children fiction

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 136 pages. Minna wishes for many things. She wishes she understood the quote taped above her mother's typewriter:Fact and fiction are different truths. She wishes her mother would stop writing long enough to really listen to her. She wishes her house were peaceful and orderly like her friend Lucas's. Most of all, she wishes she could find a vibrato on her cello and play Mozart the way he deserves to be played.

Hardcover. New York, Dial, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 139 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1st US, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages. Hardcover. Full color paste down illustration on front cover - minor chip of paper missing at bottom of interior red line of Fairy Caravan banner. Title in gilt on spine. Full color plates and black & white illustrations by Beatrix Potter. Previous owners name (written in pencil) erased at some point. A nice copy.

NY, Paddington Press, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket, light fading to spine. Black & white illustrations, 569 pages.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 406 pages. Two centuries ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of Children's and Household Tales. Now Philip Pullman, one of the most accomplished authors of our time, makes us fall in love all over again with the immortal tales of the Brothers Grimm. Pullman retells his fifty favorites, from much-loved stories like "Cinderella" and "Rumpelstiltskin," "Rapunzel" and "Hansel and Gretel" to lesser-known treasures like "The Three Snake Leaves," "Godfather Death" and "The Girl with No Hands." At the end of each tale he offers a brief personal commentary, opening a window on the sources of the tales, the various forms they've taken over the centuries and their everlasting appeal. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&W illustrations by Kenneth Rowell. 61 pages. Bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Hardcover.

Hardcover. NY, Franklin Watts, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, colorful wraparound dust jacket, price-clipped. 192 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Charles Mozley.

Hardcover. North Pomfret VT, David & Charles, Inc, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 152 pages, many photographic plates in colour and b/w. A history of puppets, puppetry and puppet theatre, including glove puppets, shadow puppets, rod puppets, marionettes.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , 1st US, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Black & white Illustrations by Richard Kennedy, with copyright stamps (both US and Canada) on title page.

Hardcover. Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 261 pages. Black & white illustrations by Carl Moon with one color plate in front. Rough cut edge. Turquoise cloth covers. Markings, soiling, to covers. Corners bumped. Spine and edgewear. Spine fade. Yellow top edge. Illustrated front endpapers. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Also extra library card on back of color plate.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped with red title and boy with cow, 230 pages. Color frontis and b&w drawings by Helen Sewell. No date on title page, copyright page with 1933 date and "A-A" code. (January 1951). The second book in the Little House Series. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black, 181 pages. B&w illustrations by Harve Stein. A young adult adventure set in the Canadian wilderness. Light chip to cloth on front cover, "Review Copy" stamped on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

NY, Franklin Watts, Book Club Ed., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Susan Perl.135 pages in a dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Color Illustrations by Darrel Anderson. Clean in very good, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., 1st , 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 250 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color frontis, black & white illust. by Erick Berry. Dj edgeworn, chipped, with chunk missong at spine.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, faded dust jacket. 260 pages, illustrated in b&w by Edward Shenton. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Longmans Green and Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, b&w illustrations by Henry Pitz. 324 pages. A story of the American Revolution and what occured when the colonists of northern New Jersey became aroused and embittered by enemy oppression. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Hachette, 1st Canadian, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, illustrated boards, Illustrations in line & 12 color plates by Maurice Boutet de Monvel. Small water stain to top of covers, w/ mild wrinkle to paper covering boards o/w bright & clean.

Hardcover. New York, Gulliver/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 362 pages, illustrated glazed boards with a matching unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 90 pages. Black & white illustrations by Alan E. Cober. Edgewear, light rubbing to dust jacket. Clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 3rd pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 133 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Black top edge. Edgewear, rubbing to price-clipped dust jacket. A juvenile novel about two runaway children during the London blitz. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Arthur A. Levine Books, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 97 pages. Black & white illustrations by S. Saelig Gallagher. Minor edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Creative Education, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Nice color illustrations by John Howe. Lovely, clean condition. Hardcover. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston , D. Lothrop Co., 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt, red and black letters and illustrations on front and spine. Assumed first edition and printing since only date is 1892 and no indication of number of printing on copyright or title page as with later printings of this book. 527 pages, book ads in rear. Black and white illustrations by Mente. The Five Little Peppers is a book series created by American author Margaret Sidney which was published 1881 to 1916. It covers the lives of the five children of Mamsie and the late Mister Pepper who are born into poverty in a rural "little brown house". Previous owner's bboplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.