Children's Fiction

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 2010, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 394 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition. SIGNED IN RED PEN BY FUNKE on title page. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine and design on front cover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. In beautiful condition.

hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover no dust jacket. Black & white and Color illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky. Illustrated end papers. Translated by Georges Duplaix. Corners show heavy wear with chipping and fraying. Light soil on spine.

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st UK, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 199 pages, illustrated in b&w by Michael Foreman. "Set in medieval France, the hero is - yes - a pig, a small but highly intelligent pig with a little boar blood lurking in his veins . . . When the feudal lords of Pitou decide with the farmers to rid the nearby forest of wild animals, it is Plantagenet (beloved of the farmer's daughter, Adele) who warns his cousin, the wild boar Grondin, of what is afoot . . . "

Hardcover. McLelland and Stewart, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket. Blue cloth with black lettering, 208 pages, b&w photo illustrations. Girl's adventure story set among the Eskimos of Arctic Canada. Features Ginnie, who drives her team of huskies as well as any man. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NT, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in black and orange. 257 pages. When a Civil War veteran who had lost his leg in the fighting and who had been living in the poorhouse comes into an unexpected inheritance, he heads West towards Colorado - and takes 9 year old Danny and his dog with him. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and three internal plates by Rogers, The author was primarily known for being a great illustrator for Harper Brothers during the golden age of illustration. Stated first edition. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Griffith and Rowland Press, 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth covers stamped in white and dark blue. Story of survival based on a wreck in the China Sea of the Ketrel, a full-rigged ship bound from Liverpool to Yokohama, Japan. 360 pages, illustrated in b&w, one plate not present (the map on pg. 135). Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. , 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in red, 226 pages A collection of 12 stories from different countries, illustrated by Harold Cue from drawings by Jenny Nystrom. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, lavender cloth with black lettering and design. End papers show the Dana girls reading a letter printed in dark green. Nancy Drew titles listed to The Mystery of the Ivory Charm. Name on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton/Lodestar, 5th pr, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY PATERSON on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale gray cloth stamped in blue, 217 pages. Blue endpapers, frontis. and 9 b&w illustrations by Armstrong Sperry. A story about the building of Old Ironsides. Name on front fly leaf and half title page. Interior tight and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 114 pages. Illustrated with b&w drawings by Paul Galdone. In the days of King Arthur there stood a mighty oak tree within the walls of a castle. Peace reigned in the castle until the fearsome night when Lionel, longlost brother of Lord Weldon, returned to cause trouble and unhappiness. It was then that Shan, the son of Lord Weldon, took on the duties of a knight and hid the sword in the hollow of the giant oak. The days that followed were filled with adventures that tried the courage of the young boy. Shan was surprised by bearded robbers in the woods. He met noble knights in plumed helmets, and eventually he even made a trip to high-towered Camelot. His story is filled with the pageantry and color of England in King Arthur's time. It creates a vivid picture of the Knights of the Round Table and the wisdom of King Arthur himself.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Typical Malley - to avoid being shipped off to boarding school, she takes off with some guy she met online. Poor Richard - he knows his cousin's in trouble before she does. Wild Skink - he's a ragged, one-eyed ex-governor of Florida, and enough of a renegade to think he can track Malley down. With Richard riding shotgun, the unlikely pair scour the state, undaunted by blinding storms, crazed pigs, flying bullets and giant gators. Clean copy.

