Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, (1853). Embellished with twenty-one engravings. 24 mo. Printed paper covered boards with leather spine. 44 pp. This work is designed especially, but not exclusively, for the younger classes of Sabbath-schools. It embraces a general and connected account of the most important events recorded in the Old..... More
Chicago: Merrill Publishing Co., 1953. Freeman Elliott. 31-1/2" x 22" bright tempera painted original illustration by noted pin-up artist Freeman Elliott who studied under Gil Elvgren and was responsible for some of the finest cheesecake art of the 1950s. Painting is mounted on foam core and matted, ready..... More
Akron: Saalfield, (1941). Includes six stories,illustrated with pen and ink drawings. 4to. 10-1/4" x 7-7/8". Beautiful pictorial full color cover, same picture on back and front. More
Boston: Ginn and Company, The Athenaeum Press, 1907. Translated from the Norwegian by Laura E. Poulsson. Half-tone illustrations by Othar Holmroe. 12 mo. 6-11/16" x 4-5/8". Green cloth covered boards stamped in darker green. Green and white pictorial endpapers. 149 pp. A thoroughly delightful story of an orphaned country girl..... More
New York: Little Brown and Co., (2007). 9780316013680. Signed on title page. Stated first edition. Blue paper covered boards with title stamped in copper metallic ink. Alexie's first novel for young adults chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one unlucky boy trying to rise above the life everyone expects him to..... More
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, n.d. (ca 1918). With ten full color illustrations by A. Duncan Carse. Thick 8vo. 6-1/8" x 8-5/16". Cream colored cloth covered boards with pictorial cover stamped in four colors, black and gold. Pictorial endpapers. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, (2005). Illustrated by the author. 9780689876356. Signed by Derek Anderson on verso of free front endpaper. First edition. Square 4to. 10-1/4" x 10-1/4" Glossy pictorial boards matching dust jacket. Every page illustrated in full color. Endpapers have the score for the famous Thanksgiving song. More
Simon and Schuster, Books for Young Readers, (2008). 9781416905851. Signed on title page. First Edition. 316 pp. 8vo. Cream paper covered boards with grey spine. If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight,... More
New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1963). Illustrations in green and yellow by the author. Early edition with $1.95 price in dust jacket. Title is ninth in a list of thirteen titles. 16 mo. Yellow cloth covered boards stamped in black. Unpaginated. More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1973. Illustrated by David Armstrong. Signed by William H. Armstrong on title page. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-3/4". Green cloth covered boards. Pictorial endpapers. 115 pp. Story of struggles of the young boy, Aaron, against nightmares of his brother's death and his family's humiliation by poverty..... More
New York and London: Harper and Brothers, (1944). Illustrated by the author. Stated First Edition. 8vo.8-1/2" x 6-5/16". Beige cloth covered boards with ninepin stamped in red on front cover and title in red on spine. 64 pp. More
New York: Viking Press, 1946. With Lithographs by Ruth Gannett. Second Printing, June 1947. Mustard colored cloth boards. 8vo. Colorful decorated endpapers. 123 pp. When Great-granny Brown packed up and moved to the Women's City Club in Boston, Miss Hickory was faced with the problem of spending a severe New..... More
New York: Scholastic Press, (September 2010). 9780439852098. Signed by author on title page. First edition. Orange paper covered boards stamped in silver. 306 pp. 8vo. More
Simon and Schuster, A Paula Wiseman Book, (2005). Illustrated in watercolor and gouache by Barry Root. 9781416900931. Signed by Robert Burleigh. First Edition. Glossy pictorial boards. Unpaginated 4to. Yellow endpapers. Written by two NFL superstars, this story of perseverance and teamwork will inspire. Barry Root's glowing illustrations bring to life..... More
Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co. (on title page), (1910). Illustrated by John R. Neill with all original 12 color plates plus ink drawn full page pictures, chapter headings, tailpieces and pictures scattered throughout the text. Large 8vo. Mint green cloth covered boards. Pictorial color cover plate without metallic ink. Black..... More
Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., 1905. Pictures by Ike Morgan. First edition. 15" x 11-1/8". Perfect bound, green cloth spine, pictorial heavy card stock boards. 48 colorful pp. With custom made clamshell box covered in green cloth to match the book's spine. More
Bloomington, Ill. Public-School Publishing Company, 1906. Illustrated with maps and woodcuts. 12 mo. 6-7/8" x 5-1/16". Red cloth covered boards, stamped in black. 188 pp. including Appendix with questions for discussion. More
Akron, OH: Saalfield, 1934. Illustrated by Dianna Thorne with 8 full color portraits of puppies. 4to. 12" x 9-9/16". Unpaginated. Semi-glossy paper covered pictorial boards. More
New York: Macmillan Co., 1962. Illustrated by Ugo Fontana. Tall 4to. 13-5/16 x 9-3/4". Glossy pictorial boards. 34 pp. More
Little, Brown and Company, (1991). Berkeley Breathed. Stated First Edition. There once was a penguin named Opus who wanted to do the one thing that penguins can't do: fly. More
New York: William R. Scott, Inc., (1941). Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard with color lithographed pictures on every page. First edition. Small squarish 8vo. 9" x 7-1/4." Pictorial paper covered boards. Splash! What was that? New adventures for Muffin, the little dog who hears things. He had heard all the noises..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1944. Illustrated by Bruce Hale. Stated First Edition. 8vo. 8" x 5-1/2" Pictorial blue cloth colored boards stamped in darker blue.133 pp. Black and white pictorial endpapers. "Mrs. Bullard has told a warm, sympathetic story about a little animal of unusual sagacity, a...... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, no date. With half-tone illustrations by Harrison Cady. Green Forest Series. Small 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5-1/4" Blue paper covered boards made to look like leather. Title stamped in dark blue. Green pictorial endpapers.207 pp. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.d. (1925). With 4 black and white half-tone illustrations by Harrison Cady. Small 8vo. 198 pp. Green paper covered boards made to look like leather. Pictorial green endpapers. Top edge of text block stained green. Smiling Pool Series. More
New York: Scribner's, 1893. Illustrated by Reginald B. Birch. Black cloth stamped in gold. Small 8 vo. 7-1/2" x 5-1/4". 325 pp. More