Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 128 pages. Color frontis, black & white illustrations by Louise Roberts. Green cloth covers with red & black decorations, lettering. Light wear to spine bottom edge, corners.
Hardcover. Boston, LeRoy Phillips, 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 84 pages illustrated with 5 color plates, b&w drawings by Katharine Maynadier Browne. Red cloth covers with color label on front. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 227 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Lynd Ward. Dust jacket with edgewear, chunk gone from bottom of spine. Previous owner's heavy pencil markings still visable on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth over boards with blue lettering on front cover and spine. Color frontis and b&w plates by W. C. Trout. A story set in the Caucasus Mountains follows the adventures of a Georgian boy named Gogi and his sister Keto. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, A.L. Burt, 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial tan boards with 3-color decoration. In a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear. All 12 titles of this series are listed in the rear of the book. (This being #9). The blank rear fly leaf has a bottom corner torn away ( 1" X 1/2"). Otherwise bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Hurst and Co., 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in the original white pictorial dust jacket, now in mylar, Pictorial cloth covers decorated in red, brown and black. 312 pages. B&w frontispiece, 3 b&w illustrations by Charles Wrenn. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Brown cloth cover with gilt title. 318 pages. Previous owner inscription in front endpapers. Otherwise clean. B&w line plates by Frank Merrill.
Hardcover. NY, Vanguard Press, 2nd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 125 pages, b&w illustrations by by Lino S. Lipinsky, Fading to dj spine and along spine edgeon front. Un-clpped, clean.
Hardcover. Peterborough NH, Noone House/Richard B. Smith , 1st thus, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 194 pages, bound in red cloth; black lettering; gold endpapers with pencil drawing of street scene. 12 full page pencil drawings by Tasha Tudor. Cream dust jacket printed in black & red, price of $3.95 on flap. Second state signified by reviews on back panel.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribners Sons, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Will James. Green cloth covers with some small areas of spotting. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with illustration label, gilt design on front. 55 pages. Black & white illustrations by Peter Newell. No dust jacket. Faded black top edge. An amusing story of two boys of Mount Pisgah who attempt to make their first formal social call on the neighboring girls.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 115 pages illustrated in b&w line by Enrico Arno. This entertaining collection of twenty-one folk tales from the Ashanti people of Ghana in West Africa takes its title from the wild 'dance' the spider Anansi performed when he tried to hide some burning hot beans under his hat. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a shelfworn dust jacket, 64 pages. With illustrations on nearly every page, including a multi colored double page frontispiece and a double page illustration at the end. This charming story set in a fishing village on a lake in France, and the adventures of two village children.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead and Co., 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 153 pages, illustrated in b&w by Enver Ahmed. In a chipped but bright dust jacket that's unclipped. Hindu & Muslim village boys fight monkeys over possession of a tree; all make peace; boys & monkeys rescue Muslim villagers from city ruffians.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. B&W illustrations by William A. Kolliker. Review slip laid in. Some browning to dust jacket flaps, uneven color to light blue cloth covers. Traces of paper clip to a few pages, otherwise very good.
NY, Jr. Literary Guild, BC Ed, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color frontispiece, b&w illustrations, endpapers by Henry Pitz. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. 256 pages.
Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st UK, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. With b/w illustrations and a color jacket by John Schoenherr. A juvenile novel set in the Alaskan Arctic, about an Eskimo girl surviving in a wolf pack. Winner of the Newbery Medal. The first English printing.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 3rd pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 157 pages. In a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. B&w illustrations by Margery Gill. During the London Blitz the lives of Derek and his friends turn from make-believe to dangerous reality.
Hardcover. NY, Minton, Balch and Co., 1st thus, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated by C. LeRoy Baldridge on cover label, endpapers, title page and 8 color plates. 389 pages. Front hinge weak but not cracked. Previous owner's inscription on prelim page, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 340 pages, b&w plates by Manning DeV. Lee. Historical fiction romance between a young converted Quaker woman and a Puritan man set Nantucket in the 1650's. Short inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise clean.
New York, Morrow, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 236 pages. Previous owner's sticker on inside of front end paper. Cover has light edgewear.
