childrens non-fiction

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st US, 1879, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 247 pages plus publisher's ads. B&W illustrations in text and full-page plates with tissue guards. Green cloth with black and gilt design. Binding a little shaken but solid, light wear to cloth edges. Small tear to spine cloth. Scarce.

Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 109 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 17 black & white drawings by Bridgeman. Gilt lettering to covers with some spot fading to light blue cloth. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. Paris, Hector Bossange, reprint, 1829, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Two parts in one volume, 136 + 203 pages, bound in maroon half leather over marbled boards, gilt design on spine. Edition Stereotype: D'apres le procede de Firmin Didot. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and blank prelim page, moderate foxing to pages.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with black lettering, 231 pages. B&w illustrations by Erick Berry.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1st US, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages. Hardcover. Full color paste down illustration on front cover - minor chip of paper missing at bottom of interior red line of Fairy Caravan banner. Title in gilt on spine. Full color plates and black & white illustrations by Beatrix Potter. Previous owners name (written in pencil) erased at some point. A nice copy.

Hardcover. North Pomfret VT, David & Charles, Inc, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 152 pages, many photographic plates in colour and b/w. A history of puppets, puppetry and puppet theatre, including glove puppets, shadow puppets, rod puppets, marionettes.

Hardcover. Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 261 pages. Black & white illustrations by Carl Moon with one color plate in front. Rough cut edge. Turquoise cloth covers. Markings, soiling, to covers. Corners bumped. Spine and edgewear. Spine fade. Yellow top edge. Illustrated front endpapers. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Also extra library card on back of color plate.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped with red title and boy with cow, 230 pages. Color frontis and b&w drawings by Helen Sewell. No date on title page, copyright page with 1933 date and "A-A" code. (January 1951). The second book in the Little House Series. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black, 181 pages. B&w illustrations by Harve Stein. A young adult adventure set in the Canadian wilderness. Light chip to cloth on front cover, "Review Copy" stamped on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Longmans Green and Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, b&w illustrations by Henry Pitz. 324 pages. A story of the American Revolution and what occured when the colonists of northern New Jersey became aroused and embittered by enemy oppression. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Hachette, 1st Canadian, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, illustrated boards, Illustrations in line & 12 color plates by Maurice Boutet de Monvel. Small water stain to top of covers, w/ mild wrinkle to paper covering boards o/w bright & clean.

Hardcover. NY, Creative Education, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Nice color illustrations by John Howe. Lovely, clean condition. Hardcover. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston , D. Lothrop Co., 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt, red and black letters and illustrations on front and spine. Assumed first edition and printing since only date is 1892 and no indication of number of printing on copyright or title page as with later printings of this book. 527 pages, book ads in rear. Black and white illustrations by Mente. The Five Little Peppers is a book series created by American author Margaret Sidney which was published 1881 to 1916. It covers the lives of the five children of Mamsie and the late Mister Pepper who are born into poverty in a rural "little brown house". Previous owner's bboplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Griffith and Rowland Press, 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth covers stamped in white and dark blue. Story of survival based on a wreck in the China Sea of the Ketrel, a full-rigged ship bound from Liverpool to Yokohama, Japan. 360 pages, illustrated in b&w, one plate not present (the map on pg. 135). Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st , 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 242 pages. Tan cloth cover. Rear hinge cracked. Illustrated endpapers. Stain to front cover, mild soiling to spine. Corners bumped. Small hole to about 20 pages on outside edge. An adventure set in the North African desert, uncommon.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Brothers and Company, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. B&W Illustrations by Florence Scovell Shinn. Tissue guard over illustrated frontispiece. 223 pages. Light shelfwear, small blank sticker on rear end paper otherwise VG. Silver gilt lettering on cover spine.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 59 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated from original black & white "Free Hand Cuttings" by Ann Eliza Sample. Standard age darkening to front cover pastedown. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Springfield, MA, Milton Bradley, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound. Color illustrations by Wanda Petrunkevitch. Fade marks to covers. Corners rubbed, top ones bumped. Spine & edgewear. Lettering on spine faded.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages. Hardcover. Front endpaper has been removed. Full color frontis. Some black & white illustrations. Foxing to edges. Blue cloth covers with dark smudges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st thus, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial green cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout, 128 pages. Other stories include Coaly-Bay: The Outlaw Horse and Way-Atcha: The Coon Raccoon of Kilder Creek. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 308 pages. Illustrated by Mallette Dean. Illustrated endpapers. Soiling to covers, faded spine. Corners a bit bumped. Darkened top edge. Story of a family struggling to keep the land that has belonged to them for generations.

Hardcover. London, Blackie & Sons, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped in 3-colors, 352 pages. Color frontis and 4 b&w plates, illustrator not credited. The narrative follows the protagonist, William Gale, who embarks on a series of adventures during the tumultuous period of the last Afghan War. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, rep, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 328 pages. Foreword by Robert H. Davis. First few pages loose. Light rubbing to corners and spine.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Co., 1st US, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped in red. When the family's inn burns down, Father Fortune decides to purchase a caravan so the family can travel through France making their living as a circus. 120 pages, illustrations (some color) by Maggie Salcedo. Covers with light soil/darkening to areas. interior bright and clean.