Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, First novel by the noted cartoonist and children's picturebook artist. In a pictorial library binding and lightly edgeworn dust jacket with a small hole in rear panel.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 61 pages. Cloth boards. Two color Illustrations by Hogner. Dust jacket has minor chipping along edges and all corners clipped. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John Winston, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 276 pages. Color frontispiece, black & white illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Gilt decorated blue cloth covers.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 86 pages. Teenage Steven and his father, Corey, take to the road with a Bible, an old army tent, and less than the best of intentions.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Nelson & Sons,, reprint, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth, stamped in green. 144 pages, b&w illustrations by Nils Hogner. Nicely done story set in a Mexican village. First published in 1935.
Hardcover. NY, The Wise-Parslow Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with orange stamping, 96 pages. Color illustrations by Eleanor Campbell. Minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Originally published by Volland in 1931.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice unclipped dust jacket, 148 pages. Black & white decorations by Isa Barnett. Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page. An exciting story based on the perilous expedition of the fore-and-aft schooner, United States, to the Arctic in 1860.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black, 241 pages. Young adult adventure about the days of sail and a young girl's determination to find her parents, lost on a trip around the horn on the bark 'Pandora.' Set in a small town on the Maine coast, where the coming of the trading schooners was a celebrated event. Illustrated by Joshua Tolford with sepia toned illustrations. Light fade to spine, otherwise very good, clean.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 2nd pr., 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt and black decoration, 171 pages. Eight color illustrations by Marion Oldham. Endpapers drawing by Maria Kirk. Spine lightly faded. No dust jacket. Carrots is the nickname of a little boy named Fabian, and his delightful story was written by the famous Victorian Era children's writer Mrs. Molesworth. Molesworth was the pen name of Ennis Graham, who was favorably described as the Jane Austen of children's literature.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth black, white and green decoration, 265 pages. B&w drawings by the author. Animal stories told through the eyes of a black and white magpie. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Johannesburg, Tafelberg , 1st thus, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The South African edition of Sara Whitcher's Story, SIGNED BY YATES on title page. Dutch text. B&W illustrations by Nora S. Unwin.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 149 pages. SIGNED BY YOLEN on title page. Black & white illustrations by David Wilgus. Some rubbing to dust jacket. Otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barbara Berger. A winged horse is born and is feared by the Sheik who orders a slave boy to take it into the desert to die. Instead the slave boy presents the foal to the ailing Caliph who postpones dying until the horse is old enough to ride. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 223 pages, b&w illustrations with red accents by Valenti Angel, previous owner's inscription and book plate, tears and chipping to dust jacket. Mylar cover, clean, tight copy. Spine cocked. Charming story about a girl from an mill town on Lake Michigan around the turn of the last century.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 296 pages. Black cloth with color label on front, spine lettering faded. Five color plates and endpaper illustration by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 3rd pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 133 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Black top edge. Edgewear, rubbing to price-clipped dust jacket. A juvenile novel about two runaway children during the London blitz. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 134 pages, dust jacket illustration in color, b&w drawings by Victor Ambrus. Previous owner's inscription, dust jacket price-clipped otherwise clean, very good. The story of a farm family's Saint Bernard.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 112 pages. Black & white illustrations by Susan Bennett. Library discard stamp in front end pages, die-cut library stamp on top of title page. Price-clipped dust jacket with very slight chipping to top edge and spine. Otherwise a very nice copy.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, black & white illustrations by Ezra Jack Keats. Light edgewear to dust jacket, short tears at bottom. Ex-library stamp on both end papers, otherwise clean. Dust jacket price clipped .
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 132 pages. Black & white illustrations by Byron Goto. Dust jacket with light soil, edgewear.
NY, Hawthorn Books, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 143 pages. Yellow cloth, blue design/lettering. Color pictorial dust jacket shows very minor edgewear. Spine of dust jacket is slightly toned. B/W illustrations throughout by Marvin Besunder. Previous owners' names in ink on a blank page at back otherwise clean. " Lin Li-ti, parted from his family during the tumultuous evacuation from mainland Communist Chino to the Nationalist island of Formosa, found himself hungry and alone in a land where no one seemed to care about a lost boy." Written by a woman who lived in Taiwan, as well as other places in the world, who is a teacher and author.
Hardcover. London, The Sunday School Union, circa 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 150 pages, with illustrations. Decorated cover and spine. Slight corner and edge wear, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, and minor foxing throughout. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.
New York, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 74 pages, b&w illustrations by Diane deGroat. Fading to endpapers. "Chronicles of a young boy's search for security after his stepfather leaves home, his mother becomes ill and goes into the hospital and he and his brother are placed into a childrens home."
