Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 284 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 12 tipped-in plates, 37 text illustrations by Charles Robinson, all edges gild, decorated in gilt on red cloth. Front cover w/bump to top corner. Front fly leaf starting to become loose, gutter cracked on title page, light foxing throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, reprint, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale green cloth stamped with dark blue design of boy ringing church bell. No "A" so a reprint. Title page art says 1949. Color, 2-color Illustrations by Politi. Clean copy of the 1950 Caldecott winner.
Hardcover. NY, McClure Phillips, 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 329 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white illust. by F.Y. Cory. Bright decorated green boards with gilt lettering. Clean copy.
NY, Putnam, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket.Black & white illustrations by Charles Robinson. As the first Woman's Rights Convention, in Seneca Falls, New York, draws near, hired girl Josie Dexter, initially uninterested in the convention, takes an eventful steamboat ride on Seneca Lake.
Hardcover. Peterborough NH, Noone House/Richard Smith, 1st illust. thus, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 194 pages. B&w drawings by Tasha Tudor. First published in 1902, a fictional account of an 11-year old growing up in Exeter, New Hampshire. His "diry", complete with mis-spellings, newly illustrated by Tudor. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black, white and gilt design on front cover and spine. 191 pages, plus publisher's ads in rear. 12 b&w plates by Reginald Birch. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in black and gilt. 163 pages plus publisher's ads. Eight b&w illustrations by W.L. Sheppard. Four stories about boy's adventure in the Civil War that originally ran in Harper's Young People. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 181 pages. Hardcover. B/w frontispiece with tissue guard, and illustrations (plates) throughout. Brown cover boards (light agewear) with black design on front cover board and spine. No dust jacket. Some tanning and smudges to pages and edges from age. In very good condition. Original owner's inscription on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st , 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 211 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Deckled edges. Blue cloth cover boards, white title on spine and design on front cover. Dust jacket has extensive agewear, wrapped in clear plastic mylar for protection. Tanning from age to pages and edges, doesn't affect text or illustrations.
Hardcover. New York, Dover Publications, Inc, Reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers in slipcase. Color and b/w illustrations and color frontispieces by W.W. Denslow. A slight musty odor from being packed away. Smudges on some of the pages, otherwise clean. Bindings tight. Spines straight. Some foxing to edges. The Wonderful Wizard of OZ: 267 pages. Red spine, which is faded with a touch of foxing. The Marvelous Land of OZ: 287 pages. Blue spine which is faded with a touch of foxing.
Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2010, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 394 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition. SIGNED IN RED PEN BY FUNKE on title page. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine and design on front cover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. In beautiful condition.
Hardcover. New York, New World Publishing Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 158 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Red cloth cover boards, blue title on spine and designs on front cover board. Dust jacket price clipped. Original bookstore price tag on dust jacket front flap, some agewear to dust jacket (see image).
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations including frontispiece. [The Children's Friend Series]. Green cloth, Gilt Lettering On Front Cover, Pink Lettering On Spine, Front Cover decorated in three-color design. First Published In A Periodical In 1887, New Copyright 1903 by adopted son, John S.P. Alcott. Some slight rubbing to top and bottom of spine and corners of cover boards. In very good condition.
Hardcover. Garden City, NJ, Garden City Publishing Co., 1st Edition, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 63 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout by Shinn. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear. Decorated cover boards and endpapers. Pages clean, pages and edges have a touch of tanning from age, but otherwise unmarked. Binding good. Spine straight. In this beautiful book are collected all the outstanding "Christmas" passages from Dickens' writings, accompanied by Shinn's 12 superb full color drawings, as well a many imaginative and characteristic black and white sketches.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Brothers, 1st Edition, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 93 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Illustrations by Frederic Remington throughout, one of the plates has come apart from the binding, page laid in. Decorated (4 color) red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Boards have agewear, light soil, scratches (see images). Binding good. Spine straight. Pages clean. Page and edges have some light tanning from age. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper and preliminary page.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 202 pages. Previous owner's small embossed stamp on title page, dust jacket price clipped, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, New York , Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jscket, 295 pages, Illustrated in b&w by Erick Berry.
Hardcover. NY, Jr. Literary Guild, Book Club, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with black design. Color frontispiece and black & white drawings by Wilfred Jones. Published simultaneously with the Little Brown trade edition. Clean, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Century Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers, 179 pages. End papers illustration, 2-color frontispiece and black & white illustrations by Weda Yap. Light edgewear. No dust jacket. Corners a bit bumped.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf , 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren, 217 pages. Color frontis piece. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Piece missing on spine of dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on back past-down and small stamp pasted on past-down.
Hardcover. Boston , Lothrop Publishing, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, turquoise cloth stamped in red and gilt, 306 pages. Twelve b&w illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Frontispiece piece protected by tissue guard. Unusually bright, clean copy. Light cornerwear to cover.
