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, 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, 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. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 12 issues bound in one volume, dark green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 1070 pages. A collection of the best juvenile writing and illustration of the day. Clean copy, no library marks. Hinge crack at rear of volume.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 10th pr., 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, ex-lib with worn dust jacket. Normal stamping, residue to endpapers. Interior clean. b&w drawings by Angelo. Growing up in a well-to-do family with strict rules and routines can be tough for a ten-year-old girl who only wants to roller skate. But when Lucinda Wyman's parents go overseas on a trip to Italy and leave her behind in the care of Miss Peters and Miss Nettie in New York City, she suddenly gets all the freedom she wants! Lucinda zips around New York on her roller skates, meeting tons of new friends and having new adventures every day. But Lucinda has no idea what new experiences the city will show her.... Some of which will change her life forever.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic/ Michael Di Capua, 2nd pr., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 128 pages, b&w illustrations by Babbitt. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Violet cloth stamped in blue, 240 pages. No date but appears to be 1940s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with art by Barry Moser. Book Club Edition, clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 11th pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a Coretta Scott King Award sticker on front. Illustrated in b&w and color by Jerry Pinkney.
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, Charles Scribners Sons, reprint, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, pictorial color paste-done on front cover. 416 pages, 9 color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. Discoloration to rear board, small gouge to bottom corner of pages 140-159, not affecting text or plates. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black. 243 pages with b&w illustrations by Ralph Ray. The story of three kids Nick 9, Penny 13, brother and sister,who run away from the orphanage, and Ben 15, who owns the sloop on which they hide. Ben's uncle is about to sell the boat because Ben's father has been long missing in action and belived dead. Ben escapes with the orphans on the sloop and the adventure begins. Endpapers map, clean copy, no dust jacket.
Softcover. Boston, The Horn Book, Inc, 1970, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, b&w illustrations, ads, reviews. Articles include No Laughter in Heaven by Lloyd Alexander, Three Times Lonely: The Plight of the Mexican Child in the American Southwest, The Art of Elizabeth Enright, others. Light stamp to front wrapper, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 283 pages, blue cloth stamped with gilt design on front cover and gilt title on spine. Color endpapers, 6 color plates with tissue guards and additional b&w drawings by Rowland Hilder. An unusual fantasy/adventure by the English novelist. "...surreal logic as cats talk, witches fly, foxes plot against gamekeepers, model ships sail away with a water-rat captain and a hundred other odd and wonderful things, while Kay tries to discover the fate of his great-grandfather's lost treasure".... Front hinge tender, light fraying to top of cloth spine. Otherwise a bright, clean copy.
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. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st illustrated thus, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 365 pages. Edited by Virginia Kirkus. Black & white illustrations and color frontispiece by Henry C. Pitz. Corners bumped. Spine and corners rubbed. Spine faded. Soiling to covers. Gutter cracked on pg 177 and 272.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black, white and gilt design on front cover and spine. 191 pages, plus publisher's ads in rear. 12 b&w plates by Reginald Birch. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. US, Candlewick, 3rd printing, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 231 pages, illustrated in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Winner of 2014 Newbery Medal.
Hardcover. New York, Wise-Parslow Company, reprint, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light chipping to cover edges. Corners frayed. Previous owner's markings on front end paper. Color illustrations by author. Light soil.
Hardcover. NY, Lodestar / E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT on front fly leaf. 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 forcd 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, 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, Atheneum, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Escaping into the fantasy world of the movies, where fathers don't disappear, mothers have no secrets, and little brothers don't cry over missing stuffed animals, twelve-year-old Ruby Miller, while performing community service for a crime she didn't commit, is forced to face the reality of her life. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Macrae Smith Company, 1st thus, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with bright blue, green and gilt design to front cover and spine. Romance of America's History series. Stated First Edition. Includes 8 color plates by N.C. Wyeth, Frank E. Schoonover, Stanley Arthurs and Charles Hargens. Many b&w drawings in text by various artists. Includes chapters by Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Jack London, J.F. Cooper, et al. Woodcut engraved endpapers, color frontis, 506 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. San Antonio TX, The Naylor Company, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A story of a family and their struggle to survive during a harsh drought in Atascosa County, Texas. Several small b&w drawings at chapter headings. Rear fly leaf with residue where envelope was removed. No other library ttraces. name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Young Readers, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 124 pages illustrated in b& w and color by Jon Klassen. Badger is a quiet, solitary geologist intent on his important rock work. Skunk is an outgoing, friendly, unwelcome new roommate. They have nothing in common. Aunt Lula must have been crazy to suggest it-this is never going to work out. But, the more time they spend together, the more they learn about each other. Maybe they have more in common than they realized, and maybe being roommates is just what they both needed. And who knew chickens were such conversationalists and story lovers? In a classic odd-couple pairing, Badger and Skunk show how opposites attract and that making friends means opening yourself up to possibilities.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton/Lodestar, 5th pr, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY PATERSON on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale gray cloth stamped in blue, 217 pages. Blue endpapers, frontis. and 9 b&w illustrations by Armstrong Sperry. A story about the building of Old Ironsides. Name on front fly leaf and half title page. Interior tight and clean.
Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards, illustrated in color by Robinson. Cover design by Phoebe Erickson, includes five stories-The Shy Little Horse, The Rabbits' Revenge, The Polite Little Polar Bear, The Mischievous Monkey, and The Good Little Bad Little Pig. Three stories by Brown. Clean copy.
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. Racine WI, Whitman, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear, light chipping. Autry and his horse Champ find plenty of grave trouble brewing as soon as they get into the redwood country to investigate a gang pirating timber in the forests along the Chicapoo River. B&w drawings by Erwin Hess. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 186 pages. Earl Pryor is the biggest thirteen-year-old anyone ever saw. He's taller than a lot of grown-ups. He's got a hairy chest. He shaves. High school kids ask him to buy them beer. Everyone thinks Earl's so tough, such a troublemaker, such a man. They come to him looking for a fight. And Earl will fight them. But he's not so tough: He loves his mom, loves his dad. Still, a man's got to take care of himself. He's got to make people respect him. If Earl's dad has taught him anything, he's taught him that. When Earl gets suspended from school for a week for fighting, he figures he'll fill up the days somehow. But a lot can happen in a week. His family is falling apart. Everything he counted on is falling apart, and Earl's still learning what it really means to be a man. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Century Company, 1st, 1883-84, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 volumes. 12 issues bound in hardcovers, black calf spines with gilt lettering. 984 pages. The top juvenile writers and artists of the day. 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. These issues include several stories by Louisa May Alcott and Frank R. Stockton. Also with offerings by Margaret Johnson, Frederic Palmer, Frank M. Bicknell and many others; "conducted" (edited) by noted author Mary Mapes Dodge. This delightful collection of magazines provides an insight into the way of life in the US early in the latter half of the 19th Century. Clean, tight condition. No library markings. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 8 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. Edgewear to dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, J M Dent and Sons, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 191 pages, color frontis, endpaper map and b&w drawings by Marcia Lane Foster. Some charming and ordinary youngsters visit an aunt in Beirut, where the general mystery of the Middle East is heightened by ghost music, defective servants, hostile villagers, and a few unsavory characters. Hinges cracked, name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy
Hardcover. NY, The Macmillan Company, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, rose-color cloth with black lettering to front cover and spine. B&w illustrations by Kate Seredy. A nice vintage copy (published November 1936) of this Newbery-winning classic. Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother's dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most of the neighbors. Caddie is brave, and her story is special because it's based on the life and memories of Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother, the real Caddie Woodlawn. Her spirit and sense of fun have made this book a classic that readers have taken to their hearts for more than seventy years. Clean copy with a mild slant, fading to spine.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in b&w by Marcia Sewall.
Hardcover. Boston , Little Brown, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w by Nonny Hogrogian. Ex-lib with small spine label and envelope reside on rear endpapers. Otherwise clean.
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, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2nd pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards with tan cloth spine. 24 pages illustrated in color by Scott Cook. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Romantic tale about family & tribal devotion, which captures the spirit of the gypsy people. Rich, classical paintings complement this captivating tale. Savina, the Gypsy dancer, captivates everyone with her remarkable dancing. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. The Camp Fire Girls is a series of preteen fiction novels written by various authors from 1912 into the 1930s. Paper tanning, binding firm, pencil inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Mendota IL, The Wayside Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. A superb, anecdotal and personal (Gardner was a great Alger collector) biography of Alger and history of the Alger juveniles, with superb color plates of rare Alger items and a descriptive bibliography. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Reprint, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription on title page. Black & white illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Full color dust jacket with light wear, minor chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. Boston, Ginn & Co, 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages. Bookseller's label on rear end paper. Black & white illustrations by Charles Copeland and color frontispiece. Green cloth covers with gold decoration and lettering. Rubbing to spine and corners. No dust jacket. Gilt top edge.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrations before each story by Richard Egieski. Light edge wear.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. Color frontispiece, b&w illustrations by Henry Pitz. Previous owner's inscription, name on half-title page. "Edward Morrell suddenly steps from the freshman class at Harvard into the interior of Brazil where, he has heard, a young man may earn money provided he has courage. A jealous rancher intends to destroy the foreigner's lumber business, killing if necessary the owner and young Morrell"
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