children fiction

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with white lettering and drawing of horse's head on cover. 144 pages. Black & white drawings and color frontispiece by Willy Pogany. Pink top edge. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Rubbing, light soiling to endpapers. The story of an old dapple-grey workhouse, Nebuchadnezzar, or Nebby, for short, and the two siblings who love him, Marigold and Noel, who live with their mean old aunt-in-law.

Hardcover. NY, Horace Liveright, 2nd pr., 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in red and gilt, 323 pages. Red topstain, with no dust jacket. B&w illustrations by the author. Copyright page states: Second printing, September 1928. The first printing was in August. Barnes played an important part in the development of 20th century English language modernist writing and was one of the key figures in 1920s and 30s bohemian Paris after filling a similar role in the Greenwich Village in the teens. Ryder draws heavily on her childhood experiences in Cornwall-on-Hudson. It covers 50 years of her family's history. Fragments of the Ryder family chronicle are interspersed with children's stories, songs, letters, poems, parables, and dreams. The book changes style from chapter to chapter, parodying writers from Chaucer to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Spine darkened, light shelf-wear. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co. , 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 216 pages. Black & white illustrations by Julian Brazelton. Illustrated endpapers. Faded blue top edge. Corners bumped. Soiling to covers.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with a drawing of a saddle on front cover. 184 pages. Black & white illustrations by Earl Mayan. Faded green top edge. Corners slightly bumped. Spine faded. No dust jacket. Rick and his sister Jinny help raise an orphan filly. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with black stamping. 221 pages. Black & white illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 221 pages. Black & white illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Dust jacket with faded spine, library labels on spine, light edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, David McKay, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket, 150 pages. SIGNED BY PIERCE on the front fly leaf. Samantha longs for a part on the stage but in Elizabethan England that is forbidden for girls. She sells oranges instead, hoping to make a living for herself and her invalid mother. However, when her mother dies and Samantha is desperate for a place to stay she realizes the only possibility is to seek refuge with her friend Hugh, an apprentice to John Heminges' theatrical troupe. This requires a reckless masquerade. Rear endpapers with transparent tape.

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 242 pages. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, illustrated in color by Victoria Tentler-Krylov. When Kip Tiernan was growing up during the Great Depression it was believed that there were no women experiencing homelessness. And yet Kip would see women sleeping on park benches and searching for food in trash cans. Kip decided to open the first shelter for women--a shelter with no questions asked, no required chores, just good meals and warm beds. With persistence, Kip took on the city of Boston in her quest to open Rosie's Place, our nation's first shelter for women. Christine McDonnell, a former educator at Rosie's Place, and illustrator Victoria Tentler-Krylov bring warmth to Kip Tiernan's story of humanity and tenacity, showing readers how one person's dream can make a huge difference, and small acts of kindness can lead to great things.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribners Sons, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Will James. Green cloth covers with some small areas of spotting. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, tight copy.

NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with green and black decoration. Four b&w plates by Margaret Harper. Light shelf wear.

Chicago, Wilcox and Follett, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers stamped in black. B&W illustrations by Milo Winter. 189 pages. Small bookstore stamp to front end papers otherwise very good. An "action-packed adventure story based on authentic history of early Illinois" set during the Black Hawk War. Clean 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, Delacorte, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages, Dust jacket & fontispiece illustration by Jerry Pickney. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 122 pages. Hardcover. Features 3 illustrations by Maitland De Gogorza. Fading to spine with moderate rubbing along edges. Title paste down on cover intact. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A young adult mystery set off the coast of Spain featuring a parrot named Alice. Clean copy. Dust jacket art by Emily MCCU1lly.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Romantic tale about family & tribal devotion, which captures the spirit of the gypsy people. Rich, classical paintings complement this captivating tale. Savina, the Gypsy dancer, captivates everyone with her remarkable dancing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, M.A. Donohue & Company, reprint, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with a pastedown of a white & brown dog on the front cover. Color frontis (matches cover), 130 pages. Child's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Franklin Watts, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 288 pages illustrated in b&w and color by Jenny Williams. Light chipping, edgewear to dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, Reprint, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 full pages (last pages missing). Brown cloth, pictorial paste down, rubbing with faded spine. Black & white illustrations by John Neill. Previous owner's name on book belongs to page. Front fly leaf missing. Hinge cracked.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth with red desgn, lettering, 198 pages, with color frontispiece, b&w illustratons by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 198 pages. Color frontis, black & white illustrations by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Dust jacket unclipped, edgeworn, chipped. Nickle-size paper scar to front of dj above title. Clean copy. A mystery surrounding Joseph Bonaparte, former King of Spain, and brother to the exiled Napoleon, living in exile himself in the United States.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth with red desgn, lettering, 198 pages, with color frontispiece, b&w illustratons by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. London, B.T. Batsford, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 136 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacekt. illustrated with drawings by Edward Ardizzone. Blue cloth covers with light fading to spine