children fiction

Hardcover. Bobbs Merrill , 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in dark blue. 189 pages, b&w drawings by Willis Rudolph Lohse. Wrinkle to red cloth cover, otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Novel of Early California during the period when United States adventurers were beginning to move in and take over. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, Brodarted dust jacket whose flaps have been glued to the covers. B&w illustrations by Fermin Rocker. Ex-lib with pocket in rear. Interior clean.

Hardcover. New York, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 263 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Orange covers with black stamped decorations and gilt panel on spine. Gutter cracked throughout. Rear hinge starting. Captain John Hardy, Retired, a weather-beaten, somewhat eccentric old sea dog of 59 recounts the exciting, sometimes amusing tale of his running away from home at eighteen to become a sailor/mate on a ship bound for the Arctic seas to hunt seals to harvest their valuable pelts.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. 214 pages. An angry young man uses the powers of an ancient cat cult to possess the children of a lethargic English village. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Beginner Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 133 pages. Hardcover. Dictionary of French and English for young readers. Full color illustrations by P. D. Eastman. Damp odor. Price clipped dust jacket with closed tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

New York, Hawthorn Books, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound. Color illustrations by Rosemary Wells. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tears. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 3rd Printing, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 57 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ELIZABETH COATSWORTH AT BOTTOM OF FRONT ENDPAPER. Black & white illustrations by Lynd Ward. Winner of the Caldecott Medal in 1931. Front cover with areas of foxing to cover hinge and along right edge - approximately 3/4" from top to bottom. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. privately printed, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalogue with bibliographical descriptions. With an introduction by Frederick R. Goff. Frontispiece; vi , 97 pages. stiff paper wrappers. small 4to..

Hardcover. NY, Clarion, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 169 pages.Journal of a 14 year old girl living on a medieval English manor who is fighting her mother's attempts to make her a lady & her father's to marry her off. 1995 Newbery Honor Book, no award medal on dustjacket. Book is in unread condition.

Hardcover. New York, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, red cloth covers worn with faded spine. 157 pages. Illustrated by Burbank. Illustrated endpapers. Small dent in top edge of covers and edge. A story of adventure and intrigue set in the Guatemalan mountains. With a glossary of Spanish/Indian words and a guide to Mayan numerals in front. No markings.

Hardcover. New York, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 209 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Charles Keeping. Dust jacket price clipped, has light edgewear.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BOOKPLATE WITH SIGNATURES OF BILL LITTLEFIELD AND BERNIE FUCHS. Bright, clean copy.

Philadelphia , John Winston, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge. Clean copy in a nice dust jacket, pages tanning. Caleb Willows, a 16-year-old slave, makes a break for freedom and later is a student at Fisk University in Tennessee. He becomes one of the Jubilee Singers, eleven young African Americans who tour the United States and England singing spirituals in order to raise money for the school.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, quarter blue cloth over gray paper boards with pink lettering on the spine, and a blue decoration on the front board. Illustrated with full-page and in-text drawings by Joseph Schindelman. The follow up to Dahl's wildly popular books "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." Dust jacket with edgewear, red title faded on spine, $3.95 price on flap. Stated First Edition on copyright page.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 184 pages.The rear panel of the jacket quotes reviews of Stuart Little before concluding with the publisher's name on two lines. Original light beige cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black and blue, blue and white spider web-patterned endpapers. 47 charming black and white illustrations by Garth Williams. No First Edition or publisher's code on copyright page, so assumed a very early reprint. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth with dark brown and silver stamping, 351 pages. B&w frontispiece, one other plate.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Brett Helquist. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, R. Worthington, 1st, 1877, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with green cloth spine, 412 pages with many Victorian-era b&w engravings. Color frontis, color plate of boy with snowballs, loose and laid in. Page 397 also loose, laid in. Binding shaken but holding. No markings.

Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1st, 1880, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Illustrated paper covered boards with tan cloth backstrip. Cover illustration of a little girl holding a rose. 412 pages, color litho frontis. of girl with a puppy and mother dog "Faithful Friends". tissue guard. Many b&w engraved illustrations throughout. Chipping to paper along edge of boards, Top of spine and front top corner worn, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Illustrated paper covered boards with green cloth backstrip. Cover illustration of a baby waving the branch of mistletoe. 412 pages, color litho frontis. of girl with a puppy, tissue guard. Many b&w engraved illustrations throughout. Chipping to paper along edge of boards, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth black, white and green decoration, 265 pages. B&w drawings by the author. Animal stories told through the eyes of a black and white magpie. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , BC Ed,, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages illustrated in b&w by Garth Williams. No price on dust jacket so assumed Book Club Edition.

NY , E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 215 pages, in a nice, unclipped dust jacket. Mystery involving the attempts of some long downtrodden Indians to obtain schools for their people. Clean copy.