Hardcover. Boston, L.C. Page & Co., 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth with dark green, red, and gold gilt design of automobile with three angels with red lettering to front cover and spine. A lazy, discontented little prince and princess have been sent an enchanted automobile by their fairy godmother to take them to fairyland. 6 color illustrations including frontispiece by Edna M. Sawyer.
Hardcover. NY, Collins, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 80 pages. Color illustrations by Michael Hague. For a penny a dream, the old blind Dream Weaver weaves dreams for seven sets of passers-by. Here are seven compelling fantasies to haunt the memory and stir the imagination. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Francisco Mora. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 217 pages. A 12 year old girl who knows little of her Chinese heritage is sent to San Francisco's Chinatown to live with her grandmother. Jane Addams Peace Award & Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. Color dust jacket art by Allen Say.
Hardcover. NY, Cupples & Leon, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, in a worn dust jacket with chipping and light soil.Dust jacket says Cupples and Leon, actual book states W.A. Wilde, Boston. Gumpy the runt is given his chance to be a sled dog by a boy who didn't know any better.
Hardcover. London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, reprint, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 104 pages. Color frontispiece, black & white illustrations by L.R. Brightwell. Dust jacket with light soil otherwise very good. Originally published in 1933.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 171 pages. Drawing on journal entries and grounded in fact, Charles Bohner's story re-creates the Lewis and Clark expedition from the experience of Hugh McNeal, one of the youngest members on the journey. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 412 pages, 13 b&w illustrations by T. de Thulstrup. Mustard cloth with bright 3-color and gilt design.
London, Gardner Darton Co., 1st, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 379 pages plus publisher's ads. B&W illustrations by Gordon Browne, fold-out map. Binding a little shaken, still solid. Top edge gilt, residue to front end paper where bookplate was removed. Torquoise cloth covers with 3-color decoration.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 192 pages.Remainder mark bottom edge. Fourth book in the series about the life-sized rag dolls. Seventy-year-old Sir Magnus, grandfather of a family of life-size rag dolls living in a house in England and pretending to be human, has a premonition that all of them will soon die and that they will return to being lifeless and useless". Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 220 pages.Remainder mark bottom edge. Third book in the series about the life-sized rag dolls. Restless young Pilbeam excites a series of ardent admirers who threaten to pierce the familys veil of secrecy. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, quarter blue cloth over gray paper boards with pink lettering on the spine, and a blue decoration on the front board. Illustrated with full-page and in-text drawings by Joseph Schindelman. The follow up to Dahl's wildly popular books "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." Dust jacket with edgewear, red title faded on spine, $3.95 price on flap. Stated First Edition on copyright page.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 196 pages. Black & white illustrations by Wallace Tripp. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, short closed tear. Rabbits and his fellow citizens save the town from takeover by the evil Mink Mumsey. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 2nd pr., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak. 139 pages.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak. 139 pages.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, red cloth covers with a lightly worn dust jacket with some chipping. 207 pages, b&w drawings by Hubert Buel. Story of journey from Mexico to what is now San Francisco in 1775 to claim land for Spain. For 10 to 14-year-olds. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with gilt decorated cover and spine, top edge gilt. 313 pages, with illustrations throughout. Stories and sketches about Holland and the Dutch. Mild foxing throughout and previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Otherwise, bright and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, A novel of Indians in Hudson Valley. 191 pages, including bibliography, illustrated in B&W by Larry Toschik. Dust jacket faded at edges with edgewear and creases.
Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 245 pages. SIGNED BY CURTIS on title page. Newberry Award Winner for 1999. True first with 15.95 price, signature dated 1/19/00.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. When villagers call Cassia and her brother, Foxfire, "the serpent's children," they mean it as an insult. But to Cassia it is an honor, for legend says that once a serpent sets her mind on something, she never gives up. And in a time when famine, drought, and violence mark her family's life, Cassia has nothing less than survival to fight for. Their father is a revolutionary, determined to free China from invaders. Foxfire, certain he'll find a mountain of gold, flees to a faraway land. Cassia will need all of her strength and wisdom to keep her family together, and to prove that she is truly the serpent's child. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 162 pages, in a lightly worn dust jacket. When Mrs Tovey's beloved Siamese Solomon dies she gets a replacement and happiness comes again to this normally hilarious household. Illustrated by Maurice Wilson.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 64 pages. Black & white lithographs by Zhenya Gay. Previous owner's signature, inscription on half title page. Soiling to end papers. Clear plastic protective cover, but no dust jacket. Spine faded.
Hardcover. Philadelphia , J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Three-color illustrations by Harold Benson. In a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harlan Quist, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated, b&w line illustrations by Rick Schreiter. Like new in a bright dust jacket.
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Rare & Out-of-Print Children's Fiction
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