children fiction

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Griffith and Rowland Press, 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth covers stamped in white and dark blue. Story of survival based on a wreck in the China Sea of the Ketrel, a full-rigged ship bound from Liverpool to Yokohama, Japan. 360 pages, illustrated in b&w, one plate not present (the map on pg. 135). Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st , 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 242 pages. Tan cloth cover. Rear hinge cracked. Illustrated endpapers. Stain to front cover, mild soiling to spine. Corners bumped. Small hole to about 20 pages on outside edge. An adventure set in the North African desert, uncommon.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Brothers and Company, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. B&W Illustrations by Florence Scovell Shinn. Tissue guard over illustrated frontispiece. 223 pages. Light shelfwear, small blank sticker on rear end paper otherwise VG. Silver gilt lettering on cover spine.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 151 pages. The adventures of four runaway boys who band together in a bleak area of London. Clean copy.

NY, Dutton Children Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A young adult novel by the two-time Newbery medalist and two-time National Book Award winner. Vinnie Matthews needs a real lifesaver--one that will bring her father back to life and let her family go home. Living with Grandma means having to be responsible for her little brother, Mason, who refuses to speak, and ignoring the kids who ask why he's so crazy. Then Vinnie meets Lupe, the mysterious "flip-flop girl" who only wears orange flip-flops on her feet. Lupe is strong, confident, and even more of an outsider than Vinnie. She's just the type of friend Vinnie needs, if only Vinnie can ignore the rumors about Lupe's past.

Hardcover. Candlewick Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Winner of the 2014 Newbery Medal.

Hardcover. US, Candlewick, 3rd printing, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 231 pages, illustrated in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Winner of 2014 Newbery Medal.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 59 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated from original black & white "Free Hand Cuttings" by Ann Eliza Sample. Standard age darkening to front cover pastedown. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Maurice Sendak, dust jacket spine faded, Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Springfield, MA, Milton Bradley, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound. Color illustrations by Wanda Petrunkevitch. Fade marks to covers. Corners rubbed, top ones bumped. Spine & edgewear. Lettering on spine faded.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages. Hardcover. Front endpaper has been removed. Full color frontis. Some black & white illustrations. Foxing to edges. Blue cloth covers with dark smudges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st thus, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial green cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout, 128 pages. Other stories include Coaly-Bay: The Outlaw Horse and Way-Atcha: The Coon Raccoon of Kilder Creek. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 293 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. With signed presentation slip laid in. B&W illustrations, endpaper drawing by Kreigh Collins. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 308 pages. Illustrated by Mallette Dean. Illustrated endpapers. Soiling to covers, faded spine. Corners a bit bumped. Darkened top edge. Story of a family struggling to keep the land that has belonged to them for generations.

Hardcover. London, Blackie & Sons, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped in 3-colors, 352 pages. Color frontis and 4 b&w plates, illustrator not credited. The narrative follows the protagonist, William Gale, who embarks on a series of adventures during the tumultuous period of the last Afghan War. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, rep, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 328 pages. Foreword by Robert H. Davis. First few pages loose. Light rubbing to corners and spine.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Co., 1st US, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped in red. When the family's inn burns down, Father Fortune decides to purchase a caravan so the family can travel through France making their living as a circus. 120 pages, illustrations (some color) by Maggie Salcedo. Covers with light soil/darkening to areas. interior bright and clean.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ALEXANDER half title-page. Color illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. Small tear to front dust jacket cover but otherwise lovely, new-looking, clean condition. States First Edition but number line starts with 2.

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige cloth stamped in green and brown, 86 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Leonard Shortall. Inscription on front fly leaf, mild soil to covers, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Gosset & Dunlap, Reprint, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Pages age darkened. Green cloth covers. Dust jacket with light wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial green cloth with 3-color and gilt decoration, 385 pages plus publisher's ads. Sic b&w plates by H.C. Edwards. Name, date on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Autobiography by the author (aka Burt L. Standish) of the highly successful Frank and Dick Merriwell stories. Black & white illustrations, 331 pages. Dust jacket with light wear.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages, pink cloth covers with blue and black design. End paper drawing and b&w illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Light wear, ex-library with residue on end papers, small ink price on front fly leaf, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 5th pr., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped in maroon. B&w drawings and endpapers art by Kurt Wiese. Clean copy.