Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 133 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. An unusual fantasy featuring underwater adventures, giant robots, talking animals, poison gas and death rays. Color frontispiece and b&w Illustrations by Frank Boyd. Abrasion on top cover edge.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st thus, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in black. Illustrations with color frontis, 10 black & white plates and endpapers drawing by Marguerite De Angeli. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. In 1942, Ruth and Simeon must leave their missionary parents to escape the perils of war, and Ruth learns much about human nature and life as she and her brother make the dangerous trip through China to India. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. The story of two kids who witness a violent crime they think was committed by their neighbor (an undertaker). However, since these two are always telling made-up stories nobody believes them. They have to find the evidence. Clean copy.
New York, World Publishing, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 134 pages. Black & white illustrations by Victor Ambrus. Novel about a magnificent white stallion.
New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 96 pages. Half cloth boards. Illustrated with drawings by Charles Robinson. A like-new copy.
NJ, Bradbury Press, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 118 pages, in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket.A coming of age story set on Anzac Day in Deakin Beach, Australia.
New York, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by David Diaz, his 1st book. Ex-lib with light stamping, residue. From family pictures to pinatas, from the "gato "with a meow like a rusty latch to Fourth of July fireworks, the poet celebrates the startling and often overlooked moments that define childhood. Affectionate without being overly sentimental, the collection provides a good introduction to contemporary poetry as well as a fine homage to a Chicano community.
NY, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Green cloth binding with brown cloth spine. Illustrated with b&w woodcut drawings by Margaret Wetherbee. 124 pages. Story of a year in the life of a village schoolboy and his dominant elder brother - both are poachers and bird trappers, but both have a certain devotion to their victims. Through the eyes of these boys we see the change of seasons, the habits of birds and animals. Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Philadephia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, in an edgeworn dust jacket, 131 pages. Favorite childhood stories from Rudyard Kipling, The Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson, among others, illustrated in color by Tasha Tudor in her inimitable style. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth decorated in gilt, orange, black and gray. 353 pages. Publisher catalogue at rear. Frontis, map & 6 b&w illustrations by Wal Paget. A bright, clean book in the original pictorial binding.
Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 278 pages. Illustrated by John Gincano. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Heavy soiling to spine and edges of covers. Fade marks. Book covers a bit warped. Corners a bit bumped. Small chunk missing from p. 117, and tears to surrounding pages, but no harm to text. The book tells of the author's family immigrating from England to New York and then to Iowa and their lives on the Iowa prairie.
Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1st US, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Black & white and color illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Mild soiling to covers. Rubbing to corners. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. London , A. & C. Black, 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 color plates by Allan Stewart. Decorated gray cloth with top edge gilt. Covers show light wear, previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Small red mark in corner of front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 340 pages illustrated throughout in b&w by Pyle. A quality reprint of this classic tale first published in 1907. Owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
New York, Workman Publishing Co., 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 37 pages, color illustrations by Winslow Pels, clean, tight copy. When Alison puts on Great Grandmother's glasses, they become magical and enable her to understand some of her great grandmother's frustrations and unfulfilled aspirations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 115 pages, b & w illustrations by Clarke Hutton, slight foxing to end papers, some wear and soiling to cloth cover, fraying to bottom of spine, otherwise clean, tight copy.
London, W. Foulsham & Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. 224 pages Edited and 'slightly abridged' edition for the modern boy. Color frontis. Jacket illustration is of a pirate holding a torch up in the air with a sword in the other hand and many men behind him. No date, appears to be early 1950s. Wear to top of spine cloth. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st US, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth, gilt title to spine and gilt vignette of windmill and black borders to front cover. 310 pages.Originally published in Aunt Judy's Magazine as: The Miller's Thumb in 1873. Appears to be the first U.S. printing. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 279 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color, black & white illustrations by Will Crawford. Dust jacket with some heavy chipping.
