children fiction

Hardcover. Chicago, Childrens Press, revised ed., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages illustrated in b&w and color. Describes in simple text how the Indians of the sea coast, plains, deserts, swamps, and woodlands lived and how their way of life was influenced by the environment. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 244 pages. B&w drawings by Edward Ardizzone. Nobody believed Hugsy Goode when he prophesied that a tunnel lay beneath the alley until--generations later--Nicholas (alias Copin) and Timothy (alias Tornid) decide to explore. And lo and behold, right under the vine-covered hole outside the house where Hugsy Goode used to live, they find an entrance to adventures beyond their wildest dreams. A sequel to The Alley. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, C.S. Francis & Co., 1st, 1850, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed tan cloth with the publisher's Little Library motif on the cover, 160 pages, two illustrated title pages, several b&w line drawings throughout, not credited. Title page dated 1850. Inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise clean with only mild foxing.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with minor wear, 94 pages, illustrated in b&w by Symeon Shimin. A young boy's adventures growing up in a Caribbean fishing village.

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 24 pages illustrated in color by Michael Donato. Award-winning author William Jaspersohn brings American history alive in a moving immigrant tale. The story retells the amazing, true saga of the Eurich brothers from Prussia, who arrive five years apart in America in the 1880s and who miraculously end up on neighboring farms in central Vermont. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 142 pages; color plates by Yvonne Gilbert and black and white illustrations by Yvonne Gilbert. 19 folk tales from across the world. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.311 pages, illustrated in b&w by David Small. A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound dares to befriend this cat, this feline, this creature he is supposed to hate. They are an unlikely pair, about to become an unlikely family. Ranger urges the cat to hide underneath the porch, to raise her kittens there because Gar-Face, the man living inside the house, will surely use them as alligator bait should he find them. But they are safe in the Underneath...as long as they stay in the Underneath. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 311 pages. Illustrated in b&w by David Small. Remainder mark to top edge otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. The story of two kids who witness a violent crime they think was committed by their neighbor (an undertaker). However, since these two are always telling made-up stories nobody believes them. They have to find the evidence. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Baker & Taylor Company, 2nd pr., 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Decorated olive cloth covers with titles in black in ruled border. Titles on spine in orange. 396 pages. Five black & white illustrations plus frontispiece with tissue guard by F.R. Gruger. Bookseller's label on front end paper. Rubbing to corners and spine. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 194 pages. One-color and full-color illustrations by Fred Marcellino. Dust jacket spine has a tear, price stamp on flap. Clean copy. While other young weasels dance under the pines, Bagley thinks about Bridget, the mesmerizing fish who lives in a pond down the brook from his den. Only a true hero can save Bridget from the gruesome death that awaits her.

Hardcover. London, Ward,Lock & Co Limited, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 176 pages, 24 color plates by Harry G. Theaker. No date. The Sunshine Series. Green cloth spine, illustrated cardboard covers. Hinges cracked, edge and corner wear to covers, internally very good.

Hardcover. London, J.M. Dent, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a faded spine, 246 pages. Four color plates plus numerous b&w drawings by Rosalie K. Fry. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Macmillian and Co., 1st illust thus., 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Decorative-gilt red cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. 330 pages plus publisher's ads. New Edition with 100 b&w illustrations by Linley Sambourne. Water-Babies, a children's novel written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863; written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species. Mild slant to spine, bump to front cloth cover.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st illust thus, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with color pastedown on front cover, white lettering.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st , 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in yellow cloth stamped in dark green.Color frontis, black & white illustrations by E. Boyd Smith. Light edgewear to yellow cloth, fraying to top of spine. Youth classic set in the American prairie; era of roaming buffalo, log cabins, Sioux. Mary Anne's mother does not allow her outside their gate at their log cabin; she is afraid of the wild. Mary Anne's father has a trading post, and the Sioux are among his customers. One day a young boy is comes to visit, and carves a willow whistle for Mary Anne. Her world is widening.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages, blue cloth covers with black decoration. Illustrated in 3-colors by Ward. Dust jacket with light soil, price-clipped. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, rose-colored cloth with black and red design on front cover. 24 short tales illustrated in b&w by Pyle. Verses by Katherine Pyle. Originally published in 1887, appears to be a 1940s reprint. Mild soil, inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth, cover label with blackberry and fern design, 126 pages. B&w illustrations by Helen Sewell. The fifth book of Sally's story, in which, released by the sultan from service to the White Lalla, she returns home to Maine. How Five Bushel Farm is saved and how Sally, and Andrew, and Pierre grow up. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with a pictorial label on the front cover, 146 pages. B&w and 2-color illustrations by Neely McCoy. Rose, Dick and Jim Dandy run away on an adventure, wishing that they were at the circus. Dick just doesn't want to go to the photographer! Instead, they find an apple tree elevator, where they find a fairy who will take them away to the land of Up.

Hardcover. NY, NYR Children's Collection, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, reprint of the classic title, SIGNED by Marc Simont on title page, no dj issued.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton & Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. The Complete Winnie-The-Pooh and the House at Pooh Corner in one volume. 314 pages, beige cloth boards, titles in dark green on spine, illustrated scene on front board in dark green as well. Map endpapers in color, decorations and new color illustrations by E.H. Shepard. Dj price-clipped. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Follows the lives of Frances and Hart Drummond, married nearly forty years, and their grown children, as they cope with communication problems, love, marriage, and Connecticut real estate. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 14 color plates by N.C. Wyeth. Clean copy.