children fiction

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, Reprint, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 161 pages. Hardcover. Maroon cloth covers with gilt titles. Gilt top edge. Light pencil markings to a few pages. Clean, tight copy.

New York, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 128 pages. Black & white decorations by Antony Maitland. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Dust jacket with tear, library label on spine.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 217 pages. A 12 year old girl who knows little of her Chinese heritage is sent to San Francisco's Chinatown to live with her grandmother. Jane Addams Peace Award & Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. Color dust jacket art by Allen Say.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Illustrated by the author throughout. Part of a series of publications for parents from the Boston Children's Medical Center. Dust jacket price clipped and minor wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color frontispiece, b&w illustrations by Margaret Freeman. Hardcover, 320 pages. Decorated brown cloth.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Covers with light wear, Previous owner's signature, bookplate on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 230 pages. Color and black & white illustrations by Richard H. Rodgers. Cover has edgewear.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers,192 pages. Black & white lithographs by Grace Paull. Red top edge. Decorated endpapers. No dust jacket. True stories of children and their crafts, such as quilting, book-making, gardening, etc. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black and gilt. 4 b&w plates. Covers with edge wear, gilt slightly faded. Library bookplate inside front cover, otherwise clean, no markings.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 4th pr., 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 550 pages. Hardcover with light wear, light rubbing to board edges. Tight binding, tight signatures. Decorative header illustrations throughout in black & white. Clean inside and out.

Hardcover. New York /London, Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1st thus, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 104 pages, 12 color plates and many in b&w. Maroon cloth spine over glazed boards illustrated in color. No date given, but circa 1900. Various illustrators contributed including Frances Brundage and Harold Copping. Frontispiece loose but otherwise good+, light edgewear to covers.

Hardcover. Springfield MA, W.J. Holland, reprint, 1872, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with gilt decorated cover. 160 pages, all edges gilt. Many b&w engravings. Vignettes of child life 150 years ago. Gutter crack at title page otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with color label. 8 color, 5 b&w drawings by Gordon Ross. Cover lettering fading in areas, spine lettering badly faded, otherwise clean copy.

Softcover. Decatur IL, A. E. Staley Mfg., 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Square format paperback in color, 24 pages. Color illustrated covers; saddle stapled binding. A charmingly illustrated entertainment and party book for children's holiday parties and events. Two page facing spreads devoted to the major holidays, each illustrated with warm festive color illustrations of children at play. Several pages of games and recipes appear at rear. Light handling wear to edges and dust soiling to wraps.

Hardcover. New York , T. Y. Crowell, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 56 pages, illustrated in b&w by Margot Tomes and with photographs. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 200 pages. Black & white illustrations by Helen Finger. Red top edge. Dust jacket with chipping, soiling. Price clipped. Clear plastic protective cover. Quaint story of a little Bavarian town in medieval days.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 202 pages. Small remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Summary: Still troubled by his older brother's violent suicide, eighteen-year-old Dillon becomes deeply involved in the terrible secret of his friend Jennifer, who feels she can tell no one what her step father is doing to her. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 3rd pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 56 pages, b&w drawings by Ingrid Fetz. Dust jacket with minor edgewear. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Random House , reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 114 pages, illustrated in b&w by John Burningham. Book is bound in red cloth with gilt lettering. Edition is not stated, no date on the title page, copyright page states 1964. Contains 111 numbered pages with an additional 3 unnumbered. 16 line dedication. All pages are very clean and the binding is tight. Top edge stained black, dust jacket has light edgewear. Price of $3.50 on the front flap. Would appear to be a second or third printing of the first edition.

Hardcover. New York , Random House , reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 114 pages, illustrated in b&w by John Burningham. Book is bound in red cloth with gilt lettering. Edition is not stated, 1964 on the title page. Contains 111 numbered pages with an additional 3 unnumbered. 16 line dedication. All pages are very clean and the binding is tight. Top edge stained black, dust jacket has light edgewear. Price of $3.50 on the front flap. Would appear to be a second or third printing of the first edition.

Hardcover. Garden City, NJ, Garden City Publishing Co., 1st Edition, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 63 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout by Shinn. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear. Decorated cover boards and endpapers. Pages clean, pages and edges have a touch of tanning from age, but otherwise unmarked. Binding good. Spine straight. In this beautiful book are collected all the outstanding "Christmas" passages from Dickens' writings, accompanied by Shinn's 12 superb full color drawings, as well a many imaginative and characteristic black and white sketches.

NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth covers, Black & white illustrations by Garry MacKenzie. Front fly leaf corner clipped. A Christmas story told in poetry. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 128 pages. Color frontis, black & white illustrations by Louise Roberts. Green cloth covers with red & black decorations, lettering. Light wear to spine bottom edge, corners.

Boston, David A. Godine, 1st illust. thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Jeanne Titherington. 191 pages, like-new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.