Children's Fiction

NY, Putnam, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket.Black & white illustrations by Charles Robinson. As the first Woman's Rights Convention, in Seneca Falls, New York, draws near, hired girl Josie Dexter, initially uninterested in the convention, takes an eventful steamboat ride on Seneca Lake.

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. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1872, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 215 pages. B&w frontispiece with tissue guard and b&w illustrations throughout. Green cloth cover with gilt titles on spine. Rubbing and edgewear to cover with cloth frayed at top and bottom of spine. Small tear to front flyleaf. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Some light spotting.

Hardcover. New York, New World Publishing Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 158 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Red cloth cover boards, blue title on spine and designs on front cover board. Dust jacket price clipped. Original bookstore price tag on dust jacket front flap, some agewear to dust jacket (see image).

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press , 3rd pr., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright dust jacket that has light edgewear. Illustrated with b&w drawings by William Stobbs. 248 pages transl. from German by Isabel and Florence McHugh. Clean copy. Against the dramatic background of hardship and adventure of his fourth voyage of discover to the West Indies the author has set the enigmatic character of Columbus himself, and the moving story of his son Fernan's friendship with the Red Indian boy Tahaka. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Co., 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 59 pages. Story of a little girl and her pet pig set in Maine. B&w drawings by Paul Kennedy. Inscription on front fly leaf, 0therwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards. In this witty, fast-paced sequel to Getting Even, seventh-grader Iris Bloom can handle anything, whether it's a fashion crisis or the despicable Corky Newton. What's more, she is certain she doesn't need a baby-sitter. But when a visit alone to the mall ends in a frightening near-assault, she changes her mind.

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton-Century Company, reprint, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Green cloth boards with white illustration on cover, white lettering on spine. 226 pages, b&w drawings by Peggy Bacon. Charming story of the little girl, Miss Boo, and her adventures. Reviews on rear of dust jacket suggest this is a reprint.

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. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1918, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth with cover label, gilt lettering and design faded. This is a American Indian legend called Lost Indian Magic, a mystery story of the Red Man as he lived before the White Man came, Eight color plates by Carl Moon, the one opposite page 70 is loose and laid in. Covers worn, hinges cracked, no markings.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Company, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 issues bound in one volume, black pebbled cloth over boards, gilt lettering on spine. 526 pages, b&w illustrations. A collection of the best juvenile writing and illustration of the day. Clean copy, no library marks. Each issue of St. Nicholas includes stories, often by well-known authors, as well as dozens of charming illustrations, photos, riddles, poems, letters, and non-fiction articles written for young people. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Chicago, M.A. Donohue & Company, reprint, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with a pastedown of a white & brown dog on the front cover. Color frontis (matches cover), 130 pages. Child's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Cassell and Company, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with color pastedown of stagecoach on cover, black lettering and design. Gilt title on spine. 232 pages, 4 color plates including frontis of airships, many b&w illustrations throughout. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with orange lettering, 112 pages plus publisher's catalog in rear. "There were two ways in which Peter Mink was different from any other person in Pleasant Valley, or on blue Mountain, either. In the first place, he had no home; and in the second, he had a very long neck." Four two-color plates and endpapers by Harry L. Smith. Copyright page states 1916 but probably a reprint, last title of books in the Sleepy Time Series in front is Paddy Muskrat. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Ariel Books, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black. A teenage boy's adventure on a cattle drive from Texas to Dodge City in the 1870s. B&w illustrations by Tom Leamon (Tom Lea? Looks like his work). Light shelf wear, no dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st illust thus, 1921, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black, light blue and gilt. 185 pages. 12 color plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations throughout by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Front hinge cracked with spine cloth starting to separate, binding shaken but holding. All 12 color plates present, in excellent condition and without tears, creases or rubs. Covers edgeworn with bump to bottom corner of cover. Gilt faded on spine and front board, a bookplate on the front fly leaf. a lighter gutter crack between pages 22 and 23. Despite flaws, an attractive copy of the scarce American edition.

