Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with black lettering, 231 pages. B&w illustrations by Erick Berry.
Hardcover. Boston, W.A. Wilde Company, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt titles, 299 pages, color frontis by Harold Cue. Spine gilt faded, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 16 in The Bedtime Story Book series (per the number on the spine). 192 pages, b&w drawings by Harrison Cady. Copyright 1942 but a later reprint. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 13th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. light gray cloth with red stamping, 239 pages. Color frontis and b&w illustrations by Helen Sewell and Mildred Boyle. With 10/7 Thirteenth Edition D-V on copyright page. Previous owner's bookplate, mild residue on front endpapers, otherwise clean. Nice early reprint of this classic.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, BC Ed., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Newbery Medal sticker on front. 152 pages. A nice Book Club reprint of the Newbery winner. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige cloth stamped in green and brown, 86 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Leonard Shortall. Inscription on front fly leaf, mild soil to covers, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. 80 pages, b&w drawings by Arvis Stewart. Bold name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 24 pages illustrated in color by Michael Donato. Award-winning author William Jaspersohn brings American history alive in a moving immigrant tale. The story retells the amazing, true saga of the Eurich brothers from Prussia, who arrive five years apart in America in the 1880s and who miraculously end up on neighboring farms in central Vermont. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, David McKay Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth stamped in black, 175 pages illustrated in b&w by Elizabeth Black Carmer. A collection of American folk tales. Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Nashville TN, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth stamped in blue. 63 pages, red and black line drawings throughout. A city boy's adventures as he spends the summer at his uncle's farm. Shelf-worn but clean.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound in green cloth with dark blue design and lettering, 308 pages. Black & white illustrations by Manning de V. Lee. Light soiling to endpapers, covers. Blue top edge. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scribners, Reprint, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 351 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Full color illustrations by Nancy Barnhart. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Darkening to cloth spine. Titles on spine, and cover in gilt. Gutter cracked onpages 94/95.
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. 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. 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.
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, Ariel Books, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black. A teenage boy's adventure on a cattle drive from Texas to Dodge City in the 1870s. B&w illustrations by Tom Leamon (Tom Lea? Looks like his work). Light shelf wear, no dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Good, Hardcover, red cloth, faded at spine. Stamped in red and black. 361 pages plus four pages of ads at the rear. 8vo. Silhouette frontis and 51 full page silhouettes by Warren Rockwell. The further largely autobiographical stories of the lad Plupy and his youth in the Exeter, NH of the 1860's. Rear hinge cracked, mild soil to front fly leaf, bookplate on inside front cover.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 86 pages. Adam Joshua can't understand why his parents want to move. He certainly doesn't! Who will his best friend Peter get to collect ants with, or to play star commander and Frankenstein if he's gone? Moving. Muck! But moving is just the beginning of a whole series of new events for Adam Joshua. There's also a new baby sister, monsters in the night, loose teeth, new friends, dinners with his Great-Aunt Emily, and lots more. Janice Lee Smith humorously chronicles the ups and downs in the life of a small boy, and Dick Gackenbach perfectly captures Adam Joshua's spunk and spirit in his delightful drawings.
