children fiction

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, red cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine, 237 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover. Mild soil to edges, covers. Historical fiction for young adults based on the life of Roland, warrior of France, nephew of Emperor Charlemagne. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 266 pages. Scarce 1st edition. Tan decorated cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. 31 beautiful line drawings by Alice Barber (Stephens) who is not credited on the title page but whose signature can be seen on the plates. Binding slightly cocked but still very intact. Light rubbing to edges and spine.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday Page , 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 436 pages. Hardcover with stamped illustration of a moose head on front cover. Green covers show moderate wear on edges with fraying, fading and light soil. Gutter cracked in multiple places, but still complete. Illustrations throughout done by author. Page block has well worn edges. Light foxing to frontispiece tissue guard, first few pages.

Hardcover. New York , Dial, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 10th pr., 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, ex-lib with worn dust jacket. Normal stamping, residue to endpapers. Interior clean. b&w drawings by Angelo. Growing up in a well-to-do family with strict rules and routines can be tough for a ten-year-old girl who only wants to roller skate. But when Lucinda Wyman's parents go overseas on a trip to Italy and leave her behind in the care of Miss Peters and Miss Nettie in New York City, she suddenly gets all the freedom she wants! Lucinda zips around New York on her roller skates, meeting tons of new friends and having new adventures every day. But Lucinda has no idea what new experiences the city will show her.... Some of which will change her life forever.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped in red and blue, 186 pages. B&w drawings by Valenti Angelo. Light shelf wear. Name on front fly leaf otherwise no marking.

Hardcover. New York , Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages with b&w photos by Gloir Kitt Lindauer and Carmel Roth. Clean, bright copy with unclipped dust jacket, $3.95. Mild soil to jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Row, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Syd Hoff. An I Can Read Mystery in illustrated glossy boards with a bright dust jacket. Partially price-clipped otherwise clean, sharp copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 218 pages, b&w illustrations, color frontispiece by Maud and Miska Petersham. Blue cloth covers w/ yellow lettering and design. Light edgewear, rubbing to covers. Hinges cracked. Else pages clean and tight.

Hardcover. NY, Century Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers, 179 pages. End papers illustration, 2-color frontispiece and black & white illustrations by Weda Yap. Light edgewear. No dust jacket. Corners a bit bumped.

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton, reprint, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color pictorial boards with white cloth spine, gilt lettering. 120 pages. Originally published in 1872, this edition notable for 3 bright color lithographic plates, b&w text drawings not credited. Fly leaf missing as book opens to the half-title page. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, reprint, hardcover. Preface and copyright dated 1869, but a later 1880s printing. Mustard cloth boards, embossed fruit and floral cover design and w/ornate spine titles on gilded fields, moderate wear, Slight spine slant.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped in dark blue. 147 pages with b&w illustrations by Hildegard Woodward. This book was reprinted in the early sixties with a different illustrator. Covers have edgewear, lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 205 pages. Black & white illustrations by Howard Simon. Review slip laid in. Residue from paper clip front endpaper. Top corners a bit bumped. Light soiling to covers.

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Company, 2nd pr., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in very worn, chipped dust jacket with tape repairs, 241 pages, frontispiece by Edward Shenton. Novel based on the historic 1780 Indian raid on Royalton, in the White River Valley of Vermont. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Minton Balch & Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages, illustrated in b&w by Diana Thorne. Blue cloth covers with black decoration. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Escaping into the fantasy world of the movies, where fathers don't disappear, mothers have no secrets, and little brothers don't cry over missing stuffed animals, twelve-year-old Ruby Miller, while performing community service for a crime she didn't commit, is forced to face the reality of her life. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth covers. 2 color, 8 tinted illustrations by Howard Pyle. Tissue guard over frontispiece. Lettering on spine a bit faded. Light edgewear and soil to covers, but gilt & design bright. Previous owner's sticker on inside front cover at bottom right. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover . NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with 2 color, 8 tinted illustrations by Howard Pyle. Tissue guard over frontispiece, top edge gilt. Light edgewear and soil to covers, but gilt & design bright. Previous owner's name and date on reverse of color frontis.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 64 pages, illustrated by Paul Giovanopoulos. Dust jacket with mild edgewear. Tale of the young son of a Georgia sharecropper who loves animals & wants to be a zoologist. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 201 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with red decoration, 279 pages. B&w, some color illustrations by Will Crawford. Previous owner's bookplate on inside cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 279 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color, black & white illustrations by Will Crawford. Dust jacket with some heavy chipping.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 220 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Spine of cover faded. Tight copy. Illustrations by David Hendrickson.