Mr. Popper's Penguins.
Boston: Little Brown and Company,1938, stated 1st and sd; endpapers with blue penguin and Mr. Popper, 139 pp. Juvenile hardback. Delightful comedy of the Popper family and their houseful of penguins. Newbery Honor. more
Selected Modern Juveniles
Dogs, Best Breeds for Young People. Advance Copy.
New York: Harcourt Brace and World Inc, 1969, stated 1st; Advance Copy slip 10/29/1969 laid in; red cloth binding, plain endpapers, with many pictures and cartoons illustrating the text and 45 descriptive pictures of Congenial K9s for Young Folks at the end; 96 pp incl. bibliography. Juvenile hardback. All about..... more
Freddy Rides Again.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951/1951, stated 1st and sd, book list with 1952 Pilot not mentioned; orange brown cloth with Freddy on his horse, dark blue titles and illustration, tan endpapers with full drawing of cowboy Freddy stranded on a fence during a formal fox hunt; turquoise topedge, drawings..... more
Journey of the Sparrows.
New York: Dutton: Lodestar, 1991, stated 1st, nl; pink/tan boards; in jacket with Maria sitting on her bed in Chicago with the little sparrow of her story flying high on a rainbow, 8vo; 155 pp. Juvenile hardback. ƒ. Written by an author/editor of women's oral histories with Cubias, a Salvadorian..... more
Journey of the Sparrows.
New York: Dutton: Lodestar, 1991, stated 1st, nl; pink/tan boards; in jacket with Maria sitting on her bed in Chicago with the little sparrow of her story flying high on a rainbow, 8vo; 155 pp. Juvenile hardback. Written by an author/editor of women's oral histories with Cubias, a Salvadorian poet..... more
Do You Remember What Happened?
London: Angus and Robertson, 1969, 1st printing; red cloth in peach and green jacket with drawing of children observing active title page of this book; 5.75x8.75; np. Juvenile hardback. Glimpses of child life each with ink drawings on coloured background. Shadow: A little leafy shadow swayed on the wall. Sally..... more
Children of the Prairie.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1938, 1st nap; dark blue boards, endpaper with landscape of Iowa cornfield across the spread, colored illustrated title spread and many large black and white pictures and pictures in text, in jacket with all-around illustrations of little girls running across an Iowa wheatfield toward..... more
The Broken Song.
NY: Nelson, 1934, 1st printing; no Junior Literary Guild signs. Juvenile hardback. The story of an upper middle class family in the last days of Imperial Russia. Early Seredy art. Written by the wife of James Daugherty. more
Henner's Lydia.
Doubleday Doran, 1936, 1st printing; np. Juvenile hardback. Publisher's or printer's planning notes for the 1944 reprint: 1936 crossed out with 1944 penciled in, "P60 A back" etc. on every page, and also some notes regarding the illustrations: "poor here, would like more like proof" "not as good as proof..... more
Diana's Feathers.
Cambridge: Riverside Press, Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston and New York, 1935, early printing; turquoise cloth binding with a girl knitting, endpapers with girls reading on the lawn of their school, b/w illustrations, wrap around coloured illustration on jacket identical to endpapers, 8vo; 244 pp. Juvenile hardback. Diana has an ingenious..... more
Growing Up with the Norman Conquest.
London: Faber and Faber, 1965, 1st, "first published"; purple cloth boards, in yellow and white jacket with red drawings of a knight and peasants; 8vo; 185 pp including index. Juvenile hardback. Five chapters describing life in the castle of a Norman baron; the household of a Saxon landowner; a London..... more
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm.
New York: Orchard, 1994, 1st printing; number line; plum cloth backed purple paper boards, green endpapers, medal on jacket; 309 pp. Juvenile hardback. A wonderful picture of an entire society, set in Zimbabwe in 2194. Newbery Honor 1995. more
Gypsy Princess.
