Children's Fiction

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illust. with black & white line drawings by Elizabeth Montgomery. 77 pges. Browning to front and back end-papers. Dust jacket with wear to corners, spine edges. Dust jacket with color illustration on cover. Scarce.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 118 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B/w illustrations by Tomi Ungerer. Ex-lib with minor stamping, envelope residue on rear end paper.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 152 pages. Hardcover. Illustrations by Lynd Ward. Dust jacket price-clipped and slightly worn, chipped with small chunk missing from front cover. Internally very good.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 2nd pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 180 pages. Illustrated with 39 grayscale drawings by the author. Ranch life during a severe drought. Stated second printing, $2.50 flap price. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran , 1st, 1941`, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 277 pages. Black & white drawings by Armstrong Sperry. Bright dust jacket with closed tears to top and bottom edges, spine edgewear.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott & Co., 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Profusely illust. with sketches and pictures by Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts. A Woodcraft Series. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket with narrow portion of top missing, Large chunk gone from top and bottom back cover. Same two-color illustration on book cover and dust jacket front.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 116 pages. Minor edgewear, small closed tear.

Hardcover. New York , Walker & Co., 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 218 pages, b&w illustrations by the author. INSCRIBED BY HANSEN on the title page. Small ink smudge on front fly leaf otherwise like new in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 pages, hardcover, like new copy of this Newbery Award Winner for 2006. First printing of the first edition with no medal sticker on cover.

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 255 pages, b&w illustrations by John R. Neill. Light blue cloth cover with color pictorial paste-down. This was one of Ruth Plumly Johnson's contributions to the Oz canon and is a first printing. Cover title in silver, drawing of Mandy on spine. Books published after 1936 lacked color plates except for the cover. Previous owner's signature on half-title page. Endpaper drawings neatly colored in at both ends. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 217 pages. 60 black & white illustrations by H.A. Ogden. Bright gilt decorated cover with 3-color decoration. Previous owner's inscription on prelim page. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 266 pages, b&w illustrations and 12 color plates by John R. Neill. Maroon cloth cover with color pictorial paste-down. This is a second printing from 1923 with all 12 color plates and b&w endpapers illustration. Previous owner's bookplate on half title page. Short tear to top of spine at rear edge, cover plate with light rubbing, mild soil.

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 313 pages, b&w illustrations and 12 color plates by John R. Neill. Aqua blue cloth cover with color pictorial paste-down. This is an early 1920s printing with all 12 color plates and b&w endpapers illustration. Previous owner's bookplate on half title page. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing, 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cream color cloth stamped in black with a color paste-down illustration on cover. Color frontispiece, 4 b&w plates by Ralph Carlyle Prather. Worn copy, previous owners notation on prelim page.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY HOWE on title page. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 298 pages, b&w illustrations and 12 color plates by John R. Neill. Blue cloth covers with color pictorial paste-down. This was one of Ruth Plumly Johnson's contributions to the Oz canon and is a first printing with all 12 color plates, end papers illustration, edges tinted yellow. The rear cover cloth has some light wrinkling. Bookplate on half-title page, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1st, 1913, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 340 pages plus 5 page addenda in rear. Blue cloth with the title in black and a vignette of Woozy in black and red on the spine, and the title and an illustration of Scraps in red, black and yellow on the front board. Illustrated profusely in b&w and color by John R. Neill, including color illustrated endpapers. Both hinges, front and rear, cracked. Previous owner's bookplate on half title page. There is a clear tape repair to front fly leaf, and the cloth spine at one time was loose, but now reglued. A fair copy only but clean and attractive internally.

Hardcover. Boston, Godine, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrations by Stephen Ryan, 1st pub in UK in 1978. Spine faded, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Doubleday Doran and Co., reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 305 pages, dark green cloth with gilt lettering on cover with a black decoration of a sailing boat. This is the uncommon 1928 reprint, notable for the 35 b&w illustrated plates by different artists but not credited. The chapter decorations are by John Lockwood Kipling. The book is square and clean, the spine gilt has faded, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 190 pages. Frontis illustration loose but present. Illustration and gold embossed title on cover. Some discoloration to spine, otherwise good. Black & white Illustrations by J.O.B.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 272 pages. Black & white illustrations and frontispiece with tissue-guard by F. Y Cory. Spine slightly cocked. Soiling to covers. Light rubbing to spine, corners.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing Co., 1st , 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Six black & white plates by F.A. Carter. Some spotting to covers otherwise very good internally.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages, Dust jacket & fontispiece illustration by Jerry Pickney. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 108 pages. Black & white illustrations by Arnold Lobel. Dust jacket shows very minor wear and fading.

