Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by cartoonist James Stevenson. Dust jacket price-clipped otherwise very good.
Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 122 pages. Hardcover. B&w illust. by Eloise Wilkin. Small 1" tear at gutter of frontpiece, light fraying to bottom of cloth spine.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 350 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to cover edges. Light soil to front covers.
Hardcover. London/New York, Viking/Kestrel, Revised Ed., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 408 pages, illustrated in b&w by Antony Maitland. Edited by Brian Alderson with his notes on the stories in the rear. Previous owner's handwritten note inside front cover otherwise clean with a bright dust jacket with light edgewear.
New York, McLoughlin Brothers, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 186 pages. Beige cloth boards, with color illustration of two children on front. Gold lettering front, black on spine. Color and b&w illustrations by May Audubon Post. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 54 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Shows some wear and age.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. 44 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Two-tone illustrations by William Pene du Bois. Writing in colored pencil on front end paper. Light soiling. Tear to rear end papers. Fade marks to covers. Discoloration to top edge of book. Dust jacket with chipping, chunks missing from top and bottom. Significant rubbing and wear. Price clipped.
Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 57 pages, illustrated in b&w by Ilonka Karasz, title page and end papers decorated in pink and black. Black cloth covers stamped with with stars and type design. Mild soiling to covers, previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Adapted by Leigh Dean from the original opera libretto. illustrated in color by Milton Glaser.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Adapted by Leigh Dean from the original opera libretto. illustrated in color by Milton Glaser. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday and Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 76 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by De Angeli. Color illustrated map on end papers, color boards with an edgeworn dust jacket with short, closed tears, price-clipped. Appears to be a 1960s reprint.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket shows very minor wear otherwise clean and nice. Color illustrations by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Hardbound.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st illust. thus, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 8 color, 4 b&w plates by E. Boyd Smith. Brown cloth covers with gilt and black design. Front endpaper split at hinge, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton & Co., 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 300 pages + ads. Color illustrated frontispiece and front cover. Very good condition.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 149 pages, illustrated by Doris Lee. Dust jacket edge wear, creases and rub, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. London, UK, Frederick Warne , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 446 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Red leatherette, silver lettering to spine, top edge with red cosmetic stain. Pictorial, price clipped dust jacket. Slight wear to edges and spine, light scratching to covers, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. London, UK, Frederick Warne , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 446 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Red leatherette, silver lettering to spine, top edge with red cosmetic stain. Pictorial, price clipped dust jacket. Slight wear to edges and spine, light scratching to covers, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, NJ, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 42 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light chipping on cover edges, and light soil on dust jacket rear. A few small tears, dust jacket currently protected in plastic. Gutter cracked on copyright page. Color illustrations. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 241 pages. Black & white illustrations by Richard Bennett. Corners a bit bumped. Dust jacket with soiling, chipping. Small chunk missing from top of spine. Brodart cover.
Hardcover. NY, David White, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Black & white illust. by Paul Giovanopoulos. Small number lettered on dust jacket spine and rear panel.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, Reprint, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Decorated cover boards. Some fading and dame to spine (see image). Slight tanning to boards and pages from age. Two-color illustrations throughout. Some light fingerprint smudges throughout.
Hardcover. Great Britain, Abelard-Schuman Limited, Reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Decorated cover boards (see image). Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean, bright and unmarked. In beautiful condition. the classic Grimm tale of the origins of the moon is brought back to life.
Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket with chipping. Illustrated in color by Rosemary Wells. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
NY, Venture, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, black & white illustrations by Symeon Shimin. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.
hardcover. New York, Hyperion, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 57 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w illustrations by Betsy Lewin throughout. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Small stain to fore edge. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Scribner's, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Richard Floethe. Dust jacket shows some wear, chipping and small tears.
Hardcover. NY, Derrydale, reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Richard Doyle. Edited and with a Foreword by Cary Wilkins. Dust jacket shows some wear and minor soiling. The King and Queen of the country next to Fairyland are blessed with a daughter whom Prince Comical rescues in the land of magic Mushrooms. Originally published in England in 1869.
Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated green cloth covers, 8 b&w plates. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, front hinge tender. 192 pages. Light soil, foxing to a few pages.
Hardcover. Montreal?, Bedrick/Blackie, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Shows some very minor wear, but really, almost new-looking. Laminated boards, no dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company, 1st, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Will Crawford. 353 pages. Dark blue cloth cover with gilt title and printed illustration, both slightly scratched. Minor scuffing to corners and top and bottom spine. Insides clean and undamaged.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, red cloth with blind-stamped wreath around a portrait of a boy to front, gilt-stamped title to spine; lime green endpapers. Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Colophon page mentions this is the first book written by Roald Dahl for children, second issue with 4-line colophon, bound by The Book Press. Covers show wear and light soil, esp. rear panel. No markings.
Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Wendy Watson. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to edges. Light gutter crack.
Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, b&w illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully. Dust jacket with edge wear, otherwise, clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Lodestar Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Tight copy with light edgewear to covers.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. SIGNED BY DUVOISIN on half title-page. Color illustrations by Roger Duvoisin. Light wear to cover. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Random House/Literary Guild , 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 160 pages, with sepia-tone Illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 207 pages with 24 publishers pages in rear. B&w frontispiece and 3 b&w illustrations by Harold Copping. Cover lightly soiled with minor rubbing and edgewear. Inscription by previous owner on front flyleaf. A clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Rand McNally, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 255 pages. Foreword by Kermit Roosevelt. Color plate and black & white illustrations by Paul Bransom and Don Nelson. Green covers with gold lettering and paper color illustration on front cover. Light green top edge. Marking, soiling to cover. Internally clean, light yellowing at edges of pages.
Hardcover. New York, Junior Books- Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound. Black & white and color illustrations by Holbrook. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Soiling to covers. Tear at top of spine. Corners a bit bumped, rubbed.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Ray Cruz. Very minor wear to dust jacket. Hardbound.
Hardcover. London, Arthur A. Levine, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 409 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good pictorial dust jacket, in mylar. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Tight and bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Silver gilt ornate decoration on front and spine. Previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf. Light soil on bottom spine, and light edgewear on edges. A period story set in the Okefenokee Swamp with illustrations by E.W. Kemble, including three images showing black people, and one scene of a dog fighting a cougar.
Hardcover. Boston, Estes & Lauriat, reprint, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 239 pages plus advertisements in back. Black & white illustrations. No illustrator named. Previous owner's signature on half-title page. Edgewear, chipping, scratchings to covers. Corners worn.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, NA, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Black & white illustrations. Pink endpapers. Preliminary page missing. Inscription at top of title page. Cover features image of girl and boy near a tree; decorated in red, blue, black, and gold. Some light rubbing at top and base of spine, and corners. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 62 pages. Color illustrations by Symeon Shimin. Very light edgewear to dust jacket spine and cover corners. Price-clipped. Otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Kansas City, MO, Tell-Well Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Vivid color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear, still intact and wrapped in protective brodart. Cover boards decorated with same image as dust jacket. Covers have a little soil a top and age wear. Clean inside and in great shape for its age.
Hardcover. New York, Watts, 4th pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR BRIAN WILDSMITH on front fly leaf. Color illust. Light wear, rubbing to edges of dust jacket, closed tear to front cover.