Hardcover. New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Arnold Roth. Small areas of soiling on front cover. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 72 pages, with b&w Illustrations by David Omar White. Minor rubbing and foxing on cover edges, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. A boy in Northern Iran leaves his family and grows up to become a guide for rich hunters. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 265 pages. Brick-red cloth with black decoration, color and b/w plates by Wilfred Jones. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Illustrated by Richard Egielski in color throughout. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w drawings by Tony Chen. Describes the characteristics and habits of birds found in the city, country, and zoo, and at the beach. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st illust., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green textured cloth with color label on front, gilt lettering. 637 pages, 14 color illustrations, endpapers drawing by Milo Winter. A young Saxon knight, brave, loyal, and handsome is disinherited by his father on account of his love for Rowena, a Saxon heiress, a ward of his fathers. Light shelf Light name on blank prelim page otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st illust., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green textured cloth with color label on front, gilt lettering. 637 pages, 14 color illustrations, endpapers drawing by Milo Winter. A young Saxon knight, brave, loyal, and handsome is disinherited by his father on account of his love for Rowena, a Saxon heiress, a ward of his fathers. An exceptional copy of the expanded edition with all 14 plates. Clean.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company, reprint, unstated, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 564 pages, including glossary. Color plates by Maurice Greiffenhagen. Scarce in dust jacket. Dust jacket edgewear, small tear to top front cover. Light soiling to back dust jacket cover. Internally very good.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. A story about a child's love for her favorite rag doll. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. A story about a child's love for her favorite rag doll. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Jump At The Sun/Hyperion, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED AND DATED BY CHRISTOPHER MYERS ON BACK OF FRONT ENDPAPER. Clean, bright hardcover in a very good dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Soil to inside edge of rear cover. Illustrated in bright primary colors by Barton. Dust jacket has a 1 1/2 inch closed tear, otherwise very good.
Softcover. New York, McLoughlin Bro, 1st, 1888, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 14 pages. Soft cover on linen, with moderate chipping to paper wrappers. Stapled booklet with rust. Moderate tears and paper wrapper almost detached from staple binding. Full page color chromolithographs.
Hardcover. San Marcos CA, Green Tiger Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color and black and white illustrations by classic illustrators of the past selected by Cooper Edens. Dust jacket with mild edgewear. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrilll, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket with mild soil. 191 pages, b&w illustrations by Gerald McCann. INSCRIBED BY CLAGETT on title page. Story of a boy who dreams of following in his father's footsteps & becoming an officer in the US Navy but when Jack's father is lost at sea Jack is forced into becoming an indentured servant.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic/ Michael Di Capua, 2nd pr., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 128 pages, b&w illustrations by Babbitt. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Color illustrations by Dale Gottlieb. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, and rubbing.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Norman Eyolfson. The trouble starts when Jacob Two-Two's father brings home a little green lizard from abroad. Unfortunately, the little lizard grows into a huge dinosaur, as fat as an elephant, as tall as a giraffe, and with a huge appetite. When Dippy is threatened, he and Jacob take to the road.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn price-clipped dust jacket, 84 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Fritz Wegner. Summary: "Unjustly Imprisoned by The Hooded Fang and other big people Jacob Two-Two awaits the aid of members of The Child Power to save him and over two hundred other children."
NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Light edgewear and soil to the dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Gail Owens. A Parisian mongrel successfully leads a double life until both of his "owners" enter him in the same dog show. Clean copy.
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. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, Book Club Ed., 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 44 pages. Laminate dust jackets illustrated to appear as classic b&w composition notebook, blue dust jacket with b&w illustration, mylar protective covering, lovely b&w illustrations by Amy Schwartz. Price-clipped, previous owner's short ink inscription to front endpaper, clean boards, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy of a lovely children's book.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, pink, black and dark green pictorial design of crow on branch. Illustrated in color by Sanchi Ogawa. 80 pages, all with decorative borders, many with color illustrations. Shelf wear. front hinge partially cracked, sort tear to frontispiece at gutter, not affectin image. Otherwise clean, no markings.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ann Grifalconi. Jasmine helps her mother prepare to sell fish and sugar cakes at their parlour, or market stand, on market day on the island of Trinidad. Review slip laid in.
Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated throughout in color by Paul Rogers. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated throughout in color by Paul Rogers. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated throughout in color by Paul Rogers. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Paris FR, E. Plon, Nourrit , unknown, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 47 pages. Color illustrations by the author. Red top edge. Lavender covers with green and gold decoration. Corners and spine rubbed. Light soiling to covers. Spine a bit loose.
