Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, n.d. Griset, Ernest. Hardcover. 4to, full light green pictorial cloth printed in brown and black, undated but circa WW1. Four chromolithographs (including frontis), 30 full page wood engravings and multiple half page engavings by Ernest Griset. Frederick Loeser & Co. Circular book store stamp to.....
New York: Viking Press, 1973. Stewart, Arvis. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., 8vo, pictorial boards, illustrated by Arvis Stewart with music written by John Sebastian Brown. Mooncusser is an old New England term for a wrecker, in this case a surly lighthouse keeper who even tries to keep his own.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. Ambrus, Victor G. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg, 8vo, illustrated in line by Victor G. Ambrus. Fine in fine, unclipped dj.
New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1975. Abrams, Lester. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg. Square 4to full red cloth, illustrated in color throughout by Lester Abrams. Signed by Alexander on the half title. Fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.
New York: Dutton, 1989. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., 8vo, cloth-backed boards, an adventurous young heroine and her guardian search for legendary treasure.The 4th of Vesper Holly's adventures. Fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.
Cambridge: Candlewick Press, 2008. Dunbar, Polly. 1st. Hardcover. 1st ptg., tall 8vo, illustrated papercovered boards. An illustrated young adult novel about yung Lizzie's Dad who's building himself wings. With color drawings by Polly Dunbar. Fine in fine, unclipped dj.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1954. Pene du Bois, William. Edition not noted. Hardcover. 8vo, full red cloth, a family attracts unusual animals and birds as companions, ending with the abandoned newly hatched pigeon they called Smoky -- their brother. Profusely illustrated with gray-scale drawings by William Pene du Bois. Slightly.....
New York: Viking, 1998. Brent, Isabelle. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg. small 4to, full blue cloth, with the illuminated illustrations by Isabelle Brent. Very light wear to board edges, else fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.
New York: Dial, 2008. Jeffers, Susan. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg. thus, 4to picture book, revised edition, pictorial boards, illustrated in color throughout by Susan Jeffers. Fine in near fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks. Signed by the artist on the title page. Signed by the artist.
New York: Walden Pond Press/HarperCollins, 2016. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., paper-covered boards stamped in silver, three kids try to tell a very special teacher what she means to them after she announces that illness will keep her from finishing the school year. Fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous.....
Cambridge: Candlewick Press, 2006. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg.,8vo, full brown "cloth", Winner of both the Printz Award and Boston Globe Horn Book Medal. With the softcover ARC for this first book in the series. Fine in fine, unclipped dj, apparently unread.
New York: Cupples & Leon, 1917. Gruelle, Johnny. Edition not noted. Hardcover. 16mo, gray boards printed in navy with color cover plate by John B. (Johnny) Gruelle, plus color frontis and 7 additional plates and line drawings. Creasing top top corners of a few pages, light wear to tips else.....
New York: Henry Holt, 2002. Roberts, David. 1st. Hardcover. 1st ptg. Small 8vo, full green cloth, Book One of the Eddie Dickens Trilogy, with David Roberts' humorous drawings and signed by the author with his British publisher's stamp (Faber and Faber). As new. Fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous.....
New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1931. Armer, Sidney and Laura Adams. 1st ed. Stated 1st ed., full red-brown cloth with darker brown titling and illustration, Newbery medalist for 1932. Illustrated by sidney Armer and Laura Adams Armer, a fine bright copy in heavily chipped early dj mentioning the Longman's.....
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1969. Fetz, Ingrid. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., 8vo chapter book, illustrated boards with delightful line drawings by Ingrid Fetz. Young Mary wants a bear companion and finally grows one from seed. Fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.
New York: Orchard Books, 1996. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg.,small 4to cloth-backed boards. In 1851 three children travel alone to a new life in America by way of Liverpool. Bookplate signed and dated (1996) by Avi affixed to front free endpaper. As new in fine, unclipped dj. Bookplate signed by.....
New York: Orchard Books, 1996. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg.,small 4to cloth-backed boards. From shipboard adventures to the milltown of Lowell, Massachussetts, the drama comes to an exciting conclusion. Bookplate signed and dated (1996) by Avi affixed to front free endpaper. As new in fine, unclipped dj. Bookplate signed by.....
New York: Atheneum, 2011. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., 8vo cloth-backed boards. A feisty newsy and a mysterious girl in 1893 New York attempt to free his sister from The Tombs with the help of an eccentric lawyer. Fine in fine, unclipped dj.
New York: Morrow, 1980. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., 8vo cloth-backed boards. Cover art by David Weisner. An exciting adventure tale for reluctant readers. Jamie makes up for his reading disability by inventing stories about the clouds until he seees a real adventure with a thief dropping from an airplane.....
New York: Orchard Books, 2005. Floca, Brian. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., 8vo, paper-covered boards, illustrated in grayscale by Brian Floca. Following the further adventures of Poppy and Rye and their son Ragweed Junior. Apparently unread in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.
La Jolla: Green Tiger Press, 1982. Louis-Lucas, Natalie. Softcover. 12mo softcover minibook, from the Jataka Tales, one of the Envelope Library, charmingly illustrated in color by Natalie Louis-Lucas. Fine wraps with envelope.
Farrar Straus Giroux, 1987. Babbit, Natalie. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ed., square 8vo, full turquoise cloth, illustrated in line by the author. Red "P" stamped on bottom edge else very good in lightly chipped, unclipped dj.
New York: Pantheon, 1962. Bacon, Peggy. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., 8vo, full blue cloth, illustrated by the author in grayscale, a delightful fantasy about a special hatchiling that arouses greed and envy. Red H stasmped on front free endpsper else fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.....
New York: Viking Press, 1935. Paull, Grace. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., tall 8vo, full cream cloth, illlustrated with color illustrated endpapers and grayscale lithographs by Grace Paull. Fine in lightly rubbed, price-clipped dj, no previous owner's marks.
New York: Viking Press, 1942. Paull, Grace. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., tall 8vo, full green cloth, illustrated with illustrated endpapers, full color pages and line drawings by Grace Paull. Fine in lightly sunned, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.