childrens non-fiction

NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray paper covered boards with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, spine ends and corners with light wear, First Edition, frontispiece portrait of author with tissue guard. INSCRIBED BY DASKAM on front fly leaf and dated May 1903. Daskam(1876-1961) was a prolific author of adult and children's fiction whose best-known work was MEMOIRS OF A BABY (1904), a satire on modern methods of child training. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 283 pages, blue cloth stamped with gilt design on front cover and gilt title on spine. Color endpapers, 6 color plates with tissue guards and additional b&w drawings by Rowland Hilder. An unusual fantasy/adventure by the English novelist. "...surreal logic as cats talk, witches fly, foxes plot against gamekeepers, model ships sail away with a water-rat captain and a hundred other odd and wonderful things, while Kay tries to discover the fate of his great-grandfather's lost treasure".... Front hinge tender, light fraying to top of cloth spine. Otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 2nd pr., 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, rose color cloth stamped in black, 276 pages, b&w illustrations by W.C. Nims. Number 2 on copyright page so presumed 2nd printing. Previous owner's signature inside front cover otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with pictorial cloth, 275 pages, b&w drawings by Jacob Bates Abbott. Midnight is a colt who was born wild and never tamed. His mother, Lady Ebony, belonged to Major Howard ran away to join the band of wild mares which the chestnut stallion was leading. Midnight learned a lot from his beautiful mother who sacrificed herself for the young stallion. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, scarce true first printing with b&w drawings by Clara Skinner. 113 pages, blue cloth covers.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Page & Co., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers with dark blue design, lettering. Color frontispiece, 3 b&w plates by Marguerite DeAngeli. Front hinge tender. A novel set during the American Revolution.

New York, Mill-Morrow, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 147 pages. Black & white photography. Dust jacket has light edgewear.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by N. Cameron Watson. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale gray cloth stamped in blue, 217 pages. Blue endpapers, frontis. and 9 b&w illustrations by Armstrong Sperry. A story about the building of Old Ironsides. Name on front fly leaf and half title page. Interior tight and clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth covers. 231 pages, 5 b&w plates by Ida Waugh. No markings.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. 'An I CAN READ BOOK'. Features full color illustrations by Mamoru Funai. Stated first edition. Price clipped dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 262 pages, 10 color illustrations by Grace G. Wiederseim (creator of The Campbell Kids). Red cloth covers with color illustrated label on front, gilt lettering on spine faded. The front hinge has cracked and exposed the thread beneath. Binding is still sound and text and plates bright.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 103 pages. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Turquoise cloth cover with black lettering. Faded and worn spine. Edgewear. Corners bumped. Spotting back cover. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1930, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers with title and drawing of rooster on front cover in brown. Black and white drawings by Kurt Wiese. Endpapers design with montage of farm animals. A fair copy only with worn and soiled covers. Title page states 1930, no other printings on copyright page. The second book in the Freddy series, in which the animals form a company, Barnyard Tours. Led by clever Freddy, they endure a dangerous voyage to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&W illustrations by James Daugherty. 252 pages. Illustrated light gray cloth covers. Clean, bright copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Hardcover. "An I Can Read Book". Color illustrations by Bernard Wiseman. Lists 17 titles on back cover - starting with "Little Bear" and ends with "David and the Giant". Some minor foxing to preliminary pages. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. An author and artist who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinated modern people, David Macaulay here reveals the methods and materials used to design and construct a mosque in late-sixteenth- century Turkey. Clean, tight copy with minor rubbing to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 8 sepia-toned plates by Alice Barbara Stephens, 7 tipped-in. Lovely decorated green cloth with gilt lettering. Light wear to bottom of spine, otherwise very good. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 2nd, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 88 pages. 3 color illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Black & white pen drawings by Edmund H. Garrett. Back gutter cracked from hinge. Cloth covers with black illustration and lettering on front and spine.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations including frontispiece. [The Children's Friend Series]. Green cloth, Gilt Lettering On Front Cover, Pink Lettering On Spine, Front Cover decorated in three-color design. First Published In A Periodical In 1887, New Copyright 1903 by adopted son, John S.P. Alcott. Some slight rubbing to top and bottom of spine and corners of cover boards. In very good condition.

Hardcover. NY, Appleton, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 92 pages. B&W illustrations by Oliver Herford. Each page with red border decoration. Previous owner's inscription on front pastedown. Blue cloth cover with paste-on label illustration.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 100 pages. Numerous black & white photographs. Corners bumped & edgeworn. Soiling, scratches to covers. Lots of photos, and text describing the process of making movies in the 1930s, aimed at young readers.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by William Pene du Bois. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Dust jacket with moderate wear, areas of staining, tape repaired tears. Clean, unmarked pages. A child eye's view of moving day. No statement of first on copyright page.

Hardcover. NY, Friendship Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick red cloth with silver stamping, 128 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Kurt Wiese. The adventures of Mpengo and his sister who live in a village in the Congo.