Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket. Tan brown cloth covers stamped in black. Illustrations for DJ and frontispiece by I. B. Hazelton. Wartime paper resulting in tanned pages. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 190 pages. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 189 pages. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 215 pages. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 215 pages. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 216 pages. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 192 pages. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 223 pages. B&w illustrations by author. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, BC Ed., 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Book Club edition, 216 pages. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 303 pages. Facsimile of a book first published by Reilly & Lee in 1921. Original illustrations by John R. Neill, 12 full-page glossy color plates, other b&w throughout. The Scarecrow decides to search for his family tree and winds up discovering that he is the long-lost Emperor of the Silver Island. Along the way, he meets such colorful characters as the A-B-Sea Serpent, the lumpy mud men, Sir Hokus of Pokes, and others.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, lavender cloth with black lettering and design. End papers show the Dana girls reading a letter printed in dark green. Nancy Drew titles listed to The Mystery of the Brass Bound Trunk. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The fifth title in the series featuring the mice from Brambly Hedge, charmingly illustrated in color by the author. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Preface and copyright dated 1879. Mustard cloth boards, embossed fruit and floral cover design and w/ornate spine titles on gilded fields, moderate wear, Tale of a penniless boy who finds a job as a telegram messenger boy. The "Telegraph Boy" completes the series of street-life tales in New York; inaugurated eleven years prior with the publication of "Ragged Dick." Front hinge cracked, slant to spine, light circular water stain to first 3 pages including title page and illustration of telegraph boy opposite.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 206 pages plus 3 pages of publishers ads. Hardcover. Previous owners inscriptions in pencil on preliminary pages. Black & white illustrations by R. Emmett Owen. Dust jacket with light wear along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 218 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light to moderate wear to edges. Light soil on pages.
self published, circa 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A typed/xeroxed manuscript in a 3-ring orange binder with metal clasps. A scholarly history of boys series books complete with an introduction, biographies, criticism, and lists of titles/authors. A valuable research tool by someone with a passionate interest in the field of children's writing. No date anywhere but around mid 1970s. About 250 one-sided pages, with some hand-written notations. Probably an early version of a manuscript later published in 1982 by McFarland in North Carolina. "Tom Swift & Company: Boys Books by Stratemeyer and Others".
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, Reprint, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages plus 14 pages of ads. Hardcover. Last title on copyright page: "Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout". Previous owners name in pencil on front endpaper. Light wear.
Hardcover. NY, Hurst & Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Hardcover. Light green fabric covered boards with color decoration. Previous owner signature. Some age wear to covers: light soil, fraying. pages lightly yellow with age. In good condition.
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. 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. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages, illustrated in b&w by Neill. Rust colored cloth with color plate on front cover. Some faint marking to front end paper illustrations, otherwise clean, tight copy. Musty odor.