Hardcover. NY, Coward McCann, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 262 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket edgewear and chipping. Illustrated end papers. Black & white illustrations by Sgt. Glen Rounds. Light gutter crack by title page.
Hardcover. New York, Doran, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth binding with color label on front.246 pages. Black & white illustrations by Maurice Day. Cover has light wear to corners and spine edge. Cover has very light soiling.
New York, Bernard Ackerman, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 59 pages. Black and brown line drawings by William Brady. previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. Dust jacket with edgewear.
New York , Knopf, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 275 pages. B&W illustrations by Sydney E. Fletcher. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. US, Candlewick, 3rd printing, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 231 pages, illustrated in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Winner of 2014 Newbery Medal.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 334 pages, illustrated in b&w by Maurice Sendak. SIGNED BY SENDAK on title page. Clean, bright copy, ribbon marker.
Hardcover. New York , Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages illustrated in color by Michael Hague. INSCRIBED BY HAGUE WITH AN INK SKETCH OF A FAIRY SITTING ON A TOADSTOOL on the title page. Minor wear to dust jacket, yellowing a bit at edges.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 298 pages, b&w illustrations and 12 color plates by John R. Neill. Maroon cloth covers with color pictorial paste-down. This was one of Ruth Plumly Johnson's contributions to the Oz canon and is a first printing with all 12 color plates, end papers illustration. Bookplate on half-title page, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Oliver & Boyd, 1st UK, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 232 pages, illustrated in b&w by Robert Hales, translated by Evelyn Ramsden. Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) was a Swedish children's book author and the author of the Pippi Longstocking series. Seacrow Island was published in Sweden in 1964. This volume from 1968 is the stated first English edition by Oliver & Boyd Ltd., London, published before the Viking American edition (Copyright page is at the back of the book). Light yellow cloth binding with illustration of a boy holding a dog on front board and printing on spine. Dust jacket with light edgewear, price-clipped. Binding is tight, square, clean and bright.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover New in new dust jacket. 326 pages. Quarter bound in cloth over paper covered boards. First edition, second printing. SIGNED on the title page by the author. An exceptional copy of a classic.
Hardcover. London, Ernest Benn Limited, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 95 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has moderate wear, chipping and fraying on edges. Covered with brodart. Gutter cracked on title page. Previous owner's name in pen on title page.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 235 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has heavy wear to edges, and light chipping and tears to spine. Covered with plastic. Cover boards clean and bright with minimal wear to edges. Pages darkened, previous owner's name on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, 1st, 1874, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 258 pages. Small tears to endpapers along spine. Corners bumped. Some wear to corners and spine. Label on front end paper. Gutter cracked in multiple places.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday Page , 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 436 pages. Hardcover with stamped illustration of a moose head on front cover. Green covers show moderate wear on edges with fraying, fading and light soil. Gutter cracked in multiple places, but still complete. Illustrations throughout done by author. Page block has well worn edges. Light foxing to frontispiece tissue guard, first few pages.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 194 pages. Black cloth with color pictorial label on cover. 101 full page and half page illustrations by Louis Rhead. 1/2" tear in spine edge.
Softcover. privately printed, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalogue with bibliographical descriptions. With an introduction by Frederick R. Goff. Frontispiece; vi , 97 pages. stiff paper wrappers. small 4to..
hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover no dust jacket. Black & white and Color illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky. Illustrated end papers. Translated by Georges Duplaix. Corners show heavy wear with chipping and fraying. Light soil on spine.
Hardcover. Garden City, Garden City, 1st Thus, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Full color and black & white illustrations by J. M. Gleeson and Paul Bransom. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 186 pages. Jeff tables his dreams of directing movies when his dream girl, who left town to become a theatrical star, returns as an unwed mother. PW called this an "engrossing story of lopsided love," but added that "the term YA is really too elastic; this story requires a reader more mature than a 12-year-old." Dust jacket price-clipped otherwise like new.
Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 186 pages. Jeff tables his dreams of directing movies when his dream girl, who left town to become a theatrical star, returns as an unwed mother. PW called this an "engrossing story of lopsided love," but added that "the term YA is really too elastic; this story requires a reader more mature than a 12-year-old." Dust jacket price-clipped otherwise like new.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Label on spine chipped. Red covers with light fading on spine. Clean, tight copy. Frayed on top spine material.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by N. Cameron Watson. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum Books, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. A reprint of the classic Scribner's edition from 1911 featuring all 14 of Wyeth's color plates.
Hardcover. New York, Baker & Taylor, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 307 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Stamped lettering in front cover with illustration of two characters. Gutter crack on page 62. 8 plates of b&w illustrations by F.C. Gruger.
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Rare & Out-of-Print Children's Fiction
Here you'll find used, rare and out-of-print children's fiction: chapter books, story collections and classic juvenile novels from many eras. Highlights include Leo Politi's Song of the Swallows, Frances Hodgson Burnett's Two Little Pilgrim's Progress and Henry A. Shute's The Real Diary of a Real Boy, the last illustrated by Tasha Tudor.
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