children fiction

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Follows the lives of Frances and Hart Drummond, married nearly forty years, and their grown children, as they cope with communication problems, love, marriage, and Connecticut real estate. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 14 color plates by N.C. Wyeth. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige cloth stamped in green. First Printing (with the requisite "A" & colophon, no numbers (which would indicate a later printing) of this beloved novel about the Baxter family in the Big Scrub of inland Florida, centering on the boy, Jody, & his relationship with the little fawn. Winner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize & basis for the 1946 film starring Gregory Peck & Jane Wyman. In 428 pages, with pen-and-ink illustrations throughout text by Edward Shenton. Covers with light soiling, tanning to front edge, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Oblong hardcover in turquoise cloth lettered in yellow, Color illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with color and black and white drawings by the author. INSCRIBED BY DE ANGELI on tile page and dated 1940. Stated First Edition. In a bright dust jacket with light edgewear that's unclipped ($2.00). The story of two little Quaker girls living in Philadelphia just before the Civil War.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1889, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige color cloth stamped in dark brown and gilt with two boys riding the rapids in a canoe. Four b&w plates plus map. Mild wear to top and bottom of spine otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with illustration label, gilt design on front. 55 pages. Black & white illustrations by Peter Newell. No dust jacket. Faded black top edge. An amusing story of two boys of Mount Pisgah who attempt to make their first formal social call on the neighboring girls.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday Page , 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 252 pages. Black & white illustrations by Mary Whitson Haring. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Corners a bit bumped. Wear to corners and spine. Darkened spine. Title rubbed off of spine. Markings to covers.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth, 240 pages, b&w drawings by the author. SIGNED BY BERRY on the front fly leaf. Young adult novel about a girl who goes to her relatives' upstate New York farm to help out during World War II. Suspicious Nazi agents try to muscle their way onto the farm. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton , 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 40 pages. Green cloth cover, light wear to corners and edges. Dust jacket has wear to edges, heavy in one corner. Color illustrations throughout. A nice, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Hawthorn, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton and Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with decorative illustration on front. Light soil on covers. Illustrated throughout by Woodi Ishmel. Tight copy. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Spine faded.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic, 4th pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 349 pages. Hardcvoer with dust jacket. SIGNED BY FUNKE on front fly leaf. otherwise clean, tight copy.

Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light wear.Illustrated in b&w by Robin Jacques. The Craven children have an unusual grandmother. She's an actress, cooks exotic dishes and speaks in riddles. But nothing is more unusual than her horse corral -- because a talking unicorn named Guelph lives there! Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a worn, torn dust jacket with chunk gone from front panel. 175 pages, 7 lovely color plates by Maginel Wright Barney. Ex-lib with stamping and residue, envelope to rear endpapers.

Hardcover. Sandwich, MA, Thornton W. Burgess Society, 1st , 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 151 pages & index, B&W illustrations. Hardcover with dust jacket. Gutter cracked page 30, otherwise clean, tight copy.

NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 128 pages. Black & white illustrations by Leonard Weisgard. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. An unusual and unforgettable Christmas story set aboard a freighter bound for South America. Three companions -- a boy, a goat and a dog -- meet Domingo, a burro, and spend Christmas below the Equator.

Hardcover. Boston , Little Brown, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w by Nonny Hogrogian. Ex-lib with small spine label and envelope reside on rear endpapers. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, D. Lothrop Co., 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with a bright gilt, black and red design. Illustrated with 31 b&w drawings by F. O. Small. Small, previous owner's inscription to front fly leaf (dated 1891). Rosalind, Marjory, and Ida are the three eldest children of Col. And Mrs. Peel, who are off in India with their younger children. The Three Little Maids live with a governess back in England and this is their tale.

Hardcover. Boston, Dana Estes, reprint, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 244 pages. Yellow pictorial cloth, minor rubbing. Black & white illustrations by Ethelred Barry. Title page states Eighth Thousand. Clean.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 338 pages, illustrated in b&w by James, green cloth covers with a black and gilt design. Square, bright copy with a small brownish stain to top inch of spine, Otherwise very good.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black. 211 pages, black & white illustrations, endpapers art by Le Roy Appleton. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black. 211 pages, black & white illustrations, endpapers art by Le Roy Appleton. Mild soil to covers. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 45 pages, illustrated in b&w by the author. Green cloth spine with illustrated boards. Dust jacket with light edge wear, chunk gone from rear panel at top, smaller corresponding piece gone from rear board. Interior bright, clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott , 1st US, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Bound from English sheets. 17 black & white illust. by Lewis Baumer. Front hinge cracked. Several corners creased, one corner (page 23). Page 13 with tear. Decorated green covers.