fiction

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. NY, The Macmillan Company, 6th pr., 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black lettering to front cover and spine. B&w illustrations by Kate Seredy. A nice vintage copy (published November 1936) of this Newbery-winning classic. Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother's dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most of the neighbors. Caddie is brave, and her story is special because it's based on the life and memories of Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother, the real Caddie Woodlawn. Her spirit and sense of fun have made this book a classic that readers have taken to their hearts for more than seventy years. Clean copy with a mild slant to spine.

Hardcover. NY, The Macmillan Company, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, rose-color cloth with black lettering to front cover and spine. B&w illustrations by Kate Seredy. A nice vintage copy (published November 1936) of this Newbery-winning classic. Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother's dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most of the neighbors. Caddie is brave, and her story is special because it's based on the life and memories of Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother, the real Caddie Woodlawn. Her spirit and sense of fun have made this book a classic that readers have taken to their hearts for more than seventy years. Clean copy with a mild slant, fading to spine.

NY, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MCGUANE on second page.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray/green boards with a castle on the front board, gilt lettering. 378 pages, historical novel by the American author. Illustrated with five monochrome plates by Anna Whelen Betts. Mild fading to spine otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 218 pages, b&w illustrations by the author. INSCRIBED BY HANSEN on the title page. Small ink smudge on front fly leaf otherwise like new in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NJ, Prentice Hall, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover, pictorial cloth, 56 pgs, illustrated in color by Dumas, no dj issued.

Softcover. NY, Ace Books, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, Two mystery novels bound back-to-back. D-203, 151, 169 pages. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket with some chipping. A novel of intrigue set in post World War II North Africa. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Scholastic Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 379 pages, b&w illustrations by Brett Helquist. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. $3.50 on flap, no date on title page, so assumed reprint. B&w illustrations by W.T. Mars. Short repaired tear, light chipping to dust jacket, clean copy. Newbery Award-winning author Elizabeth George Speare adapted the true account by Charlestown NH colonial settlers for this youth historical fiction. The lead character was developed from the imagined adventures of Miriam Willard, younger sister to Susanna Johnson. Set on the brink of the French & Indian War, the Johnson family was captured and marched to the French enclave in Montreal, where they were sold. Susanna wrote her account when she was 70.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by Burton. An attractive reprint of a book first published in 1941. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. Color frontispiece, b&w illustrations by Henry Pitz. Previous owner's inscription, name on half-title page. "Edward Morrell suddenly steps from the freshman class at Harvard into the interior of Brazil where, he has heard, a young man may earn money provided he has courage. A jealous rancher intends to destroy the foreigner's lumber business, killing if necessary the owner and young Morrell"

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED by author, LETTER laid-in w/xerox of review. Tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Derby & Jackson, 1st, 1856, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 401 pages with 8 pages of advertisements. 2 illustrations before title page. Brown embossed cover with gilt title and decoration to spine. Wear to back cover. Soiling to edges. Previous owner signature on front flyleaf and rear pastedown.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co./Junior Literary Guild, BC Ed., 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, orange-yellow cloth with black stamping, in a very worn, torn dust jacket. 278 pages with line drawings by Ruth Holbrook. After two weeks of camping in a tent by the lake, Emily finds an arrowhead and becomes a real heroine when danger threatens. Endpapers map in green by Holbrook. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Ecco, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY FORD on the title page. This copy of Pulitzer Prize winner Ford's novel presents the story of 15 year old Dell Parsons and his sister Berner, who must fend for themselves when their parents are arrested, convicted and imprisoned for a Montana bank robbery. Dell's sister runs while Dell is spirited into Canada to live with an American who has his own issues. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Ives Washburn, 1st thus, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, One of 200 copies in dust jacket and slipcase and SIGNED BY HOWARD SIMON on the half-title page. 16 wood engravings by Simon. Dust jacket chipped, tanning, slipcase with light edgewear, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Mild edgewear to dust jacket corners, light chipping. Red endpapers and topstain as per first issue. Unmarked. Light foxing to rear flap dust jacket top edge. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 196 pages.One night out of the blue, Ratchet Clark's ill-natured mother tells her that Ratchet will be leaving their Pensacola apartment momentarily to take the train up north. There she will spend the summer with her aged relatives Penpen and Tilly, inseparable twins who couldn't look more different from each other. Staying at their secluded house, Ratchet is treated to a passel of strange family history and local lore, along with heaps of generosity and care that she has never experienced before. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Taunton, MA, William S. Sullwold, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 111 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.Black & white illust. 111 pages., end paper map. With an extensive bibliography by Ralph M. Titcomb.