Children's Fiction

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co., 3rd pr., 1935, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 343 pages, hardcover. Illustrated by the author and Helene Carter. Spine cracked at front panel. Heavy edgewear and fading to boards. Water damage to text block. Light soiling to boards. Mild age-toning to text block. Faint foxing and spotting throughout, mostly to preliminary pages. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. A fair reading copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 2nd, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 88 pages. 3 color illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Black & white pen drawings by Edmund H. Garrett. Back gutter cracked from hinge. Cloth covers with black illustration and lettering on front and spine.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 4th pr., 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, light tan cloth stamped in dark brown, in a poor dust jacket with large chios to front panel and pieces gone from rear. ($1.50 on flap). B&w illustrations by Lawson, endpapers drawing of Benjamin Franklin (with Amos the mouse) dozing off while flying a kite. Once you've met Amos you'll always remember Benjamin Franklin a little differently than the history books do. The first of Lawson's three animal narrated biographical tales. The basis for the 1953 Walt Disney animated movie. With a promotional sticker on a blank prelim page from a paper company that gave the book as a Christmas gift, otherwise clean.

New York, A. L. Burt Co, reprint , 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a soiled, chipped dust jacket. 250 pages plus ads in rear. Spine cocked. Edgewear. Corners bumped.

Hardcover. Philadephia PA, Penn Publishing Co, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 224 pages. Black & white illustrations by Henry Pitz. Green cover with black writing and color illustration pasted on. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Corners bumped. Spine wear. Small dents to spine. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth with drawing of Bess riding a donkey. 88 pages with back & white illustrations by Bernice Loewenstein. The story of Bess - who was Elizabeth Coatsworth herself-and her trip to Egypt. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 273 pages. Illustrated with brown woodcuts by Angelo. Lightly soiled endpapers. Stain to top of book cover. Spine a bit cocked. Pink top edge. Recounts the experiences of an Italian immigrant boy living in California. The sequel to Angelo's Nino with delightful, simple illustrations by the author.

New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 131 pages. Black & white illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. Cover has edgewear. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping.

New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly chipped dust jacket. 64 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Margot Tomes. A tale of the King's birthday & the marzipan shop on the narrowest lane in England.

Hardcover. Boston, LeRoy Phillips, reprint, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 412 pages. Color frontis and b&w plates by Hugh Thomson. Black cloth with colorful pasted-on paper label to cover, With a heavily worn dust jacket with a split along spine edge. First published in 1857. Illustrated to fine effect by the master-draftsman Thomson, a classic take on life and problems in a boys' school in early Victorian England. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, maroon cloth with orange lettering. Two-color plates, b&w endpapers drawing by Leo O'Donnell. Dust jacket worn with major chipping. Book is clean, tight copy. The story of a fatherless youth in thirteenth century, battling his cousin for his ancestral castle and inheritance.

Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Roger Rasmussen travels to the Boy Scout Jamboree in Southern California. 180 pages, b&w drawings by Henry Pitz. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 57 pages. Color and black & white illustrations by Brock. Edgewear. Dust jacket price clipped, light chipping, rubbing.

Hardcover. London, Arthur A. Levine, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 409 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good pictorial dust jacket, in mylar. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Tight and bright copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, reprint, hardcover. Preface and copyright dated 1869, but a later 1880s printing. Mustard cloth boards, embossed fruit and floral cover design and w/ornate spine titles on gilded fields, moderate wear, Slight spine slant.

Hardcover. New York, Junior Literary Guild, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 338 pages. Green top edge. Map of Scotland as endpapers and map of London as frontispiece. Previous owner's bookplate front end paper. Tight binding. A story of adventure and intrigue set in Scotland. A sequel to The Flight of The Heron.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated tan cloth covers, 214 pages. Tight, clean copy. Much of text in Scottish dialect, a glossary in the front.

Hardcover. Philadelphia , Penn Publishing, reprint, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcoverm 111 pages, color frontispiece, b&w drawings by Hattie Longstreet Price. Brown cloth with color label , chipped at edges. Cloth edges worn, spine lettering faded. hinges tender.

Softcover. Paducah, KY, Collector Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 175 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers and light wear to edges of spine.

