Dido and Pa.
Delacorte, 1986, 1st printing; 258 pp. Juvenile hardback. Dido Twite is back, and soon plunged into a dastardly Hanoverian conspiracy against the King!
Delacorte, 1986, 1st printing; 258 pp. Juvenile hardback. Dido Twite is back, and soon plunged into a dastardly Hanoverian conspiracy against the King!
St. Martin's, 1994, 1st printing. Juvenile hardback. A sequel to Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
Doubleday, 1977, stated 1st printing; 311 pp. Juvenile hardback. Historical fiction set in the 1820's in which an orphan sets off through Spain to England to find his father's family. Fascinating picture of 19th c Spain.
New York: Viking, 1973, 1st printing Am; 95 pp. Juvenile hardback. A Play for children, music by John Sebastian Brown.
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.
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.
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."
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, nd. Reference biography, hardback. "A story of achievement."
Chicago: The John C. Winston and Co, 1933 thus, blue boards with full plate and blindstamped border, gilt titles on spine, illustrated endpapers, coloured frontis and illustrations in text, 6 x 8.75"; 282 pp. Juvenile hardback. Quiet Rose, an orphan at 13, leaves her boarding school to live at "Aunt.....
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.....
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.....
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.
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.
Chicago: The John C. Winston and Co, 1933 thus, turquoise blue boards with full plate and blindstamped border, gilt titles on spine, illustrated endpapers, coloured frontis and illustrations in text, 6 x 8.75"; 282 pp. Juvenile hardback. The Sequel to Eight Cousins, in which the orphaned Rose is encouraged to.....
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.
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.
Chicago: The John C. Winston and Co, 1934 thus, blue boards with full plate and blindstamped border, gilt titles on spine, illustrated endpapers, coloured frontis and illustrations in text, 6 x 8.75"; 282 pp. Juvenile hardback. Adventures of two small girls and a boy who has escaped from the circus.....
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.
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.....
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.....
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.