children fiction

NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 51 pages. Black & white photos by Patricia Agre. Behind the scenes of a small family owned restaurant in New York City. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, HARPER & BROTHERS, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Vera Bock. Light edgewear, rubbing to price clipped dust jacket. Overall, a tight clean copy.

New York, Knopf, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages. Boards. Decorative illustrations by Diana Bryan. Red remainder mark on top edge. Dust jacket protected by clear plastic cover.

Hardcover. Nashville TN, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth stamped in blue. 63 pages, red and black line drawings throughout. A city boy's adventures as he spends the summer at his uncle's farm. Shelf-worn but clean.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages, b&w illustrations by Ray Abel. Bright, unclipped dust jacket with some light chipping to top edge. Was Wales, North Dakota, really a wicked little village? Lucy was worried not only because she loved Wales, but also because that summer she was going to drive to Minneapolis with her parents to meet cousins she had never seen before. Would they think Wales was a terrible place too? Yet there were good things, like the county fair and the Stone Age Girls Club that met in the little stone house in Lucy's backyard.

Hardcover. New York , Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 174 pages, b&w illustrations by Robert MacLean. Light edgewear and rubbing to price clipped dust jacket with slight scratch near to of spine. Very faint foxing to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Joyce does not mind living near a garbage dump, except for the incessant teasing from the kids at school, but being different does not bother Mrs. Fish, the new school custodian, who turns out to be the one person who understands what it is like to be an outsider. Previously published in 1980 under the title "Mrs. Fish, Ape, and Me, The Dump Queen". Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Joyce does not mind living near a garbage dump, except for the incessant teasing from the kids at school, but being different does not bother Mrs. Fish, the new school custodian, who turns out to be the one person who understands what it is like to be an outsider. Previously published in 1980 under the title "Mrs. Fish, Ape, and Me, The Dump Queen". Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Joyce does not mind living near a garbage dump, except for the incessant teasing from the kids at school, but being different does not bother Mrs. Fish, the new school custodian, who turns out to be the one person who understands what it is like to be an outsider. Previously published in 1980 under the title "Mrs. Fish, Ape, and Me, The Dump Queen". Clean copy.

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. 86 pages, b&w illustrations by Shelley Freshman. "Cricket is a charming little fellow with immense longings. Bored with his life as a farmer, with the sun and the grass, he yearns for something new, something that will bring him fame and fortune." No markings.

Hardcover. New York, World Syndicate Publishing Co, reprint, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 287 pages. Black & white frontispiece. Some edgewear. Front hinge loose at title-page. Dust jacket with edgewear, soiling.

Hardcover. NY, Meredith Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly rubbed dust jacket. A story set in Nebraska in the 1800s. Centers on the relationship between Matt Bailey and a young Sioux brave, Red Bear. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, ist, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a die-cut window, Newbery Medal sticker on front. Copyright page states First Edition with the lowest number being 2. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 pages, hardcover, like new copy of this Newbery Award Winner for 2006. First printing of the first edition with no medal sticker on cover.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardbound, 314 pages. Black & white illustrations with color frontispiece by Marguerite de Angeli. Dust jacket with chipping, soiling, closed tears. Chunk missing from top of spine. Brodart cover. Previous owners markings on half title page.

Hardcover. NY, Horn Book, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 359 pages. Using as a framework his two essays "Out on a Limb with the Critics" and "Coming to Terms with Criticism," Paul Heins has selected contributions which expand and elucidate "the invariable questions that beset the criticism of children's books: the classification, defense, and evaluation of children's literature." Included is the controversial exchange between Eleanor Cameron and Roald Dahl on the validity of the child as critic; Jane Langton's perceptive and original discussion of the fine distinction between fantasy and reality in literature; Alvin Schwartz's remarks on folklore and humor; Mary Orvig's consideration of Swedish books in translation; and treatments of individual titles such as Watership Down, Tom Sawyer, and A Wizard of Earthsea. Name and stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by McCully.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf , 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black stamping. Black & white illustrations (plus color frontis) by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Shows some wear and age, soiling to back cover, weak binding. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Green cloth covers with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, color illustrated endpapers, profusely illustrated with lovely color plates. Small clipped color illustrated article from unknown publication on Maurice Sendak included. Slight edgewear to dust jacket, very faint small brown stain to bottom right front corner of dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very nice, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Green cloth covers with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, color illustrated endpapers, profusely illustrated with lovely color plates. Small clipped color illustrated article from unknown publication on Maurice Sendak included. Slight edgewear to dust jacket, very faint small brown stain to bottom right front corner of dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very nice, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Stated first edition.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Stated first edition.

Hardcover. New York, Desmond FitzGerald, Inc., 1st, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Hardcover. Text and Black & white illustrations by A. Vimar. Full color illustrated cover with light rubbing to edges, darkening in spots. Clean, unmarked pages. Good plus condition.

NY, Clarion Books, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 48 pages. Color photos and illustrations. Illustrated end papers. More than 130 full-color photographs adorn this handsome re-creation of daily life in a Plains Indian village in 1868. Readers will meet Real Bird and his family, part of a Northern Cheyenne tribe in southeastern Montana. Each member has an important role: Men prepare to become warriors and hunters, while women learn to raise crops and build a home-a tipi-from poles and buffalo hides. The clothes the family wears, from elaborate ceremonial headdresses to colorful beaded moccasins; the foods they eat; the games they play; the crafts and jewelry they make; and the spiritual rituals they perform are among the many topics included. This large-format book, with clear text and informative sidebars, provides a detailed pictorial account of the Plains Indian life more than a century ago. Clean copy.