Children's Fiction

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st thus, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 148 pages illutrated in b&w and 2-colors by Cooke. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. No dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by Wesley Dennis. With "A" on the copyright page, first thus. 154 pages. Stamp with inscription on half-title page. Otherwise clean. George Washington meets his match in a wily fox in this legendary hunting tale from Newbery Award-winning author Marguerite Henry. Cinnabar is a fox. He lives in a den with his family, Vicky and four little cubs. He's a hardworking fox who does everything he can to ensure that his family has what they need. But during fox hunting season, he likes to have a little fun: Every hunt day, promptly at one o'clock, Cinnabar shows up and runs until nightfall. Can the huntsmen ever catch this clever fox? Based on an old legend about fox hunting in the area around Mount Vernon.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with black stamping. 221 pages. Black & white illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping.

NY, Hyperion, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like-new in colorful dust jacket. When the new owners of the bed and breakfast arrive, they soon realize they're not the only ones who are interested in the place. The guests start arriving, one by one, and soon they're all trying to solve the mystery of who's behind the haunting.

Hardcover. Boston, J.E.Tilton & Co., Rep., 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. (C) page states 1869. 261 pages. Red cloth with gilt illustration on spine. NIce copy.

New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 82 pages. Black & white illustrations by David Palladini. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Dust jacket with mild edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 128 pages. B&w illustrations by Robert Patterson. Book store stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York , David White Company, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 117 pages, black & white illustrations by Paul Giovanopoulos. Spine faded, library binding with sticker, dust jacket price clipped, otherwise in good condition.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Company, 2nd Pr., 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Full color frontis. Light abrasion to page edges 233-248. Faint circular damp stain on front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with minor wear, 94 pages, illustrated in b&w by Symeon Shimin. A young boy's adventures growing up in a Caribbean fishing village.

Hardcover. New York , Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY MACDOUGALL on front fly leaf. One-color illustrations by Pat Cummings. Some light sunning to edges, spine of dust jacket, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 194 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth covers with titles and cover illustration in orange. With a frontispiece by Frank M. Rines. Light wear to cover edges and corners. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 187 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Albert Orbaan. Nice dust jacket, unclipped.

Hardcover. New York, Cupples and Leon Company, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 210 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate wear to pages, and covers. Dust jacket has small chunk missing on top spine.

Hardcover. New York, Margaret K. McElderry, 1st U.S., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, minor wear to edges. Dust jacket has light wear to edges of spine. Illustrated by Erik Blegvad. Color illustrations throughout. A bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 137 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor rubbing to dust jacket top.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages. Transl. from the French by Margery Williams Bianco. Color, black & white illustrations by Bianco. Ex-lib with only remnants of label on back end paper. Spine fade.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Rick Schreiter. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House , reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 207 pages, maroon boards with beige cloth spine, illustrated with 10 b&w drawings by Joseph Cellini. Light edgewear, chipping to dust jacket, price clipped. Otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Alan E. Cober. 141 pages. In a lightly soiled, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Honesdale PA, Boyds Mills Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages, b&w illustrations by Edward Gorey. A reissue of a 1970 edition with a new preface by Paula Danziger.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Hardcover. "An I Can Read Book". Color illustrations by Bernard Wiseman. Lists 17 titles on back cover - starting with "Little Bear" and ends with "David and the Giant". Some minor foxing to preliminary pages. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick Warne, 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 150 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Black & white illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. Foxing to edges. Dust jacket worn with foxing, short closed tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green and Co., 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 181 pages, illustrated in b&w by E. Harper Johnson. Dust jacket very good, price-clipped.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering. Light edgewear on covers.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Reprint, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages. Hardcover. Orange cloth with light wear along edges. Previous owners inscription at bottom of preliminary page. Features 4 color illustrations by Edith F. Butler.

Hardcover. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1st thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in dark blue cloth with ornate gilt decorations on cover and spine. Color pastedown on front cover features Tom with little blonde girl. Very uncommon. Retold by Edith Robarts for the Stories for Children series. 8 Color Plates including cover (not credited); 4 1/2" x 6"; 91 pages. No date but circa 1912. One color plate loose (at page 56) but all there. Nice clean copy of a rare edition.

