Children's Fiction

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrations before each story by Richard Egieski. Light edge wear.

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, Little, Brown, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY STONE WITH A SKETCH OF A FISH JUMPING OVER THE MOON on the front fly leaf. Unable to afford dance lessons, Fiona struggles to develop her skills while caring for her emotionally detached sister and longing for her family to heal from a past tragedy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 64 pages. Black & white lithographs by Zhenya Gay. Covers with mild soil, rubbing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black, 181 pages. B&w illustrations by Harve Stein. A young adult adventure set in the Canadian wilderness. Light chip to cloth on front cover, "Review Copy" stamped on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. For this beautiful anthology of six masterpiece Wonder Tales, Marine Warner invited the collaboration of five writers with a special sympathy for the French stories they render here in burnished, cunning, and amusing English. "The White Cat", "The Subtle Princess", "Bearskin", "Starlight", The Counterfeit Marquise", and "The Great Green Worm" are as unforgettable today as they were when they were first published centuries ago. Translated by Gilbert Adair, John Ashbery, Ranjit Bolt, A.S. Byatt and Terence Cave. with small black and white drawings by Sophie Herxheimer. Clean copy.

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. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 271 page, blue cloth covers with white lettering on spine. SIGNED BY BEST on the front fly leaf. Stated first printing. A novel set in upstate New York in the days of land grants and frontier hardship. And the story of a beautiful young woman so swaggering-proud of herself and uncertain of her desire to grow to womanhood. Minor shelf wear, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st US, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a faded spine. 75 pages with monotone illustrations throughout from the engravings of Thomas Bewick .".an allegorical tale based on the old tradition that on Christmas night the animals in the stable -- the ass, the cow, the sheep and the dove --have the power of human speech and thus are able to tell one another of the gifts they have given to the Child." By the author of the Mary Poppins books. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards, illustrated in color by Robinson. Cover design by Phoebe Erickson, includes five stories-The Shy Little Horse, The Rabbits' Revenge, The Polite Little Polar Bear, The Mischievous Monkey, and The Good Little Bad Little Pig. Three stories by Brown. Clean copy.

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. Racine WI, Whitman, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear, light chipping. Autry and his horse Champ find plenty of grave trouble brewing as soon as they get into the redwood country to investigate a gang pirating timber in the forests along the Chicapoo River. B&w drawings by Erwin Hess. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 186 pages. Earl Pryor is the biggest thirteen-year-old anyone ever saw. He's taller than a lot of grown-ups. He's got a hairy chest. He shaves. High school kids ask him to buy them beer. Everyone thinks Earl's so tough, such a troublemaker, such a man. They come to him looking for a fight. And Earl will fight them. But he's not so tough: He loves his mom, loves his dad. Still, a man's got to take care of himself. He's got to make people respect him. If Earl's dad has taught him anything, he's taught him that. When Earl gets suspended from school for a week for fighting, he figures he'll fill up the days somehow. But a lot can happen in a week. His family is falling apart. Everything he counted on is falling apart, and Earl's still learning what it really means to be a man. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Company, 1st, 1883-84, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 volumes. 12 issues bound in hardcovers, black calf spines with gilt lettering. 984 pages. The top juvenile writers and artists of the day. 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. These issues include several stories by Louisa May Alcott and Frank R. Stockton. Also with offerings by Margaret Johnson, Frederic Palmer, Frank M. Bicknell and many others; "conducted" (edited) by noted author Mary Mapes Dodge. This delightful collection of magazines provides an insight into the way of life in the US early in the latter half of the 19th Century. Clean, tight condition. No library markings. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 8 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. Edgewear to dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, J M Dent and Sons, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 191 pages, color frontis, endpaper map and b&w drawings by Marcia Lane Foster. Some charming and ordinary youngsters visit an aunt in Beirut, where the general mystery of the Middle East is heightened by ghost music, defective servants, hostile villagers, and a few unsavory characters. Hinges cracked, name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy

Hardcover. NY, The Macmillan Company, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, rose-color cloth with black lettering to front cover and spine. B&w illustrations by Kate Seredy. A nice vintage copy (published November 1936) of this Newbery-winning classic. Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother's dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most of the neighbors. Caddie is brave, and her story is special because it's based on the life and memories of Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother, the real Caddie Woodlawn. Her spirit and sense of fun have made this book a classic that readers have taken to their hearts for more than seventy years. Clean copy with a mild slant, fading to spine.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 4th pr., 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 290 pages. Black & white illustrations by Louis Slobodkin. Light wear to top & bottom of spine, edgewear. Nice reading copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 184 pages. B&w illustrations by Violet Morgan.

Hardcover. Philadelphia/NY, J.B. Lippincott, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in black with a color illustrated label on front cover. 342 pages, color frontis, endpapers and b&w drawings by Lofting. Copyright page states 11th impression. Name on half-title pages. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 3rd pr., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 681 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, chipped dust jacket, 271 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 2nd Ed., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Trina Schart Hyman. This retelling of a favorite fairy tale, illustrated by award-winning artist Trina Schart Hyman in an edition Publishers Weekly called "spellbinding," has been lovingly restored. Digital technology brings back the clarity and brightness of Hyman's original watercolor paintings to illuminate the terrifying woods, handsome prince, and Rapunzel's lustrous hair, as Hyman originally painted them. Originally published in 1982

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. black cloth with color illustration on cover label. 347 pages. 10 color plates by Peter Hurd, including the illustrated title page. Front hinge cracked, bookplate on half-title page. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 224 pages, embellished with James Flora's two-color illustrations.

