NY, Century Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 4 b&w illustrations, endpaper drawing by Manning de V. Lee. Previous owner's signature on front end paper and blank prelim page, Scarce title.
Minneapolis, MN, Milkweed Editions, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. 198 pages. Cover art and chapter heading art by Paul Mirocha.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 64 pages. Black & white lithographs by Zhenya Gay. Previous owner's signature front end papers. Soiling to end papers. Clear plastic protective cover, but no dust jacket. Spine faded.
NY, World Publishing, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 143 pages, illustrated in b&w by Kurt Werth. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Small chunk gone from top spine of the dust jacket otherwise very good.
Paperback. NY, Scribner & Co., 1st wraps, 1879, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Complete individual copy. Stapled with 2-color paper covers, small mailing label. B&W illustrations. A collection of juvenile fiction from the period: Palmer Cox, Susan Coolidge, Frank Stockton, others. Edges frayed, a few corners creased.
Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 56 pages, illustrated in b&w by Garrett Price. Dust jacket with light edgewear, soil. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.
NY, Parents Magazine Press , 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Jack Kent. Mild soil to several pages, previous owner's inscription (in pencil) inside front cover.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages, b&w illustrations by Eva. A. Watson. Tan cloth with blue design.
London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Noddy Book 17, hardcover with a bright dust jacket. 60 pages illustrated in color by Blyton.
Hardcover. Boston, T.H Carter & Co., 1st, 1843, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 139 pages. Brown cloth with gold gilt lettering and design to spine. B&w illustrations throughout. Covers have soiling and edgewear. Several pages have some foxing to them. Previous owner's inscription. Front and rear endpapers are tanned.
Hardcover. Garden City, Garden City Publishing, Reprint, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages. 8 pages of full color illustrations by T.H. Robinson. Dust jacket edges show light wear and minor chipping. Record # 604382
Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 65 pages. Black & white Illustrations by Paul Kennedy. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Ernest Nister, 1st, circa 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Full color and black & white illustrations by E. Stuart Nesbit. Rear endpaper has been removed. Moisture stain on back cover. Overall, a nice copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee Co., 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages. Hardcover. Part of "The Radiophone Boys Stories" series. Previous owners last name at top right corner of front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally McNally & Company, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 116 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Dorothy Lake Gregory. Full color paste down illustration on front cover, with titles in gilt. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 2nd Printing, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 290 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription on half title page. Illustrated with black & white drawings by William Sanderson. Orange cloth covers with moderate wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally McNally & Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 62 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated covers. Measures: 6.75" X 5.5". Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Features full color and black & white illustrations. Light rubbing to cover edges, dime size abrasion on back cover left of illustration. Clean, tight.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st Edition, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. Hardcover children's book with white cloth covers. Bright full page, full color illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with toning to edges, price-clipped & bright.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, Reprint, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 393 pages. Hardcover. Brick cloth covered boards with sunfade, soiling & faded gilt titles to spine. Cover illustrated paste down in full color with gilt titles. Illustrated by Allen B. Doggett in black & white, and frontis illustration, "Peter has won!" in full color. Profusely illustrated, toning throughout, previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Tight binding, clean pages throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 269 pages, b&w and a few color illustrations by Kurt Wiese, very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, 2nd, n.d., Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated by Peter Spier. Part of The Mother Goose Library series. Green cloth-covered hardcover with front and back cover color illustrations and black lettering on spine. Beautiful illustrations, decorated endpapers. Wear to cover edges and to spine. Corners bumped. Slight foxing to back endpaper. Overall a good copy of a charming book.
Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated.Price clipped dust jacket with chipping. Illustrated in color by Rosemary Wells. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
Hardcover. Toronto, Pantheon, Reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 62 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar. Illustrated in black & white by Ben F. Stahl. Remainder mark bottom edge.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 2nd, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Color illustrations. Light edge wear, rubbing to covers and spine. Covers and end papers slightly soiled; else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co., 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 227 pages, three-color illustrations by Frederick Richardson, illustrated end paper. Soiling, edge wear to covers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Small tear to rear fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 3rd pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 157 pages. Orange cloth cover with light wear to corners and edges. Previous owner's inscription on front endpage. Dust jacket is worn and has faint smudges. Inside is bright and clean, with b&w illustrations throughout. A nice copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Co., 1st, 1882, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 275 pages, plus publisher's advertisements in rear, with illustrated cover and frontispiece. Minor corner and edge wear, page edge fade, otherwise, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 168 pages, b&w illustrations by Helen Sewell. Light edgewear and chipping to dust jacket protected by mylar cover. Overall, a tight clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co, Reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 214 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket has chipping and foxing, now protected in Brodart cover. Inscribed in two places in front end papers, 1942 & 1981. Illustrated by F.D. Bedford. Color and ink plates throughout.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, rep, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color, b&w Illustrations by Maginel Wright Enright. Gilt lettering dulled, previous owner's signature number on front end paper
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 86 pages. Black & white Illustrations by Richard Bennett. Light soil to covers. Clean, tight copy. Record # 24619
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Library Ed. (NOT ex-lib) Light wear to dj, closed tear. Linen covered covers with ripples, production error. Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky
Hardcover. London, Frederick Muller, Rep., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. by Harry & Ilse Tootill. 198 pages. (1st pub. in 1963)
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 1st , 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Intro. by May Lamberton Becker. Authors include De La More, Ruth Sawyer, Jack O'Brien, C.R. Brink, others. Artists include Paul Brown, V. Beck, Wiese, Lathrop, others. Green cloth spine faded otherwise VG
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white frontis. Previous owner's signature & inscription front end paper.
NY, Longmans Green & Co., Rep., 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. by Pelagie Doane. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Stokes, 3rd, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color, black & white drawings by author. Pencil marking on tissue frontis. Light pencil to title page otherwise clean, tight. Spine cloth a little faded.
Hardcover. New York , E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages, dust jacket slightly wrinkled, otherwise in good condition.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st US, 1981, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages, illustrated in black & white by Stephan Ryan. spine faded, small creases
Hardcover. NY, Longmans Green and Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white Illustrations by Avery Johnson, End papers illustrated. Light soil to cloth cover. corner a bit bumped, and cloth torn on top front corner.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soil, edgewear and corners a bit bumped on covers. Spine cloth a bit wrinkled. All edges with soil. Small stain on front end papers. Previous owner's signature on front end paper.
New York, Harper, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 97 pages. Black & white illustrations by Rhoda C. Chase. Gift inscription on front fly leaf. Cover has very light wear to corners and spine edge.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, Unknown, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Small volume with color illustrations by the author throughout in four colors. Edgewear. Previous owner's signature; interior clean.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Page & Co., reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages, dark green cloth with black decoration, b&w drawings by Kipling. Top and bottom of spine cloth with light fraying. Otherwise clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Federal Book Company , reprint, 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. New York, James Miller, 1st, 1869, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 388 pages, blue cloth covers with black design on front, gilt design on spine. Many b&w line engravings throughout. Light soil to rear cover otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, University of London Press, 2nd, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 174 pages. Good dust jacket with edge wear, on top and rubbing on fore edge. Staining on rear dust jacket. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.
Hardcover. Cincinnati/NY, American Book Company, N/A, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan cloth over boards with the orange and black pictorial within an oval and initialed AR. 122 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Maginel Wright Enright. Sharp, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 114 pages, with illustrations by Leonard Lubin. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white line Illustrations by author Erik P. Kraft. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 468934
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st?, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 115 pages plus book advertisements in back. Slumber-Town Tales. Illustrated by Harry L. Smith. Two-tone frontispiece and 3 two-tone plates and illustrated endpapers. Previous owner's signature pasted in front endpaper. Small chunk missing at bottom of spine first few pages. Edgewear to covers and corners bumped.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 258 pages. Illustrated by Agnes Lehman. Illustrated endpapers. Heavy soiling to cover, spine. Corners bumped. Small stain at bottom edge of book.
Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 223 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Howard Simon. Color illustrated endpapers. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Light soiling to covers. Corners rubbed.
Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 270 pages. Black & white line plates by Pelagie Doane. Nicely handpainted in color by someone. Previous owner's signature in pencil front half-title page. Light soiling to endpapers, covers. Spine faded. Corners bumped. Faded orange top edge.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 227 pages. Black & white illustrations by Herbert Morton Stoops. Soiling to covers, especially bottom edge. Dust jacket with chipping, soiling. Brodart cover.
Philadelphia, Macrae Smith Co., 1st , 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 506 pages. 11 color plates. by N.C. Wyeth, Schoonover, others. Black & white drawings. "The Romance of America's History" series. Moire-pattern black cover with gilt lettering and two-color decoration on front Light sun fade to spine, corners bumped.
Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated in b&w by Robin Jacques. Dust jacket with minor soil, spine fade.
