Children's Fiction

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1st printing of this reissue, square 8vo, cloth backed boards, twelve tales illustrated in line by Nonny Hogrogian. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan covers stamped with a black and green design. 283 pages plus 4-page catalog in back. 21 b&w line illustrations by W.A. Rogers. No date on title page, copyright page states 1882. No other printings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. Color frontis and 8 b&w plates by George and Doris Hauman. The story of Deborah Owens and her adventures during the War of 1812 in a small Vermont town near the Canadian border, 272 pages. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Light shelf wear. Uncommon title.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 192 pages. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth boards decorated in darker green and gilt on cover and gilt on spine, top edges gilt, 105 pages. Forty-five children's tales from the prolific Boston author. Light residue to inside rear cover otherwise bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 153 pages. The story of a twelve year old girl who always wanted to live on an island and who goes camping with two friends where shocking and suspenseful events combine to destroy their friendship. A realistic story for young adults from this British author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in black, 314 pages. Color frontis and endpaper drawing by Rowland Hilder, b&w illustrations by Richard Southern. An historical adventure set on the high sea. Mild shelf wear to covers, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. 214 pages. An angry young man uses the powers of an ancient cat cult to possess the children of a lethargic English village. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 165 pages with b&w drawings by Ralph Pinto. A leprechaun must recapture the tune he lost to a fiddler. Pinto's chapter-top illustrations liven this already lively chain of Irish folk tales, loosely tied together through Brogeen the Leprechuan. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Ottawa Ontario, Ru-Mi-Lou Books, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards stamped in two shades of blue, 79 pages, endpaper illustration and line drawings by the author. Dime-size stain to front cover, two pages with small chips to fore-edge. Otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 13 in The Bedtime Story Book series (per the number on the spine). 192 pages, b&w drawings by Harrison Cady. Copyright 1944 but a later reprint. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st US, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in matching dust jacket with light wear. 95 pages with b&w illustrations by Haris Petie. A charming tale set on the Virgin Island of St. John. Fairly clean ex-lib with stamping to endpapers.

NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 186 pages.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 309 pages. B&w illustrations by Milton Menasco. Clean copy. Black Minx has the strength and stamina to win the most famous horse race in the world, but she doesn't seem to like racing. So strongly does she resist training that Alec Ramsay and Henry Dailey have to trick her into running! But Black Minx has a few tricks of her own....

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & McClure, reprint, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with illustrated label on front cover, 350 pages. An early printing of this dog classic. Name on blank prelim page, otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, Dover, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 424 pages. B&w illustrations by H. J. Ford. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards with a young Shirley Temple on cover. 250 pages with several b&w photos from the movie. Paper tanning. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Paterson NJ, St. Anthony Guild Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with gilt lettering, 114 pages. Five b&w plates by Anthony A. MacGrath. From a private school library with light stamping, gilt faded.

Hardcover. London, J.M. Dent and Sons, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 246 pages, 4 color plates, b&w drawings by H. Baumhauer.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin/Ariel, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. color paste-down on front cover. Color illustrations by Chris Van Allsburg. Clean copy

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1949, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Golden Story Book, #9, 128 pages illustrated in color by Aurelius Battaglia. This Golden Story book tells four The Penny Puppy, Hook-and-ladder Pepper, Jill's Jack and The Friendless Puppy. Penny Puppy is a story about a little homeless puppy and how he comes to find his home. Hook-and-ladder Pepper is about a Dalmatian that belongs to Firehouse #3 and his duties and adventures there. Jill's Jack tells about how Jill came to be Jack's girl and The Friendless Puppy tells how he found a friend. Clean copy,

NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&W drawings by Ati Forberg. 56 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2010, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 394 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition. SIGNED IN RED PEN BY FUNKE on title page. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine and design on front cover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. In beautiful condition.

Hardcover. New York , Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages illustrated in color by Michael Hague. INSCRIBED BY HAGUE WITH AN INK SKETCH OF A FAIRY SITTING ON A TOADSTOOL on the title page. Minor wear to dust jacket, yellowing a bit at edges.

Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 186 pages. Jeff tables his dreams of directing movies when his dream girl, who left town to become a theatrical star, returns as an unwed mother. PW called this an "engrossing story of lopsided love," but added that "the term YA is really too elastic; this story requires a reader more mature than a 12-year-old." Dust jacket price-clipped otherwise like new.

Hardcover. NY, Lodestar / E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT on front fly leaf. Drusie Valentini feels she is trapped on a merry-go-round, going nowhere. She doesn't fit in with the rest of her arty family: her extravagant puppeteer father, his gypsylike assistant Fey who moved in when her mother left; even her pesky brother Punch. At a party a boyfriend talked her into giving ends in disaster-and in getting sent to a strict boarding school. In a year where it seems that everyone is pulling her strings, Drusie is forcd to come to terms with her life with the people she loves best-and with the person she is, and hopes to be. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY STONE WITH A SKETCH OF A FISH JUMPING OVER THE MOON on the front fly leaf. Unable to afford dance lessons, Fiona struggles to develop her skills while caring for her emotionally detached sister and longing for her family to heal from a past tragedy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company, reprint, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in gilt and dark brown. Four b&w plates not credited. This novel set in the late nineteenth century provides heartwarming tales of faith and love. Gossip, family failures, and errors in judgment threaten the lives of Ralph Bramlett and Estelle Douglass, but hope is found in the darkest of times. No date on title page, copyright page states 1896. Part of a uniform set so assumed a reprint. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

