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THE HERO AND THE CROWN.
Edition: 4th printing.
New York: Greenwillow Books, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Newbery Award winning book - a prequel to "The Blue Sword'. Heroic fantasy set in the mythical kingdom of Damar. INSCRIBED on the title page. Scarce signed or inscribed. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-688025935.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (price-clipped, very short tear to upper edge of back cover of dj) Gold award medallion on front cover.
Book ID: 90584More details Price: $100.00 -
BUD, NOT BUDDY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - This story, set in 1936 in Flint Michigan, is the story of a 12 year old black boy's escape from an abusive foster home, and search for the jazz musician he believed to be his father. The first - and so far only - book to win both the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King award, as well as several other honors. SIGNED by the author on the half title page. Uncommon in the first printing, especially in the first issue dustjacket with original price of $15.95. ISBN: 0-385-323069.
Condition: Near fine in a very near fine dustjacket (bump to top edge of front board, very light foxing to the top of the text block, a bit of wear to the dj at the head of the spinej)
Book ID: 90544More details Price: $75.00 -
BUD, NOT BUDDY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - This story, set in 1936 in Flint Michigan, is the story of a 12 year old black boy's escape from an abusive foster home, and search for the jazz musician he believed to be his father. The first - and so far only - book to win both the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King award, as well as several other honors. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page and dated in 1999, in the year of publication, (and before it won all the awards) . Uncommon in the first printing, especially in the first issue dustjacket with original price of $15.95. ISBN: 0-385-323069.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (a very short closed tear to dj)
Book ID: 90483More details Price: $85.00 -
HOLES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A darkly humorous tale of crime, punishment and redemption, winner of the Newbery Award and the National Book Award, among many other awards, and the basis of the 2003 Disney movie of the same name, featuring Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight and Shia La Beouf. SIGNED and dated on the title page. A great book, which can be read on many levels, and which has already become a classic. In 2012 it was ranked number six among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal and it was included in Time's 100 best young adult novels since the 1800s. 233 pp. ISBN: 0-374-332657.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (name on front endpaper, dj has National Book Award sticker, but not the Newbery sticker.) Uncommon in the first edition, and especially so signed.
Book ID: 90129More details Price: $325.00 -
THE GIVER.
Edition: First thus- the illustrated gift edition
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2011.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Winner of the Newbery award. A haunting novel of a boy who lives in a seemingly idyllic world - without conflict, poverty, unemployment, injustice or inequality - but in his 12th year he sent to a man known only as 'the Giver' and begins to learn the dark secrets that underlie the fragile perfection of his world. This edition includes a new introduction by Lowry, her Newbery award acceptance speech, and is beautifully illustrated with full color full page paintings by Bagram Ibatoulline. 197 pp. Ribbon marker bound in. ISBN: 0-395-645662.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket. (gold Newbery award sticker on front cover.)
Book ID: 87613More details Price: $40.00 -
NUMBER THE STARS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A story of the Danish Resistance during World War II and how the Danes helped over 7000 Jewish people escape the Nazis in 1943, told through the eyes of a 10 year old girl. SIGNED and dated on the title page. Newbery award winner. 137 pp. ISBN: 0-395-510600.
Condition: Good in fair only dust jacket (inscription and 2 butterfly stickers on dedication page, but contents otherwise clean, some spotting to edges of textblock, overall edgewear to dj, price of 12.95 still present. Gold Newbery award sticker)
Book ID: 87133More details Price: $85.00 -
NUMBER THE STARS.
Edition: 3rd printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A story of the Danish Resistance during World War II and how the Danes helped over 7000 Jewish people escape the Nazis in 1943, told through the eyes of a 10 year old girl. INSCRIBED and dated on the title page. Newbery award winner. 137 pp. ISBN: 0-395-510600.
Condition: Near fine in the original black cloth in a very good dust jacket, with minor edgewear, price of 12.95 still present. Gold Newbery award sticker.
Book ID: 86887More details Price: $165.00 -
NUMBER THE STARS.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: A Yearling Book / Bantam Doubleday Dell, (1999). SIGNED - A story of the Danish Resistance during World War II and how the Danes helped over 7000 Jewish people escape the Nazis in 1943, told through the eyes of a 10 year old girl. INSCRIBED on the title page. Newbery award winner. Author's afterword. 137 pp. ISBN: 0-395-510600.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 86810More details Price: $35.00 -
GAY-NECK: The Story of a Pigeon.
Edition: Later printing. The Newbery Medal edition.
New York: Dutton, (1962, c 1927.) dj. Hardcover - The story of a young boy growing up in the jungles and village of India, and the training of his homing pigeon, Gay-Neck. Illustrated with 3 black and white double page spreads, chapter headings and tailpieces by Boris Artzybasheff. Winner of the Newbery Medal for Children's Literature awarded in 1927, the story of a young boy in India and the training of his homing pigeon, Gay-Neck. This was the first Newbery award to an Asian-American and it over 70 years before the second Asian American recipient. 197 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in illustrated gray boards in a near fine dj.
Book ID: 86450More details Price: $16.50 -
THE TWENTY-ONE BALLOONS.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket without the award medallion (some discoloration from binder's glue to the endpapers, and some light shelfwear, toning to the interior of the dj, but overall a tight and straight copy,with the original price of $2.50 on the dj flap)
Book ID: 78981More details Price: $1,000.00 -
MISS HICKORY.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: The Viking Press, 1946 (1947) dj. Hardcover - A very early printing of this delightful story of a little wooden doll, winner of the Newbery Award in 1947. "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 Hampshire winter alone. This might not have been so bad if Miss Hickory had not been a country woman whose body was an apple-wood twig and whose head was a hickory nut. This is the story of how she suvived those months, in the company of neighbors like Crow, Bull Frog, Ground Hog, and a host of others." Illustrated throughout with charming lithographs by Ruth Gannett. 123 pp.
