Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards, 46 pages illustrated in color by Ronald Himler. Despite her grandfather's reassurances, Annie worries about the coming branding of her own pet calf, Doodle, and she is determined to stand by Doodle all the way. Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Softcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1972, 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 include: Robert Lawson's America (Part 2), Realism Plus Fantasy Equals Magic by Roger Drury, Reviewer's Railments by Aidan Chambers. 127 pages. Light stamp to cover, interior bright and clean.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press., 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in red cloth, gilt spine title on a black background, Blind-stamped boat illustration on cover, pictorial endpapers. 200 pages, line drawings by the author. A tale of Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. Spine cloth faded, mild spotting. Otherwise a bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound in green cloth with dark blue design and lettering, 308 pages. Black & white illustrations by Manning de V. Lee. Light soiling to endpapers, covers. Blue top edge. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Co./Books of Wonder, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright dust jacket. 291 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Helen Mason Grose. Afterword by Peter Glassman. Dust jacket with minor edgewear, price clipped.
Hardcover. NY, Century Co., Revised from 1894 ed., 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 257 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings by George Wharton Edwards. Missing front endpaper. Illustrated front cover. Soil, spotting to binding.
Hardcover. Peterborough NH, Noone House/Richard Smith, 1st illust. thus, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 194 pages. B&w drawings by Tasha Tudor. First published in 1902, a fictional account of an 11-year old growing up in Exeter, New Hampshire. His "diry", complete with mis-spellings, newly illustrated by Tudor. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Baker & Taylor, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 307 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Stamped lettering in front cover with illustration of two characters. Gutter crack on page 62. 8 plates of b&w illustrations by F.C. Gruger.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Ted Lewin. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Monarch Book Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 166 pages. Sixteen color plates by Louis Betts. Yellow cloth cover with title and illustration on front. Spine very slightly darkened. Private library sticker on inner front cover, no other markings. First published by Herbert Stone in 1900, this edition undated but appears to be soon after as quality color plates appear to be from that printing. Clean.
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.
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, Macmillan, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1st printing of this reissue, square 8vo, cloth backed boards, twelve tales illustrated in line by Nonny Hogrogian. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan covers stamped with a black and green design. 283 pages plus 4-page catalog in back. 21 b&w line illustrations by W.A. Rogers. No date on title page, copyright page states 1882. No other printings. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. Color frontis and 8 b&w plates by George and Doris Hauman. The story of Deborah Owens and her adventures during the War of 1812 in a small Vermont town near the Canadian border, 272 pages. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Light shelf wear. Uncommon title.
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, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 153 pages. The story of a twelve year old girl who always wanted to live on an island and who goes camping with two friends where shocking and suspenseful events combine to destroy their friendship. A realistic story for young adults from this British author. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in black, 314 pages. Color frontis and endpaper drawing by Rowland Hilder, b&w illustrations by Richard Southern. An historical adventure set on the high sea. Mild shelf wear to covers, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. 214 pages. An angry young man uses the powers of an ancient cat cult to possess the children of a lethargic English village. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 165 pages with b&w drawings by Ralph Pinto. A leprechaun must recapture the tune he lost to a fiddler. Pinto's chapter-top illustrations liven this already lively chain of Irish folk tales, loosely tied together through Brogeen the Leprechuan. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Ottawa Ontario, Ru-Mi-Lou Books, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards stamped in two shades of blue, 79 pages, endpaper illustration and line drawings by the author. Dime-size stain to front cover, two pages with small chips to fore-edge. Otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 13 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. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st US, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in matching dust jacket with light wear. 95 pages with b&w illustrations by Haris Petie. A charming tale set on the Virgin Island of St. John. Fairly clean ex-lib with stamping to endpapers.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran and Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in black, illustrated in color and b&w by De Angeli. INSCRIBED BY DE ANGELI on the dedication page, dated 1966. No dust jacket. With his German family, Eli crosses the Atlantic on The Charming Nancy. From Philadelphia, oxen pull their wagon into Penn's Woods, where they make their new home in the Skippack area. Eli loves outdoor work and play, but Mom says he must go to school. Though Eli expects the teacher to be cross, Master Christopher Dock is kind, firm, and patient.
