children fiction

NY, Dutton, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket with some fading to spine. 152 pages, previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise very good. The story of a 15 year old loner runaway who finally gets another chance. Not wanted by her mother, a Mexican-American girl chooses to live in an old woman's home rather than be sent to a juvenile hall. Influenced by the Los Angeles Police Department Explorer Program.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., reprint, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 281 pages, illustrated in b&w by James MacDonald. Black cloth with yellow lettering and design. A tale of stagecoachs and highwaymen in New Hampshire. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 281 pages, illustrated in b&w by James MacDonald. Black cloth with yellow lettering and design.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 186 pages. Earl Pryor is the biggest thirteen-year-old anyone ever saw. He's taller than a lot of grown-ups. He's got a hairy chest. He shaves. High school kids ask him to buy them beer. Everyone thinks Earl's so tough, such a troublemaker, such a man. They come to him looking for a fight. And Earl will fight them. But he's not so tough: He loves his mom, loves his dad. Still, a man's got to take care of himself. He's got to make people respect him. If Earl's dad has taught him anything, he's taught him that. When Earl gets suspended from school for a week for fighting, he figures he'll fill up the days somehow. But a lot can happen in a week. His family is falling apart. Everything he counted on is falling apart, and Earl's still learning what it really means to be a man. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Hanover NH, Dartmouth College, First Thus, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 149 pages. Softcover published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the graduation from Dartmouth College of Theodor Seuss Geisel. Grey cloth covers with silver titles to cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A simple discussion of the physical characteristics and probable origins of the races of the world. Color illustrations by Symeon Shimin.

Chicago, A.C. McClurg, reprint, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth. Eleven color illustrations by Florence Scovel Shinn. Mild wear to covers. "When Mr. O'Callaghan dies after a long, severe, and expensive sickness, he leaves his widow a state of unlimited poverty and seven boys." The dialect is said to come close to the speech of Irish immigrants in 1900. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages illustrated in b&w by John Kaufmann. The story is beautifully written by an author who knows and understands the habits and life of Canada geese. The illustrations are absolutely lovely with careful detail for each goose pictured. Light spottig to edge of text block, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Francisco Mora. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards. In this witty, fast-paced sequel to Getting Even, seventh-grader Iris Bloom can handle anything, whether it's a fashion crisis or the despicable Corky Newton. What's more, she is certain she doesn't need a baby-sitter. But when a visit alone to the mall ends in a frightening near-assault, she changes her mind.

Hardcover. NY, Julian Messner, Inc., 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket, 185 pages. Black & white ilustrations by Raymond Lufkin. Dust jacket with closed tears, chips to top & bottom edges, price clipped. A boy's adventures on the Mississippi River.

Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice color illustrations by Gammell. Great, clean condition. Hardbound, dust jacket. Though his parents explain there have been no mammoths for over 10,000 years, Will goes out in the snow one day, certain he will meet some.

NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 205 pages. Black & white drawings by Douglas Gorsline. Back & white photos by William Henry Jackson. Dust jacket with chip to spine bottom, closed tear.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Pictorial boards in a bright, unclipped dust jacket., $3.95 price. Color illustrations by William Pene Du Bois. William wants a doll but his father tries to discourage him. 32 pages. Clean.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Willow doesn't know what to do. Her mother has taken off again, she has to look after her brother Twig, and they're out on the streets of Vancouver with nowhere to go. Then Willow remembers her grandmother, whom she hasn't seen in years. Gram doesn't even know Twig exists, and Twig is, well, difficult. But Gram is her only hope now. After a few urgent phone calls from a police station in Vancouver to Ontario, Willow and Twig are on their way across the country to a grandmother they hardly know, and a strange household made up of an eccentric uncle, a hostile aunt, and a motley crew of animals. Clean, like new.

New York, Dodd Mead , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 109 pages. Black & white illustrations by Ted Lewin. Dust jacket with edgewear, light soiling. Conrad, the boy who gave Annie a willow whistle, improves her father's opinion of him when he helps save his classmates stranded in the schoolhouse by an early blizzard.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, reprint, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 333 pages, blue cloth, later printing, first published in 1935. Black titles on spine. Name stamp on inside front cover. Paper tanning but a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Holt Rinehart and Winston, 4th pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages, illustrated in color by Michael Hague. INSCRIBED BY HAGUE WITH A INK SKETCH OF RATTY on the blank page opposite the spot illustration in front. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, Reprint, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 351 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Full color illustrations by Nancy Barnhart. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Darkening to cloth spine. Titles on spine, and cover in gilt. Gutter cracked onpages 94/95.

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, D. Van Nostrand, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 107 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in black & white by Caswell. INSCRIBED BY CASWELL on front fly leaf. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 175 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT END PAPER. Black & white illustrations by Arthur Conrad. Dust jacket has edgewear.

Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Tight copy. Previous owners name on front end paper. Illustrated by Wendy Watson.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pink cloth covers with black drawing and lettering, 55 pages illustrated in b&w by Mircea Vasiliu. This copy INSCRIBED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR WITH A DRAWING OF A SEAGULL CARRYING A FLOWER TO FELLOW ILLUSTRATOR KURT WIESE, dated 1957. Quite a scarce book even without the signature. Clean, no dust jacket.