San Carlos, CA, Golden Gate Junior Book, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages. Attractive dust jacket with several closed tears.
NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 92 pages. Black & white illust. by Richard Erdoes. Previous owner's signature on front end-page. Three-color illust dust jacket with mouse front and back. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket with chips, closed tears, chunks gone from top and bottom spine.
New York, Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages, including glossary of Japanese terms. Ex-library copy. Blue dust jacket with faded spine; small tear to top left front cover. Otherwise very good.
Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Scarce. Brown pictorial cover with spine slightly cocked. Light edgewear to top and bottom spine, internally very good.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hard cover. 286 pages. Black & white illustrations by Gordon Grant. Book covers a bit bowed. Edgewear, corners rubbed. Soiling, markings to covers. No dust jacket. Previous owner's signature front end paper.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 184 pages. Black & white illustrations by Earl Mayan. Faded green top edge. Corners slightly bumped. Spine faded. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Scribner, Armstrong , 1874, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 347 pages plus 4 pages of advertisements in back. Black & white illustrations by various artists, including F. O. C. Darley and Thomas Nast. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. Previous owner's stamp front end paper. Corners and spine worn. Spine faded. Soiling to covers.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Griffith & Rowland Press, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 360 pages. Black & white illustrations. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. One map missing from page 135. Some tears along front hinge. Wear to corners and spine. Soiling to covers.
Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 328 pages. Foreword by Robert H. Davis. First few pages loose. Light rubbing to corners and spine.
NY, Century Co., 1st, 1890-91, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 volumes. 12 issues bound in hardcovers, black calf spines with gilt lettering, light scuffing, cracking. 968 pages. The top juvenile writers and artists of the day. Clean, tight condition. No library markings.
New York, Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 101 pages. Cloth boards. Color illustrations by Robert J. Lee. Dust jacket protected by clear plastic cover.
Softcover. Suva, Government of Fiji, Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Paperback. Illustrated with black & white drawings by J. K. Payne. Cover and front endpaper with slight bend at top right corner. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 50 pages with selected poems by Walt Whitman. Fantastically illustrated in color by Brian Selznick to complement biography. Very good condition, tight copy. Record # 512369
NY, Ariel/ Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 90 pages, illustrated in b&w by Douglas Gorsline. Minor chipping to dust jacket, small mark to corner of front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Century Co., 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 issues bound in one volume, black pebbled cloth over boards, gilt lettering on spine. 480 pages. A collection of the best juvenile writing and illustration of the day. Clean copy, no library marks.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear.
Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 125 pages, color and b&w illustrations by Aldren A. Watson. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Boston , Lothrop Publishing Co., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 347 pages, b&w full-page illustrations (not cedited). Terra-cotta cloth with dark brown and gilt decoration. Light shelf wear. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Scarce.
Dayton OH, Girl Scouts Inc., 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 11 separate issues, each 50 pages. Wonderful articles, fiction, ads, news of girl scout activities of the period. B&W photos and illustrations. This group features profiles of Bonita Granville and Deanna Durbin, articles on the NY World's Fair, careers in radio, "Can Girls be Lawyers?", others on pets, hair-dos, decorating your room, etc. Many ads and editorial on Girl Scouts, camp activities, uniforms. A back cover ad on the newly released Wizard of Oz. Mostly very good with some chipping, dog ears. Mailing label on covers.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, Reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Light chipping and small tears along edges of dust jacket.
Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, 1st thus, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Black & white illustrations. Light foxing to endpapers. Covers worn with rubbing to corners. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scribner's, reprint, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 83 pages plus 16 pages of ads. Black & white illustrations by Reginald B. Birch. Decorative cover and spine with gilt highlights. Small spot of fraying at bottom front cover edge at spine - approx. 1/4". Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, John C. Winston Company, Reprint, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 151 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Eunice Stephenson. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper, and inside front cover. A reading primer from "The New Silent Reader - A Basal Activity Series". A dime sized chunk of paper missing at the bottom of page 3 (and 4). Blue cloth covers with standard wear. A nice copy overall.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 131 pages. Hardcover. Illustrations by Frank Boyd. Previous owners inscription on preliminary page. Bit of ink missing from 'S' in Sorcerer on front cover - appears to have happened in production. Otherwise, minor wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, M. A. Donahue, Reprint, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 94 pages plus 1 ad page. Full color and black & white illustrations by Johnny Gruelle. Light rubbing to cover edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, Book Club, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 182 pages. Hardcover. Book Club edition. Features 2 stories: "Along Laughing Brook" and "On the Green Meadows". Illustrations by Harrison Cady. Slight cock to spine. Dust jacket with tape repaired tears, soiling and moderate wear. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Scott, Foresman and Company, Reprint, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by various artists. Previous owners name at top left corner of front endpaper, "Property of Board of Education" stamp at bottom right corner of title page. Clean, unmarked pages. Light wear.
