children fiction

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated in color, black & white by Nelson Grofe. Retold by Martin from Child Christopher by William Morris. Gilt decorated cover with color label. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st thus, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 210 pages, 60 color designs by Walter Crane. Beige cloth with torquoise and dark brown decoration by Crane. Green decorated end papers. Spine rubbed, light scratches on spine, front fly leaf chipped at corners, rear hinge partially cracked. Internally very good.

Hardcover. London, Ward Lock and Co., 8th Ed., Circa 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with color label on cover, 256 pages. illustrated with 8 color, 250 b&w illustrations. Light soil to covers, previous owner inscription in pencil dated 1944. No date on copyright.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 59 pages, illustrated in 2-colors by Alden A. Watson. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages, illustrated in b&w by Neill. Rust colored cloth with color plate on front cover. Some faint marking to front end paper illustrations, otherwise clean, tight copy. Musty odor.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. For this beautiful anthology of six masterpiece Wonder Tales, Marine Warner invited the collaboration of five writers with a special sympathy for the French stories they render here in burnished, cunning, and amusing English. "The White Cat", "The Subtle Princess", "Bearskin", "Starlight", The Counterfeit Marquise", and "The Great Green Worm" are as unforgettable today as they were when they were first published centuries ago. Translated by Gilbert Adair, John Ashbery, Ranjit Bolt, A.S. Byatt and Terence Cave. with small black and white drawings by Sophie Herxheimer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , reprint, 1884, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by F.S. Church, 150 pages. Red cloth covers with gilt design of flying horse in front of moon, beveled edges. All edges gilt. Light fraying to top, bottom of spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down.

Hardcover. Cleveland and New York, World Publishing Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Harold Berson.

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st Printing, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 72 pages, blue covers with cloth yellow spine. Black and blue illustrations by Marc Simont throughout. Interior clean. Dust jacket color illustrated with protective mylar cover, one corner slightly bumped. Very nice tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dover Publications, Inc, Reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers in slipcase. Color and b/w illustrations and color frontispieces by W.W. Denslow. A slight musty odor from being packed away. Smudges on some of the pages, otherwise clean. Bindings tight. Spines straight. Some foxing to edges.The Wonderful Wizard of OZ: 267 pages. Red spine, which is faded with a touch of foxing.The Marvelous Land of OZ: 287 pages. Blue spine which is faded with a touch of foxing.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 637 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by the author. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Chicago, M.A. Donohue and Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages illustrated in color by Gruelle. Bright cardboard covers in color, wear to corners. Light tape shadow to front endpaper illustration, otherwise clean internally.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Page & Co., reprint, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt design on cover faded. 235 pages, 100 b&w drawings by Seton. Shelf-worn, clean copy.

Boston, Little Brown , 1st , 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine. A young black girl struggles to fulfill her papa's dream of a better future for their family in the southwestern town where in 1910 they are the only blacks.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 221 pages, b&w illustrations by Alexy Pendle. A tale set in pre-WW1 England. A generous impulse prompts Pansy to change clothes with a girl from the workhouse, beginning a series of strange adventures which involve Pansy being mistaken for a workhouse child, being chased hither and thither, being locked in a butcher's cellar, and being forced to hide on top of a haystack at night terrified that she is being hunted down by dogs.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. B&W illustrations by William A. Kolliker. Review slip laid in. Some browning to dust jacket flaps, uneven color to light blue cloth covers. Traces of paper clip to a few pages, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 248 pages. Clean copy. Tunis' World Series is Book #2 in his 8- book series on the Brooklyn Dodgers. Roy Tucker and his Brooklyn Dodgers teammates summon every ounce of their collective skill to fight for the greatest title in baseball -- World Series champs.

Hardcover. New York , Dodd Mead, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 73 pages plus index, b&w illustrations and dust jacket painting in color by Lewin. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR on the front fly leaf. Dust jacket bright, unclipped.

New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 64 pages, b & w illustrations by Ted Lewin, clean, tight copy, tear and slight wear to edges of dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Coward-McCann Inc. , 1st US, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages, hardcover. Being the further adventures of the Treasure Seekers. With illustrations by C. Walter Hodges. Rough-cut fore edge. Heavy bumping to corners. Small tear to page 11 taped. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. Mild age toning and foxing to preliminary pages. A tight and clean copy.

NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 160 pages. Ten black & white illustrations by Paul Bransom. Previous owner's signature on title-page. Dust jacket with large chunks gone from top edges. closed tears, soil. Story of a giant volcano eruption in the African jungle'

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. First edition. Beige/light brown cloth with reddish lettering/decoration, top edge stained red as issued, 202 pages, illustrated with drawings. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Blackie & Son, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in 2-colors, 384 pages. Color frontis and 4 b&w plates by Ralph Peacock. A tale of loyalty and courage in 11th-century Britain. Wulf and his best friend, Beorn, fight bravely for their Saxon king - capturing castles, rescuing shipwrecked survivors, repelling Viking invaders, and fighting the Battle of Hastings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards, illustrated by Robert Doremus. 282 pages. Tight, bright copy.