Children's Fiction

Hardcover. NY, Baker & Taylor Company, 2nd pr., 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Decorated olive cloth covers with titles in black in ruled border. Titles on spine in orange. 396 pages. Five black & white illustrations plus frontispiece with tissue guard by F.R. Gruger. Bookseller's label on front end paper. Rubbing to corners and spine. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 3 in The Smiling Pool Series (per the number on the spine). 206 pages, b&w drawings by Harrison Cady. Copyright 1926 but a later reprint. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, M.A. Donohue & Company, reprint, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with a pastedown of a white & brown dog on the front cover. Color frontis (matches cover), 130 pages. Child's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. There is some light scribbling on cover of book (hidden by the dust jacket) and rear bottom of dj. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st UK, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 136 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 218 pages. Color frontis. and b&w illustrations by Addison Burbank. Light shelf ear, no markings.

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth, 57 pages with b&w illustrations by Irving Boker. A boy and his canoe in the Canadian North Woods. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Julia MacRae Books/Franklin Watts, 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, off-white boards with green metallic lettering, 87 pages. B&w drawings by Scott. No dust jacket. Discard stamp on inside rear cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Smath. A dog who likes to roll, scratch, and play with bones is quite a different dog after attending Madame de Poochio's School for Dogs. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth covers stamped in red, 148 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by the Haders. Clean copy. No dust jacket.

Softcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled, b&w illustrations. Reviews of current children's book, articles on their creators, publisher's ads. Articles on the Centenary of "Little Women" (1868-1968) by Cornelia Meigs, Lavinia Russ, Aileen Fisher and Olive Rabe. Frank Merrill illustrations, 159 pages. Light stamp to cover, interior bright and clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 47 pages. Story set in Hong Kong. An orphan raised by nine caring uncles, Yin Sun longs to become a kite maker like his best friend. Illustrated in green, maroon, blue and black by H. Tom Hall. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Franklin Watts, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 288 pages illustrated in b&w and color by Jenny Williams. Light chipping, edgewear to dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st illustrated thus, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 365 pages. Edited by Virginia Kirkus. Black & white illustrations and color frontispiece by Henry C. Pitz. Corners bumped. Spine and corners rubbed. Spine faded. Soiling to covers. Gutter cracked on pg 177 and 272.

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.

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. 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. NY, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A young adult mystery set off the coast of Spain featuring a parrot named Alice. Clean copy. Dust jacket art by Emily MCCU1lly.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige cloth stamped in green. First Printing (with the requisite "A" & colophon, no numbers (which would indicate a later printing) of this beloved novel about the Baxter family in the Big Scrub of inland Florida, centering on the boy, Jody, & his relationship with the little fawn. Winner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize & basis for the 1946 film starring Gregory Peck & Jane Wyman. In 428 pages, with pen-and-ink illustrations throughout text by Edward Shenton. Covers with light soiling, tanning to front edge, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1st printing of this reissue, square 8vo, cloth backed boards, twelve tales illustrated in line by Nonny Hogrogian. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books , 3rd pr., 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt design, 864 pages. Based on the translation of Margaret Hunt, with 212 beautiful illustrations (many in color) by Josef Scharl, an Introduction by Padraic Colum and Folkloristic Commentary at the rear by Joseph Campbell. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Birmingham AL, Reading Matter.Com, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Set in the South in the 1930s, Johnny and Will are identical twin boys who are separated at an early age. Will is part of a happy, well-off family near Birmingham, Ala. In Tennessee, Johnny is trying to survive neglect and abuse at the hands of his mean-spirted aunt. When Johnny sees a boy on a train who looks just like him, he is determined to meet him, despite every hurdle Aunt Min places in his path. Illustrated in b&w by Leanna Lesley.

