children fiction

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Thirteen year old Rocky has her life changed by the remarkable artist who comes to a small Kansas town to design a war memorial.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 103 pages. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Turquoise cloth cover with black lettering. Faded and worn spine. Edgewear. Corners bumped. Spotting back cover. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 134 pages. When his cousin Katy is kidnapped at night by a Grabbly, Rupert enlists the aid of flying pirates and a kindly badger to rescue her from the Wizard of Castle Dread. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice, clean, almost new-looking condition. Color illustrations by Donald Carrick. Hardbound, dust jacket.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&W illustrations by James Daugherty. 252 pages. Illustrated light gray cloth covers. Clean, bright copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Hardcover. "An I Can Read Book". Color illustrations by Bernard Wiseman. Lists 17 titles on back cover - starting with "Little Bear" and ends with "David and the Giant". Some minor foxing to preliminary pages. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. An author and artist who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinated modern people, David Macaulay here reveals the methods and materials used to design and construct a mosque in late-sixteenth- century Turkey. Clean, tight copy with minor rubbing to edges.

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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 50 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Color illustrations by Karl Larsson. Dust jacket shows much wear, soiling, chipping, some small tears, one large tear at top left hand corner of back cover. Internally there is some soiling but mostly clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 2nd, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 88 pages. 3 color illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Black & white pen drawings by Edmund H. Garrett. Back gutter cracked from hinge. Cloth covers with black illustration and lettering on front and spine.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations including frontispiece. [The Children's Friend Series]. Green cloth, Gilt Lettering On Front Cover, Pink Lettering On Spine, Front Cover decorated in three-color design. First Published In A Periodical In 1887, New Copyright 1903 by adopted son, John S.P. Alcott. Some slight rubbing to top and bottom of spine and corners of cover boards. In very good condition.

Hardcover. NY, Appleton, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 92 pages. B&W illustrations by Oliver Herford. Each page with red border decoration. Previous owner's inscription on front pastedown. Blue cloth cover with paste-on label illustration.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 142 pages, b&w drawings by William Moyers. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, price-clipped. Book with blue cloth covers, very good, clean.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 100 pages. Numerous black & white photographs. Corners bumped & edgeworn. Soiling, scratches to covers. Lots of photos, and text describing the process of making movies in the 1930s, aimed at young readers.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by William Pene du Bois. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Dust jacket with moderate wear, areas of staining, tape repaired tears. Clean, unmarked pages. A child eye's view of moving day. No statement of first on copyright page.

Hardcover. NY, Friendship Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick red cloth with silver stamping, 128 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Kurt Wiese. The adventures of Mpengo and his sister who live in a village in the Congo.

Hardcover. NY, Junior Literary Guild, reprint, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 69 pages. Hardcover with illustrated cloth, no dust jacket. Color and black & white illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Shows some wear and age.

Hardcover. NY, Alliance Book Corp.., 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 305 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A story about the famous ideal American boy as an adult. The author is also known as Burt L. Standish. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, currentlly covered in plastic brodart. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with chipping, closed tears. Greatly disappointed that the celebrated Miss K will not be their teacher, Finley Streeter and Stanley Dragavich pull pranks on the new teacher in their small town. Dust jacket and B&W illustrations by Ben Stahl.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 64 pages. Illustrated with color, black & white drawings by Albert Rutherston. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Foxing, browning to front pages. Cloth cover with minor stains, soil.

NY, Praeger Publishers, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages. B&W illustrations by Michael Foreman. In a nice, price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, reprint, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth decorated in black and white, 139 pages, illustrated by Robert Lawson in two-colors and b&w. Short inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

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.