Hardcover. New York , Hyperion, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 65 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY FEIFFER on title-page. B&W illustrations by Feiffer. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. La Jolla CA, Star and Elephant Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A small book illustrated in color by Michael R. Hague. Softcover. Spine sunned. Hague's first illustrated book.
Softcover. La Jolla, CA, Star and Elephant Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A small book illustrated in color by Michael R. Hague. Softcover. Spine sunned.
Hardcover. NY, The Macmillan Company, 6th pr., 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black lettering to front cover and spine. B&w illustrations by Kate Seredy. A nice vintage copy (published November 1936) of this Newbery-winning classic. Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother's dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most of the neighbors. Caddie is brave, and her story is special because it's based on the life and memories of Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother, the real Caddie Woodlawn. Her spirit and sense of fun have made this book a classic that readers have taken to their hearts for more than seventy years. Clean copy with a mild slant to spine.
Hardcover. NY, The Macmillan Company, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, rose-color cloth with black lettering to front cover and spine. B&w illustrations by Kate Seredy. A nice vintage copy (published November 1936) of this Newbery-winning classic. Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother's dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most of the neighbors. Caddie is brave, and her story is special because it's based on the life and memories of Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother, the real Caddie Woodlawn. Her spirit and sense of fun have made this book a classic that readers have taken to their hearts for more than seventy years. Clean copy with a mild slant, fading to spine.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray/green boards with a castle on the front board, gilt lettering. 378 pages, historical novel by the American author. Illustrated with five monochrome plates by Anna Whelen Betts. Mild fading to spine otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NJ, Prentice Hall, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover, pictorial cloth, 56 pgs, illustrated in color by Dumas, no dj issued.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 116 pages. The third book in the series that began with the Newbery Medal-winning Sarah, Plain and Tall by MacLachlan. Anna has done something terrible. She has given Caleb a journal to fill. "It's your job now," Anna says as she hands him her journals, asking him to continue writing the family story. But Sarah, Jacob, Anna, Caleb, and their new little sister, Cassie, have already formed a family, and Caleb fears there will be nothing left to write about. That is, before Cassie discovers a mysterious old man in the barn, and everything changes.
Hardcover. New York, Dial, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Thomas Locker. INSCRIBED to the King Family and SIGNED BY AUTHOR CHRISTIANSEN. Clean copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by Burton. An attractive reprint of a book first published in 1941. Clean copy.
Softcover. Los Angeles, Price Stern Sloan, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages. Color illustrations by author. The comic misadventures of a group of cats at summer camp.
Hardcover. New York, Orchard Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 26 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Amy Schwartz. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co./Junior Literary Guild, BC Ed., 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, orange-yellow cloth with black stamping, in a very worn, torn dust jacket. 278 pages with line drawings by Ruth Holbrook. After two weeks of camping in a tent by the lake, Emily finds an arrowhead and becomes a real heroine when danger threatens. Endpapers map in green by Holbrook. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth boards with blue stamped titles and decorations. Illustrated in b&w and color by Adrienne Adams. Candy Floss has a very happy life with the carnival, helping the little dog Cocoa and a painted horse Nuts bring business into the "coconut shy" stall of their beloved Jack. This is an unusual story because Jack is a grown-up young man who cares for Nuts and Candy Floss just as much as he does for his real live dog, considering them all his "partners" and Candy Floss his "luck." It shows that some people can hear doll wishes, no matter how old they get on the outside.Then the family gets mixed up with a spoiled, unhappy little girl named Clementina Davenport. She wants to buy Candy Floss and naturally Jack will not sell her, but Clementina is not used to being refused, and she causes everyone a lot of trouble, as spoiled, unhappy people so often do. There is some wear, fraying to bottom edge of front cover, small ink date to front fly leaf, otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. New York , Assouline, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 80 pages, color illustrated throughout. Unclipped dust jacket. Mary Janes, Dots, Charms, Toostsie Rolls, Smarties, Chupa Chups lollypops. Candy is an sensual part of childhood. First there's the pleasure of seeing, then the practically mind-blowing pleasure of eating. And don't forget the simple pleasure of the creative, colorful wrapping. From the first candy shops in Medieval Europe to Tagada Strawberries that have delighted children worldwide, this book takes you on the historic journey of candy and sweets from New York to New Delhi, from Paris to Tokyo, London and beyond. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Walker Books Ltd, reprint, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 75 pages. Illustrated by Reg Cartwright. Some wear to cover and dust jacket on corners and edges. Inside is bright and clean, many color illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with black stamping, 122 pages. Illustrated in two-colors and full color by Kurt Wiese. Scarce title by this duo. Light shelf wear, no markings.
Hardcover. Boston, L. C. Page, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 369 pages. B&W illustrations by Howard Pyle, others. Dark green cloth with heavy fading to spine. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Gilt decorated cover.
Hardcover. NY , Viking Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Frederick Chapman. Nice in a spine-sunned dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, New York Review of Books, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue pictorial boards with red cloth spine. 188 pages, b&w drawings by V.H. Drummond. Reprint of a book first published in 1955. Children's book illustrator Ashley Wolff's copy with her signature on front fly leaf. Clean copy. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with black stamping. B&W illustrations by Rod Ruth, 204 pages. Ex-library copy but clean and tight, light stamping and residue."Tuktu is the name by which the Barren Ground caribou is known to nearly all of the Eskimo tribes of Arctic America." A fictional story based on the near extinction of the caribou poputation and it's effect on native tribes.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Light edgewear to dust jacket, spine faded.When Becca's older brother Stevie is selected for the draft during the Vietnamese War, he decides to go to Canada instead, leaving his family upset and divided by his refusal to go to war. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, Floris Books, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, oblong format. Originally published in Swedish in 1899. This is a revised version of the first English edition, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons of New York in 1974 with text translated from Lennart Rudstrom's 1968 adaptation of Larsson's original words. The paintings in this book depict Larsson's home in the village of Sundhorn in western Sweden, where he lived with his wife Karin and eight children. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 3rd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, SIGNED BY DAY on the front fly leaf in her formal cursive style. No dust jacket issued. Join beloved babysitting Rottweiler Carl in author/artist Alexandra Day's perfectly joyous holiday children's picture book, Carl's Christmas . After helping baby decorate the family tree, Carl and his charge share an adventure-filled Christmas Eve complete with window shopping, giving to the needy, and a visit with Santa Claus. Like new.