Night Fall.
New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1971/1969, 1st Am; in jacket with wrap around painting of cliffs, gulls, and sea, 8vo; 116 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. A mystery of murder partially remembered from childhood.
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Past Eight O'Clock.
Viking Kestral, 1987/1986, 1st printing US. 6.6x10; 128 pp. Juvenile hardback. A collection of stories which are all concerned with sleeping and waking, dreams and bedtime, illustrated in silhouettes and brilliant colour.
Winterthing: a play for children
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1972, 1st printing. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. "Four children and their aunt come to live in a cottage on an island off the Scottish coast said to be inhabited by the spirit of winter."
The Phantom Fisherboy.
New York: Elsevier-Dutton (for Andre Deutch) Sept 1980/1974, 1st US edition and 3rd printing; dark green boards, in jacket with painting of characters from stories, publisher's review slip laid in for this US edition, small 8vo; 167 pp. Juvenile hardback. Fourteen "Tales of Mystery and Magic"... Shadowy Paws, The Invisible.....
Britain's Story Told in Pictures, Set of 8, The Story of: Prehistoric & Roman Britain, Saxon and Norman Britain, Medieval Britain, Tudor and Stuart Britain, Hanoverian and Modern Britain, Our Empire's Story, Britain's Story (to 1930's), Britain's Story Revised (to 1943)
Manchester: Sankey, Hanson & Co, (Revised Britain's Story by Thomas Hope & Sankey-Hudson Ltd). Each Book is a different colour , softcover with a drawing on the front and books in series listed on back, each book contains 64 pages and from 450 to 600 captioned illustrations; all 6.5x8.2. Sets.....
The Cuckoo Sister.
Delacorte, uncorrected proof, pub date April 18,1986; 158 pp. Juvenile hardback. "Convinced that her family's problems will end if only Emma is returned by the person who snatched her from her baby carriage, Kate longs for the older sister she never knew. But when a thin, spiky-haired stranger with hard.....
Louisa May Alcott and 'Little Women' Biography, Critique, Publications, Poems, Songs and Contemporary Relevance.
Jefferson, NC and London: MacFarland & Co. Inc. 1990; brown cloth with gilt titles; tall 8vo; 350 pp. Reference biography, hardback. Thorough, with appendix and index.
Louisa May Alcott, Dreamer and Worker.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, nd. Reference biography, hardback. "A story of achievement."
Eight Cousins.
Little, Brown Co., 1926/1874. Dark green cloth, stamped. Juvenile hardback. Quiet Rose, an orphan at 13, leaves her boarding school to live at "Aunt Hill" with her six aunts, seven rambunctious boy cousins, and her Uncle Alex, who directs her toward a healthy outdoor life. Followed by Rose in Bloom.....
Jack and Jill.
Roberts, 1885/1880. Brown cloth, stamped, red medallion on spine, fine green floral design on endpapers, 8vo; 325 pp. + 6 pp ads for Alcott's books with large illustrations, (glued-in bookplate is from "Bookplates my children love best of all c. 1916 Lloyd Adams Noble"). Juvenile hardback. A young girl confined.....
Jo's Boys.
Little, Brown Co., 1923/1886. Brown cloth, stamped. Juvenile hardback. "How They Turned Out, A Sequel to 'Little Men.' " The final March book, written later, set at Plumfield where Jo's Professor is now President of a college.
Jo's Boys.
Roberts, 1887/1886. Green cloth, stamped, red medallion. Juvenile hardback. "How They Turned Out, A Sequel to 'Little Men.' " The final March book, written later, set at Plumfield where Jo's Professor is now President of a college.
Jo's Boys.
Little, Brown Co., 1917/1886. Green cloth, stamped. Juvenile hardback. "How They Turned Out, A Sequel to 'Little Men.' " The final March book, written later, set at Plumfield where Jo's Professor is now a college president.
Jo's Boys.
Little, Brown Co., 1898/1886. Mustard cloth, stamped. Juvenile hardback. "How They Turned Out, A Sequel to 'Little Men.' " The final March book, written later, set at Plumfield where Jo's Professor is now a college president.
Jo's Boys.
Roberts, 1886/1886. Brown cloth, stamped, red medallion, decorated endpapers. Juvenile hardback. "How They Turned Out, A Sequel to 'Little Men.' " The final March book, written later, set at Plumfield where Jo's Professor is now a college president.
Under the Lilacs.
Little, Brown Co., 1923/1878. Brown cloth with black and gold decor. Juvenile hardback. Adventures of two little girls and a boy escaped from the circus with a pet poodle, who first meet in a special play place Under the Lilacs. We have a large original format Alcott selection available.
Under the Lilacs.
Little, Brown Co., 1923/1886. Dark green cloth, stamped. Juvenile hardback. Adventures of two little girls and a boy escaped from the circus with a pet poodle, who first meet in a special play place Under the Lilacs. We have a large original format Alcott selection available.
Matthew and his Dad.
Little Simon, 1983, 1st printing., 1983. Full colour photo reinforced binding,10.2x10.2; 40 pp. Picture Book hardback. Happy colour photos of Matthew, who loves his dad and doesn't quite understand that he has to look for work.
Sul nad Zlato. (Salt over Gold)_
Praha, Praze, Prague: Státní nakladatelství d?tské knihy, (SNDK) (1953;) yellow top edge; white paper boards with princess surrounded by helpers; small rows of coloured illustrations on the endpapers show the princess's story; 8.25x11.25; np. Czech language hardback. Romantic elongated paintings illustrate this fairytale of a princess exiled to the forest.....
The Bobtail Puppy Book. (Bob-tail)
London: Humphrey Milford, no date [1914] early reprint; tan paper boards with tan cloth spine, red titles, large hairy puppy trotting along in the wind; 8.5x9.25", np. Picture book hardback. An introduction by the Puppy reveals his unease about his docked tail. In the following 11 "chapters", The Lambkin Laughs.....
The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man.
Dutton, (1973), 3rd; 107 pp. Juvenile hardback. Lionel the cat has been given the power of speech, and now he wants to become a man. How he makes his way into the human world.
The Fortune-Tellers.
New York: Dutton Children's Books, 1992, 2nd printing; pictorial boards with blue batik and large full colour pictures of the fortune teller at work, oblong, 11.5x9; np. Picture Book hardback. Wonderfully detailed and colourful pictures of traditional village life in the Cameroon, and a warm and funny story of a......
The Four Donkeys.
Holt, Rinehart, 1972, 1st printing. 7.8x9.5. Juvenile hardback. A modern fable involving a foolish tailor, a shoemaker, a baker and one very tired donkey, who finally trudge home "a little wiser for having made donkeys of themselves."
The Kestrel.
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1982, stated 1st; green paper boards with tan back; white jacket, 8vo; 244 pp. Juvenile hardback. "New struggles for power in Westmark, with betrayals, conspiracies, and with war in one of its harshest aspects, that is only the general framework." The second in this interesting.....
The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian.
Dutton, 1971/1970, 3rd; 204 pp. Juvenile hardback. "Grand Extravaganza, Including a Performance by the Entire Cast of the Gallimaufry- Theatricus." A wandering fiddler in the imaginary 18th c country of Hamelin-Loring has amusing adventures until the political net of the cruel Regent begins to close.