword in the hollow of the giant oak. The days that followed were filled with adventures that tried the courage of the young boy. Shan was surprised by bearded robbers in the woods. He met noble knights in plumed helmets, and eventually he even made a trip to high-towered Camelot. His story is filled with the pageantry and color of England in King Arthur's time. It creates a vivid picture of the Knights of the Round Table and the wisdom of King Arthur himself.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. 214 pages. An angry young man uses the powers of an ancient cat cult to possess the children of a lethargic English village. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , Reprint, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 431 pages. Black & white illustrations and color frontis and title page by F.D. Bedford. Some browning to end-papers. Front and spine of gray cloth cover with black and red design. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with pastedown color label on front cover, 351 pages. Color frontispiece by Maria Kirk (repeated on the cover label). When Emily Starr becomes an orphan, her mother's estranged relatives are undecided over who should have the burden of raising her. Emily feels unwanted at New Moon Farm, but thankfully, she finds solace in her writing and forms a tight-knit friend group that promises to make life sweet again. The first book in the three part Emily series. A clean, bright copy of the scarce first printing. Copyright page with 1923, no other printings or dates.
Hardcover. NY/London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1st, 1925, Hardcover, gray cloth with blue design featuring a winged horse on the cover. Illustrations by Dugald Stewart Walker, with a color frontispiece and b&w drawings throughout the text and decorative endpapers of blue and white illustrations of a Centaur hunter and forest scene. Blue lettering on spine faded, inscription on half title in ink, another on ext blank page in pencil.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 16 in The Bedtime Story Book series (per the number on the spine). 192 pages, b&w drawings by Harrison Cady. Copyright 1942 but a later reprint. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Company, 2nd pr., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in very worn, chipped dust jacket with tape repairs, 241 pages, frontispiece by Edward Shenton. Novel based on the historic 1780 Indian raid on Royalton, in the White River Valley of Vermont. No markings.
Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 103 pages illustrated in b&w and color by Victor Ambrus. Geraldine McCaughrean retells the story for young adults of the crazed Captain Ahab and his relentless hunt for the great white whale. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Dover Publications, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 174 pages, with 25 full-page and 30 other drawings by Howard Pyle. A reprint of his 1888 book. Light wear to covers, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 14 color plates by N.C. Wyeth. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 40 pages illustrated in color by Berthe Amoss. Ex-lib with light stamp on front and rear fly leaf. Otherwise clean.
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, Ariel Books, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black. A teenage boy's adventure on a cattle drive from Texas to Dodge City in the 1870s. B&w illustrations by Tom Leamon (Tom Lea? Looks like his work). Light shelf wear, no dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st illust thus, 1921, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black, light blue and gilt. 185 pages. 12 color plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations throughout by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Front hinge cracked with spine cloth starting to separate, binding shaken but holding. All 12 color plates present, in excellent condition and without tears, creases or rubs. Covers edgeworn with bump to bottom corner of cover. Gilt faded on spine and front board, a bookplate on the front fly leaf. a lighter gutter crack between pages 22 and 23. Despite flaws, an attractive copy of the scarce American edition.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Good, Hardcover, red cloth, faded at spine. Stamped in red and black. 361 pages plus four pages of ads at the rear. 8vo. Silhouette frontis and 51 full page silhouettes by Warren Rockwell. The further largely autobiographical stories of the lad Plupy and his youth in the Exeter, NH of the 1860's. Rear hinge cracked, mild soil to front fly leaf, bookplate on inside front cover.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 310 pages. Emily knows she's going to be a great writer. She also knows that she and her childhood sweetheart, Teddy Kent, will conquer the world together.But when Teddy leaves home to pursue his goal to become an artist at the School of Design in Montreal, Emily's world collapses.With Teddy gone, Emily agrees to marry a man she doesn't love . as she tries to banish all thoughts of Teddy. In her heart, Emily must search for what being a writer really means. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st illust. thus, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with pictorial pastedown on the front cover. With 9 color plates by Maxfield Parrish, including the illustrated title page. 199 pages, two-color drawing on endpapers by Parrish. Spine has a 1/2" tear to top front edge, otherwise very good. No markings.
Hardcover. Birmingham AL, Reading Matter.Com, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Set in the South in the 1930s, Johnny and Will are identical twin boys who are separated at an early age. Will is part of a happy, well-off family near Birmingham, Ala. In Tennessee, Johnny is trying to survive neglect and abuse at the hands of his mean-spirted aunt. When Johnny sees a boy on a train who looks just like him, he is determined to meet him, despite every hurdle Aunt Min places in his path. Illustrated in b&w by Leanna Lesley.