Hardcover. Winchester UK, St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 142 pages. Mary Elliott (then Mary Belson) began writing for children in 1809, at a time when increasing literacy and wealth and more progressive understanding of the reading needs of children were creating a growing demand for more and more books for young people. Beginning with two books in verse - one a lively tale about town and country mice, the other, an anthology including many of her own poems - she went on to produce a stream of books on a variety of subjects. Her stories, some eventful and exciting, were mostly about real children learning to tackle the everyday circumstances and difficulties which they encountered in the world around them. These books were made all the more attractive by her publisher, William Darton, who provided them with entertaining illustrations, many of them interesting today for their depiction of contemporary scenes and fashions. Mary Elliott's books soon spread across the Atlantic, and American publishers reissued many of them, sometimes adapting the text to local circumstances. Although her books are now forgotten, they cannot be disregarded by researchers into the history of childhood and of children's literature. This bibliography contains about 470 entries. Clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth stamped with gilt lettering and flower blossoms on front cover. 304 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. B&w illustrations by Jessie McDermot, frontis with tissue guard. Small price sticker to front fly leaf, otherwise bright and clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth with pictorial design on front in red and black. The Bedtime Story-Books. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf and dated. "Sincerely your friend, Thornton W. Burgess Nov 12, 1919 Chug-a-rum!" Six b&w plates by Harrison Cady. Front hinge cracked, binding shaken. but holding. Some star stickers on front endpapers, Still, a nice early Burgess signature.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards, illustrated by Robert Doremus. 282 pages. Tight, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 151 pages. The adventures of four runaway boys who band together in a bleak area of London. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , Reprint, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 431 pages. Black & white illustrations and color frontis and title page by F.D. Bedford. Some browning to end-papers. Front and spine of gray cloth cover with black and red design. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with color cover label, 209 pages. First published in 1921, this a 30s reprint with a F-B code on the copyright page. With 13 full-page illustrated plates-some black-and-white, some color, including frontispiece. Black-and-white tipped in illustration at beginning of Chapter 1. Other drawings scattered throughout. CLEAN COPY.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1885-86, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 12 issues bound in one volume, dark green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 960 pages. A collection of the best juvenile writing and illustration of the day. The premier children's magazine in America at this time, offering a mix of fiction (some of it fantastic), articles, humor and lavish illustrations. Contributors include Palmer Cox, Laura E. Richards, E. P. Roe, J. T. Trowbridge, Alice May, Edward Eggleston, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Daniel C. Beard, and many others. Includes the debut of Burnett's "Little Lord Fauntleroy," which appeared for the first time in St. Nicholas. Clean copy, no library marks. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Boston, Ginn & Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with design of boy and girl on merry-go-round ride, 200 pages, illustrated in 3-colors by Margaret and Florence Hoopes. Front fly leaf missing, name on title page, otherwise clean, sound copy of this 30s school primer.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by Burton. An attractive reprint of a book first published in 1941. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, BC Ed., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 89 pages. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic/ Michael Di Capua, 2nd pr., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 128 pages, b&w illustrations by Babbitt. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 164 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st thus, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 356 pages. Color and b&w illustrations by Richard Powers. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, A.L. Burt, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with dark blue lettering on the spine. 145 pages, b&w photos from the movie. Inscription on the half-title page otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, C.S. Francis & Co., 1st, 1850, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed tan cloth with the publisher's Little Library motif on the cover, 160 pages, two illustrated title pages, several b&w line drawings throughout, not credited. Title page dated 1850. Inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise clean with only mild foxing.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth with green stamping, 57 pages illustrated in b&w by Lynd Ward.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Every country has its folk hero--real or legendary, and in Turkey he goes by the name of Nasreddin Hoca, pronounced Nahz-red'-din Hoe'-djah. He lived several years ago and he served as a religious teacher, Moslem priest or judge as the occasion demanded. In spite of these exalted duties he was as human as any man. Barbara Walker has put together only a sampling of the hundreds of Hoca tales that exist. She has captured in English the same directness typical of a Turkish storyteller as he relates one of the well-known, well-loved stories of the wisdom or foolishness of Nasreddin Hoca. 72 pages. Illustrated by Harold Berson. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st thus, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in blue cloth covers with a color label on front cover. Top edge gilt. First illustrated edition with 10 color plates and 2-color spot drawings by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Light rubbing to cover pastedown. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Paterson NJ, St. Anthony Guild Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in light tan cloth stamped in brown, 113 pages. Illustrated in 2-colors by Robert Bradbury. A tale of an orphaned American Indian girl who was worthy of sainthood in the eyes of her admirers. Remnants of color dust jacket and related article laid in. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st illustrated thus., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 117 pages. Color illustrations by Anthony Browne. Blue dust jacket shows very little wear.

Hardcover. Boston, Ginn & Co, 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages. Bookseller's label on rear end paper. Black & white illustrations by Charles Copeland and color frontispiece. Green cloth covers with gold decoration and lettering. Rubbing to spine and corners. No dust jacket. Gilt top edge.

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. 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, Lodestar / E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT on front fly leaf. Drusie Valentini feels she is trapped on a merry-go-round, going nowhere. She doesn't fit in with the rest of her arty family: her extravagant puppeteer father, his gypsylike assistant Fey who moved in when her mother left; even her pesky brother Punch. At a party a boyfriend talked her into giving ends in disaster-and in getting sent to a strict boarding school. In a year where it seems that everyone is pulling her strings, Drusie is forcd to come to terms with her life with the people she loves best-and with the person she is, and hopes to be. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. embossed blue cloth in a lightly worn dust jacket, unclipped. Mild fading to spine. B&w illustrations by Rick Schreiter. Ex-lib with stamping, residue to endpapers, otherwise clean. Wonderful whimscal traditional short stories that detail how various animals got their name. It all starts in God's workshop where he fashions shapes out of clay and breathes life into them. What is interesting is that Hughes gives the animals free will to choose themselves - both in terms of what they will eat, how they will live, what they will do and what their name will be.

Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with yellow lettering. 286 pages illustrated in b&w by Gordon Grant. Follows the popular The Half Deck, which he wrote in 1933. The Monarch, under Capt. McFarlane, leaves the Firth of Clyde for Africa, the Barbadoes, New Orleans, and back. War is declared while in Africa, and the ship tries to outrun a submarine. Small name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, tight copy.