childrens series

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Part of the World of Tomorrow Series. Color-illustrated boards, blue cloth binding, color and b&w illustrations throughout by Sarah De Frehn. Edgewear and rubbing to covers, crisp pages, binding loose through all pages still attached.

Hardcover. Chicago, Lyons & Carnahan, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Child-Story Program. Guidance in Reading Series. Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in blue and orange. State of Texas textbook. Illustrated throughout in color by Vera Stone Norman. 154 pages. Clean copy. Like Dick and Jane series. Both part of "look-say" (whole-word) method of teaching reading popular in 1930s -1960s.

Hardcover. NY, Cupples & Leon, 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth stamped in black and red. #3 in the Bob Dexter series. Color frontispiece. Clean copy. By the author of the "Boy Ranchers" series, this is book #3 in the short-lived, 7- book YA detective series published 1925-1933.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth with red and black design, 311 pages. Volume in the Motor Power Series for older boys. Previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Hurd and Houghton, unk, 1878, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards, corner wear, minor edgewear, previous owner's signature otherwise nice. Copyright 1877. Many b&w engravings, not credited. Children's stories, poems, and songs embedded in the daily life of a comfortable, cultured, and unassuming New England family. From the first Bodley series, very popular in their day. Scudder (1838 - 1902) was closely connected to Houghton for most of his career and for nine years the editor of the Atlantic Monthly.

Hardcover. London/NewYork, Dent/Dutton, 1st, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 120 pages, 3-color illustrations throughout by Charles Robinson. Binding is shaken but intact with all of the wonderful plates. The cloth spine has separated from the backstrip and the 3-color decoration on the front cover suffers from rubbing/fading in areas. Small volume, 5" tall, 3 3/4" wide, one in a series titled The Bairn Books.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in blue tweed binding, lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Green Meadow Series. Reprint edition, "printed in large, easy-to-read type." Four b&w illustrations by Harrison Cady. Clean copy. Copyright page states 1920 but this appears to be a late 1940s-early 50s reprint.

New York, A. L. Burt Co, reprint , 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a soiled, chipped dust jacket. 250 pages plus ads in rear. Spine cocked. Edgewear. Corners bumped.

Hardcover. Philadelphia , John C. Winston Co., reprint, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 438 pages, light blue cloth with color decoration, 4 b&w plates. Previous owner's signature in pencil on reverse of frontispiece, otherwise, a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Crocker & Brewster, 1st, 1839, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed design to black cloth, gilt title on spine. Engraved frontis of sailing ships, has original tissue guard. This title not part of a series, but a "stand alone' title. (Abbott also wrote the 'Rollo' series for children.) 180 pages. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 116 pages. The third book in the series that began with the Newbery Medal-winning Sarah, Plain and Tall by MacLachlan. Anna has done something terrible. She has given Caleb a journal to fill. "It's your job now," Anna says as she hands him her journals, asking him to continue writing the family story. But Sarah, Jacob, Anna, Caleb, and their new little sister, Cassie, have already formed a family, and Caleb fears there will be nothing left to write about. That is, before Cassie discovers a mysterious old man in the barn, and everything changes.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Illustrated by the author throughout. Part of a series of publications for parents from the Boston Children's Medical Center. Dust jacket price clipped and minor wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Softcover. New York, McLoughlin Brothers, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 pages, un-numbered. Softcover with stapled binding. Light wear to paper wrappers. Illustrated in full color on all pages. Previous owner's name in pencil on front wrapper.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 423 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy. With "humanism, generosity, and a passionate, beating heart" (The Times, London), Janice Galloway's Clara reignites, from between the lines of history, the great love of Robert and Clara Schumann. In her lifetime, Clara was a celebrated concert pianist and composer, editor and teacher, friend of Brahms -- as well as mother of the eight Schumann children and caretaker of her husband through a series of crippling mental illnesses. In its luminous integrity the novel brings Clara Schumann to life as a woman of genius. Galloway is at once a meticulous researcher of her subjects' remarkable and highly dramatic artistic careers and a virtuoso storyteller whose imagination and empathy lead her to that place off limits to history and biography -- inside the human mind. Distilling the memories, poetry, and musical notes therein, she examines the ways artists divine patterns out of life's chaos. "Passion," writes Galloway of Clara's performance philosophy, "one might take for granted -- its control is the mechanism through which all else flows." Though music may have bent to Clara's will, love served her far more tragically. Dismissing the cliches of Great Art and rejecting the romantic conflation of Madness and Creativity, Clara boldly ventures that in a life marred by alienation and isolation, "Work alone endures."

