childrens non-fiction

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 340 pages, b&w plates by Manning DeV. Lee. Historical fiction romance between a young converted Quaker woman and a Puritan man set Nantucket in the 1650's. Short inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston , Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped with dark green design. B&W illustrations by Joshua Tolford. Ex-lib with stamping, light residue to end papers. Juvenile novel set in Maine about a 12-year-old mischief maker who decides to reform upon the arrival of his war hero uncle.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton , reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 265 pages plus ads in rear. 112 black & white illustrations by A.B. Frost. Red cloth covers with decorations, gold lettering. Gilt top edge. Front hinge cracked. Corners bumped. Light rubbing to corners, spine.

Hardcover. London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1st thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in dark blue cloth with ornate gilt decorations on cover and spine. Color pastedown on front cover features Tom with little blonde girl. Very uncommon. Retold by Edith Robarts for the Stories for Children series. 8 Color Plates including cover (not credited); 4 1/2" x 6"; 91 pages. No date but circa 1912. One color plate loose (at page 56) but all there. Nice clean copy of a rare edition.

Hardcover. New York, John C. Winston, rep, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with color label on front cover, 282 pages. Color frontis and 11 black & white and illustrations by Eunice Stephenson. Blue line drawing of the Alcott home on the end papers by C. M. Burd. Yellow top edge. Rear cover has some spotting. discoloring to top. Otherwise a clean, bight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped in dark blue. 115 pages, b&w illustrations by Decie Merwin. Completes author's trilogy of books recalling her own childhood in the mountains of Kentucky. Light spotting to covers, some tanning to endpapers, otherwise clean.

Softcover. London, Edinburgh House, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 3-color frontispiece, b&w Illustrations by Mabel R. Peacock. Illustrated cardboard covers. Light soil.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with yellow lettering, 72 pages, b&w illustrations by Bill Crawford. Everyone was happy when Valery, the calf, came to live with the Whippes, for she made a charming house pet. Their troubles began when Valery grew up to be a very large cow-like cow. How they solved this gigantic problem, or rather, how Valery solved it for them, is the climax of this amusing book. Corners worn, frayed.

London, Oxford University Press , reprint , 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 194 pages. B&W drawings by Neville Dear. .

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Harrdcover, blue cloth covers decorated in white with paste-on color illustration. Eight 2-color plates by Elizabeth Shippen Green. 193 pages, previous owner's signature and date inside front cover. Light rubbing to front cover label.

Hardcover. London, Faber And Faber , 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 91 pages. B&w drawings by Michael Lyne. The story of the developing friendship between the author and a little orphaned vixen. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. Hardcover with no duat jacket. 4 black & white illustrations by D.S. Wendell. Previous owner's signature (in pencil) front fly leaf. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Century Co., 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Green cloth boards with black & red embossed design to cover and white lettering. B&w illustrations by Reginald B. Birch, black & white frontispiece. light edgewear. Spine lettering faded, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in blue cloth with gilt decoration. Originally published in 1913. Line drawings throughout by Thomas Fogarty. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown otherwise very good condition.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped with blue design and lettering. A boy's discovery of an Indian arrowhead leads to adventure. B&w illustrations by John Barron. Light soil to covers, DJ flap tipped on inside front cover. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Longmans Green and Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 145 pages. Black & white Illustrations by Avery Johnson, End papers illustrated. Light soil to cloth cover. corners a bit bumped.

Hardcover. New York, McClure Phillips & Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 294 pages, 32 b&w illustrations by Karl Moseley. Second state, without ads in rear. Beige cloth with 3-color design on front cover. Rear hinge partially cracked, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's inscription opposite title-page. Color and black & white illustrations by Disney. Cover shows some wear. Hardbound, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman, 1st thus, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards with Julie Andrews on the cover. This is an altered version of the famous series by P.L. Travers based on the Disney motion picture. Illustrate in b&w, 4 color spreads. Clean copy.

London , Thomas Nelson, 1st, n.d. (circa 1910), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 6 color plates , including title page (not credited), 332 pages plus publisher's ads. In 2-color and gilt decorated maroon cloth covers. Previous owner's inscription inside front cover.

Hardcover. New York, Aladdin Books, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 174 pages. Black & white illustrations by Frederick T. Chapman. Short tears to rear fly leaf. Previous owner's signature and stamp front endpaper. Light soil to covers. Green top edge. Corners bumped. Two boys' adventures trying to obtain the bicycles they dream about.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with black lettering, 125 pages, b&w illustrations by Harper Johnson. Children's story of a boy and his horse, living on a New Mexico ranch. When the Spanish cavalry needs horses for fighting the Indians, the horse is comandeered, and later captured by a Comanche warrior. Covers with light soil, clean internally, no markings.

Hardcover. Portland OR, Binfords & Mort, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. 191 pages, b&w illustrations by Parker McAllister. A general survey of the history of the region told through the exciting anecdotal history of those who published primary accounts of their early reconnaissance in the region, starting with Barkley and thence to Gray, Ebey, Hancock, Sylvester, et al. No markings.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 362 pages. 12 color plate illustrations by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Green covers with gold lettering and color illustration pasted on front cover. Previous owner's inscription on back of title-page. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Light spotting throughout. Hinges cracked. Corners and spine rubbed. Tear to top of spine. Light rubbing, soiling to covers.