Children's Fiction

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, lightly soiled dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. B&w illustrations by Toni Patten. A young reader's novel set in Jamaica.

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 103 pages, b&w drawings throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. Dark red cloth with gold gilt image to front board of Christopher Robin playing with his train and gold gilt image to back cover of Pooh Bear & Piglet. Also gilt edge rulings, gilt titles to spine & gilt to top leaf edge. Tight binding with only minimal wear to top of spine. Pictorial pink endpapers, front & back, showing Christopher Robin with Pooh and various other friends, are very nice. Pale blue dust jacket has darkening to spine and tiny chips to corners, larger chip to top of spine. Front and rear panels with Shepard's drawings.

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co., 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 100 pages, b&w drawings throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. Dark blue cloth with gilt image to front board of three characters after Shepard's drawings and gilt image to back cover of girl peeking through curtain. Also gilt edge rulings, gilt titles to spine & gilt to top leaf edge. Tight binding with only minimal wear to edges. Blank endpapers, front & back, with light tanning and ripples from publisher's glue. Dust jacket has darkening to spine and chipping to corners, larger chip to top of spine. Front and rear panels with Shepard's drawings, two spots of soil to front around type of title. This is the first of the four Pooh books and scarcest with a print run of about 4,000. Second state of the true first with ix on contents page.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Co., 1st US, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped in red. When the family's inn burns down, Father Fortune decides to purchase a caravan so the family can travel through France making their living as a circus. 120 pages, illustrations (some color) by Maggie Salcedo. Covers with light soil/darkening to areas. interior bright and clean.