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.All 7 picture books in one volume. Introduction by Madeleine L'Engle. Afterword by Margaret Rey. Color illustrations by Rey. 405 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Munich, Prestel, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color and b&w photos. In this stunning photographic series, Pieter Henket presents images of the children of Odzala-Kokoua telling the oral history of the Congo in enchanting and creative ways. Shot over the course of a month, Henket documented the children of this remote region as they designed, planned, created costumes for, and acted out a series of myths - about their tribes, their landscape, and the animals and plants that they live among. Text in English and French. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 2nd pr., 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 263 pages. For members of Cairo's upper classes, cosmopolitanism is a form of social capital, deployed whenever they acquire or consume transnational commodities, or goods that are linked in the popular imagination to other, more "modern" places. In a series of thickly described and carefully contextualized case studies-of Arabic children's magazines, Pokemon, private schools and popular films, coffee shops and fast-food restaurants-Mark Allen Peterson describes the social practices that create class identities. He traces these processes from childhood into adulthood, examining how taste and style intersect with a changing educational system and economic liberalization. Peterson reveals how uneasy many cosmopolitan Cairenes are with their new global identities, and describes their efforts to root themselves in the local through religious, nationalist, or linguistic practices. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Macrae Smith Company, 1st thus, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with bright blue, green and gilt design to front cover and spine. Romance of America's History series. Stated First Edition. Includes 8 color plates by N.C. Wyeth, Frank E. Schoonover, Stanley Arthurs and Charles Hargens. Many b&w drawings in text by various artists. Includes chapters by Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Jack London, J.F. Cooper, et al. Woodcut engraved endpapers, color frontis, 506 pages. Clean copy.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 184 pages. Presenting a new type of graphic fiction from a legendary family in American cartooning. Underground cartoonist Kim Deitch has recruited his entire cast of siblings to produce a unique, all-new "picto-fiction" pocket book. Deitch's Pictorama leads off with Kim's comic "The Sunshine Girl." Then it's time for Seth's prose short story "Children of Aruf," about a man and his dog... in a world where dogs talk. Third up is "Unlikely Hours," a paranoid picto-story about a conspiracy of sentient rats written by Seth and illustrated by Kim. Next comes "The Golem," once again written by Seth and decorated with a series of superb pencil illustrations by Simon, a prose novella about the mythical Jewish monster/protector. Kim wraps with "The Cop on the Beat, the Man in the Moon and Me," one last comic - this one autobiographical. The book features an introduction by the Academy Award-winning animator, cartoonist and illustrator Gene (Tom and Jerry) Deitch, who happens to be the proud father of the author.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 184 pages. Presenting a new type of graphic fiction from a legendary family in American cartooning. Underground cartoonist Kim Deitch has recruited his entire cast of siblings to produce a unique, all-new "picto-fiction" pocket book. Deitch's Pictorama leads off with Kim's comic "The Sunshine Girl." Then it's time for Seth's prose short story "Children of Aruf," about a man and his dog... in a world where dogs talk. Third up is "Unlikely Hours," a paranoid picto-story about a conspiracy of sentient rats written by Seth and illustrated by Kim. Next comes "The Golem," once again written by Seth and decorated with a series of superb pencil illustrations by Simon, a prose novella about the mythical Jewish monster/protector. Kim wraps with "The Cop on the Beat, the Man in the Moon and Me," one last comic - this one autobiographical. The book features an introduction by the Academy Award-winning animator, cartoonist and illustrator Gene (Tom and Jerry) Deitch, who happens to be the proud father of the author.

Hardcover. New York, Fred A. Stokes Co., 1st US, 1924, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 379 pages, hardcover. Stamped and illustrated boards. Illustrated endpapers and color frontispiece. Heavy soiling and age toning to boards. Heavy bumping to all corners. Moderate age toning to text block edges. Previous owner's inscription on half title page. Front hinge cracked. A fair reading copy.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards, 282 pages. Illustrated in 2-colors by Jon Neilsen. Paper tanning, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz was the fourth Oz adventure. First published in 1908, it has captured the imaginations of young readers and listeners for four generations. This deluxe gift edition faithfully reproduces the rare first edition, including all sixteen color plates and all fifty black-and-white illustrations by John R. Neill, as well as the original colorful endpapers. Afterword by Peter Glassman.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap , 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 244 pages plus ads in rear. Some rubbing to corners and spine. Dust jacket with edgewear, soiling. Some browning to pages.