New York Review of Books, November 2003. Hardcover. In Greenwich Village an orphaned black cat lives happily with her master, a sea captain. Still, the gentle Jenny Linsky would like nothing more than to join the local Cat Club, whose members include Madame Butterfly, an elegant Persian, the high-stepping Macaroni..... More
George G. Harrap & Company, 1916. First Edition. Cloth. Dark brown cloth, pink titles, color front cover illustration plate affixed with gilt border & gilt design on spine. Previous owner's gift inscription circa Xmas 1927. Darkened textblock edges. Wear to board edges. Four color plates and 12 full page b&w..... More
Grosset & Dunlap, No Date. Cloth. No date, but I think this is from about 1930. No credits of illustrations but I am pretty sure the frontispiece is by W.H. Margetson. Grey cloth with moderate leaning spine. Darkening at spine and margins. Wear to edges. Heavy wear top & bottom..... More
Tuttle. Trade Paperback. 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
Franklin Library, 1975. Limited. Leather. Octavo (Six-inches x Eight-inches) Tan full leather with gilt decorations & John Tenniel gilt illustration front & back panels. Raised bands on spine with gold lettering. Silk moire end pages & silk ribbon marker. Gilt textblock edges. Tight binding. Beautiful as new condition all over..... More
Puffin Books / Penguin, 1949. Mass Market PaperBack. 4 & 1/4' x 7'; moderate shelfwear; darkened at margins and spine. Internal pages likewise darkened at margins (158 pages.). 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
Random House, 1987. First Thus. Cloth. Signed by author/illustrator: Dr. Seuss; numbered/limited #263/300; in tan Slipcase: This is commenorative edition of the first printing published in 1939. Clean, sound, like new. Tan cloth with gold lettering on spine. Blind stamp on front board. In fine slipcase. Complete number string. More
Howard Baker, January 1978. Hardcover. More
Howard Baker, January 1977. Hardcover. More
Chelsea Green Publishing Company, June 1987. Trade Paperback. Jean Giono's beautiful allegorical tale is legendary. Written in the 1950's, its message was ahead of its time, inspiring readers to rediscover the harmonies of the countryside and prevent its willful destruction. The narrator, journeying by foot across the barren plains of..... More
Charles Scribners Sons, August 1913. Cloth. No dust jacket. 7th printing. Olive green cloth with gold lettered & tooled gold border line. Spine is heavily darkened. Darkened top textblock edge. Deckled foeredge. Pencil writing front free end page. (302 pages.). More
Houghton, Mifflin and Company / Riverside Cambridge Press, 1899. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo. -- Four & 3/4-inch x Seven & 1/2-inch; Early reprint, published approximately 1899; missing date on title page indicates this is not a first printing. Green cloth covered boards with wear to edges, darkening/dust stains. Gold lettering on..... More
University of Nebraska Press, March 1994. Hardcover. More
THOMAS Y CROWELL COMPANY, January 1952. Cloth. In chipped, torn dust jacket. More
Johnny Gruelle Company/Kingsport Press, 1943. Cloth. Pictorial boards; black cloth spine & paper covered pictorial boards. Considerable marginal wear to boards. Sound binding. No known indication of Edition. Zempel's 'First Editions: A Guide to Identification' quotes Johnny Gruelle Company statement from 1947: 'There is no way of surely identifying the..... More
M. A. Donohue & Company, January 1928. Hardcover. Black cloth spine;pictorial paper covered boards. Considerable wear to margins. Slanted spine yet still intact. There seems to be no indication of edition and according to Zempel's 'First Edition: A Guide to Identification' includes a 1947 statement from the publisher, Donohue: 'we..... More
Johnny Gruelle company, January 1939. Cloth. Pictorial boards; blue cloth spine; paper covered boards. Considerable marginal wear. No way to determine First Editions on Raggedy Ann titles according to Zempel. More
Schocken Books, 1987. Hardcover. (Five & 3/4-inch x Seven & 3/4-inch) in edgeworn dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original price of $5.95 on flap. Pictorial paper covered boards. Illustrated end pages. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown, covering copyright materials. More
Moffat, Yard & Co., 1919. First Edition. Cloth. Three Color Plates. Discoloration to boards especially at bottom edge & bow to boards. Interiors clean. Binding intact. More
Grange Books, January 1993. Hardcover. Light shelf wear on the jacket. More
Square Fish, May 2007. Trade Paperback. Madeleine L'Engle's ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic, now a major motion picture. It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset..... More
Square Fish, May 2007. Trade Paperback. Madeleine L'Engle's ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic, now a major motion picture. It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset..... More
