Children's Fiction

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/ Michael Di Capua, 2nd pr., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 128 pages, b&w illustrations by Babbitt. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 164 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st thus, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 356 pages. Color and b&w illustrations by Richard Powers. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, A.L. Burt, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with dark blue lettering on the spine. 145 pages, b&w photos from the movie. Inscription on the half-title page otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, C.S. Francis & Co., 1st, 1850, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed tan cloth with the publisher's Little Library motif on the cover, 160 pages, two illustrated title pages, several b&w line drawings throughout, not credited. Title page dated 1850. Inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise clean with only mild foxing.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth with green stamping, 57 pages illustrated in b&w by Lynd Ward.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 46 pages, b&w frontis by Marguerite Kirmse. The final, charming & touching story of a resourceful little dog's adventures by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the canonical British author & journalist, published two years after his death. The story of a truffle-hunting dog and his many adventures. Dust jacket chipped, spine faded. clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, David McKay, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket, 150 pages. SIGNED BY PIERCE on the front fly leaf. Samantha longs for a part on the stage but in Elizabethan England that is forbidden for girls. She sells oranges instead, hoping to make a living for herself and her invalid mother. However, when her mother dies and Samantha is desperate for a place to stay she realizes the only possibility is to seek refuge with her friend Hugh, an apprentice to John Heminges' theatrical troupe. This requires a reckless masquerade. Rear endpapers with transparent tape.

Hardcover. NY, Arthur A. Levine Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 342 pages. Medieval life meets Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries of time and age, appealing to children of 9+ and older readers alike. The year is 1199, the place the Welsh Marches. Young Arthur de Caldicot is given a magical shining stone in which his legendary namesake is revealed. In 100 short chapters that brilliantly evoke life in a medieval manor, stories of the boy King Arthur begin to echo - and anticipate - the secrets and mysteries that emerge in his own life . . ." The winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Smarties Prize bronze award in 2001. First printing (with full number line including 1). Clean copy.

Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 128 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear at spine top.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, with illustrations by Paul Brown. Minor corner and edge wear and fade, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and foxing on top and fore edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Brothers, 1st Edition, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 93 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Illustrations by Frederic Remington throughout, one of the plates has come apart from the binding, page laid in. Decorated (4 color) red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Boards have agewear, light soil, scratches (see images). Binding good. Spine straight. Pages clean. Page and edges have some light tanning from age. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper and preliminary page.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Label on spine chipped. Red covers with light fading on spine. Clean, tight copy. Frayed on top spine material.

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, Atheneum, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. embossed blue cloth in a lightly worn dust jacket, unclipped. Mild fading to spine. B&w illustrations by Rick Schreiter. Ex-lib with stamping, residue to endpapers, otherwise clean. Wonderful whimscal traditional short stories that detail how various animals got their name. It all starts in God's workshop where he fashions shapes out of clay and breathes life into them. What is interesting is that Hughes gives the animals free will to choose themselves - both in terms of what they will eat, how they will live, what they will do and what their name will be.

Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with yellow lettering. 286 pages illustrated in b&w by Gordon Grant. Follows the popular The Half Deck, which he wrote in 1933. The Monarch, under Capt. McFarlane, leaves the Firth of Clyde for Africa, the Barbadoes, New Orleans, and back. War is declared while in Africa, and the ship tries to outrun a submarine. Small name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. In a future world, which looks back on ours as the fabulous, inventive age of Ago, a group of young people take over the guardianship of a marble torch and set out on a journey to find its true home. 176 pages, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hodder and Stoughton, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt decoration, 129 pages, 12 tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac. Included are Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Blue Beard and Beauty & the Beast. Clean copy.

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, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a chipped, worn dust jacket, 93 pages illustrated in b&w by Richard Erdoes. Written By the well-known raconteur who was often seen on Jack Paar's Tonight Show. The tale is narrated by Pinky Whiskereeno, a laboratory mouse who's suddenly lured into the wild open world. Large child's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, Dark brown leatherette, stamped in orange on front and spine. Dust jacket is bright with light chipping. B&w illustrations by Henry E. Vallely. Short worm holes to several pages at top margin, not affecting text. Paper tanning, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, original gold Holt Library Edition sticker to spine, 290 pages. After being jilted by her fiance, a young girl persuades her father to let her enter the business world rather than a convent. A young Renaissance woman defies tradition and wins independence in the world of commerce. Edith Martha Almedingen (1898-1971), was an Anglo Russian novelist, biographer, children's author and member of the Royal Society of Literature. Published originally in England in 1956. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with black lettering, 231 pages. B&w illustrations by Erick Berry.

