Hardcover. New York , A.L. Burt, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 236 pages, b&w frontispiece. Decorated tan cloth covers. Clean. A Girls' Mystery Detective Series book, The girls of Sunnyside prove to the haughty Geraldine that living in a small town is not so boring as she thought. Geraldine is made a member of the Seven Sleuths' Club, and the girls join the boys of the secret C.D.C. in winter sports and fun.
Hardcover. New York, Longmans Green & Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 268 pages, b&w illustrations by Henry Pitz. Red cloth covers with black decoration. Book shows light wear overall, spine faded, black spot on top edge. Scarce.
Hardcover. NY, Robert M. McBride, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 217 pages. Hardcover with illustrated cover boards. What appears to be written on title page under author's name is "and Elizabeth Kent Tarshis" in black print letters. Black & white illustrations by Eloise Wilkin. Light foxing to copy throughout. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Pess, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 79 pages. A children's chapter book following the story of a Turkish girl. Author McDonald was a pioneering journalist. Charming detailed full color and black and white illustrations by Weda Yap. Light soiling to covers.
Hardcover. New York, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 82 pages. Black & white illustrations by Erick Berry. Pink stain front cover. Story of a slave girl who lived at Mt. Vernon and was Nellie Custis's servant. Takes place at Mount Vernon in the years immediately following the Revolutionary War. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth covers with stamped desin in black, 231 pages, with illustrations by Barbara Cooney throughout. Minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 255 pages, b&w illustrations by John R. Neill. Light blue cloth cover with color pictorial paste-down. This was one of Ruth Plumly Johnson's contributions to the Oz canon and is a first printing. Cover title in silver, drawing of Mandy on spine. Books published after 1936 lacked color plates except for the cover. Previous owner's signature on half-title page. Endpaper drawings neatly colored in at both ends. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Kansas City, MO, Tell-Well Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped and in protective brodart. Color illustrations throughout. decorated endpapers. Dust jacket has some age-yellowing. Cover boards decorated in same design as dust jacket. Small superficial tear to top of front cover at spine. Clean inside. In beautiful condition for its age.
Hardcover. NY, Junior Books/ Doubleday Doran , 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth, 245 pages. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and b&w drawings by Carl Moon. Soiling and spotting to edges. Spine darkened. Red top edge. Corners bumped.
London, Gardner Darton Co., 1st, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 379 pages plus publisher's ads. B&W illustrations by Gordon Browne, fold-out map. Binding a little shaken, still solid. Top edge gilt, residue to front end paper where bookplate was removed. Torquoise cloth covers with 3-color decoration.
Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman, 1st, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with cover label, 96 pages. Illustrated with drawings in color and black & white by Haidee Zack Walsh. Previous owners signature on front endpaper in pencil. Light marking in pencil on contents page. Cover has bumped corners and light ring stain in center, pencil marking on back cover.
Paperback. Bear Creek NC, Blackie Bear Corp., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 58 pages, spiral-bound. B&W illustrations by the author throughout. Some rust on binding. Heavy paper cover exhibits some edgewear, bottom fore-edge corner bumped. Small water damage stain to the bottom corner of the spine. Large pencil mark on page 29. Otherwise clean edition. Sixth in a series of Blackie Bear books for children about anthropomorphized, clothes-wearing animals of the Smoky Mountain region. Blackie Bear introduces children to nature through his woodland antics and wildlife adventures.
Hardcover. NY, University Microfilms/Xerox, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with a color label of 3 children on cover. 64 pages. A facsimilie of the 1881 first printing by Estes & Lauriat. Pictures by Henry Richards (the author's husband). Light wear, rubbing to edges and spine, else a clean, tight copy. This edition printed in 2-colors, while the original featured bright chromoliths. Now very scarce.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran and Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in black, illustrated in color and b&w by De Angeli. INSCRIBED BY DE ANGELI on the dedication page, dated 1966. No dust jacket. With his German family, Eli crosses the Atlantic on The Charming Nancy. From Philadelphia, oxen pull their wagon into Penn's Woods, where they make their new home in the Skippack area. Eli loves outdoor work and play, but Mom says he must go to school. Though Eli expects the teacher to be cross, Master Christopher Dock is kind, firm, and patient.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w by the author. Tan cloth covers with dark brown illustration, lettering. End paper map by De Angeli. Stated first edition. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston , Little Brown, 1st, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Red covers with white stamped lettering, with some smudging and decoration on front. Illustrations by Ernest Fuhr. Black & white frontispiece. Front hinge torn on preliminary page. Light edge wear to covers, previous owner's markings on front end paper.
Hardcover. New York , Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. , 1st, 1963 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 62 pages, illustrated in B&W by Douglas Gorsline. dust jacket with light edgewear, price clipped. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with black design and lettering. Illustrated with four 2-color plates and endpapers art by Richard Rogers. SIGNED BY STACKPOLE on title page. Light pencil marking to pages throughout otherwise a nice, tight copy. Uncommon title of an adventure set on Nantucket Island.
Hardcover. Chicago , Albert Whitman & Co, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 128 pages. Scarce book. Black & white illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Color plate on front cover. Soiling to covers, endpapers. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Residue from color sticker p. 28-29.
Hardcover. New York, Robert McBride, 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in black and gilt. 157 pages. Black & white illustrations and color frontispiece by Dugald Walker. School bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean inside, no marking, tight binding.. Covers with light edgewear and soil. Little is known about Hal Garrott, but he did write this title and Squiffer (1924). Both are fantastical fairy tales intended for children designed by better known Dugald Stewart Walker. Walker was a prominent early 20th century illustrator and known for his ethereal and fantasy based illustrations.
Hardcover. New York, Robert McBride, 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in black and gilt. 157 pages. Black & white illustrations and color frontispiece by Dugald Walker. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper and previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Spine and edgewear. Corners bumped. Sort tear to cloth spine. Little is known about Hal Garrott, but he did write this title and Squiffer (1924). Both are fantastical fairy tales intended for children designed by better known Dugald Stewart Walker. Walker was a prominent early 20th century illustrator and known for his ethereal and fantasy based illustrations.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, reprint, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale green cloth stamped with dark blue design of boy ringing church bell. No "A" so a reprint. Title page art says 1949. Color, 2-color Illustrations by Politi. Clean copy of the 1950 Caldecott winner.
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