children fiction

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1sr, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 64 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Janet Chenery. Dust jacket with $1.95 price at top right corner of inside flap. Light foxing to front and rear endpapers, and some pages. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 125 pages, color and b&w illustrations by Aldren A. Watson. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Minor wear on covers and dust jacket spine.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Slim, square hardcover in color illustrated paper covered boards. Illustrated endpapers. 32 pages. Illustrated with color drawings. Pencil name on front fly leaf, covers with mild soil, paper chipped on spine. Otherwise clean. The charmingly illustrated escapades of Toby and Sue and Cinder (the cat) and Chalky (the little white dog).

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with pictorial label on front, 252 pages. Beautiful full color frontispiece illustration of Toby Tyler with a monkey (repeated on cover), plus 21 line drawings by W.A. Rogers.

Philadelphia PA, John C. Winston, reprint, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 212 pages. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Four color and other b&w illustrations by Everett Shinn. Dust jacket with chipping, small tears.

Hardcover. New York , Century Co., reprint, 1907, Book: Good, 236 pages, b&w line illustrations by Reginald Birch (not credited). Green cloth with gilt, silver and plum decoration. Previous owner's decorative bookplate on front fly leaf otherwise clean with light foxing. Gutter crack on page 48.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st , 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 248 pages. Color, black & white drawings by A. H. Watson. Front & back hinges tender. Page 84 color plate loose and laid-in. Red cloth binding with stain to back cover, spine fade.

Hardcover. NY, McClure, Phillips & Co., reprint, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with cover illustration, 295 pages, illustrated throughout, gilt top edge and title. Spine fade and minor corner and edge wear, ex-library stamps, letter F on spine, and previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and end paper. Internally a clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 161 pages. Blue cloth hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Marguerite Davis. Short stories selected by the Literature Committee of the Association for Childhood Education. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Light foxing to foredge. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 2nd pr., 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with silver decoration and lettering to front cover and spine. 347 pages, eight b&w plates by Taber.

Hardcover. Boston, LeRoy Phillips, rep, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 412 pages. Color frontispiece, black & white illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Dark green cloth covers with gold lettering and decoration. Gilt edges. Rubbing to extremities. Spine slightly cocked. Soiling to covers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Boston, LeRoy Phillips, reprint, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 412 pages. Color frontis and b&w plates by Hugh Thomson. Black cloth with colorful pasted-on paper label to cover, With a heavily worn dust jacket with a split along spine edge. First published in 1857. Illustrated to fine effect by the master-draftsman Thomson, a classic take on life and problems in a boys' school in early Victorian England. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original decorated two-part blue and mustard cloth, front and rear covers stamped in black, spine panel stamped in gold. 254 pages, b&w illustrations by W.A. Rogers. Boys' fiction set in New York City of a hunt for gold coins stolen during the American Revolution. Mild soil to covers, no markings

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 206 pages plus 3 pages of publishers ads. Hardcover. Previous owners inscriptions in pencil on preliminary pages. Black & white illustrations by R. Emmett Owen. Dust jacket with light wear along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 218 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light to moderate wear to edges. Light soil on pages.

self published, circa 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A typed/xeroxed manuscript in a 3-ring orange binder with metal clasps. A scholarly history of boys series books complete with an introduction, biographies, criticism, and lists of titles/authors. A valuable research tool by someone with a passionate interest in the field of children's writing. No date anywhere but around mid 1970s. About 250 one-sided pages, with some hand-written notations. Probably an early version of a manuscript later published in 1982 by McFarland in North Carolina. "Tom Swift & Company: Boys Books by Stratemeyer and Others".

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, Reprint, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages plus 14 pages of ads. Hardcover. Last title on copyright page: "Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout". Previous owners name in pencil on front endpaper. Light wear.

NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 253 pages. Black & white drawings by Margery Gill. Foreword by Leonard Clark. Price clipped dust jacket with light soil, wear to edges.

Hardcover. New York , Dodd Mead, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 70 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Paul Lantz. Blue cloth covers, dust jacket with light edgewear, soil.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in dark brown, 192 pages, endpapers illustration (not credited). Light shelf wear, clean copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Rand McNally, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 48 pages, illustrated in b&w by Dugald MacDougall. The story of 6-year-old Zulu girl who has many adventures when she goes to the store for the first time. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Junior Guild and Doubleday & Company, Book Club Ed., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering on the spine and illustration in black on front cover. 220 pages. Illustrated by Grace Paull. A tomboy's hilarious escapades in her attempts to be a proper young lady. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Century Co., 1st, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 290 pages. Hardcover. Features 48 black & white illustrations by Harrison Cady. Mustard colored cloth covers with green and orange illustrations, Light wear along edges. Spine cocked. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. New York, Charles E. Graham, 1st, 1912, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 126 pages. Some discoloration to endpapers. Black & white illustrations. Light wear to corners and spine. Covers a bit warped.