Hardcover. Boston, W.A. Wilde Company, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt titles, 299 pages, color frontis by Harold Cue. Spine gilt faded, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 16 in The Bedtime Story Book series (per the number on the spine). 192 pages, b&w drawings by Harrison Cady. Copyright 1942 but a later reprint. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 13th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. light gray cloth with red stamping, 239 pages. Color frontis and b&w illustrations by Helen Sewell and Mildred Boyle. With 10/7 Thirteenth Edition D-V on copyright page. Previous owner's bookplate, mild residue on front endpapers, otherwise clean. Nice early reprint of this classic.

Hardcover. NY, Julian Messner, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 96 pages, b&w illustrations. A memoir by the children's book author. Clean copy.

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, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green, 308 pages. B&w illustrations by James. Front fly leaf with bookplate, residue, otherwise clean. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, BC Ed., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Newbery Medal sticker on front. 152 pages. A nice Book Club reprint of the Newbery winner. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige cloth stamped in green and brown, 86 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Leonard Shortall. Inscription on front fly leaf, mild soil to covers, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. 80 pages, b&w drawings by Arvis Stewart. Bold name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 24 pages illustrated in color by Michael Donato. Award-winning author William Jaspersohn brings American history alive in a moving immigrant tale. The story retells the amazing, true saga of the Eurich brothers from Prussia, who arrive five years apart in America in the 1880s and who miraculously end up on neighboring farms in central Vermont. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, David McKay Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth stamped in black, 175 pages illustrated in b&w by Elizabeth Black Carmer. A collection of American folk tales. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with yellow lettering, 72 pages, b&w illustrations by Bill Crawford. Everyone was happy when Valery, the calf, came to live with the Whippes, for she made a charming house pet. Their troubles began when Valery grew up to be a very large cow-like cow. How they solved this gigantic problem, or rather, how Valery solved it for them, is the climax of this amusing book. Corners worn, frayed.

Hardcover. London, Ward, Lock & Co, reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with silver pattern and lettering. Novel about three young merchant navy officers on a ship captured by pirates in the 1930s their imprisonment on a fortified island and their escape by sea. Has black and white frontis and plates. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Aladdin Books, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 174 pages. Black & white illustrations by Frederick T. Chapman. Short tears to rear fly leaf. Previous owner's signature and stamp front endpaper. Light soil to covers. Green top edge. Corners bumped. Two boys' adventures trying to obtain the bicycles they dream about.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 211 pages. Hardcover. Not ex-library. Black and white illustrations by Paul Brown. Front and rear endpapers illustrated in red. Part of the Clara Ingram Judson "They Came From" series. Green cloth covers with title in black on front cover and spine. Dust jacket with chipping and some tape repaired tears along edges - Jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Book listed on rear inside flap is "The Lost Violin". A few rough page edges from closed pages being opened by original owner. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. New York, Dover Publications, Inc, Reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers in slipcase. Color and b/w illustrations and color frontispieces by W.W. Denslow. A slight musty odor from being packed away. Smudges on some of the pages, otherwise clean. Bindings tight. Spines straight. Some foxing to edges.The Wonderful Wizard of OZ: 267 pages. Red spine, which is faded with a touch of foxing.The Marvelous Land of OZ: 287 pages. Blue spine which is faded with a touch of foxing.

Softcover. privately printed, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalogue with bibliographical descriptions. With an introduction by Frederick R. Goff. Frontispiece; vi , 97 pages. stiff paper wrappers. small 4to..

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, Grosset and Dunlap, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated boards with clear acetate dust jacket, 340 pages. Color and b&w illustrations by Lynd Ward. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 3rd pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 102 pages. Illustrated in line by Catherine Stock. A pampered child is transformed into a cat, with her beloved pet as a guide. Clean copy.

NY, Fredrick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth covers with orange lettering. 267 pages, b&w illustrations including endpapers map by William Siegel. A fictional account of Lawrence of Arabia's exploits in the Middle East written for juveniles. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton Juvenile, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Eleven-year-old Tessa deals with the death of her older brother and the grief affecting her family. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1940, 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 Brass Bound Trunk. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth, 240 pages, b&w drawings by the author. SIGNED BY BERRY on the front fly leaf. Young adult novel about a girl who goes to her relatives' upstate New York farm to help out during World War II. Suspicious Nazi agents try to muscle their way onto the farm. No dust jacket. Clean copy.