children fiction

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Eight two-color illustrations plus dust jacket art in color by Thomas (Hart) Benton. True account of a young school teacher in the Tennessee mountains. With a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear. Scarce in this condition.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with black titles. 312 pages, color frontis and b&w drawings by James. Letter "A" on the copyright page. Mild shelf wear. Previous owner's bookplate on the front leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York , Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 303 pages plus ads. Notable for the illustrations by Norman Rockwell, four b&w plates. No date in the book but appears to be around 1930. The book has a dust jacket with a color illustration but that does not appear to be Rockwell's work. Dust jacket is bright but has some light spotting.

Hardcover. Philadelphia , John C. Winston, 2nd pr., 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in yellow, in a chipped dust jacket. Color frontispiece, b&w drawings, and endpaper illustration by George Avison.

Boston, Little Brown , 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover,170 pages in a nice, unclipped dust jacket. When Nick investigates what he thinks are screams coming from the bushes in the park, he discovers the school outcast practicing his trumpet. Ratbag, a lanky, unkempt black boy who has a reputation as an unpleasant loner, may be different, but he is blessed with phenomenal innate musical talents. His talent is brought to the attention of the school band director, who uses his teen prodigy to lead his British school to the national playoffs in Amsterdam, where a mystery begins. Nick and Ratbag become unknowingly involved in a major drug-smuggling operation, and the boys are used as bait for police.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky. Rubbing Edgewear and soil to covers. Illustrated end papers. Scarce 1st edition.

New York, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 206 pages. Light soiling to front end paper otherwise very good. Dust jacket with chipping, small piece missing from front cover. Clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. London, Oliver & Boyd, 1st UK, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 232 pages, illustrated in b&w by Robert Hales, translated by Evelyn Ramsden. Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) was a Swedish children's book author and the author of the Pippi Longstocking series. Seacrow Island was published in Sweden in 1964. This volume from 1968 is the stated first English edition by Oliver & Boyd Ltd., London, published before the Viking American edition (Copyright page is at the back of the book). Light yellow cloth binding with illustration of a boy holding a dog on front board and printing on spine. Dust jacket with light edgewear, price-clipped. Binding is tight, square, clean and bright.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 80 pages, illustrated in color by William Pene du Bois. Ex-library with light stamping to endpapers, envelope residue.

Hardcover. Boston, W. A. Wilde Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners last name at top right corner of front endpaper. Foxing to edges. Blue cloth covers with some discoloration to rear bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Blue Sky Press , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 168 pages.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 3rd, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Hague. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 213 pages. Black & white illustrations by Judith Gwyn Brown. Dust jacket with color cover illustration. Chunk from bottom spine, closed tears.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 213 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows moderate wear and light small tearing. Covered in plastic bro-dart. Clean, tight copy with light foxing to fore edge text block.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 233 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light foxing to end papers. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Gutter cracked in front. Illustrated by Richard Floethe. Spine faded.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound in green cloth with dark blue design and lettering, 308 pages. Black & white illustrations by Manning de V. Lee. Light soiling to endpapers, covers. Blue top edge. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, New World Publishing Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 158 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Red cloth cover boards, blue title on spine and designs on front cover board. Dust jacket price clipped. Original bookstore price tag on dust jacket front flap, some agewear to dust jacket (see image).

London, Methuen/Walker, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. Color illustrations by David Scott. Light edgewear to covers. No dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription, otherwise clean.

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. New York, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 236 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Front fly leaf missing. Illustrated by Harry H. Lees. Dust jacket shows light wear.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Pretty soft green covers stamped center front with an unnoticeable flower design. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine is sunned at both ends. A wonderful story of seven brothers who each use their special magic powers to win the hand of Helena of Boozan Island for their King. Beautifully and elegantly illustrated.

Hardcover. New York , A.L. Burt, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 236 pages, b&w frontispiece. Decorated tan cloth covers. Clean. A Girls' Mystery Detective Series book, The girls of Sunnyside prove to the haughty Geraldine that living in a small town is not so boring as she thought. Geraldine is made a member of the Seven Sleuths' Club, and the girls join the boys of the secret C.D.C. in winter sports and fun.

Hardcover. New York, Longmans Green & Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 268 pages, b&w illustrations by Henry Pitz. Red cloth covers with black decoration. Book shows light wear overall, spine faded, black spot on top edge. Scarce.

NY, Harper & Row, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 182 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Maurice Sendak. Early edition. Ex-lib with stamped pocket on back endpaper. Paste remains on front and back paste-down endpapers, spine label. Dust jacket price clipped and bottom of front flap missing. Little Davie lavishes attention on his pet rabbit & saves him when the little animal disappears. Sensitive & riveting tale.