Children's Fiction

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 335 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Lockwood. Review copy with laid in slip. Edgewear. Dust jacket with soiling, chipping, large chunk missing from top of spine, small chunk from bottom. Brodart cover. Rust residue from metal paperclip on half title page.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st illustrated thus., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 117 pages. Color illustrations by Anthony Browne. Blue dust jacket shows very little wear.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st illustrated thus, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 365 pages. Edited by Virginia Kirkus. Black & white illustrations and color frontispiece by Henry C. Pitz. Corners bumped. Spine and corners rubbed. Spine faded. Soiling to covers. Gutter cracked on pg 177 and 272.

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. 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. 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, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Historical tale of a 16-year old during the Crusades. B&w illustrations by the author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, 1st illust. thus, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth pictorially stamped in color and gilt, top edge gilt. Juvenile classic illustrated with 8 color plates and endpapers drawing by George Wharton Edwards. 380 pages, 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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 227 pages. B&w illustrations by Victor Mays. Light blue cloth cover has fading around spine. Two teenage boys take a summer job along the Maine coast that turns into a mystery adventure. No markings.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with dark brown stamping, gilt title on spine. Illustrated with 4 b&w plates, not credited. Paper tanning but a tight, bright copy. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Julian Messner, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. A German story retold by Erich Kastner and translated by Richard & Clara Winston. Illustrated in color and b&w throughout by Horst Lemke. Story of a little town called Schilda and the people who lived there- who did everything wrong. They built a three cornered town hall, burned down a house to catch a mouse, etc. They are the SIMPLETONS!! No dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 193 pages. As The Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house.As the Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house. In an unapologetically severe story about four boys who victimize Karen Jerome and her family, Cormier once again explores the potential for malice in all of us. The teenagers leave the Jeromes' home in ruin; Karen is assaulted and subsequently hospitalized in a coma. Not for the squeamish, Cormier's novel doesn't mince words: "The vandals shit on the floors and pissed on the walls and trashed their way through the seven-room Cape Cod cottage." Like Robert Westall ( The Machine Gunners ; Blitzcat ), Cormier surpasses most other writers by the sheer force of his words. Much more than a pulp thriller, this compelling, richly textured novel is told from several points of view, including that of the vandals themselves. Cormier illuminates even the darkest characters with humanity, so that in the end, readers see the complicated fabric of life itself.

Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial green cloth with 3-color and gilt decoration, 385 pages plus publisher's ads. Sic b&w plates by H.C. Edwards. Name, date on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A gold Signed Cooy sticker is affixed to front. SIGNED BY BOYLE on a tipped-in page in front, T.C Boyle is an acclaimed author, winner of the Pen/Faulkner award and finalist for the National Book Award. Described as "both a suspenseful trip across America and a moving story about language, love and identity from one of America's most versatile and entertaining novelists" this story of a 33 year old deaf woman whose identity has been stolen is the closest thing to a thriller Boyle has written.

Hardcover. NY/Chicago, Saalfield Publishing , 1st, 1904, Book: Poor, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 140 pages. The many adventures of Billy, Jr. with b&w sketches and 6 full-page color plates by W.H. Fry. A very worn copy with a loose binding but all pages present, color frontis and title page loose. Spine worn.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 114 pages. Illustrated with b&w drawings by Paul Galdone. In the days of King Arthur there stood a mighty oak tree within the walls of a castle. Peace reigned in the castle until the fearsome night when Lionel, longlost brother of Lord Weldon, returned to cause trouble and unhappiness. It was then that Shan, the son of Lord Weldon, took on the duties of a knight and hid the sword in the hollow of the giant oak. The days that followed were filled with adventures that tried the courage of the young boy. Shan was surprised by bearded robbers in the woods. He met noble knights in plumed helmets, and eventually he even made a trip to high-towered Camelot. His story is filled with the pageantry and color of England in King Arthur's time. It creates a vivid picture of the Knights of the Round Table and the wisdom of King Arthur himself.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Typical Malley - to avoid being shipped off to boarding school, she takes off with some guy she met online. Poor Richard - he knows his cousin's in trouble before she does. Wild Skink - he's a ragged, one-eyed ex-governor of Florida, and enough of a renegade to think he can track Malley down. With Richard riding shotgun, the unlikely pair scour the state, undaunted by blinding storms, crazed pigs, flying bullets and giant gators. Clean copy.

Softcover. Boston, The Horn Book , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 95 pages. Reference of books and reading for children and young people. Featuring: 'Newbery and Caldecott Acceptance Speeches by Betsy Byars and Gail E. Haley, 'In Literary Terms' by John Rowe Townsend, 'A Second Golden Age? In a Time of Flood?' by Virginia Haviland and more. Light marking or library stamp on cover. Black & white illustrations. Interior clean and bright.

