children fiction

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing Company, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 186 pages. Hardcover. Sepia Illustrations throughout. Pages and edges have a bit of tanning from age. Doesn't affect text or illustrations. Orange endpapers. Binding tight. Spine straight. Decorated cover boards, still bright, have some agewear (see image), no tears. In very good condition. $5000 has gone missing and Brains Benton and his friend, Jimmy are on the case, but before they can solve the crime, they are plunged into a whirlwind of excitement and suspense, climaxed by a wild chase in a racing car.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., reprint, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray-green cloth lettereed and decorated in gilt and black. 239 pages, Illustrated with 36 drawings by Frederic Dorr Steele. Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 ?- April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. Primarily a short story writer this is one of his few novels. A very clean, bight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth with green stamping, 57 pages illustrated in b&w by Lynd Ward.

Hardcover. London, Michael Joseph, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket, 124 pages. Punchbowl Farms' largest crop may not be cats, but the Siamese and Burmese cat families who have the run of the farm are certainly its most delightful product. With love humor, and insight, Monica Edwards introduces some o the numerous felines she has welcomed into her home on the farm. B&w photo illustrations.

Hardcover. London, The Religious Tract Society, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth with a color pastedown illustration on front cover. Color frontis, 4 b&w drawings by Gordon Robinson.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with dark maroon stamping, 236 pages. Illustrated with sixteen full-page black and white drawings by Seredy. The dramatic and heart-warming tale is set first on an estate in Hungary near the end of WW II, and then on a farm in the Hudson Valley, New York. Young Michael of Hungary carries an acorn all the way from his castle home in Chestry Valley, Hungary, to the warm soil of the Hudson Valley farm where he makes a new home after the war. He is accepted into an American family who accept Michael as one of their own. A compelling character is Midnight, the black stallion that has been trained to perform before princes. Bright, tight copy. Lacks dust jacket.

Softcover. McGill-Queen's University Press, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 913 pages, b&w illustrations, maps. Trigger's work integrates insights from archaeology, history, ethnology, linguistics, and geography. This wide knowledge allows him to show that, far from being a static prehistoric society quickly torn apart by European contact and the fur trade, almost every facet of Iroquoian culture had undergone significant change in the centuries preceding European contact. He argues convincingly that the European impact upon native cultures cannot be correctly assessed unless the nature and extent of precontact change is understood. His study not only stands Euro-American stereotypes and fictions on their heads, but forcefully and consistently interprets European and Indian actions, thoughts, and motives from the perspective of the Huron culture. The Children of Aataentsic revises widely accepted interpretations of Indian behaviour and challenges cherished myths about the actions of some celebrated Europeans during the "heroic age" of Canadian history. In a new preface, Trigger describes and evaluates contemporary controversies over the ethnohistory of eastern Canada.

Hardcover. Winchester UK, St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 142 pages. Mary Elliott (then Mary Belson) began writing for children in 1809, at a time when increasing literacy and wealth and more progressive understanding of the reading needs of children were creating a growing demand for more and more books for young people. Beginning with two books in verse - one a lively tale about town and country mice, the other, an anthology including many of her own poems - she went on to produce a stream of books on a variety of subjects. Her stories, some eventful and exciting, were mostly about real children learning to tackle the everyday circumstances and difficulties which they encountered in the world around them. These books were made all the more attractive by her publisher, William Darton, who provided them with entertaining illustrations, many of them interesting today for their depiction of contemporary scenes and fashions. Mary Elliott's books soon spread across the Atlantic, and American publishers reissued many of them, sometimes adapting the text to local circumstances. Although her books are now forgotten, they cannot be disregarded by researchers into the history of childhood and of children's literature. This bibliography contains about 470 entries. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, lavender cloth with black lettering and design. End papers show the Dana girls reading a letter printed in dark green. Nancy Drew titles listed to The Mystery of the Ivory Charm. Name on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs & Company, reprint, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. 24 color illustrations by Tony Sarg. Previous owner named in front endpages. Spine faded, cover shows minor wear and discoloration otherwise very good.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated in color by S.D. Schindler. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with wrap-around art by Trina Schart Hyman. Clean copy.

New York, J.B. Lipincott, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 248 pages. Dust jacket price clipped, otherwise like new. In search of a less restrictive way to live, two young people break away from their colony of Persons on the planet Earth, become involved with the inferior Creatures who inhabit Earth, and are thrust into the forefront of a revolution.

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1st, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages plus 2 w/ads. Hardcover. "Helping Hand Series". Red cloth boards of inlaid design, gilt lettering. Pen & ink etched frontispiece w/tissue guard, & decorated half-title. In remarkable shape considering age, still a tight book. Edges and pages yellowed a bit with age.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 36 pages. B&w illustrations by Donna Diamond. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with chunks gone from spine, 159 pages. B&w illustrations by Leonard Shortall. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with some rubbing to rear panel. 133 pages. Black & white illustrations by Laszlo Kubinyi. When Bridget sees her younger brother, Simon, standing at the window under a full moon, begging unseen musicians to allow him to come back, then hears a careless remark made by an angry old woman, she begins to suspect that he is a changeling, a fairy child sent to replace her real brother, abducted in infancy. This would explain his volatile personality---sweet and coaxing one minute, angry and vicious the next---and his refusal to go near her blacksmith father's forge.Clean copy.

NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Bonsall. An Early I CAN READ Book. Light marking on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with pictorial cover label, 462 pages. 9 color plates, title-page & eps illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. Bookplate on front endpaper. Title page has a tear with tape repair. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co. , 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, salmon cloth with black lettering, 178 pages. Color frontis, b&w drawings throughout. A collection of short stories for young adult readers.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice, price-clipped dust jacket, 101 pages. Illustrated with b&w drawings by Babbitt. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 122 pages, in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Six animal stories with full page black and white illustrations by author. Previous owner's inscription and SIGNED UNDERNEATH BY SAVITT. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, non-Paginated. Full color illustrations by Rhoda Chase. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Dust jacket shows light wear.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with silver lettering on spine, decoration on cover. 121 pages, illustrated by De Angeli in b&w. Clean copy.