children fiction

Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 8 black & white drawings by George Foster Barnes. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise excellent condition, illustrated cover with gilt lettering on spine.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color frontispiece by Howard Hastings, repeated on cover label. Dark blue cloth covers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, tight.

New York, Coward-McCann, 5th pr., 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 223 pages. Black & white illustrations by Lynd Ward. Dust jacket with chipping. Brodart cover. Brady learns the importance of keeping a secret when he discovers a runaway slave in pre-Civil War Pennsylvania. Clean copy.

NY, Seabury Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Imero Gobbato. In a bight, unclipped dust jacket. A young soldier battle a dozen devils after being locked in the turret of an old mansion. Based on a Latvian folk tale.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Egielski. Very nice, clean condition. Wittily sending up the "child prodigy'' (if not biography, history, and high seriousness itself), Yorinks and Egielski trace the course of Minski's genius. A child of the 18th Century, Minski prankishly ``discovers'' gravity and electricity, soon followed by his serene introduction of the telephone, airplane, automobile, aspirin, light bulb, etc. Leonardo da Vinci appears in 18th-Century Vienna to applaud Minski's ``noodle.'' But when Minski hears the (historical) Farinelli sing, he labors feverishly on a formula to transform himself from scientist to artist, and achieves a triumphant apotheosis as ``unequaled singer.'' Egielski's exuberantly detailed, warmly colored pictures make the most of the anachronisms, the caricatures, and the Old World setting.

New York, Viking Press, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 209 pages. Black & white illustrations by David Rook. In a very nice turquoise dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Ginn & Co, 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages. Bookseller's label on rear end paper. Black & white illustrations by Charles Copeland and color frontispiece. Green cloth covers with gold decoration and lettering. Rubbing to spine and corners. No dust jacket. Gilt top edge.

Hardcover. London, Metheun, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Peterborough NH, Noone House, 1st illust. thus, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, like-new dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece, b&w drawings by Tasha Tudor. Fascinating work about Plupy, Beany and Pewt, growing up in Exeter, New Hampshire, in the 1860s. Clean, unmarked.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 165 pages with b&w drawings by Ralph Pinto. A leprechaun must recapture the tune he lost to a fiddler. Pinto's chapter-top illustrations liven this already lively chain of Irish folk tales, loosely tied together through Brogeen the Leprechuan. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 218 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear to covers, and dustjacket shows rubbing on front and fade to spine.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, reprint, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 100 pages. Black & white illustrations by Garth Williams. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Bottom of front dust jacket flap clipped but no price clip. Soiling to dust jacket. Small chunk missing from top front & back. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barbara Berger. A winged horse is born and is feared by the Sheik who orders a slave boy to take it into the desert to die. Instead the slave boy presents the foal to the ailing Caliph who postpones dying until the horse is old enough to ride. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Venture/George Braziller, 1st US, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 103 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Grambs Miller. Dust jacket is price clipped with publisher's sticker and large rubbed areas around edges and flaps. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Internally clean.

Hardcover. Springfield MA, Milton Bradley Co, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 99 pages plus advertisements in back. Color plate illustrations by Paul Bransom and color borders by W. Prentice Phillips. Bookseller's stamp rear fly-leaf. Edgewear. Some shading to rear cover. Protective plastic cover but no dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, George Bell, reprint, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 8 color plates by M. V. Wheelhouse. 176 pages, tan cloth with lettering and decoration in white. Spine lettering worn, front bright.Top edge gilt, ribbon marker, clean tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 84 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Daniel Minter. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 84 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Daniel Minter. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran Company, 2nd, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 366 pages. Brown cloth cover with faded spine and gilt title on spine. Black & white illustrations by Arthur William Brown. Light edgewear to top spine.

Hardcover. New York, Wendy Lamb, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 245 pages. SIGNED BY CURTIS on title page. Newberry Award Winner for 1999. True first with 15.95 price, signature dated 1/19/00.

Hardcover. NY, Appleton, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 230 pages, b&w frontispiece. Green cloth with red lettering. Small stain to bottom front corner otherwise very good. Uncommon.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with a small, closed tear. Young adult novel. Brann doesn't understand how his father can be so weak, but then he slips back in time and sees his father as a child. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 102 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white woodcuts at beginning of each chapter by David Frampton. Clean, tight copy.