New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., Inc., 1969, stated first; brown cloth with elaborate caravan on top board, drawings of carvings on the chapter heads and illustrations in text; 8vo; 90 pp. Juvenile hardback. Zilda and Robert crawled along the passage under the slate roofs and came to a...... more
The Day the Guinea-Pig Talked
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1963, 1st printing American; red cloth boards with stamped guinea-pig on board, gilt tiles on spine; black and red guinea-pig watercolour on ffep; tan jacket with Cecile and Jean-Pierre surrounded by red hearts; 7 full page coloured illustrations and many pink and black..... more
The Day the Guinea-Pig Talked.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1963, 1st printing American; red cloth boards with stamped guinea-pig on board, gilt tiles on spine; black and red guinea-pig watercolour on ffep; tan jacket with Cecile and Jean-Pierre surrounded by red hearts; 7 full page coloured illustrations and many pink and black..... more
The Day the Guinea-Pig Talked.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1963, stated 1st printing American; red cloth boards with blind stamped guinea-pig on board, gilt tiles on spine; black and red guinea-pig watercolour on endpapers; tan jacket with Cecile and Jean-Pierre surrounded by red hearts; 7 full page coloured illustrations and many pink..... more
Uncle Wiggily's Fortune.
New York: Platt & Munk Co., Inc. (1942), probable 1st, only 1942 and before of 15 titles mentioned; red boards with blue bunny, coloured frontis, in jacket with Uncle W and animal friends playing on the beach; 8vo; 186 pp. Juvenile hardback. A collection of 26 stories which appeared originally..... more
Athena, the Warrior Goddess
New York: Viking, 1972, stated 1st printing (SBN only).; reinforced pictorial cloth binding in blues and browns with Athena on the top and the winged horse and Medusa on the bottom board; in jacket identical to boards; full pages drawings in text, including three spreads; 7.7x10.4", 123 pp including Glossary..... more
Nicholas and the Wool-Pack: An Adventure Story of the Middle Ages.
Putnam, 1953, 1st printing Am (nap); pictorial map eps; 181 pp. Juvenile hardback. Nicholas, a Cotswold wool producer's son, together with his fiancee and his best friend, foils the plotting of two visiting Lombards and saves his father's business. Many detailed illustrations of the trade. more
The Travels of Mr. Trot
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1941, 1st, nap; blue boards with red drawing of the family and the van, 8vo; 140 pp. Juvenile hardback. A uniquely charming book about an Englishman, William Wilberforce Trot, a single father whose specialty is cleaning houses, and his well brought up children, Millie, Willie..... more
Wolf-Eye: the Bad One
New York: Julian Messner, 1951, 1st nap; grey boards, with full page and illustrations in text, in jacket with Wolf-Eye, his yellow eyes shining, standing on a rocky hill under the yellow moon; 8vo; 173 pp. Juvenile hardback. Wolf-eye, a German Shepherd, goes wild and sires a group of bloodthirsty..... more
The Valley of the Shadow.
New York: Macmillan, (1974) 2nd nl; red cloth boards in red jacket with black silhouettes of trees and Long Knives, and Tobias listening; map of the Ohio territory 1781-82, 8vo; 215 pages. Juvenile hardback. It is 1781. Tobias, a 13 year old Delaware chief's son lives with his Helper family..... more
At the Top of My Voice and oter poems..
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1970 but 1976) 1st of this new edition with redesigned cover, with 1975-LCCN number , nl; red cloth boards with black titles and illustration; little drawings on endpapers, in cream jacket with red titles and a happy boy in a red striped shirt on the..... more
The Quail Message
London: Dennis Dobson, 1980, 1st ("first published"); blue boards, in pink jacket with illustration of purple waves and blue sailboat heading toward a ship by Douglas Philips; 8vo; 159 pp, Juvenile hardback. A strange guest in the hotel, a body in the harbour and other disturbing events involve Colin and..... more
Twig
Macmillan, 1942/1942, 2nd printing stated, year of publication; green cloth boards with dark green titles, pictorial endpapers, in jacket with portrait of Twig; 8vo; 152 pp. Juvenile hardback. The magical world Twig created from rubbish in her city backyard is shown in delicate line drawings with touches of red and..... more