Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 120 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Harrison Cady. Part of the Bedtime Story-Books series. Soiling, chipping, closed tears to dust jacket. Cover boards clean.
NY, Random House, 1st US, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. llustrated with color pictures and diagram of Excursion Steamer. Translated from the French by Merle Haas. Color illustrated paper covered boards with edgewear to corners, edges.
Hardcover. NY, Beginner Books/ Random House, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated pictorial boards. This is the first "Babar" title (B-45) to be part of the Random House "Beginner Book" Series. Color illustrations by author. Lacks dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap , 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 304 pages plus ads in rear. Some rubbing to spine and corners. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, soiling.
Hardcover. New York, A. L. Burt, rep, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black, red and gray illustration on front, 315 pages. Black & white frontispiece. Small tear in paper along front hinge. minor edgewear to cover, corners. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press , 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red covers stamped with black lettering and line art of plane with map of Norway behind it. Color frontis by Howard Leigh and 6 b&w plates by Alfred Sindall. 1941 date on copyright page, no other printings noted, top edge stained red. Written by William Earl Johns, an English First World War pilot and writer of adventure stories, who wrote under the pen name Capt. W. E. Johns. He is best known for creating the fictional air-adventurer Biggles. In this exciting Biggles adventure, we see the much-loved adventurer stranded in Oslo during the Nazi occupation. Biggles is advised to find out all he can about the enemy's intentions, all while assuming the identity of a member of the Gestapo. Covers show wear, light soil. Small ink name on front endpaper, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 7 two-color illustrations by Leslie Stead, This book chronicles Biggles as a schoolboy at Malton Hall School near the town of Hertbury. Light foxing to several pages.
Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield Publishing, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Green pictorial cloth hardcover with black lettering on spine and gilt and black lettering and pictorial design stamped on front cover, copyright 1924, no other dates. Illustrated by C.W. Frank and Frances Brundage, 169 pages plus ads, b&w drawings and all six color plates present. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield Publishing, reprint, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 147 pages, illustrated by Arthur Debebian in b&w and 6 color plates. Blue cloth spine, color illustrated boards. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Fragile binding but all there and holding. Vol. 5 in this series.
Hardcover. NY, Cupples & Leon, 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth stamped in black and red. #3 in the Bob Dexter series. Color frontispiece. Clean copy. By the author of the "Boy Ranchers" series, this is book #3 in the short-lived, 7- book YA detective series published 1925-1933.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth with red and black design, 311 pages. Volume in the Motor Power Series for older boys. Previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
New York, A. L. Burt Co, reprint , 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a soiled, chipped dust jacket. 250 pages plus ads in rear. Spine cocked. Edgewear. Corners bumped.
Hardcover. Philadelphia , John C. Winston Co., reprint, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 438 pages, light blue cloth with color decoration, 4 b&w plates. Previous owner's signature in pencil on reverse of frontispiece, otherwise, a clean, tight copy.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.All 7 picture books in one volume. Introduction by Madeleine L'Engle. Afterword by Margaret Rey. Color illustrations by Rey. 405 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Fred A. Stokes Co., 1st US, 1924, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 379 pages, hardcover. Stamped and illustrated boards. Illustrated endpapers and color frontispiece. Heavy soiling and age toning to boards. Heavy bumping to all corners. Moderate age toning to text block edges. Previous owner's inscription on half title page. Front hinge cracked. A fair reading copy.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap , 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 244 pages plus ads in rear. Some rubbing to corners and spine. Dust jacket with edgewear, soiling. Some browning to pages.
Hardcover. New York, Gosset & Dunlap, Reprint, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Pages age darkened. Green cloth covers. Dust jacket with light wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages, pink cloth covers with blue and black design. End paper drawing and b&w illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Light wear, ex-library with residue on end papers, small ink price on front fly leaf, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages, yellow cloth covers with red and green design. End paper drawing and b&w illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Light wear but clean, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Woodstock, Overlook Press, 1st Thus, 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 243 pages. Hardcover in a dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Damp stain to cloth at top of front cover with bleed to insde of dust jacket - no effect to book interior. A clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with cat on cover and lettering on spine in dark blue. Another in her series on the Mitchell family. Scarce in the hardcover first U.S, printing. Previous owner's name on first page, otherwise clean. Lacks dust wrapper.
Hardcover. New York, Federal Book Company , reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 332 pages, 5 b&w plates. Green cloth covers with orange, black design and gilt title on spine. Color illustration on cover label. No year given, appears to be circa 1900. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, American Tract Society, 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt design on spine and cover. 160 pages, 4 b&w plates. Foxing to frontis and title page. Second book by author about Frolic, a six-year old girl whose real name is Florence. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Cedar Grove NJ/UK, Dar-Web/John Sherratt & Son, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages, b&w illustrations. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages plus 16 pages of publisher's ads in rear. Illustrated with b&w drawings. Scarce dust jacket is bright with light chipping. Several pages with light soiling to margins.
Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The 7th title in the series featuring the mice from Brambly Hedge, charmingly illustrated in color by the author. Wilfred and Mr. Apple have to face the dangers of unfamiliar territory. It requires all Wilfred's ingenuity and skill to get them home safely to Brambly Hedge. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with black design, 297 pages, decorations and endpapers illustration by Frank Dobias. Fading to cloth spine otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth with brown stamped decoration, 288 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Dark gray endpapers, b&w illustrations. The 5th and last volume in the Katy Did Series. Light soil and shelf wear, white smudge to rear cover, previous owner's signature on blank prelim page.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1934, 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 Password to Larkspur Lane. Name on inside front cover. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. Story based on the popular radio series, Captain Midnight. World War II adventure novel for young adults, set on a hidden air force base in the South Pacific. Paper tanning, name on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of book first published in 1922.Color plates and b&w illustrations by John R. Neill.
Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, chipped dust jacket. Based on the Harold Gray comic strip. Illustrated with comic book style art. When Annie and Sandy stopped in the little town of Butternut, a train robbery and an abandoned mine threaten to entangle the two of them in a mysterious maze of circumstances. Front hinge partially cracked, paper tanning. No markings.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 298 pages, b&w illustrations and 12 color plates by John R. Neill. Blue cloth covers with color pictorial paste-down. This was one of Ruth Plumly Johnson's contributions to the Oz canon and is a first printing with all 12 color plates, end papers illustration, edges tinted yellow. The rear cover cloth has some light wrinkling. Bookplate on half-title page, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 313 pages, b&w illustrations and 12 color plates by John R. Neill. Aqua blue cloth cover with color pictorial paste-down. This is an early 1920s printing with all 12 color plates and b&w endpapers illustration. Previous owner's bookplate on half title page. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1st, 1942, Hardcover, 290 pages illustrated in b&w by John R. Neill. Blue-green cloth covers with color illustrated pastedown on front. B&w endpaper drawings by Neill. Exceptionally bright, clean copy. A small light green bleed from cloth cover to front plate along 3 inches at bottom.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Co., 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with 3-color design on cover of young man holding telegram, 346 pages, publisher's ads in rear, b&w frontispiece. Pencil inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise tight and clean. No date other than 1889 on copyright page.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 266 pages, b&w illustrations and 12 color plates by John R. Neill. Maroon cloth cover with color pictorial paste-down. This is a second printing from 1923 with all 12 color plates and b&w endpapers illustration. Previous owner's bookplate on half title page. Short tear to top of spine at rear edge, cover plate with light rubbing, mild soil.
Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 332 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Black & white illustrations by Charles Copeland. Titles on cover and spine in gilt. Fading to spine with beginning of fraying at top and bottom. Clean, unmarked text.Phillips Exeter Series.
Hardcover. Chicago, Scott, Foresman and Company, Reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Keith Ward and Eleanor Campbell. "Public School 201, 155 St. & 65 Avenue, Flushing, N. Y." stamped at top right left corner of title page. Light rubbing, surface soiling to covers. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. New York , Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 236 pages, 4 b&w line plates, olive green cloth covers with orange and black decoration. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Reprints two charming tales in one book: "Spring Story" and "The High Hills". Illustrated by the author. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1st, 1913, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 340 pages plus 5 page addenda in rear. Blue cloth with the title in black and a vignette of Woozy in black and red on the spine, and the title and an illustration of Scraps in red, black and yellow on the front board. Illustrated profusely in b&w and color by John R. Neill, including color illustrated endpapers. Both hinges, front and rear, cracked. Previous owner's bookplate on half title page. There is a clear tape repair to front fly leaf, and the cloth spine at one time was loose, but now reglued. A fair copy only but clean and attractive internally.
Hardcover. NY, Hurst Co., reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 224 pages. Two stories in one volume. 6 color plates along with many b&w line illustrations. Light water stain pg. 134-160. Light green cloth with black and blue design, gilt on spine. Back hinge cracked. Humorous episodes of a red headed boy playing practical jokes on his Uncle Ike.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Company , 2nd, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Penelope's Experiences England - 176 pages. 53 black & white illustrations by Charles E. Brock. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Green cloth covers with bright gilt title and decorations on spine and cover. Clean, tight copy. Penelope's Experiences Scotland - 301 pages. 55 black & white illustrations by Charles E. Brock. Green cloth covers with bright gilt title and decorations on spine and cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green covers with gold and red decoration. 437 pages. Black & white illustrations and frontispiece with tissue-guard by Jessie McDermott. Spine a bit loose. Green covers with gold and red decoration. Wear to corners, spine.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 251 pages, gray cloth stamped in red and black, b&w line illustrations. The second book in the series. Light shelf wear.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 252 pages, gray cloth stamped in red and dark blue, b&w line illustrations. The second book in the series. Light shelf wear.