Hardcover. New York, Century Co., 1st, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 290 pages. Hardcover. Features 48 black & white illustrations by Harrison Cady. Mustard colored cloth covers with green and orange illustrations, Light wear along edges. Spine cocked. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. New York , Dodd Mead, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, INSCRIBED BY MACMILLAN (with Eskimo greeting) on front fly leaf. B&W illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Dust jacket edgeworn, frayed, tape repair and price clipped.
Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. 86 pages, b&w illustrations by Shelley Freshman. "Cricket is a charming little fellow with immense longings. Bored with his life as a farmer, with the sun and the grass, he yearns for something new, something that will bring him fame and fortune." No markings.
Hardcover. New York, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 82 pages. Black & white illustrations by Erick Berry. Pink stain front cover. Story of a slave girl who lived at Mt. Vernon and was Nellie Custis's servant. Takes place at Mount Vernon in the years immediately following the Revolutionary War. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages. Hardcover. Front endpaper has been removed. Full color frontis. Some black & white illustrations. Foxing to edges. Blue cloth covers with dark smudges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth, cover label with blackberry and fern design, 126 pages. B&w illustrations by Helen Sewell. The fifth book of Sally's story, in which, released by the sultan from service to the White Lalla, she returns home to Maine. How Five Bushel Farm is saved and how Sally, and Andrew, and Pierre grow up. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Review slip laid-in. During the summer before her senior year, a Catholic girl runs away from her well-meaning but narrow-minded mother to live with a sociology professor she saw on television. But life there has complications, too. Clean copy.
NY, Dutton, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket with some fading to spine. 152 pages, previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise very good. The story of a 15 year old loner runaway who finally gets another chance. Not wanted by her mother, a Mexican-American girl chooses to live in an old woman's home rather than be sent to a juvenile hall. Influenced by the Los Angeles Police Department Explorer Program.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with pictorial cover label, 462 pages. 9 color plates, title-page & eps illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. Bookplate on front endpaper. Title page has a tear with tape repair. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with color pastedown. Endpapers illustration, title page, cover label illustration and 9 color plates by N.C. Wyeth. Owner's bookplte on front endpaper. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with cover illustration paste-down, 435 pages. Numerous illustrations by E. Boyd Smith, including 12 color plates. Clean copy. Gilt spine lettering faded.
Hardcover. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 151 pages. Black & white illustrations by Robert Lawson. Green cloth cover. Tear to top back cover edge. Light water damage to first pages, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, reprint, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 212 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. An adventure set against the building of the Panama Canal. Color frontispiece and 3 black & white plates by B. J. Rosenmeyer. In a very good dust jacket (not illustrated, type only) minor chipping. No date on title page so presumed 1930s printing.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 233 pages, with illustrations by Leo Politi and Spanish glossary in rear. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Wise-Parlow, Reprint, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 96 pages. Full color illustrations by John Rae. 1935 reprint of the Volland edition. Dust jacket shows small chips along edges with small chunk missing from top of spine. Scarce in dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 3rd pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 56 pages, b&w drawings by Ingrid Fetz. Dust jacket with minor edgewear. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 132 pages. Black & white illustrations by Reginald Birch. Light soiling to covers, endpapers. Soiling & chipping to dust jacket. Brodart cover.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 350 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to cover edges. Light soil to front covers.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in pale yellow, cover label illustration, 288 pages, b&w illustrations by Charles Copeland who also did the endpapers drawing. Previous owner's signature on blank page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York , Dutton, 1st , 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 114 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color, 2-color illustrations by Leonard Lubin. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 190 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Pristine copy in a dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st Printing, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 72 pages, blue covers with cloth yellow spine. Black and blue illustrations by Marc Simont throughout. Interior clean. Dust jacket color illustrated with protective mylar cover, one corner slightly bumped. Very nice tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 62 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Two-color illustrations by Lynn Munsinger. Light rubbing to spine, corners. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st thus, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 264 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 5 color illustrations by Gustaf Tenggren. Dj w/ soil, edgewear. Covers have moderate edgewear. Tight copy.
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