Hardcover. New York, Federal Book Company , reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 332 pages, 5 b&w plates. Green cloth covers with orange, black design and gilt title on spine. Color illustration on cover label. No year given, appears to be circa 1900. Bright, clean copy.

NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 237 pages, illustrated with b&w photos depicting rural life. Excellent condition in a bright dust jacket that has only a 3/4 inch chip to rear panel. Slight slant to spine.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Autobiography by the author (aka Burt L. Standish) of the highly successful Frank and Dick Merriwell stories. Black & white illustrations, 331 pages. Dust jacket with light wear.

New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 150 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Leslie W. Lee. Illustrated endpapers. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Light soiling to endpapers. Corners rubbed. Dust jacket with chipping, soiling. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs & Company, reprint, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. 24 color illustrations by Tony Sarg. Previous owner named in front endpages. Spine faded, cover shows minor wear and discoloration otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 245 pages. Cloth boards. Dust jacket shows minor wear at top of spine. '1968 Honor Book' sticker on cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Dodge Publishing Co., na, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 435 pages, color frontispiece and title page, 130 line illustrations. Bright blue cloth covers with gilt, red and white design. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Jr. Literary Guild/Winston, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Blue cloth with black drawing, lettering.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in blue cloth with gilt decoration. Originally published in 1913. Line drawings throughout by Thomas Fogarty. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown otherwise very good condition.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original decorated two-part blue and mustard cloth, front and rear covers stamped in black, spine panel stamped in gold. 254 pages, b&w illustrations by W.A. Rogers. Boys' fiction set in New York City of a hunt for gold coins stolen during the American Revolution. Mild soil to covers, no markings

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, D. Van Nostrand, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 107 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in black & white by Caswell. INSCRIBED BY CASWELL on front fly leaf. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 265 pages. Brick-red cloth with black decoration, color and b/w plates by Wilfred Jones. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page, otherwise clean.

Chicago, Albert Whitman & Company, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 246 pages. Three-color and b/w illustrations by Harve Stein. Minor wear to dust jacket edges other wise very good. A young adult novel about coal mining in Illinois in the early 1890s.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in salmon colored cloth stamped in gilt. Covers with mild soil, spine, gilt faded. 272 pages. Illustrated throughout in 2-colors by Lynd Ward. Interior clean, no markings.

Hardcover. New York , The Viking Press , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 83 pages, black & white drawings by David Hockney. Dust jacket cover with faint soiling, otherwise a very good copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Margaret Bloy Graham. Some faint areas of soiling on front cover. Pages are clean, unmarked.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with cat on cover and lettering on spine in dark blue. Another in her series on the Mitchell family. Scarce in the hardcover first U.S, printing. Previous owner's name on first page, otherwise clean. Lacks dust wrapper.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, 1877, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, 194 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Illustrated with b&w line plates by Swain. Binding a bit worn. An attractive later printing of the popular English novelist's 1874 bestseller. Previous owner's name on blank pelim page.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages, b&w illustrations by author. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 102 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white woodcuts at beginning of each chapter by David Frampton. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, reprint, 2004-03-02, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 406 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing, 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Stamped on green cloth covers. Moderate wear to edges, and covers. Tight copy. Novel set in the fur trapping region of the Cree Indians in Canada.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. 126 pages, illustrated in 2-colors by Brian Wildsmith. The story of an orphan boy making his way westward from Budapest.

hardcover. New York, Orchard Books, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 105 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY FARMER opposite title-page. This is the Newbery Medalist's first book. Black & white illustrations by Shelley Jackson.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, expertly rebound green cloth with original gilt and black design inlaid on front cover. New color pattern endpapers, 460 pages, plus publisher's ads. Frontis w/ tissue guard many b/w engravings throughout. Various artists. illustrated tale of the triumphs and tragedies of the formation of the English colonies through the French & Indian War. Light shelf wear, no marking.