Hardcover. New York, Rand McNally, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 255 pages. Foreword by Kermit Roosevelt. Color plate and black & white illustrations by Paul Bransom and Don Nelson. Green covers with gold lettering and paper color illustration on front cover. Light green top edge. Marking, soiling to cover. Internally clean, light yellowing at edges of pages.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st illustrated thus., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 117 pages. Color illustrations by Anthony Browne. Blue dust jacket shows very little wear.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, lavender cloth with black lettering and design. End papers show the Dana girls reading a letter printed in dark green. Nancy Drew titles listed to The Mystery of the Brass Bound Trunk. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston , Lothrop Publishing, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, turquoise cloth stamped in red and gilt, 306 pages. Twelve b&w illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Frontispiece piece protected by tissue guard. Unusually bright, clean copy. Light cornerwear to cover.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co, reprint, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. A fine adventure story for young people. Soon after their dragonship lands on the coast of Vineland, Erik--the youngest of the Vikings--is captured by a raiding party of Mengwi warriors. How heescapes with a friendly Algonquin Indian with whom he lives for many moons, and how he and a rescue party from the dragon-ship aid the Algonkins to defeat the Mengwi make a story full of excitement. 199 pages, b&w illustrations by Lorence Bjorklund. Text pages tanning, probably a book club edition.
Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Co., 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering. SIGNED BY DEAN on the half-title page. 246 pages, a adventure story featuring pirates by this Vermont author. Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Chicago, Monarch Book Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 166 pages. Sixteen color plates by Louis Betts. Yellow cloth cover with title and illustration on front. Spine very slightly darkened. Private library sticker on inner front cover, no other markings. First published by Herbert Stone in 1900, this edition undated but appears to be soon after as quality color plates appear to be from that printing. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 4th pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 370 pages. When fourteen-year-old Jen leaves her home in Massachusetts to visit her father, brother, and sister in Wales, she never expects anything but a normal winter break from school; until her brother finds the tuning key to Taliesin's harp. Author's first book, originally published in 1976. Small owner's stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Silver Newbery Medal emblem on the front panel.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a chipped, worn dust jacket, 93 pages illustrated in b&w by Richard Erdoes. Written By the well-known raconteur who was often seen on Jack Paar's Tonight Show. The tale is narrated by Pinky Whiskereeno, a laboratory mouse who's suddenly lured into the wild open world. Large child's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, six issues of the bi-monthly bound in tan cloth. Clean. Articles by and about Penelope Lively, Lawrence Yep, Mollie Hunter, Leonard Wibberley, Peter Spier, Katherine Paterson, Paula Fox, Virginia Hamilton, Ellen Raskin, Margaret Hodges, many others. Dozens of book reviews, ads.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton Children's Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 170 pages with b&w drawings by George. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. All numbers including 1 on copyright page. A like-new signed copy of the sequel to the Newbery Honor-winning, My Side of the Mountain. This time, Sam must save both his younger sister and his trusty falcon, Frightful. Dust jacket art by Ted Rand.
Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green, 1st US, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with dark green lettering and decoration, 151 pages. Four 2-color plates, endpapers design and b&w text drawings by James Reid. The story of a polar bear. Mild shelf wear.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY STONE WITH A SKETCH OF A FISH JUMPING OVER THE MOON on the front fly leaf. Unable to afford dance lessons, Fiona struggles to develop her skills while caring for her emotionally detached sister and longing for her family to heal from a past tragedy. 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. 3 in The Smiling Pool Series (per the number on the spine). 206 pages, b&w drawings by Harrison Cady. Copyright 1926 but a later reprint. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, 1st illust. thus, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth pictorially stamped in color and gilt, top edge gilt. Juvenile classic illustrated with 8 color plates and endpapers drawing by George Wharton Edwards. 380 pages, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Century Company, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes. 12 issues bound in hardcovers, black calf spines with gilt lettering. 960 pages. The top juvenile writers and artists of the day. These issues include stories about tennis, futuristic tricycles and choosing an occupation; also biographies of classical composers such as Beethoven, Bach and Wagner by Agatha Tunis. Includes writings by Frank R. Stockton, Marion Satterlee, George J. Manson and many others. Also the original serialization of Davy and the Goblin by Charles Carryl, a "delightful Victorian story of how Davy. who didn't believe in fairies, was taken for a Believing Voyage by a coal-eating goblin in a grandfather clock." Clean, tight condition. No library markings. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co./Junior Literary Guild, BC Ed., 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, orange-yellow cloth with black stamping, in a very worn, torn dust jacket. 278 pages with line drawings by Ruth Holbrook. After two weeks of camping in a tent by the lake, Emily finds an arrowhead and becomes a real heroine when danger threatens. Endpapers map in green by Holbrook. Clean copy.
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