Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 59 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated from original black & white "Free Hand Cuttings" by Ann Eliza Sample. Standard age darkening to front cover pastedown. Clean, unmarked copy.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The second book in Lois Lowry'sGiver Quartet tells the story of Kira, orphaned, physically flawed, and left with an uncertain future. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 3rd pr., 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in blue, b&w illustrations by Richard Kennedy, 77 pages. Collects seven stories, at least two of which are fantasies (fairy folk). Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan cloth stamped with red title. A Mexican Adventure about young Tonio and how he helps a hungry wounded stranger & fulfills his own dearest wish. Many b/w illus by Wilfred Bronson. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1930, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers with title and drawing of rooster on front cover in brown. Black and white drawings by Kurt Wiese. Endpapers design with montage of farm animals. A fair copy only with worn and soiled covers. Title page states 1930, no other printings on copyright page. The second book in the Freddy series, in which the animals form a company, Barnyard Tours. Led by clever Freddy, they endure a dangerous voyage to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus.
NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2nd pr., 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardccover, red cloth binding, with stamped titles and decoration to upper board and spine, and pastedown illustration in corner of upper board. Color frontis. and 8 b&w plates by Peter Newell. Eight tales of a man and his relationship with various animals. Hinges cracked, binding solid. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran , 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, 309 pages. Color frontis and endpapers illustration by Morgan Dennis. Blake Carson adopts a mongrel named Luck off a dock in Seattle. The dog lives up to his name when his dog team is stranded on an ice floe in Alaska. Front fly gone but otherwise a bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Macmillan , 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 182 pages, hardcover with no dust jacket. Decorations by Boris Artzybasheff. Light wear to edges. Previous owner's sticker on copyright page.
Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. B&w drawings by Erik Blegvad. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf other wise very good, clean. A banker rents a house to Peter Finch, charging him next to nothing because there's a small volcano in the basement. Eventually, there is a volcanic eruption, but of course, not in the basement. The house is spared, the family is safe, the town officials get re-elected, and everyone lives happily ever after.
Hardcover. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 210 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Harry Toothill. Bright dust jacket with light edgewear.
New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, light blue cloth stamped in black. 155 pages. Top front cover with slight bend. Black & white illustrations by Reginald Birch. Dust jacket fair only with fading, chipping, tears. Brodart cover. The story of an Irish lad and his tin whistle that makes an old cow dance, complete with a Fairy Queen, Celtic humor and a happy ending. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Taplinger, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white drawings by Alice Caddy. Judge Black and J.C. the sporty fox go down to Tickpaw in marsh country below New Orleans to help. people there resist a terrible coyote invasion from the West. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 181 pages. Dust jacket with several small pieces missing. A tale of teen-age drag racer Jet Johnson and his adventures in his hot rod club. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, price-clipped. B&w drawings by Emily Arnold McCully. Luigi, who lives on the streets in the French port of Marseilles, believes a gypsy has put a curse on his family. Against a vivid background of assorted characters, the author has created exciting and humorous story.
Hardcover. New York , Bobbs-Merrill Co. , 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 132 pages. Tall book. red cloth covers. Black & white illustrations by Evatt. Mild waterstains to covers. Spine faded. Corners a bit bumped. A charming story set on the island of Orleans in the St. Lawrence River near Quebec, against the backdrop of the opening years of World War II.
Hardcover. London/ NY, Ernest Nister/ Dutton, 1st, n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Hardcover with gilt lettering on front and spine. Front and rear hinge fragile, moderate fraying to cover edges. Gutter cracked and separated on page 80. 4 bright chromoliths, b&w Illustrations, previous owner's signature & date (1906) front end paper, gilt decorated green cloth.
Hardcover. NY , Harper and Row, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black and white illustrations by Randy Gaul. dust jacket price-clipped. Four short stories: The Shade Cutter, Enemies of the Eye, Slaves of Sham, Country Pay. The tales present the adventures of itinerant artisans and tradesmiths as they travel through a small New England town in the year 1800.
NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 160 pages. Ten black & white illustrations by Paul Bransom. Previous owner's signature on title-page. Dust jacket with large chunks gone from top edges. closed tears, soil. Story of a giant volcano eruption in the African jungle'
NY, Crowell, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. B&w Illustrations by Glo Coalson. Story about a lame boy who has learned from a neighboring Eskimo tribe to train sled dogs. An Athasbascan Indian tale.
Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 112 pages, illustrated in b&w by Brian Ajhar. When grownups are mean to children, they get a visit from the mischievous Gigglers--elfin creatures who punish wayward adults--in a delightfully rude, laugh-out-loud adventure. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Page & Co., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers with dark blue design, lettering. Color frontispiece, 3 b&w plates by Marguerite DeAngeli. Front hinge tender. A novel set during the American Revolution.
NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 205 pages. Black & white drawings by Douglas Gorsline. Back & white photos by William Henry Jackson. Dust jacket with chip to spine bottom, closed tear.
New York, Delacorte Press, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 144 pages. Color and black & white illustrations by Patrick James Lynch. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. A great collection of folktales from England & Wales, filled with boggarts, hobgoblins & other creatures.
NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth covers, Black & white illustrations by Garry MacKenzie. Front fly leaf corner clipped. A Christmas story told in poetry. Clean copy.
New York , Dodd, Mead, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket illustrated, 153 pages. B&W drawings by Lorence F. Bjorklund. A young adult mystery set in New Orleans and the search for Confederate gold. Eleven year-old Marco Fennerty is assisted by his friend Sally and her basset hound, Happy. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, reprint, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Laura Brey. A variety of stories that teach valuable lessons in a good-humored, sympathetic way. Light soil to covers, name on front fly leaf, section of dedication page cut away, not affecting any text or pictures. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A 5-year-old Tomie worries over the health of his baby sister, learns to read in one weekend (with a pilfered schoolbook), and helps his father pave the new driveway (to a too-fine polish!). In the spirit of his earlier memoirs, the Newbery Honor-winning 26 Fairmount Avenue and Here We All Are, author Tomie dePaola recounts the (mostly) serene days between the end of kindergarten and the beginning of first grade. Clean copy.
NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket with light fading to spine. The powerful autobiographical account of a young girls' struggle as a Jewish refugee in England from 1939-1945.
Hardcover. Philadelphia , Lippincott, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 152 pages. Hardcover with Dust jacket with light price sticker residue otherwise very good. Tight copy.
NY, Crowell, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, B&W illustrations by Arthur Getz. 117 pages. In a bright dust jacket with a dime-sized abrasion to front panel. The story of Steve's three bad days when he gets in trouble and more trouble.
NY, Pantheon , 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&W Illustrations by Antony Maitland, 186 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, Mylar dust jacket cover. 'As far as the eye can see, scarlet men are marching . . . A rich and splendid company, but none more so than the drummer boy.' But a moment later, the sound of Charlie Samson's drum was swallowed in a wild thunder. The glorious scarlet troops had been ambushed. Men were dead and dying all around, and all the beauty was gone. All that was left was himself and his drum, and a few shady nightwalkers - cowards who came crawling from the ditches and knaves who scoured the dead for wealth . . .
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A collection of humorous verses about animals, friendly or otherwise. Additional poems by Lucy Gardner & Eugene Rudzewicz. Drawings by Lucy, Joel, Joan & John Gardner. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., reprint, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth with a color label on front cover, 316 pages. Eight color plates by Clara M. Burd. Name on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 133 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. An unusual fantasy featuring underwater adventures, giant robots, talking animals, poison gas and death rays. Color frontispiece and b&w Illustrations by Frank Boyd. Abrasion on top cover edge.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st thus, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in black. Illustrations with color frontis, 10 black & white plates and endpapers drawing by Marguerite De Angeli. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. In 1942, Ruth and Simeon must leave their missionary parents to escape the perils of war, and Ruth learns much about human nature and life as she and her brother make the dangerous trip through China to India. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. The story of two kids who witness a violent crime they think was committed by their neighbor (an undertaker). However, since these two are always telling made-up stories nobody believes them. They have to find the evidence. Clean copy.
New York, World Publishing, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 134 pages. Black & white illustrations by Victor Ambrus. Novel about a magnificent white stallion.
New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 96 pages. Half cloth boards. Illustrated with drawings by Charles Robinson. A like-new copy.
NJ, Bradbury Press, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 118 pages, in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket.A coming of age story set on Anzac Day in Deakin Beach, Australia.
New York, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by David Diaz, his 1st book. Ex-lib with light stamping, residue. From family pictures to pinatas, from the "gato "with a meow like a rusty latch to Fourth of July fireworks, the poet celebrates the startling and often overlooked moments that define childhood. Affectionate without being overly sentimental, the collection provides a good introduction to contemporary poetry as well as a fine homage to a Chicano community.
NY, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Green cloth binding with brown cloth spine. Illustrated with b&w woodcut drawings by Margaret Wetherbee. 124 pages. Story of a year in the life of a village schoolboy and his dominant elder brother - both are poachers and bird trappers, but both have a certain devotion to their victims. Through the eyes of these boys we see the change of seasons, the habits of birds and animals. Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Philadephia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, in an edgeworn dust jacket, 131 pages. Favorite childhood stories from Rudyard Kipling, The Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson, among others, illustrated in color by Tasha Tudor in her inimitable style. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth decorated in gilt, orange, black and gray. 353 pages. Publisher catalogue at rear. Frontis, map & 6 b&w illustrations by Wal Paget. A bright, clean book in the original pictorial binding.
Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 278 pages. Illustrated by John Gincano. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Heavy soiling to spine and edges of covers. Fade marks. Book covers a bit warped. Corners a bit bumped. Small chunk missing from p. 117, and tears to surrounding pages, but no harm to text. The book tells of the author's family immigrating from England to New York and then to Iowa and their lives on the Iowa prairie.
Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1st US, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Black & white and color illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Mild soiling to covers. Rubbing to corners. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. London , A. & C. Black, 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 color plates by Allan Stewart. Decorated gray cloth with top edge gilt. Covers show light wear, previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Small red mark in corner of front fly leaf.
Record # 501400
Price: $30.00
Rare & Out-of-Print Children's Fiction
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