children fiction

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages, yellow cloth covers with red and green design. End paper drawing and b&w illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Light wear but clean, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 118 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B/w illustrations by Tomi Ungerer. Ex-lib with minor stamping, envelope residue on rear end paper.

New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover284 pages. In a nice dust jacket that shows slight spotting to back and little to no edgewear. Spine modestly cocked. American first edition (per publisher's requisite "First edition" statement and "BCD . . ." The adventures of Monkey from his departure from the jungle to his arrival in England where he makes many friends." A later book in the writing career of British author P.L. Travers most renowned for her authorship of the Mary Poppins series.

Hardcover. Indianapolis/NY, Bobbs Merrill, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Historical adventure. A young Spaniard goes to sea on a voyage to the Yukon and British Columbia to trade with Indian trappers. It is the late 18th century and sea otter pelts are bringing high prices. The plan is to proceed down the coast of North America, collecting hides from the natives. But things do not go according to plan. Mild chipping wear to rear of dust jacket, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with cat on cover and lettering on spine in dark blue. Another in her series on the Mitchell family. Scarce in the hardcover first U.S, printing. Previous owner's name on first page, otherwise clean. Lacks dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 194 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth covers with titles and cover illustration in orange. With a frontispiece by Frank M. Rines. Light wear to cover edges and corners. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Wise-Parslow Company, reprint, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light chipping to cover edges. Corners frayed. Previous owner's markings on front end paper. Color illustrations by author. Light soil.

Hardcover. New York, Federal Book Company , reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 332 pages, 5 b&w plates. Green cloth covers with orange, black design and gilt title on spine. Color illustration on cover label. No year given, appears to be circa 1900. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, American Tract Society, 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt design on spine and cover. 160 pages, 4 b&w plates. Foxing to frontis and title page. Second book by author about Frolic, a six-year old girl whose real name is Florence. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 132 pages. Black & white illustrations by Byron Goto. Dust jacket with light soil, edgewear.

Softcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, 2nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color, black & white lithographs by Feodor Rojankovsky. #4 of Pere Castor's Wild Animal Books. Transl. by Rose Fyleman. Cardboard covers with dust jacket. Dust jacket with closed tear to rear panel.

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st UK, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 136 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Ottawa Ontario, Ru-Mi-Lou Books, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards stamped in two shades of blue, 79 pages, endpaper illustration and line drawings by the author. Dime-size stain to front cover, two pages with small chips to fore-edge. Otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. Cedar Grove NJ/UK, Dar-Web/John Sherratt & Son, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages, b&w illustrations. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia , Westminster Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice, unclipped dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Howard N. Watson. Clean copy.

Boston, Lothrop Lee & Shephard, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in blue, 259 pages. Color frontis, B&W drawings by L. J. Bridgeman. Nice bright copy.

New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 47 pages. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. Translated by the author. Dust jacket good only with edgewear and front with tear and creasing to top edge and with light residue mark. Internally very good.

Hardcover. NY, Elsevier/Nelson, 2nd pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 127 pages. Newbery Medalist Katherine Paterson describes what it means to be a writer & reader struggling through the "gates of excellence". Spine with light fading.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The second book in Lois Lowry'sGiver Quartet tells the story of Kira, orphaned, physically flawed, and left with an uncertain future. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear, light chipping. Autry and his horse Champ find plenty of grave trouble brewing as soon as they get into the redwood country to investigate a gang pirating timber in the forests along the Chicapoo River. B&w drawings by Erwin Hess. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, Wallace Hebberd, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with a white label pastedown on front cover. B&w drawings by Jack Rader, 39 pages. Some tanning to inside covers from old paste used in production, Otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harlan Quist, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated, b&w line illustrations by Rick Schreiter. Like new in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, unclipped dust jacket, 154 pages. Novel for young readers about a boy who needs to asserts himself to his older, bossy brothers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Vanguard Press, 2nd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 125 pages, b&w illustrations by by Lino S. Lipinsky, Fading to dj spine and along spine edgeon front. Un-clpped, clean.