children fiction

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illustrations by Ray Cruz. Shows minor wear, otherwise nice condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Estes & Lauriat, reprint, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 239 pages plus advertisements in back. Black & white illustrations. No illustrator named. Previous owner's signature on half-title page. Edgewear, chipping, scratchings to covers. Corners worn.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in tan cloth with dark green drawing and lettering on spine. 88 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Brock. Soiling, spine and corners rubbed. Front hinge tender.

Hardcover. Paterson NJ, St. Anthony Guild Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with gilt lettering, 114 pages. Five b&w plates by Anthony A. MacGrath. From a private school library with light stamping, gilt faded.

Hardcover. Paterson, NJ, St. Anthony Guild Press , 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 114 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Anthony McGrath. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, spine with hole.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, NA, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Black & white illustrations. Pink endpapers. Preliminary page missing. Inscription at top of title page. Cover features image of girl and boy near a tree; decorated in red, blue, black, and gold. Some light rubbing at top and base of spine, and corners. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, W. & R. Chambers , 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 382 pages, hardcover. Illustrated by Horace Gaffron. Stamped and illustrated boards. Children's book on the Royal Scots in Gallipoli during WWI. Fading to spine. Staining to rear panel. Corners bumped. Heavy age toning and foxing to text block edges. Frontispiece intact. Scarce. A bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead , 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with drawing of dog on cover. The previous owner has created a wrap-around dust jacket using the title page soread from in the book. Illustrated with drawings in blue & red by Addison Burbank. Laffy is a smooth Fox Terrier who became mascot of the Navy Training School (Salvage) in New York City. Ex-lib with stamp on rear fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 2nd pr., 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound in light blue cloth, 184 pages. Illustrated by Woodi Ishmael. Illustrated endpapers. Soiled covers and endpapers. Spine and corners a bit bumped. Tale of young Lance Chapelle and his horse Cherry set in 1870s Vermont.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover. Pages browning, dust jacket price clipped. Previous owner's small sticker on front fly leaf bottom edge.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with gilt decorated cover and spine, top edge gilt. 313 pages, with illustrations throughout. Stories and sketches about Holland and the Dutch. Mild foxing throughout and previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Otherwise, bright and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macaulay Co., 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 333 pages, illustrated in b&w by Joe Banks. In a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover with stamped lettering on front and spine. Moderate edgewear to covers, and pages. Light soil on corners. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Spine faded. Top right page block has abrasion on corner. Top spine heavy fraying to fabric. Illustrated in b&w by Norman Price

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 142 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Ben Stahl. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated tan cloth covers, 214 pages. Tight, clean copy. Much of text in Scottish dialect, a glossary in the front.

NY, Aladdin Books, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 191 pages. Two-color illust. by Leonard Vosburgh. American Heritage Series. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket with closed tear front & back bottom edge, chip to top spine.

Hardcover. London, J M Dent and Sons, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 191 pages, color frontis, endpaper map and b&w drawings by Marcia Lane Foster. Some charming and ordinary youngsters visit an aunt in Beirut, where the general mystery of the Middle East is heightened by ghost music, defective servants, hostile villagers, and a few unsavory characters. Hinges cracked, name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy

Grand Rapids, The Fideler Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 128 pages, endpapers map. Illustrated with black & white photographs.Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, McClure Co., 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red and white decoration on blue cloth covers, 206 pages. Black & white illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Light spine wear, rubbing to covers. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated and designed by Don Bolognese and Elaine Raphael. Ex-library with light marking, residue to endpapers. An epistolary narrative of the musical prodigy's first year in Italy, composed from his detail-laden letters to his younger sister Nannerl. Although the letters themselves are fictional they are based on detailed research and on the hundreds of letters which Mozart and his father both wrote home during their trip. A map of the trip is also included as well as a little biography on some of the main characters.

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 62 pages. Color illustrations by Symeon Shimin. Very light edgewear to dust jacket spine and cover corners. Price-clipped. Otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Kansas City, MO, Tell-Well Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Vivid color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear, still intact and wrapped in protective brodart. Cover boards decorated with same image as dust jacket. Covers have a little soil a top and age wear. Clean inside and in great shape for its age.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Faith Jaques. Library Edition. Story of Victorian England set in a family shop in the back streets of Manchester, England. Pressured by his father to leave school for a career he doesn't want, a nineteenth-century boy runs away and gains a new perspective on his future. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 58 pages, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. SIGNED BY FOX on title page. Ex-library copy with stamping, residue to end papers.