1st edition hardcover with rubbed tips and chip at head of spine (rear). No date of publication listed, circa 1970's. 10 pp story in rhyme, simple prose for children with color photos of dressed dolls and jungle animals. View More...
First printing of the first edition so stated. Tight bright hardcover in glossy illustrated boards with outer paper just breaking on still sharp tips and bumped spine ends. Grammy & Popi gift dedication on title page. Remainder mark on foot of page block, rest of 24 pp text crisp and unmarked. Arnold Fox, a young fox with a love for chickens, takes a job as nanny to Mrs. Buff Orpington's brood of six chicks and proves his courage when his hungry siblings stop by one night for a chicken dinner. View More...
Very good, 1st Yearling printing soft cover, no dj. A nice pictorial paperback has light discoloration along edge and a bit of shelf wear along bottom edge otherwise shows well. 79 pp of tight text with no tears or writing. The wonderful story of how Mr. Twitmeyer, the former dog catcher finds Noodle the Poodle a loving home. View More...
Very good 1st edition hardcover, no dj. Author's presentation copy, signed on fep: "To Robin, Many Thanks - Best Wishes, David A. Adler". Not Exlib. Lightly bumped tips of red hardcover boards and lightly sunned blue cloth spine ends, text crisp and bright. No tears or soil. 88 pgs. Two sixth-grade boys try to control their teacher's mind, but find their project getting out of hand when serious things start happening to her. View More...
Very good book club edition hardcover showing moderate color loss at still tips from storage, internally fine w/name on illustrated fep. Two sets of twins receive a message in a fortune cookie, warning them to beware of a man in a blue hat!. Twins are: Gary & Kevin and Donna & Diane. View More...
Solid 1st edition hard cover in grey illustrated cloth boards showing a wolf or fox and a frog w/pine trees in background, pond with lillypads in foreground. Tips fairy sharp, spine ends bumped. Cloth soiled. Inner hinges cracked, text browned. Few small taped tears and ghosting from erased pencil check marks in the156 pp text. Profusely illustrated by Griset & Weir with color frontis of a red fox and a rabbit, all other illust in b/w, but include many full page plates. An exhaustive volume with 187 fables!. View More...
Reprint paperback is square with sharp tips and few light creases along stapled spine and a small indentation at foot of rear cover. No names, tears or soil in the 32 pp text. Not exlib. In this book With your little eye Take a look And play "I Spy View More...
Very good 1st edition hard cover in vg dust wrapper. Corners lightly bumped, text tight and crisp. Unclipped dj in mylar taped to boards. 258 pp with notes on the author. More than presentable exlib copy. Dido becomes embroiled with villainous plotters against the king, including her own wicked father. View More...
1st Edition ex-lib hard cover with pocket and all pp present. Corners bumped, text tight and bright. Unclipped dj in mylar displays well. 311 pp. In 1821, an orphaned twelve-year-old boy runs away from his unhappy home in Spain to England where he tries to find his father's family. View More...
VG 1st edition Exlib hard cover with pocket and all pages present. Previously published in the UK as VOICES in 1988. In the 1930's eleven-year-old Julia goes to spend the summer with her father and finds that he has abandoned her to the care of her stepmother who seems unaware of the strange voices that haunt Julia every night. View More...
Gift quality hardcover and dust jacket with matching art over glossy illustrated boards, beige spine, pictorial patterned endpapers, 32pp. #1783S. A replica of the Victorian original, no date, circa 1970s?. 16 wonderful color plates each facing simple 'handwritten' text. The Dutch dolls have fun and games, a fox-hunting trip that ends with a few falls at the brook, parties, dressing up, play-acting and feasting with the family. Bumped spine ends, tips still sharp, no writing, tears or soil in the text. Light wear at tips of dust wrapper but displays well in new mylar. See images or ask for t... View More...
Lovely 1st edition hard cover in beige cloth with red/black/green illustration on frt board, black titles with 2 horns of plenty filled with coins on frt cover, black titles w/red author's name on backstrip. Not an exlib! Lacking the dust wrapper. Tips bumped and brushed with the front fore-edge rubbed through but not unsightly. Inner hinges and page block tight. Fabulous b/w frontis by Howard Heath and a line drawing map in the text. Frontis illustration has pencil lines and two traced pennies on verso, which produced some raised circular indentations on the frontis but it displays well (see ... View More...
A Pair Of Matching Size Paperback Books With Color Illustrated Covers By Frances Brundage, Text Virginia Albert (Except Color Illustrations In Ma By Ernest Aris). 8.25X11.5". Published In Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Pub. Company, (1928), Both Books Are Complete, With Stapled Spines, White Spine Paper, Cover Illustrations Are The Same On Front And Back: In Ma Little Rabbit's Ears Are Washed, In Pa Little Rabbit Bounces On Pa's Leg, The Reverse Of The Front And Back Cover Pages, "Endpapers", Contain The Same Full Page Blue And White Illustration Of Ma Arriving Home To Her Family, Identical In... View More...
Fine condition 1st edition paperback, no names, tears or soil. Bear likes ice cream a lot! So when a marvelous miracle happens and it begins to snow ice cream, it is a dream come true. Or is it? Jez Alborough's slapstick tale will have children giggling and wishing for ice cream. View More...
Negligible surface wear at tips, text as new. Miniature book 5" at spine. Buzby character is a bird copyrighted by Post Office Telecommunications. View More...
Black cloth 1st edition hardcover with full cover paste on art. Sunned spine with label affixed, part of a private library and has dedication label on illust frt pastedn. B/w Illust endpps with name and gift ded. Head of spine cloth abraded, tips bumped and rubbed, edges of page block age-toned, text crisp and clear. Illust by Beatrice Stevens in color. The Beacon Hill Bookshelf. View More...
1st edition black cloth hardcover with full cover paste on art. Original DJ is foxed and tatty at extrems and has a spine with label affixed, part of a private library and has partial dedication label on illust frt pastedn. B/w Illust endpps with name and gift ded. Tips bumped, edges of page block age-toned, text crisp and clear. Illust by Clara M. Burd in color. The Beacon Hill Bookshelf View More...
Green cloth hardcover with black titles on boards and backstrip. Gift dedication on fep dated 1933. No date on book possible first edition. No soil or tears on 250 pg text. Edges browned w/age but not brittle. Colorful clipped dj in mylar shows a boy on deck of a sailing shop with a one leg 'pirate' and two deck hands hauling up nets behind them. Very light wear to tips, displays beautifully in new mylar. View More...
Tight bright copy in mustard colored cloth boards. DJ has 2 small closed tears at foot of frt panel, light rubbing at tips, displays well in new mylar. Text fine. Little Fox's box of stolen raisins brings him adventures and causes him problems. View More...
Super cute first edition, first printing 10 page board book about a playful red dog. Yarn dog face glued to the front cover, color loss at tips, no marks inside. Uncommon offering. View More...
