Children's Fiction

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.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 72 pages, with b&w Illustrations by David Omar White. Minor rubbing and foxing on cover edges, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. A boy in Northern Iran leaves his family and grows up to become a guide for rich hunters. No markings.

Hardcover. New York , Dodd Mead, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 70 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Paul Lantz. Blue cloth covers, dust jacket with light edgewear, soil.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribners Sons, reprint, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket. Two-color illustrations by Helen Sewell. School stamp on front end paper, otherwise clean. Newberry honor book based on an old Pennsylvania folktale about bears on Hemlock mountain.

Hardcover. New York, Rand McNally , 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 127 pages. Foreword by William Beebe. Illustrated by Keith Ward. Cloth covers with orange lettering and illustration. Light soiling to covers. Edgewear. Corners bumped. Natural history of termites in a story about a fictional termite colony.

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 332 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Black & white illustrations by Charles Copeland. Titles on cover and spine in gilt. Fading to spine with beginning of fraying at top and bottom. Clean, unmarked text.Phillips Exeter Series.

NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 253 pages. Black & white drawings by Margery Gill. Foreword by Leonard Clark. Price clipped dust jacket with light soil, wear to edges.

Softcover. Gas City, IN, L-W Book Sales, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 104 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

self published, circa 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A typed/xeroxed manuscript in a 3-ring orange binder with metal clasps. A scholarly history of boys series books complete with an introduction, biographies, criticism, and lists of titles/authors. A valuable research tool by someone with a passionate interest in the field of children's writing. No date anywhere but around mid 1970s. About 250 one-sided pages, with some hand-written notations. Probably an early version of a manuscript later published in 1982 by McFarland in North Carolina. "Tom Swift & Company: Boys Books by Stratemeyer and Others".

Hardcover. London, J. B. Lippincott Co, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color frontispiece and b&w plates and drawings by Hilda van Stockhum. Light wear to dust jacket, previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Foxing on pages.

Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 86 pages, b&w drawings by Donna Diamond. 'Golden Kite Award Silver Medal' on front panel of dust jacket. A boy & a girl become convinced that the white deer they discover is a unicorn. Tale of a beautiful white hear & the friendship it nurtures. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran Company, 2nd, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 366 pages. Brown cloth cover with faded spine and gilt title on spine. Black & white illustrations by Arthur William Brown. Light edgewear to top spine.

Washington, DC, Review & Herald Pub., 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 123 pages. B&W illustrations by Arlo Green. Short stories about animals: dogs, horses, sheep, a bear cub, even a cuckatoo. Mild wear to top and bottom of spine. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House , reprint, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's signature front end paper, 2.95 on dj flap. Dj w/short tears, wear, chunk gone on spine.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., reprint, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 72 pages + advertisements. B/W illustrations/prints by Charlotte Tifffany Parker. Marks/glue from previous bookplates on front and back fly leaves. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Very clean yellow cloth cover with black stamped design on front and title stamped on spine.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, mustard cloth stamped in dark green, in a shelf-worn dust jacket. 208 pages, illustrated by Lyle Justis. Brief gift inscription and previous owner's bookplate inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 218 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light to moderate wear to edges. Light soil on pages.

Philadelphia PA, John C. Winston, reprint, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 212 pages. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Four color and other b&w illustrations by Everett Shinn. Dust jacket with chipping, small tears.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 204 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dj with light edgewear, price clipped. Soil on fore edge.

Chicago, Wilcox and Follett, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers stamped in black. B&W illustrations by Milo Winter. 189 pages. Small bookstore stamp to front end papers otherwise very good. An "action-packed adventure story based on authentic history of early Illinois" set during the Black Hawk War. Clean copy.

New York, Macmillan , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Judy Pedersen. Dust jacket with edgewear. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Seabury Press, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in colo and b&w by Joanna Troughton. An East Saxon boy, recently converted to Christianity, tries to deal with the villager's and his own brother's hostility to the monks with whom he now makes his home. Dust jacket with minor edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated in color, black & white by Nelson Grofe. Retold by Martin from Child Christopher by William Morris. Gilt decorated cover with color label. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. New York, Lodestar Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Tight copy with light edgewear to covers.

Hardcover. NY, Hastings House, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with blue stamping, 48 pages, illustrated in B&W and 3-colors by Cooney. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 218 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear to covers, and dustjacket shows rubbing on front and fade to spine.

Hardcover. NY, Criterion, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages, hardcover in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. A story of the Underground Railroad. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.