Hardcover. NY, S.G. Phillips, 1st US, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 94 pages, illustrated with drawings by Moyra Leatham. Clean copy, dj price-clipped.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 4th pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 199 pages. A tale set in the 1950s hill country of Virginia. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Ex-lib with residue and stamping to endpapers and top edge.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Kestrel, B.C. Club, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by Tracey Campbell Pearson. Someone has stolen the Queen of Hearts' fresh-baked tarts and the chase for the culprit is on. Jack and Jill search over their hill, and Little Jack Horner has no tarts in his corner. All of nurseryland joins the search! Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Schocken Books, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket 128 pages, color illustrations by Michael Foreman.
Softcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1968, 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 on the Centenary of "Little Women" (1868-1968) by Cornelia Meigs, Lavinia Russ, Aileen Fisher and Olive Rabe. Frank Merrill illustrations, 159 pages. Light stamp to cover, interior bright and clean.
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, Scribners, Reprint, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 351 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Full color illustrations by Nancy Barnhart. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Darkening to cloth spine. Titles on spine, and cover in gilt. Gutter cracked onpages 94/95.
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, 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. NY, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 189 pages, illustrated in b&w by Erik Blegvad. Book Club Ed. Clean copy. By the author of the beloved "Borrowers" series, this book combines 2 of the author's earlier works (1943, 1957), "The Magic Bed-Knob" & "Bonfires and Broomsticks,'' into a single volume, magically illustrated by Erik Blegvad. A Book Club edition from 1971, this hardcover book has bright blue cloth-covered boards with black lettering to spine.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Willow doesn't know what to do. Her mother has taken off again, she has to look after her brother Twig, and they're out on the streets of Vancouver with nowhere to go. Then Willow remembers her grandmother, whom she hasn't seen in years. Gram doesn't even know Twig exists, and Twig is, well, difficult. But Gram is her only hope now. After a few urgent phone calls from a police station in Vancouver to Ontario, Willow and Twig are on their way across the country to a grandmother they hardly know, and a strange household made up of an eccentric uncle, a hostile aunt, and a motley crew of animals. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black, no dust jacket. Second mystery "The Curious Case of Callista" begins on page 133, b&w illustrations by Genevieve Foster. Front cover has fading/discoloration to green cloth, inside clean.
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, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 216 pages. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black, gilt lettering on spine, 288 pages plus an illustrated catalog of the author's books in rear. Frontis with tissue guard plus b&w plates by Jessie McDermot. Susan Chauncey Woolsey was an American children's author who wrote under the pen name Susan Coolidge. Beginning in 1872, she wrote five children's novels about Katy and the fictional Carr family, with the family modeled after her own relations, and Katy based on the author herself. Red cloth with some discoloration, light soil. Overall, a tight, clean copy, good plus.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth with pictorial design on front in red and black. The Bedtime Story-Books. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf and dated. "Sincerely your friend, Thornton W. Burgess Nov 12, 1919 Chug-a-rum!" Six b&w plates by Harrison Cady. Front hinge cracked, binding shaken. but holding. Some star stickers on front endpapers, Still, a nice early Burgess signature.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 151 pages. The adventures of four runaway boys who band together in a bleak area of London. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , Reprint, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 431 pages. Black & white illustrations and color frontis and title page by F.D. Bedford. Some browning to end-papers. Front and spine of gray cloth cover with black and red design. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Baker & Taylor Company, 2nd pr., 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Decorated olive cloth covers with titles in black in ruled border. Titles on spine in orange. 396 pages. Five black & white illustrations plus frontispiece with tissue guard by F.R. Gruger. Bookseller's label on front end paper. Rubbing to corners and spine. 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. 3 in The Smiling Pool Series (per the number on the spine). 206 pages, b&w drawings by Harrison Cady. Copyright 1926 but a later reprint. Clean copy.
