Children's Fiction

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with white lettering and drawing of horse's head on cover. 144 pages. Black & white drawings and color frontispiece by Willy Pogany. Pink top edge. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Rubbing, light soiling to endpapers. The story of an old dapple-grey workhouse, Nebuchadnezzar, or Nebby, for short, and the two siblings who love him, Marigold and Noel, who live with their mean old aunt-in-law.

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. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper and previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Spine and edgewear. Corners bumped. Sort tear to cloth spine. 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. Boston, Estes & Lauriat, reprint, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 239 pages plus advertisements in back. Black & white illustrations. No illustrator named. Previous owner's signature on half-title page. Edgewear, chipping, scratchings to covers. Corners worn.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Pictorial boards in a bright, unclipped dust jacket., $3.95 price. Color illustrations by William Pene Du Bois. William wants a doll but his father tries to discourage him. 32 pages. Clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company , 4th printing, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 150 pages. INSCRIBED BY LOIS LOWRY on title page "for Karen with love." Dust jacket shows light wear. In protective plastic jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 169 pages. clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, World Syndicate Publishing Co, reprint, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 287 pages. Black & white frontispiece. Some edgewear. Front hinge loose at title-page. Dust jacket with edgewear, soiling.

Hardcover. NY, Jr. Literary Guild/Harper, BC Ed., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 26 b&w line drawings by Jessie Robinson. Dust jacket worn, chipped. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover.

Hardcover. New York, Gulliver/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 362 pages, illustrated glazed boards with a matching unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent, 1st UK, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in poor dust jacket with pieces missing. 180 pages, b&w drawings. 12 authentic tales from Ireland. Book is tight and clean.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st US, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 296 pages. Black & white illustrations by Gordon Browne and Lewis Baumer. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Green cloth covers with gilt titles on cover and spine. Illustration in white of children along a bannister on front cover. Copyright 1899, with no previous printings listed. Light foxing to some pages. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 7th pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 90 pages. Black & white illustrations by Peter Spier. Light soiling to covers. Dust jacket witeh rubbing, edgewear. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 193 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate wear to cover edges. Dust jacket has light wear, chipping.

Hardcover. New York , Dutton, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 126 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. B&W illustrations by Laszlo Kubinyi. Dust jacket with light edgewear, price clipped. Front fly leaf has been excised, but hard to tell.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Symeon Shimin. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Sticker residue on front of dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 150 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor fading along red cloth cover boards. Dust jacket shows light amount of rippling to front cover.

Hardcover. Taunton, MA, William S. Sullwold, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 111 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.Black & white illust. 111 pages., end paper map. With an extensive bibliography by Ralph M. Titcomb.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 149 pages, illustrated by Doris Lee. Dust jacket edge wear, creases and rub, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with a drawing of a saddle on front cover. 184 pages. Black & white illustrations by Earl Mayan. Faded green top edge. Corners slightly bumped. Spine faded. No dust jacket. Rick and his sister Jinny help raise an orphan filly. Clean copy.

London/NY, J.M. Dent / E.P. Dutton, 1st illust. thus, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, decorated cloth in a bright dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Randolph Caldecott, color plates by H.M. Brock. 177 pages plus publisher's listings. Dust jacket with light edgewear. A lovely reissue of these two classic English children's stories from the late 1800s.

NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 5th, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 290 pages. Black & white illustrations by Louis Slobodkin. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Color illustrated dust jacket with chunks gone from top & bottom of spine, edgewear. Nice reading copy.

NY, Morrow, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Ted Lewin. Light edgewear to dust jacket. A twelve year old boy tries to return the mountain lion he's raised from a cub to her native habitat in the Idaho mountains.

Hardcover. New York , The Century Co., 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive cloth with drawing of two boys on horseback on the front cover. Sequel to "Pinkey Perkins: Just a Boy". 391 pages, illustrated in B&W by George Varian. mild soil to cover. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Hurd and Houghton, unk, 1878, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards, corner wear, minor edgewear, previous owner's signature otherwise nice. Copyright 1877. Many b&w engravings, not credited. Children's stories, poems, and songs embedded in the daily life of a comfortable, cultured, and unassuming New England family. From the first Bodley series, very popular in their day. Scudder (1838 - 1902) was closely connected to Houghton for most of his career and for nine years the editor of the Atlantic Monthly.

Hardcover. NY, Longman's, Green and Co., 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers stamped in black. B&w illustrated in b&w by Sanford Tousey. An authentic adventure story of the California gold mining camps, contrasting east and west coast cultures. Author was Nathaniel Hawthorne's granddaughter. Bookplate on inside front cover. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 8th pr., 1956, Hardcover, blue cloth covers in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated with color reproductions of the work of the Navajo Boy Artist, Little No-Shirt (Beatien Yazz). True story of operating a trading post in the Navaho country of Arizona in mid 20th century. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with black, white, and blue embossed cover illustration. B&w line drawings throughout by Perkins, 189 pages. Copyright page states 1925 but no date on title page so assumed a reprint. Light bump to top corner otherwise a clean, bright copy .

Hardcover. London, Gryphon Books, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers. 152 pages, color frontispiece by Marcia Lane Foster. INSCRIBED BY BOLTON on title page. The improbable tale of an American half-Cree Indian soldiering in the highlands of Scotland. Scarce title by this author who was also known as Sister Mercedes. Ivy May Bolton was an Anglican nun and writer. She was the daughter of Reginald Pelham Bolton and Kate Alice, and the sister of the playwright Guy Bolton. She lived in England until she was fourteen, when the family came to the United States, settling in New York. She wrote 10 novels for young adults from 1923 until 1952.

