children fiction

Hardcover. NY, McLoughlin Bros, unknown ed., n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 135 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 6 color chromolith plates. Decorated blue cloth, gilt lettering. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, UK, Frederick Warne , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 446 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Red leatherette, silver lettering to spine, top edge with red cosmetic stain. Pictorial, price clipped dust jacket. Slight wear to edges and spine, light scratching to covers, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, UK, Frederick Warne , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 446 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Red leatherette, silver lettering to spine, top edge with red cosmetic stain. Pictorial, price clipped dust jacket. Slight wear to edges and spine, light scratching to covers, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 157 pages. Previous owner's inscription opposite half-title page. Dust jacket with price clip, big chip on rear panel. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Dorling Kinderstey, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Norman Messenger. Hob now has his own full length novel, in which he behaves in his usual brave and quirky way to guard the inhabitants of his house. Yet now there are not just Plastercracks to defeat and kettles to keep singing: dark shapes threaten to overwhelm all. Clean copy.

Chicago, Follett Publishing, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Leonard Shortall. A Beginning to Read book about the Prehistoric Stone family. Nice dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Jr. Literary Guild/J.B. Lippincott, Book Club Ed, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages, 348 b&w drawings and photographs by the authors. Scarce in the bright orange dust jacket, light edgewear and chipping.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, 2nd pr., 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 346 pages, 48 b&w drawings by James. Classic piece of Western literature, recalling life on the fictional Seven X ranch, presenting a realistic depiction of cowboys, their work and the land in which they live. Date on title page and copyright page match, publisher's seal present but no "A", so assumed 2nd printing.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. These twelve stories further Joy Williamss utterly singular achievement, described by the Washington Post as poetic, disturbing, yet very funny. Her landscapes reach from Maine and Nantucket to the Southwest and into Mexico and Guatemala, while the events cover a range of human travail, from children confronting the death of a parent to parents instead burying their own young, and the various ways-comic, tragic, unnerving-we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss.

NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 186 pages.

Hardcover. Mendota IL, The Wayside Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. A superb, anecdotal and personal (Gardner was a great Alger collector) biography of Alger and history of the Alger juveniles, with superb color plates of rare Alger items and a descriptive bibliography. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, six issues of the bi-monthly bound in tan cloth. Clean. Top edge gilt. Articles by and about Eric Kimmel, Margaret Hodges, Natalie Babbitt, Margot Zemach, Penelope Farmer, Virginia Hamilton, Isaac Bashevis Singer, many more. 744 pages. Dozens of book reviews, ads.

Hardcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, six issues of the bi-monthly bound in tan cloth. Clean. Articles by and about Mollie Hunter, Jean Fritz, E.L. Konigsburg, Margaret Hodges, Susan Cooper, Leo and Diane Dillon, Sid Fleischman, Felice Holman, many more. 704 pages.Dozens of book reviews, ads.

Hardcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, six issues of the bi-monthly bound in tan cloth. Clean. Articles by and about Geoffrey Trease, Eric Kimmel, Children's Bookstores, Alvin Schwartz, M.E. Kerr, The Dillons, Mildred D. Taylor, Paula Fox, John Tunis, many more. Dozens of book reviews, ads.

Hardcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, six issues of the bi-monthly bound in tan cloth. Clean. Articles by and about Penelope Lively, Lawrence Yep, Mollie Hunter, Leonard Wibberley, Peter Spier, Katherine Paterson, Paula Fox, Virginia Hamilton, Ellen Raskin, Margaret Hodges, many others. Dozens of book reviews, ads.

Softcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled, b&w illustrations. Reviews of current children's book, articles on their creators, publisher's ads. Articles include: Robert Lawson's America (Part 2), Realism Plus Fantasy Equals Magic by Roger Drury, Reviewer's Railments by Aidan Chambers. 127 pages. Light stamp to cover, interior bright and clean.

Softcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled, b&w illustrations. Reviews of current children's book, articles on their creators, publisher's ads. Articles include: Excerpts from "Write Me Another Verse" by David McCord, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Newbery, and Caldecott Acceptance Speeches by E.B. White, William H. Armstrong and William Steig. 95 pages. Light stamp to cover, interior bright and clean.

Softcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled, b&w illustrations. Reviews of current children's book, articles on their creators, publisher's ads. Articles include: Virginia Lee Burton's Dynamic Sense of Design (Conclusion) by Lee Kingman, Confessions of an Old Story-teller by Kornei Chukovsky. 111 pages. Light stamp to cover, interior bright and clean.

Softcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled, b&w illustrations. Reviews of current children's book, articles on their creators, publisher's ads. Articles include: What Is a Juvenile Book by John Tunis, Mystery by Edward Fenton, Ian Serraillier and the Golden World (about Robin Hood), A Romance of the Round Table by Priscilla Moulton. 111 pages. Light stamp to cover, interior bright and clean.

Softcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled, b&w illustrations. Reviews of current children's book, articles on their creators, publisher's ads. Articles include: What Is a Juvenile Book by John Tunis, Mystery by Edward Fenton, Ian Serraillier and the Golden World (about Robin Hood), A Romance of the Round Table by Priscilla Moulton. 111 pages. Light stamp to cover, interior bright and clean.

Softcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled, b&w illustrations. Reviews of current children's book, articles on their creators, publisher's ads. Articles on the Centenary of "Little Women" (1868-1968) by Cornelia Meigs, Lavinia Russ, Aileen Fisher and Olive Rabe. Frank Merrill illustrations, 159 pages. Light stamp to cover, interior bright and clean.

Softcover. Boston, The Horn Book , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 95 pages. Reference of books and reading for children and young people. Featuring: 'Newbery and Caldecott Acceptance Speeches by Betsy Byars and Gail E. Haley, 'In Literary Terms' by John Rowe Townsend, 'A Second Golden Age? In a Time of Flood?' by Virginia Haviland and more. Light marking or library stamp on cover. Black & white illustrations. Interior clean and bright.

NY, Meredith Press, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Carol Jones, 149 pages. Story of a people living in a remote corner of Iceland. The author lived in the region and writes from first-hand experience. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Garden City, NJ, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 42 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light chipping on cover edges, and light soil on dust jacket rear. A few small tears, dust jacket currently protected in plastic. Gutter cracked on copyright page. Color illustrations. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf.