Children's Fiction

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, reprint, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardover in a worn dust jacket. Illustrated black & white "Hoosier Pictures" by Will Vawter. 188 pages. Previous owner's signature front end-paper. Dust jacket with chunk gone from top edge. Chips to bottom edges. Scarce in dust jacket,

Hardcover. NY, Century Co., 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Green cloth boards with black & red embossed design to cover and white lettering. B&w illustrations by Reginald B. Birch, black & white frontispiece. light edgewear. Spine lettering faded, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Rand McNally & Company, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in pale yellow, in a worn and chipped dust jacket. A novel about a San Francisco journalist who matches wits with a gang of drug dealers. With illustrations by Chauncey Maltman. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped in dark blue and orange. 239 pages, illustrated in b&w line by Harry Farny. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped ($5.95) dust jacket. Design & illustrations by Beth & Joe Krush. Early reprint with "NOPQ" on copyright page. Small small sticker on inside flap, otherwise a clean, bright copy. The Borrowers set sail to find a home of their own in a model village where humans paid admission to visit. The third book in the series.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with black stamping, 122 pages. Illustrated in two-colors and full color by Kurt Wiese. Scarce title by this duo. Light shelf wear, no markings.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY LOWRY. Black & white photos. 181 pages.

Hardcover. Boston, Haughton Mifflin, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 45 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white by Helen Rhodes. Cover faded.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket, 121 pages. Black & white drawings by Alan Tiegreen. Dust jacket price clipped. Black cloth binding with edgewear. Dust jacket with closed tears, chips. A Cinderella story with a magical feeling, but no actual unreality. Thursey works for her wicked stepmother and stepsisters and dreams of going to the ball and meeting the prince.

New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 60 pages. Blue cloth covers with gilt titles, dust jacket illustrated in color, gorgeous full-page color illustrations by Mair. Mild rubbing to dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a lovely book in great condition.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Library Ed. (NOT ex-lib) Light wear to dj, closed tear. Linen covered covers with ripples, production error. Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky in b&w.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 169 pages.Journal of a 14 year old girl living on a medieval English manor who is fighting her mother's attempts to make her a lady & her father's to marry her off. 1995 Newbery Honor Book, no award medal on dustjacket. Book is in unread condition.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pink cloth covers with black drawing and lettering, 55 pages illustrated in b&w by Mircea Vasiliu. This copy INSCRIBED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR WITH A DRAWING OF A SEAGULL CARRYING A FLOWER TO FELLOW ILLUSTRATOR KURT WIESE, dated 1957. Quite a scarce book even without the signature. Clean, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Arthur A. Levine / Scholastic, 1st, 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Fourth printing of the First Edition (with number line on copyright page "5 7 9 10 8 6 4 8 9/9 0/0 01 02" with "Printed in the US 23 below. First American edition, October 1998" )/ First Edition (stated) of Book One of J.K. Rowling's now classic Harry Potter series. This copy has all the points of the TRUE FIRST US EDITION. Book is bound with red cloth spine with gold lettering and has the diamond pattern purple paper over boards. There is no volume number on the spine. The book has green end papers. The second Issue dust jacket has the original $16.95 price and there is no volume number on the jacket's spine (later printings stated the book number) . The blurb on the back cover of the dust jacket is from Pubisher's Weekly (the first issue had The Guardian review). The back cover of the DJ has 2 bar codes at the bottom, with the numbers 51695 above the smaller one. The "Harry Potter" in gold lettering on the front panel of the jacket is raised and there is no date on the title page. Child's marking with green marker on rear endpapers. Finger smudge at top right corner of page 113 which carries to foredge. Small area of discoloration at very bottom of spine cloth. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. NY, Ives Washburn, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. A young man's search for his father, believed lost from a whaling boat in the South Pacific. Set in the late 1800s. Light price marking in front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, W. A. Wilde Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners last name at top right corner of front endpaper. Foxing to edges. Blue cloth covers with some discoloration to rear bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hard cover. 194 pages. Black & white illustrations by George M. Richards. Red top edge. Light spine wear. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, soiling. Clear plastic protective cover. Bookseller's label front end paper.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 3rd pr., 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 168 pages. Blue boards are solid with silhouette of a boy and girl in a canoe; illustrated in b&w by Stephen Voorhies who did the illustrated map on the endpapers. When Ann Jackman was fourteen and her brother Philip eleven, their father decided to become a fur trapper, so the whole family moved to northern Ontario, near a Hudson Bay Post, and built themselves a home. There were many exciting new things for the Jackmans to learn: building a log cabin, making furniture, paddling canoes, the habits of animals, and the language and customs of the Indians.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with cover art and interior map by Trina Schart Hyman. 12 year old Gabe is invited by his grandfather to help shear the sheep on Ghost Island where Gabe sees the ghost who haunts the island. Clean copy.

Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light wear.Illustrated in b&w by Robin Jacques. The Craven children have an unusual grandmother. She's an actress, cooks exotic dishes and speaks in riddles. But nothing is more unusual than her horse corral -- because a talking unicorn named Guelph lives there! Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages, blue cloth covers with black decoration. Illustrated in 3-colors by Ward. Dust jacket with light soil, price-clipped. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 217 pages, b&w illustrations by Frank Nicholas. Clean, tight copy. Emmy Lane, a child of itinerant workers, decides to go on a Friends Service Project to a very poor Indian village in Mexico. Although she herself has come from a hard life, she is unprepared for what she finds.