Hardcover. Chicago, M. A. Donohue, Reprint, NA, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages of featured story followed by 10 page short story "One True Heart". 6 pages of ads. No date. Previous owners name in pencil on front endpaper and inside cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. Woodstock, N.Y., Overlook, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages, b&w illustrations by Kurt Wiese, very clean, tight copy, like new.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st US, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Color illustrations by Fred Banbery. Minor scratches on cover. Price sticker on the back cover otherwise very clean copy. Record # 802412
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 460 pages. Jack was eleven when the berserkers loomed out of the fog and nabbed him. "It seems that things are stirring across the water," the Bard had warned. "Ships are being built, swords are being forged." "Is that bad?" Jack had asked, for his Saxon village had never before seen berserkers. A great fantasy by this NEWBERY HONOR AUTHOR. Record # 803370
Hardcover. New York, Lodestar, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR EMILY ARNOLD MCCULLY ON TITLE PAGE. Red laminate covers and white laminate dust jacket with color illustration, lovely full page color illustrations by McCully. Clean covers and dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy of a beautiful children's book.
Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing Company, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 31 pages. B&W and color illustrations by Gay Galsworthy. Bright pictorial dust jacket. Clipped at bottom right hand corner of front flap. Light wear overall.
Hardcover. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 467 pages, b&w plates. Light edgewear to black covers. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Light foxing to top edge. Else clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, The Wise-Parslow Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages, with illustrations by Eleanor Campbell. Minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. n.p., Elke's Originals, Ltd., 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 81 pages, b&w photos. Maroon cloth with gilt titles to front and spine, ribbon marker, no dust jacket as issued. Light wear, small tear to box, but book itself is like new.
Hardcover. New Jersey, Barnes and Noble Books, 1st U.S., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. First U.S. edition. An entertaining history of the development of children's books. A clean, bright, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, First Edition, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 201 pages. Red cloth covered boards with black printed titles. Gilt decoration & gilt titles to black cloth spine. Light toning throughout. Faint soiling to red cloth, light fraying to crown & heel of spine. Otherwise clean & unmarked.
Softcover. London, U.K., Orchard Books, Reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unopened vacuum plastic sealed set, soft covers. Covers and interior pages are all clean and bright. Bindings are solid. This set contains 6 novels from Series 4 of Beast Quest, entitled The Amulet of Avantia. They are as follows: 1. Nixa The Death Bringer (No. 19), 2. Equinus the Spirit Horse (No. 20), 3. Rashouk the Cave Troll (No. 21), 4. Luna the Moon Wolf (No. 22), 5. Blaze the Ice Dragon (No. 23), and 6. Stealth the Ghost Panther (No. 24). Clean copies. Record # 34450
Paperback. NY, Rand McNally, Rep. wraps, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. by John R. Neill. A modern reprint in trade paperback. Orig. pub. in 1904. Record # 62268
Hardcover. Boston, Dewolfe, Fiske & Co., Unknown, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of short stories & poetry for children. The color Illustrations on covers features a little girl & a puppy. But no such story inside. Many black & white engravings, previous owner's inscription dated 1899.
NY, McLoughlin Brothers, unknown , unknown , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Heavy edgewear, rubbing and chipping to covers. Binding is loose, hinges cracked. Prelim. pages torn out. 77 Illustrations by T. Mortem
New York, Dutton, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages. Black & white illustrations by John Kaufmann. Cover and dust jacket have light edgewear. Dust jacket clipped, not affecting price.
NY, Henry Z. Walck, 1st , 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, B&W illust. by Richard Kennedy. Ex-lib with light tan stains to end papers where dust jacket was glued to covers. dust jacket a little wrinkled, but nice. light stamping, residue to rear end papers.
Hardcover. Chicago IL, Rand McNally , Reprint 1936, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages; colored and b&w plates by Frances Beem throughout; corners and edges bumped, heavy edgewear along fore-edge. Inscribed by previous owner with stamps on fly leaf and cover. Inside clean.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages, dust jacket art by the Dillons. With a SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY JORDAN on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 170 pages with b&w illustrations by Carol Nicklaus. Very good in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, price-clipped, light creases to flaps.
