Children's Fiction

Hardcover. Boston , D. Lothrop Co., 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt, red and black letters and illustrations on front and spine. Assumed first edition and printing since only date is 1892 and no indication of number of printing on copyright or title page as with later printings of this book. 527 pages, book ads in rear. Black and white illustrations by Mente. The Five Little Peppers is a book series created by American author Margaret Sidney which was published 1881 to 1916. It covers the lives of the five children of Mamsie and the late Mister Pepper who are born into poverty in a rural "little brown house". Previous owner's bboplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

NY, Harper & Row, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 182 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Maurice Sendak. Early edition. Ex-lib with stamped pocket on back endpaper. Paste remains on front and back paste-down endpapers, spine label. Dust jacket price clipped and bottom of front flap missing. Little Davie lavishes attention on his pet rabbit & saves him when the little animal disappears. Sensitive & riveting tale.

NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 70 pages, hardcover like new in a bright dust jacket.

New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st , 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 57 pages. Black & white illustrations by Glen Rounds. Dust jacket with light rubbing. Relates how Uncle Lemon got his spring in the middle of the driest summer on record and the troublesome consequences it brought him. Clean copy.

New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover284 pages. In a nice dust jacket that shows slight spotting to back and little to no edgewear. Spine modestly cocked. American first edition (per publisher's requisite "First edition" statement and "BCD . . ." The adventures of Monkey from his departure from the jungle to his arrival in England where he makes many friends." A later book in the writing career of British author P.L. Travers most renowned for her authorship of the Mary Poppins series.

New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. Top corner creased on page 11. Dust jacket shows light edgewear at cover and spine corners. Otherwise very good. A year after her father, a poet who identified with fauns and satyrs, has been found dead in a motel swimming pool, a strange faun-boy appears to Melissa, seeming to be the reincarnation of her beloved father's spirit. Clean copy.

New York, Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages, including glossary of Japanese terms. B&w drawings by William Hutchinson. Ex-library copy. Blue dust jacket with faded spine; small tear to top left front cover. Otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, Modern Age Books, Inc. , 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 166 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Frank Dobias. Camp name written in pen on front end paper. Blue cloth with white lettering and picture of a high-steel worker riding a girder being winched up. Corners bumped, mild shelf wear.

Hardcover. London, George Routledge, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Green cloth hardback with gilt borders and green lettering to the front and spine. Color frontis, black & white line drawings in text. Corrected and revised by Cecil Hartley, originally published in 3 volumes, 1783-89. This is a modern reprint, probably the 1920s.Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, W. A. Wilde Company, 1st, 1905, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with 3-color pictorial decoration on the cover. Five b&w plates by Harry Burgess. Covers with edgewear, front hinge cracked, binding shaken but still holding. Dog advntures set in the northern wilds of Canada, told from the dog's viewpoint.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. When Chiaki learns of the death of her and her mother's former landlady, Mrs. Yanagi, she feels compelled to go to the funeral, although she hasn't seen Mrs. Yanagi in years. As she prepares for the trip, she also begins a journey through memory, beginning right after her father's death, when her mother took an apartment at Poplar House. Chiaki, six at the time, is overwhelmed by the recent changes, falls ill, and cannot attend school. Mrs. Yanagi ends up looking after her during the daytime. The landlady initially frightens her new charge, but as Chiaki spends more time with her, the two begin to form an odd alliance. One day Mrs. Yanagi tells Chiaki that she has been charged with a divine mission to carry letters to the dead when she goes to the grave herself. Inspired, Chiaki then begins a tentative one-way correspondence with her father, diligently entrusting her letters to the landlady. And it's through remembering this time of her life that the grown Chiaki is able to confront her confusion about who she is now

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 5th pr., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped in maroon. B&w drawings and endpapers art by Kurt Wiese. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped ($12.95) dust jacket. Design & illustrations by Beth & Joe Krush. Escaping from an attic where they had been held captive over the long, dark winter, a family of tiny people sets up house in an old rectory. Eventually, the Clock family of borrowers find a safe and comfortable home, with their relations living near by. All appears well until they realize that the wicked Platters are still looking for them, something which prompts them to get revenge.Fifth and final book in the series. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1964, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 65 pages, b&w drawings by Paul Kennedy. The story of another of the Chase family pets, a lovable, exasperating donkey. Set in Maine. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, faded dust jacket. 260 pages, illustrated in b&w by Edward Shenton. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles E. Graham, 1st, 1912, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 126 pages. Some discoloration to endpapers. Black & white illustrations. Light wear to corners and spine. Covers a bit warped.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, blue cloth stamped in dark blue, 89 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Berta and Elmer Hader. Previous owner's inscription front endpaper. Mild spine faded. Corners and spine rubbed.

NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by J. Kiddell-Monroe. Dj with moderate wear, light soil.

Boston, Little Brown , 7th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with blue design of doll with dog on front. llustrated in color, b&w by Anne Vaughan. Previous owner's signature opposite first blank page, faint foxing to color illustrated endpapers otherwise tight, clean copy. Lacks dust jacket. Susan Araminta is different from all the other dolls because her face was made of wood. She is put in a box with some old clothes and left at the curb. The trashman with a horse and wagon means to take her home to his little girl but she falls off the wagon and lands in the street. There she is discovered by the gruff Scottish Terrier Mister MacHugh who rescues her.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1928, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, black cloth with pictorial label on front cover, 409 pages. 14 color plates, color title page and endpaper illustration and b&w pen drawings by N.C. Wyeth. Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with color pastedown on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, 198 pages. Illustrated title page and 8 color plates plus endpapers illustration by Maxfield Parrish. Despite the 1904 date on title page, this is a reprint with a 1922 date on the copyright page, and a list of many Scribner illustrated classics (published later than 1904) on the last printed page. Gilt lettering on spine mostly gone or faded, but the rest of the book is clean and bright. There is a small scar to front label on scroll at top right.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 47 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illusrations by Norm Chartier. Publisher's lending library stamp on front endpaper. Light soil to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 162 pages. This the first printing of the true First Edition, published 3 years before the UK edition. 8vo, 240 x 160 mm, 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches, deep red cloth, gilt lettered spine, title embossed on upper cover, mustard endpapers, top edges dyed maroon. Black and white illustrations by Joseph Schindelmann. No inscriptions, near fine in very good dust jacket: not price clipped ($3.95), very clean, no ISBN on rear. Six lines of printing and binding information in back of book as a required point of the first issue. There is a small sliver of dust jacket missing between the third and fourth lines of blue type on the front panel, which is hard to see with the white backing of the mylar protecting it. That and a small tanning spot below Wonka dancing on back panel are the only flaws. Detailed pictures availble. A great collector's copy.

Hardcover. NY, Friendship Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick red cloth with silver stamping, 128 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Kurt Wiese. The adventures of Mpengo and his sister who live in a village in the Congo.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Joseph A. Smith. Newly orphaned, young Annyrose escapes from the villainous O.O. Mary and falls under the protection of a proud and fearless Mexican bandit, regarded as the Robin Hood of the California Gold Rush. Annyrose wants only to search for her older brother who had run off to the gold diggings, but she finds herself galloping beside the celebrated outlaw in his own quest. He is hunting down the last of a band of "Yankee" riffraff who wronged him, an event that turned the innocent young Mexican into an avenging terror of the roads.

Hardcover. Flagstaff AZ, Northland Press,, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Blue and black illustrations by Joe Beeler. Some very minor wear to dust jacket, internally clean. A novel of mountain man violence and survival.

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 123 pages. Black & white illustrations by John Polgreen. Previous owner's stamp front endpaper. Light soiling endpapers. Dust jacket with chipping. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Douglas Gorsline. Minor wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers , 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 194 pages, with illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green. Decorated cover and gilt title. Minor edgewear and rubbing, previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf. Tissue guard on frontispiece illustration. Very clean and tight.

Hardcover. London, Bodley Head, Reprint, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 199 pages. Illustrated with four full color plates by Lois Lenski. Light wear to covers with minor fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. While staying with her eccentric aunt and uncle on the foggy California coast, T.J. finds herself involved in an unusual adventure when she helps the ghost of a nineteenth-century stowaway find a ring that will help free him to his future. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Arranged by Rachel Field. Color, b&w Illustrations by Elizabeth MacKinstry. Paper covered boards with pink label on cover, w/ some discoloration, corner wear. Middle third of book w/ light crimp to bottom corner.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan cloth stamped in black. B&W drawings by James Houston. Ex-library copy with rubber stamp and small ink number on front end paper. Light soil, shelfwear. A coming-of-age tale for an eleven-year-old Eskimo boy of Baffin Island.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with maroon stamping, 143 pages, b&w illustrations by Paul Lantz. Very light paper residue to rear endpapers indicating ex-lib, but otherwise clean with no marking, stamping. Covers with mild soil, spine fading.

