Children's Fiction

NY, Franklin Watts, Book Club Ed., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Susan Perl.135 pages in a dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

NY, Oxford University Press, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt. Color frontis. and black & white illustrations by George Morrow. Illustrated end papers. Edgewear and mild soil to covers. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Jr. Literary Guild, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 232 pages, Color frontispiece and end paper illustration by Maud and Miska Petersham. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped. Chunks missing on top and bottom.

NY, Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Color illustrations by Reynold Ruffins.

Hardcover. Chicago IL, Fleming H. Revell, reprint, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 402 pages. Contains two-tone plate illustrations by E. S. Paxson. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Edgewear. Spine and corner rubbed.

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee Co., 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 pages. Hardcover. Red brick colored cloth. Full color pastedown on cover. Previous owners name in pencil on dedication page. 12 full color plates. Front endpaper has been mostly removed. 1.5" closed cut to foredge of first 6 pages - at approximately mid-page. Covers shown light/moderate wear. Clean, unmarked copy. 'AS-IS'

Hardcover. NY, Junior Literary Guild, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with mild discoloration, 278 pages, previous owner's signature on page opposite half-title. Color frontis painting and black & white illustrations by Herbert Rogers.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 295 pages. Color frontis. and b&w drawings by Henry Pitz. An adventure story set in Pre-war England. A boy discovers an old classic car which enables him and his impoverished father to set out and enter the London-to-Brighton Run. Their car, named the "Wanderlust", soon attracts the attention of crooks. Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 186 pages. Hardcover. Pages and edges have tanning from age. Doesn't affect text or illustrations. Green endpapers. Binding tight. Spine straight. Decorated cover boards, still bright, have some age wear. Illustrated by Al Schmidt. This is the 4th book in the series.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 111 pages. Minor edgewear to book bottom edges. Bright dust jacket.

NY, Longmans, Green and Co., 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a poor, worn and chipped dust jacket. Bright blue cloth covers stamped with a treasure chest on the cover. INSCRIBED BY IVY BOLTON (SISTER MERCEDES) on the front fly leaf. Black & white illustrations by William M. Berger. When Captain Raeburn and his wife sail away on an important mission, their five children go to live with an uncle on the Kennebec in Maine. Lost treasure, mutiny on shipboard, French and Indian plots of war are woven into this historical adventure novel for young adults. Clean copy.

Boston, Atlantic Little Brown, 3rd, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. Black & white drawings by Eric Von Schmidt. Jingo Hawks, of Mrs. Daggatt's Beneficent Orphan House in Boston, is hired out to General Dirty-Face Jim Scurlock as a chimney sweep. A mysterious Mr. Peacock 'buys' Jingo and they set out on a treasure hunt, pursued by Daggatt and Scurlock. Hilarious scenes follow . . . . Expressive line drawings enhance this rousing adventure. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Junior Guild/Lippincott, Book Club Ed., 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 267 pages, color frontispiece and b&w illustrations by Dorothy Bayley. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Tight, bright copy with a very good dust jacket, light fading to blue lettering on spine. A juvenile mystery set in Newfoundland

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, reprint, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. Gray illustrated cloth, red letters and decoration of a teapot to upper cover, illustrated in b&w by Hugh Troy, 128 pages. Young Irish lad Brian Boru travels to the United States with a wee fairyman to give him courage. Book is clean, bright copy. Dust jacket flap indicates book club edition.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books, 1st US, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages, very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket art, b&w illustrations by Victor Ambrus. Children's adnture story set in Africa. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1892, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in silver, 143 pages. Black & white illustrations by various artists, including Harriet Roosevelt Richards and E. H. Garrett. Tear to middle of front end paper. Lower part of front hinge cracked. Spine frayed at top & bottom and corners worn.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray-green cloth with gilt. silver and black decoration to front board and spine. 238 pages profusely illustrated in b&w by various illustrators. Endpapers feature a map of the Island of Guernsey with the author's previous books opposite. Susan Coolidge is the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835-1905) American author of children's books. Previous owner's name on blank prelim page, hinge cracked at front, binding a little shaken. Lettering on spine faded.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Tan cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges. Beautiful color illustrations throughout. A bright, clean copy. Illustrated by Allen Atkinson.

Hardcover. New York , Random House , reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 114 pages, illustrated in b&w by John Burningham. Book is bound in red cloth with gilt lettering. Edition is not stated, no date on the title page, copyright page states 1964. Contains 111 numbered pages with an additional 3 unnumbered. 16 line dedication. All pages are very clean and the binding is tight. Top edge stained black, dust jacket has light edgewear. Price of $3.50 on the front flap. Would appear to be a second or third printing of the first edition.

Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 109 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 17 black & white drawings by Bridgeman. Gilt lettering to covers with some spot fading to light blue cloth. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 195 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 16 black & white drawings by George Foster Barnes. Front fly leaf is missing and there's some shelfwear to gilt-decorated covers. Rear cover has light wrinkle to cloth. Still, a clean, tight copy and relatively scarce. Depicts NY city street life in the late 1800s.

Hardcover. New York, The Vanguard Press, Inc., First Edition, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 161 pages. Hardcover. Light foxing to edges. Bright dust jacket with tear to top edge & toning. Creases to interior flaps. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. New York, Robert M. McBride and Co., 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages, illustrated in b&w by John O'Hara Cosgrave ll. Dust jacket worn, chipped.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace World, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 153 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white woodcuts by Enrico Arno. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 397 pages, a classic adventur of Czarist Russia. 10 color plates including title page by N.C. Wyeth. The definitive edition of the Scribner's Illustrated Classic with the original canvases newly photographed. While not a First Edition it is superior in every way considering the quality of the color plates. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket.

London, Collins, 1st Edition, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Illustrated with b&w drawings by Peggy Fortnum. Very good in a very good dust jacket with light soil, small stain to bottom of dust jacket spine.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 409 pages, a classic novel of the American Revolution. 14 color plates plus title page, 47 pen line drawings by N.C. Wyeth. The definitive edition of the Scribner's Illustrated Classic with the original canvases newly photographed. While not a First Edition it is superior in every way considering the quality of the color plates. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 4th pr., 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 7 plates by J. R. Allen. Dust jacket with chipping, light soil.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 58 pages, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. SIGNED BY FOX on title page. Ex-library copy with stamping, residue to end papers.

Hardcover. New York , Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers with a color illustration on cover paste-down. Color frontispiece and 11 line illustrations by Stuart Hay. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 158 pages, b&w drawings by Douglas Phillips. An adventure story set in Thailand's teak forests, where the mighty elephant is bulldozer, tractor and sometimes killer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with 2-color illustration on cover label and 5 b&w plates by Ralph Boyer. Spine cloth has tan spotting otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 80 pages, illustrated in color by William Pene du Bois. Ex-library with light stamping to endpapers, envelope residue.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush. 188 pages in a nice dust jacket. An historical novel for young adults about the Suffragette movement.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BARRON on front fly leaf and also SIGNED on the tiele page. Blending Arthurian legend and modern oceanography, this lively tale boasts finely developed characters as well as fast-moving adventure. The author achieves a solid balance of mythology, environmental issues, and scientific research procedures. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Boy Scouts of America, 2nd, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 275 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations. Dust jacket has moderate chipping and wear, covered in plastic sleeve. Previous owner's bookplate pasted on front end paper. Chunk missing from dust jacket top spine.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped in dark blue. 115 pages, b&w illustrations by Decie Merwin. Completes author's trilogy of books recalling her own childhood in the mountains of Kentucky. Light spotting to covers, some tanning to endpapers, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Garden City, NJ, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 42 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light chipping on cover edges, and light soil on dust jacket rear. A few small tears, dust jacket currently protected in plastic. Gutter cracked on copyright page. Color illustrations. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Hurst & Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 224 pages. Illustrated cloth boards. Black & white illustrations by G. C. Widney. Previous owners name on front endpaper and top of title page. Back hinge loose. Light rubbing and wear to cover corner and edges.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 93 pages. Color, black & white illustrations by Hedvig Collin. Red cloth covers with color illustration pasted on front.

Hardcover. London, Andre Deutsch Limited, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 93 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Black & white illustrations by Quentin Blake. Dust jacket with light wear, slight fading along top edge. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, Reprint, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 full pages (last pages missing). Brown cloth, pictorial paste down, rubbing with faded spine. Black & white illustrations by John Neill. Previous owner's name on book belongs to page. Front fly leaf missing. Hinge cracked.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead & Co., 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 125 Pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by William Pene Du Bois. Dj with edgewear, chipping. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Faith Jaques. Library Edition. Story of Victorian England set in a family shop in the back streets of Manchester, England. Pressured by his father to leave school for a career he doesn't want, a nineteenth-century boy runs away and gains a new perspective on his future. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st Ed., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with color label on front cover. 14 color plates, pen drawings, endpapers design by N.C. Wyeth. Cover with some rubbing and scratches, overall very good.

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout in 3-colors by Ellie Simmons. Illustrated gray cloth with a edgeworn dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 323 pages, light blue cloth with black lettering. illustrated in b&w by Frank Beaudouin. Light fade to spine. Clean and tight.

Hardcover. Garden City, New York , Doubleday & Company, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, 1-color illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. dust jacket with edgewear, small tears.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 341 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless copy. Curtis was a Newbery Medal winner for his title Bud, Not Buddy. This bookis the tale of eleven-year-old Elijah, born in Buxton, a settlement of runaway slaves across the border from Detroit and his journey through the horrors of slavery and aspirations of justice, courage and hope.