children fiction

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray-green cloth with gilt. silver and black decoration to front board and spine. 238 pages profusely illustrated in b&w by various illustrators. Endpapers feature a map of the Island of Guernsey with the author's previous books opposite. Susan Coolidge is the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835-1905) American author of children's books. Previous owner's name on blank prelim page, hinge cracked at front, binding a little shaken. Lettering on spine faded.

Hardcover. NY, M. Evans/Lippincott, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 59 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Mehlli Gobhai. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Horn Book, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 261 pages. Brown top edge. Yellowing to dust jacket, chipping to top of spine; in Brodart. Essays about children's literature selected from 25 years of the 'Horn Book Magazine'; 1924 - 1958. Introduction by Bertha Mahony Miller. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Western Publishing , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color. A Whitman Tell-a-Tale Book. Clean, light edge wear to boards.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, Second printing, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Light green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, some light foxing to spine. Pages clean. Binding good. Spine straight.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Brothers, 1st Edition, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 93 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Illustrations by Frederic Remington throughout, one of the plates has come apart from the binding, page laid in. Decorated (4 color) red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Boards have agewear, light soil, scratches (see images). Binding good. Spine straight. Pages clean. Page and edges have some light tanning from age. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper and preliminary page.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Ex-lib with residue and stamping to endpapers and top edge.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 217 pages. 60 black & white illustrations by H.A. Ogden. Bright gilt decorated cover with 3-color decoration. Previous owner's inscription on prelim page. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated with color photos by Larry Carrara. INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND AUTHOR on front fly leaf. A Moose for Jessica is a non-fiction book about a moose named Josh that spent some time in Shrewsbury, Vermont with a hereford cow called Jessica. Josh was attracted to Jessica and stayed in the vicinity for 76 days.

Hardcover. Chicago, self-published, 1st, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with white lettering and design on front cover and spine. 270 pages. Andrea Hofer Proudfoot's classic work on parenting and family life is as relevant today as it was when it was first published over a century ago. Drawing on her experiences as a kindergarten teacher and mother, Proudfoot offers practical advice and insight into the challenges and joys of raising young children. This is the original first printing, dated 1897 on copyright page. Name on front fly leaf, light pencil marking on about a dozen pages.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 163 pages. The sequel to "A Day No Pigs Would Die"novel. Clean.

Hardcover. Philadephia PA, Penn Publishing Co, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 224 pages. Black & white illustrations by Henry Pitz. Green cover with black writing and color illustration pasted on. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Corners bumped. Spine wear. Small dents to spine. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in light tan cloth with brown lettering, 246 pages. B&w drawings by the author and Ruth King. Nice vintage copy of a book instructing children on the care of all kinds of pets. Mild slant to spine, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ronald Himler. This picture-book biography focuses mainly on the War of 1812, but also mentions Madison's contributions to the Constitution and the creation of the three branches of government. Although this is a biography of the couple, there is more specific information on James Madison than on Dolley. Still, readers do learn some interesting facts about her, such as how she rescued a portrait of George Washington while the Executive Mansion burned. Adler's writing is clear yet not oversimplified, and is without fictionalization.

Hardcover. Montreal, Tundra Books, reprint , 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Kurelek. Nice, clean condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 224 pages, embellished with James Flora's two-color illustrations.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in black, 314 pages. Color frontis and endpaper drawing by Rowland Hilder, b&w illustrations by Richard Southern. An historical adventure set on the high sea. Mild shelf wear to covers, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This collection of twenty-seven stories of Frank O'Connor, written between 1957 and his death in 1966, presents us with a stifling petitbourgeois society which seems deliberately organized to starve the mind and the emotions. Young people, crippled by poverty and sexual timidity, wait for their parents to die in order to marry; illegitimate children dream and mourn over families they never know; middle-aged bachelors nest with their mothers; priests live and die in terrible loneliness. Through all the stories runs the ubiquitous influence of the Church--like drink, a curse of the Irish. And yet somehow, this depressing material is turned in O'Connor's stories to charm. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, BC Ed., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Newbery Medal sticker on front. 152 pages. A nice Book Club reprint of the Newbery winner. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 4th pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 370 pages. When fourteen-year-old Jen leaves her home in Massachusetts to visit her father, brother, and sister in Wales, she never expects anything but a normal winter break from school; until her brother finds the tuning key to Taliesin's harp. Author's first book, originally published in 1976. Small owner's stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Silver Newbery Medal emblem on the front panel.

Hardcover. New York , Coward McCann, Inc., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages, illustrated in B&W by Forrest Orr. Dust jacket with edgewear, light chipping, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a shelfworn dust jacket, 64 pages. With illustrations on nearly every page, including a multi colored double page frontispiece and a double page illustration at the end. This charming story set in a fishing village on a lake in France, and the adventures of two village children.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.Color photos by the author. "With understanding and attention to detail, Ms. Krementz introduces us to Josh and his activties, capturing his energy and enthusiasm in full-color photographs, while Josh's own words tell us about learning to play the trumpet, and why he enjoys it so much." Clean copy.