New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960/1945, "D-K"; white titles, mouse on boards and spine, green illustrated endpapers, in jacket section of Blue Ribbon Books band, with Stuart riding his canoe; 8vo; 131 pp. Juvenile hardback. Stuart Little, a dignified mouse, grows up in a human family and sets off on.....
London: Oxford, 1970, 1st, "first published", white matte boards with dapple grey circus horse, in jacket identical to boards; 11x8.5"; np. Picture book hardback. Large, splendid pictures of the circus for young children with brilliant colours.
Chicago: Wilcox & Follett (1946) 1st, nap; (publisher's stickers on jacket and title page, but not on top board, are pasted on top of "The Marcel Rodd Company"; The Marcel Rodd Company, Hollywood, is listed on the copyright page as the lithographer, The Review Slip states Wilcox & Follett); green.....
London and Glasgow: William Collins & Sons, Ltd, [1947] no date, full Pookie title list with this in middle of books listed; yellow laminated boards with Pookie overlooking circus tents, illustrated endpapers; 8.75x11"; np. Picture Book hardback. Pookie flies off one morning and discovers a circus. He makes friends with.....
Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, Franklin St., Corner of Hawley, Subscription Ed.(1878); shiny brown boards with stamped black floral decoration, gilt titles on board and spine, dark brown endpapers, Juvenile hardback. "This sketch of the History of Rome covers the period till the reign of Charles the Great as head.....
New York: Viking, 1954, 1st, sd on tp, "first published"; yellow boards with stamped red character design, textured blue/black endpapers with circular white coloured panels of views of village, in yellow jacket with portraits of two children; 7.9x10.2", 39 pp. Picture book hardback. Yashima's loving reminiscences of his childhood village.....
New York: Philomel, (1981); red paper boards, blue endpapers, in jacket with transparent flying horse in the night sky; 7.25x9.5"; 40 pp. Picture Book Hardback. Lateef is ordered by the Sultan to take the winged colt out to the desert to die, but instead he and the colt flee together.....
London and New York: F. Warne & Co., 1950, probable 1st; all seven books listed are prior to 1950 , none later uniform with this book; full colour paintings of three little ducks on a rock in a pond and on the back, Duggie and Dulcie sitting before the fire;.....
London: Blackie & Son, Ltd., 50 Old Bailey and New York: Chas. Scribner's Sons, 153 5th Ave; 1900, 1st US; green boards, gilt titles, stamped brown and green full illustration of children (less Piers) riding and leading a wolf covered in sheep skin; decorations and gilt titles on spine, gilt.....
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1903/1903, 1st edition, later issue; green & multi-colour pictorial. cloth; 327 pp. Juvenile hardback. The adventures of Rebecca Randall, one of a large farm family, who goes to live in Riverboro with her Aunt Miranda. A nice copy of a classic book.
New York: Chelsea House Publishers, Mysterious Places Series, 1994, stated 1st, nl; in shiny boards with front panel of the Sanctuary at Delphi, stone endpapers, in jacket identical to boards, 8.2x11.25"; 92 pp including index. Picture Book hardback. Interesting well-illustrated short articles on classical sites surrounding the Mediterranean, Tarxien, Knossos.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995, stated 1st, nl; shiny covers with streaks of dark intense colour, endpapers with a rainbow, bright planets and comets on a dark starry sky, in jacket identical to boards, 8.7x10.7"; np. Picture Book Hardback. An appreciation of all the beautiful things that are created.....
New York: Knopf, 1992, 1st nl; shiny boards which look like maroon "notebook" with cloth covered corners, blue endpapers with gull, in jacket with Klara looking toward over the ship's railing to the new land; oblong 9,25x10.25; np. Picture Book Hardback. "Based on the letters and diaries of Scandinavian immigrants.....
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1935/1932, "B" second printing; black cloth with red titles and Channy studying his letter by the globe; 6.5x8.75"; 190 pp. Juvenile hardback. Channy's father, the Supt. of Winnekta Public Schools set forth with his wife and older daughters on a nine month trip to investigate.....
New York: Scholastic, 1994, stated 1st, white boards, red spine, in wrap around jacket with painting of Little Lee and the Ghost Fox in a snowy village, many illustrations in text; 8vo; 70 pp. Juvenile hardback. Based on a Japanese ghost story collected in the 17th c.
New York: Dodd Mead & Co., 1934/1934, 1st tp; green cloth binding with gilt titles, ivory endpapers, 8vo; 184 pp. Juvenile hardback. "Far away and long ago, in a country beyond the Valley of the Blue Sapphires, there once lived a Little Road who ran away to sea." A book.....
Toronto: Bodley Head, 1979, 1st; green boards, in Gavin Rowe jacket with scenes from story; 8vo; 103 pp. Juvenile hardback. In this third mystery, Tom is kidnapped by DEMON along with a wealthy industrialist's daughter ostensibly to protest a polluting factory, but actually for more sinister reasons. SIGNED and BRIEFLY.....
New York: HarperCollins Publishers (1986) 4th printing; green boards in jacket with design of green leaves and flowers, 8vo; 212 pp. Juvenile hardback. H. E. Bates, Reynolds Price, Carson McCullers, E. M. Doctorow, Elizabeth Enright, Harold Brodkey, James Purdy, Elizabeth Bowen, Stephen Vincent Benet, Katherine Mansfield. "It is my hope.....
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1975/1974, stated 1st US, nl; blue boards, green endpapers, in jacket with wrap-around painting by Gareth Floyd of a meeting between two from Parliament and King outside Mantlemass; 8vo, 174 pp. Juvenile hardback. The fifth and final Mantlemass novel takes place during the English Civil.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1985 stated 1st; green reinforced binding, orange- yellow endpapers, in jacket with same colour titles and chariot entering the sandy arena; 8vo; 218 pp. Juvenile hardback. Tishtry, a slave girl at the time of the Roman Empire and a talented stunt rider has only one.....
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1965, stated 1st; orange cloth, 8vo; 184 pp. including glossary. Juvenile hardback. A collaboration of two lifelong horse people. Authentic pictures of schooling, showing and hunting, with expressive horses. In this book, Robin must sell her pony to a rich man's daughter but she gets.....
New York: HarperCollins, 1992, stated 1st, nl; green boards with red spine, green endpapers, in jacket with green dragon flying above grey sea, 8vo; 313 pp. Juvenile hardback. The fourth and final book in the Dragon Series, combining Yep's own magic with Chinese mythology, in the final war against the.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1985, 1st printing, tan boards, green endpapers, jacket with wrap around painting; 8vo; 275 pp. Juvenile hardback. Swashbuckling science fiction acrobatics from a modern master.
New York: Harper & Row, 1973, later printing in the year of publication (not stated but 463 on flap); reinforced green boards, in green jacket with picture of Emily and her grandfather; 8vo; 219 pp. Juvenile hardback. The harmony of Emily's peaceful summers at her grandparents' small tobacco farm is.....
Auckland: Hodder & Stoughton, 1985, 1st, 1st published; black paper boards, in jacket with lovely all around painting by Meeson of the ship going up into the New Zealand fjords; 8vo; 132 pp. Juvenile hardback. Two young New Zealanders accompany their new friend Peter on a search for his scientist.....