children fiction

Hardcover. NY, Blue Sky Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 194 pages. Young adult novel by this award-winning African American writer. Going-on-thirteen year old Bulaire tries to unearth her past and find out what happened to her long missing father, and in doing so, her world starts to fall apart. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, World Publishing, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Victor G. Ambrus. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Ginn & Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with design of boy and girl on merry-go-round ride, 200 pages, illustrated in 3-colors by Margaret and Florence Hoopes. Front fly leaf missing, name on title page, otherwise clean, sound copy of this 30s school primer.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 122 pages. Five black & white and color plates by Earl Oliver Hurst. Soiling to endpapers, covers. Faded yellow top edge.

hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover no dust jacket. Black & white and Color illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky. Illustrated end papers. Translated by Georges Duplaix. Corners show heavy wear with chipping and fraying. Light soil on spine.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Good, Hardcover, red cloth, faded at spine. Stamped in red and black. 361 pages plus four pages of ads at the rear. 8vo. Silhouette frontis and 51 full page silhouettes by Warren Rockwell. The further largely autobiographical stories of the lad Plupy and his youth in the Exeter, NH of the 1860's. Rear hinge cracked, mild soil to front fly leaf, bookplate on inside front cover.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st illust. thus, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with pictorial pastedown on the front cover. With 9 color plates by Maxfield Parrish, including the illustrated title page. 199 pages, two-color drawing on endpapers by Parrish. Spine has a 1/2" tear to top front edge, otherwise very good. No markings.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with color pastedown on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, 198 pages. Illustrated title page and 8 color plates plus endpapers illustration by Maxfield Parrish. Despite the 1904 date on title page, this is a reprint with a 1922 date on the copyright page, and a list of many Scribner illustrated classics (published later than 1904) on the last printed page. Gilt lettering on spine mostly gone or faded, but the rest of the book is clean and bright. There is a small scar to front label on scroll at top right.

Hardcover. New York, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, blue cloth covers stamped in white, 213 pages. Black & white illustrations by James Reid. Soiling to endpapers, covers. Edgewear. Corners worn, bumped. Previous owner's signature in pencil front endpaper.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Small hardcover, 62 pages. Color illustrations by Field. Plain yellow cloth. Light scuff to top of boards at spine. Previous owner's signature to front fly leaf. Gutter crack on title page.

Hardcover. Boston, The Pilgrim Press, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with 3-color decoration to front cover, gilt lettering on spine. 156 pages Illustrated with b&w photos of a boy's life in the north. Light shelf wear, mild residue to rear inside cover.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 184 pages. B&w illustrations by Violet Morgan.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 251 pages, gray cloth stamped in red and black, b&w line illustrations. The second book in the series. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 252 pages, gray cloth stamped in red and dark blue, b&w line illustrations. The second book in the series. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, Blue Sky/Scholastic, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, illustrated in color by Mark Teague. SIGNED BY TEAGUE WITH A SKETCH opposite title page and SIGNED BY AUTHOR on laid-in bookplate. Like new in dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Crosby Nichols and Co., 1st US, 1855, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 404 pages. A collection of French tales translated by Mrs. L. Burke. B&w line plates. In original bright blue embossed cloth with gilt design and lettering. 6-page publisher's catalog in front of the book Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf dated 1859.Just the slightest wear to spine extremities otherwise very good.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 152 pages. Hardcover. Illustrations by Lynd Ward. Dust jacket price-clipped and slightly worn, chipped with small chunk missing from front cover. Internally very good.

Hardcover. NY, Viking/Literary Guild, reprint , 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, b&w illustrations by Rafaello Busoni. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 278 pages. Illustrated by John Gincano. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Heavy soiling to spine and edges of covers. Fade marks. Book covers a bit warped. Corners a bit bumped. Small chunk missing from p. 117, and tears to surrounding pages, but no harm to text. The book tells of the author's family immigrating from England to New York and then to Iowa and their lives on the Iowa prairie.

Hardcover. New York, Grossett and Dunlap, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 178 pages. hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with internal pages lightly worn. Dust jacket has chipping and fraying.

Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages Black & white drawings by Manning deV. Lee. Dust jacket with small chunk from bottom front edge.

NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 168 pages. SIGNED BY PATERSON on title page. Color dust jacket illustration by Barry Moser.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with art by Barry Moser. Book Club Edition, clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated in black & white by Emma Brock.