A Pocketful of Rhymes. DUSTJACKET ONLY, dw only, Dust Jacket only, NO BOOK
Harper & Brothers, [1939]. $1.25 on jacket. Newberry's Barkis [1938] reviewed on back. Dustjacket only.
Harper & Brothers, [1939]. $1.25 on jacket. Newberry's Barkis [1938] reviewed on back. Dustjacket only.
Random House, (1941) probable first; gilt paper boards with large picture of little angels playing a violin, gilt titles, ivory cloth spine; endpapers with lovely illustrations of angels descending to a boy and girl; colour illustrations bordered and highlighted with gilt facing on almost every spread, in jacket identical to.....
Random House, (1941) probable first, ; 9.6x 12.2, 36 pp. Picture Book hardback. Traditional children's prayers, beautifully illustrated.
New York: HarperCollins, 1993, stated 1st printing; maroon cloth back grey boards, with Anna riding in an elegant black car, driving across a snowy plain; 8vo; 167 pp. Juvenile hardback. Sledding, comfortable apartments, cousins, snow, and diamonds. Christmas time,1936 in Chicago, the world of a kind, responsible child in the.....
NY: Harcourt, 1965, 1st printing. Brown cloth, 128 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. Twelve California Indian animal tales centering on the origin of the land, the theft of fire and light. Coyote the trickster appears throughout as well as other animals, whose characters get them in trouble.
Macmillan, 1989, 1st printing; 7x7, c.32 pp. Picture Book hardback. A warm and witty fairy tale-like story of a couple who wish for a sister and get a tiny one born from an apple seed.
Atheneum, 1974, 1st printing; 137 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. Pete discovers an evil magician in the barn next door, who has shrunk an entire town and a few of the inhabitants for a tourist attraction.
Atheneum, 1974, 1st printing; 137 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. Pete discovers an evil magician in the barn next door, who has shrunk an entire town and a few of the inhabitants for a tourist attraction.
Atheneum, 1976, 1st printing.; 138 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. Parson Grout steals a wooden cupboard for his for-profit orphanage, and for ten year old Felicity, the magical cupboard changes her life.
Atheneum, 1976, 1st printing; 138 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. Parson Grout steals a wooden cupboard for his for-profit orphanage, and for ten year old Felicity, the magical cupboard changes her life.
New York: Atheneum, 1976, stated 1st printing; tan cloth boards, in green jacket with every one examining the cupboard; 8vo; 138 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. "Ten-year-old Felicity's life changed completely the day sinister parson Grout and his wife arrived at the backwoods orphanage, bringing a large elaborately carved cupboard."
Atheneum, 1983, 1st printing; 198 pp. Juvenile hardback. "Wrongfully accused of stealing a valuable moonstone, Lek the conjurer determines to enter the dread Shadowland where the sun never shines and search for the long-sought Opal Mountains where he might find another stone with equally potent powers." The exciting sequel to.....
New York: Atheneum, 1981, 1st printing; 192 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. "Searching for his missing lucky 'dreamstone' and the answers to some mysteries surrounding it, Runner, one of the swiftest Tiddi scouts, ventures into the northern Icelands and the grim mountain fortress of Gzel."
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company, (1944) a Fuzzy Wuzzy Book #5056; pink and blue boards, large fuzzy black poodle on front (the fuzz seems to be attached to a textured fabric which is glued to the illustration, as the dog's muzzle is fabric), fuzzy black title, illustration of the dog.....
Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Pub. Company, (1928), both books #115; complete books printed on embossed paper, wire sewn, white spine, 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.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971, 1st printing; reinforced pictorial binding, blue endpapers showing man canoeing along jungle river, in jacket identical to boards;, oblong 10.3x8.4, 32 pp. Picture Book hardback. "Story of the Brave Blacks at Suriname," who escaped plantation slavery, stood up to government soldiers, and learned to.....
Dutton, 1979, 1st printing; 117 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. The ferris wheel ride is a bond between Clotilde and her hardworking divorced father, a time to get away from her mother's unpredictable, violent abuse. Set in San Francisco during the 30's, a "problem novel" but well written, one of the.....
Ottowa: Editions Lemeac, (1972); laminated fully illustrated boards in iridescent greens with yellow Pit-tout-court, and his mother, magenta Pitabelle, endpapers in black and white with Pitatou's family carrying rushes and flowers for the party, in French; 9.4x12.3; np. French language hardback tall. Excitement in the forest of nowhere! All the.....
Ottowa: Editions Lemeac, (1972) presumed 1st printing; laminated fully illustrated boards in iridescent blues with yellow, magenta, and green birds on yellow ground, endpapers with black and white birds in garden of ferns, in French, many deeply coloured pages; 9.4x12.3; np. French language hardback tall. Colorful birdlike creatures, the pitas.......
New York: The Viking Press, 18 East 48th St, [1948]. $2.50 on flap, short review of Yinka-tu the yak [1938] on on back flap. Gentling of Jonathan, 1950 not mentioned] thus early, no Medal. Dustjacket only.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1957, 1st printing; turquoise blue boards, in yellow jacket with horses racing across the desert; 8vo; 188 pp. Juvenile hardback. Why has no one come to claim the beautiful bay filly, and is someone trying to steal her? Set in Canada.
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1966, 1st printing; 192 pp. Juvenile hardback ex-lib. One of the first children's books about Vikings, based on the sagas of the Karlsefni expedition to the Vinland which Leif Ericson had explored. Interesting history with a 13 year old who manages being kidnapped etc. with unlikely.....
Macmillan, 1946, 1st printing. Picture Book hardback. A bossy bantam helps his farmer run the farm during World War Two.
New York: The John Day Company, 1967, 1st, nap; pictorial library binding with Jorje in his mountain village, in jacket identical to boards; 8vo; 117 pp. Juvenile hardback. The church of the small village of Tolmec was destroyed by an earthquake, and rumours of a treasure bring two thieve to.....
Chicago: Childrens Press, (1948); oblong book, np. Picture Book Hardback, ex-lib. Teacher tricks for making numerals, illustrated with full colour animals in a period style.