children fiction

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages. B&W illustrations by Tony Chen. Small remainder dot to top edge. In a bright, clean dust jacket. A young boy discovers, when his best friend moves away, that there are a lot of things people are prejudice against. His old friend is against overweight people and many people in the town in which he lives don't think very much of Indians. Tad learns this disturbing part of growing up as he makes friends with a Sioux boy his own age that lives at the Indian school down the road from his father's store.

Hardcover. New York, Cupples and Leon Company, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 210 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Moderate wear to pages, and covers. Dust jacket has small chunk missing on top spine.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Dust jacket art and b&w drawings by Marvin Friedman. A young girl's difficulties with her family and her religion result in a consciousness-raising trip to Israel. Joanne reads the Torah to escape from her nonreligious Jewish family,who prefer her younger sister's company. She decides to go to Israel for a year and is waylaid by a horrible terrorist incident, which helps her to see her life freshly. Clean copy.

Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 181 pages. Bright dust jacket. Juvenile suspense novel set in North Africa, involving a modern (1960s) day Prester John character.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st thus, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in laminated boards, 69 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by De Witt Whistler Jayne. Light wear to corners and spine.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Row, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages, glossy illustrated boards in a bright dust jacket with a flap price of $1.95. Last book listed on rear panel of dust jacket is Here Comes the Strikout, rear flap contains reviews for Little Bear.

Hardcover. NT, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in black and orange. 257 pages. When a Civil War veteran who had lost his leg in the fighting and who had been living in the poorhouse comes into an unexpected inheritance, he heads West towards Colorado - and takes 9 year old Danny and his dog with him. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and three internal plates by Rogers, The author was primarily known for being a great illustrator for Harper Brothers during the golden age of illustration. Stated first edition. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Clean, tight hardcover. In the summer of 1851, the clipper Flying Cloud made the journey from New York City to San Francisco in a record-breaking 89 days and 21 hours despite several setbacks and dangers along the way. Much of the credit for that voyage goes to Ellen Prentiss Creesy, the ship's navigator. Based on the true story of that voyage, this book expertly describes Prentiss's early life, her love for the sea and the science of navigation, her marriage to Captain Perkins Creesy, and their remarkable accomplishment. Readers will find this fictionalized account gripping and inspiring. McCully's excellent watercolor illustrations include a number of period details and add a sense of movement and drama to the already exciting text. An author's note gives the factual background for the story, and a brief glossary serves to familiarize readers with nautical terms.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 165 pages, b&w illustrations by Milton Johnson. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Young Nathan and his older brother set sail from Nantucket with a quest to discover the reasons behind the sinking of the ship Amy Foster. A mysterious death and a strange Captain add suspense to the adventure. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue covers stamped in black, 162 pages, illustrated with b&w photos. A classic account by the step-son of Amelia Earhart who travelled with renowned Captain Robert "Bob" Bartlett to Baffin Island in Arctic Canada.

Hardcover. New York, Doran, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth binding with color label on front.246 pages. Black & white illustrations by Maurice Day. Cover has light wear to corners and spine edge. Cover has very light soiling.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 3rd pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 157 pages. In a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. B&w illustrations by Margery Gill. During the London Blitz the lives of Derek and his friends turn from make-believe to dangerous reality.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 150 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor fading along red cloth cover boards. Dust jacket shows light amount of rippling to front cover.

NY, Delacorte Press, 3rd pr., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with a illustration pastedown with white lettering. 5 two-color plates by Elizabeth Otis. A near fine copy with page 5 having a piece (about 15%) torn away. Otherwise bright and tight with cover label illustration.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Macrae Smith Company, 1st thus, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with bright blue, green and gilt design to front cover and spine. Romance of America's History series. Stated First Edition. Includes 8 color plates by N.C. Wyeth, Frank E. Schoonover, Stanley Arthurs and Charles Hargens. Many b&w drawings in text by various artists. Includes chapters by Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Jack London, J.F. Cooper, et al. Woodcut engraved endpapers, color frontis, 506 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 171 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 2nd, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, with b&w illustrations by Lewis Parker. Dust jacket price clipped and minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Denny Meech is accustomed to being teased at school, especially during hunting season. There was a time many years ago when the Meeches were unruly mountainmen who lived off the land and ignored the game laws. But that was long ago. Now Denny finds himself in the middle of a mystery. Where are those silent flashes of light coming from in the middle of the night? What is Boot, his dog, barking at when Denny can see and hear nothing? Denny must get to the bottom of this. But how? He convinces Uncle Frank and his cousin Bert to help him, and together they solve the mystery and capture the deer poachers.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 184 pages. Presenting a new type of graphic fiction from a legendary family in American cartooning. Underground cartoonist Kim Deitch has recruited his entire cast of siblings to produce a unique, all-new "picto-fiction" pocket book. Deitch's Pictorama leads off with Kim's comic "The Sunshine Girl." Then it's time for Seth's prose short story "Children of Aruf," about a man and his dog... in a world where dogs talk. Third up is "Unlikely Hours," a paranoid picto-story about a conspiracy of sentient rats written by Seth and illustrated by Kim. Next comes "The Golem," once again written by Seth and decorated with a series of superb pencil illustrations by Simon, a prose novella about the mythical Jewish monster/protector. Kim wraps with "The Cop on the Beat, the Man in the Moon and Me," one last comic - this one autobiographical. The book features an introduction by the Academy Award-winning animator, cartoonist and illustrator Gene (Tom and Jerry) Deitch, who happens to be the proud father of the author.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 184 pages. Presenting a new type of graphic fiction from a legendary family in American cartooning. Underground cartoonist Kim Deitch has recruited his entire cast of siblings to produce a unique, all-new "picto-fiction" pocket book. Deitch's Pictorama leads off with Kim's comic "The Sunshine Girl." Then it's time for Seth's prose short story "Children of Aruf," about a man and his dog... in a world where dogs talk. Third up is "Unlikely Hours," a paranoid picto-story about a conspiracy of sentient rats written by Seth and illustrated by Kim. Next comes "The Golem," once again written by Seth and decorated with a series of superb pencil illustrations by Simon, a prose novella about the mythical Jewish monster/protector. Kim wraps with "The Cop on the Beat, the Man in the Moon and Me," one last comic - this one autobiographical. The book features an introduction by the Academy Award-winning animator, cartoonist and illustrator Gene (Tom and Jerry) Deitch, who happens to be the proud father of the author.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 335 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Lockwood. Review copy with laid in slip. Edgewear. Dust jacket with soiling, chipping, large chunk missing from top of spine, small chunk from bottom. Brodart cover. Rust residue from metal paperclip on half title page.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's gift inscription on front end paper. Black & white illustrations by W. A. Rogers. Cover has some light soiling, gilt lettering and decoration.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Arnold Lobel. Dust jacket shows very minor wear. Hardbound. When Lucifer hears that Mother Crump is "meaner than the devil", he pays her a visit to find out himself. And sure enough, she out-deviled him! Even when she dies, and he won't let her into his domain, Mother Crump manages to best the devil one last time.

NY, Methuen, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 83 pages. Dust jacket bright, unclipped.