Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, unclipped dust jacket, 154 pages. Novel for young readers about a boy who needs to asserts himself to his older, bossy brothers. Clean copy.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 256 pages. The award-winning young adult author gives us his personal story. Clean copy.
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, Junior Literary Guild, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth with dark brown lettering, 143 pages. B&w illustrations by Bacon. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan boards with a black cloth spine and a color illustration paste-down on front cover. K-E code on copyright page. 247 pages. Color and black and white illustrated plates throughout, all present as called for. A collection of tales, interweaving historical information, on various pirates and other notorious figures in the Spanish Main (Caribbean). Includes chapters on Henry Morgan, Blackbeard, Captain Kidd and others. Mild edgewear to covers, light water stain to rear board, gilt lettering on spine faded, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y Crowell, 1st thus, 1909, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth with 3-color decoration to cover, 181 pages. Eight 2-color illustrations, plus illustrated title page, artist not credited. Covers worn, spine faded, hinges cracked, name on front fly leaf. Contents clean. Uncommon edition.
Softcover. Boston, The Horn Book, Inc, 1942, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, b&w illustrations, ads, reviews. Contains "Jack Darby on Writing Books for Children" by Walter D. Edmonds, Robert McCloskey's Caldecott acceptance speech, Of Rachel Field and Letters by Bertha Mahony, other articles on Field. Worn copy with wrinkling to pages.
Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton , 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan and blue cloth boards stamped in brown., 255 pages. B&w illustrations by John Schoenherr. A nice copy of Daniel P. Mannix's story of a long-running duel between a fox and a hound. This intense study of animal habits, winner of the 1967 Dutton Animal Book Award, was later adapted by Disney into a heartwarming animated film. Stated First Edition. No dust jacket, light soiling to covers, otherwise a clean, tight 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, Atheneum , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, In the early 1950s, Katie Takeshima and her family live in Iowa, where her parents own a Japanese supermarket. When the store goes out of business in 1956, the family moves from Iowa to an apartment in Georgia, where Katie's parents work at a chicken hatchery with other Japanese families. Hardcover, 244 pages. Newbery Award winner. Very good pictorial dust jacket without award medal present, unclipped. SIGNED NEWBERY AWARD BOOKMARK ENCLOSED signed "Cynthia".
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 181 pages. Hardcover. B/w frontispiece with tissue guard, and illustrations (plates) throughout. Brown cover boards (light agewear) with black design on front cover board and spine. No dust jacket. Some tanning and smudges to pages and edges from age. In very good condition. Original owner's inscription on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 235 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has heavy wear to edges, and light chipping and tears to spine. Covered with plastic. Cover boards clean and bright with minimal wear to edges. Pages darkened, previous owner's name on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 3rd pr., 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 168 pages. Blue boards are solid with silhouette of a boy and girl in a canoe; illustrated in b&w by Stephen Voorhies who did the illustrated map on the endpapers. When Ann Jackman was fourteen and her brother Philip eleven, their father decided to become a fur trapper, so the whole family moved to northern Ontario, near a Hudson Bay Post, and built themselves a home. There were many exciting new things for the Jackmans to learn: building a log cabin, making furniture, paddling canoes, the habits of animals, and the language and customs of the Indians.
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. Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company, reprint, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in gilt and dark brown. Four b&w plates not credited. This novel set in the late nineteenth century provides heartwarming tales of faith and love. Gossip, family failures, and errors in judgment threaten the lives of Ralph Bramlett and Estelle Douglass, but hope is found in the darkest of times. No date on title page, copyright page states 1896. Part of a uniform set so assumed a reprint. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
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. 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. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 142 pages; color plates by Yvonne Gilbert and black and white illustrations by Yvonne Gilbert. 19 folk tales from across the world. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1889, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige color cloth stamped in dark brown and gilt with two boys riding the rapids in a canoe. Four b&w plates plus map. Mild wear to top and bottom of spine otherwise clean.