Softcover. Boston, The Horn Book , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 95 pages. Reference of books and reading for children and young people. Featuring: 'Newbery and Caldecott Acceptance Speeches by Betsy Byars and Gail E. Haley, 'In Literary Terms' by John Rowe Townsend, 'A Second Golden Age? In a Time of Flood?' by Virginia Haviland and more. Light marking or library stamp on cover. Black & white illustrations. Interior clean and bright.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Company, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 issues bound in one volume, black pebbled cloth over boards, gilt lettering on spine. 526 pages, b&w illustrations. A collection of the best juvenile writing and illustration of the day. Clean copy, no library marks. Each issue of St. Nicholas includes stories, often by well-known authors, as well as dozens of charming illustrations, photos, riddles, poems, letters, and non-fiction articles written for young people. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Boston, Horn Book, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 261 pages. Brown top edge. Yellowing to dust jacket, chipping to top of spine; in Brodart. Essays about children's literature selected from 25 years of the 'Horn Book Magazine'; 1924 - 1958. Introduction by Bertha Mahony Miller. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket 320 pages. With almost 5 million copies sold in the 60 years since it was published, generations of readers have journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in this beloved classic.This richly annotated edition includes bonus material from acclaimed children's literature scholar Leonard Marcus. Enriched by Jules Feiffer's splendid illustrations, the wit, wisdom, and wordplay of Norton Juster's offbeat fantasy are as beguiling as ever. The expansive annotations include interviews with the author and illustrator, illuminating excerpts from Juster's notes and drafts, cultural and literary commentary, and Marcus's own insights on the book. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A timeless tale by the incomparable Kate DiCamillo, complete with stunning full-color plates by Bagram Ibatoulline, honors the enduring power of love. Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost. Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside of a hoboes' camp, from the bedside of an ailing child to the bustling streets of Memphis. And along the way, we are shown a true miracle -- that even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn to love, to lose, and to love again.

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with chunks gone from spine, 159 pages. B&w illustrations by Leonard Shortall. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 248 pages. Clean copy. Tunis' World Series is Book #2 in his 8- book series on the Brooklyn Dodgers. Roy Tucker and his Brooklyn Dodgers teammates summon every ounce of their collective skill to fight for the greatest title in baseball -- World Series champs.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Lodestar / E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED 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 gypsy-like 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 forced 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, Macmillan, BC Ed., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in black, 120 pages, B&w illustrations by Bice. A Weekly Reader Book Club Edition. Paper tanning, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Whittlesey House, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black and red, 50 pages illustrated in 2-colors and b&w by Plato Chan. Adapted from an Old Chinese Legend by Plato and Christina Chan. The Text by Christina Chan. The Illustrations by Plato Chan. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y Crowell, 1st thus, 1909, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth with 3-color decoration to cover, 181 pages. Eight 2-color illustrations, plus illustrated title page, artist not credited. Covers worn, spine faded, hinges cracked, name on front fly leaf. Contents clean. Uncommon edition.

Softcover. Boston, The Horn Book, Inc, 1942, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, b&w illustrations, ads, reviews. Contains "Jack Darby on Writing Books for Children" by Walter D. Edmonds, Robert McCloskey's Caldecott acceptance speech, Of Rachel Field and Letters by Bertha Mahony, other articles on Field. Worn copy with wrinkling to pages.

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton , 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan and blue cloth boards stamped in brown., 255 pages. B&w illustrations by John Schoenherr. A nice copy of Daniel P. Mannix's story of a long-running duel between a fox and a hound. This intense study of animal habits, winner of the 1967 Dutton Animal Book Award, was later adapted by Disney into a heartwarming animated film. Stated First Edition. No dust jacket, light soiling to covers, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Aladdin Books, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 174 pages. Black & white illustrations by Frederick T. Chapman. Short tears to rear fly leaf. Previous owner's signature and stamp front endpaper. Light soil to covers. Green top edge. Corners bumped. Two boys' adventures trying to obtain the bicycles they dream about.

