children fiction

Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrations by Barry Moser. A narrative poem about The Canadian Mounties being overwhelmed in a snow storm. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with cover art and interior map by Trina Schart Hyman. 12 year old Gabe is invited by his grandfather to help shear the sheep on Ghost Island where Gabe sees the ghost who haunts the island. Clean copy.

NY, Viking, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Fritz Wegner. A breezy and entertaining tale set in the days when school desks had inkwells features a renowned, but slightly nutty, doctor, a kidnapping, some notorious criminals, a lonely girl, and an extremely humongous baby.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 69 pages. Black & white illustrations by Alan E. Cober. A young adult fantasy about a frozen land, written in second person.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, BC Ed., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 89 pages. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2nd pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards with tan cloth spine. 24 pages illustrated in color by Scott Cook. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprints, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four hardcover volumes in glazed boards. This set includes the complete Newbery Medal-winning Giver Quartet series: The Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son. Missing the box but all like new, a matching set. Clean copies.

Hardcover. New York, Junior Literary Guild, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 338 pages. Green top edge. Map of Scotland as endpapers and map of London as frontispiece. Previous owner's bookplate front end paper. Tight binding. A story of adventure and intrigue set in Scotland. A sequel to The Flight of The Heron.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "Those shackles didn't rob us of being black, son, they robbed us of being human."This is the story of one family. A family whose history saw its first ancestor captured, shackled, and brought to this country from Africa. A family who can still see remnants of the shackles that held some of its members captive -- even today. It is a story of pride, determination, struggle, and love. And of the piece of the land that holds them together throughout it all. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st US, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in matching dust jacket with light wear. 95 pages with b&w illustrations by Haris Petie. A charming tale set on the Virgin Island of St. John. Fairly clean ex-lib with stamping to endpapers.

Hardcover. NY/London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1st, 1925, Hardcover, gray cloth with blue design featuring a winged horse on the cover. Illustrations by Dugald Stewart Walker, with a color frontispiece and b&w drawings throughout the text and decorative endpapers of blue and white illustrations of a Centaur hunter and forest scene. Blue lettering on spine faded, inscription on half title in ink, another on ext blank page in pencil.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, circa 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, green cloth in a dust jacket that has a big chunk gone from front panel, 369 pages. First published in 1913 this reprint is from mid-40s with Wartime notation on title page. No marking, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed blue cloth with gilt lettering and design on spine, 180 pages. INSCRIBED BY RICHTER on the front fly leaf. Vivid and sometimes startling in its comic invention, this is the story of a sixteen-year-old girl, the eldest of a brood of fatherless children in a Maryland mountain valley community, and the story also of the men, some young and some old, whose lives, personalities, and strong characters supply the routes through which she enters womanhood. Mild soil to covers, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Company, reprint, 1901, Book: Good, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with red and black lettering and illustrations on front cover and spine. Six b&w plates by B. West Clinedinst. Title page dated 1901, copyright page dated 1899. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Sag Harbor NY, Permanent Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR: "Best wishes, Larry Duberstein" on front fly leaf. Herman Melville, author of that famous first line, "Call me Ishmael," is best known for his masterpiece, Moby Dick. He wrote a few other works that have garnered literary attention, but after completing Moby Dick in 1851, he faded into obscurity (at least during his lifetime). Duberstein attempts to re-create Melville's life after he wrote his great novel. The book takes place mainly in 1882 while Melville is an inspector of customs in New York City. Dissatisfied with wife Elizabeth even though he appreciates her taking care of the house and the children, Melville has an affair with a woman named Cora (entirely fictional) whom he meets while on the job. Nonetheless, Duberstein's portrait of late-19th-century Manhattan is a wonder, rife with precise period detail and elegant prose. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. First published in 1940, The Disappearing Floor is the 19th book in the Hardy Boys series. This appears to be a 1950s reprint. Once again Frank and Joe Hardy take on a puzzling case when their famous detective father asks the boys to assist him in tracking down a notorious jewel thief and his accomplices. The trail leads to the outskirts of the Hardys' home town and to a weirdly guarded mansion on the old Perth estate. With their pal Chet Morton, the brothers must tackle the mystery of the mansion heir's sudden death. Clean copy, paper tanning.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. First published in 1928, The Missing Chums is the fourth book in the Hardy Boys series. This appears to be a 1950s reprint. Follow Frank and Joe Hardy as they grapple with the unexplained disappearance of their closest friends, Chet and Biff, during a motorboat trip. The stakes are high, as Baldy Turk's gang think they've kidnapped Frank and Joe and, in a letter received by the Hardy Boys' Aunt Gertrude, are demanding ransom for their return. An investigation leads them to the mysterious Blacksnake Island, where they, too, are captured by the gang of criminals. Not only is the local bank robbed, but two of the Hardy boys' pals mysteriously disappear after a masquerade party. Are the events related? How the Hardy boys use all their courage and skill to outwit the criminals provides an exciting climax to one of the most baffling mysteries the young detectives have ever encountered. Clean copy, paper tanning.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 115 pages illustrated in b&w line by Enrico Arno. This entertaining collection of twenty-one folk tales from the Ashanti people of Ghana in West Africa takes its title from the wild 'dance' the spider Anansi performed when he tried to hide some burning hot beans under his hat. Clean copy.

NY, Sun Dial Press, reprint, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, 249 pages. Illustrated endpapers, 8 glossy, full-page color illustrations as well as b&w drawings by Marguerite Kirmse. No dust jacket. Small bump to top corner of cover. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original dark blue cloth with large color illustrated paper label on front cover. Gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with 8 color plates and pictorial endpapers by F.C. Yohn. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE AND FRONTIS by Thomas and Yohn. Scarce thus. Three small chips to cover label, name on inside blank page, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 134 pages, b&w art by Matt Phelan. Newbery Medal sticker on front cover.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 190 pages. Frontis illustration loose but present. Illustration and gold embossed title on cover. Some discoloration to spine, otherwise good. Black & white Illustrations by J.O.B.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 4th pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 104 pages. B&w drawings by Paul Galdone. The Panthers will lose their clubhouse and the chance for acquiring three superstars unless they win a street hockey game. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 43 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Garrett Price. Blue dust jacket scuffed at corners and top and bottom spine. Otherwise very good.