Hardcover. Portland OR, Binfords & Mort, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. 191 pages, b&w illustrations by Parker McAllister. A general survey of the history of the region told through the exciting anecdotal history of those who published primary accounts of their early reconnaissance in the region, starting with Barkley and thence to Gray, Ebey, Hancock, Sylvester, et al. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 6th pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Diane Goode. Clean copy.
Honesdale, PA, Boyds Mills Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 192 pages, Black & white illustrations by Christoher Zhong-Yun Zhn. Review copy. An intimate look at family and village life in southeastern China, approximately 50 years ago. Ying, 10, is raised by her beloved grandmother. Ah Pau is thrifty, wise, and firmly rooted in her culture's traditions and superstitions. She guides Ying and her cousins with a firm and loving hand. As in First Apple (Boyds Mills, 1994), in which the little girl was a year younger, Ying must raise an ambitious amount of money. This time, she must bargain with her mercenary cousin Kee, and deal with the class bully.
Hardcover. NY, Roaring Brook Press], 3rd pr., 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This spare, poetic picture book follows a group of kids as they move through all the different phases of the water cycle. From rain to fog to snow to mist, author Miranda Paul and artist Jason Chin combine to create a beautiful and informative journey in this innovative nonfiction picture book. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 362 pages. 12 color plate illustrations by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Green covers with gold lettering and color illustration pasted on front cover. Previous owner's inscription on back of title-page. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Light spotting throughout. Hinges cracked. Corners and spine rubbed. Tear to top of spine. Light rubbing, soiling to covers.
Garden City, NY, Doubleday Page, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 259 pages. Color plates and black & white illustrations by George Soper. Gilt top edge. Green cloth covers with gold lettering and green decoration. Frontispiece detached from book. Scribling in pencil on front end paper. Soiling to first few pages. Small soiling mark near fore edge to last few pages.
Hardcover. NY, Rand McNally & Company, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in pale yellow, in a worn and chipped dust jacket. A novel about a San Francisco journalist who matches wits with a gang of drug dealers. With illustrations by Chauncey Maltman. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Color illustrations by Daniel San Souci.
Hardcover. New York , Clarion Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by the author. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color Illustrations by Sendak. In very good condition in a bright dust jacket. The famous children's illustrator joins two classic nursery rhymes within a contemporary setting. Our heroes make their way out of the urban dumps to rescue a small homeless boy. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Color Illustrations by the author. In very good condition. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Color Illustrations by William Pene DuBois. Dust jacket price clipped, mild soil, else a clean, tight copy. Charming color illustrations and numbers in 12 different languages, including Urdu, Welsh and Gaelic-Irish.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 335 pages, blue cloth stamped with white lettering and sailboat. Endpapers are illustrated map of the voyage of the Goblin showing how she went across and came back. Author's b&w drawings throughout. Part of the Swallows and Amazons series. Front hinge a little tender, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth, illustrated in colors by Johnson. An attractive ex-lib copy of this story of a boy who requests advice from the animal kingdom as to what he should be when he grows up. Minor stamping and residue to endpapers. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, McElderry, 3rd, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Color illustrations by Helen Oxenbury. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.
Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rhinehart, Winston, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with laminated boards. Clean, tight copy with bright illustrtaions by author. Light soil on front bottom cover.
Hardcover. New York , Orchard Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Raul Colon. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Hyperion, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrated by Richard Egielski. SIGNED BY EGIELSKI with a sketch of a rat on front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, McElderry Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by James Watts. Clean, tight copy. Retelling of a wry Chinese folk tale, charmingly illustrated.
Hardcover. London/ NY, Ernest Nister/ Dutton, 1st, n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Hardcover with gilt lettering on front and spine. Front and rear hinge fragile, moderate fraying to cover edges. Gutter cracked and separated on page 80. 4 bright chromoliths, b&w Illustrations, previous owner's signature & date (1906) front end paper, gilt decorated green cloth.
Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Unpaginated, illustrated in b&w by Robert Lawson. Color illustrated boards with yellow cloth spine. Corner wear to covers otherwise very good. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 164 pages plus plus publisher's ads, B&W line iiiustrations. Brown cloth with black and gilt design.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a big picture of Kate in the snow blowing the whistle her grandfather had made for her. 32 pages, color illustrations by Winifred Bromhall. Copyright page states 1947 but this appears to be a reprint, ex-school library stamps. Front fly leaf gone. Still an attractive reading copy.