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THERE'S A ZOO IN ROOM 22.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Humorous rhymes which bring a whole zoo to Miss Darling's classroom from Amanda Anaconda to heaps of hamsters, the lemur in the lunchbox, and more. Colorfully illustrated by Barney Saltzberg. SIGNED on the title page by the author and dated in the year of publication. Large format, bound in glossy illustrated boards, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-152020330.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 36855More details Price: $28.00 -
PIECES OF CHRISTMAS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Animals from Africa to Antarctica are pictured celebrating Christmas on stamps sent to Santa from around the world. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. Promotional postcard laid in. Square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-8050-63552.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53064More details Price: $25.00 -
JOSH.
Edition: First thus.
New York: Macmillan, (1988) dj. Hardcover - Fourteen year old Josh returns for a visit to his great aunt in the small town settled by his great-grandfather, Ryan Creek, but his encounters with young people move from mutual bewilderment to violence. One of Australia's foremost writers for children, Southall won many awards, including the Carnegie Medal in 1971 for this title when it was first published. An attractive reissue in a new edition "for the pleasure of today's young readers". 179 pp. ISBN: 0-027862801.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87166More details Price: $16.50 -
GINGERBREAD DAYS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Poems celebrating the love of a family, written for each month of the year, and illustrated in full color by Floyd Cooper. SIGNED on the title page by Joyce Carol Thompson. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-06-0234695.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 54139More details Price: $30.00 -
BRIEF HISTORIES OF EVERYDAY OBJECTS.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards (a new copy).
Book ID: 69044More details Price: $25.00 -
CHALLENGE OF ICE: Real Life Stories of Polar Explorers.
Racine, WI: Whitman, 1963. Hardcover - Illustrated by Arnie Kohn. Includes the Greely Expedition to Franklin Bay, Robert Peary and much more.
Condition: Very good+ in glossy illustrated boards (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 19662More details Price: $12.50 -
PATTY'S SUMMER DAYS.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1935.) dj. Hardcover - A title in the "Patty" series, originally published in 1906.
Condition: Near fine in a very good+ dustjacket. Hint of spine slant to an otherwise unusually clean copy, with bright blue covers, red top stain, red and white illustrated endpapers. Silver dustjacket with blue lettering and picture on front cover has light overall edgewear. Ads on rear flap of dj for the Judy Bolton series, enabling us to date this reprint.
Book ID: 11867More details Price: $30.00 -
PATTY'S SUMMER DAYS.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1935.). A title in the "Patty" series. 294 pp. Red and white illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Good in blue cloth (severe toning to the pages, some discoloration to the cloth on the spine.)
Book ID: 53554More details Price: $10.00 -
SEASHORE LIFE.
Edition: First edition.
San Francisco: Harr Wagner Publishing Co, (1937.). Hardcover first edition - Book written for use in elementary schools. A title in the Western Nature Science Series. Contains 9 units: Sea Shells & Their Owners; Strange Mollusks; The Starfishes & Their Relatives; The Crusty Animals; Sea Flowers, Rafts & Jellyfishes; Worms, Corals, & Sponges; Shore Birds; Sea Lions, Tidepool Fishes, & Other Chordates; and, The Seaweeds. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. List of other books, Index of text and illustrations. xxiv, 271 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated green cloth (a few neat marginal notations in pencil, otherwise almost like new) Uncommon in the first ediiton.
Book ID: 66348More details Price: $21.50 -
LAND OF THE WHATSIT: Adventures of Billy and Betty.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macaulay Co., (1935.). Hardcover first edition - A "writing out in story form" of some of the humorous adventures (adventures "found on our front doorstep and in our back yard") of Billy and Betty, two children who supposedly published an amateur newspaper, adventures which originally appeared on a radio program with the same title as this book. The Whatsit became a four page cartoon insert in 'True Story' magazine and eventually an immensely popular miniature newspaper "by children for children" which reached a subscription level of almost 4 million children. Als inclues cartoons and illustrations by Joe Banks and humorous verse. 333 pp.
Condition: Good condition in blue cloth with gold panels - some wear to the ends of the spine the corners, a few foxing/spots to the margins, prev owner's name in pencil.
Book ID: 56961More details Price: $25.00 -
MISTRESS MASHAM'S REPOSE.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Putnam, (1946). Hardcover first edition - A fantastical tale of a lonely young girl who discovers a colony of Lilliputians living near her home. llustrations by Fritz Eichenberg. Illustrated endpapers. 255 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in pale blue-grey boards with gilt lettering on spine, small illustration on front cover, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 83061More details Price: $21.50 -
THE SWING: Poems and Illustrations.
