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.
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. 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.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth covers with stamped desin in black, 231 pages, with illustrations by Barbara Cooney throughout. Minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, David McKay, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 183 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor chipping to dust jacekt edges.
Hardcover. NY , Century Co., 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color frontispiece, 24 black & white plates by C.M. Relyea. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers , 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 261 pages with fourteen illustrations, by Jessie Wilcox Smith and Florence Scovel Shinn. Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine & illustrated cover label. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. A nice copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 9th impression, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 274 pages. Red pictorial cloth, gilt, sunned spine. Color plates by Maria L. Kirk. Pictorial end papers. Spine starting.
Hardcover. New York, Wise-Parslow, reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 91 pages. Color illustrations by Frederick Richardson. Edgewear. Rubbing to corners, spine, covers.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 175 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT END PAPER. Black & white illustrations by Arthur Conrad. Dust jacket has edgewear.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages plus 16 pages of publisher's ads in rear. Illustrated with b&w drawings. Scarce dust jacket is bright with light chipping. Several pages with light soiling to margins.
Hardcover. New York , Norton, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 59 pages, b&w line drawings by Paul Kennedy. In an unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear.
Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber Ltd, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 164 pages plus plus publisher's ads, B&W line iiiustrations. Brown cloth with black and gilt design.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 5th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Winner of the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Fiction, and an ALA Notable Book. With an African American protagonist, this is a young adult coming of age book set in hills scarred by strip mining. Newbery Medal on front jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Ivan Obolensky, 1st US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. by Bjorn Berg. Dj with light edgewear, chipping.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st US, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 290 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. First printing with no statement of printing or date on the copyright page and letters E-H . decorative boards with tennis rackets, color illustrations by Floethe throughout. Shelf wear, spine lettering faded.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 227 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. National Book Award Winner. Clean, tight copy.
London, J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., reprint, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 638 pages. Whimsical illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Gilt title and design on a faded spine. Cover otherwise very good, with minor edgewear to top and bottom spine.
Cleveland, OH, World Publishing Co, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 128 pages. Black & white illustrations by Paul Galdone. Edgewear, rubbing to corners and spine. Edgewear, chipping, soiling, rubbing to dust jacket. Price clipped.
Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 188 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated with drawings by James Fuller and photographs by the author. Dust jacket with some wear, light chipping. Soil mark on bottom page block. Light page darkening.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons/Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth stamped with blue and black skull and crossbones on front cover. Edited and with an introduction by Golden Age Illustrator N. C. Wyeth. Wonderfully illustrated im b&w by Peter Hurd. Book is sturdy and square. An anomaly: The title page has Putnam's as the publisher, the cloth spine says Grosset and Dunlap. No dust jacket. Clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, Rep., 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY BURGESS on front fly leaf and dated 1927. 7 color plates (out of 8) by Harrison Cady. Unfortunately, the frontis is missing and one plate lose with fraying on top edge.
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. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Company , 2nd, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Penelope's Experiences England - 176 pages. 53 black & white illustrations by Charles E. Brock. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Green cloth covers with bright gilt title and decorations on spine and cover. Clean, tight copy. Penelope's Experiences Scotland - 301 pages. 55 black & white illustrations by Charles E. Brock. Green cloth covers with bright gilt title and decorations on spine and cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color frontispiece, b&w drawings, endpaper map by H.M. Brock. Green cloth with spine slightly darkened. Foxing to endpapers. Else very good.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 117 pages, b&w illustrations by Tony Sarg, Stories of David and his friends having fun during the summer in a small town, Book has mild shelfwear.
Hardcover. New York, Dial, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 139 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 131 pages. Hardcover with blue covers and gilt lettering on frontand spine. Light edgewear and small nick to cloth spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Charming black & white drawings by Winifred Bromhall.
Hardcover. Cedar Grove NJ/UK, Dar-Web/John Sherratt & Son, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages, b&w illustrations. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 79 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Laid-in illustration on front cover of mam puma and her kittens. The story of a mother puma and her 2 kittens. Wonderful 2-color animal drawings by Paul Branson. Covers show moderate edgewear and rubbing, but overall good, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 121 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AT TOP EDGE OF TITLE PAGE. Previous owners inscription on half title page. Black & white illustrations by Aldren A. Watson. Foxing to top edge. Dust jacket with darkening to spine, wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.
NY, Viking, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 173 pages. Fore-edges stamped. Bright dust jacket painting by Larry Raymond. College freshman Gerald McQuillen is recruited by a government agent to infiltrate an elitist international student society suspected of right-wing extremist tendencies.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press,, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First printing with full number line. "When Calder Pillay travels with is father to a remote village in England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery...including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Calder is strangely drawn to the sculpture, while other people have less-than-friendly feelings toward it. Both the boy and the sculpture seem to be out of place...and then, on the same night, they disappear!" Clean copy.
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