children fiction

NY, Oxford University Press, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt. Color frontis. and black & white illustrations by George Morrow. Illustrated end papers. Edgewear and mild soil to covers. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photos by author of dogs starring in the fairy tale. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. No dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by Wesley Dennis. With "A" on the copyright page, first thus. 154 pages. Stamp with inscription on half-title page. Otherwise clean. George Washington meets his match in a wily fox in this legendary hunting tale from Newbery Award-winning author Marguerite Henry. Cinnabar is a fox. He lives in a den with his family, Vicky and four little cubs. He's a hardworking fox who does everything he can to ensure that his family has what they need. But during fox hunting season, he likes to have a little fun: Every hunt day, promptly at one o'clock, Cinnabar shows up and runs until nightfall. Can the huntsmen ever catch this clever fox? Based on an old legend about fox hunting in the area around Mount Vernon.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. Ii a worn, chipped dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by Wesley Dennis. With "A" on the copyright page, first thus. 154 pages. light wear to cloth at bottom of spine. George Washington meets his match in a wily fox in this legendary hunting tale from Newbery Award-winning author Marguerite Henry. Cinnabar is a fox. He lives in a den with his family, Vicky and four little cubs. He's a hardworking fox who does everything he can to ensure that his family has what they need. But during fox hunting season, he likes to have a little fun: Every hunt day, promptly at one o'clock, Cinnabar shows up and runs until nightfall. Can the huntsmen ever catch this clever fox? Based on an old legend about fox hunting in the area around Mount Vernon.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hard cover. 194 pages. Black & white illustrations by George M. Richards. Red top edge. Light spine wear. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, soiling. Clear plastic protective cover. Bookseller's label front end paper.

Hardcover. NY, Ariel/ Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, unclipped. A moving portrait of the young Abraham Lincoln awakening to early powers. B&w illustrations by Douglas Gorsline. 90 pages.

Hardcover. NY, Viking/Ariel, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 147 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Chris Van Allsburg. Like new in bright dust jacket. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking/Ariel, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 147 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Chris Van Allsburg. Like new in bright dust jacket. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw Hill, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 171 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with art by Charles Lilly.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 423 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy. With "humanism, generosity, and a passionate, beating heart" (The Times, London), Janice Galloway's Clara reignites, from between the lines of history, the great love of Robert and Clara Schumann. In her lifetime, Clara was a celebrated concert pianist and composer, editor and teacher, friend of Brahms -- as well as mother of the eight Schumann children and caretaker of her husband through a series of crippling mental illnesses. In its luminous integrity the novel brings Clara Schumann to life as a woman of genius. Galloway is at once a meticulous researcher of her subjects' remarkable and highly dramatic artistic careers and a virtuoso storyteller whose imagination and empathy lead her to that place off limits to history and biography -- inside the human mind. Distilling the memories, poetry, and musical notes therein, she examines the ways artists divine patterns out of life's chaos. "Passion," writes Galloway of Clara's performance philosophy, "one might take for granted -- its control is the mechanism through which all else flows." Though music may have bent to Clara's will, love served her far more tragically. Dismissing the cliches of Great Art and rejecting the romantic conflation of Madness and Creativity, Clara boldly ventures that in a life marred by alienation and isolation, "Work alone endures."

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 323 pages, light blue cloth with black lettering. illustrated in b&w by Frank Beaudouin. Light fade to spine. Clean and tight.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 323 pages, light blue cloth with black lettering. illustrated in b&w by Frank Beaudouin. Clean and tight.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth stamped with gilt lettering and flower blossoms on front cover. 304 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. B&w illustrations by Jessie McDermot, frontis with tissue guard. Small price sticker to front fly leaf, otherwise bright and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers stamped in blue, 294 pages. Endpapers art and b&w illustrations by Eva A. Watson. A story based on the formation of the Coat-Rolls. New England women were asked to make coats for their men fighting in the War of Independence. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 7th pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 90 pages. Black & white illustrations by Peter Spier. Light soiling to covers. Dust jacket witeh rubbing, edgewear. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. New York , The Macmillan Co., 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 200 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated in black & white by Helen Sewell. Dust jacket with small chips, tears.

Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with silver lettering, 217 pages with b&w illustrations by Hodges. Endpapers map in blue. Previous owner's bookplate and name. Otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY , Harper and Row, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black and white illustrations by Randy Gaul. dust jacket price-clipped. Four short stories: The Shade Cutter, Enemies of the Eye, Slaves of Sham, Country Pay. The tales present the adventures of itinerant artisans and tradesmiths as they travel through a small New England town in the year 1800.

Philadelphia, Westminster Press, Reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. Black & white illustrations and color dust jacket drawing by James Hough. Crease to top of page 16. Dust jacket with top & bottom of spine worn.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Price clipped.

Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with yellow lettering. 286 pages illustrated in b&w by Gordon Grant. Follows the popular The Half Deck, which he wrote in 1933. The Monarch, under Capt. McFarlane, leaves the Firth of Clyde for Africa, the Barbadoes, New Orleans, and back. War is declared while in Africa, and the ship tries to outrun a submarine. Small name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co., 3rd pr., 1935, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 343 pages, hardcover. Illustrated by the author and Helene Carter. Spine cracked at front panel. Heavy edgewear and fading to boards. Water damage to text block. Light soiling to boards. Mild age-toning to text block. Faint foxing and spotting throughout, mostly to preliminary pages. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. A fair reading copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 9th impression, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 274 pages. Red pictorial cloth, gilt, sunned spine. Color plates by Maria L. Kirk. Pictorial end papers. Spine starting.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John Winston, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 276 pages. Color frontispiece, black & white illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Gilt decorated blue cloth covers.