Children's Fiction

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, reprint, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 275 pages. Black & white illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Slight chipping to top and bottom spine, front corners. Price clipped.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 211 pages. Number line starts with "2". Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Novel of Early California during the period when United States adventurers were beginning to move in and take over. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, reprint, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 244 pages. Black & white illustrations by Kurt Wiese.

Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green and Co, 3rd pr., 1933, Book: Good, Hardbound, 198 pages. Illustrated by Frank McIntosh. Translated from the Swedish by Siri Andrews. Color frontispiece. Illustrated endpapers. Purple cover with black lettering and decoration. Faded spine. Soiling to covers. Corners bumped.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 251 pages, gray cloth stamped in red and black, b&w line illustrations. The second book in the series. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 166 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Roger Payne. Bruce joins his father, Dr. Barnett on an expedition to Australia's outback to look for the Queensland marsupial tiger which is supposedly an extinct mammal.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with red decoration, 279 pages. B&w, some color illustrations by Will Crawford. Previous owner's bookplate on inside cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 69 pages. Black & white illustrations by Alan E. Cober. A young adult fantasy about a frozen land, written in second person.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright dust jacket, 285 pages. Historical novel for young adults about a slave doctor in the West Indies in the 1680s. Originally published in the Netherlands in 1965. Dust jacket with light rubbing, edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages. B&W illustrations by Tony Chen. Small remainder dot to top edge. In a bright, clean dust jacket. A young boy discovers, when his best friend moves away, that there are a lot of things people are prejudice against. His old friend is against overweight people and many people in the town in which he lives don't think very much of Indians. Tad learns this disturbing part of growing up as he makes friends with a Sioux boy his own age that lives at the Indian school down the road from his father's store.

Hardcover. Boston, D. Lothrop Co., 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with a bright gilt, black and red design. Illustrated with 31 b&w drawings by F. O. Small. Small, previous owner's inscription to front fly leaf (dated 1891). Rosalind, Marjory, and Ida are the three eldest children of Col. And Mrs. Peel, who are off in India with their younger children. The Three Little Maids live with a governess back in England and this is their tale.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers stamped in black, 268 pages. True story of the Alaskan sled dog who went to France during the Great War and won the Croix de Guerre; presumably targeted for older children. B&w frontispiece and endpapers illustration by Charles Livingston Bull. Covers with mild soil, clean inside.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A novel for older children featuring a family of six children, living on Poseidon, one of the islands of Atlantis. Dust jacket art by Enrico Arno.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 157 pages. A study of the popular English children's writer, Mrs Sherwood, 1775-1851 considering her style, writings, relations with publishers, etc. Includes reprints of The little woodman and his dog Caesar originally published: London, Houlston, 1850 and Soffrona and her cat Muff originally published: Wellington, Salop, Houlston, 1828. Includes a 38 page bibliography. "No study of nineteenth - century children's books in England can afford to ignore Mrs. Sherwood. She produced over four hundred different titles - books, tales, tracts, texts, magazines, articles in periodicals, cbapbooks, and Sunday School rewards. There is evidence that the writings of her Evangelical period, in particular, had a remarkable influence upon Victorian literature for the young.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Small remainder dot on bottom edge, otherwise clean. It's the last swimming season for Walker, Nortie, Lion, and Jeff, and their coach is building their self-discipline in a grueling four-hour-a-day test of stamina designed to bring them to the outer edge of their capabilities. As it turns out, Stotan Week is also the week in which secrets are revealed, and the four friends must draw upon their new strengths for an endurance they never knew they'd need.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 202 pages. Small remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Summary: Still troubled by his older brother's violent suicide, eighteen-year-old Dillon becomes deeply involved in the terrible secret of his friend Jennifer, who feels she can tell no one what her step father is doing to her. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Hawthorn, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Bros., reprint, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth stamped in maroon, making the front cover hard to read. Spine stamped in bright gilt. Many b&w text and full-page illustrations, not credited. A story of twins brought up in Europe by their uncle, whose full story remains a mystery. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. MY, Harcourt Brace & Co., 2nd pr., 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black, 267 pages, b&w illustrations by James MacDonald. A boy's novel about track and field competition. Jim Wellington, Harvard senior and Waterloo, Iowa native, already the U. S. collegiate record holder for the two-mile, heads to Berlin for the Olympics. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Margaret K. McElderry Books, 7th Printing, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 196 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY COOPER on FRONT FLY LEAF WITH SIGNED BOOKPLATE PASTED IN. In excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Literary Guild/Doubleday Doran & Co., reprint, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with black stamping, 281 pages. Endpapers and b&w illustrations by Thomas Fogarty. The boyhood adventures of Jerry Foster set in rural Wisconsin in the 1800s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Appleton, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 92 pages. B&W illustrations by Oliver Herford. Each page with red border decoration. Previous owner's inscription on front pastedown. Blue cloth cover with paste-on label illustration.

