The Wars in Barbary Arab Piracy and the Birth of the United States Navy.
NY: Crown Publishers (1971). 1st edition. 12mo., 165pp., cloth, index, very good in very good dust jacket. More
Young Adult
Rainbow Jordan
NY: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1981. 2nd impression; small 8vo.; paper covered boards, hardcover; 142 pages; inscribed “ To Dorothy, who cares about people! Alice Childress Aug 31, 1983. a very good, clean, tight copy in a very good dust jacket with small clip remains (see picture). More
Santiago
NY: Viking Press, 1955. 1st edition; 8vo. gray decorative cloth; illustrated by Lynd Ward Santiago is a 12 year old Indian being brought up in an aristocratic Spanish household. Despite protests, an old Indian "burden bearer" comes and takes the boy back to his own Indian people. The book, then..... More
Missing from Home
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1978). 8vo; cloth covered boards; hardcover; 149 pages; very good with no apparent flaws in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. More
Maine Memories
Brattleboro, VT: Stephen Greene Press, 1968. 8vo.; blue cloth covered boards, hardcover; x, 165 pages; bottom edge of boards are sunned else very good in a poor chipped, torn and wrinkled dust jacket. More
The Lucky Ones Five Journeys Toward A Home
NY: The Macmillan Co. (1968). Stated 1st printing; 8vo.; pictorial cloth covered boards, 84 pages; hardcover; b/w illustrations by Janet Doyle; 5 different stories of 5 children from different lands that explore the plight of homelessness; very good in a very good dust jacket. More
Thief Island
NY: The Macmillan Co., 1943. Stated 1st printing, First edition; 8vo.; blue cloth covered boards, 118 pages; b/w illustrations by John Wonsetler; The Littles live on a deserted island off the coast of Maine after they lost all their money and eventually it feels like home; former owner’s book plate..... More
Ling Ling + Hsing Hsing Year Of The Panda
NY: Anchor Press/ Doubleday, 1973. Stated 1st edition, cloth covered boards, 164 pages; photographic illustrations; very good in very good dust jacket with lightly sunned spine. More
Pedro’s Journal A Voyage with Christopher Columbus August 3,1492 -February 14, 1493
NY: Caroline House (1991). Stated 1st edition; small 8vo., cloth/boards, very good in a very good dust jacket. More
Secrets of the Hills and How Ronald Read Them
NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., no date [ca 1911]. 8vo. decorative green cloth covered boards with black and white illustrated pasteon, hardcover; black and white illustrations; from the preface: “The object of this book is to excite interest in the study of Geology, to introduce a boy to its methods..... More
Graffiti Moon
NY: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers 2012. Stated 1st American edition with 1 in the numberline; 8vo.. cloth covered boards, hardcover; 280 pages; a fine, clean, tight, unmarked copy in a fine dustjacket. More
Cristina Of Old New York
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. (1939). 8vo.; decorative cloth covered boards, 314 pages; hardcover; b/w and color illustrations by Marguerite De Angeli; about the early days of New York and Long Island based on historical fact; very good in rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket with a 1 inch closed tear..... More
Skip-Come-A-Lou
NY: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1928. Stated 6th printing; small 8vo.; cloth covered boards, 243 pages; hardcover; color frontispiece by M. L. Kirk; soiled page edges else very good in a lightly soiled and edgeworn dust jacket. More
Sixty Million Years of Horses
New York, William Morrow and Company 1960. 8vo; yellow cloth covered pictorial boards; hardcover; 64 pages; a good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws in a similar quality dust jacket. More
The Lemonade War Series: The Bell Bandit
NY: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2012. First edition with a 1 present in the number line; 8vo.; covered boards, hardcover; 174 pages; black and white illustrations; a very good clean tight copy in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. More
Checking on the Moon
NY: Orchard Books (1991). 1st edition. boards, very good in very good dust jacket. More
Pony Jungle
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1941. Stated First edition; 8vo.; green cloth covered boards with white illustration and lettering and illustrated endpapers, hardcover; 309 pages; brown and white illustrations; a very good clean, tight copy in an edgeworn and sunned dust jacket. More
The Story of Little Jakey
N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton. 1876. 12mo, 132 pages, plus four pages of Little Jakey reviews; red cloth covered beveled boards with gilt decoration; b+w illustrations; story of a blind German/Italian orphan in New York City; edgeworn and lightly soiled covers with some lightly browned pages else very good. More
The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe
London: Ward, Lock & Co., Ltd., no date [ca 1960s]. 8vo.; green cloth covered boards; hardcover; glossy color pictorial frontispiece; 30 color plates and 18 other illustrations by A. E. Jackson; very good in slightly soiled and chipped dust jacket. More
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
London and Melbourne, no date [1921]. 8vo., 340pp.,cloth, 30 colour plates and 18 other illustrations by A.E. Jackson, one of the Prince Charming Colour Book Series, foxed endpapers else very good in edgeworn dust jacket. More
Liberty Porter First Daughter New Girl In Town
NY: Aladdin, (2010). First edition with a 1 present in the number line; 8vo.; cloth backed boards, hardcover; black and white illustrations; a very good clean tight copy in a very good dust jacket. More
Bindi Babes
NY: Delacorte Press (2004). 1st edition with 1 in the numberline; 12mo., glossy pictorial boards, hardcover; 184 pages; a fine, clean, tight, unmarked copy in a fine dust jacket. More
Paul Cezanne
NY: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard (1951). 1st edition. 12mo., cloth, illustrated with half tones, very good in very good dust jacket. More