Hardcover. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1st thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in dark blue cloth with ornate gilt decorations on cover and spine. Color pastedown on front cover features Tom with little blonde girl. Very uncommon. Retold by Edith Robarts for the Stories for Children series. 8 Color Plates including cover (not credited); 4 1/2" x 6"; 91 pages. No date but circa 1912. One color plate loose (at page 56) but all there. Nice clean copy of a rare edition.
Hardcover. NY, Hurst Co., reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 224 pages. Two stories in one volume. 6 color plates along with many b&w line illustrations. Light water stain pg. 134-160. Light green cloth with black and blue design, gilt on spine. Back hinge cracked. Humorous episodes of a red headed boy playing practical jokes on his Uncle Ike.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Twenty tales recounting the antics of the West Indian trickster ANANCY and his companions- Bro Monkey, Bro Dog and bro Tiger. Bold b/w illus. by Nigerian artist Joseph Olubo. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "Those shackles didn't rob us of being black, son, they robbed us of being human."This is the story of one family. A family whose history saw its first ancestor captured, shackled, and brought to this country from Africa. A family who can still see remnants of the shackles that held some of its members captive -- even today. It is a story of pride, determination, struggle, and love. And of the piece of the land that holds them together throughout it all. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Comapny, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 213 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has moderate chipping and tears. Clean and tight internally. Illustrated by Marc Simont. A story of 1939 New York, climaxing with a race between a steam engine and a team of horses, with appearances by Walt Whitman, Horace Greeley, Peter Cooper, Samuel Morse, and other luminaries of the age.
Hardcover. NY, HARPER & BROTHERS, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Vera Bock. Light edgewear, rubbing to price clipped dust jacket. Overall, a tight clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Appleton, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 6 B&W illustrated plates. With a nice INSCRIPTION BY SEAWELL on preliminary page. New photograph of Seawell tipped-in. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Gilt decorated covers. A bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Tight copy. Previous owners name on front end paper. Illustrated by Wendy Watson.
Hardcover. New York , Random House , reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 114 pages, illustrated in b&w by John Burningham. Book is bound in red cloth with gilt lettering. Edition is not stated, 1964 on the title page. Contains 111 numbered pages with an additional 3 unnumbered. 16 line dedication. All pages are very clean and the binding is tight. Top edge stained black, dust jacket has light edgewear. Price of $3.50 on the front flap. Would appear to be a second or third printing of the first edition.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1st US thus., 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 421 pages. With black & white illustrations. Red cloth cover with gilt title and illustration on front. Spine slightly faded, embossed title complete. First U.S. edition with both titles in one volume.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black and gilt. 4 b&w plates. Covers with edge wear, gilt slightly faded. Library bookplate inside front cover, otherwise clean, no markings.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY WILHELM on the front fly leaf. Clean copy. Parkland Middle School is a place the students call Darkland, because no one in it does much to stop the daily harassment of kids by other kids. Three bullied seventh graders use their smarts to get the better of their tormentors by starting an unofficial e-mail forum at school in which they publicize their experiences. Unexpectedly, lots of other kids come forward to confess their similar troubles, and it becomes clear that the problem at their school is bigger than anyone knew. The school principal wants to clamp down on the operation, which she does when the trio, in their zealousness for revenge, libel a fellow student in what turns out to have been a setup. Now a new plan of attack is needed . . .
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 262 pages, 10 color illustrations by Grace G. Wiederseim (creator of The Campbell Kids). Red cloth covers with color illustrated label on front, gilt lettering on spine faded. The front hinge has cracked and exposed the thread beneath. Binding is still sound and text and plates bright.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 297 pages, maroon cloth with white design and lettering. illustrated in b&w by Edward Shenton. Clean, bright copy of the first ("1 " on copyright page), lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 207 pages with 24 publishers pages in rear. B&w frontispiece and 3 b&w illustrations by Harold Copping. Cover lightly soiled with minor rubbing and edgewear. Inscription by previous owner on front flyleaf. A clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 87 pages illustrated in b&w by Phongsun. In a lightly worn dust jacket with large wrinkle on top edge with tear to fore edge, closed tear on rear. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page.
Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, hardcover, 64 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white by Christine Chisholm. Previous owners signature on top right corner of front endpaper. Light rubbing to corners of covers and top and bottom of spine. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, World Publishing, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Victor G. Ambrus. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Longmans Green and Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 145 pages. Black & white Illustrations by Avery Johnson, End papers illustrated. Light soil to cloth cover. corners a bit bumped.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 323 pages, light blue cloth with black lettering. illustrated in b&w by Frank Beaudouin. Clean and tight.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 198 pages. Color frontis, black & white illustrations by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Dust jacket unclipped, edgeworn, chipped. Nickle-size paper scar to front of dj above title. Clean copy. A mystery surrounding Joseph Bonaparte, former King of Spain, and brother to the exiled Napoleon, living in exile himself in the United States.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , reprint , 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black & white illustrations by Oliver Herford. First published a year earlier. Beautiful, clean copy. all edges green, decorated cover with gilt lettering.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 103 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Richard Egielski. Very nice, clean condition. Price-clipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 242 pages. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, W.A.Wilde, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 313 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white frontis by Charles Copeland. Light blue covers with cover label illustration. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf otherwise VG condition.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 95 pages. Two-tone illustrations by Daugherty. Dust jacket with small tears, rubbing.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 2 color plates, 3 b&w illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green. 32 pages, in blue paper covered boards with illustrated label on cover. Spine shows light color fade otherwise very good.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century Co., 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 198 pages. Black & white illustrations by Scott Lusby. Light soiling to endpapers. Soiling to edges, covers, especially spine. Corners a bit bumped.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages, illustrated in b&w by Neill. Rust colored cloth with color plate on front cover. Some faint marking to front end paper illustrations, otherwise clean, tight copy. Musty odor.
Hardcover. New York, Random House , 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 247 pages. Color, black & white illustrations by Gustaf Tenggren. Rubbing to spine, corners. Dust jacket with light soiling, chipping.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 362 pages. 12 color plate illustrations by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Green covers with gold lettering and color illustration pasted on front cover. Previous owner's inscription on back of title-page. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Light spotting throughout. Hinges cracked. Corners and spine rubbed. Tear to top of spine. Light rubbing, soiling to covers.
Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 108 pages, with color illustrations by Barry Moser throughout. Spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. London, George Newnes, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 248 pages. Black & white illustrations by Bertram Prance. Previous owners inscription at top of front endpaper. Spine slightly cocked. Light foxing to some pages.
Hardcover. Springfield MA, Milton Bradley Co, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 99 pages plus advertisements in back. Color plate illustrations by Paul Bransom and color borders by W. Prentice Phillips. Bookseller's stamp rear fly-leaf. Edgewear. Some shading to rear cover. Protective plastic cover but no dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 117 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY HESS on title page. Bottom corner slight bump. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia , J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&W illustrations by Tomie de Paola. INSCRIBED BY HARDENDORFF on half-title page. In a bright dust jacket with small clear tape repair.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 8 sepia-toned plates by Alice Barbara Stephens, 7 tipped-in. Lovely decorated green cloth with gilt lettering. Light wear to bottom of spine, otherwise very good. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 223 pages. A mystery/adventure for young adults set in England. Library Ed. (NOT Ex-lib) Nice dust jacket.
NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with green and black decoration. Four b&w plates by Margaret Harper. Light shelf wear.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, reprint, na, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, 211 pages. 10 full color illustrations and b&w line drawings. Three-color decoration on front cover. Light edge and shelf wear, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 230 pages. Color and black & white illustrations by Richard H. Rodgers. Cover has edgewear.
Hardcover. Philadelphia , Lippincott, 4th pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 212 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w decorations by James Daugherty. Very nice overall with a bright dust jacket, price-clipped.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 148 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY GIFF on title page. Like new in dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 293 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. With signed presentation slip laid in. B&W illustrations, endpaper drawing by Kreigh Collins. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by the author.
hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 227 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations by Louise Yates. Clean, unmarked copy with light fading and minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 95 pages. Black & white illustrations by Berry. Edgewear. Dust jacket with spine fade, chipping, tears, edgewear. Clear plastic protective cover.
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Price: $15.00
Rare & Out-of-Print Children's Fiction
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