Hardcover. NY, Meredith Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly rubbed dust jacket. A story set in Nebraska in the 1800s. Centers on the relationship between Matt Bailey and a young Sioux brave, Red Bear. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, D. Lothrop and Co., 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth decorated in red and gilt, 322 pages plus publisher's ads. 6 b&w illustrations 9not credited). Clean copy.

NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with some rubbing to rear panel. 133 pages. Black & white illustrations by Laszlo Kubinyi. When Bridget sees her younger brother, Simon, standing at the window under a full moon, begging unseen musicians to allow him to come back, then hears a careless remark made by an angry old woman, she begins to suspect that he is a changeling, a fairy child sent to replace her real brother, abducted in infancy. This would explain his volatile personality---sweet and coaxing one minute, angry and vicious the next---and his refusal to go near her blacksmith father's forge.Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers,192 pages. Black & white lithographs by Grace Paull. Red top edge. Decorated endpapers. No dust jacket. True stories of children and their crafts, such as quilting, book-making, gardening, etc. Clean copy.

NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 209 pages. Life in prehistoric Europe is recreated with drama and suspense as Shiva is kidnapped by an elder and must face the Ordeal by Poison. Clean copy.

NY , E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 215 pages, in a nice, unclipped dust jacket. Mystery involving the attempts of some long downtrodden Indians to obtain schools for their people. Clean copy.

NY, Meredith Press, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Carol Jones, 149 pages. Story of a people living in a remote corner of Iceland. The author lived in the region and writes from first-hand experience. Clean copy.

New York, Coward-McCann, 5th pr., 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 223 pages. Black & white illustrations by Lynd Ward. Dust jacket with chipping. Brodart cover. Brady learns the importance of keeping a secret when he discovers a runaway slave in pre-Civil War Pennsylvania. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, gray cloth stamped in red, 197 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations by Ralph Ray. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. Young adult mystery involving Jon and Judy's summer vacay set in Navajo country amongst Zuni and Hopi pueblos.

New York, Dutton, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 271 pages. Wrap-around jacket art by Trina Schart Hyman. Lucian, a young man of ancient Greece's Arkadia, embarks on a classical quest of danger, daring, and romance and encounters a remarkable cast of heroes, poets, seamen, horsemen, wise women, kings, and peasants.

NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 128 pages. Black & white illustrations by Leonard Weisgard. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. An unusual and unforgettable Christmas story set aboard a freighter bound for South America. Three companions -- a boy, a goat and a dog -- meet Domingo, a burro, and spend Christmas below the Equator.

Hardcover. NY, St Martin's Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The third in Alldritt's sequence of novels about the English Midlands, this time with Edward Elgar as protagonist. Paints a picture of Edwardian social life, the music and the manners, in the provincial towns of the area.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Young William Jones is on a desperate search through darkest London for John Diamond, the son of a man his father apparently once cheated badly. Will he find him? Originally published in the United States in 1980 as"Footsteps", the novel combines a cast of remarkable eccentrics with superb sensory descriptions. The title was a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book.

Hardcover. Cleveland OH, Pennington Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in maroon. Two-color drawings by Lonnie Stern. Clean, no dust jacket.

New York, Dodd Mead and Company, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Top edge gilt. Publisher's covers in green cloth with green and white floral decorations & gilt lettering. Five photogravure illustrations by Harrison Fisher. Both the cover design and page borders are by designer George Wharton Edwards.

NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled dust jacket, 190 pages. Dust jacket illustration by Alan Cobe. Gerald Briggs runs away from his home, a thriving sheep farm, and from his stepfather's crooked ways. He and his lamb Smudge stay quietly with an old hermit until he uncovers thefts and violence. Dust jacket price-clipped. Clean copy.

NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Alan E. Cober. 87 pages. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping.Small chunk gone from rear panel at bottom. Mr Corbett is a cruel employer and his young apprentice Benjamin can't help but wish he were dead. So when a strange old man offers to make this wish come true, Benjamin finds it impossible to refuse. Sure enough, Mr Corbett meets an untimely death, but the tables turn on the terrified apprentice who finds himself cursed with the ghost of the man he hated most in the world.

NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, An opportune meeting with a pickpocket and a pupil from a charity school sets events in motion that drastically and irrevocably change the lives of an orphaned brother and sister existing by their wits in the streets of London. Clean copy.

NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 263 pages, 4 b&w illustrations by W. A. Rogers. Previous owner's signature, date on front fly leaf.First edition with Scribner's seal on copyright page.

New York, Charlotte Zolotow/ HarperCollins, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 101 pages. A young adult novel by a Newbery medalist, about an Ohio farm girl's life. Mothers give birth in the borning room. The dying take their departure there. Outside the Lott family's Ohio farmhouse, the Civil War rages, slavery falls, and the world marvels at the wonder of electricity. Inside, within the walls of the borning room, Georgina Lott will experience her life's greatest turnings. Across the years, she discovers womanhood and first love, experiences the mourning that comes with loss, and, as did her mother and grandmother, at last takes her place in the room as another precious life is about to begin.

Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 2nd pr., 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 286 pages. Black & white illust. by William Donahey, "Teenie Weenies" comic creator. Dust jacket with edgewear, chips to top, bottom of spine. A novel about a rough and tumble boy, a real Dennis the Menace, who is reformed by the hired girl.

hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Peter Sis. A tale of Touch, a runaway orphan boy who seeks help from the ghost of a magician. The Great Chaffalo obliges the boy with a stallion with a golden mane and a hide as fine as China silk. But Touch discovers even this wonderful horse cannot take him beyond the reach of his troubles. A tale of innocence in a world of villainy, of things that are seen but are not what they seem -- a tale of mystery and wonder. Clean copy.