Hardcover. London, George G. Harrap & Co.., reprint, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 290 pages. Red cloth cover with colored design, some wear to corners and edges. Light foxing on some pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean with 9 color plates by N.C. Wyeth including title page. A nice copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages. Hardocver with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY HODGES on front fly leaf. B&w Illustrations by W.T. Mars.. Dust jacket price-clipped.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages. INSCRIBED BY DENNIS LEE ON TITLE PAGE. Illustrations in full color and black & white by Frank Newfeld. Dust jacket with minor wear. Clean, tight copy. A collection of thirty nonsense poems including the tale of Nicholas Knock and his friendship with a silver honkabeest.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Mustard paper boards quarter-bound in red cloth. The saga of a Mormon family haunted through the generations by a terrible secret. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original beige color binding with the front board that features a large illustration by Oliver Herford of two young people upon a large black horse with the title above in bright gilt. 198 pages. Edges stained green. 25 black & white illustrations by Herford. Slavery, pre and Civil War saga of Georgia plantation life and loyalty of one Aaron. a foreman of slaves, himself a Black man. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, G. Bell and Sons, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 111 pages. B&w drawings by the author. Hodges' version of a true story of the Lynmouth lifeboat crew which hauled their boat over Exmoor to Porlock, the next harbour along the coast, during a raging storm in 1899. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. Very good in a nice dust jacket with fading to spine. Novel about a high school senior who is facing the military draft and his conflicting feelings. Milton Glaser art on dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth illustrated boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine. 380 pages plus 26 pages of publisher's catalogs at end. 10 b/w illustrations by William Rainey and three one page maps. Spine a bit faded, light soil to rear cover,otherwise clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 346 pages plus publisher's ads. Blue cloth with red shirt loading a musket on front board. 8 b&w plates by William Rainey (1852-1936) was a noted landscape painter and figure artist who regularly illustrated books for Henty. Hinge cracked at title page. Moderate shelf wear. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 152 pages. Black and white illustrations by Victor Ambrus. Events, including the massacre of his father, force young Eduardo to roam the countryside on the Gaviota. He survives for two months in the midst Spanish Civil War. Unlike his Nationalist relatives, he learns to understand many sides of the conflict. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st US, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Translated from the French by Gwen Marsh. 175 pages. Black & white illustrations by Joan Kiddell-Monroe. Gift inscription on front fly leaf. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.
Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 191 pages. "As her all black high school becomes more racially mixed, Talley befriends a white girl who shares her passion for running and becomes romantically involved with a drug dealer ." Dust jacket art by the Dillons. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 274 pages. Ex-library with a stamp on front fly leaf and a scar to rear endpaper where pocket was removed. The covers have light tape marks where dust jacket was attached to book. Otherwise clean. Junius and his father travel "over far" - back to the Caribbean to rescue his grandfather and to reclaim their lost heritage.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 309 pages. Library Edition with spine sticker (NOT EX-LIB). Complete number row. Horn Book review, 1983: "The author interweaves black folklore with her own family history in a tale remarkable for its total integration of the novel with the imaginative possibilities of legend." An African god-child and her older brother travel as albatrosses on a slave ship to Georgia, witnessing two centuries of history in two god-days! Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Co, 9th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket that has some edgewear and chipping. No date but probably an 90s printing with a $14.95 price on flap, Newbery Honor sticker on front. "Junior Brown, a 300-pound musical prodigy with a neurotic, overprotective mother, and Buddy Clark, a loner who lives by his wits because he has no family whatever, have been on the hook from their eighth grade classroom all semester. Junior and Buddy are among the most original and memorable characters in recent fiction for young readers. Writing with imagination and tough-minded humor about what happens when despair is no longer tenable, miss Hamilton has told a fable of courage and strength. It is a story of tomorrow." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Blue Sky Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 194 pages. Young adult novel by this award-winning African American writer. Going-on-thirteen year old Bulaire tries to unearth her past and find out what happened to her long missing father, and in doing so, her world starts to fall apart. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Blue Sky Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 194 pages. Young adult novel by this award-winning African American writer. Going-on-thirteen year old Bulaire tries to unearth her past and find out what happened to her long missing father, and in doing so, her world starts to fall apart. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 3rd Pr., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 217 pages. Library Edition with spine sticker (NOT EX-LIB). Young adult science fiction novel, the first in a trilogy, and at the time one of the few novels for young readers in the genre to feature black characters and by a black author. The book won a Coretta Scott King honor in 1979.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 64 pages, in a lightly worn dust jacket with mild soil, price-clipped. Illustrated in b&w by Abby Giventer. Jenny enjoys a magical adventure with her poodle who, she discovers, can talk.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 2nd pr., 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with silver decoration and lettering to front cover and spine. 347 pages, eight b&w plates by Taber.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 78 pages. Yellow spine cloth with aqua & white flower pattern covers. Spine label intact. Previous owners stamp on front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Elizabeth Montgomery. Some darkening to covers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Ariel/ Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, unclipped. A moving portrait of the young Abraham Lincoln awakening to early powers. B&w illustrations by Douglas Gorsline. 90 pages.
Hardcover. NY/London, Frederick Warne, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages. Black & white illustrations by Kurt Roschl. Dust jacket price clipped, spine faded, has light edgewear. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. A Stone Age boy takes a far journey on the Great River (the Danube) to find special rocks (obsidian?) in an island in the sea.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 2nd pr., 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with blue stamping. B&w illustrations by Henry Pitz. Light shelf wear, mild soil to covers. A tale of the Spanish coast, of Basque fishermen, and a mystery of the sea about a 12-year old boy who comes to live with his. brother.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 222 pages. Story of the boy who helped William Tyndale smuggle into England his new English translation of the Bible.
Hardcover. NY, Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic Press, 4th pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Extremely early (4th) printing of the First American Edition from Oct. 1998 of the very first book in this beloved series. For this printing, the Guardian quote on rear has been replaced with one by Publisher's Weekly, but the original $16.95 price, correct bar code on rear, "J.K." initials on spine, raised title in gilt on front cover, recessed author name in gilt on lower spine, & NO spine symbol. Hardcover book has the patterned purple paper & red quarter cloth-wrapped spine. Clean, collectible copy of this first book in the series.
Hardcover. NY, Random House/Literary Guild , 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 160 pages, with sepia-tone Illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight.
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