Hardcover. Somerville MA, Templar, 1st US, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Winner of the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book Award. Glorious artwork, on each and every page.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustration throughout. Light edgewear to dust jacket, cover boards. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, New York Review Children's Collection, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Illustrated in red, black and white throughout by author. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, New York Review of Books, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format in pictorial boards. It's a big day for Jenny Linsky, the shy little black cat of Greenwich Village, when her brothers, Checkers and Edward, take her out for her birthday. They pick up her notorious friends along the way, including the twins Romulus and Remus, who have brought a special present, and Pickles, the Fire Cat, who gathers everyone into his red fire truck to take them to the park. There they will invite friends and strangers to share a picnic supper and dance the night away. First published in 1954. Clean copy.
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, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 197 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Lattimore. Bright blue decorated cloth. Bottom of spine has fraying, scuffing to edge otherwise very good, clean.
Hardcover. NY, Literary Guild/Doubleday Doran & Co., reprint, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with black stamping, 281 pages. Endpapers and b&w illustrations by Thomas Fogarty. The boyhood adventures of Jerry Foster set in rural Wisconsin in the 1800s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 28 pages with color woodcuts by David Frampton. Through lilting poetic prose and glowing woodcuts, Kuskin and Frampton present a hommage to the holy city of Jerusalem, home of the three major religions. Four thousand years of the city's history are described, beginning with King David's conquest over Goliath, continuing through the Six Day War. In spite of all the battles, burnings, and rebuildings, the city stands majestically "shining still.'' It is to Kuskin's credit that she describes the city's 4000-year history in such a brief form, while still conveying a personal sense of the place. Clean copy.
NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Bruce Degen. The scarce first printing (all numbers starting with 1 present) of the first Jesse Bear book. Also Carlstrom's first book. Minor edgewear in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st US, 2024, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 56 pages. In Jim Curious and the Jungle Journey, a young boy goes on an adventure in an old-fashioned diving suit. After waking up in bed (or is he really awake?), Jim walks through a mirror and into a shallow swamp that leads to a mysterious island. There, in the jungle, he encounters snakes, monkeys, and a giant turtle, as well as some creepy-crawly creatures, before discovering an ancient abandoned temple deep in the heart of the jungle. There are two pairs of 3-D glasses at the back of the book to add to your reading pleasure. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st US, 2024, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 56 pages. In Jim Curious and the Jungle Journey, a young boy goes on an adventure in an old-fashioned diving suit. After waking up in bed (or is he really awake?), Jim walks through a mirror and into a shallow swamp that leads to a mysterious island. There, in the jungle, he encounters snakes, monkeys, and a giant turtle, as well as some creepy-crawly creatures, before discovering an ancient abandoned temple deep in the heart of the jungle. There are two pairs of 3-D glasses at the back of the book to add to your reading pleasure. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Einar Norelius. Text by Nils Bohman. Areas of staining/darkening to illustrated covers. Interior pages clean, unmarked.
Hardcover. NY, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. Lavishly illustrated with black & white photographs by Louise Birt Baynes and Ernest Harold Baynes. 145 pages. Super condition, bookmark of former Governor of Vermont (Redfield Proctor) on inside front cover. Otherwise bright and clean.
Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrations by Berta an Elmer Hader. Light fraying to cloth covers corner.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 2nd pr., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. An illustrated version of the famous Christmas song. Small volume, 5.25 x 4.5". Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray booards with red and blue pictorial design, 124 pages + 1 ad. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Oliver Herford. Ex-lib with label pasted on front pastedown. Die-cut library stamp on title page. Covers soiled, worn. Interior bright and clean.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in beige cloth stamped in red. Black & white illustrations by Gay. Previous owner's bookplate. Ex-lib, with light stamp to front fly leaf, residue to rear end papers. Humorous poetry for young readers.
Boston, Atlantic Little Brown, 3rd, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. Black & white drawings by Eric Von Schmidt. Jingo Hawks, of Mrs. Daggatt's Beneficent Orphan House in Boston, is hired out to General Dirty-Face Jim Scurlock as a chimney sweep. A mysterious Mr. Peacock 'buys' Jingo and they set out on a treasure hunt, pursued by Daggatt and Scurlock. Hilarious scenes follow . . . . Expressive line drawings enhance this rousing adventure. Clean copy.