NY, Seabury Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Imero Gobbato. In a bight, unclipped dust jacket. A young soldier battle a dozen devils after being locked in the turret of an old mansion. Based on a Latvian folk tale.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 150 pages. Written with respect and humour, the boyhood trials of real life forever change the relationship between a son and his father. Author's first novel. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 150 pages. Written with respect and humour, the boyhood trials of real life forever change the relationship between a son and his father. Author's first novel. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 191 pages. Dust jacket with chipping, edgewear. Small chunk missing from top of spine. Brodart on dust jacket. A young girl's summer adventures on a small Vermont farm.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 6th pr., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 254 pages. Historical novel centered around the alleged ringleader of the Salem "witches," Tituba, a slave from Barbados. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 181 pages. Dust jacket slightly edgeworn, otherwise very good. The year she turns twelve on Spanish Hoof, her family's ranch in Florida, Harry gets a pony & learns some life lessons. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with chipping, closed tears. Greatly disappointed that the celebrated Miss K will not be their teacher, Finley Streeter and Stanley Dragavich pull pranks on the new teacher in their small town. Dust jacket and B&W illustrations by Ben Stahl.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 338 pages. Light edgewear to dj, remainder dot bottom edge. A novel of Henry Knox's 1776 winter raid on Fort Ticonderoga to bring cannon to beleaguered Boston. Endpapers map. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 163 pages. The sequel to "A Day No Pigs Would Die"novel. Clean.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 281 pages, b&w illustrations and 12 color plates by John R. Neill. Purple cloth cover with color pictorial paste-down. Illustrations on endpapers. This was one of Ruth Plumly Johnson's contributions to the Oz canon and is a first printing with 12 color plates and page edges tinted yellow. Previous owner's bookplate on half-title page, front and rear hinges cracked. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st , n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by S. B. Pearse. Tender sewn hinge. Soil to endpapers, title-page. Edgewear to bottom corners, edges.
Hardcover. New York, Arthur A. Levine Books, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 97 pages. Black & white illustrations by S. Saelig Gallagher. Minor edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton , reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 265 pages plus ads in rear. 112 black & white illustrations by A.B. Frost. Red cloth covers with decorations, gold lettering. Gilt top edge. Front hinge cracked. Corners bumped. Light rubbing to corners, spine.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Row, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages, glossy illustrated boards in a bright dust jacket with a flap price of $1.95. Last book listed on rear panel of dust jacket is Here Comes the Strikout, rear flap contains reviews for Little Bear.
Hardcover. New York , Harper and Row, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Syd Hoff. An I Can Read Mystery in illustrated glossy boards with a bright dust jacket. Partially price-clipped otherwise clean, sharp copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, First novel by the noted cartoonist and children's picturebook artist. In a pictorial library binding and lightly edgeworn dust jacket with a small hole in rear panel.
Hardcover. New York, Windmill Books, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color, black & white illustrations by Addams. Dust jacket price clipped. Covers warped. Light foxing on dust jacket. Edgewear on dust jacket. Small sticker on back of dust jacket. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by Addams with illustration of hockey player on end paper.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 61 pages. Cloth boards. Two color Illustrations by Hogner. Dust jacket has minor chipping along edges and all corners clipped. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John Winston, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 276 pages. Color frontispiece, black & white illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Gilt decorated blue cloth covers.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 86 pages. Teenage Steven and his father, Corey, take to the road with a Bible, an old army tent, and less than the best of intentions.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 86 pages. Teenage Steven and his father, Corey, take to the road with a Bible, an old army tent, and less than the best of intentions.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Nelson & Sons,, reprint, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth, stamped in green. 144 pages, b&w illustrations by Nils Hogner. Nicely done story set in a Mexican village. First published in 1935.
