children fiction

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in black and white and gilt, 339 pages. An historical novel written in the late 19th century. This work vividly recounts the harrowing retreat of Napoleon's army from Moscow, depicted through the eyes of a central character, Sergeant Julian Wyatt, who embodies the spirit and challenges faced during this tumultuous time. With eight full page illustrations by W. H. Overend and three maps.

Hardcover. Boston/London, Walker Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Haunting and deeply moving - a beautifully illustrated, fictionalized account of a formative time in the life of the teenage girl who wrote our most enduring horror story. Long before Mary Shelley published her Gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein, in 1818, at the age of nineteen, she shared fireside ghost tales at the home of family friends in Scotland. It was there that the headstrong girl - orphaned by her mother, spurned by her stepmother, and sent away by her father - spent two of her happiest teenage years. The brooding Scottish landscape and warm family atmosphere so influenced the author's life and art that some believe her famous novel took root there. To illuminate this period in Mary Shelley's life, Sharon Darrow skillfully spins fiction from fact. Her words are masterfully matched by Angela Barrett's exquisite, atmospheric, authentically detailed illustrations. The result is a rich tapestry of stories within stories - those told, those written, and more extraordinary, those lived. Clean copy.

London, Collins, 1st Edition, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Illustrated with b&w drawings by Peggy Fortnum. Very good in a very good dust jacket with light soil, small stain to bottom of dust jacket spine.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 122 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Phyllis N. Cote. An historical adventure set in Cape Ann, Massachusetts during the 1870s. Stated first edition with $1.75 on flap. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 166 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Roger Payne. Bruce joins his father, Dr. Barnett on an expedition to Australia's outback to look for the Queensland marsupial tiger which is supposedly an extinct mammal.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 407 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Alan E. Cober. 141 pages. In a lightly soiled, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, The Vanguard Press, Inc., First Edition, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 161 pages. Hardcover. Light foxing to edges. Bright dust jacket with tear to top edge & toning. Creases to interior flaps. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, Inc., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 173 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated by Mary Hamilton Frye. Price clipped dust jacket chipped and worn along top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 37 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated in black & white by Joan Berg Victor. Dust jacket shows light wear at edges and sun fading on spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 85 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear, small closed tear to dust jacket. Stamp on front fly leaf. Else a very clean, tight copy.

NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations. by Ray Prather. Ex-lib with marking, residue to rear end papers, cover. Award winning-Hamilton's second "Jahdu" book of tales, in which Mama Luka who introduced young Lee Edward to the magical stories, must leave her tight little place in Harlem because her building is being torn down. The boy is sad but he knows that she will move where he can visit and grab a new Jahdu story for him out of the air.

Hardcover. New York , F. A. Stokes, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color label and frontispiece in color, 13 B&W line plates by Berta & Elmer Hader. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Covers faded.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering. Black & white illustrations by Berta and Elmer Hader. 128 pages. Parts of dust jacket pasted to front & rear end papers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. The adventures of a cocker spaniel puppy and his family.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound. Illustrated by Guy Brown Wiser. Previous owner's signature and review stamp front end paper. Light soiling to endpapers. Soiling to covers. Corners a bit bumped. Covers with slight bend. Small tear in front pastedown. Pink cloth cover.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 290 pages, very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The fourth and final book in the Sally Lockhart series and the ONLY hardcover edition.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 290 pages, very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The fourth and final book in the Sally Lockhart series and the ONLY hardcover edition.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran , 1st ed., 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 318 pages. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Dark top edge. Dust jacket with chipping, darkened spine, tear to front cover.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Co., 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, gray coth covers stamped with blue decoration. Black & white illustrations by Berry. Illustrated endpapers. Soiled covers. Mild waterstains to cloth,. corners bumped.

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st UK, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 154 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Small Library of Congress stamp on front fly leaf otherwise very good. A young adult novel about tin mining in Australia.

NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages, light scuffing to edges of cloth. Bright dust jacket. Priscilla's vagabond family finds an unexpected home in Massachusetts but not until Priscilla accepts herself and her unusual family does she find contentment.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 6th pr., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 254 pages. Historical novel centered around the alleged ringleader of the Salem "witches," Tituba, a slave from Barbados. Clean.

Hardcover. New York, Blue Sky, 1st pr, October 1, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Unpaginated, color illustrations by the Dillons.A very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped in black, 72 pages, illustrated in b&w by Nils Hogner. Clean copy.