children fiction

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth over boards with blue lettering on front cover and spine. Color frontis and b&w plates by W. C. Trout. A story set in the Caucasus Mountains follows the adventures of a Georgian boy named Gogi and his sister Keto. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Boston, Little Brown , 7th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with blue design of doll with dog on front. llustrated in color, b&w by Anne Vaughan. Previous owner's signature opposite first blank page, faint foxing to color illustrated endpapers otherwise tight, clean copy. Lacks dust jacket. Susan Araminta is different from all the other dolls because her face was made of wood. She is put in a box with some old clothes and left at the curb. The trashman with a horse and wagon means to take her home to his little girl but she falls off the wagon and lands in the street. There she is discovered by the gruff Scottish Terrier Mister MacHugh who rescues her.

Hardcover. Chicago, Buzza Company, 5th pr., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages illustrated throughout by Knight in color and b&w, color endpaper illustration. In a bright, lightly chipped dust jacket. Light musty odor.

Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial cloth in a matching bright dust jacket. 223 pages with b&w drawings by Victor Ambrus. Discard stamp to front and rear endpapers but otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, G. Howard Watt, 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped with black lettering and dog's profile. Color frontis by Charles Livingston Bull, 302 pages. Mystery novelist's scarce first book, chronicling the adventures of a German Shepherd living in the Canadian Northwest. Bookplate on inside front cover, front fly leaf missing. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, Longmans, Green, 1st US, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with dark green lettering and decoration, 151 pages. Four 2-color plates, endpapers design and b&w text drawings by James Reid. The story of a polar bear. Mild shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 148 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY GIFF on title page. Like new in dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 131 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated in color and black & white by Richard A. Holberg. Dust jacket worn, now protected by clear plastic cover.

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 103 pages, b&w drawings throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. Dark red cloth with gold gilt image to front board of Christopher Robin playing with his train and gold gilt image to back cover of Pooh Bear & Piglet. Also gilt edge rulings, gilt titles to spine & gilt to top leaf edge. Tight binding with only minimal wear to top of spine. Pictorial pink endpapers, front & back, showing Christopher Robin with Pooh and various other friends, are very nice. Pale blue dust jacket has darkening to spine and tiny chips to corners, larger chip to top of spine. Front and rear panels with Shepard's drawings.

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 169 pages, light blue covers with a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stated first with all numbers present.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st thus, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 148 pages illutrated in b&w and 2-colors by Cooke. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st Thus, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Roberto Innocenti. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, T. Nelson and Sons, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth stamped with black and gilt design, 235 pages, engraved frontispiece and numerous other plates and in-text drawings. Light shelfwear, previous owner's inscription, signatures on front endpapers. Otherwise clean, tight.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth, 388 pages. Black & white illustrations by Lois Lenski. Covers show standard wear, title on spine and decoration on cover no longer visible. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. New York, Michael di Capua Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated by Feiffer. SIGNED BY BOTH JUSTER AND FEIFFER on title page. After a nearly 50-year wait, Juster's reunion with his Phantom Tollbooth collaborator Feiffer is squarely in keeping with their earlier fairy tale drollery. Feiffer's ogre, scrawled in scribbly brown outline, snores on his back in a forest of Lilliputian trees in one spread, then strides off in search of a snack in the next. (Feiffer often draws him from the boots up, the better to convey his massive size.) The ogre's victims usually cower hopelessly before him, but this time, the specimen he encounters--a slim, wide-eyed young woman in a long blue dress--undoes him with kindness. Oh, you're not really so terrible, she says sweetly. I'll bet if you brushed your teeth, combed your hair, found some new clothes, and totally changed your attitude you'd be quite nice. The ogre's mighty tantrum shakes the forest, but she remains calm. Would you consider doing that for the orphans' picnic next week? I know the children would love it. The ogre's speedy exit--he drops dead--is a bit of a throwaway, but Juster's narrative insouciance and Feiffer's pen and brush haven't lost their magic.

Hardcover. NY, Michael di Capua Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated by Feiffer. SIGNED BY BOTH JUSTER AND FEIFFER on title page. After a nearly 50-year wait, Juster's reunion with his Phantom Tollbooth collaborator Feiffer is squarely in keeping with their earlier fairy tale drollery. Feiffer's ogre, scrawled in scribbly brown outline, snores on his back in a forest of Lilliputian trees in one spread, then strides off in search of a snack in the next. (Feiffer often draws him from the boots up, the better to convey his massive size.) The ogre's victims usually cower hopelessly before him, but this time, the specimen he encounters--a slim, wide-eyed young woman in a long blue dress--undoes him with kindness. Oh, you're not really so terrible, she says sweetly. I'll bet if you brushed your teeth, combed your hair, found some new clothes, and totally changed your attitude you'd be quite nice. The ogre's mighty tantrum shakes the forest, but she remains calm. Would you consider doing that for the orphans' picnic next week? I know the children would love it. The ogre's speedy exit--he drops dead--is a bit of a throwaway, but Juster's narrative insouciance and Feiffer's pen and brush haven't lost their magic.

Boston , Little, Brown and Company , reprint, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 303 pages. clean, tight copy. decorative tint on top edge. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, light foxing on edges.

New York, Bernard Ackerman, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 59 pages. Black and brown line drawings by William Brady. previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. Dust jacket with edgewear.

NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 138 pages. Color frontispiece, b&w illustrations by Cathal O'Toole. Dust jacket worn, chipped, light soil.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, Rep., 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY BURGESS on front fly leaf and dated 1927. 7 color plates (out of 8) by Harrison Cady. Unfortunately, the frontis is missing and one plate lose with fraying on top edge.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 40 pages illustrated in color by Berthe Amoss. Ex-lib with light stamp on front and rear fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Color, B&W illustrations by J. Clinton Shepherd. Rust color cloth with cover label illustration, 242 pages.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, expertly rebound green cloth with original gilt and black design inlaid on front cover. New color pattern endpapers, 460 pages, plus publisher's ads. Frontis w/ tissue guard many b/w engravings throughout. Various artists. illustrated tale of the triumphs and tragedies of the formation of the English colonies through the French & Indian War. Light shelf wear, no marking.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 276 pages, illustrated in b&w by Henry Gillette. INSCRIBED BY DEAN on half title page. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Book has a slight slant, otherwise clean, very good.