Hardcover. London/N.Y., Frederick Warner , 1st U.S., 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 323 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Valerie Sweet. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 7 two-color illustrations by Leslie Stead, This book chronicles Biggles as a schoolboy at Malton Hall School near the town of Hertbury. Light foxing to several pages.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st illust thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, geen cloth with 4 color decoration on front and spine. Color frontispiece, numerous black and white illustrations by Gordon Browne, No date (circa 1910). Tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket. Tan brown cloth covers stamped in black. Illustrations for DJ and frontispiece by I. B. Hazelton. Wartime paper resulting in tanned pages. No markings.

Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 300 pages. Yellow cloth cover with gilt lettering and color embossed illustrations, b&w frontispiece and 7 illustrations by Charles Copeland. Cocked spine, wear to cover corners and edges, previous owner's inscription to front endpaper; otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st thust, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 210 pages, 60 color designs by Walter Crane. Beige cloth with torquoise and dark brown decoration by Crane. Green decorated end papers. Spine rubbed, light scratches otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York , Coward McCann, Inc., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages, illustrated in B&W by Forrest Orr. Dust jacket with edgewear, light chipping, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 218 pages, b&w illustrations, color frontispiece by Maud and Miska Petersham. Blue cloth covers w/ yellow lettering and design. Light edgewear, rubbing to covers. Hinges cracked. Else pages clean and tight.

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson's Books for Young People, 1st, unkn., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Illustrations by C. Gifford Ambler. Dust jacket shows minor wear, covers good. Internally, previous owner's name on front fly leaf. tight copy.

Hardcover. Philsadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages. Hardcover with yellow cover boards. No dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white by Armstrong Sperry. Tight copy with only minor soil to pages.

Hardcover. New York, William R. Scott , 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED & INSCRIBED on front fly leaf. Tight copy. Illustrated with black line drawings by Mary D. Shipman.

Hardcover. New York, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 236 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Front fly leaf missing. Illustrated by Harry H. Lees. Dust jacket shows light wear.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 210 pages, b&w illustrations by Lloyd Coe. The legend of John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) told especially for young people. Small ownership stamp to front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Illustrated paper covered boards with green cloth backstrip. Cover illustration of a baby waving the branch of mistletoe. 412 pages, color litho frontis. of girl with a puppy, tissue guard. Many b&w engraved illustrations throughout. Chipping to paper along edge of boards, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with soil, major chipping, tape repair. 128 pages. Frontispiece illustrated by Lee Haynes. Many illustrations in b/w, a few indicate B. Stevenson as artist, the rest are not specifically identified. Illustrated end papers. Seventeen chapters telling of the growth and experiences of a young American Indian boy.- his adventures are closely interwoven with the habits, customs and beliefs of his people.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor soil, tape repair. Frontispiece illustrated by Lee Haynes. Many illustrations in b/w, a few indicate B. Stevenson as artist, the rest are not specifically identified. Illustrated end papers. The story of the life of an Indian boy- his adventures are closely interwoven with the habits, customs and beliefs of his people.

hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st , 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by John Floherty, Jr. 141 pages. Young adult fiction, the story of a boy's first year in the big leagues.

