children fiction

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. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 64 pages. Black & white lithographs by Zhenya Gay. Covers with mild soil, rubbing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in salmon colored cloth stamped in gilt. Covers with mild soil, spine, gilt faded. 272 pages. Illustrated throughout in 2-colors by Lynd Ward. Interior clean, no markings.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 2nd pr., 1980, 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. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Ivan Obolensky, 1st US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. by Bjorn Berg. Dj with light edgewear, chipping.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 3rd pr., 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 126 pages, illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Child's lettering in crayon on front fly leaf, previous owner's sticker and signature on same page. In a worn, chipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 157 pages. A study of the popular English children's writer, Mrs Sherwood, 1775-1851 considering her style, writings, relations with publishers, etc. Includes reprints of The little woodman and his dog Caesar originally published: London, Houlston, 1850 and Soffrona and her cat Muff originally published: Wellington, Salop, Houlston, 1828. Includes a 38 page bibliography. "No study of nineteenth - century children's books in England can afford to ignore Mrs. Sherwood. She produced over four hundred different titles - books, tales, tracts, texts, magazines, articles in periodicals, cbapbooks, and Sunday School rewards. There is evidence that the writings of her Evangelical period, in particular, had a remarkable influence upon Victorian literature for the young.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 48 pages. Color illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Binding slight shaken. Soiling to endpapers and covers. Spine & edgewear. Corners rubbed.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket, 120 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Charles Lily. The school experiences of a young boy attending school in Uganda.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Crowell, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 79 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. B&w illustrations by F.G. Attwood. Blue and cream cloth covers with black and gilt design. Newspaper article pasted into front end papers, previous owner's name on end paper, moderate soil to cover boards. Rear gutter cracked on end paper.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Lothrop Publishing Company, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 291 pages + ads in rear. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Scarce baseball novel. Green illustrated cloth with baseball player on front cover. Previous owner's inscription in pencil on front end paper and the number 35 scribbled on prelim page with crayon, else a lovely copy with very little wear to covers.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead & Co., 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 125 Pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by William Pene Du Bois. Dj with edgewear, chipping. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Birmingham AL, Reading Matter.Com, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Set in the South in the 1930s, Johnny and Will are identical twin boys who are separated at an early age. Will is part of a happy, well-off family near Birmingham, Ala. In Tennessee, Johnny is trying to survive neglect and abuse at the hands of his mean-spirted aunt. When Johnny sees a boy on a train who looks just like him, he is determined to meet him, despite every hurdle Aunt Min places in his path. Illustrated in b&w by Leanna Lesley.

Hardcover. New York , Viking, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on separate bookplates on the front fly leaf. Dust jacket and covers completely illustrated, lovely color illustrations by Marc Simont. Spine stiff and tight, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated with color collagraphs by Barbara Garrison. Her handsome illustrations set the tone for this elegant introduction to major Jewish holidays as well as the Sabbath. From Rosh Hashanah to Purim, Passover and Shavuot, Silverman (The Glass Menorah) delves into Torah and Jewish tradition, neatly distilling the historical background, spiritual significance and present-day rituals associated with commemorating and celebrating each of these special days. Name and date on title page otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York , Harper & Row, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED TO CLEM (CLEMENT HURD, illustrator of "Goodnight, Moon" among others) BY ZOLOTOW. Color illustrations by William Pene du Bois. Slight wear to edges, some spotting to rear cover of price clipped dust jacket else a beautiful copy.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on half-title page with illustrations throughout. Very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 51 pages illustrated in b&w by John O'Brien. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color frontispiece, b&w drawings, endpaper map by H.M. Brock. Green cloth with spine slightly darkened. Foxing to endpapers. Else very good.

Hardcover. New York, Criterion Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 153 pages. Black & white illustrations by Omar Davis. Light edgewear. Dust jacket with light soiling, rubbing, chipping. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, ex-lib with stamping, residue to rear endpapers. Color illustrations by Uri Shulevitz. Mr. Fanshaw and his grandson Will have a kitten show up at their door. Can the kitten help to solve the mystery in their woods?

New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Uri Shulevitz. Writing in pen on front end paper and rear fly leaf. Dust jacket with light soiling, browning, edgewear.

Hardcover. Prague, SNDK, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 140 pages. A collection of Czech/Yugoslavian fables illustrated in color by Vladimir Brehovzsky. Clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth covers with gilt and 2-color decoration, 277 pages. Sixteen b&w plates by Warwick Reynolds. Front flap copy glued to front fly leaf. This is the story of Naju, fourth son of the great African king of Nuan who is sent out to find his way in the world. Spine darkened, clean copy.