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. Boston, Horn Book, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 261 pages. Brown top edge. Yellowing to dust jacket, chipping to top of spine; in Brodart. Essays about children's literature selected from 25 years of the 'Horn Book Magazine'; 1924 - 1958. Introduction by Bertha Mahony Miller. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket 320 pages. With almost 5 million copies sold in the 60 years since it was published, generations of readers have journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in this beloved classic.This richly annotated edition includes bonus material from acclaimed children's literature scholar Leonard Marcus. Enriched by Jules Feiffer's splendid illustrations, the wit, wisdom, and wordplay of Norton Juster's offbeat fantasy are as beguiling as ever. The expansive annotations include interviews with the author and illustrator, illuminating excerpts from Juster's notes and drafts, cultural and literary commentary, and Marcus's own insights on the book. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A timeless tale by the incomparable Kate DiCamillo, complete with stunning full-color plates by Bagram Ibatoulline, honors the enduring power of love. Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost. Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside of a hoboes' camp, from the bedside of an ailing child to the bustling streets of Memphis. And along the way, we are shown a true miracle -- that even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn to love, to lose, and to love again.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige cloth with black stamping, 48 pages illustrated in b&w by Jay Yang. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 51 pages illustrated in b&w by John O'Brien. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Walker and Co., 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth, b&w illustrations by Laura Lydecker. Short essays interspersed with poetry. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, J.M. Dent, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a faded spine, 246 pages. Four color plates plus numerous b&w drawings by Rosalie K. Fry. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with wrap-around art by Trina Schart Hyman. Clean copy.

Softcover. Boston, Otter Books, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, color illustrations by Michael Foreman. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards, 46 pages illustrated in color by Ronald Himler. Despite her grandfather's reassurances, Annie worries about the coming branding of her own pet calf, Doodle, and she is determined to stand by Doodle all the way. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Softcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled, b&w illustrations. Reviews of current children's book, articles on their creators, publisher's ads. Articles include: Robert Lawson's America (Part 2), Realism Plus Fantasy Equals Magic by Roger Drury, Reviewer's Railments by Aidan Chambers. 127 pages. Light stamp to cover, interior bright and clean.

Hardcover. NY, McClure Phillips, 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 329 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white illust. by F.Y. Cory. Bright decorated green boards with gilt lettering. Clean copy.

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. Boston , Lothrop Publishing, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, turquoise cloth stamped in red and gilt, 306 pages. Twelve b&w illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Frontispiece piece protected by tissue guard. Unusually bright, clean copy. Light cornerwear to cover.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by N. Cameron Watson. Clean, tight copy.

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. NT, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in black and orange. 257 pages. When a Civil War veteran who had lost his leg in the fighting and who had been living in the poorhouse comes into an unexpected inheritance, he heads West towards Colorado - and takes 9 year old Danny and his dog with him. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and three internal plates by Rogers, The author was primarily known for being a great illustrator for Harper Brothers during the golden age of illustration. Stated first edition. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial cloth in a matching bright dust jacket. 223 pages with b&w drawings by Victor Ambrus. Discard stamp to front and rear endpapers but otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Toronto, Ryerson Press, reprint, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a tape-repaired dust jacket, 326 pages. Bookplate on front fly leaf, several pages in front and rear with homilies written in ink. Interior pages clean and bright.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1934, 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 Password to Larkspur Lane. Name on inside front cover. Clean, bright copy.

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, Rinehart & Co., 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering. SIGNED BY DEAN on the half-title page. 246 pages, a adventure story featuring pirates by this Vermont author. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

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. 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. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 3rd pr., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped with blue decoration, 427 pages. B&w drawings by Helene Carter. "The intrepid Swallows (explorers John, Susan, Titty, and Roger Walker) and fearsome Amazon pirates (Nancy and Peggy Blackett) sail the high seas, outwitting a pirate and his cutthroat crew, sharks, and the ravenous creatures of Crab Island in search of buried treasure." Hinges tender, pencil notation on dedication page otherwise clean. Mild shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, G. Howard Watt, 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped with black lettering and dog's profile. Color frontis by Charles Livingston Bull, 302 pages. Mystery novelist's scarce first book, chronicling the adventures of a German Shepherd living in the Canadian Northwest. Bookplate on inside front cover, front fly leaf missing. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with pictorial cloth, 275 pages, b&w drawings by Jacob Bates Abbott. Midnight is a colt who was born wild and never tamed. His mother, Lady Ebony, belonged to Major Howard ran away to join the band of wild mares which the chestnut stallion was leading. Midnight learned a lot from his beautiful mother who sacrificed herself for the young stallion. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 18 in The Bedtime Story Book series (per the number on the spine). 189 pages, b&w drawings by Harrison Cady. Copyright 1946 but a later reprint. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 184 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front fly leaf, in addition the there is a handwritten greeting card from Losure. The author presents this enthralling true story as a fanciful narrative featuring the original Cottingley fairy photos and previously unpublished drawings and images from the family archives. A delight for everyone with a fondness for fairies, and for anyone who has ever started something that spun out of control. Back matter includes source notes, a bibliography, and an index. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 194 pages. One-color and full-color illustrations by Fred Marcellino. Dust jacket spine has a tear, price stamp on flap. Clean copy. While other young weasels dance under the pines, Bagley thinks about Bridget, the mesmerizing fish who lives in a pond down the brook from his den. Only a true hero can save Bridget from the gruesome death that awaits her.