Pied Piper Books, 1946. Hardcover. Quarto; {7 & 1/4' x 10'}; Heavily worn illustrated full color pape coveed boards with considerable wear, flaking and scuff marks. Dark stains and soiling, especially visible back cover. In blue crayon in a child's hand, 'Allen' is lettering verso of front cover board. Interior..... More
Square Fish, May 2007. Trade Paperback. A flash of lightning, quivering ground, and, instead of her grandparents' farm, Polly sees mist and jagged mountains -- and coming toward her, a group of young men carrying spears. Why has a time gate opened and dropped Polly into a world that existed..... More
Square Fish, May 2007. Trade Paperback. The third book in Madeleine L'Engle's spellbinding A Wrinkle in Time Quintet. "Another provocative spellbinding tale." --Philadelphia Inquirer Some things have to be believed to be seen. Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden..... More
Square Fish, May 2007. Trade Paperback. In this companion volume to "A Wrinkle In Time" (Newbery Award winner) and "A Wind In The Door" fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the..... More
Geoffrey Bles, 1956. Cloth. 2nd UK printing in original dustjacket, tattered, torn with edgewear and chipping. Darkened/foxed verso. Rough tears along spine. Grey cloth with silver letterig. Spine is leaning. Textblock edges darkened and dust stained. Front end page map of Archenland Desert is foxed. Likewise the blank rear end..... More
Geoffrey Bles, 1956. Reprint. Cloth. Facsimile dustjacket very good+/fine overall, bright and unmarked. Jacket printed with statement on front flap 'facsimile Dust Jackets L.L.C.' 3rd UK printing. Pigeon blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. Spine slants slightly, also darkened. Board edges slightly darkened. Non-authorial name hand written front free..... More
Geoffrey Bles, 1957. Reprint. Cloth. UK 2nd printing. In facsimile dustjacket: very good+/fine overall, bright, clean, without markings. Navy blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. A few grey smudges on boards. Slightly leaning spine. Another illustrated map, 'Wild Lands of the North Narnia: Archenland' tanned and darkened. Rear free..... More
Geoffrey Bles, 1952. First Edition. Cloth. First/first UK. In facsimile dustjacket, very good+/fine overall, bright, clean, unmarked. Stated on front flap: 'Facsimile Dust Jackets L.L.C.' Pale blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. Spine also leans and is bowed. Likewise the textblock fore-edge bows inward. Darkened textblock edges. Heavily spine-darkened/discolored..... More
R. Worthington, January 1884. Hardcover. Pictorial paper covered boards. Considerable wear throughout especially at margins; Spine is discolored/faded. 8 chromolithographs. Heavy foxing. Gutter is split at title page. Non-authorial inscrition front free end page. Previous owner has filled in the most of the day of week pages with family names..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, November 1980. Trade Paperback. This volume contains twenty-four of the best known fairy tales in the English language, presented here in the exact words of their first English publication or of the earliest surviving text. Including "Sleeping Beauty," "Bluebeard," "Cinderella," "Thumbelina," and "Hansel and Gretel," as..... More
Chelsea House Pub, October 1988. Trade Paperback. Traces the life of the black American poet who was born in Africa, brought over to New England as a slave, and published her first poem while still a teenager. More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing. SIGNED BY MAURICE SENDAK on bookplate affixed to front free endpaper. More
Random House, February 1986. First Thus. Cloth. Signed/limited edition #39/300. Like new. Green cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine & blind stamp front boards. In slipcase also in green cloth. Complete number string. More
HarperCollins, September 1981. Hardcover. Here in the attic of Shel Silverstein you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire. You will talk with the Broiled Face, and find out what happens when Somebody steals your knees, you get..... More
Enchanted Lion Books, April 2013. Hardcover. You should ever bear in mind that it is to your kind parents that you are indebted for your food, and for the privilege of staying home from school when you let on that you are sick. Therefore you ought to respect their little..... More
Chronicle Books, March 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. 100% of Last Week Tonight's proceeds will be donated to The Trevor Project and AIDS United. HBO's Emmy-winning Last Week Tonight with John Oliver presents a children's picture book about a Very Special boy bunny who falls in love with another boy bunny.Meet..... More
Philomel Books, October 1987. Hardcover. Celebrating 30 years of the beloved classic Owl Moon from renowned children's book author Jane Yolen and Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator John Schoenherr! Late one winter night a little girl and her father go owling. The trees stand still as statues and the world is silent..... More