Hardcover. New York, J. H. Sears & Company, Inc., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Front hinge intact but tender. Full color and black & white illustrations by Milo Winter and Charlotte Becker. Light foxing to front cover color paste down illustration. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Arthur A. Levine Books, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The copyright page has the full number line "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0/0 01 02 03 04". Below the number line is "Printed in the U.S.A. 23." The dust jacket back has a red bar code field on the bottom right side, and a blurb on the top that says "Sequel to the #1 New York Time Bestseller HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN". Boards are rust red with an embossed diamond pattern, and a black cloth spine with gold lettering. The dust jacket has $25.95 price on the upper corner of the front flap The first printing has a YEAR 4 badge on the upper spine of both the book and the dust jacket. This is the second novel in the Harry Potter series to carry the badge when first issued. Clean, collectible copy.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran , 1st ed., 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 318 pages. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Dark top edge. Dust jacket with chipping, darkened spine, tear to front cover.

Hardcover. NY, Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Mary GrandPre. This is the true first edition first printing of the US edition of the fifth book in the Harry Potter series. The copyright page states "First Edition" with the full number line, price $29.99 intact.

Hardcover. Boston, Jordan, Marsh & Co., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, floral decorated cloth with a blue cloth spine design in gilt with a smiling Pinocchio. An early appearance of Pinocchio in English. Translated from the Italian with an Introduction by Hezekiah Butterworth. This is the first pirated edition. A second printing the following year (1899) had 4 color plates. This edition with Enrico Mazzanti's black-and-white in-text illustrations, not credited. 212 pages, bright, sharp condition.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 144 pages, illustrated in b&w by Tom Feelings. Black cloth covers with gilt snake drawing on front. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Spine slightly cocked, clean copy.

Hardcover. Indianapolis IN, Bobbs Merrill, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 191 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Black & white illustrations by Gerald McCann. Edgewear, corners rubbed. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, closed tear to front cover. Clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. NY, Calla Editions, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 192 pages. A gorgeous reproduction edition of this classic with superb color illustrations by 2 "Golden Age" illustrators, originally published in 1908.

Hardcover. New York , E.P. Dutton/Lodestar, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 148 pages, bright, clean copy in an unclipped dust jacket. Eleven-year-old Park makes some startling discoveries when he travels to his grandfather's farm in Virginia to learn about his father who died in the Vietnam War.

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 199 pages. A brother & sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during WW II, which threatens to suppress their culture. WON JANE ADDAMS HONOR AWARD. Clean copy.

NY, Delacorte, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 86 pages plus publisher's promotional exerpts from previous series books in back. "Summary: When fifteen-year-old Francis and two younger children lose their way in the wilderness of the Southwest, they face capture during the Mexican War." Clean copy.

Chicago, Follett Pub. Co., 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 191 pages. A story of championship golf competition for young adults. Clean copy.

Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 188 pages, b&w illustrations by Stuart Tresilian. In a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. The Brevitt brothers find themselves being tracked down by two ruthless murders when they undertake a search for hidden treasure. Set in Australia.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st , 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 248 pages. Color, black & white drawings by A. H. Watson. Front & back hinges tender. Page 84 color plate loose and laid-in. Red cloth binding with stain to back cover, spine fade.

New York, Hyperion, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 122 pages. Black & white chapter illustrations by Kate Kiesler. "Ehrlich ventures confidently into new terrain in her eloquent and affecting debut children's novel. [Her] prose, as pristine and spare as her snow-covered landscape, portrays the quiet drama of the changing seasons -- in both their consistency and unpredictability -- as well as a family attuned to nature's every nuance." --Publisher's Weekly, starred review. Clean copy

Philadelphia PA, John C. Winston, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, in a bright dust jacket with chipping, top of spine with 1" gone. 325 pages. 4 color and 8 b&w illustrations by Clara Burd. Edited by Ruth Ewing Hilpert.Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page. Otherwise clean.