Hardcover. NY, Hurst Co., reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 224 pages. Two stories in one volume. 6 color plates along with many b&w line illustrations. Light water stain pg. 134-160. Light green cloth with black and blue design, gilt on spine. Back hinge cracked. Humorous episodes of a red headed boy playing practical jokes on his Uncle Ike.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Twenty tales recounting the antics of the West Indian trickster ANANCY and his companions- Bro Monkey, Bro Dog and bro Tiger. Bold b/w illus. by Nigerian artist Joseph Olubo. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "Those shackles didn't rob us of being black, son, they robbed us of being human."This is the story of one family. A family whose history saw its first ancestor captured, shackled, and brought to this country from Africa. A family who can still see remnants of the shackles that held some of its members captive -- even today. It is a story of pride, determination, struggle, and love. And of the piece of the land that holds them together throughout it all. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Comapny, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 213 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has moderate chipping and tears. Clean and tight internally. Illustrated by Marc Simont. A story of 1939 New York, climaxing with a race between a steam engine and a team of horses, with appearances by Walt Whitman, Horace Greeley, Peter Cooper, Samuel Morse, and other luminaries of the age.

Hardcover. NY, HARPER & BROTHERS, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Vera Bock. Light edgewear, rubbing to price clipped dust jacket. Overall, a tight clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Appleton, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 6 B&W illustrated plates. With a nice INSCRIPTION BY SEAWELL on preliminary page. New photograph of Seawell tipped-in. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Gilt decorated covers. A bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Tight copy. Previous owners name on front end paper. Illustrated by Wendy Watson.

Hardcover. New York , Random House , reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 114 pages, illustrated in b&w by John Burningham. Book is bound in red cloth with gilt lettering. Edition is not stated, 1964 on the title page. Contains 111 numbered pages with an additional 3 unnumbered. 16 line dedication. All pages are very clean and the binding is tight. Top edge stained black, dust jacket has light edgewear. Price of $3.50 on the front flap. Would appear to be a second or third printing of the first edition.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1st US thus., 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 421 pages. With black & white illustrations. Red cloth cover with gilt title and illustration on front. Spine slightly faded, embossed title complete. First U.S. edition with both titles in one volume.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black and gilt. 4 b&w plates. Covers with edge wear, gilt slightly faded. Library bookplate inside front cover, otherwise clean, no markings.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY WILHELM on the front fly leaf. Clean copy. Parkland Middle School is a place the students call Darkland, because no one in it does much to stop the daily harassment of kids by other kids. Three bullied seventh graders use their smarts to get the better of their tormentors by starting an unofficial e-mail forum at school in which they publicize their experiences. Unexpectedly, lots of other kids come forward to confess their similar troubles, and it becomes clear that the problem at their school is bigger than anyone knew. The school principal wants to clamp down on the operation, which she does when the trio, in their zealousness for revenge, libel a fellow student in what turns out to have been a setup. Now a new plan of attack is needed . . .

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 262 pages, 10 color illustrations by Grace G. Wiederseim (creator of The Campbell Kids). Red cloth covers with color illustrated label on front, gilt lettering on spine faded. The front hinge has cracked and exposed the thread beneath. Binding is still sound and text and plates bright.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 297 pages, maroon cloth with white design and lettering. illustrated in b&w by Edward Shenton. Clean, bright copy of the first ("1 " on copyright page), lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 207 pages with 24 publishers pages in rear. B&w frontispiece and 3 b&w illustrations by Harold Copping. Cover lightly soiled with minor rubbing and edgewear. Inscription by previous owner on front flyleaf. A clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 87 pages illustrated in b&w by Phongsun. In a lightly worn dust jacket with large wrinkle on top edge with tear to fore edge, closed tear on rear. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, hardcover, 64 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white by Christine Chisholm. Previous owners signature on top right corner of front endpaper. Light rubbing to corners of covers and top and bottom of spine. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, World Publishing, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Victor G. Ambrus. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Longmans Green and Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 145 pages. Black & white Illustrations by Avery Johnson, End papers illustrated. Light soil to cloth cover. corners a bit bumped.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 323 pages, light blue cloth with black lettering. illustrated in b&w by Frank Beaudouin. Clean and tight.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 198 pages. Color frontis, black & white illustrations by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Dust jacket unclipped, edgeworn, chipped. Nickle-size paper scar to front of dj above title. Clean copy. A mystery surrounding Joseph Bonaparte, former King of Spain, and brother to the exiled Napoleon, living in exile himself in the United States.

Softcover. Wonder Publishing, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 258 pages. Color plates by H.R. Millar. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover. First Edition stated. B&W drawings by Diana Thorne. Dust jacket spine mostly gone, chipping, tape repair. Small postage stamp on title page.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , reprint , 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black & white illustrations by Oliver Herford. First published a year earlier. Beautiful, clean copy. all edges green, decorated cover with gilt lettering.