childrens non-fiction

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, rep, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 345 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Pictorial cover. Light wear to covers. Previous owner's name and bookplate near front. Illustrated with 10 color plates by Peter Hurd (1st edition by this illustrator) Tight copy. Light rubbing to lettering on spine.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 258 pages. Black and white Illustrations by Pyle. Tissue over frontispiece. Lettering on spine a bit faded. Light edgewear to covers. Back hinge partially cracked. Previous owner's signature on blank prelim page.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st US, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 296 pages. Black & white illustrations by Gordon Browne and Lewis Baumer. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Green cloth covers with gilt titles on cover and spine. Illustration in white of children along a bannister on front cover. Copyright 1899, with no previous printings listed. Light foxing to some pages. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing Co., 1938, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, paper-covered pictorial boards with green cloth spine. Wear to cover corners. Spine separating from binding but binding still holding. Color plates, b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. NY, Trumpet Club, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards, 179 pages, b&w illustrations by Paul O. Zelinsky. Can a stray dog change the life of a teenage boy? It looks as if Strider can. He's a dog that loves to run. And because of Strider, Leigh Botts finds himself running well enough to join the school track team. Strider changes Leigh on the inside, too, as he finally begins to accept his parents' divorce and gets to know a redheaded girl he's been admiring.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 2nd Ed., 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Second Edition stated, 10-5 L-U, (November 1945), the classic children's novel, 131 pages. Tan cloth binding with illustration in dark green and white on front cover. Garth Williams drawings. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 4 b&w illustrations by Rachel Robinson. Decorated tan cloth, 324 pages. Spine lettering faded otherwise very good. The adventures of an outcast boy and his adopted dog, a poodle named Diogenes. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, David McKay , 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black. 158 pages, illustrations and text in brown. Dust flap taped to inside front cover. Otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Bobbs-Merrill Co. , 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 132 pages. Tall book. red cloth covers. Black & white illustrations by Evatt. Mild waterstains to covers. Spine faded. Corners a bit bumped. A charming story set on the island of Orleans in the St. Lawrence River near Quebec, against the backdrop of the opening years of World War II.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin/Ariel, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. color paste-down on front cover. Color illustrations by Chris Van Allsburg. Clean copy

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrations in color, b&w by Tibor Gergely, illustrated boards, corner edgewear, pages have wrinkling to bottom edge. Covers have moderate chipping. Sweeny is a brave little boy who visits the Bronx Zoo alone and where he loses his toy elephant, Bombo. He is lonely and unsure of himself but gains courage from his interaction with the animals and eventually rescues Bombo.

Hardcover. Boston, Jr. Lit. Guild/Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 202 pages. Hardcover with black stamped illustration on front cover. B&w illustrations by Manning de V. Lee. Mild stain to several pages and light rubbing to covers, otherwise tight and clean. Faded spine.

Hardcover. New York , G. G Putnam's Sons , 1st , 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages hardcover. Blue cloth bindings. Black and white illustrations at chapter headings. Illustrated flyleaves and end pages. Top edge decorative stain. Gilt decoration on spine and cover. Some shelf wear and soiling on front and back cover, otherwise clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 296 pages. Illustrated by Clifford W. Ashley. Soiling to endpapers, edges, cover. Pink top edge. Blue cloth cover. Spine worn, cocked. Edgewear. Corners bumped.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co., True 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 305 pages. Illustrated by Edward Shenton. Hinges cracked. Illustrated endpapers. Review stamp front fly leaf. Discoloration, soiling to covers. Orange cloth cover with black lettering and decoration. Corners worn, bumped.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, rep, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 354 pages. Foreword by Irvin S. Cobb. Darkened spine. Light soiling to covers. Light rubbing to corners and spine.

Hardcover. London, Bodley Head, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 139 pages. Black & white illustrations by Marjorie Flack. Previous owner's bookplate pasted to half-title page. INSCRIBED BY LOMEN to previous owner on front flyleaf. Clean cover.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Light rubbing and edge wear to covers. Light chipping, faded spine with soil to rear dust jacket. Illustrations by Kurt Wiese.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 3rd pr., 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in blue, b&w illustrations by Richard Kennedy, 77 pages. Collects seven stories, at least two of which are fantasies (fairy folk). Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, na, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Preface by Mrs. Maxwell Scott. 389 pages including glossary. 12 color plates by Simon H. Vedder. Previous owner's bookplate. Maroon cloth, gilt decorated. Top edge gilt.

Hardcover. New York, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 96 pages. Color and black & white photography. Color illustrations. Book illustrators discuss their art w/examples throughout: Victoria Chess, Pat Cummings, Leo & Diane Dillon, Richard Egielski, Lois Ehlert, Lisa Campbell Ernst, Tom Feelings, Steven Kellogg, Jerry Pinkney, Amy Schwartz, Lane Smith, Chris Van Allsburg & David Wiesner. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, striped pictorial cloth, 288 pages. 13 b&w illustrations plus endpapers drawing by F. Luis Mora. Spine label faded, owner's name on verso of frontis, top of spine with light fraying. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 79 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Laid-in illustration on front cover of mam puma and her kittens. The story of a mother puma and her 2 kittens. Wonderful 2-color animal drawings by Paul Branson. Covers show moderate edgewear and rubbing, but overall good, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers , 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 261 pages with fourteen illustrations, by Jessie Wilcox Smith and Florence Scovel Shinn. Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine & illustrated cover label. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. A nice copy.