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. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth stamped with gilt lettering and flower blossoms on front cover. 304 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. B&w illustrations by Jessie McDermot, frontis with tissue guard. Small price sticker to front fly leaf, otherwise bright and clean.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, reprint, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 333 pages, blue cloth, later printing, first published in 1935. Black titles on spine. Name stamp on inside front cover. Paper tanning but a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Thomas Nelson, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth with gilt lettering, design on spine. 216 pages plus publisher's catalog in rear. Color frontis. and 11 b&w illustrations by Rowland Hilder. Previous owner's inscription to front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Mild wear to spine cloth. This is the more elusive first printing with the color plate in front, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Dana Estes & Co., 1st, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in green, red and blue. 112 pages with b&w drawings by Bridgeman and others. Small corner chips to 3 pages, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 136 pages. Minna wishes for many things. She wishes she understood the quote taped above her mother's typewriter:Fact and fiction are different truths. She wishes her mother would stop writing long enough to really listen to her. She wishes her house were peaceful and orderly like her friend Lucas's. Most of all, she wishes she could find a vibrato on her cello and play Mozart the way he deserves to be played. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with b&w stamping on front cover showing the twins. 206 pages, illustrated with drawings by Perkins. Handsome later printing of the third volume in the popular 'Twins Series' (1911-38). Inner flyleaf list cites up to "The Dutch Twins". Name on This Book Belongs To page. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 9 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. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Porter and Coates, 1st, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with beveled edges, ornate black and gilt stamped design on front cover and spine, all edges gilt. 315 pages, 44 b&w engravings, most full-page. A tale told from a dog's point of view. Front and rear hinges cracked, front endpaper missing, wear to spine extremities. Interior is clean and bright. Margaret Thomson Janvier was an American poet and author of children's literature who published under the pseudonym Margaret Vandegrift. Scarce title.
Hardcover. NY, Lodestar / E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 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 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. Boston, Little Brown, 2nd pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 173 pages, b&w illustrations by John Schoenherr. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Ginn and Co., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth stamped with a maroon and green decorative illustration. 364 pages, b&w drawings by Ruby Winckler.
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,
Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co. , 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, salmon cloth with black lettering, 178 pages. Color frontis, b&w drawings throughout. A collection of short stories for young adult readers.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with black design, 297 pages, decorations and endpapers illustration by Frank Dobias. Fading to cloth spine otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Co., 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 8 color illus. by Ethel F. Everett, 282 pages + pub. ad in rear. Color plate to front green covers. Soil to bottom edge, browning, fade to front and back paste-downs and flyleafs. Previous owner's mark on rear cover.
Hardcover. Garden City, NJ, Garden City Publishing Co., 1st Edition, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 63 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout by Shinn. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear. Decorated cover boards and endpapers. Pages clean, pages and edges have a touch of tanning from age, but otherwise unmarked. Binding good. Spine straight. In this beautiful book are collected all the outstanding "Christmas" passages from Dickens' writings, accompanied by Shinn's 12 superb full color drawings, as well a many imaginative and characteristic black and white sketches.
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. Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 238 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket shows heavy chipping and open and closed tears. Covered in plastic bro-dart. Previous owner's writing on front fly leaf, gutter cracked pg. 136-7. Previous bookshop sticker on rear end paper bottom.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In this story in verse, Godden has created a new & delightful myth out of the story of the Flood. 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, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, library edition (NOT ex-lib). B&w illustrations by William Sauts Bock. Tales of the Fox sisters and horses that wore charms. This collection of true tales of spiritualism in America is a rare read. The stories are as entertaining as Sleepy Hollo, the only difference is that many of these strange tales are thought to be true. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, originally published 1903, 355 pages, 6 color plates, numerous full-page & in-text b/w illustrations, blue cloth, full pictorial label front cover.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 159 pages. Publisher's 'Library Edition' sticker across foot of spine panel. A tale of prehistoric conflict inspired by an archaeological discovery in Yorkshire. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Birmingham AL, Reading Matter.Com, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Set in the South in the 1930s, Johnny and Will are identical twin boys who are separated at an early age. Will is part of a happy, well-off family near Birmingham, Ala. In Tennessee, Johnny is trying to survive neglect and abuse at the hands of his mean-spirted aunt. When Johnny sees a boy on a train who looks just like him, he is determined to meet him, despite every hurdle Aunt Min places in his path. Illustrated in b&w by Leanna Lesley.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 135 pages. The irony of the title will haunt readers of this novel as they delve into the mind of a WWII veteran whose face has been blown off by a grenade. After winning a Silver Star for bravery, 18-year-old Francis Cassavant could return home a hero, but he keeps his identity secret in anticipation of murdering a personal enemy and wanders the streets of his hometown as a lone, grotesque figure ("People glance at me in surprise and look away quickly or cross the street when they see me coming"). The man Francis seeks is Larry LaSalle, who was once his mentor and who has also earned a Silver Star. Cormier (Tenderness; In the Middle of the Night) offers two levels of suspense in this thriller. His audience will tensely await the inevitable confrontation between the two men while trying to extract Francis's motive for murder from flashbacks revolving around his high school sweetheart and the Wreck (Recreation) Center, where they spent many happy hours under the direction of LaSalle. Cormier is once again on top of his game, as he constructs intrigue, develops complex characters and creates an unexpected climax. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth with red and black design, 311 pages. Volume in the Motor Power Series for older boys. Previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 9th pr., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 392 pages, b&w drawings by Pamela Bianco. A lovely collection of stories and poems about the springtime holiday with charming b&w line drawings by the splendid Bianco.
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, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a $2.75 price on flap. 56 pages illustrated in b&w by Garrett Price. SIGNED BY JOHNSON "with best wishes" on the 2nd blank page. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick A Stokes, 1st US, 1938, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, green cloth with faded gilt title on spine, 320 pages. Black and white illustrations and a color frontispiece by Isobel and John Morton Sale. Cloth dulled, faded on spine, otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1884-85, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 12 issues bound in one volume, dark green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 958 pages. A collection of the best juvenile writing and illustration of the day. The premier children's magazine in America at this time, offering a mix of fiction (some of it fantastic), articles, humor and lavish illustrations. This volume contains the original serialization of Davy and the Goblin by Charles Carryl, a "delightful Victorian story of how Davy. who didn't believe in fairies, was taken for a Believing Voyage by a coal-eating goblin in a grandfather clock." These issues include stories about tennis, futuristic tricycles and choosing an occupation; also biographies of classical composers such as Beethoven, Bach and Wagner by Agatha Tunis. Includes writings by Frank R. Stockton, Marion Satterlee, George J. Manson and many others. Clean copy, no library marks. Front hinge cracked.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 191 pages, b&w illustrations by Charles Robinson. Sometimes Robbie wishes his family were just a little more normal. With the toddler twins, life is happy, wild, and a big mess, but when the teacher is invited to dinner, Robbie worries about how to explain them and his stay-at-home father. Clean copy.
NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. Color illustrations by Chris Conover.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright price-clipped dust jacket, 121 pages, illustrated by De Angeli in b&w. Newbery Medal sticker on cover. First published in 1949 this is the 15th printing. Clean copy.
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. 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.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co., 1st, 1929, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with black titles, color label on front cover. Color and b&w plates by Arnold Hicks. Some short tears to pages, not affecting plates. Covers with edgewear, name on front fly leaf.
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