childrens non-fiction

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 220 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Spine of cover faded. Tight copy. Illustrations by David Hendrickson.

Hardcover. London, Thomas Nelson, 1st , no date (1949), Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with mild soil, gilt lettering on spine. INSCRIBED BY BOWEN and dated September 1954 on front fly leaf. Color frontis, B&W drawings by L. R. Brightwell. The adventures of a large angora rabbit named Sultan when he escapes from his life in "Show" business.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with white lettering and drawing of horse's head on cover. 144 pages. Black & white drawings and color frontispiece by Willy Pogany. Pink top edge. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Rubbing, light soiling to endpapers. The story of an old dapple-grey workhouse, Nebuchadnezzar, or Nebby, for short, and the two siblings who love him, Marigold and Noel, who live with their mean old aunt-in-law.

Hardcover. NY, Horace Liveright, 2nd pr., 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in red and gilt, 323 pages. Red topstain, with no dust jacket. B&w illustrations by the author. Copyright page states: Second printing, September 1928. The first printing was in August. Barnes played an important part in the development of 20th century English language modernist writing and was one of the key figures in 1920s and 30s bohemian Paris after filling a similar role in the Greenwich Village in the teens. Ryder draws heavily on her childhood experiences in Cornwall-on-Hudson. It covers 50 years of her family's history. Fragments of the Ryder family chronicle are interspersed with children's stories, songs, letters, poems, parables, and dreams. The book changes style from chapter to chapter, parodying writers from Chaucer to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Spine darkened, light shelf-wear. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co. , 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 216 pages. Black & white illustrations by Julian Brazelton. Illustrated endpapers. Faded blue top edge. Corners bumped. Soiling to covers.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with a drawing of a saddle on front cover. 184 pages. Black & white illustrations by Earl Mayan. Faded green top edge. Corners slightly bumped. Spine faded. No dust jacket. Rick and his sister Jinny help raise an orphan filly. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, illustrated in color by Victoria Tentler-Krylov. When Kip Tiernan was growing up during the Great Depression it was believed that there were no women experiencing homelessness. And yet Kip would see women sleeping on park benches and searching for food in trash cans. Kip decided to open the first shelter for women--a shelter with no questions asked, no required chores, just good meals and warm beds. With persistence, Kip took on the city of Boston in her quest to open Rosie's Place, our nation's first shelter for women. Christine McDonnell, a former educator at Rosie's Place, and illustrator Victoria Tentler-Krylov bring warmth to Kip Tiernan's story of humanity and tenacity, showing readers how one person's dream can make a huge difference, and small acts of kindness can lead to great things.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribners Sons, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Will James. Green cloth covers with some small areas of spotting. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, tight copy.

NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with green and black decoration. Four b&w plates by Margaret Harper. Light shelf wear.

Chicago, Wilcox and Follett, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers stamped in black. B&W illustrations by Milo Winter. 189 pages. Small bookstore stamp to front end papers otherwise very good. An "action-packed adventure story based on authentic history of early Illinois" set during the Black Hawk War. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 122 pages. Hardcover. Features 3 illustrations by Maitland De Gogorza. Fading to spine with moderate rubbing along edges. Title paste down on cover intact. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. Chicago, M.A. Donohue & Company, reprint, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with a pastedown of a white & brown dog on the front cover. Color frontis (matches cover), 130 pages. Child's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, Reprint, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 full pages (last pages missing). Brown cloth, pictorial paste down, rubbing with faded spine. Black & white illustrations by John Neill. Previous owner's name on book belongs to page. Front fly leaf missing. Hinge cracked.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth with red desgn, lettering, 198 pages, with color frontispiece, b&w illustratons by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth with red desgn, lettering, 198 pages, with color frontispiece, b&w illustratons by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. London, B.T. Batsford, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 136 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacekt. illustrated with drawings by Edward Ardizzone. Blue cloth covers with light fading to spine

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Eight two-color illustrations plus dust jacket art in color by Thomas (Hart) Benton. True account of a young school teacher in the Tennessee mountains. With a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear. Scarce in this condition.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with black titles. 312 pages, color frontis and b&w drawings by James. Letter "A" on the copyright page. Mild shelf wear. Previous owner's bookplate on the front leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky. Rubbing Edgewear and soil to covers. Illustrated end papers. Scarce 1st edition.

Hardcover. Boston, W. A. Wilde Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners last name at top right corner of front endpaper. Foxing to edges. Blue cloth covers with some discoloration to rear bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 233 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light foxing to end papers. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Gutter cracked in front. Illustrated by Richard Floethe. Spine faded.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound in green cloth with dark blue design and lettering, 308 pages. Black & white illustrations by Manning de V. Lee. Light soiling to endpapers, covers. Blue top edge. Clean copy.

London, Methuen/Walker, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. Color illustrations by David Scott. Light edgewear to covers. No dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Pretty soft green covers stamped center front with an unnoticeable flower design. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine is sunned at both ends. A wonderful story of seven brothers who each use their special magic powers to win the hand of Helena of Boozan Island for their King. Beautifully and elegantly illustrated.