Softcover. NY, Dover Publications, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 174 pages, with 25 full-page and 30 other drawings by Howard Pyle. A reprint of his 1888 book. Light wear to covers, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 14 color plates by N.C. Wyeth. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co/Special Ed for Scott Foresman, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Judith Roth. Charming children's story of a boy named Henry and his large Irish Setter named Alfred. Complete with a 33 1/3 rpm record in rear pocket. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Rand McNally, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 48 pages, illustrated in b&w by Dugald MacDougall. The story of 6-year-old Zulu girl who has many adventures when she goes to the store for the first time. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne and Co., 1st, Book: Good, Hardcover, pictorial paper-covered boards; color frontis, some black and white illustrations by Gordon Browne. Short splits along spine edge, bookplate on inside front cover.
Hardcover. New York , Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth, 388 pages. Black & white illustrations by Lois Lenski. Covers show standard wear, title on spine and decoration on cover no longer visible. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, unmarked copy.
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, D. Appleton-Century Company, reprint, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Green cloth boards with white illustration on cover, white lettering on spine. 226 pages, b&w drawings by Peggy Bacon. Charming story of the little girl, Miss Boo, and her adventures. Reviews on rear of dust jacket suggest this is a reprint.
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. Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company, reprint, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in gilt and dark brown. Four b&w plates not credited. This novel set in the late nineteenth century provides heartwarming tales of faith and love. Gossip, family failures, and errors in judgment threaten the lives of Ralph Bramlett and Estelle Douglass, but hope is found in the darkest of times. No date on title page, copyright page states 1896. Part of a uniform set so assumed a reprint. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
NY, Burt/Blue Ribbon Books, reprint, circa 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, light green cloth with gilt & black decorated cover and spine labels. 258 pages. Four color plates by Charles Folkard, many b&w text drawings (not credited). Dust jacket chipped and worn. states translation by May M. Sweet, but title page gives M. A. Murray as translator. The mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. It is considered a canonical piece of children's literature and has inspired hundreds of new editions, stage plays, merchandising and movies, such as Walt Disney's iconic animated version and commonplace ideas such as a liar's long nose. No markings.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Griffith and Rowland Press, 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth covers stamped in white and dark blue. Story of survival based on a wreck in the China Sea of the Ketrel, a full-rigged ship bound from Liverpool to Yokohama, Japan. 360 pages, illustrated in b&w, one plate not present (the map on pg. 135). Bookplate on inside front cover, 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, 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. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 332 pages, tissue guard frontis, and b/w plates by A. B. Shute. Red cloth, gilt title front and spine, pictorial front cover with flag and man on horse. #4 in Old Glory Series. Front and rear hinges cracked, inscription on front
Hardcover. Detroit MI, Gale Research Co., 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes with orange cloth covers. 275, 335 pages. Biographical data are interspersed with autobiographical and critical excerpts from the writings of nineteenth and twentieth-century authors and illustrators. B&w illustrations throughout. Name on front fly leafs, otherwise clean. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Lonette Reisie. The author's grandmother's story about walking on an iceberg in the Baltic Sea.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with edgewear, 95 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Paul Geiger. A fast-moving mystery for young adults by a Newbery Honor winner. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, chipped dust jacket. Based on the Harold Gray comic strip. Illustrated with comic book style art. When Annie and Sandy stopped in the little town of Butternut, a train robbery and an abandoned mine threaten to entangle the two of them in a mysterious maze of circumstances. Front hinge partially cracked, paper tanning. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 134 pages. When his cousin Katy is kidnapped at night by a Grabbly, Rupert enlists the aid of flying pirates and a kindly badger to rescue her from the Wizard of Castle Dread. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green, 1st US, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with dark green lettering and decoration, 151 pages. Four 2-color plates, endpapers design and b&w text drawings by James Reid. The story of a polar bear. Mild shelf wear.
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