Hardcover. Nashville TN, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth stamped in blue. 63 pages, red and black line drawings throughout. A city boy's adventures as he spends the summer at his uncle's farm. Shelf-worn but clean.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , Reprint, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 431 pages. Black & whiite illust and color frontis and title page by F.D. Bedford. Some browning to end-papers. Front and spine of yellow cloth cover with black illust. Clear mylar dust jacket.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Reprint, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription on title page. Black & white illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Full color dust jacket with light wear, minor chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2010, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 394 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition. SIGNED IN RED PEN BY FUNKE on title page. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine and design on front cover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. In beautiful condition.

hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover no dust jacket. Black & white and Color illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky. Illustrated end papers. Translated by Georges Duplaix. Corners show heavy wear with chipping and fraying. Light soil on spine.

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st UK, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 199 pages, illustrated in b&w by Michael Foreman. "Set in medieval France, the hero is - yes - a pig, a small but highly intelligent pig with a little boar blood lurking in his veins . . . When the feudal lords of Pitou decide with the farmers to rid the nearby forest of wild animals, it is Plantagenet (beloved of the farmer's daughter, Adele) who warns his cousin, the wild boar Grondin, of what is afoot . . . "

Softcover. New Haven CT, S. Babcock, reprint, 1845, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, 4 1/2 X 5 1/2", illustrated with b&w engravings. Forward by author dated 1845, noting that this book is a shorter version of a "somewhat larger book" printed several years earlier (1832). Wrapper worn with red design and lettering: "Stories About Whale Catching/Toils and Perils of Whalers". Yellow endpapers. Half of paper on spine missing, light foxing and minor staining to several pages.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Hardcover, pastel peach cloth stamped in dark blue. 175 pages, illustrated with charming b&w drawings by Flavia Gag. Evans' first story about white folks full of the spirit of a vanished era. 12 yr old Emma Belle is in a small Tennessee town in 1881 As the undisputed leader of her two younger sisters she must figure out how to get to Kinfolks Meeting which their mother has opposed. Spine has a small 3/4" tear, otherwise sound, clean copy.

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. San Antonio TX, The Naylor Company, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A story of a family and their struggle to survive during a harsh drought in Atascosa County, Texas. Several small b&w drawings at chapter headings. Rear fly leaf with residue where envelope was removed. No other library ttraces. name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books , 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This copy SIGNED on title page, by Timberlake, with the inscription "Keep loving, keep fighting!/Amy Timberlake"). Pearl and brown boards w/silver spine lettering. A young girl unafraid to fight injustice finds herself in a battle against the richest woman in town. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 192 pages. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth boards decorated in darker green and gilt on cover and gilt on spine, top edges gilt, 105 pages. Forty-five children's tales from the prolific Boston author. Light residue to inside rear cover otherwise bright, 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. NY, Philomel Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 306 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy. Young Merlin, triumphant after his first encounter with the dreaded Rhita Gawr, has brought new hope to Fincayra, the enchanted isle that lies between earth and sky. Yet when a renewed tide of evil arises, its first victim is Merlin's own mother. To save her, Merlin and the forest girl Rhia must follow the perilous path of Seven Songs of Wizardry that has claimed even the lives of great wizards. Most difficult of all, Merlin must discover the secret of seeing not with his eyes, but with his heart.The eagerly anticipated second book in The Lost Years of Merlin epic combines all the passion, power, and spiritual depth that are T.A. Barron's hallmarks.

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 118 pages. Illustrated in b&w and color by Tony James Chance. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 150 pages. A young adult mystery. 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, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 20 in The Bedtime Story Book series (per the number on the spine). 192 pages, b&w drawings by Harrison Cady. Copyright 1947 but a later reprint. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield Publishing, reprint, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated paper covered boards. Brown cloth spine. Color frontispiece. Illustrations in color and black and white in text. This is a reprint, the first printing had 6 color plates. Frances Trego Montgomery (February 18, 1858 - April 5, 1925) was a prolific writer of children's stories during the early twentieth century. She is best known for her popular "Billy Whiskers" series, which were about the misadventures of a mischievous but somewhat short-tempered goat. Many children loved the books--twenty-five in all--and couldn't get enough of them. Fair condition only, front and rear hinges cracked.

Hardcover. NY, Trumpet Club, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards, 179 pages, b&w illustrations by Paul O. Zelinsky. Can a stray dog change the life of a teenage boy? It looks as if Strider can. He's a dog that loves to run. And because of Strider, Leigh Botts finds himself running well enough to join the school track team. Strider changes Leigh on the inside, too, as he finally begins to accept his parents' divorce and gets to know a redheaded girl he's been admiring.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, reprint, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth decorated in black and white, 139 pages, illustrated by Robert Lawson in two-colors and b&w. Short inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange boards with orange cloth spine, 166 pages. Inscription on inside front cover. Otherwise clean. Fans young and old will laugh out loud at the irrepressible wit of Peter Hatcher, the hilarious antics of mischievous Fudge, and the unbreakable confidence of know-it-all Sheila Tubman in Judy Blume's five Fudge books.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 134 pages, b&w art by Matt Phelan. Newbery Medal sticker on front cover.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 36 pages. B&w illustrations by Donna Diamond. Clean copy.