children fiction

Hardcover. NY, S.G. Phillips, 1st US, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 94 pages, illustrated with drawings by Moyra Leatham. Clean copy, dj price-clipped.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth with pictorial design on front in red and black. The Bedtime Story-Books. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf and dated. "Sincerely your friend, Thornton W. Burgess Nov 12, 1919 Chug-a-rum!" Six b&w plates by Harrison Cady. Front hinge cracked, binding shaken. but holding. Some star stickers on front endpapers, Still, a nice early Burgess signature.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 3 in The Smiling Pool Series (per the number on the spine). 206 pages, b&w drawings by Harrison Cady. Copyright 1926 but a later reprint. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, reprint, 1934, Book: Good, Hardcover, light gray boards decorated in red and black.120 pages.. Features 6 black & white plates by Harrison Cady. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 18 in The Bedtime Story Book series (per the number on the spine). 189 pages, b&w drawings by Harrison Cady. Copyright 1946 but a later reprint. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, reprint, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 275 pages. Black & white illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Slight chipping to top and bottom spine, front corners. Price clipped.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 20 in The Bedtime Story Book series (per the number on the spine). 192 pages, b&w drawings by Harrison Cady. Copyright 1947 but a later reprint. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 9 in The Bedtime Story Book series (per the number on the spine). 192 pages, b&w drawings by Harrison Cady. Copyright 1944 but a later reprint. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st thus, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in red. 195 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Helene Carter, Great Puppet Theatre illustration on end papers in blue. Color illustrated title page and facing page, single page color illustrations between pages 60 and 61, 102 and 103, 126 and 127 and 176 and 177 plus many black and white illustrations. No date but appears to be 1930s. Mild shelf wear, spine faded otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, W.A. Wilde Co., 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with paste-down illustration and black lettering on cover. The story follows the adventures of a young man named Jack Hampton, who dreams of becoming a pilot and joining the United States Army Air Service during World War I. Despite facing many challenges, including a disapproving father and a rival for the affections of a young woman, Jack perseveres and eventually earns his wings. Once in the air, Jack proves himself to be a skilled and daring pilot, participating in a number of dangerous missions against the German enemy. Front hinge partially cracked, light shelf wear.

Hardcover. Philadelphia , Penn Publishing, reprint, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcoverm 111 pages, color frontispiece, b&w drawings by Hattie Longstreet Price. Brown cloth with color label , chipped at edges. Cloth edges worn, spine lettering faded. hinges tender.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. In the heart of Brooklyn, New York, there is an alley that is the most beautiful place to live in the whole wide world. Or so Connie Ives believes. The alley is the perfect location to sharpen Connie's swinging skills, hold practices for the Alley Conservatory of Music, "and" convict a burglar by trial. Ten-year-old Connie, who lives in the Brooklyn neighborhood called The Alley, investigates a burglary with her friend Billy Maloon. Drawings by Edward Ardizzone. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with black, white, and blue embossed cover illustration. B&w line drawings throughout by Perkins, 189 pages. Copyright page states 1925 but no date on title page so assumed a reprint. Light bump to top corner otherwise a clean, bright copy .

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with black, white, and blue embossed cover illustration. B&w line drawings throughout by Perkins, 189 pages. Copyright page states 1925 but no date on title page so assumed a reprint. Light bump to top corner otherwise a clean, bright copy .

Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with title, drawing of a deer. Contains color and b&w illustrations by Harrison Cady. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, H.Z. Walck, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated in color by Walter Erhard. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 496 pages. color and b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket 320 pages. With almost 5 million copies sold in the 60 years since it was published, generations of readers have journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in this beloved classic.This richly annotated edition includes bonus material from acclaimed children's literature scholar Leonard Marcus. Enriched by Jules Feiffer's splendid illustrations, the wit, wisdom, and wordplay of Norton Juster's offbeat fantasy are as beguiling as ever. The expansive annotations include interviews with the author and illustrator, illuminating excerpts from Juster's notes and drafts, cultural and literary commentary, and Marcus's own insights on the book. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Dover, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 424 pages. B&w illustrations by H. J. Ford. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Ginn and Co., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth stamped with a maroon and green decorative illustration. 364 pages, b&w drawings by Ruby Winckler.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton's Children's Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 271 pages. Wrap-around jacket art by Trina Schart Hyman. Lucian, a young man of ancient Greece's Arkadia, embarks on a classical quest of danger, daring, and romance and encounters a remarkable cast of heroes, poets, seamen, horsemen, wise women, kings, and peasants. Clean copy.

New York, Dutton, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 271 pages. Wrap-around jacket art by Trina Schart Hyman. Lucian, a young man of ancient Greece's Arkadia, embarks on a classical quest of danger, daring, and romance and encounters a remarkable cast of heroes, poets, seamen, horsemen, wise women, kings, and peasants.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The teenage character of this story is taken to Japan after his father gets a job. Getting used to his new life in Japan is hard for him due to the fact that he had to leave his team behind and after the death of his mother. The move to Japan was supposed to be a fresh start for this whole family yet, he doesn't truly find happiness there until the discover of the baseball team at the high school. Clean copy.

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. Color illustrations by Chris Conover.