Hardcover. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1st thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in dark blue cloth with ornate gilt decorations on cover and spine. Color pastedown on front cover features Tom with little blonde girl. Very uncommon. Retold by Edith Robarts for the Stories for Children series. 8 Color Plates including cover (not credited); 4 1/2" x 6"; 91 pages. No date but circa 1912. One color plate loose (at page 56) but all there. Nice clean copy of a rare edition.
Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 332 pages, tissue guard frontis, and b/w plates by A. B. Shute. Red cloth, gilt title front and spine, pictorial front cover with flag and man on horse. #4 in Old Glory Series. Front and rear hinges cracked, inscription on front
Hardcover. New York, John C. Winston, rep, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with color label on front cover, 282 pages. Color frontis and 11 black & white and illustrations by Eunice Stephenson. Blue line drawing of the Alcott home on the end papers by C. M. Burd. Yellow top edge. Rear cover has some spotting. discoloring to top. Otherwise a clean, bight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 241 pages. An historical novel of China's 1930's struggle with Japan. B&W illustrations by Margaret Ayer. Dust jacket with light edgewear, small hole in rear panel. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 169 pages. clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Robert M. McBride and Co., 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages, illustrated in b&w by John O'Hara Cosgrave ll. Dust jacket worn, chipped.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped in dark blue. 115 pages, b&w illustrations by Decie Merwin. Completes author's trilogy of books recalling her own childhood in the mountains of Kentucky. Light spotting to covers, some tanning to endpapers, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 4th pr., 1986, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. NEWBERY MEDALIST author. The spirit of a dead actress turns two children invisible & sends them out among a group of colorful street performers to search for a missing necklace. Juvenile mystery. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, william Morrow, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. A novel told in ten stories that resonate with the most profound experiences in the life of a young woman--friendship and rivalry, the love for a man, the birth of a child, and the death of a father. Use Me explores the fierce bonds between close friends, fathers and daughters, mothers and children, and the underlying desire and loss inherent in these ever evolving relationships.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with yellow lettering, 72 pages, b&w illustrations by Bill Crawford. Everyone was happy when Valery, the calf, came to live with the Whippes, for she made a charming house pet. Their troubles began when Valery grew up to be a very large cow-like cow. How they solved this gigantic problem, or rather, how Valery solved it for them, is the climax of this amusing book. Corners worn, frayed.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.In Japan during the 16th century two unemploed samurai attempt to discover who is mutilating the cherry trees in the valley of Lord Ohmori. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR VAN ALLSBURG on title page. Tight copy with very light edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Harrdcover, blue cloth covers decorated in white with paste-on color illustration. Eight 2-color plates by Elizabeth Shippen Green. 193 pages, previous owner's signature and date inside front cover. Light rubbing to front cover label.
Hardcover. London, Faber And Faber , 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 91 pages. B&w drawings by Michael Lyne. The story of the developing friendship between the author and a little orphaned vixen. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. Hardcover with no duat jacket. 4 black & white illustrations by D.S. Wendell. Previous owner's signature (in pencil) front fly leaf. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Century Co., 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Green cloth boards with black & red embossed design to cover and white lettering. B&w illustrations by Reginald B. Birch, black & white frontispiece. light edgewear. Spine lettering faded, clean copy.
New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 150 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Leslie W. Lee. Illustrated endpapers. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Light soiling to endpapers. Corners rubbed. Dust jacket with chipping, soiling. Brodart cover.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in blue cloth with gilt decoration. Originally published in 1913. Line drawings throughout by Thomas Fogarty. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown otherwise very good condition.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped with blue design and lettering. A boy's discovery of an Indian arrowhead leads to adventure. B&w illustrations by John Barron. Light soil to covers, DJ flap tipped on inside front cover. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Longmans Green and Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 145 pages. Black & white Illustrations by Avery Johnson, End papers illustrated. Light soil to cloth cover. corners a bit bumped.
NJ, Bradbury Press, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 118 pages, in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket.A coming of age story set on Anzac Day in Deakin Beach, Australia.
Hardcover. New York, McClure Phillips & Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 294 pages, 32 b&w illustrations by Karl Moseley. Second state, without ads in rear. Beige cloth with 3-color design on front cover. Rear hinge partially cracked, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.