Hardcover. NY, The Wise-Parslow Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with orange stamping, 96 pages. Color illustrations by Eleanor Campbell. Minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Originally published by Volland in 1931.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice unclipped dust jacket, 148 pages. Black & white decorations by Isa Barnett. Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page. An exciting story based on the perilous expedition of the fore-and-aft schooner, United States, to the Arctic in 1860.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black, 241 pages. Young adult adventure about the days of sail and a young girl's determination to find her parents, lost on a trip around the horn on the bark 'Pandora.' Set in a small town on the Maine coast, where the coming of the trading schooners was a celebrated event. Illustrated by Joshua Tolford with sepia toned illustrations. Light fade to spine, otherwise very good, clean.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 2nd pr., 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt and black decoration, 171 pages. Eight color illustrations by Marion Oldham. Endpapers drawing by Maria Kirk. Spine lightly faded. No dust jacket. Carrots is the nickname of a little boy named Fabian, and his delightful story was written by the famous Victorian Era children's writer Mrs. Molesworth. Molesworth was the pen name of Ennis Graham, who was favorably described as the Jane Austen of children's literature.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth black, white and green decoration, 265 pages. B&w drawings by the author. Animal stories told through the eyes of a black and white magpie. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Johannesburg, Tafelberg , 1st thus, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The South African edition of Sara Whitcher's Story, SIGNED BY YATES on title page. Dutch text. B&W illustrations by Nora S. Unwin.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 149 pages. SIGNED BY YOLEN on title page. Black & white illustrations by David Wilgus. Some rubbing to dust jacket. Otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barbara Berger. A winged horse is born and is feared by the Sheik who orders a slave boy to take it into the desert to die. Instead the slave boy presents the foal to the ailing Caliph who postpones dying until the horse is old enough to ride. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 223 pages, b&w illustrations with red accents by Valenti Angel, previous owner's inscription and book plate, tears and chipping to dust jacket. Mylar cover, clean, tight copy. Spine cocked. Charming story about a girl from an mill town on Lake Michigan around the turn of the last century.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 296 pages. Black cloth with color label on front, spine lettering faded. Five color plates and endpaper illustration by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 3rd pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 133 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Black top edge. Edgewear, rubbing to price-clipped dust jacket. A juvenile novel about two runaway children during the London blitz. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 134 pages, dust jacket illustration in color, b&w drawings by Victor Ambrus. Previous owner's inscription, dust jacket price-clipped otherwise clean, very good. The story of a farm family's Saint Bernard.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 112 pages. Black & white illustrations by Susan Bennett. Library discard stamp in front end pages, die-cut library stamp on top of title page. Price-clipped dust jacket with very slight chipping to top edge and spine. Otherwise a very nice copy.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, black & white illustrations by Ezra Jack Keats. Light edgewear to dust jacket, short tears at bottom. Ex-library stamp on both end papers, otherwise clean. Dust jacket price clipped .
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 132 pages. Black & white illustrations by Byron Goto. Dust jacket with light soil, edgewear.
NY, Hawthorn Books, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 143 pages. Yellow cloth, blue design/lettering. Color pictorial dust jacket shows very minor edgewear. Spine of dust jacket is slightly toned. B/W illustrations throughout by Marvin Besunder. Previous owners' names in ink on a blank page at back otherwise clean. " Lin Li-ti, parted from his family during the tumultuous evacuation from mainland Communist Chino to the Nationalist island of Formosa, found himself hungry and alone in a land where no one seemed to care about a lost boy." Written by a woman who lived in Taiwan, as well as other places in the world, who is a teacher and author.
Hardcover. London, The Sunday School Union, circa 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 150 pages, with illustrations. Decorated cover and spine. Slight corner and edge wear, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, and minor foxing throughout. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.
New York, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 74 pages, b&w illustrations by Diane deGroat. Fading to endpapers. "Chronicles of a young boy's search for security after his stepfather leaves home, his mother becomes ill and goes into the hospital and he and his brother are placed into a childrens home."
Hardcover. Boston, L.C. Page & Co., 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth with dark green, red, and gold gilt design of automobile with three angels with red lettering to front cover and spine. A lazy, discontented little prince and princess have been sent an enchanted automobile by their fairy godmother to take them to fairyland. 6 color illustrations including frontispiece by Edna M. Sawyer.
Hardcover. NY, Collins, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 80 pages. Color illustrations by Michael Hague. For a penny a dream, the old blind Dream Weaver weaves dreams for seven sets of passers-by. Here are seven compelling fantasies to haunt the memory and stir the imagination. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Francisco Mora. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 201 pages. Black & white illustrations by Julia Noonan. Yep's first book. Dust jacket edgewear and rubbing.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 217 pages. A 12 year old girl who knows little of her Chinese heritage is sent to San Francisco's Chinatown to live with her grandmother. Jane Addams Peace Award & Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. Color dust jacket art by Allen Say.
Hardcover. NY, Cupples & Leon, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, in a worn dust jacket with chipping and light soil.Dust jacket says Cupples and Leon, actual book states W.A. Wilde, Boston. Gumpy the runt is given his chance to be a sled dog by a boy who didn't know any better.
Hardcover. London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, reprint, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 104 pages. Color frontispiece, black & white illustrations by L.R. Brightwell. Dust jacket with light soil otherwise very good. Originally published in 1933.