Children's Fiction

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. 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.

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.