Hardcover. New York, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, red cloth covers worn with faded spine. 157 pages. Illustrated by Burbank. Illustrated endpapers. Small dent in top edge of covers and edge. A story of adventure and intrigue set in the Guatemalan mountains. With a glossary of Spanish/Indian words and a guide to Mayan numerals in front. No markings.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, reprint, 1934, Book: Good, Hardcover, light gray boards decorated in red and black.120 pages.. Features 6 black & white plates by Harrison Cady. Clean, bright copy.

NY, McGraw-Hill, 2nd Ed., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Pictorial dust jacket over blue paper covered boards and silver lettering. Blue and black illustrations by Frederic Marvin. Twenty retold legends from Mexico with pronunciation guide but no sources. the artist was educated and has exhibited in Mexico. Clean copy.

New York, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Black & white illustrations by the authors. Front flyleaf detached but laid in. Light chipping to cover and spine edges. Horizontal crease to bottom front cover. Unobtrusive marking on top front. Otherwise good dust jacket, in protective mylar cover. Internally very good. Peter's activities are blended with the beauty of Utah, and the history of the Mormons. A city boy adapts to ranch life.

NY, Viking, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Fritz Wegner. A breezy and entertaining tale set in the days when school desks had inkwells features a renowned, but slightly nutty, doctor, a kidnapping, some notorious criminals, a lonely girl, and an extremely humongous baby.

NY, Oxford University Press. , 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket, 85 pages. Black & white illustrations by J. Paget-Fredericks. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket with closed tears, chips, small chunks gone from top & bottom of back cover.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1981, Hardcover in a bright, slightly worn dust jacket. Illustrations throughout the text by Michael Foreman. The pig Plantagenet cannot decide whether he likes the free but frightening life of his cousin, the boar Grondin, better than his own simple farmyard existence until a plan emerges to destroy the forest and its inhabitants.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 43 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Garrett Price. Blue dust jacket scuffed at corners and top and bottom spine. Otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, Longmans Green and Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, b&w illustrations by Henry Pitz. 324 pages. A story of the American Revolution and what occured when the colonists of northern New Jersey became aroused and embittered by enemy oppression. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 168 pages. SIGNED BY DU BOIS on half title-page. Black & white illustrations by du Bois. Two small hole-punches to front end paper. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Light wear to cover edges.

Hardcover. NY, Taplinger, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Black & white drawings by Alice Caddy. Light soil, chipping to price-clipped dj. The third Catfish Bend story. Animal fable set in the bayou countryside near New Orleans. A rich entertainment that keeps the reader chuckling with every paragraph, and a wonderful adventure story. It is the tale of a wolf in fox's clothing and of the terrible havoc he works when the innocent and peaceful animals of Catfish Bend, always ready to help a fellow creature, rescue him from his pursuers, and then listen to his evil advice. Here again is the famous Judge Black, the kindly, motto-quoting blacksnake, who is a vegetarian and is always trying to live down the snake family's bad name; here is the elderly frog who patiently conducts the young frogs of the Indian Bayou Glee Club; here is the eagle who goes to Washington to pose for a new half dollar; and Doc Raccoon, strategist, politician, statesman, general, and mayor of Catfish Bend.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.311 pages, illustrated in b&w by David Small. A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound dares to befriend this cat, this feline, this creature he is supposed to hate. They are an unlikely pair, about to become an unlikely family. Ranger urges the cat to hide underneath the porch, to raise her kittens there because Gar-Face, the man living inside the house, will surely use them as alligator bait should he find them. But they are safe in the Underneath...as long as they stay in the Underneath. Clean copy.

New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth cover, leaping stag embossed on front. 94 pages. Black & white illustrations by Seredy. Previous owner's signatures on front end paper. Slight discoloration to edges of pages. Water stain to covers. Faded spine.