Hardcover. Grand Rapids MI, Zondervan, reprint, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green, 94 pages. "The story of a Scottish lassie who went to the west coast of Africa and tamed the savage tribes ..." Color frontis., Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, circa 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, green cloth in a dust jacket that has a big chunk gone from front panel, 369 pages. First published in 1913 this reprint is from mid-40s with Wartime notation on title page. No marking, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Ginn And Company, 1st transl., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, textured green cloth with dark green and gilt design. 212 pages. Translated by Walter S. Camp, revised by Sara E H. Lockwood. Illustrated in b&w by Charles Copeland. Minor residue to front fly leaf suggesting an ex-library but no other markings. The author, Carlo Lorenzini, had "so little confidence in his own literary ability that he wrote under the assumed name of C. Collodi" which was the name of his native village. Spine lightly faded. A charming edition of this classic.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W drawings by Burt Silverman. In a nice, crisp dust jacket. Previous owner's embossed stamp otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1889, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige color cloth stamped in dark brown and gilt with two boys riding the rapids in a canoe. Four b&w plates plus map. Mild wear to top and bottom of spine otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in black and gilt. 163 pages plus publisher's ads. Eight b&w illustrations by W.L. Sheppard. Four stories about boy's adventure in the Civil War that originally ran in Harper's Young People. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. US, Candlewick, 3rd printing, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 231 pages, illustrated in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Winner of 2014 Newbery Medal.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. Color frontispiece, b&w illustrations by Henry Pitz. Previous owner's inscription, name on half-title page. "Edward Morrell suddenly steps from the freshman class at Harvard into the interior of Brazil where, he has heard, a young man may earn money provided he has courage. A jealous rancher intends to destroy the foreigner's lumber business, killing if necessary the owner and young Morrell"

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale gray cloth stamped in blue, 217 pages. Blue endpapers, frontis. and 9 b&w illustrations by Armstrong Sperry. A story about the building of Old Ironsides. Name on front fly leaf and half title page. Interior tight and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Cupples & Leon, 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth stamped in black and red. #3 in the Bob Dexter series. Color frontispiece. Clean copy. By the author of the "Boy Ranchers" series, this is book #3 in the short-lived, 7- book YA detective series published 1925-1933.

Hardcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, six issues of the bi-monthly bound in tan cloth. Clean. Articles by and about Penelope Lively, Lawrence Yep, Mollie Hunter, Leonard Wibberley, Peter Spier, Katherine Paterson, Paula Fox, Virginia Hamilton, Ellen Raskin, Margaret Hodges, many others. Dozens of book reviews, ads.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton Children's Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 170 pages with b&w drawings by George. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. All numbers including 1 on copyright page. A like-new signed copy of the sequel to the Newbery Honor-winning, My Side of the Mountain. This time, Sam must save both his younger sister and his trusty falcon, Frightful. Dust jacket art by Ted Rand.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press , 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red covers stamped with black lettering and line art of plane with map of Norway behind it. Color frontis by Howard Leigh and 6 b&w plates by Alfred Sindall. 1941 date on copyright page, no other printings noted, top edge stained red. Written by William Earl Johns, an English First World War pilot and writer of adventure stories, who wrote under the pen name Capt. W. E. Johns. He is best known for creating the fictional air-adventurer Biggles. In this exciting Biggles adventure, we see the much-loved adventurer stranded in Oslo during the Nazi occupation. Biggles is advised to find out all he can about the enemy's intentions, all while assuming the identity of a member of the Gestapo. Covers show wear, light soil. Small ink name on front endpaper, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 2 in The Smiling Pool Series (per the number on the spine). 198 pages, b&w drawings by Harrison Cady. Copyright 1925 but a later reprint. Dust jacket with sort edge tears. Clean copy.

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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by Burton. An attractive reprint of a book first published in 1941. Clean copy.