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. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. There is some light scribbling on cover of book (hidden by the dust jacket) and rear bottom of dj. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, reprint, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with a green and black decoration to the front cover. 4 b&w plates by George Varian. Light shelf wear. Clean copy.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped in red and blue, 186 pages. B&w drawings by Valenti Angelo. Light shelf wear. Name on front fly leaf otherwise no marking.
Hardcover. NY, M. Evans/Lippincott, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 59 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Mehlli Gobhai. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Franklin Printing Co., 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Limited Edition with the text taken from the author's Bred in the Bone, illustrated here by Edward C. Smith. A Christmas keepsake for the publisher's customers.
Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Every country has its folk hero--real or legendary, and in Turkey he goes by the name of Nasreddin Hoca, pronounced Nahz-red'-din Hoe'-djah. He lived several years ago and he served as a religious teacher, Moslem priest or judge as the occasion demanded. In spite of these exalted duties he was as human as any man. Barbara Walker has put together only a sampling of the hundreds of Hoca tales that exist. She has captured in English the same directness typical of a Turkish storyteller as he relates one of the well-known, well-loved stories of the wisdom or foolishness of Nasreddin Hoca. 72 pages. Illustrated by Harold Berson. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in dark brown, 192 pages, endpapers illustration (not credited). Light shelf wear, clean copy. No dust jacket.
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. London, The Epworth Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Stories and fables from French West Africa. 126 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, reprint, 1867, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Green pebble-grained cloth with gilt spine lettering and decorations. 428 pages, 5 full-page tissue-guarded illustrations. Very good. Mild binding edgewear; endpapers faintly age toned. The author, Rev. Morgan, ran a mission in Boston and wrote this account of real street kids and their problems. The names are fictitious but the stories are mostly true.
Hardcover. New York , The Viking Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 189 pages, decorations by Lynd Ward. Dust jacket with minor edgewear, creases, tears at spine, price clipped - still Good. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt decoration. Octavo, seven inserted plates with illustrations by Helen Mason Grose, original decorated red cloth. First edition. Collection of twenty stories. INSCRIBED BY PORTER on front fly leaf. Directly underneath there's another inscription from the person the book is dedicated to: ANNIE SANFORD HEAD.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, reprint, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket, 301 pages. Adventure on the High Seas in Which Stuart Ormsby is Shanghaied Aboard the Tramp Steamer 'Nanking' Bound for Ports on the China Coast.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 50 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green throughout. Quarter cloth hard cover with pictorial paper over boards. Prior owner's signature (dated 1916) and address label on front flyleaf. Tissue cover on frontispiece illustration. .A bit of soil on covers, and moisture stain on top edge. Binding still tight, in very good condition for its age. Charming old book of children's poetry.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Oblong hardcover in turquoise cloth lettered in yellow, Color illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with color and black and white drawings by the author. INSCRIBED BY DE ANGELI on tile page and dated 1940. Stated First Edition. In a bright dust jacket with light edgewear that's unclipped ($2.00). The story of two little Quaker girls living in Philadelphia just before the Civil War.
Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, rep, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 328 pages. Foreword by Robert H. Davis. First few pages loose. Light rubbing to corners and spine.
Hardcover. Philadephia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 7th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial red cloth boards with gilt titles to front board. 212 pages; 8 illustrations in color by Maria L. Kirk; 7 stories for children by Louisa de la Rame (Ouida) : "Moufflou," "A Provence Rose," "Lampblack," "The Ambitious Rose Tree," "The Child of Urbing," Meleagris Gallopavo," "Findelkind."
Hardcover. NY, McClure, Phillips & Co., reprint, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with cover illustration, 295 pages, illustrated throughout, gilt top edge and title. Spine fade and minor corner and edge wear, ex-library stamps, letter F on spine, and previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and end paper. Internally a clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages, illustrated in b&w by Fermin Rocker. Children's story about Nial Wren, a 13 year-old goat herder who lived in the early 1800"s near Brooklyn. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages Black & white drawings by Manning deV. Lee. Dust jacket with small chunk from bottom front edge.
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