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.

Hardcover. London, Chapman & Hall, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, publisher's red and black marble-patterned cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. A collection of eleven short stories, some of which became inspirations for his novels. Frontispiece illustration of man falling off a bicycle, by Thomas Derrick. Clean, square copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. SIGNED BY STRAND on title page. Remainder line on bottom edge.

Hardcover. NY, Junior Literary Guild, reprint, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 69 pages. Hardcover with illustrated cloth, no dust jacket. Color and black & white illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Shows some wear and age.

Hardcover. NY, Alliance Book Corp.., 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 305 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A story about the famous ideal American boy as an adult. The author is also known as Burt L. Standish. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, currentlly covered in plastic brodart. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with chipping, closed tears. Greatly disappointed that the celebrated Miss K will not be their teacher, Finley Streeter and Stanley Dragavich pull pranks on the new teacher in their small town. Dust jacket and B&W illustrations by Ben Stahl.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 64 pages. Illustrated with color, black & white drawings by Albert Rutherston. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Foxing, browning to front pages. Cloth cover with minor stains, soil.

NY, Praeger Publishers, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages. B&W illustrations by Michael Foreman. In a nice, price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate pasted in on front end paper. Pasted in paper with quote and author's signature dated 1911 on front fly leaf. HInged are tender, but intact.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, reprint, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth decorated in black and white, 139 pages, illustrated by Robert Lawson in two-colors and b&w. Short inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, reprint, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 104 pages. Color frontispiece, black & white illustrations by L.R. Brightwell. Dust jacket with light soil otherwise very good. Originally published in 1933.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan covers stamped with a black and green design. 283 pages plus 4-page catalog in back. 21 b&w line illustrations by W.A. Rogers. No date on title page, copyright page states 1882. No other printings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 64 pages. Black & white lithographs by Zhenya Gay. Covers with mild soil, rubbing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 64 pages. Black & white lithographs by Zhenya Gay. Previous owner's signature, inscription on half title page. Soiling to end papers. Clear plastic protective cover, but no dust jacket. Spine faded.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in salmon colored cloth stamped in gilt. Covers with mild soil, spine, gilt faded. 272 pages. Illustrated throughout in 2-colors by Lynd Ward. Interior clean, no markings.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Joyce does not mind living near a garbage dump, except for the incessant teasing from the kids at school, but being different does not bother Mrs. Fish, the new school custodian, who turns out to be the one person who understands what it is like to be an outsider. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Ivan Obolensky, 1st US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. by Bjorn Berg. Dj with light edgewear, chipping.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 3rd pr., 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 126 pages, illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Child's lettering in crayon on front fly leaf, previous owner's sticker and signature on same page. In a worn, chipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 157 pages. A study of the popular English children's writer, Mrs Sherwood, 1775-1851 considering her style, writings, relations with publishers, etc. Includes reprints of The little woodman and his dog Caesar originally published: London, Houlston, 1850 and Soffrona and her cat Muff originally published: Wellington, Salop, Houlston, 1828. Includes a 38 page bibliography. "No study of nineteenth - century children's books in England can afford to ignore Mrs. Sherwood. She produced over four hundred different titles - books, tales, tracts, texts, magazines, articles in periodicals, cbapbooks, and Sunday School rewards. There is evidence that the writings of her Evangelical period, in particular, had a remarkable influence upon Victorian literature for the young.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 48 pages. Color illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Binding slight shaken. Soiling to endpapers and covers. Spine & edgewear. Corners rubbed.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket, 120 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Charles Lily. The school experiences of a young boy attending school in Uganda.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 286 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else very good. One of the most celebrated and unflinching chroniclers of modern life now explores, in this masterful collection of short stories, the grand theme of intimacy, love, and their failures.With remarkable insight and candor, Richard Ford examines liaisons in and out and to the sides of marriage. An illicit visit to the Grand Canyon reveals a vastness even more profound. A couple weekending in Maine try to recapture the ardor that has disappeared from their life together. And on a spring evening, a young wife tells her husband of her affair with the host of the dinner party they're about to join. The rigorous intensity Ford brings to these vivid, unforgettable dramas marks this as his most powerfully arresting book to date-confirming the judgment of the New York Times Book Review that "nobody now writing looks more like an American classic."

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Like new. When her husband, Ben, drags her to the States for a gourmet cooking competition, the nervous and pregnant Ellie Haskell encounters mystery and murder in the American Midwest.