Hardcover. Springfield MA, W.J. Holland & Co., 1st, 1873, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three volumes complete. Matching blue cloth spines over black glazed boards with gold design and with a mounted color illustration on the front cover. Gilt design and lettering on spines.Short parables for children (one page) with a b&w engraved illustration opposite. Light edgewear to boards and corners.
Hardcover. reprint, November 9, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 25th anniversary edition. Unpaginated, color illustrations by the author. Light edge wear to dust jacket, small tear to top of spine. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus & Giroux , 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 147 pages. Light staining to front dust jacket flap. Foxing to top edge. Foxing and slight soiling to fore edge. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Philadelphia, John C. Winston Co., 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 8 color illus. by Ethel F. Everett, 282 pages + pub. ad in rear. Color plate to front green covers. Soil to bottom edge, browning, fade to front and back paste-downs and flyleafs.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 126 pages. Illustrated by Phyllis Rowand. Red cloth cover. Children's name written in pen front endpaper. Spine faded and a bit cocked. Cover bumped at spine and corners.
Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 2nd, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 184 pages. Illustrated by Woodi Ishmael. Illustrated endpapers. Soiled covers and endpapers. Spine and corners a bit bumped.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 79 pages. Black & white illustrations by Sherman C. Hoeflich. Green illustrated endpapers. Soiling to endpapers, covers. Spine wear.
New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 193, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 277 pages. Black & white illustrations by Wilfred Jones. Illustrated map endpapers. Stamping front endpaper. Review stamp half-title page. Soiling to endpapers, covers. Rear hinge cracked.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , Reprint., 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 431 pages. Black & whiite illust and color frontis and title page by F.D. Bedford. Some browning to end-papers. Front and spine of yellow cloth cover with black illust. Clear mylar dust jacket.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin/Lit. Guild, BC Ed., 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, B&W illustrations by Nicholas Panesis. Dust jacket with chipping, chunks gone from rear panel.
Hardcover. NY, Appletons, reprint , 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 B&W illustrations by B. West Clinedinst. Decorated terra-cotta cloth. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company, 1st, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations by Will Crawford. 353 pages. Dark blue cloth cover with gilt title and printed illustration, both slightly scratched. Minor scuffing to corners and top and bottom spine. Insides clean and undamaged.
NY, Cupples & Leon, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 246 pages + 6 pages of ads. Illust. with color frontispiece, and black & white drawings. Cover with color illustion. Foxing to title-page. Spine edgewear, corners bumped.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hard cover. 192 pages. Black & white lithographs by Grace Paull. Red top edge. Edgewear. Corners rubbed. No dust jacket.
NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 315 pages. Collection of 12 stories previously published in separate volumes. Gutter split from hinge at title-page. Dust jacket price clipped.
New York, Harper & Row , 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 305 pages plus a reading list at the back of the book. Minor edgewear to dust jacket, light discoloration at top of rear flap.
Hardcover. Boston, Lee & Shepard, 1st , 1870, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 171 pages + ads. Black & white illustrations by May. Frontispiece with tissueguard. Stain markings to top of first four pages. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Green cloth cover with raised decoration on front, gold lettering on spine. Wear to spine edges.
New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 74 pages. Black & white illustrations by Doug Panton. Edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Christian Herald, 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 334 pages. Black & white illustrations and frontispiece with tissue-guard by Arthur W. Brown. Corners slightly bumped. Rubbing to edges, corners, spine. Previous owner's inscription and stamping on front end paper.
New York, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 74 pages. Fading to endpapers. Dust jacket with light soiling.
NY, Century Co., 1st, 1883-84, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 volumes. 12 issues bound in hardcovers, black calf spines with gilt lettering. 984 pages. The top juvenile writers and artists of the day. Clean, tight condition. No library markings.
New York, Harper Collins , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages. Cloth boards. Dust jacket. Black remainder mark on bottom edge. A bright copy.
New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Very light sunfading to edges of endpapers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, George Routledge, reprint, nd (1856), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 499 pages, top edge gilt, maroon cloth (with some rubbing to front panel), black calf spine with gilt lettering. Ads on end papers.
New York, St Martin's Press, 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Pictoral dust jacket shows very light edgewear. Internally very good.
