Children's Fiction

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.

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.