childrens non-fiction

Hardcover. London, Gardner, Darton and Co., 1st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a light blue pictorial binding. 379 pages with 68 b&w illustrations by Gordon Browne. Top edge gilt. 20 pages of publisher's ads in rear. Front hinge cracked, creasing to front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, tight copy. The story of two brothers; a young boy's fantasy life, rich with humor and creativity amidst a world of annoying adults and their societal expectations.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with orange lettering, 112 pages plus publisher's catalog in rear. "There were two ways in which Peter Mink was different from any other person in Pleasant Valley, or on blue Mountain, either. In the first place, he had no home; and in the second, he had a very long neck." Four two-color plates and endpapers by Harry L. Smith. Copyright page states 1916 but probably a reprint, last title of books in the Sleepy Time Series in front is Paddy Muskrat. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt decoration. Octavo, seven inserted plates with illustrations by Helen Mason Grose, original decorated red cloth. First edition. Collection of twenty stories. INSCRIBED BY PORTER on front fly leaf. Directly underneath there's another inscription from the person the book is dedicated to: ANNIE SANFORD HEAD.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Preface and copyright dated 1879. Mustard cloth boards, embossed fruit and floral cover design and w/ornate spine titles on gilded fields, moderate wear, Tale of a penniless boy who finds a job as a telegram messenger boy. The "Telegraph Boy" completes the series of street-life tales in New York; inaugurated eleven years prior with the publication of "Ragged Dick." Front hinge cracked, slant to spine, light circular water stain to first 3 pages including title page and illustration of telegraph boy opposite.

Hardcover. NY, Junior Literary Guild, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth with dark brown lettering, 143 pages. B&w illustrations by Bacon. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Chicago, Childrens Press, revised ed., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages illustrated in b&w and color. Describes in simple text how the Indians of the sea coast, plains, deserts, swamps, and woodlands lived and how their way of life was influenced by the environment. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, C.S. Francis & Co., 1st, 1850, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed tan cloth with the publisher's Little Library motif on the cover, 160 pages, two illustrated title pages, several b&w line drawings throughout, not credited. Title page dated 1850. Inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise clean with only mild foxing.

Hardcover. NY, Baker & Taylor Company, 2nd pr., 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Decorated olive cloth covers with titles in black in ruled border. Titles on spine in orange. 396 pages. Five black & white illustrations plus frontispiece with tissue guard by F.R. Gruger. Bookseller's label on front end paper. Rubbing to corners and spine. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Ward,Lock & Co Limited, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 176 pages, 24 color plates by Harry G. Theaker. No date. The Sunshine Series. Green cloth spine, illustrated cardboard covers. Hinges cracked, edge and corner wear to covers, internally very good.

Hardcover. London, Macmillian and Co., 1st illust thus., 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Decorative-gilt red cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. 330 pages plus publisher's ads. New Edition with 100 b&w illustrations by Linley Sambourne. Water-Babies, a children's novel written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863; written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species. Mild slant to spine, bump to front cloth cover.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st illust thus, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with color pastedown on front cover, white lettering.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st , 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in yellow cloth stamped in dark green.Color frontis, black & white illustrations by E. Boyd Smith. Light edgewear to yellow cloth, fraying to top of spine. Youth classic set in the American prairie; era of roaming buffalo, log cabins, Sioux. Mary Anne's mother does not allow her outside their gate at their log cabin; she is afraid of the wild. Mary Anne's father has a trading post, and the Sioux are among his customers. One day a young boy is comes to visit, and carves a willow whistle for Mary Anne. Her world is widening.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, rose-colored cloth with black and red design on front cover. 24 short tales illustrated in b&w by Pyle. Verses by Katherine Pyle. Originally published in 1887, appears to be a 1940s reprint. Mild soil, inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth, cover label with blackberry and fern design, 126 pages. B&w illustrations by Helen Sewell. The fifth book of Sally's story, in which, released by the sultan from service to the White Lalla, she returns home to Maine. How Five Bushel Farm is saved and how Sally, and Andrew, and Pierre grow up. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with a pictorial label on the front cover, 146 pages. B&w and 2-color illustrations by Neely McCoy. Rose, Dick and Jim Dandy run away on an adventure, wishing that they were at the circus. Dick just doesn't want to go to the photographer! Instead, they find an apple tree elevator, where they find a fairy who will take them away to the land of Up.

Hardcover. NY, NYR Children's Collection, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, reprint of the classic title, SIGNED by Marc Simont on title page, no dj issued.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige cloth stamped in green. First Printing (with the requisite "A" & colophon, no numbers (which would indicate a later printing) of this beloved novel about the Baxter family in the Big Scrub of inland Florida, centering on the boy, Jody, & his relationship with the little fawn. Winner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize & basis for the 1946 film starring Gregory Peck & Jane Wyman. In 428 pages, with pen-and-ink illustrations throughout text by Edward Shenton. Covers with light soiling, tanning to front edge, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1889, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige color cloth stamped in dark brown and gilt with two boys riding the rapids in a canoe. Four b&w plates plus map. Mild wear to top and bottom of spine otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with illustration label, gilt design on front. 55 pages. Black & white illustrations by Peter Newell. No dust jacket. Faded black top edge. An amusing story of two boys of Mount Pisgah who attempt to make their first formal social call on the neighboring girls.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday Page , 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 252 pages. Black & white illustrations by Mary Whitson Haring. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Corners a bit bumped. Wear to corners and spine. Darkened spine. Title rubbed off of spine. Markings to covers.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth, 240 pages, b&w drawings by the author. SIGNED BY BERRY on the front fly leaf. Young adult novel about a girl who goes to her relatives' upstate New York farm to help out during World War II. Suspicious Nazi agents try to muscle their way onto the farm. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton , 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 40 pages. Green cloth cover, light wear to corners and edges. Dust jacket has wear to edges, heavy in one corner. Color illustrations throughout. A nice, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton and Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with decorative illustration on front. Light soil on covers. Illustrated throughout by Woodi Ishmel. Tight copy. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Spine faded.

NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 128 pages. Black & white illustrations by Leonard Weisgard. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. An unusual and unforgettable Christmas story set aboard a freighter bound for South America. Three companions -- a boy, a goat and a dog -- meet Domingo, a burro, and spend Christmas below the Equator.