children fiction

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with maroon stamping, 143 pages, b&w illustrations by Paul Lantz. Very light paper residue to rear endpapers indicating ex-lib, but otherwise clean with no marking, stamping. Covers with mild soil, spine fading.

hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 12th pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Paul Lantz. Very Good with worn dj. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. The beautiful rhythms of the Navajo life in Red Rocks Country of Arizona for a young girl named Doli, who must face the outer world in this coming of age story.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, chipped dust jacket. Based on the Harold Gray comic strip. Illustrated with comic book style art. When Annie and Sandy stopped in the little town of Butternut, a train robbery and an abandoned mine threaten to entangle the two of them in a mysterious maze of circumstances. Front hinge partially cracked, paper tanning. No markings.

Hardcover. New York, Wise-Parslow, reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 91 pages. Color illustrations by Frederick Richardson. Edgewear. Rubbing to corners, spine, covers.

Hardcover. Boston, D.C. Heath and Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's signature front end paper, pencil writing of name all over front paste-down. Color illustrations by "The Walt Disney Studio." Cover shows some wear. Hardbound, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st US, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with gilt lettering and black drawing on cover. 160 pages. Eight color plates by Marion Mildred Oldham. Spine a little faded, otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Reprint, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages. Hardcover. Orange cloth with light wear along edges. Previous owners inscription at bottom of preliminary page. Features 4 color illustrations by Edith F. Butler.

Hardcover. London, Augener Ltd., First Edition, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Mustard cloth boards with oval paste down illustration. Fraying to spine edges. Dime sized damage to spine top edge. Oval full color illustrations by H. Willebeek Le Mair throughout, most in very good condition. Light foxing to a few pages. Moderate foxing to preliminary pages & endpapers. Previous owner's date written to title page. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Hardcover. Boston, LeRoy Phillips, 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 84 pages illustrated with 5 color plates, b&w drawings by Katharine Maynadier Browne. Red cloth covers with color label on front. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1874, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black with gilt lettering. 210 pages plus publisher's ads, b&w illustrations, frontis with tissue guard. Penciled inscription and embossed stamp on prelim blank page, otherwise clean. Charming Victorian juvenile by the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman".

Hardcover. New York , Dutton, 1st , 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 114 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color, 2-color illustrations by Leonard Lubin. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Hardcover. New York , The Macmillan Co., 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 132 pages, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. Cover stained, weak spine, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Pages 112 and 118 guter cracked.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 79 pages. Black & white illustrations by Sherman C. Hoeflich. Green illustrated endpapers. Soiling to endpapers, covers. Spine wear. Charming story with wonderful b/w line drawings about a tadpole who becomes a toad and has many adventures. Written with a factual understanding of the toad, not a fanciful one.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 5th pr., n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Early Little Golden Book (cloth spine, textured covers) #34, Golden Book of Hymns is largest # on back cover. Color b&w illustrations by Gustaf Tenggren. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scriner's Sons, 1st, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with black and gilt design on cover. 200 drawings by Seton. The gutter cracked at the title page with the attached cloth separating from the spine. Rear hinge also cracked, but the pages all there and appears to be repairable to a practiced hand. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 153 pages. The story of a twelve year old girl who always wanted to live on an island and who goes camping with two friends where shocking and suspenseful events combine to destroy their friendship. A realistic story for young adults from this British author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 62 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Two-color illustrations by Lynn Munsinger. Light rubbing to spine, corners. No dust jacket.

London/NY, J.M. Dent / E.P. Dutton, 1st illust. thus, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, decorated cloth in a bright dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Randolph Caldecott, color plates by H.M. Brock. 177 pages plus publisher's listings. Dust jacket with light edgewear. A lovely reissue of these two classic English children's stories from the late 1800s.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 412 pages, 13 b&w illustrations by T. de Thulstrup. Mustard cloth with bright 3-color and gilt design.

Philadelphia, John Winston, 3rd pr., 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages, color frontis, b&w drawings and end paper illustration by Hamilton Greene. A story of a young boy spending the summer logging in Seattle.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 7th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, B&W lithographic illustrations by Creekmore. In a bright dust jacket with $4.50 flap price.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Boy Scouts of America, 2nd, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 275 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations. Dust jacket has moderate chipping and wear, covered in plastic sleeve. Previous owner's bookplate pasted on front end paper. Chunk missing from dust jacket top spine.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. B&w illustrations by John Kaufmann. The adventures of a young Arctic seal told from his viewpoint. Clean copy.

Philadelphia, John Winston, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY ROBERTSON on front fly leaf. B&w illustrations by Taylor Oughton. Stated First Edition on copyright page. Light browning to endpapers otherwise very good. Lacks dust jacket.