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, reprint, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover. Early reprint. Tan cloth covers with full color paste down illustration to front - paste down with abrasions. Front interior hinge cracked. Black & white illustrations by John R. Neill. Moderate rubbing to corners and edges. Interior clean, tight.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black, white and gilt design on front cover and spine. 191 pages, plus publisher's ads in rear. 12 b&w plates by Reginald Birch. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover New in new dust jacket. 326 pages. Quarter bound in cloth over paper covered boards. First edition, second printing. SIGNED on the title page by the author. An exceptional copy of a classic.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Ted Lewin. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Historical tale of a 16-year old during the Crusades. B&w illustrations by the author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, library edition (NOT ex-lib). B&w illustrations by William Sauts Bock. Tales of the Fox sisters and horses that wore charms. This collection of true tales of spiritualism in America is a rare read. The stories are as entertaining as Sleepy Hollo, the only difference is that many of these strange tales are thought to be true. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Grand Rapids MI, Zondervan, reprint, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green, 94 pages. "The story of a Scottish lassie who went to the west coast of Africa and tamed the savage tribes ..." Color frontis., Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with dark brown stamping, gilt title on spine. Illustrated with 4 b&w plates, not credited. Paper tanning but a tight, bright copy. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped, lightly worn dust jacket. 146 pages, illustrated in b&w by James McMullan. Story of Memini, the Wildflower Wizard, who at the time of this story is almost 1500 years old. Small stamp to front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company , BC Ed., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in a matching dust jacket. The story of San, the foal, who became a colt, then a racehorse but finally made it back home to his family. 128 pages. Set in Vermont. B&w drawings by Albert Micale. Weekly Reader Book Club. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 184 pages.The rear panel of the jacket quotes reviews of Stuart Little before concluding with the publisher's name on two lines. Original light beige cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black and blue, blue and white spider web-patterned endpapers. 47 charming black and white illustrations by Garth Williams. No First Edition or publisher's code on copyright page, so assumed a very early reprint. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Joyce does not mind living near a garbage dump, except for the incessant teasing from the kids at school, but being different does not bother Mrs. Fish, the new school custodian, who turns out to be the one person who understands what it is like to be an outsider. Previously published in 1980 under the title "Mrs. Fish, Ape, and Me, The Dump Queen". Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards. In this witty, fast-paced sequel to Getting Even, seventh-grader Iris Bloom can handle anything, whether it's a fashion crisis or the despicable Corky Newton. What's more, she is certain she doesn't need a baby-sitter. But when a visit alone to the mall ends in a frightening near-assault, she changes her mind.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 3rd pr., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped with blue decoration, 427 pages. B&w drawings by Helene Carter. "The intrepid Swallows (explorers John, Susan, Titty, and Roger Walker) and fearsome Amazon pirates (Nancy and Peggy Blackett) sail the high seas, outwitting a pirate and his cutthroat crew, sharks, and the ravenous creatures of Crab Island in search of buried treasure." Hinges tender, pencil notation on dedication page otherwise clean. Mild shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, G. Howard Watt, 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped with black lettering and dog's profile. Color frontis by Charles Livingston Bull, 302 pages. Mystery novelist's scarce first book, chronicling the adventures of a German Shepherd living in the Canadian Northwest. Bookplate on inside front cover, front fly leaf missing. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with pictorial cloth, 275 pages, b&w drawings by Jacob Bates Abbott. Midnight is a colt who was born wild and never tamed. His mother, Lady Ebony, belonged to Major Howard ran away to join the band of wild mares which the chestnut stallion was leading. Midnight learned a lot from his beautiful mother who sacrificed herself for the young stallion. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 18 in The Bedtime Story Book series (per the number on the spine). 189 pages, b&w drawings by Harrison Cady. Copyright 1946 but a later reprint. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 184 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front fly leaf, in addition the there is a handwritten greeting card from Losure. The author presents this enthralling true story as a fanciful narrative featuring the original Cottingley fairy photos and previously unpublished drawings and images from the family archives. A delight for everyone with a fondness for fairies, and for anyone who has ever started something that spun out of control. Back matter includes source notes, a bibliography, and an index. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 194 pages. One-color and full-color illustrations by Fred Marcellino. Dust jacket spine has a tear, price stamp on flap. Clean copy. While other young weasels dance under the pines, Bagley thinks about Bridget, the mesmerizing fish who lives in a pond down the brook from his den. Only a true hero can save Bridget from the gruesome death that awaits her.

Hardcover. London, Harrap, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 221 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a worn, torn dust jacket with chunk gone from front panel. 175 pages, 7 lovely color plates by Maginel Wright Barney. Ex-lib with stamping and residue, envelope to rear endpapers.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st thus, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 90 pages, illustrated in color by Kerstin Meyer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 9th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 245 pages, b&w drawings by Jean Charlot. Clean copy.