Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, September 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 218 pages. A very clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages, near fine in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Chicago IL, Fleming H. Revell, reprint, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 402 pages. Contains two-tone plate illustrations by E. S. Paxson. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Edgewear. Spine and corner rubbed.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Clean and bright, a tight copy.
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.
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.
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.
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"
Softcover. NY, Harper Perennial, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 617 pages. Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Charles Wright, and more than fifty other important Black authors record the experiences of African Americans from the reconstruction to the present and demonstrate the evolution of the American short story form. Clean copy.
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.