Hardcover. NY, Hurst & Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Hardcover. Light green fabric covered boards with color decoration. Previous owner signature. Some age wear to covers: light soil, fraying. pages lightly yellow with age. In good condition.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped in dark blue and orange. 239 pages, illustrated in b&w line by Harry Farny. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philsadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages. Hardcover with yellow cover boards. No dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white by Armstrong Sperry. Tight copy with only minor soil to pages.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth boards, orange title label to upper board and back strip, black lettering, orange end papers, top edge stained red, black illustrative boarders on leaves. Two stories: "The Story of a White Blackbird" and "The Young Foreigner". Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in publisher's grey - blue cloth, with image of two little confederates peeking around a bush at enemy cavalry. 156 pages + ads in rear : plates. 1898 reprint of the 1888 edition. This unforgettable tale by one of the South's greatest 19th-century storytellers has been a favorite of children since its original publication. Two little boys, Willie and Frank, are trapped between Union and Confederate lines in war-torn Virginia. The secrets they must keep and the dangers they confront make for an exciting story.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black, white and gilt design on front cover and spine. 191 pages, plus publisher's ads in rear. 12 b&w plates by Reginald Birch. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 191 pages + publishers ads. B&w illustrations by Reginald B. Birch. Blue cloth, gilt decorations and titled to front and spine, no dust jacket as issued. Slight wear and rubbing along edges, light bumps to edges of spine, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Three complete unabridged mysteries in one volume. Detective Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 67 pages, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, C. B. Falls. Minor corner and edge wear, previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 303 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.
London, MacDonald, 1st UK, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by William Stobbs. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. In very good dust jacket.
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, Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 57 pages. Color and black & white illustrations by Brock. Edgewear. Dust jacket price clipped, light chipping, rubbing.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 203 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Jill Pinkwater in b&w. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 117 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY HESS on title page. Bottom corner slight bump. Tight copy.
New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st , 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 57 pages. Black & white illustrations by Glen Rounds. Dust jacket with light rubbing. Relates how Uncle Lemon got his spring in the middle of the driest summer on record and the troublesome consequences it brought him. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt desin. Frontispiece by W. Herbert Dunton. Covers with wear to corners, top and bottom edge of spine.
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. New York, D. Appleton and Co., 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 231 pages plus ads in rear. Illustrated in b&w by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. Brown cloth decorated in gilt and black (bright gilt drawing of rabbit with pipe on front). First printing with no mention of this title among 8 pages of publisher's ads in back and the word presumptive in the last line on page 9. Endpapers feature a light gray butterfly pattern. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 686 pages. The Uncle Remus tales, originally written down by Joel Chandler Harris, were first published over a hundred years ago, and serve as the largest collection of African-American folklore. In this four-book series, Julius Lester masterfully retains the flavor of the tales, while dropping the heavy dialect of the Harris originals and adding contemporary language and references-- ensuring that the stories will be understood and enjoyed by new generations of readers. The stories are beautifully illuminated by the slyly humorous full-color and black-and-white art of Jerry Pinkney.
Hardcover. Boston, Benjamin B. Mussey and Company, 1st, 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Black & white illustrations by Billings. Title in gilt on spine. Spine cocked. Clean, unmarked copy.
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.