Softcover. New Haven CT, S. Babcock, reprint, 1845, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, 4 1/2 X 5 1/2", illustrated with b&w engravings. Forward by author dated 1845, noting that this book is a shorter version of a "somewhat larger book" printed several years earlier (1832). Wrapper worn with red design and lettering: "Stories About Whale Catching/Toils and Perils of Whalers". Yellow endpapers. Half of paper on spine missing, light foxing and minor staining to several pages.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1934, 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 Password to Larkspur Lane. Name on inside front cover. Clean, bright 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. New York, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover New in new dust jacket. 326 pages. Quarter bound in cloth over paper covered boards. First edition, second printing. SIGNED on the title page by the author. An exceptional copy of a classic.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 184 pages.The rear panel of the jacket quotes reviews of Stuart Little before concluding with the publisher's name on two lines. Original light beige cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black and blue, blue and white spider web-patterned endpapers. 47 charming black and white illustrations by Garth Williams. No First Edition or publisher's code on copyright page, so assumed a very early reprint. Clean copy.
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, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 9th pr., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 392 pages, b&w drawings by Pamela Bianco. A lovely collection of stories and poems about the springtime holiday with charming b&w line drawings by the splendid Bianco.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. There is some light scribbling on cover of book (hidden by the dust jacket) and rear bottom of dj. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with edgewear, 95 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Paul Geiger. A fast-moving mystery for young adults by a Newbery Honor winner. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, NJ, Garden City Publishing Co., 1st Edition, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 63 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout by Shinn. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear. Decorated cover boards and endpapers. Pages clean, pages and edges have a touch of tanning from age, but otherwise unmarked. Binding good. Spine straight. In this beautiful book are collected all the outstanding "Christmas" passages from Dickens' writings, accompanied by Shinn's 12 superb full color drawings, as well a many imaginative and characteristic black and white sketches.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth with green stamping, 57 pages illustrated in b&w by Lynd Ward.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st Ed., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with dark blue lettering and decoration, 235 pages. Mary Shepard's map of Miss Poppins' "Long Walk" and b&w drawings throughout by Shepard. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. McLelland and Stewart, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket. Blue cloth with black lettering, 208 pages, b&w photo illustrations. Girl's adventure story set among the Eskimos of Arctic Canada. Features Ginnie, who drives her team of huskies as well as any man. 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. 13 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. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Crocker & Brewster, 1st, 1839, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed design to black cloth, gilt title on spine. Engraved frontis of sailing ships, has original tissue guard. This title not part of a series, but a "stand alone' title. (Abbott also wrote the 'Rollo' series for children.) 180 pages. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 13th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. light gray cloth with red stamping, 239 pages. Color frontis and b&w illustrations by Helen Sewell and Mildred Boyle. With 10/7 Thirteenth Edition D-V on copyright page. Previous owner's bookplate, mild residue on front endpapers, otherwise clean. Nice early reprint of this classic.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st thus, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 356 pages. Color and b&w illustrations by Richard Powers. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, A.L. Burt, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with dark blue lettering on the spine. 145 pages, b&w photos from the movie. Inscription on the half-title page otherwise a clean copy.
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.
Softcover. Syracuse NY, Syracuse University Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 270 pages. Originally published in 1975. The classic tale of a young man attempts to claim ownership of an old barn rumored to contain a hidden treasure. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Franklin Watts, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, colorful wraparound dust jacket, price-clipped. 192 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Charles Mozley.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Hardcover, pastel peach cloth stamped in dark blue. 175 pages, illustrated with charming b&w drawings by Flavia Gag. Evans' first story about white folks full of the spirit of a vanished era. 12 yr old Emma Belle is in a small Tennessee town in 1881 As the undisputed leader of her two younger sisters she must figure out how to get to Kinfolks Meeting which their mother has opposed. Spine has a small 3/4" tear, otherwise sound, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 3rd pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by Lawson. The hard winter that Analdas, the old Rabbit, prophesies comes to pass in more ways than one for the dwellers of Rabbit Hill when the "Folk" go away and leave a neglectful Caretaker with a mean Dog in charge. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. Story based on the popular radio series, Captain Midnight. World War II adventure novel for young adults, set on a hidden air force base in the South Pacific. Paper tanning, name on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 4th pr., 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 290 pages. Black & white illustrations by Louis Slobodkin. Light wear to top & bottom of spine, edgewear. Nice reading copy.
Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial cloth in a matching bright dust jacket. 223 pages with b&w drawings by Victor Ambrus. Discard stamp to front and rear endpapers but otherwise a clean, tight copy.
NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, circa 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a chunk gone from top of spine, 365 pages. First published in 1911 this reprint is from mid-40s with Wartime notation on title page. Set on Prince Edward Island, Sara Stanley has the ability to delight and thrill listeners with her tales, many interwoven in this story. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original blue cloth, spine lettered gilt, pictorial cover plate in color, all edges gilt. 10 full page plates in 3-colors as well as title page and smaller illustrations by Florence E. Storer. Exceptional condition, clean and bright copy.
Hardcover. New York , Century Co., reprint, 1907, Book: Good, 236 pages, b&w line illustrations by Reginald Birch (not credited). Green cloth with gilt, silver and plum decoration. Previous owner's decorative bookplate on front fly leaf otherwise clean with light foxing. Gutter crack on page 48.
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. New York, Aladdin Books, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 174 pages. Black & white illustrations by Frederick T. Chapman. Short tears to rear fly leaf. Previous owner's signature and stamp front endpaper. Light soil to covers. Green top edge. Corners bumped. Two boys' adventures trying to obtain the bicycles they dream about.
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. NY, Dutton's Children's Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 271 pages. Wrap-around jacket art by Trina Schart Hyman. Lucian, a young man of ancient Greece's Arkadia, embarks on a classical quest of danger, daring, and romance and encounters a remarkable cast of heroes, poets, seamen, horsemen, wise women, kings, and peasants. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 271 page, blue cloth covers with white lettering on spine. SIGNED BY BEST on the front fly leaf. Stated first printing. A novel set in upstate New York in the days of land grants and frontier hardship. And the story of a beautiful young woman so swaggering-proud of herself and uncertain of her desire to grow to womanhood. Minor shelf wear, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st , 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 211 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Deckled edges. Blue cloth cover boards, white title on spine and design on front cover. Dust jacket has extensive agewear, wrapped in clear plastic mylar for protection. Tanning from age to pages and edges, doesn't affect text or illustrations.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth boards decorated in darker green and gilt on cover and gilt on spine, top edges gilt, 105 pages. Forty-five children's tales from the prolific Boston author. Light residue to inside rear cover otherwise bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st US, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a faded spine. 75 pages with monotone illustrations throughout from the engravings of Thomas Bewick .".an allegorical tale based on the old tradition that on Christmas night the animals in the stable -- the ass, the cow, the sheep and the dove --have the power of human speech and thus are able to tell one another of the gifts they have given to the Child." By the author of the Mary Poppins books. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, Brodarted dust jacket whose flaps have been glued to the covers. B&w illustrations by Fermin Rocker. Ex-lib with pocket in rear. Interior clean.
Hardcover. London, Thomas Nelson, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth with gilt lettering, design on spine. 216 pages plus publisher's catalog in rear. Color frontis. and 11 b&w illustrations by Rowland Hilder. Previous owner's inscription to front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Mild wear to spine cloth. This is the more elusive first printing with the color plate in front, no dust jacket.
New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly chipped dust jacket. 64 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Margot Tomes. A tale of the King's birthday & the marzipan shop on the narrowest lane in England.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Label on spine chipped. Red covers with light fading on spine. Clean, tight copy. Frayed on top spine material.
Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman, 1st thus, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards with Julie Andrews on the cover. This is an altered version of the famous series by P.L. Travers based on the Disney motion picture. Illustrate in b&w, 4 color spreads. Clean copy.
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, The Century Co., 1st, 1885-86, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 12 issues bound in one volume, dark green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 960 pages. A collection of the best juvenile writing and illustration of the day. The premier children's magazine in America at this time, offering a mix of fiction (some of it fantastic), articles, humor and lavish illustrations. Contributors include Palmer Cox, Laura E. Richards, E. P. Roe, J. T. Trowbridge, Alice May, Edward Eggleston, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Daniel C. Beard, and many others. Includes the debut of Burnett's "Little Lord Fauntleroy," which appeared for the first time in St. Nicholas. Clean copy, no library marks. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st US, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in matching dust jacket with light wear. 95 pages with b&w illustrations by Haris Petie. A charming tale set on the Virgin Island of St. John. Fairly clean ex-lib with stamping to endpapers.
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, Scholastic, BC Ed., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Newbery Medal sticker on front. 152 pages. A nice Book Club reprint of the Newbery winner. Clean.
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