Hardcover. London, UK, George Routledge and Sons, First Thus, c. 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 372 pages. Attractive volume. No date, c. 1918 with one hundred and eighty-four illustrations by Sir John Gilbert. Frontis engraving, "He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner." Previous owner's signature to preliminary page. Gilt embossed illustration with additional black & red print to covers & spine. Fraying to crown & heel of spine and to board corners. Front cover is attached & tender to lower 2 inches. Light toning to pages throughout. In very good condition for its age.
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. Phila, Lippincott , 1st thus, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 8 color plates by George Hood. Top edge gilt. Blue cloth w/cover label in color. Super condition
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st illustrated thus, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations by George Wharton Edwards. Blue beveled covers with 3-color illust.
Hardcover. Boston, W. A. Wilde Company, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 247 pages, with drawings by Sears Gallagher. Minor edge wear, and previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 261 pages with fourteen illustrations. Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine & illustrated cover label. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. A nice copy.
Softcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, color & b&w Illustrations by Tenggren, fragile cardboard covers with wear/rubbing to edges of spine and corners. Slight stain to fore edge, not affecting text. Internally very good.
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.
Boston, Lothrop Lee Shepard, 1st, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 218 pages. Black & white illustrations. Cover has edgewear. Previous owner's sticker on inside of front cover.
Boston, Pilgrim Press, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 153 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper.Color frontis illustration. Top edge gilt. Some light discoloration on cover spine.
Softcover. New York, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 page paperback with text and full color photographs. Slides into a cardboard case that opens like a book and houses 3 ammonite fossils.
Softcover. New York, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 page paperback with text and full color photographs. In cardboard box that opens like a book and houses three gem/mineral samples.
Hardcover. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 151 pages. Black & white illustrations by Robert Lawson. Green cloth cover. Tear to top back cover edge. Light water damage to first pages, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Boston, The Horn Book, Inc., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 488 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket, good condition. Very little wear, upper spine slightly cocked, otherwise clean and tight. All 6 editions of the Horn Book Magazine for 1953 (Feb, April, June, Aug, Oct, Dec) in maroon cloth binding. December 1953 is "Laura Ingalls Wilder Issue".
Hardcover. Boston, The Horn Book, Inc., 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 504 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket, good condition. Very little wear, clean and tight copy. All 6 editions of the Horn Book Magazine for 1955 (Feb, Apr, June, Aug, Oct, Dec) in maroon cloth binding.
Hardcover. Boston, The Horn Book, Inc., 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 544 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket, good condition. Very little wear, spine cocked, otherwise clean and tight copy. All 6 editions of the Horn Book Magazine for 1957 (Feb, April, June, Aug, Oct, Dec) in maroon cloth binding.
Hardcover. Mason, Jumping Jack Press, First Edition, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover pop-up movable adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffman's, The Nutcracker, the classic holiday story. Bright colors, in very good condition. Clean & unmarked, nice copy.
Hardcover. London, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st illustrated thus, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 279 pages. Color illustrations by Peter Hurd. Black cloth boards with faded spine. Illustrated front cover, loose-swinging front hinge. Internally very good.
Hardcover. Chicago, The John C. Winston Company, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 295 pages including "your dictionary." Color illustrations by Hattie Longstreet Price. Blue cloth pictorial binding faded at spine, with soiling to lower left corner of front cover. Book III of The New Silent Readers "A Basal Activity Series."
London or New York, London: Blackie & Son, Limited New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, ca. 1870s, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Scribner's catalogue of books for young people. 8 black & white illustrations by Frank Brangwyn. Green cloth cover slightly scuffed, gold embossing.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 299 pages plus 4 pages of "interesting books for boys." Copious black & white illustrations. Blue cloth cover, back scuffed and discolored. Front: gilt title laid over brown design. Spine slightly faded but gilt still bright.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hard cover. 55 pages. Black & white illustrations by Peter Newell. No dust jacket. Faded black top edge. Spine faded.
Hardcover. Chicago, A. Whitman, 3rd, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated in color by Gladys Rourke Blackwood. Previous owner's inscription in front. Wear and fraying to edges of spine.