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. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st thus, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial green cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout, 128 pages. Other stories include Coaly-Bay: The Outlaw Horse and Way-Atcha: The Coon Raccoon of Kilder Creek. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, six issues of the bi-monthly bound in tan cloth. Clean. Top edge gilt. Articles by and about Eric Kimmel, Margaret Hodges, Natalie Babbitt, Margot Zemach, Penelope Farmer, Virginia Hamilton, Isaac Bashevis Singer, many more. 744 pages. Dozens of book reviews, ads.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Co., reprint, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 325 pages plus publisher's ads, 5 b&w plates. Fully bound in forest green. Text and picture on front cover. Black and gilt decorated spine. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A young Jewish girl from a middle-class Russian family recalls the events of her childhood, both good and bad, in a small village just before the Revolution of 1917. Though classed as fiction, this reads more like a vivid memoir of the author's childhood. B&w drawings by Gennady Schikarioff.
Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with title, drawing of a deer. Contains color and b&w illustrations by Harrison Cady. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 2 in The Smiling Pool Series (per the number on the spine). 198 pages, b&w drawings by Harrison Cady. Copyright 1925 but a later reprint. Dust jacket with sort edge tears. Clean copy.
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. 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.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 51 pages illustrated in b&w by John O'Brien. Clean copy.
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.
Hardcover. London, J.M. Dent, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a faded spine, 246 pages. Four color plates plus numerous b&w drawings by Rosalie K. Fry. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with wrap-around art by Trina Schart Hyman. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards, 46 pages illustrated in color by Ronald Himler. Despite her grandfather's reassurances, Annie worries about the coming branding of her own pet calf, Doodle, and she is determined to stand by Doodle all the way. Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Softcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled, b&w illustrations. Reviews of current children's book, articles on their creators, publisher's ads. Articles include: Robert Lawson's America (Part 2), Realism Plus Fantasy Equals Magic by Roger Drury, Reviewer's Railments by Aidan Chambers. 127 pages. Light stamp to cover, interior bright and clean.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press., 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in red cloth, gilt spine title on a black background, Blind-stamped boat illustration on cover, pictorial endpapers. 200 pages, line drawings by the author. A tale of Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. Spine cloth faded, mild spotting. Otherwise a bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound in green cloth with dark blue design and lettering, 308 pages. Black & white illustrations by Manning de V. Lee. Light soiling to endpapers, covers. Blue top edge. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scribners, Reprint, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 351 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Full color illustrations by Nancy Barnhart. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Darkening to cloth spine. Titles on spine, and cover in gilt. Gutter cracked onpages 94/95.
Hardcover. NY, McClure Phillips, 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 329 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white illust. by F.Y. Cory. Bright decorated green boards with gilt lettering. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages illustrated in color by Michael Hague. INSCRIBED BY HAGUE WITH AN INK SKETCH OF A FAIRY SITTING ON A TOADSTOOL on the title page. Minor wear to dust jacket, yellowing a bit at edges.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum Books, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. A reprint of the classic Scribner's edition from 1911 featuring all 14 of Wyeth's color plates.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovitch, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A nine-year-old girl recounts the changes in her family's life after a young Navajo girl comes to stay with them. Ex-lib with light stamping, endpapers have scarring.
Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages illustrated in b&w by John Kaufmann. The story is beautifully written by an author who knows and understands the habits and life of Canada geese. The illustrations are absolutely lovely with careful detail for each goose pictured. Light spottig to edge of text block, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black, no dust jacket. Second mystery "The Curious Case of Callista" begins on page 133, b&w illustrations by Genevieve Foster. Front cover has fading/discoloration to green cloth, inside clean.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, circa 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, green cloth in a dust jacket that has a big chunk gone from front panel, 369 pages. First published in 1913 this reprint is from mid-40s with Wartime notation on title page. No marking, clean, tight copy.
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