Hardcover. McLelland and Stewart, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket. Blue cloth with black lettering, 208 pages, b&w photo illustrations. Girl's adventure story set among the Eskimos of Arctic Canada. Features Ginnie, who drives her team of huskies as well as any man. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Crocker & Brewster, 1st, 1839, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed design to black cloth, gilt title on spine. Engraved frontis of sailing ships, has original tissue guard. This title not part of a series, but a "stand alone' title. (Abbott also wrote the 'Rollo' series for children.) 180 pages. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in color by Daniel San Souci. Nine poems and stories about Easter and Bunnies, including The Velveteen Rabbit and The Easter Bunny that Overslept. Previous owner's name on the 'belongs to' page. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 2nd pr., 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 260 pages, b&w illustrations by Fritz Eichenberg. 1943 Newbery Award Honor Winner. Second printing, no medal on dust jacket. Library stamp on half title page otherwise clean, no other ex-lib treatments. Dj has light soil, edgewear, unclipped with $2.00.

Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial orange cloth stamped in black, 275 pages, with 17 b&w illustrations by F.. Strothmann Seventeen tales told by a nautical Munchausen, including fantastical stories. "The Voyage of the Good Ship Luna" is an account of the Captain's trip to the Moon. Captain Penhallow Freedom is hired by Professor Aloysius McGonigle to navigate a rocket to the Moon; the rocket misfires and the pair are blown through a tunnel into a theme park on Long Island. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. , 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in red, 226 pages A collection of 12 stories from different countries, illustrated by Harold Cue from drawings by Jenny Nystrom. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 176 pages. B&w illustrations by Paul Galdone. A young boy of the Louisiana Bayou wants to be hunter and fisherman like his father. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Century Co., reprint, 1907, Book: Good, 236 pages, b&w line illustrations by Reginald Birch (not credited). Green cloth with gilt, silver and plum decoration. Previous owner's decorative bookplate on front fly leaf otherwise clean with light foxing. Gutter crack on page 48.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2nd pr., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 97 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Light soil to dust jacket. Tight copy. Illustrated with Marshall's b&w humorous cartoon drawings.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, lavender cloth with black lettering and design. End papers show the Dana girls reading a letter printed in dark green. Nancy Drew titles listed to The Mystery of the Ivory Charm. Name on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Winchester UK, St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 142 pages. Mary Elliott (then Mary Belson) began writing for children in 1809, at a time when increasing literacy and wealth and more progressive understanding of the reading needs of children were creating a growing demand for more and more books for young people. Beginning with two books in verse - one a lively tale about town and country mice, the other, an anthology including many of her own poems - she went on to produce a stream of books on a variety of subjects. Her stories, some eventful and exciting, were mostly about real children learning to tackle the everyday circumstances and difficulties which they encountered in the world around them. These books were made all the more attractive by her publisher, William Darton, who provided them with entertaining illustrations, many of them interesting today for their depiction of contemporary scenes and fashions. Mary Elliott's books soon spread across the Atlantic, and American publishers reissued many of them, sometimes adapting the text to local circumstances. Although her books are now forgotten, they cannot be disregarded by researchers into the history of childhood and of children's literature. This bibliography contains about 470 entries. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A young adult mystery set off the coast of Spain featuring a parrot named Alice. Clean copy. Dust jacket art by Emily MCCU1lly.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum Books, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. A reprint of the classic Scribner's edition from 1911 featuring all 14 of Wyeth's color plates.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 196 pages.One night out of the blue, Ratchet Clark's ill-natured mother tells her that Ratchet will be leaving their Pensacola apartment momentarily to take the train up north. There she will spend the summer with her aged relatives Penpen and Tilly, inseparable twins who couldn't look more different from each other. Staying at their secluded house, Ratchet is treated to a passel of strange family history and local lore, along with heaps of generosity and care that she has never experienced before. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Joyce does not mind living near a garbage dump, except for the incessant teasing from the kids at school, but being different does not bother Mrs. Fish, the new school custodian, who turns out to be the one person who understands what it is like to be an outsider. Previously published in 1980 under the title "Mrs. Fish, Ape, and Me, The Dump Queen". Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with a 3-color design on the front cover. 344 pages, b&w frontispiece illustration. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprints, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four hardcover volumes in glazed boards. This set includes the complete Newbery Medal-winning Giver Quartet series: The Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son. Missing the box but all like new, a matching set. Clean copies.