children fiction

Hardcover. New York, J.M. Dent and Sons, rep , 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated by the author. Previous pwner's name and bookplate on first few pages. Tight copy with moderate fraying to spine and corners.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 222 pages. Story of the boy who helped William Tyndale smuggle into England his new English translation of the Bible.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Book Club, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 222 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with light wear, tanning to dust jacket, else a neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 95 pages. Black & white illustrations by Berry. Edgewear. Dust jacket with spine fade, chipping, tears, edgewear. Clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Covers lightly faded. Light wear. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf and name on end paper. Illustrations by Paul Quinn.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 258 pages. Hardcover with stamped lettering. Mild edgewear to covers, and pages. Light soil on corners. Previous owner's name and bookplate on front fly leaf. Spine faded. Illustrated by Paul Quinn.

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 57 pages, illustrated in b&w by Ilonka Karasz, title page and end papers decorated in pink and black. Black cloth covers stamped with with stars and type design. Mild soiling to covers, previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, W. A. Wilde Company, 1st, 1905, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with 3-color pictorial decoration on the cover. Five b&w plates by Harry Burgess. Covers with edgewear, front hinge cracked, binding shaken but still holding. Dog advntures set in the northern wilds of Canada, told from the dog's viewpoint.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Adapted by Leigh Dean from the original opera libretto. illustrated in color by Milton Glaser.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Adapted by Leigh Dean from the original opera libretto. illustrated in color by Milton Glaser. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday and Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 76 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by De Angeli. Color illustrated map on end papers, color boards with an edgeworn dust jacket with short, closed tears, price-clipped. Appears to be a 1960s reprint.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 149 pages. SIGNED BY YOLEN on title page. Black & white illustrations by David Wilgus. Some rubbing to dust jacket. Otherwise very good.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 135 pages. The irony of the title will haunt readers of this novel as they delve into the mind of a WWII veteran whose face has been blown off by a grenade. After winning a Silver Star for bravery, 18-year-old Francis Cassavant could return home a hero, but he keeps his identity secret in anticipation of murdering a personal enemy and wanders the streets of his hometown as a lone, grotesque figure ("People glance at me in surprise and look away quickly or cross the street when they see me coming"). The man Francis seeks is Larry LaSalle, who was once his mentor and who has also earned a Silver Star. Cormier (Tenderness; In the Middle of the Night) offers two levels of suspense in this thriller. His audience will tensely await the inevitable confrontation between the two men while trying to extract Francis's motive for murder from flashbacks revolving around his high school sweetheart and the Wreck (Recreation) Center, where they spent many happy hours under the direction of LaSalle. Cormier is once again on top of his game, as he constructs intrigue, develops complex characters and creates an unexpected climax. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 186 pages. Jeff tables his dreams of directing movies when his dream girl, who left town to become a theatrical star, returns as an unwed mother. PW called this an "engrossing story of lopsided love," but added that "the term YA is really too elastic; this story requires a reader more mature than a 12-year-old." Dust jacket price-clipped otherwise like new.

Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 186 pages. Jeff tables his dreams of directing movies when his dream girl, who left town to become a theatrical star, returns as an unwed mother. PW called this an "engrossing story of lopsided love," but added that "the term YA is really too elastic; this story requires a reader more mature than a 12-year-old." Dust jacket price-clipped otherwise like new.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket shows very minor wear otherwise clean and nice. Color illustrations by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Hardbound.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st illust. thus, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 8 color, 4 b&w plates by E. Boyd Smith. Brown cloth covers with gilt and black design. Front endpaper split at hinge, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st , 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 117 pages. INSCRIBED BY VELDE on title-page. Black & white illustrations, color wrap-around dj art by Trina Schart Hyman.

New York, W. W. Norto, 2nd pr., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 145 pages. Black & white illustrations by Victor Ambrus. Dust jacket with edgewear, price clipped. A mystery for young people set on a desolate island off the Tasmanian coast.

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton & Co., 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 300 pages + ads. Color illustrated frontispiece and front cover. Very good condition.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with black design, 297 pages, decorations and endpapers illustration by Frank Dobias. Fading to cloth spine otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press., 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in red cloth, gilt spine title on a black background, Blind-stamped boat illustration on cover, pictorial endpapers. 200 pages, line drawings by the author. A tale of Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. Spine cloth faded, mild spotting. Otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 149 pages, illustrated by Doris Lee. Dust jacket edge wear, creases and rub, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 112 pages. Black & white illustrations by Susan Bennett. Library discard stamp in front end pages, die-cut library stamp on top of title page. Price-clipped dust jacket with very slight chipping to top edge and spine. Otherwise a very nice copy.