Hardcover. NY, Junior Literary Guild /Doubleday, 1st US, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a light stain to rear panel. Decorated endpapers, B/W Illustrations by the author, 215 pages. A tale about a young English farm girl and her love for her pet donkey, Biddy Christmas, and a little gray pony, Pip. Pencil name on blank prelim page, otherwise clean.

hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 12th pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Paul Lantz. Very Good with worn dj. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. The beautiful rhythms of the Navajo life in Red Rocks Country of Arizona for a young girl named Doli, who must face the outer world in this coming of age story.

Hardcover. Peterborough NH, Noone House, 1st illust. thus, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, like-new dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece, b&w drawings by Tasha Tudor. Fascinating work about Plupy, Beany and Pewt, growing up in Exeter, New Hampshire, in the 1860s. Clean, unmarked.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with black design, 310 pages. Color frontispiece illustration by N.C. Wyeth, numerous black line drawings by Andrew Wyeth throughout. A rare instance of father and son artists collaborating. Clean, bright copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardbound, 314 pages. Black & white illustrations with color frontispiece by Marguerite de Angeli. Dust jacket with chipping, soiling, closed tears. Chunk missing from top of spine. Brodart cover. Previous owners markings on half title page.

Hardcover. NY, Ives Washburn, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 43 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illust. by Erik Blegvad. Dust jacket price clipped.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Four stories about the lives of four young people in different circumstances whose lives are changed by their encounters with books. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&W illustrations by Kenneth Rowell. 61 pages. Bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Hardcover.

Hardcover. NY, Junior Books/ Doubleday Doran , 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth, 245 pages. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and b&w drawings by Carl Moon. Soiling and spotting to edges. Spine darkened. Red top edge. Corners bumped.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations by James Teason. Light residue sticker to inside front cover, otherwise clean. Dust jacket with light fading to edge, spine.

New York , Bedrick/Blackie, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 24 pages. Color illustrations by Ambrus. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. After laughing at a bear, a farmer must do some thinking in order to keep from losing his cow and his hens.

Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1st, 1880, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Illustrated paper covered boards with tan cloth backstrip. Cover illustration of a little girl holding a rose. 412 pages, color litho frontis. of girl with a puppy and mother dog "Faithful Friends". tissue guard. Many b&w engraved illustrations throughout. Chipping to paper along edge of boards, Top of spine and front top corner worn, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st thus, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and lightly spotted dust jacket, 192 pages. Introduction by Walter de la Mare. Illustrations by Walter Trier. First printing of the new translation by Eileen Hall. This copy is bound in original yellow linen covered boards with black titles to the front and spine. Kastner's first major success, the only one of his pre-1945 works to escape Nazi censorship, and remains his best-known work, and has been translated into at least 59 languages. The most unusual aspect of the novel, compared to existing children's literature at the time, was that it was realistically set in a contemporary Berlin peopled with some fairly rough characters, not in a sanitized fantasy world; also that it refrained from obvious moralizing, letting the characters' deeds speak for themselves. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and rubbed dust jacket. Ex-lib with stamping to front fly leaf, envelope inside rear cover. Interior clean. Translated from Swedish by Florence Lamborn. Illustrated in b&w by Don Freeman.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Corrie refuses to believe that her father is dying until she realizes that no matter what happens, a part of him will always live in her. Clean copy. Light fade to spine.

NY, Sun Dial Press, reprint, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, 249 pages. Illustrated endpapers, 8 glossy, full-page color illustrations as well as b&w drawings by Marguerite Kirmse. No dust jacket. Small bump to top corner of cover. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, HarperCollins, ARC, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers. An Advanced Reading Copy. B&w illustrations byJon Agee. A National Book Award Finalist. The overweight Hubble family and a pair of newlywed woodchucks have something in common; they are all being terrorized by a tyrannical toddler named Margaret. How it all turns out is the subject of this funny children's novel with witty b&w drawings. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright. lightly worn dust jacket. Dust jacket is an illustration of a German work camp with a girl and guard on the face. A young adult novel by a Norwegian writer about an escape from a German prison camp in WW2. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. Ii a worn, chipped dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by Wesley Dennis. With "A" on the copyright page, first thus. 154 pages. light wear to cloth at bottom of spine. 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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 64 pages. Illustrated with color, black & white drawings by Albert Rutherston. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Foxing, browning to front pages. Cloth cover with minor stains, soil.

Hardcover. NY, Blue Sky/Scholastic, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, illustrated in color by Mark Teague. SIGNED BY TEAGUE WITH A SKETCH opposite title page and SIGNED BY AUTHOR on laid-in bookplate. Like new in dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good pictorial dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, tight copy, otherwise.

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 48 pages. Black & white illustrations by Charles Robinson. Dust jacket with edgewear, rubbing. Clear plastic protective cover. Price clipped. The story of a boy's quest to buy and build a cage for a pet mouse.

Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 181 pages. Bright dust jacket. Juvenile suspense novel set in North Africa, involving a modern (1960s) day Prester John character.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint , 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color frontispiece, b&w drawings by Corwin K. Linson. 90 pages in decorated yellow cloth with light soil.

New York, W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with light chipping, 183 pages. Illustrations by Charles Geer. Bess Ridgeway spends a magical summer on her uncle's farm in West Virgina complete with exploring caves, searching for hidden treasure and riding horses. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, blue cloth covers stamped in white, 213 pages. Black & white illustrations by James Reid. Soiling to endpapers, covers. Edgewear. Corners worn, bumped. Previous owner's signature in pencil front endpaper.

Hardcover. NY - Ind., Bobbs Merrill, 1st , 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Bill Tinker. Three stories -- one based on a Scottish ballad, another on a Japanese folktale, and the other on Greek mythology, with the common thread that the character in each story is taken out of this world, then back again.