Edition: First printing, signed limited edition.
San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley, (1981.). SIGNED first edition - A charming group of poems illustrated with seven full-page multi-color linocuts by the author. The pages are printed on one side only on French-folded sheets bound Japanese-style with white silk thread. Design and presswork by Adrian Wilson. Number 174 out of 300 numbered copies signed by both the author/illustrator and the printer, Adrian Wilson.
Condition: Fine in illustrated blue wrappers.
Book ID: 57086More details Price: $50.00 -
HILO: THEN EVERYTHING WENT WRONG, Book 5.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Random House, (2019). SIGNED hardcover - Humorous graphic novel for middle grade children, the fifth in this series featuring the robot from another plant, Hilo, and his friends. "Find out more about what really happened on Hilo's world before he came to earth." SIGNED on the title page. Color by Steve Hamacker. 195 pp. ISBN: 978-1524714963.
Condition: Fine in illustrated boards.
Book ID: 78920More details Price: $24.50 -
MYSTERY OF THE LAUGHING MASK.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, (1940.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The eighth title (and last one listed) in the series "Mystery Stories for Girls" - a rather uncommon book by the author of the original Nancy Drew books. Set in Florida, in the Everglades and at a small beach town, this feautures a girl working for a naturalist for the summer. Glossy frontispiece. 203 pp plus 7 pp of the first chapter from 'The Runaway Caravan,' the first in another Wirt series of books called Trailer Stories for Girls.
Condition: Very good+ in orange cloth with navy lettering in a good dust jacket (dust jacket lists just 7 titles). Gift inscription on the illustrated front endpapers in the box provided for this, usual light toning to pages, chip to upper front corner of dj, slight loss at ends of spine, but overall a clean and tight book in an attractive dust jacket and uncommon thus.
Book ID: 47849More details Price: $120.00 -
OLD TALES OF JAPAN: Volume I.
Edition: First edition.
Japan: Dai-Nippon Printing Co, (1947). Hardcover first edition - Three Japanese folk tales translated into English by Yasuda and illustrated with full color plates and some smaller black and white drawings by Yoshinobu Sakakura. Includes The Story of Shitakiri Suzume (The Tongue-cut Sparrow), The Story of Nezumi No Yomeiri (The Marriage of a Mouse) and The Story of Urashima Taro (The Fisherman). The first of four volumes of Japanese folk tales published just after World War II. Foreword by Elizabeth Grey Vining. 92 pp plus final illustration and a list of the 4 volumes. Decorative endpapers.
Condition: Good overall in illustrated red boards (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 79990More details Price: $28.50 -
BEYOND THE GREAT MOUNTAINS: A Visual Poem about China.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautiful book by this Caldecott award winning artist, one which can be enjoyed on many levels. "Ed Young's spare prose, as lovely as a rice-paper painting, describes in measured detail the beautiful and mystical land that the author so clearly loves. The unique format and gorgeous paper-collage illustrations, highlighted with Chinese characters, combine to convey the many facets of China to form a poetic picture of the land's grace, depth, and majesty. Author's note and a list of the Chinese characters then and now. Square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-8118-43432.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 50242More details Price: $21.50 -
BEYOND THE GREAT MOUNTAINS: A Visual Poem about China.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (2005.) dj. Hardcover - A beautiful book by this Caldecott award winning artist, one which can be enjoyed on many levels. "Ed Young's spare prose, as lovely as a rice-paper painting, describes in measured detail the beautiful and mystical land that the author so clearly loves. The unique format and gorgeous paper-collage illustrations, highlighted with Chinese characters, combine to convey the many facets of China to form a poetic picture of the land's grace, depth, and majesty. Author's note and a list of the Chinese characters then and now. Square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-8118-43432.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 50243More details Price: $18.50 -
PROMOTIONAL CARD for PRINCESS JEWELIANA AND THE SPARKLING RAINBOW BALL.
New York: Reader's Digest, (2003). First edition - One piece of bright pink cardstock, folded to 8 1/2 inches by 6 inches - the interior includes a central pop-up of the castle with two doors that open to reveal the ball within. A promotional item for "girls and boys and booksellers too" - Uncommon.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 85063More details Price: $12.50