Hardcover. New York , Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 236 pages, 4 b&w line plates, olive green cloth covers with orange and black decoration. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Books , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Presents the author's reflections on small-town America, current affairs, and insights and anecdotes from his personal life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Preface and copyright dated 1879. Mustard cloth boards, embossed fruit and floral cover design and w/ornate spine titles on gilded fields, moderate wear, Tale of a penniless boy who finds a job as a telegram messenger boy. The "Telegraph Boy" completes the series of street-life tales in New York; inaugurated eleven years prior with the publication of "Ragged Dick." Front hinge cracked, slant to spine, light circular water stain to first 3 pages including title page and illustration of telegraph boy opposite.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Great b/w illustrations by Deborah Kogan Ray. Tale of a young girl in Massachusetts during WW II, who moves to a French-Canadian neighborhood where she meets Kathleen O'Hara & learns about Catholicism. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with some darkening to spine. "Rob decided to call the newborn calf Temba Dawn for she had been born early on a frosty September morning on their farm in Scotland." Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, red cloth with blind-stamped wreath around a portrait of a boy to front, gilt-stamped title to spine; lime green endpapers. Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Colophon page mentions this is the first book written by Roald Dahl for children, second issue with 4-line colophon, bound by The Book Press. Covers show wear and light soil, esp. rear panel. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The teenage character of this story is taken to Japan after his father gets a job. Getting used to his new life in Japan is hard for him due to the fact that he had to leave his team behind and after the death of his mother. The move to Japan was supposed to be a fresh start for this whole family yet, he doesn't truly find happiness there until the discover of the baseball team at the high school. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 122 pages, in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Six animal stories with full page black and white illustrations by author. Previous owner's inscription and SIGNED UNDERNEATH BY SAVITT. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in tan cloth with dark green drawing and lettering on spine. 88 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Brock. Soiling, spine and corners rubbed. Front hinge tender.

Hardcover. NY, Juniot Literary Guild, Book Club, 1930, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 324 pages. Color frontispiece, 9 b&w plates by Marguerite DeAngeli. Red cloth with blue lettering. Spine slightly cocked, previous owner's inscription on front paste-down. Still very good.

NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers. Illustrated in 2-colors by Enrico Arno. Ex-lib copy with endpaper marking, residue. Internally very good. The everyday adventures of a young boy living in a small village in Majorca.

New York, Julian Messner Inc., 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardbound in a damaged dust jacket. Previous owner's signature back of front endpaper. Soiling to endpapers, covers. Waterstains to covers. Spine wear. Dust jacket with large chunk missing from top of spine and back cover. Pinto Goodluck, a little Indian boy, lived with his mother, his grandfather and his burro, Ambrosio. His grandfather made beautiful jewelry from silver and turquoise. Then the Great War came and all the young men went away and the turquoise mines were closed. Grandfather knew of a secret mine but it was a long way off and the journey was full of danger. How Pinto found the secret mine and brought home the turquoise is an absorbing adventure story beautifully illustrated in b/w and color by Bronson.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 80 pages. Color and black & white illustrations by Brock. Child's writing in pencil front endpaper. Soiling to covers. Faded blue top edge. Corners a bit bumped. An enchanting children's story of how Sigrid and her twin brother and sister celebrate a Swedish Midsummer's Eve.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 225 pages. Black & white illustrations by Bronson. Color illustrated endpapers. Review copy stamp on half-title page. Corners bumped, rubbed. Soiling to covers. A tale of two adolescent Native American boys on islands off the coast of Spanish-conquered Mexico. 47 illustrations by the author.

Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket,150 pages. Black & white illustrations by Marvin Friedman. What happens when Pinch and Sorrow Nix tend to an injured crane and try to protect it from The Zoo Man and others who want the bird for their own profit.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with a illustration pastedown with white lettering. 5 two-color plates by Elizabeth Otis. A near fine copy with page 5 having a piece (about 15%) torn away. Otherwise bright and tight with cover label illustration.

Hardcover. New York, Robert McBride, 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in black and gilt. 157 pages. Black & white illustrations and color frontispiece by Dugald Walker. School bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean inside, no marking, tight binding.. Covers with light edgewear and soil. Little is known about Hal Garrott, but he did write this title and Squiffer (1924). Both are fantastical fairy tales intended for children designed by better known Dugald Stewart Walker. Walker was a prominent early 20th century illustrator and known for his ethereal and fantasy based illustrations.

Hardcover. New York, Holiday House, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor soil to rear panel. 107 pages.