Hardcover. NY, McClure Phillips, 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 329 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white illust. by F.Y. Cory. Bright decorated green boards with gilt lettering. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Robert M. McBride, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, blue coth with orange titles, 94 pages. B&w and 2-color illustrations by Mildred Boyle. Soiling to endpapers, covers worn. When John Taylor and his parents move from their apartment in the big city to a house in the suburbs, the adventure has just begun. With a big backyard and woods to explore, he quickly finds that there is a whole exciting world to discover with his new friend, Jim. As the boys search for answers to the mystery that they uncover, they learn that treasured friendships can be found in the most unexpected of places.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 130 pages. Hardcover with very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Tight copy.
Softcover. Canada, Prince Edward Island Heritage Foundation, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 229 pages, Softcover with light wear to wrappers. b&w photographs, bibliography. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing, 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cream color cloth stamped in black with a color paste-down illustration on cover. Color frontispiece, 4 b&w plates by Ralph Carlyle Prather. Worn copy, previous owners notation on prelim page.
Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co., reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Illustrated in color by Kurt Wiese. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Dust jacket has moderate chipping and edgewear.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 58 pages plus notes on the woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. Dust jacket shows some wear. Clean.
Hardcover. Detroit MI, Gale Research Co., 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes with orange cloth covers. 275, 335 pages. Biographical data are interspersed with autobiographical and critical excerpts from the writings of nineteenth and twentieth-century authors and illustrators. B&w illustrations throughout. Name on front fly leafs, otherwise clean. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 47 pages. Story set in Hong Kong. An orphan raised by nine caring uncles, Yin Sun longs to become a kite maker like his best friend. Illustrated in green, maroon, blue and black by H. Tom Hall. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 271 page, blue cloth covers with white lettering on spine. SIGNED BY BEST on the front fly leaf. Stated first printing. A novel set in upstate New York in the days of land grants and frontier hardship. And the story of a beautiful young woman so swaggering-proud of herself and uncertain of her desire to grow to womanhood. Minor shelf wear, clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Constable & Co., 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Dust jacket color design by Douglas Hall. Dust jacket with closed tears, soil.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with 2-color illustration on cover label and 5 b&w plates by Ralph Boyer. Spine cloth has tan spotting otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, reprint, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 285 pages, illustrated with many b&w line engravings by various artists. Light tan cloth covers with bright gilt and dark brown design. Copyright page states 1888, so assumed a reprint. Clean, bright copy.
hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 227 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations by Louise Yates. Clean, unmarked copy with light fading and minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, 267 pages, includes glossary and notes. 50th Anniversary Edition with b&w drawings by Ed Young. Gilt Newbery Medal on front of dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Label on spine chipped. Red covers with light fading on spine. Clean, tight copy. Frayed on top spine material.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar and Rinehart, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 271 pages, b&w line illustrations, some two-color by Robert Fawcett. Maroon cloth with paper labels on front cover and spine. Dust jacket with wear, chipping. Previous owner's signature crossed out on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, very good.
New York, W. W. Norton & Co, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 191 pages. Illustrated with halftone drawings by Carse. Light edgewear. Dust jacket with chipping, edgewear, light soiling. Clear plastic protective cover.
Hardcover. NY, Roy Publishers, 1st US, n.d. (1963), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&w illustrations by William Randell. In a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with light edgewear. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.
NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, An opportune meeting with a pickpocket and a pupil from a charity school sets events in motion that drastically and irrevocably change the lives of an orphaned brother and sister existing by their wits in the streets of London. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, R. H. Woodward Co., 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 434 pages, hardcover. Illustrated in b&w and with color lithographs that are bright & clean. Edges lightly foxed. Corners bumped.
Hardcover. NY, Jr. Literary Guild, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 232 pages, Color frontispiece and end paper illustration by Maud and Miska Petersham. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped. Chunks missing on top and bottom.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 245 pages. Cloth boards. Dust jacket shows minor wear at top of spine. '1968 Honor Book' sticker on cover. Clean, tight copy.