childrens series

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The 7th title in the series featuring the mice from Brambly Hedge, charmingly illustrated in color by the author. Wilfred and Mr. Apple have to face the dangers of unfamiliar territory. It requires all Wilfred's ingenuity and skill to get them home safely to Brambly Hedge. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1077, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The Catfish Bend series, set in Mississippi, is both a gentle comic satire and a fascinating tale of eccentric animals. Here after a lapse of eleven years, are a new band of silly creatures: a Sherlock Holmes type Bloodhound, the Prophet Crows etc. B&w drawings by Alice Caddy. No markings.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with black design, 297 pages, decorations and endpapers illustration by Frank Dobias. Fading to cloth spine otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards, 61 pages. Color illustrations by Susan Perl. An educational book created from a series of award-winning magazine ads created by Health-Tex clothes for children that ran in the 1960s and 70s. Answers a variety of questions such as "What are freckles?", "Why am I ticklish?", and "How many countries are there?" Small sticker residue otherwise clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1975, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards, 61 pages. Color illustrations by Susan Perl. An educational book created from a series of award-winning magazine ads created by Health-Tex clothes for children that ran in the 1960s and 70s. Answers a variety of questions such as "What are freckles?", "Why am I ticklish?", and "How many countries are there?" Small sticker residue otherwise clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Colorful board book illustrated by Pienkowski. One in the "Look At Me" series. Clean.

NY, Holiday House, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Sauber. Frolya, a talking dove, weaves a beautiful rug for the archer Frol, which leads to a series of exciting adventures for the archer when the wicked czar covets the dove, adventures that lead Frol to the magical Land of I-Know-Not-Where.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black, gilt lettering on spine, 288 pages plus an illustrated catalog of the author's books in rear. Frontis with tissue guard plus b&w plates by Jessie McDermot. Susan Chauncey Woolsey was an American children's author who wrote under the pen name Susan Coolidge. Beginning in 1872, she wrote five children's novels about Katy and the fictional Carr family, with the family modeled after her own relations, and Katy based on the author herself. Red cloth with some discoloration, light soil. Overall, a tight, clean copy, good plus.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth with brown stamped decoration, 288 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Dark gray endpapers, b&w illustrations. The 5th and last volume in the Katy Did Series. Light soil and shelf wear, white smudge to rear cover, previous owner's signature on blank prelim page.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, lavender cloth with black lettering and design. End papers show the Dana girls reading a letter printed in dark green. Nancy Drew titles listed to The Password to Larkspur Lane. Name on inside front cover. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 167 pages. A previously unpublished photo series by Irwin Klein of northern New Mexican counterculture communes from 1967-1971 blended with modern essays on the topic. Dropouts, renegades, utopians. Children of the urban middle class and old beatniks living alone, as couples, in families, or as groups in the small Nuevomexicano towns. When photographer Irwin Klein began visiting northern New Mexico in the mid-1960s, he found these self-proclaimed New Settlers and many others in the back country between Santa Fe and Taos. His black-and-white photographs captured the life of the countercultures transition to a social movement. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, McLoughlin Bro, 1st, 1888, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 14 pages. Soft cover on linen, with moderate chipping to paper wrappers. Stapled booklet with rust. Moderate tears and paper wrapper almost detached from staple binding. Full page color chromolithographs.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of book first published in 1922.Color plates and b&w illustrations by John R. Neill.

Hardcover. New York, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages. Color illustrations by Rick Brown. Dust jacket price clipped. Remainder mark on bottom edge. While enjoying a summer vacation traveling with her best friend, Lucy, through Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona, Kate writes a series of letters home.

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st thus, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with maroon cloth spine. Color and b&w illustrations by Harry Daugherty, Part of the Children of the Americas Series. Kimba, an Ecuadorian boy, wanted a pet of his own. He wanted to be a mighty hunter, too. It wasn't until danger threatened his village that he was able to realize one of those ambitions. Clean, bright copy.

New York, Morrow, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Hudson Talbott. Unpaginated. Tape repair to title page. As a lad of only sixteen years, Arthur pulled the sword from the stone and thus became High King of all Britain. But scarcely has he begun to arrange his court when twelve of the country's lesser kings, jealous of Arthur's glory, declare war on him. Culminating in the Battle of Bedegraine, this war is fateful in more ways than one--for not only does it secure Arthur's place among his people, it also unites his destiny with that of Lady Guinevere. In this, the second volume of his Tales of King Arthur series, Hudson Talbott masterfully retells the saga of Arthur's early days as leader of Britain, his building of Camelot, and the dedication of the Round Table--a unique brotherhood of knights devoted to unity and peace.

NY, Aladdin Books, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 191 pages. Two-color illust. by Leonard Vosburgh. American Heritage Series. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket with closed tear front & back bottom edge, chip to top spine.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Little Bear, whose family performs in the Papagini Circus, longs to take part, and one night, through a series of accidents, he becomes featured in a way he never imagined. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, black cloth spine over matte pictorial boards. Illustrated with 3-color drawings throughout by Maurice Sendak. Meets all points in Hanrahan although the flap has been price-clipped. First title in the Little Bear Series. There is a inked name on the front flap and several light tan stains to front panel. Top of dust jacket spine has light chipping. The book itself is bright and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor soil, tape repair. Frontispiece illustrated by Lee Haynes. Many illustrations in b/w, a few indicate B. Stevenson as artist, the rest are not specifically identified. Illustrated end papers. The story of the life of an Indian boy- his adventures are closely interwoven with the habits, customs and beliefs of his people.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket with $1 on flap. No. 2 in The Smiling Pool Series (per the number on the spine). 198 pages, b&w drawings by Harrison Cady. Copyright 1925 but a later reprint. Dust jacket with sort edge tears. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, chipped dust jacket. Based on the Harold Gray comic strip. Illustrated with comic book style art. When Annie and Sandy stopped in the little town of Butternut, a train robbery and an abandoned mine threaten to entangle the two of them in a mysterious maze of circumstances. Front hinge partially cracked, paper tanning. No markings.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing , 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, color illustrations by Beth Wilson. Small picture book with no dust jacket. Tell-a-Tales Series. Light corner and edge rubs, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam, Book Club Ed., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, illustrated in color and b&w by Gramatky. Number four in the Little Toot series- this time the tugboat sets out on a daring mission when the Mississippi River floods.