children fiction

Hardcover. Cleveland and New York, World Publishing Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Harold Berson.

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st Printing, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 72 pages, blue covers with cloth yellow spine. Black and blue illustrations by Marc Simont throughout. Interior clean. Dust jacket color illustrated with protective mylar cover, one corner slightly bumped. Very nice tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dover Publications, Inc, Reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers in slipcase. Color and b/w illustrations and color frontispieces by W.W. Denslow. A slight musty odor from being packed away. Smudges on some of the pages, otherwise clean. Bindings tight. Spines straight. Some foxing to edges.The Wonderful Wizard of OZ: 267 pages. Red spine, which is faded with a touch of foxing.The Marvelous Land of OZ: 287 pages. Blue spine which is faded with a touch of foxing.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 637 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by the author. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Chicago, M.A. Donohue and Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages illustrated in color by Gruelle. Bright cardboard covers in color, wear to corners. Light tape shadow to front endpaper illustration, otherwise clean internally.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Page & Co., reprint, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt design on cover faded. 235 pages, 100 b&w drawings by Seton. Shelf-worn, clean copy.

Boston, Little Brown , 1st , 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine. A young black girl struggles to fulfill her papa's dream of a better future for their family in the southwestern town where in 1910 they are the only blacks.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 221 pages, b&w illustrations by Alexy Pendle. A tale set in pre-WW1 England. A generous impulse prompts Pansy to change clothes with a girl from the workhouse, beginning a series of strange adventures which involve Pansy being mistaken for a workhouse child, being chased hither and thither, being locked in a butcher's cellar, and being forced to hide on top of a haystack at night terrified that she is being hunted down by dogs.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. B&W illustrations by William A. Kolliker. Review slip laid in. Some browning to dust jacket flaps, uneven color to light blue cloth covers. Traces of paper clip to a few pages, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 248 pages. Clean copy. Tunis' World Series is Book #2 in his 8- book series on the Brooklyn Dodgers. Roy Tucker and his Brooklyn Dodgers teammates summon every ounce of their collective skill to fight for the greatest title in baseball -- World Series champs.

Hardcover. New York , Dodd Mead, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 73 pages plus index, b&w illustrations and dust jacket painting in color by Lewin. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR on the front fly leaf. Dust jacket bright, unclipped.

New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 64 pages, b & w illustrations by Ted Lewin, clean, tight copy, tear and slight wear to edges of dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Coward-McCann Inc. , 1st US, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages, hardcover. Being the further adventures of the Treasure Seekers. With illustrations by C. Walter Hodges. Rough-cut fore edge. Heavy bumping to corners. Small tear to page 11 taped. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. Mild age toning and foxing to preliminary pages. A tight and clean copy.

NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 160 pages. Ten black & white illustrations by Paul Bransom. Previous owner's signature on title-page. Dust jacket with large chunks gone from top edges. closed tears, soil. Story of a giant volcano eruption in the African jungle'

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. First edition. Beige/light brown cloth with reddish lettering/decoration, top edge stained red as issued, 202 pages, illustrated with drawings. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Blackie & Son, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in 2-colors, 384 pages. Color frontis and 4 b&w plates by Ralph Peacock. A tale of loyalty and courage in 11th-century Britain. Wulf and his best friend, Beorn, fight bravely for their Saxon king - capturing castles, rescuing shipwrecked survivors, repelling Viking invaders, and fighting the Battle of Hastings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards, illustrated by Robert Doremus. 282 pages. Tight, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, McClure Phillips, 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 329 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white illust. by F.Y. Cory. Bright decorated green boards with gilt lettering. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Robert M. McBride, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, blue coth with orange titles, 94 pages. B&w and 2-color illustrations by Mildred Boyle. Soiling to endpapers, covers worn. When John Taylor and his parents move from their apartment in the big city to a house in the suburbs, the adventure has just begun. With a big backyard and woods to explore, he quickly finds that there is a whole exciting world to discover with his new friend, Jim. As the boys search for answers to the mystery that they uncover, they learn that treasured friendships can be found in the most unexpected of places.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 130 pages. Hardcover with very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Tight copy.

Softcover. Canada, Prince Edward Island Heritage Foundation, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 229 pages, Softcover with light wear to wrappers. b&w photographs, bibliography. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing, 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cream color cloth stamped in black with a color paste-down illustration on cover. Color frontispiece, 4 b&w plates by Ralph Carlyle Prather. Worn copy, previous owners notation on prelim page.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co., reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Illustrated in color by Kurt Wiese. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Dust jacket has moderate chipping and edgewear.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 58 pages plus notes on the woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. Dust jacket shows some wear. Clean.