Hardcover. Boston, D. Lothrop and Co., 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in gilt and orange, 13 b&w plates. A dozen tales of incidents in American wars. Light pencil note on front fly leaf dated in 1887. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 216 pages. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black, gilt lettering on spine, 288 pages plus an illustrated catalog of the author's books in rear. Frontis with tissue guard plus b&w plates by Jessie McDermot. Susan Chauncey Woolsey was an American children's author who wrote under the pen name Susan Coolidge. Beginning in 1872, she wrote five children's novels about Katy and the fictional Carr family, with the family modeled after her own relations, and Katy based on the author herself. Red cloth with some discoloration, light soil. Overall, a tight, clean copy, good plus.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 153 pages. The story of a twelve year old girl who always wanted to live on an island and who goes camping with two friends where shocking and suspenseful events combine to destroy their friendship. A realistic story for young adults from this British author. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in black, 314 pages. Color frontis and endpaper drawing by Rowland Hilder, b&w illustrations by Richard Southern. An historical adventure set on the high sea. Mild shelf wear to covers, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. 214 pages. An angry young man uses the powers of an ancient cat cult to possess the children of a lethargic English village. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 165 pages with b&w drawings by Ralph Pinto. A leprechaun must recapture the tune he lost to a fiddler. Pinto's chapter-top illustrations liven this already lively chain of Irish folk tales, loosely tied together through Brogeen the Leprechuan. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Ottawa Ontario, Ru-Mi-Lou Books, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards stamped in two shades of blue, 79 pages, endpaper illustration and line drawings by the author. Dime-size stain to front cover, two pages with small chips to fore-edge. Otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 13 in The Bedtime Story Book series (per the number on the spine). 192 pages, b&w drawings by Harrison Cady. Copyright 1944 but a later reprint. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st US, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in matching dust jacket with light wear. 95 pages with b&w illustrations by Haris Petie. A charming tale set on the Virgin Island of St. John. Fairly clean ex-lib with stamping to endpapers.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 193 pages, b&w illustrations by Brian Floca.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, Brodarted dust jacket whose flaps have been glued to the covers. B&w illustrations by Fermin Rocker. Ex-lib with pocket in rear. Interior clean.
Hardcover. NY, S.G. Phillips, 1st US, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 94 pages, illustrated with drawings by Moyra Leatham. Clean copy, dj price-clipped.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 4th pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 199 pages. A tale set in the 1950s hill country of Virginia. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Ex-lib with residue and stamping to endpapers and top edge.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Kestrel, B.C. Club, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by Tracey Campbell Pearson. Someone has stolen the Queen of Hearts' fresh-baked tarts and the chase for the culprit is on. Jack and Jill search over their hill, and Little Jack Horner has no tarts in his corner. All of nurseryland joins the search! Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Schocken Books, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket 128 pages, color illustrations by Michael Foreman.
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 include: What Is a Juvenile Book by John Tunis, Mystery by Edward Fenton, Ian Serraillier and the Golden World (about Robin Hood), A Romance of the Round Table by Priscilla Moulton. 111 pages. Light stamp to cover, interior bright and clean.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John Winston, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. 182 pages, b&w drawings by Frank Nofer. Endpapers map in two-colors, clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 3rd pr., 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 126 pages, illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Child's lettering in crayon on front fly leaf, previous owner's sticker and signature on same page. In a worn, chipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, A. L. Burt, rep, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black, red and gray illustration on front, 315 pages. Black & white frontispiece. Small tear in paper along front hinge. minor edgewear to cover, corners. Clean copy.
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. 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. London, Oxford University Press , 3rd pr., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright dust jacket that has light edgewear. Illustrated with b&w drawings by William Stobbs. 248 pages transl. from German by Isabel and Florence McHugh. Clean copy. Against the dramatic background of hardship and adventure of his fourth voyage of discover to the West Indies the author has set the enigmatic character of Columbus himself, and the moving story of his son Fernan's friendship with the Red Indian boy Tahaka. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY/London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1st, 1925, Hardcover, gray cloth with blue design featuring a winged horse on the cover. Illustrations by Dugald Stewart Walker, with a color frontispiece and b&w drawings throughout the text and decorative endpapers of blue and white illustrations of a Centaur hunter and forest scene. Blue lettering on spine faded, inscription on half title in ink, another on ext blank page in pencil.
NY, Burt/Blue Ribbon Books, reprint, circa 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, light green cloth with gilt & black decorated cover and spine labels. 258 pages. Four color plates by Charles Folkard, many b&w text drawings (not credited). Dust jacket chipped and worn. states translation by May M. Sweet, but title page gives M. A. Murray as translator. The mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. It is considered a canonical piece of children's literature and has inspired hundreds of new editions, stage plays, merchandising and movies, such as Walt Disney's iconic animated version and commonplace ideas such as a liar's long nose. No markings.