children fiction

Hardcover. NY, John Day Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket cover with a faded spine, unclipped. 217 pages, Young adult novel about migrant farm workers. Minor shelf wear, clean copy.

London , Thomas Nelson, 1st, n.d. (circa 1910), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 6 color plates , including title page (not credited), 332 pages plus publisher's ads. In 2-color and gilt decorated maroon cloth covers. Previous owner's inscription inside front cover.

Hardcover. New York, Aladdin Books, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 174 pages. Black & white illustrations by Frederick T. Chapman. Short tears to rear fly leaf. Previous owner's signature and stamp front endpaper. Light soil to covers. Green top edge. Corners bumped. Two boys' adventures trying to obtain the bicycles they dream about.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with black lettering, 125 pages, b&w illustrations by Harper Johnson. Children's story of a boy and his horse, living on a New Mexico ranch. When the Spanish cavalry needs horses for fighting the Indians, the horse is comandeered, and later captured by a Comanche warrior. Covers with light soil, clean internally, no markings.

Hardcover. Portland OR, Binfords & Mort, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. 191 pages, b&w illustrations by Parker McAllister. A general survey of the history of the region told through the exciting anecdotal history of those who published primary accounts of their early reconnaissance in the region, starting with Barkley and thence to Gray, Ebey, Hancock, Sylvester, et al. No markings.

Honesdale, PA, Boyds Mills Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 192 pages, Black & white illustrations by Christoher Zhong-Yun Zhn. Review copy. An intimate look at family and village life in southeastern China, approximately 50 years ago. Ying, 10, is raised by her beloved grandmother. Ah Pau is thrifty, wise, and firmly rooted in her culture's traditions and superstitions. She guides Ying and her cousins with a firm and loving hand. As in First Apple (Boyds Mills, 1994), in which the little girl was a year younger, Ying must raise an ambitious amount of money. This time, she must bargain with her mercenary cousin Kee, and deal with the class bully.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 362 pages. 12 color plate illustrations by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Green covers with gold lettering and color illustration pasted on front cover. Previous owner's inscription on back of title-page. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Light spotting throughout. Hinges cracked. Corners and spine rubbed. Tear to top of spine. Light rubbing, soiling to covers.

Garden City, NY, Doubleday Page, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 259 pages. Color plates and black & white illustrations by George Soper. Gilt top edge. Green cloth covers with gold lettering and green decoration. Frontispiece detached from book. Scribling in pencil on front end paper. Soiling to first few pages. Small soiling mark near fore edge to last few pages.

Hardcover. NY, Rand McNally & Company, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in pale yellow, in a worn and chipped dust jacket. A novel about a San Francisco journalist who matches wits with a gang of drug dealers. With illustrations by Chauncey Maltman. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Every country has its folk hero--real or legendary, and in Turkey he goes by the name of Nasreddin Hoca, pronounced Nahz-red'-din Hoe'-djah. He lived several years ago and he served as a religious teacher, Moslem priest or judge as the occasion demanded. In spite of these exalted duties he was as human as any man. Barbara Walker has put together only a sampling of the hundreds of Hoca tales that exist. She has captured in English the same directness typical of a Turkish storyteller as he relates one of the well-known, well-loved stories of the wisdom or foolishness of Nasreddin Hoca. 72 pages. Illustrated by Harold Berson. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 193 pages. As The Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house.As the Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house. In an unapologetically severe story about four boys who victimize Karen Jerome and her family, Cormier once again explores the potential for malice in all of us. The teenagers leave the Jeromes' home in ruin; Karen is assaulted and subsequently hospitalized in a coma. Not for the squeamish, Cormier's novel doesn't mince words: "The vandals shit on the floors and pissed on the walls and trashed their way through the seven-room Cape Cod cottage." Like Robert Westall ( The Machine Gunners ; Blitzcat ), Cormier surpasses most other writers by the sheer force of his words. Much more than a pulp thriller, this compelling, richly textured novel is told from several points of view, including that of the vandals themselves. Cormier illuminates even the darkest characters with humanity, so that in the end, readers see the complicated fabric of life itself.

Hardcover. London, George Bell and Sons, reprint, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with lettering and decoration in white. 8 color plates by M. V. Wheelhouse. 315 pages plus publisher's ads. Spine lettering worn, front bright.Top edge gilt, ribbon marker, clean tight copy. Classic adventure novel for boys.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 335 pages, blue cloth stamped with white lettering and sailboat. Endpapers are illustrated map of the voyage of the Goblin showing how she went across and came back. Author's b&w drawings throughout. Part of the Swallows and Amazons series. Front hinge a little tender, clean copy.

Hardcover. London/ NY, Ernest Nister/ Dutton, 1st, n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Hardcover with gilt lettering on front and spine. Front and rear hinge fragile, moderate fraying to cover edges. Gutter cracked and separated on page 80. 4 bright chromoliths, b&w Illustrations, previous owner's signature & date (1906) front end paper, gilt decorated green cloth.

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 164 pages plus plus publisher's ads, B&W line iiiustrations. Brown cloth with black and gilt design.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, price clipped, still bright. Covers have moderte rubbing and wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 191 pages, b&w illustrations by Fanny Y. Cory. Bright blue cloth covers.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 95 pages. Two-tone illustrations by Daugherty. Dust jacket with small tears, rubbing.

Hardcover. NY, Orchard Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 201 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE by author. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, reprint, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, pictorial color paste-done on front cover. 416 pages, 9 color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. Discoloration to rear board, small gouge to bottom corner of pages 140-159, not affecting text or plates. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Time-Life Books, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 51 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Color illustrations by Phelan. Corners and spine lightly rubbed. Dust jacket with chipping, tears, rubbing.

New York , G.P. Putnam's Sons, 8th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 127 pages, b&w illustrations by Leonard Everett Fisher. A ten-year-old Danish boy goes on a whaling hunt. Drawn from the author's life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 80 pages in color. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Lourie skillfully describes the delicate three-way relationship that exists among the Inupiat of Alaska, the bowhead whales, and the scientists who are there to collect data and study the animals. The Inupiat have hunted bowheads for thousands of years and their very existence depends upon the harvesting of the leviathans. The scientists are there to determine whether the whaling done by these communities is sustainable and not decimating the bowhead population. Using a day-in-the-life format, Lourie follows one particular scientist, John Craighead George, as he goes about collecting the necessary data. The biologist is careful not to disturb the integrity of the harvest and, in fact, works closely with the Inupiat to do what he needs to do. Interwoven throughout this daylong saga are historical information, scientific facts, and cultural tradition. Crisp color photographs on every page provide a lush complement to the engaging, informative text. Young readers will come away with a stronger appreciation of the bowhead whales, the people who both hunt and respect them, and the scientists who straddle the traditional and modern worlds to gather important information. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Library Ed. (NOT ex-lib) Light wear to dj, closed tear. Linen covered covers with ripples, production error. Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky in b&w.