children fiction

Hardcover. London, Thomas Nelson, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth with gilt lettering, design on spine. 216 pages plus publisher's catalog in rear. Color frontis. and 11 b&w illustrations by Rowland Hilder. Previous owner's inscription to front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Mild wear to spine cloth. This is the more elusive first printing with the color plate in front, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, Book Club Ed., 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 187 pages, Illustrations by Shane Miler. Exciting adventure of Peter the Hermit's squire, Bennet and the story of the First Crusade in 1099 Europe. Endpapers map.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 224 pages, b&w illustrations by Harold Berson. A charming and absorbing story for young readers set in rural Kansas in 1913 about a family of children, their grandmother, and a nest of orphaned newly-hatched bluejays. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise bight and clean.

Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent, 1st UK, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in poor dust jacket with pieces missing. 180 pages, b&w drawings. 12 authentic tales from Ireland. Book is tight and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. In 1942, Ruth and Simeon must leave their missionary parents to escape the perils of war, and Ruth learns much about human nature and life as she and her brother make the dangerous trip through China to India. Clean copy.

NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 134 pages. Color, black & white illust. Previous owner's signature front fly-leaf. Tri-color decoration on front cover. Light soil to back cover.

NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2nd pr., 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardccover, red cloth binding, with stamped titles and decoration to upper board and spine, and pastedown illustration in corner of upper board. Color frontis. and 8 b&w plates by Peter Newell. Eight tales of a man and his relationship with various animals. Hinges cracked, binding solid. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. When wealthy horse trainer H. R. Geiger dies, Denver bookman Cliff Janeway encounters the legacy of the man's wife, Candice, a true bookwoman who left behind an assortment of rare first-edition children's books. Sent to assess the collection, Janeway soon finds that several titles are missing, replaced by cheap reprints -- while other hugely expensive pieces remain. Why would a thief take one priceless book and leave an equally valuable volume on the shelf? Suspecting foul play, Janeway follows the trail of Candice's shadowy past to California's Golden Gate and Santa Anita racetracks, where he signs on as a racehorse hot walker. Eavesdropping on the chatter among the hands, he doesn't like what he hears. And when he goes to the house where Candice died to look for answers, Janeway finds much more than he bargained for.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped ($6.95) dust jacket. Design & illustrations by Beth & Joe Krush. Early reprint with "LMNO" on copyright page. Small small sticker on inside flap, otherwise a clean, bright copy. When the story opens the little family has taken up residence in a charming miniature village designed by kind Mr. Pott, a one-legged former Railway worker. The fourth book in the series.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped ($12.95) dust jacket. Design & illustrations by Beth & Joe Krush. Escaping from an attic where they had been held captive over the long, dark winter, a family of tiny people sets up house in an old rectory. Eventually, the Clock family of borrowers find a safe and comfortable home, with their relations living near by. All appears well until they realize that the wicked Platters are still looking for them, something which prompts them to get revenge.Fifth and final book in the series. Clean copy.

New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 60 pages. Blue cloth covers with gilt titles, dust jacket illustrated in color, gorgeous full-page color illustrations by Mair. Mild rubbing to dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a lovely book in great condition.

Hardcover. NY, A.L. Burt, 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial tan boards with 3-color decoration. In a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear. All 12 titles of this series are listed in the rear of the book. (This being #9). The blank rear fly leaf has a bottom corner torn away ( 1" X 1/2"). Otherwise bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hurst and Co., 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in the original white pictorial dust jacket, now in mylar, Pictorial cloth covers decorated in red, brown and black. 312 pages. B&w frontispiece, 3 b&w illustrations by Charles Wrenn. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering, 310 pages. B&w illustrations by Norman Price.

Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial rust-colored cloth. 1st edition. 265 pages. B&w illustrations by George Foster Barnes. Previous owner's name in ink on front end-paper, else very good, clean.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Company, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with pale lettering to spine and front cover, with color portrait of Lawrence. No dustwrapper. First printing with no other printings indicated. 293 pages with eight illustrations including frontispiece photo-portrait of Lawrence. A reworking of the material Thomas had published earlier in With Lawrence in Arabia in 1924, adapted for a semi-juvenile audience, during the height of Lawrence's fame. Small notation on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Cassell and Company, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with color pastedown of stagecoach on cover, black lettering and design. Gilt title on spine. 232 pages, 4 color plates including frontis of airships, many b&w illustrations throughout. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A collection of 5 folk tales from various countries about the feelings buried deep within us. Tales include title story + "The Wolf In Disguise", "Savitri and the Lord of the Dead","The Mad Priest", etc. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of 5 folk tales from various countries about the feelings buried deep within us. Tales include title story + "The Wolf In Disguise", "Savitri and the Lord of the Dead","The Mad Priest", etc. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket art, b&w illustrations by Victor Ambrus. Children's adnture story set in Africa. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press,, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First printing with full number line. "When Calder Pillay travels with is father to a remote village in England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery...including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Calder is strangely drawn to the sculpture, while other people have less-than-friendly feelings toward it. Both the boy and the sculpture seem to be out of place...and then, on the same night, they disappear!" Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 211 pages. Number line starts with "2". Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 185 pages. Hardcover. Pages and edges have tanning from age. Doesn't affect text or illustrations. Orange endpapers. Binding tight. Spine straight. Decorated cover boards, still bright, have some age wear. Illustrated by Hamilton Greene. This is the 6th book in the series.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 186 pages. Hardcover. Pages and edges have tanning from age. Doesn't affect text or illustrations. Green endpapers. Binding tight. Spine straight. Decorated cover boards, still bright, have some age wear. Illustrated by Al Schmidt. This is the 4th book in the series.