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.
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.
Hardcover. New York, Hyperion Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 169 pages, light blue covers with a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stated first with all numbers present.
Boston, MA, Dana Estes & Co., 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 155 pages. Publisher's light blue cloth spine over blue-gray paper-covered boards, designed by Amy Richards (author's daughter, unsigned binding) with Madonna lilies stamped in dark blue to upper cover and spine, title and author stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, rough cut edges, with frontispiece and three full-page black and white illustrations by Merrill. Name of previous owner on front flyleaf.
Boston, Little Brown , 1st , 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine. A young black girl struggles to fulfill her papa's dream of a better future for their family in the southwestern town where in 1910 they are the only blacks.
Hardcover. New York , A.L. Burt, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 236 pages, b&w frontispiece. Decorated tan cloth covers. Clean. A Girls' Mystery Detective Series book, The girls of Sunnyside prove to the haughty Geraldine that living in a small town is not so boring as she thought. Geraldine is made a member of the Seven Sleuths' Club, and the girls join the boys of the secret C.D.C. in winter sports and fun.
NY, Dutton, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A story of growing up in Pittsburgh during the Great Depression of 1929. Small check mark on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 5th pr, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light soil and edgewear. 144 pages. Black & white cartoon illustrations by William Steig.
Hardcover. NY, Julian Messner, Inc., 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket, 185 pages. Black & white ilustrations by Raymond Lufkin. Dust jacket with closed tears, chips to top & bottom edges, price clipped. A boy's adventures on the Mississippi River.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 190 pages. Illustrated by Raymond Abel. Blue cloth cover with yellow lettering on spine and decoration on front. Spine faded. Stain to bottom corners of covers. Description of book pasted in front endpaper. Previous owner's signature front pastedown. Bumped spine, corners.
Hardcover. Boston , Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped with dark green design. B&W illustrations by Joshua Tolford. Ex-lib with stamping, light residue to end papers. Juvenile novel set in Maine about a 12-year-old mischief maker who decides to reform upon the arrival of his war hero uncle.
Hardcover. New York , E.P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 216 pages, Library Ed. stiker on dj, spine slightly faded. Dickon sets to find and warn the playwright Marlowe of danger. He is aided and hindered by a tough little urchin, Cecily, who teaches him the culture of the road. Set in Elizabethan England, with glossary.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , reprint, 1884, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by F.S. Church, 150 pages. Red cloth covers with gilt design of flying horse in front of moon, beveled edges. All edges gilt. Light fraying to top, bottom of spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down.
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.
New York , Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket.Illustrated in color by the author. In very good condition. Beautiful full-color illustrations based on Renaissance paintings complement the whimsical story of the foolish Queen Ruby, whose vanity and love for getting dressed up to go for her carriage ride almost bring her country to ruin.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 191 pages, b&w illustrations by Fanny Y. Cory. Bright blue cloth covers.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w drawings by Dirk Zimmer. Set in Boston in 1636, a valuable pig escapes from Goody's sty and must be rescued by the determined lady. Clean copy.
NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 177 pages, in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. When Charles Sabini, a popular kid from a large, happy family, got a Poison Chain Letter in the mail, it led him to Chris Pomeroy, who had never fit in. Their friendship changed them both. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped in dark blue. 147 pages with b&w illustrations by Hildegard Woodward. This book was reprinted in the early sixties with a different illustrator. Covers have edgewear, lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Junior Books - Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, brown cloth cover stamped in black. 270 pages. Illustrated with b&w line drawings by Paul Brown. Illustrated endpapers. Cracked front & back hinge. Pencil markings front endpaper. edgewear. Spotting to spine. Corners bumped.
Philadelphia, Muhlenberg Press, 1st , 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white woodcut illustrations by the author. 108 pages, a collection of humorous animal stories from the Old Testament. Clean copy.
Chicago, A.C. McClurg, reprint, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth. Eleven color illustrations by Florence Scovel Shinn. Mild wear to covers. "When Mr. O'Callaghan dies after a long, severe, and expensive sickness, he leaves his widow a state of unlimited poverty and seven boys." The dialect is said to come close to the speech of Irish immigrants in 1900. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 246 pages illustrated in b&w by Jay Hyde Barnum. Owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. First 20 pages have dog-ear crease to bottom corner. High school football adventures of four friends who break up when their school is closed and they're transferred to rival teams.
New York, Viking Press, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 209 pages. Black & white illustrations by David Rook. In a very nice turquoise dust jacket.
New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, hardcover, 108 pages. Black & white illustrations by William Geldart. In a nice dust jacket.
New Jersey, Prentice-Hill, Inc., reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 72 pages. Black & white illustrations by Victoria de Larrea. Light discoloration to top back panel of dust jacket. Library discard stamp inside front and back cover. Otherwise very good.
Philadelphia, John Winston , 1st illust., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 274 pages. 4 color and 10 B&W plates by Edwin J. Prittie. Green cloth with cover label illustrated.Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 56 pages, illustrated in b&w by Lesley Liu. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Philadelphia , Westminster Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice, unclipped dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Howard N. Watson. Clean copy.
NY, D. Appleton & Co., 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt, red and green decoration to cover and spine. 429 pages + ads. Black & white illustrations by A.I. Keller and D. Potter. Frontispiece illustration with tissue guard. Front hinge partially cracked. Spine fade.
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