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Toy Town Friends Stick 'Em Book
[New York]: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., Circa 1940. Paperback. Thin oblong quarto [22.5 cm x 28 cm] Stapled illustrated wraps. Good. The covers are mildly rubbed, creased and stained. The staining on the rear cover covers the entire surface, however it is light. The stickers have been applied..... More
Tuck-in Tales
Chicago: Merrill Company, Publishers, 1946. Paperback. Very thin folio [33 cm] Stapled pictorial wraps. Very good. The covers are subtly rubbed and age-toned. The pages are a little tanned as well, however they are still quite bright. Very clean. Number 3404. More
Edgar and the Tree House of Usher: a BabyLit book
Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 2016. Ron Stucki. Later printing. Board Book. 20pp. Duodecimo [18cm]; illustrated boards. "It was a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year ... " when the mischievous raven Edgar heads to his friend Roderick's house to work on their tree house. Edgar..... More
Little Women
New York: Vintage Classics, 2019. Reprint. Paperback. 544pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. More
The Kestral
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 244pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 light brown cloth with olive green paper over boards. With a slight splaying to the boards. In the dust jacket, illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak, showing only mild toning. Inscribed by Lloyd Alexander on the title..... More
The Secret of Black Cat Gulch (A Connie Blair Mystery)
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, Circa 1950. Reprint. Hardcover. 206pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Tan tweed paper over boards with brown lettering and decorative stamping on the spine and front cover. Publisher's dark brown top stain. The book is in very good condition, and the dust jacket is in good..... More
Estelle and Lucy
Greenwillow Books, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Small square quarto [25 cm] Pictorial paper over boards. In the dust jacket with the "Storyopolis Autographed" Label on the front panel, and yellowing to the inside flaps. A signed first edition of this charming tale of a cat and a mouse. The..... More
Winky Meets the Gypsies
Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1947. Hardcover. 56pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Textured blue paper covered boards with gilt stamped titles. Very good. The edges of the covers are lightly rubbed. The endsheets are mildly darkened. The dust jacket is in fair condition only, with numerous losses from the edges..... More
The Magic Circus
New York: A Studio Book; The Viking Press, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Slim quarto [27 cm] Pictorial paper over boards. The covers are heavily rubbed. Signed, with the notation "17 v 1980" by Christopher Logue on the title page. More
Don Sturdy in the Land of Volcanoes or The Trail of the Ten Thousand Smokes
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, 1925. Walter S. Rogers. Reprint. Hardcover. 214; [6]pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Red cloth over boards with a black ink stamped title on the spine, and a brown ink stamped title outlined in black on the front cover. Six pages of publisher's advertisements at the..... More
Tom Swift and His House on Wheels or A Trip to the Mountain of Mystery
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., 1929. Later printing. Hardcover. 216pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Striated blue cloth over boards with black lettering on the spine and front cover. Very good. Lightly rubbed and bumped along the edges of the spine and covers. The pages are browned. In a very good dust..... More
Tom Swift and His Outpost in Space.; Illustrated by Graham Kaye.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [c.1958]. Hardcover. 210 pp. Duodecimo. Light blue cloth with printed titles on front board and backstrip. Near fine/Very good. Extremities of jacket rubbed. Corners of jacket chipped with loss. Tape "repairs" on reverse of jacket at corners. More
Children's Literary Houses: Famous Dwellings in Children's Fiction
New York: Facts on File, 1984. Hardcover. Quarto [28.5 cm] in boards. Faint shelfwear to jacket, else as New. Contains several pages of illustrations devoted to each of the following books: The Secret Garden; The Sword in the Stone; Little Women: Charlotte's Web; David Copperfield; Johnny Tremain; Robinson Crusoe; and..... More
Tops and Whistles: True Stories of Early American Toys and Children
New York: The Viking Press, 1937. Grace Paull. First edition. Hardcover. 193pp. Large octavo [23 cm] Beige cloth with an orange ink stamped title on the spine, and an orange ink stamped vignette on the front cover. Brightly illustrated endsheets. The dust jacket is in very good condition. Very lightly..... More
The Wright 3
New York: Scholastic Press, 2004. Brett Helquist. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 318pp. Octavo [22 cm] Pictorial paper over boards. Near fine, in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by both Blue Balliett and Brett Helquist on the title page. More
The Story of Little Black Quibba
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1903. Hardcover. Hardcover. 142pp. Twentyfourmo [13.5 cm] 1/4 brown cloth with illustrated paper covered boards. Fair condition only. The covers are heavily rubbed. The underlying boards are exposed along the edges. The cloth backstrip has almost completely come away from the spine. The text..... More
Peter Pan and Wendy
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921. Mabel Lucie Attwell. Later printing. Hardcover. 185pp. Quarto [25 cm] Black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated paper front cover. Extremeties rubbed and corners bumped. Boards rubbed. Spine slightly rolled. Sections of the text block are fragile, illustrated pages (pages..... More
Hosie's Aviary
New York: The Viking Press, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Thin quarto [29 cm] Olive green cloth over boards. The spine ends are a bit bumped, and there is a light 4" scuff mark on the front board. In a dust jacket, with light surface and edge wear. The bottom..... More
Rinkitink in Oz
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., Circa 1941. Neill, John R. Later printing (Regular Edition). Hardcover. 314pp. Large octavo [23 cm] Blue cloth over boards with the title and a vignette in black ink on the spine, and a bright illustrated paper label mounted to the front cover. Illustrated endpapers..... More
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, [1959]. John R. Neill. Later printing. Hardcover. 226pp. Octavo [24 cm] Peach-colored cloth over boards with a black ink stamped title and vignette on the spine. With numerous spots of abrasion on the front cover, and gentle bumping to the ends of the spine..... More
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1908. John R. Neill. First edition, state B binding. Hardcover. 256pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Light blue cloth over boards with an illustrated paper label mounted to the front board. Endpapers printed in light olive-green. Complete, with 16 plates, two of which are detached and..... More
Dot and Tot of Merryland
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, [1920]. W. W. Deslow. Later Bobbs-Merrill printing. Hardcover. 225pp. Octavo [23 cm] Red cloth over boards with the title stamped in black on the backstrip, and an illustrated paper label, featuring the new cover design by Bobbs-Merrill, mounted to the front cover. Very good condition..... More
John Dough and the Cherub
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Company, 1906. Neill, John R. First edition, Second State. Hardcover. 314pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Tan cloth with title and illustration on front board and backstrip in red, green and black. Near fine. A few light spots on front board. Illustrated throughout with charming illustrations from..... More