NY, Burt/Blue Ribbon Books, reprint, circa 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, light green cloth with gilt & black decorated cover and spine labels. 258 pages. Four color plates by Charles Folkard, many b&w text drawings (not credited). Dust jacket chipped and worn. states translation by May M. Sweet, but title page gives M. A. Murray as translator. The mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. It is considered a canonical piece of children's literature and has inspired hundreds of new editions, stage plays, merchandising and movies, such as Walt Disney's iconic animated version and commonplace ideas such as a liar's long nose. No markings.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Griffith and Rowland Press, 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth covers stamped in white and dark blue. Story of survival based on a wreck in the China Sea of the Ketrel, a full-rigged ship bound from Liverpool to Yokohama, Japan. 360 pages, illustrated in b&w, one plate not present (the map on pg. 135). Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. For this beautiful anthology of six masterpiece Wonder Tales, Marine Warner invited the collaboration of five writers with a special sympathy for the French stories they render here in burnished, cunning, and amusing English. "The White Cat", "The Subtle Princess", "Bearskin", "Starlight", The Counterfeit Marquise", and "The Great Green Worm" are as unforgettable today as they were when they were first published centuries ago. Translated by Gilbert Adair, John Ashbery, Ranjit Bolt, A.S. Byatt and Terence Cave. with small black and white drawings by Sophie Herxheimer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books , 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This copy SIGNED on title page, by Timberlake, with the inscription "Keep loving, keep fighting!/Amy Timberlake"). Pearl and brown boards w/silver spine lettering. A young girl unafraid to fight injustice finds herself in a battle against the richest woman in town. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 332 pages, tissue guard frontis, and b/w plates by A. B. Shute. Red cloth, gilt title front and spine, pictorial front cover with flag and man on horse. #4 in Old Glory Series. Front and rear hinges cracked, inscription on front

Hardcover. Detroit MI, Gale Research Co., 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes with orange cloth covers. 275, 335 pages. Biographical data are interspersed with autobiographical and critical excerpts from the writings of nineteenth and twentieth-century authors and illustrators. B&w illustrations throughout. Name on front fly leafs, otherwise clean. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Lonette Reisie. The author's grandmother's story about walking on an iceberg in the Baltic Sea.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with edgewear, 95 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Paul Geiger. A fast-moving mystery for young adults by a Newbery Honor winner. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, chipped dust jacket. Based on the Harold Gray comic strip. Illustrated with comic book style art. When Annie and Sandy stopped in the little town of Butternut, a train robbery and an abandoned mine threaten to entangle the two of them in a mysterious maze of circumstances. Front hinge partially cracked, paper tanning. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 134 pages. When his cousin Katy is kidnapped at night by a Grabbly, Rupert enlists the aid of flying pirates and a kindly badger to rescue her from the Wizard of Castle Dread. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green, 1st US, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with dark green lettering and decoration, 151 pages. Four 2-color plates, endpapers design and b&w text drawings by James Reid. The story of a polar bear. Mild shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 12 issues bound in one volume, dark green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 1070 pages. A collection of the best juvenile writing and illustration of the day. Clean copy, no library marks. Hinge crack at rear of volume.

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Company, 2nd pr., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in very worn, chipped dust jacket with tape repairs, 241 pages, frontispiece by Edward Shenton. Novel based on the historic 1780 Indian raid on Royalton, in the White River Valley of Vermont. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 10th pr., 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, ex-lib with worn dust jacket. Normal stamping, residue to endpapers. Interior clean. b&w drawings by Angelo. Growing up in a well-to-do family with strict rules and routines can be tough for a ten-year-old girl who only wants to roller skate. But when Lucinda Wyman's parents go overseas on a trip to Italy and leave her behind in the care of Miss Peters and Miss Nettie in New York City, she suddenly gets all the freedom she wants! Lucinda zips around New York on her roller skates, meeting tons of new friends and having new adventures every day. But Lucinda has no idea what new experiences the city will show her.... Some of which will change her life forever.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, BC Ed., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 89 pages. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Brett Helquist. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 248 pages. Clean copy. Tunis' World Series is Book #2 in his 8- book series on the Brooklyn Dodgers. Roy Tucker and his Brooklyn Dodgers teammates summon every ounce of their collective skill to fight for the greatest title in baseball -- World Series champs.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Lodestar / E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY WRIGHT on front fly leaf. Drusie Valentini feels she is trapped on a merry-go-round, going nowhere. She doesn't fit in with the rest of her arty family: her extravagant puppeteer father, his gypsy-like assistant Fey who moved in when her mother left; even her pesky brother Punch. At a party a boyfriend talked her into giving ends in disaster-and in getting sent to a strict boarding school. In a year where it seems that everyone is pulling her strings, Drusie is forced to come to terms with her life with the people she loves best-and with the person she is, and hopes to be. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, BC Ed., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in black, 120 pages, B&w illustrations by Bice. A Weekly Reader Book Club Edition. Paper tanning, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Whittlesey House, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black and red, 50 pages illustrated in 2-colors and b&w by Plato Chan. Adapted from an Old Chinese Legend by Plato and Christina Chan. The Text by Christina Chan. The Illustrations by Plato Chan. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia/NY, J. B. Lippincott Co., 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards with tan cloth spine. 40 pages illustrated with 2-color drawings by Francois. A number of remarkable things do happen when the small Pierre steals a bun (from the best of motives) and is chased through the streets of Paris by twenty-seven and a half policemen and other worthy citizens. Because the currants are magic Pierre manages to evade his pursuers by way of the top of the Eiffel Tower and other historic spots. Eventually he lands in the Bastille, which turns, quite logically, into a giant Swiss cheese. The story has all the tense complications of a dream and the same inexplicable reasonableness, plus a deadpan humor seldom found in dreams. Covers worn, small paper scar/chipping under "The "in the title. Name on front fly leaf, binding a little loose, otherwise clean.