Condition: Very good in a fair dust jacket with some overall rubbing and wear, price-clipped.
Book ID: 75413More details Price: $25.00 -
A WRINKLE IN TIME.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, (ca 2010) dj. Hardcover - The classic first book in the Time Trilogy - a Newbery award winning title originally published in 1962. Basis for the movie of the same name. 203 pp. Dust jacket art by Leo and Diane Dillon. ISBN: 978-0-374-386139.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new)
Book ID: 75241More details Price: $15.00 -
JOYFUL NOISE: Poems for Two Voices.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: Harper Collins, (1992). SIGNED - A collection of poems that celebrate the insect world, written to be spoken aloud by two voices. sometimes alternating, sometime simultaneously. Winner of the Newbery award. SIGNED and dated by Fleischman on the title page. Illustrated with full-page black and white drawings by Eric Beddows. 44 pp. plus final double page illustration. ISBN: 0-06-4460932.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (corners somewhat bumped).
Book ID: 73672More details Price: $18.00 -
A NEWBERY ZOO: A Dozen Animal Stories by Newbery Award-Winning Authors.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1995). Hardcover first edition - Introduction by Betsy Byars. Contains stories by Lloyd Alexander, Beverly Cleary, Virginia Hamilton, Will James, Paul Fleischman, Robert Lawson, Jean Craighead George, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Betsy Byars and Charles Boardman Hawes. Notes on the authors. Slightly oversized format. 179 pp. ISBN: 0-385322631.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket (some edgewear to the dj, peeled spots on front cover.
Book ID: 70738More details Price: $16.50 -
GOOD MASTERS! SWEET LADIES! Voices from a Medieval Village.
Edition: Early printing.
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2007) dj. Hardcover - Readers get to meet those who lived near an English manor in 1255 - from Hugo, the Lord's nephew, and Taggot, the blacksmith's daughter, to Pask, the runaway and Giles, the beggar, as each tell their story in verse or prose. Lovely illustrations by Robert Byrd - a handsome production overall. INSCRIBED on the title page by Schlitz and dated in 2008. Winner of Newberry Medal. Bibliography. Slightly oversized. 85 pp. ISBN: 9780763615789.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 58703More details Price: $45.00 -
RABBIT HILL.
Edition: Twelfth printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1966, c 1944) dj. Hardcover - Winner of the Newbery Award for 1944, written and illustrated with black and white drawings by Lawson. 128 pp.
Condition: Very good in a very worn dust jacket. (prev owner's name, corners bumped, general edgewear, rubbing and tears to the dj.)
Book ID: 57064More details Price: $12.50 -
BUD, NOT BUDDY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - This story, set in 1936 in Flint Michigan, is the story of a 12 year old black boy's escape from an abusive foster home, and search for the jazz musician he believed to be his father. The first - and so far only - book to win both the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King award, as well as several other honors. SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated in 1999, in the year of publication, (and before it won all the awards) . Uncommon in the first printing, especially in the first issue dustjacket with original price of $15.95. ISBN: 0-385-323069.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 51750More details Price: $150.00 -
BUD, NOT BUDDY.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1999.) dj. Hardcover - This story, set in 1936 in Flint Michigan, of a 12 year old black boy's escape from an abusive foster home, and search for the jazz musician he believed to be his father The first - and so far only - book to win both the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King award, as well as several other honors. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-385-323069.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (gift inscription mostly underneath front flap, price-clipped.) Newbery gold award sticker on front cover.
Book ID: 45762More details Price: $14.50 -
A SWIFTLY TILTING PLANET.
Edition: Pocket paperback.
New York: Dell, (c. 1978.). A title in the classic Time Quartet (originally a Trilogy), a series which began with the Newbery award winning 'Wrinkle in Time' originally published in 1962. This continues the stories of the Murry-O'Keefes - Meg, Charles Wallace and the others. ISBN: 0-440-901588.
Condition: Good condition (some creases to front cover.)
Book ID: 40368More details Price: $10.00 -
A SWIFTLY TILTING PLANET.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (c. 1978.). A title in the classic Time Quartet (originally a Trilogy), a series which began with the Newbery award winning 'Wrinkle in Time' originally published in 1962. This continues the stories of the Murry-O'Keefes - Meg, Charles Wallace and the others. 278 pp.
Condition: Very good condition (crease to back cover.)
Book ID: 40367More details Price: $8.50 -
BUD, NOT BUDDY.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Scholastic, (2000.) dj. Hardcover - This story , set in 1936 in Flint Michigan, of a 12 year old black boy's escape from an abusive foster home, and search for the jazz musician he believed to be his father won both the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King award, as well as several other honors. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-439-227534.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards, no dj as issued.
Book ID: 37080More details Price: $12.50 -
BUD, NOT BUDDY.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Delacorte, (1999.) dj. Hardcover - This story , set in 1936 in Flint Michigan, of a 12 year old black boy's escape from an abusive foster home, and search for the jazz musician he believed to be his father. It won both the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King award (the first - and so far only - book to win both) , as well as several other honors. Early book club edition with no mention of the awards. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-385-323069.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 34408More details Price: $14.50