children fiction

Hardcover. New York , Golden Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large format glossy boards, 61 pages, illustrated in color by Peter Barrett. Shooter provides a swift look at the evolutionary cycles from the earliest life in ancient seas, through the rise and fall of dinosaurs, the development of the continents, the rise of mammals and the emergence of man. He sometimes resorts to dramatic language and oversimplification in compressing millions of years into a mere 60 pages. The information presented is brief, but the pictures by Peter Barrett add to the enjoyment for children

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and soiled dust jacket. 233 pages. Set in New England at the outskirts of a small town. Terrorists seeking the return of their homeland hijack a school bus. Story told from the perspectives of a hostage, a terrorist, the Army General involved in the rescue and his son, recruited as a go-between. Author also of youth classics 'The Chocolate War' and 'I am the Cheese'. Remainder stamp to bottom edge. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, The Sunday School Union, circa 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 150 pages, with illustrations. Decorated cover and spine. Slight corner and edge wear, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, and minor foxing throughout. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Springfield, MA, Milton Bradley, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in gilt, 384 pages, b&w illustrations by John D. Whiting. Spine faded, otherwise clean.

Chicago, Follett Pub. Co., 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 191 pages. A story of championship golf competition for young adults. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages, b&w illustrations by author. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Chicago, Follett, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 159 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Story of a boy in Bali. Black & white drawings by George Kraynak. INSCRIBED BY FALK on front fly leaf. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped.

Hardcover. New York, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 36 pages illustrated in color by Pablo Ramirez. Color illustrated boards in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with closed tear, light edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Phyllis Fogelman Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket lightly scratched. Color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co/Special Ed for Scott Foresman, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Judith Roth. Charming children's story of a boy named Henry and his large Irish Setter named Alfred. Complete with a 33 1/3 rpm record in rear pocket. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Eleven stories of suspense illustrated by Arthur Shilstone, 208 pages. Collected are the following: The Day the Children Vanished by Hugh Pentecost, Through a Dead Man's Eye by Cornell Woolrich, The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim by Agatha Christie, Green Ice by Stuart Palmer, The Grave Grass Quivers by MacKinlay Kantor, The Case of the Irate Witness by Erle Stanley Gardner, Adventure of the Grice-Paterson Curse by August Derleth, The Headmaster by Michael Gilbert, The Adventureof the Seven Black Cats by Ellery Queen, The Wicked Cousin by Leslie Charteris, The Footprint in the Sky by John Dickson Carr. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st Edition, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages. Hardcover. Clear, transparent, decorated dust jacket, has some scratches to front cover. Decorated cover boards. Vivid color illustrations throughout. Beautiful condition, pages clean. Binding good. Spine straight.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st illustrated thus., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 117 pages. Color illustrations by Anthony Browne. Blue dust jacket shows very little wear.

Hardcover. New York, Dodge Publishing Company, Reprint, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Deckled fore-edge. Tanning to pages and edges from age. Blue cloth bound cover boards, two-color illustration on front cover board, a good deal of paint has chipped off (see image), white title on spine, slightly faded. Some soil/wear to covers. A bump to front right bottom corner of cover board (see image). In beautiful condition inside, no pages missing, page 84 is partially disconnected. Illustrations by Bessie Pease Gutman) quite vivid.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 117 pages, b&w illustrations by Tony Sarg, Stories of David and his friends having fun during the summer in a small town, Book has mild shelfwear.

Hardcover. New York , E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 88 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs, gray cloth covers with black lettering. Review slip laid in. Mark from paper clip no longer present. Otherwise clean, very good.

Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated with 2-color drawings by Jerry Joyner. Clean copy. Everything you need and don't need to know about mud including 'how mud acts'. Clean copy (no mud).

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 108 pages, with color illustrations by Barry Moser throughout. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. Manchester UK, Carcanet Press , 1st UK, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket, 300 pages. Set against the backdrop of Italy between 1939 to 1944 - the months of anxiety before the country entered the war through to the tension following the Allied victory - "All Our Yesterdays" follows the lives of two families during the period of great turbulence and tells how the children grow into war and its aftermath. The boys flirt with revolution; Amalia marries a young German Jew; Concettina marries into a family that supports Mussolini; and Anna the youngest child, becomes pregnant when she is sixteen and is married off to Cenzo Rena, an eccentric family friend. War scatters them, but even war cannot break their bonds. All Our Yesterdays is about the endurance and resilience of people living through adolescence and early adulthood in a hostile world. Ex-lib with minor residue to rear endpaper and dust jacket taped to covers.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 453 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 11 color plates by Maria Kirk plus a 12th on front cover label. Front hinge paper split at gutter, causing front fly leaf to be seperated. Back hinge tender. Soil on rear cover board.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY STONE WITH A SKETCH OF A BIRD IN FLIGHT on the front fly leaf. Unable to afford dance lessons, Fiona struggles to develop her skills while caring for her emotionally detached sister and longing for her family to heal from a past tragedy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY STONE WITH A SKETCH OF A FISH JUMPING OVER THE MOON on the front fly leaf. Unable to afford dance lessons, Fiona struggles to develop her skills while caring for her emotionally detached sister and longing for her family to heal from a past tragedy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Reprint, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription on title page. Black & white illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Full color dust jacket with light wear, minor chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. Philadelphia , Lippincott, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 152 pages. Hardcover with Dust jacket with light price sticker residue otherwise very good. Tight copy.