children fiction

Hardcover. NY, Longmans Green/Jr. Lit. Guild, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 4 color plates by Karl Muhlmeister. B&W illustrations, endpapers by Peter Hurd. Transl. from German by F.T. Cooper. 306 pages, decorated blue cloth. Bright, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY LOWRY. Black & white photos. 181 pages.

Hardcover. NY, Criterion, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages, hardcover in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. A story of the Underground Railroad. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Jr. Literary Guild, Book Club, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with black design. Color frontispiece and black & white drawings by Wilfred Jones. Published simultaneously with the Little Brown trade edition. Clean, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name and bookplate on front fly leaf. Tight copy with light wear to covers, but heavy fading on spine and edges of front and rear covers.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1918, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth with cover label, gilt lettering and design faded. This is a American Indian legend called Lost Indian Magic, a mystery story of the Red Man as he lived before the White Man came, Eight color plates by Carl Moon, the one opposite page 70 is loose and laid in. Covers worn, hinges cracked, no markings.

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 298 pages, b&w illustrations and 12 color plates by John R. Neill. Blue cloth covers with color pictorial paste-down. This was one of Ruth Plumly Johnson's contributions to the Oz canon and is a first printing with all 12 color plates, end papers illustration, edges tinted yellow. The rear cover cloth has some light wrinkling. Bookplate on half-title page, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 313 pages, b&w illustrations and 12 color plates by John R. Neill. Aqua blue cloth cover with color pictorial paste-down. This is an early 1920s printing with all 12 color plates and b&w endpapers illustration. Previous owner's bookplate on half title page. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Color illustrations by Richard Egielski. Small closed tear and scratches to rear dust jacket cover. Light creasing to front flap. Nice, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Egielski. Very nice, clean condition with similar dust jacket.

Hardcover. Prague, SNDK, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. An adventure tale set in Central America and the Yucatan . B&w illustrations by Vaclav Junek. Map, 191 pages.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR DAHLOV IPCAR ON TITLE PAGE. Color illustrations by Dahlov Ipcar. Degree of fading to spine. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran , 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, 309 pages. Color frontis and endpapers illustration by Morgan Dennis. Blake Carson adopts a mongrel named Luck off a dock in Seattle. The dog lives up to his name when his dog team is stranded on an ice floe in Alaska. Front fly gone but otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Sundial Press, 1st thus, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 309 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Morgan Dennis. Dust jacket shows moderate chipping and wear. Clean, bright copy internally.

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1st, 1942, Hardcover, 290 pages illustrated in b&w by John R. Neill. Blue-green cloth covers with color illustrated pastedown on front. B&w endpaper drawings by Neill. Exceptionally bright, clean copy. A small light green bleed from cloth cover to front plate along 3 inches at bottom.

Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 89 pages. Illustrated by Zhenya Gay. Light soiling to contents page. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Stain to bottom corner of cover. Corners bumped. Dust jacket with chipping, creases. Small chunks missing top & bottom of spine. Brodart cover.

New Jersey, Prentice-Hill, Inc., reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 72 pages. Black & white illustrations by Victoria de Larrea. Light discoloration to top back panel of dust jacket. Library discard stamp inside front and back cover. Otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Vaduz, Liechtenstein, 2nd pr., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 53 pages, illustrated in b&w by Franz Deak. SIGNED BY GALLICO on the front fly leaf, additionally INSCRIBED BY VIRGINIA BARONESS LUDMILA VON FALZ-FEIN just below Gallico's signature. Dated 7/6/57. This charming tale about a little Liechtenstein cow with great ambitions was the first of his works to be published in Liechtenstein. The story was first printed in the Christmas issue of The Sketch (London). Mild edgewear to dj, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, price-clipped. B&w drawings by Emily Arnold McCully. Luigi, who lives on the streets in the French port of Marseilles, believes a gypsy has put a curse on his family. Against a vivid background of assorted characters, the author has created exciting and humorous story.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Co., 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with 3-color design on cover of young man holding telegram, 346 pages, publisher's ads in rear, b&w frontispiece. Pencil inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise tight and clean. No date other than 1889 on copyright page.

New York, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 74 pages, b&w illustrations by Diane deGroat. Fading to endpapers. "Chronicles of a young boy's search for security after his stepfather leaves home, his mother becomes ill and goes into the hospital and he and his brother are placed into a childrens home."

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 2nd pr., 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 277 pages. Illustrated by Henry C. Pitz. Soiled edges. Markings to covers. Edgewear. Corners a bit bumped, rubbed. Illustrated endpapers.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 283 pages. Black & white drawings by Richard Amundsen. Light soil to rear of dust jacket..

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, reprint, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages, with illustrations by Sarah S. Stilwell throughout. Gilt titles and top edge. Minor corner and edge wear, frontispiece illustration loose, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise, clean and tight copy.