NY, Viking, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&W illustrations by Alan E. Cober. 141 pages. In a lightly soiled, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Cleveland OH, World Publishing Co, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 216 pages. Light rubbing to spine and corners. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Slight bump to bottom edge of rear of book.
NY, Century Co., 1st, 1895-96, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 issues bound in two volumes, black calf spines with gilt lettering, pebbled cloth over boards . 1056 pages. A collection of the best juvenile writing and illustration of the day. Clean copy, no library marks. Vol. 2 with one signature loose. Light scuffing to top and bottom of leather spine.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st US, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages, end papers drawing, b&w illustrations by Arthur E. Becher. Red cloth covers with gilt design.
NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages, illustrated in color by Trina Schart Hyman. SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY HYMAN pasted on front fly leaf. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st thus, 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages, 16 two-color illustrations after Flaxman. Gray cloth with dark blue and gilt design.
Philadelphia, Penn Publishing, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 232 pages, hardcover, color frontispiece and 10 b&w line illustrations, end paper drawing by Hattie Longstreet Price. Very good in a edgeworn, chipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Illustrated by Borje Svensson in full color. All pop-ups intact. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Sheldon & Company, 1st, 1859, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages. Blue cover with embossed design and border, gilt lettering to spine, b&w frontispiece. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper, wear to cover, spine slightly cocked; otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, P. F. Volland Company, Reprint, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Full color illustrations by John Rae. Paper chipped along spine. Small stains on covers. Interior clean and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st US, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 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, George H. Doran, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages. Hardcover. Front endpaper has been removed. Full color frontis. Some black & white illustrations. Foxing to edges. Blue cloth covers with dark smudges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Cupples & Leon Company, Reprint, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 201 pages plus 11 pages of ads. Hardcover. Previous owners name written on front endpaper, with marking in red pencil on reverse of frontis, contents page, and at bottom of page 3. Foxing to edges. Cloth covers show light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Desmond FitzGerald, Inc., 1st, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Hardcover. Text and Black & white illustrations by A. Vimar. Full color illustrated cover with light rubbing to edges, darkening in spots. Clean, unmarked pages. Good plus condition.
Hardcover. New York, Howard Frisch, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 64 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Victor J. Dowling. Price clipped dust jacket with fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.
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, W. W. Norton & Company, First Edition, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 445 pages. Hardcover. Orange cloth boards with magenta metallic design & titles to cover & spine. Bright dust jacket with light sunfade to spine. Illustrated in full color throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.
New York, The Viking Press, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 248 pages, b & w illustrations by Kurt Wiese, very clean, tight copy, slight age-tanning to end papers, chipping and small taped tears to dust jacket.
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. New York, Henry Holt & Co, 1st, 1928, Dust Jacket: None, 178 pages, color frontispiece and b&w illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, green cloth cover with gilt lettering and pictorial of peacock. Light wear to cover; otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. W. Bradley, 7th, 1859, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 396 pages. Brown embossed cloth, gilt. Hinge cracked and loose, back board nearly completely removed. Minor foxing throughout. Black & white plates throughout. Previous owner's inscription penciled on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 216 pages. Previous owners rubber stamping (an anchor with initials - approx. 1") to front cover of dust jacket (just below title), endpaper, half title, and contents page - stamp appears just once on these pages. Pages are age-toned otherwise very good. Dust jacket with chipping, short closed tears along edges. - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover.
Hardcover. New York , Harper & Row, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 41 pages, illustrated in b&w by William Pene Du Bois. Illustrated boards in a bright dust jacket with some light edgewear, chipping, some closed tears, unclipped with a price of $2.50. Dahl's third children's book.
Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, reprint, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 54 pages. B&w frontispiece with tissue guard. Heavy soiling to yellow cloth cover. Cover edges at top and bottom of spine frayed. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Some minor soiling and staining in text.
Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st thus, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Illustrated throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. Dust jacket edge tears and fade, otherwise, internally clean and tight.
Boston , Little, Brown and Company , reprint, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 299 pages. Illustrated front endpaper, flyleaf, and end flyleaf and end paper. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Previous owner's bookplate. Some pages slightly torn. Light edge wear
Hardcover. New York, NY, Grosset & Dunlap, First Thus, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 196 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with rectangular paste down illustration in full color. Tanning to spine, some soiling & quarter inch abrasion to lower left of front board. Frontis illustration, Down the Long Hill Swept the Two Sleds, in black & white. Tender attachment to frontis illustration, else tight. Light small amount of fraying to crown & heel. Clean inside.
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