New York, Harper & Row , 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 305 pages plus a reading list at the back of the book. Minor edgewear to dust jacket, light discoloration at top of rear flap. Sequel to Go Saddle the Sea and Bridle the Wind. A tale for young adults set against the revolutionaey backgroung of 1820s Spain.Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 2nd pr., 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound in light blue cloth, 184 pages. Illustrated by Woodi Ishmael. Illustrated endpapers. Soiled covers and endpapers. Spine and corners a bit bumped. Tale of young Lance Chapelle and his horse Cherry set in 1870s Vermont.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear. When 15-year-old Angeleno Shanny Adler comes to spend the summer on aged Aunt Adabelle's ranch in the boondocks of Idaho, she brings along a purple punk hair-do, a drum set, a collection of esoteric trivia and a standard YA protagonist's pressing need to "find herself." By the end of the book she has found not only herself (and turned out to be a Pretty, Talented, Caring and Generally Worthwhile Person) but also the love of talented, caring "superhunk" Thor. She also drives the local theatrical enterprise from failure to smashing success, inspires old Adabelle not to give up her ranch, resuscitates a newborn kitten and generally turns everything she touches to gold. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, P.F. Volland Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 96 pages. Color illustrations by John Rae. In super clean, tight condition.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photos by author of dogs starring in the fairy tale. Clean, tight copy.

NY, Hyperion, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft are two dolls who have been best friends since they met in Kate Palmer's house at 26 Wetherby Lane. In this sequel to The Doll People, they hitch a ride in Kate's backpack and find themselves in the biggest adventure of their lives, a day at school! But when an attempt to return home lands them in the wrong house, they're in far deeper trouble than they imagined. Along with a host of new doll friends, they also encounter Mean Mimi, the wickedest doll of all. Mean Mimi is mean-really mean-and she's determined to rule all of Dollkind or else destroy it. Will the world ever be safe for dolls again? In this masterfully plotted sequel, Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin, with the help of Brian Selznick's ingenious black-and-white illustrations, take the reader on another nonstop adventure from a doll's eye view!

Hardcover. London, Gardner, Darton and Co., 1st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a light blue pictorial binding. 379 pages with 68 b&w illustrations by Gordon Browne. Top edge gilt. 20 pages of publisher's ads in rear. Front hinge cracked, creasing to front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, tight copy. The story of two brothers; a young boy's fantasy life, rich with humor and creativity amidst a world of annoying adults and their societal expectations.

Makato, MN, Creative Editions, 1st w/ illustrations thus, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 62 pages. Color illustrations by Gary Kelley. Washington Irving's 1820 classic tale is brought to life for new generations with the illustrations of Gary Kelley, who thoroughly researched the Revolutionary-era Dutch settlements of the Hudson River Valley in NY in which the story is set to add a realistic, yet "dreamlike, Gothic perspective." Clean copy.

NY, Pantheon , 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&W Illustrations by Antony Maitland, 186 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket.Remainder line to fore-edge. 'As far as the eye can see, scarlet men are marching . . . A rich and splendid company, but none more so than the drummer boy.' But a moment later, the sound of Charlie Samson's drum was swallowed in a wild thunder. The glorious scarlet troops had been ambushed. Men were dead and dying all around, and all the beauty was gone. All that was left was himself and his drum, and a few shady nightwalkers - cowards who came crawling from the ditches and knaves who scoured the dead for wealth . . .

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with dark brown decoration and titles, 244 pages, b&w illustrations by Lee Townsend. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean interior. Vintage children's book about a young orphan who works with harness racing horses.