Children's Fiction

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.

Hardcover. Boston, Henry Hoyt, 1st, 1858, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 344 pages, several b&w plates. Embossed red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's inscription inside front cover, front hinge partially cracked, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color frontispiece by Howard Hastings, repeated on cover label. Dark blue cloth covers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, tight.

Hardcover. New York, Gosset & Dunlap, Reprint, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Pages age darkened. Green cloth covers. Dust jacket with light wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with blue cloth covers with light fading. 337 pages, b&w illustrations by Charles Cartwright. Ex-lib with discreet stamping and light residue on front endpapers. Otherwise clean.

Garden City, NY, Doubleday Page, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 259 pages. Color plates and black & white illustrations by George Soper. Gilt top edge. Green cloth covers with gold lettering and green decoration. Frontispiece detached from book. Scribling in pencil on front end paper. Soiling to first few pages. Small soiling mark near fore edge to last few pages.

London, Macmillan, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 124 pages. Light rubbing to spine. Dust jacket with light soiling, chipping. A writer's seclusion is disturbed when the two aging sisters he he's letting his room from adopt an orphan boy.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 210 pages. Color illustrations by Elinore Blaisdell. Pages yellowing slightly at edges. Corners rubbed. Dust jacket with price clip. Clear plastic protective cover. An adventure tale set in the Middle Ages. Fifteen-year-old Gervase, recently knighted, defends his father's castle against the soldiers of a tyrannical king.

NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&w illustrations by Hildegard Woodward. Dust jacket with light soil, corner chipping. Young reader's story about a boy who makes a pair of skis so he can ski down the hill in back of his house. Clean copy.

NY, Dutton Children Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A young adult novel by the two-time Newbery medalist and two-time National Book Award winner. Vinnie Matthews needs a real lifesaver--one that will bring her father back to life and let her family go home. Living with Grandma means having to be responsible for her little brother, Mason, who refuses to speak, and ignoring the kids who ask why he's so crazy. Then Vinnie meets Lupe, the mysterious "flip-flop girl" who only wears orange flip-flops on her feet. Lupe is strong, confident, and even more of an outsider than Vinnie. She's just the type of friend Vinnie needs, if only Vinnie can ignore the rumors about Lupe's past.

Hardcover. NY, The Baker & Taylor Company, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth pictorially stamped and titled in gilt. 302 pages, top edge gilt. Nostalgic picture of a boy's childhood in the 1900s. School, Goin' fishin," baseball and the circus are all part of this story with line drawings by Frederic Dorr Steele. Mild shelf wear, spine slightly cocked. Clean.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 122 pages. Five black & white and color plates by Earl Oliver Hurst. Soiling to endpapers, covers. Faded yellow top edge.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 308 pages. Illustrated by Mallette Dean. Illustrated endpapers. Soiling to covers, faded spine. Corners a bit bumped. Darkened top edge. Story of a family struggling to keep the land that has belonged to them for generations.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 266 pages. Scarce 1st edition. Tan decorated cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. 31 beautiful line drawings by Alice Barber (Stephens) who is not credited on the title page but whose signature can be seen on the plates. Binding slightly cocked but still very intact. Light rubbing to edges and spine.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st , 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in yellow cloth stamped in dark green.Color frontis, black & white illustrations by E. Boyd Smith. Light edgewear to yellow cloth, fraying to top of spine. Youth classic set in the American prairie; era of roaming buffalo, log cabins, Sioux. Mary Anne's mother does not allow her outside their gate at their log cabin; she is afraid of the wild. Mary Anne's father has a trading post, and the Sioux are among his customers. One day a young boy is comes to visit, and carves a willow whistle for Mary Anne. Her world is widening.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st US, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 214 pages, illustrated in b&w by Charles Keeping. Ex-lib with stamping and residue to endpapers. An adventure story from a 13th c folk-poem with elements from invasions of the 9th and 10th century, redone by a well known modern writer and illustrator. Prince Horn, driven from his father's kingdom at 15 by Turkish invaders, flees to Westernesse and becomes a page at the royal court. Then his love for the Princess is treacherously revealed and he is exiled to Ireland, from which he battles to free his kingdom and win his princess. Published when the author was 24, and the second of his many vivid translations and retellings of traditional narratives.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth with red desgn, lettering, 198 pages, with color frontispiece, b&w illustratons by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.