children fiction

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co, reprint, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. A fine adventure story for young people. Soon after their dragonship lands on the coast of Vineland, Erik--the youngest of the Vikings--is captured by a raiding party of Mengwi warriors. How heescapes with a friendly Algonquin Indian with whom he lives for many moons, and how he and a rescue party from the dragon-ship aid the Algonkins to defeat the Mengwi make a story full of excitement. 199 pages, b&w illustrations by Lorence Bjorklund. Text pages tanning, probably a book club edition.

NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages, Newberry Honor Book. Light dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st , 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 189 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped , otherwise bright & clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Collins, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 80 pages. Color illustrations by Michael Hague. For a penny a dream, the old blind Dream Weaver weaves dreams for seven sets of passers-by. Here are seven compelling fantasies to haunt the memory and stir the imagination. Clean copy.

NY, Delacorte, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 166 pages.An Indian girl and a blacksmith's son are separated from their Northwoods Colonial community in the early spring, and they struggle in the wilderness to survive and return. The story is symbolized by the boy's beautiful knife; the girl is scornful of its dullness, but when she uses it to save their lives, returning it razor-sharp but bloody and chipped, he is equally disgusted. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, reprint, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Many wonderful black & white engravings. Green cloth with bright gilt & black decoration. 372 pages.Rear cover has a half-dollar size spot of soil, otherwise a clean copy.

NY, Pantheon , 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&W Illustrations by Antony Maitland, 186 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket.Remainder line to fore-edge. 'As far as the eye can see, scarlet men are marching . . . A rich and splendid company, but none more so than the drummer boy.' But a moment later, the sound of Charlie Samson's drum was swallowed in a wild thunder. The glorious scarlet troops had been ambushed. Men were dead and dying all around, and all the beauty was gone. All that was left was himself and his drum, and a few shady nightwalkers - cowards who came crawling from the ditches and knaves who scoured the dead for wealth . . .

NY, Pantheon , 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&W Illustrations by Antony Maitland, 186 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, Mylar dust jacket cover. 'As far as the eye can see, scarlet men are marching . . . A rich and splendid company, but none more so than the drummer boy.' But a moment later, the sound of Charlie Samson's drum was swallowed in a wild thunder. The glorious scarlet troops had been ambushed. Men were dead and dying all around, and all the beauty was gone. All that was left was himself and his drum, and a few shady nightwalkers - cowards who came crawling from the ditches and knaves who scoured the dead for wealth . . .

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 409 pages, a classic novel of the American Revolution. 14 color plates plus title page, 47 pen line drawings by N.C. Wyeth. The definitive edition of the Scribner's Illustrated Classic with the original canvases newly photographed. While not a First Edition it is superior in every way considering the quality of the color plates. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1928, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, black cloth with pictorial label on front cover, 409 pages. 14 color plates, color title page and endpaper illustration and b&w pen drawings by N.C. Wyeth. Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st Ed., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with color label on front cover. 14 color plates, pen drawings, endpapers design by N.C. Wyeth. Cover with some rubbing and scratches, overall very good.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 409 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket, pictorial paste-down on cover. Previous owner's bookplate and inscription on front fly leaf. Tight copy. Color illustrations by N.C. Wyeth.

NY, Dutton, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A story of growing up in Pittsburgh during the Great Depression of 1929. Small check mark on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. New York , The Viking Press , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 83 pages, black & white drawings by David Hockney. Dust jacket cover with faint soiling, otherwise a very good copy.

Hardcover. NY, Appleton, reprint , 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. B&W frontispiece illustration, 262 pages. Green cloth covers with faint spotting, otherwise very good, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. The Library of America, 1st pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A first printing of the Library of America. Maroon cloth with spine printed in gilt. Patterned endpapers and attached blue ribbon bookmark. Ivory slipcase lettered and bordered in gilt. Arnold Rampersad wrote the notes for this volume. Includes: Lawd Today!, Uncle Tom's Children, and Native Son. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, TOR Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 378 pages. The concluding book of the "Homecoming" series. High above the earth orbits the starship Basilica. On board the huge vessel is a sleeping woman. Of those who made the journey, Shedemai alone has survived the hundred of years since the Children of Wetchik returned to Earth. She now wears the Cloak of the Starmaster, and the Oversoul wakes her sometimes to watch over her descendants on the planet below. The population has grown rapidly--there are cities and nations now, whole peoples descended from the who followed Nafai or Elemak. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, TOR Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 350 pages. The children of Wetchik are ready to board the starship Basilica and embark on their journey from the planet Harmony back to the origin of humanity: Earth. However, the rivalry between Nafai and Elemak promises the journey will be anything but peaceful. Each faction already has hidden plans to prematurely awaken from the long hibernation, to have the upper hand when the landing occurs. The author's fourth book of the Homecoming Saga, a fictionalization of the first few hundred years recorded in the Book of Mormon. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in color by Daniel San Souci. Nine poems and stories about Easter and Bunnies, including The Velveteen Rabbit and The Easter Bunny that Overslept. Previous owner's name on the 'belongs to' page. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY OTTO on the title page. This captivating novel opens in 1917 as Cymbeline Kelley surveys the charred remains of her photography studio, destroyed in a fire started by a woman hired to help take care of the house while Cymbeline pursued her photography career. This tension-- between wanting and needing to be two places at once; between domestic duty and ambition; between public and private life; between what's seen and what's hidden from view--echoes in the stories of the other seven women in the book. Among them: Amadora Allesbury, who creates a world of color and whimsy in an attempt to recapture the joy lost to WWI; Clara Argento, who finds her voice working alongside socialist revolutionaries in Mexico; Lenny Van Pelt, a gorgeous model who feels more comfortable photographing the deserted towns of the French countryside after WWII than she does at a couture fashion shoot; and Miri Marx, who has traveled the world taking pictures, but also loves her quiet life as a wife and mother in her New York apartment. Crisscrossing the world and a century, Eight Girls Taking Pictures is an affecting meditation on the conflicts women face and the choices they make. These memorable characters seek extraordinary lives through their work, yet they also find meaning and reward in the ordinary tasks of motherhood, marriage, and domesticity. Most of all, this novel is a vivid portrait of women in love--in love with men, other women, children, their careers, beauty, and freedom.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Black & white drawings by Kurt Wiese. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Dust jacket with edgewear, closed tears. Inside tape repair to top & bottom of spine tears.

Hardcover. New York , Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers with a color illustration on cover paste-down. Color frontispiece and 11 line illustrations by Stuart Hay. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 233 pages, with illustrations by Leo Politi and Spanish glossary in rear. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 3rd pr., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 681 pages. Clean copy.