Everyman's Library, September 1994. Hardcover. The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children is a treasury of great poems chosen for the sheer pleasure they offer to readers of all ages. Compiler Gillian Avery's aim was to avoid condescending to children and "to assemble a collection of poems that the owner..... More
Houghton Mifflin, October 1992. Oversized Hardcover. From nursery rhymes to poems, fables, and stories, this lavishly illustrated collection with more than two hundred full-color drawings by sixteen different artists is the ultimate story book. The Little Match Girl, Cinderella, PaulBunyan, and many, many more, this one-volume library of classic children's..... More
Quality Paperback Book Club, January 1995. Trade Paperback. Very clean copy. Lavishly illustrated throughout. More
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963. Cloth. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'} in tattered, torn DJ with clipped front flap. Darkened spine. Jacket verso also darkened at folds & spine. Foxing & fingerprint stains on white background areas of DJ design. Red cloth covered board with black lettering along..... More
Grosset & Dunlap, 1945. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. Pine green cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Full color illustration by Arthur Szyk on front board and end pages, frontispiece and elsewhere. Foxing to fore-edge. Wear to board edges. Bumped/worn corners. [343 pages]. More
Grosset & Dunlap, January 1972. Trade Paperback. More
Price Stern Sloan Pub, January 1972. Hardcover. More
Grosset & Dunlap, January 1972. Paper Back. More
Buckethead Enterprises of Oz, May 1991. First Edition. Paper Back. Stated, 'First Edition' but some parts of this had previously been published. Discoloration streaks on cover. 184 pages. More
Columbia Univesity Libraries, January 1956. First Edition. Stapled Pamphlet. Octavo. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/4'} Stapled pamphlet with darkening along spine edge. Mildly tanned front cover. Heavily, marginally tanned back cover. Internal text without markings. No underlining. No notations. Etc. 50 pages. More
Studio, September 1980. First Thus. Cloth. {11' x 9'} Oblong. In dustjacket. Red end pages. Facsumile of original 1896 edition. Navy blue cloth covered boards with gold decoration & lettering, spine, front & rear panel. [55 pages]. More
BLACK SWAN, January 2007. Trade Paperback. A story of innocence existing within the most terrible evil, this is the fictional tale of two young boys caught up in events beyond their control. As is. One page has a closed tear. Does not effect text. More
Alfred A. Knopf, January 1956. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in chipped, torn & creased with sun bleached spine. Foxing & damp stains, most visible on verso. Flap is not clipped. Rose red cloth with black lettering. Much of the red cloth is washed out and turned to a blush color..... More
Seeley, Service and Co ltd, January 1925. Hardcover. Mild slant to spine. Rubbing & shelf wear. Tanning to textblock edges. More
Oxford University Press, January 1976. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo in mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Dark brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Mild foxing & dust stains textblock edges. [477 pp.]. More
E.P. Dutton, 1929. First Thus. Cloth. First American Edition in dust-stained, spine-darkened pink dustjacket with blue lettering and chipping/edgewear with considerable wear to top of spine. Spine & corners Carolina blue & boards sky blue. Much faded/darkened gilt printed paper labels spine and front board. Edges of cloth worn/frayed top..... More
Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1900. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. [5 & 3/4' x 8 & 3/4'] This looks to be a 1900 First edition. And many other dealers agree with this opinion. Nevertheless, knowledgeable voices,in the business of books, voices much more knowledgeable than my own, say there is a 1898..... More
FOREIGN LANGUAGE, January 1979. Paper Back. {7' X 8'} Wonderful, unique color illustrations. Adapted from the cartoon film of the same name. Mild user wear. Some darkening/foxing. Rubber stamped image of face (that does not belong in book verso of cover. [84 pages]. More
Putnam Juvenile, September 1973. Hardcover. More
Scribner, 1946. Hardcover. slight rubbing on spine. More
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Cloth. 1935, reprint of 1925 first edition in brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Some lean to spine. Ten illustrated plates (including frontispiece) by Jessie Willcox Smith of various young Dickens characters. Cover has Smith illustrations of 'Tiny Tim and Bob Cratchit on..... More
George G Harrap & Co Ltd, January 1922. Reprint. Cloth. 1922 reprint of 1909 edition. Burgunday cloth with heavily worn edges and ridges with gold lettering. A number of these color plates are loose and some missing. Non-authorial gift inscription on fep. Tanning to end pages. Foxing & tanning scattered..... More
Puffin Books, September 2010. Trade Paperback. Roald Dahl's personal stories together in one edition! Where did Roald Dahl get all of his wonderful ideas for stories? From his own life, of course! Boy includes tales of sweetshops and chocolate, mean old ladies, and the Great Mouse Plot. And then Going..... More
Candlewick Press (MA), September 2021. Hardcover. A #1 New York Times bestseller From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo and two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall comes a fantastical meditation on fate, love, and the power of words to spell the world. We shall all, in the end, be led to where..... More
