children fiction

Softcover. New york, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 518 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Includes CD reading by Pullman.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st , n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by S. B. Pearse. Tender sewn hinge. Soil to endpapers, title-page. Edgewear to bottom corners, edges.

Hardcover. New York, Little Simon, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. In beautiful condition, no rips. All pop-ups are intact and fascinating. Includes a small, to-scale pop-up book within. "Master paper engineer Robert Sabuda has interpreted the classic American anthem 'America the Beautiful' in dazzling dimention. From the Golded Gate Bridge to Mount Rushmore to the Statue of Liberty, America has never looked more spectacular. This stunning keepsake masterpiece will be shared and admire by generations to come; indeed it is a national treasure in and of itself."

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott & Co., 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Profusely illust. with sketches and pictures by Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts. A Woodcraft Series. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket with narrow portion of top missing, Large chunk gone from top and bottom back cover. Same two-color illustration on book cover and dust jacket front.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in black and gilt. 163 pages plus publisher's ads. Eight b&w illustrations by W.L. Sheppard. Four stories about boy's adventure in the Civil War that originally ran in Harper's Young People. Clean, bright copy.

Boston , Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 129 pages. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Anastasia Krupnik answers a personal ad, and by stretching the truth, finds herself in quite a predicament when the special "he" wants to meet her.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 119 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Follett Publishing, reprint, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 224 pages. B&w illustrations by Lorence Bjorklund. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Gryphon Books, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers. 152 pages, color frontispiece by Marcia Lane Foster. INSCRIBED BY BOLTON on title page. The improbable tale of an American half-Cree Indian soldiering in the highlands of Scotland. Scarce title by this author who was also known as Sister Mercedes. Ivy May Bolton was an Anglican nun and writer. She was the daughter of Reginald Pelham Bolton and Kate Alice, and the sister of the playwright Guy Bolton. She lived in England until she was fourteen, when the family came to the United States, settling in New York. She wrote 10 novels for young adults from 1923 until 1952.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrations in color and black & white by Goodenow. Shows minor wear. Dust jacket shows light soiling and chipping at edges. Hardbound.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Counterpoint, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY NIXON on title page, also INSCRIBED on opposite page. Clean copy. Two people who can't live with each other or without each other. She wants to have children. He doesn't want to contribute to an already damaged-by-humans planet. This disagreement proceed a series of truly terrible events.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, tan cloth stamped in blue. Color illustrations by the De Leeuws. Previous owner's signature in pencil front endpaper. Soiling to endpapers, covers. The tale of a Javanese boy who has dreams of becoming an acrobat performer.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 179 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Cloth covers with gilt stamped decoration on front. gilt lettering on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 179 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Cloth covers with gilt stamped decoration on front. gilt lettering on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, F. A. Stokes, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated red cloth cover with a yawning hippo and bright gilt lettering on front, spine lettering faded. Slight cock to spine. 12 photography plates by Elwin R. Sanborn, Official Photographer for the New York Zoological Society. 72 b&w drawings by the author. INSCRIBED BY BREARLEY on front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Garden City, New York , Doubleday & Company, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, 1-color illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. dust jacket with edgewear, small tears.

Hardcover. Toronto, Ryerson Press, reprint, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a tape-repaired dust jacket, 326 pages. Bookplate on front fly leaf, several pages in front and rear with homilies written in ink. Interior pages clean and bright.

Hardcover. London, Harrap, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 221 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , Reprint, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 431 pages. Black & white illustrations and color frontis and title page by F.D. Bedford. Some browning to end-papers. Front and spine of gray cloth cover with black and red design. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , Reprint, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 431 pages. Black & whiite illust and color frontis and title page by F.D. Bedford. Some browning to end-papers. Front and spine of yellow cloth cover with black illust. Clear mylar dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 194 pages. Hardcover, no dust jacket. B&W Illustrations by Reginald Birch & Charles Copeland. Slight slant to spine o/w bright, clean copy w/ elaborate gilt decorated covers.

NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 315 pages. Collection of 12 stories previously published in separate volumes. Gutter split from hinge at title-page. Dust jacket price clipped.

Hardcover. New York , Dodge Publishing Co., na, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 435 pages, color frontispiece and title page, 130 line illustrations. Bright blue cloth covers with gilt, red and white design. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Minton, Balch and Co, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 84 pages. Illustrated by Erick Berry. Stamp on front end paper. Illustrated endpapers. Rear hinge cracked. Soiling to covers, edges. Edgewear. Bottom corners bumped.