Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky. Rubbing Edgewear and soil to covers. Illustrated end papers. Scarce 1st edition.
Hardcover. Boston, W. A. Wilde Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners last name at top right corner of front endpaper. Foxing to edges. Blue cloth covers with some discoloration to rear bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 3rd, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Hague. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Pretty soft green covers stamped center front with an unnoticeable flower design. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine is sunned at both ends. A wonderful story of seven brothers who each use their special magic powers to win the hand of Helena of Boozan Island for their King. Beautifully and elegantly illustrated.
Hardcover. New York, Longmans Green & Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 268 pages, b&w illustrations by Henry Pitz. Red cloth covers with black decoration. Book shows light wear overall, spine faded, black spot on top edge. Scarce.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st pub in 1960, this edition probably early 70's, dust jacket with light edgewear, chips.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 235 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket has heavy wear to edges, and light chipping and tears to spine. Covered with plastic. Cover boards clean and bright with minimal wear to edges. Pages darkened, previous owner's name on front fly leaf.
New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardbound, 40 pages. Color illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Rubbing to dust jacket. Small stain on back cover.
Hardcover. London/N.Y., Frederick Warner , 1st U.S., 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 323 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Valerie Sweet. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Kansas City, MO, Tell-Well Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped and in protective brodart. Color illustrations throughout. decorated endpapers. Dust jacket has some age-yellowing. Cover boards decorated in same design as dust jacket. Small superficial tear to top of front cover at spine. Clean inside. In beautiful condition for its age.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY GENNADY SPIRIN opposite title page in gold ink, and SIGNED BY JULIE ANDREWS EDWARDS in blue felt pen ink in title page. Tight copy with minor wear to cover boards.
Hardcover. Berkeley, California, Parnassus Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by John Larrecq. Very minor wear and soiling to dust jacket, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, University Microfilms/Xerox, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with a color label of 3 children on cover. 64 pages. A facsimilie of the 1881 first printing by Estes & Lauriat. Pictures by Henry Richards (the author's husband). Light wear, rubbing to edges and spine, else a clean, tight copy. This edition printed in 2-colors, while the original featured bright chromoliths. Now very scarce.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w by the author. Tan cloth covers with dark brown illustration, lettering. End paper map by De Angeli. Stated first edition. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston , Little Brown, 1st, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Red covers with white stamped lettering, with some smudging and decoration on front. Illustrations by Ernest Fuhr. Black & white frontispiece. Front hinge torn on preliminary page. Light edge wear to covers, previous owner's markings on front end paper.
Hardcover. NY, Lancelot Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color Illustrations by Tomi Ungerer, Illustrated cloth covers with light soil. No dust jacket.
NY, Century Co., 1st, 1887-88, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 issues bound in one volume, dark green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 960 pages. A collection of the best juvenile writing and illustration of the day. Clean copy, no library marks. Hinge crack at rear of volume.
NY, Julian Messner, Inc., 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, black & white pictures by Donald McKay. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, Revised Edition, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Adapted from the Russian by Babette Deutsch and Abrahm Yarmolinsky. Black & brown & white illustrations by Janina Domanska. Dust jacket shows minor wear and chipping.
Hardcover. Sydney, Austalia, P.I.C., 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Robert Ingpen. Clean, tight copy. This children's picture story, a detective mystery, is about a Siamese white elephant, en route from Siam to Britain as a gift to the Queen, and which disappears in New Jersey. This is one of the author's most hilarious, but overlooked, masterpieces for any child or adult to enjoy. The life-like illustrations are by international illustrator, Robert Ingpen. The literature classic was originally published in 1882 as a short story.
Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 188 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated with drawings by James Fuller and photographs by the author. Dust jacket with some wear, light chipping. Soil mark on bottom page block. Light page darkening.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 114 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Lattimore. Illustrated endpapers. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Review stamp front fly leaf. Edgewear, corners a bit bumped, rubbed. Spine bumped, faded. Light soiling to covers.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 258 pages. Black and white Illustrations by Pyle. Tissue over frontispiece. Lettering on spine a bit faded. Light edgewear to covers. Back hinge partially cracked. Previous owner's signature on blank prelim page.
Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st US, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 296 pages. Black & white illustrations by Gordon Browne and Lewis Baumer. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Green cloth covers with gilt titles on cover and spine. Illustration in white of children along a bannister on front cover. Copyright 1899, with no previous printings listed. Light foxing to some pages. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Young Scott Books, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 72 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Black & white illustrations by Julio de Diego. Edgewear. Dust jacket with fade to spine, small chunk missing from top of spine. Clear plastic protective cover.
Hardcover. New York , Lippincott /Junior Literary Guild, 1st Ed., 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 307 pages. Hardcover with dust jaccket. illustrated in B&W by Marguerite de Angeli. Small chip on dust jacket, creases, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrations in color, b&w by Tibor Gergely, illustrated boards, corner edgewear, pages have wrinkling to bottom edge. Covers have moderate chipping. Sweeny is a brave little boy who visits the Bronx Zoo alone and where he loses his toy elephant, Bombo. He is lonely and unsure of himself but gains courage from his interaction with the animals and eventually rescues Bombo.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gay. Morrow Eagle Library Edition. Minor wear to dust jacket. Hardbound. Make-believe and reality are beautifully intertwined when a toddler invites first a butterfly and then others to go for a ride on his stroller. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, na, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Preface by Mrs. Maxwell Scott. 389 pages including glossary. 12 color plates by Simon H. Vedder. Previous owner's bookplate. Maroon cloth, gilt decorated. Top edge gilt.
Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 79 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Laid-in illustration on front cover of mam puma and her kittens. The story of a mother puma and her 2 kittens. Wonderful 2-color animal drawings by Paul Branson. Covers show moderate edgewear and rubbing, but overall good, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 190 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Pristine copy in a dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press , 1st Edition, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 36 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Decorated cover boards, clean (see images). A few pages have a touch of fingerprint soil, otherwise still bright and completely intact. Original owner's dated inscription on front flyleaf. Binding tight. Spine straight. Scarce. In beautiful condition. The animals share strategies to avoid throwing a temper tantrum.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers , 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 261 pages with fourteen illustrations, by Jessie Wilcox Smith and Florence Scovel Shinn. Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine & illustrated cover label. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. A nice copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with cardboard spine split along top. No dust jacket. Corners chipped and fraying. Previous owner's sticker on front fly leaf bottom.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 86 pages. Teenage Steven and his father, Corey, take to the road with a Bible, an old army tent, and less than the best of intentions.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 86 pages. Teenage Steven and his father, Corey, take to the road with a Bible, an old army tent, and less than the best of intentions.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., reprint, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 72 pages + advertisements. B/W illustrations/prints by Charlotte Tifffany Parker. Marks/glue from previous bookplates on front and back fly leaves. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Very clean yellow cloth cover with black stamped design on front and title stamped on spine.
Hardcover. NY, Hurst and Co., 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in the original white pictorial dust jacket, now in mylar, Pictorial cloth covers decorated in red, brown and black. 312 pages. B&w frontispiece, 3 b&w illustrations by Charles Wrenn. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, non-Paginated. Full color illustrations by Rhoda Chase. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Dust jacket shows light wear.
Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber Ltd, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 45 pages, illustrated in b&w by the author. Green cloth spine with illustrated boards. Dust jacket with light edge wear, chunk gone from rear panel at top, smaller corresponding piece gone from rear board. Interior bright, clean.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Alan E. Cober. 141 pages. In a lightly soiled, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, The Vanguard Press, Inc., First Edition, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 161 pages. Hardcover. Light foxing to edges. Bright dust jacket with tear to top edge & toning. Creases to interior flaps. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, Inc., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 173 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated by Mary Hamilton Frye. Price clipped dust jacket chipped and worn along top edge. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 37 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated in black & white by Joan Berg Victor. Dust jacket shows light wear at edges and sun fading on spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 85 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear, small closed tear to dust jacket. Stamp on front fly leaf. Else a very clean, tight copy.