Marley A Dog Like No Other
NY: William Morrow (2005). 5th printing; 8vo. boards, hardcover; 196 pages; signed by Grogan with no inscription; a fine, clean, tight copy in a fine dustjacket. More
Young Adult
And Then Mom Joined The Army
Nashville & NY: Abingdon Press (1976). 8vo., boards, very good in slightly rubbed dust jacket. More
One Trick Pony A Graphic Novel
NY: Amulet Books, Abrams, 2017. First edition with a 1 present in the number line; 8vo.; glossy illustrated boards with illustrated endpapers, hardcover; 135 pages; color illustrations; very good. More
Carpentry & Mechanics for Boys Up-to-the-minute Handicraft
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. (1918). Small 8vo; pictorial cloth covered boards, hardcover; 385 pages; black and white illustrations; includes: the home workshop, war toys and mechanical toys, back yard and camp craft, and garden craft; lightly rubbed boards else a very good clean tight copy in an edgeworn..... More
Arctic Rovings or The Adventures of a New Bedford Boy on Sea and Land.
NY: Young Scott, 1968. 8vo., pictorial cloth, illustrated by William Hogarth; Beatty has added an introduction and an afterward to Daniel Hall’s journal which was published in 1861; inscribed by Hogarth; very good in edgeworn dust jacket. More
Plain City
NY: Blue Sky/Scholastic (1993). Stated First Printing; 8vo, cloth; twelve year old wants to find out more of her own history and her missing father; author is a Newbery Medalist; very good in a very good dustjacket. More
Second Cousins
NY: The Blue Sky Press, 1998. Stated First printing, first edition with a 1 present in the number line; 8vo.; cloth backed boards, hardcover; 168 pages; a very good clean tight copy in a very good dust jacket. More
A New Song
NY: Weybright and Talley, Inc. (1967). Small 8vo.; cloth covered boards, 110 pages; hardcover; b/w illustrations by Gustave Nebel; a story about a musical family and the challenges they face; very good in a lightly soiled dust jacket with a 1/2 closed tear on front top cover. More
Long Journeys: Stories of Human Endurance.
NY: Crown Publishers (1970). 1st edition, cloth. Accounts of ten historic journeys from the military retreat of Xenophon and his Greek soldiers from Persia to The Children’s Crusade to The Cherokee Indian’ “Trail of Tears” to the Long March of the Chinese Communist Army under Mao Tse-Tse-tung in 1934. very..... More
When Blue Meant Yellow How Colors Got Their Names
NY: Henry Holt and Co., (1994). First edition with a 1 present in the number line; 8vo.; cloth backed boards, hardcover; 171 pages; 26 essays describing the origins of our words for colors; a very good clean tight copy in a very good dust jacket. More
The Star Beast
NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons (1954). First edition with the Scribner A present; 8vo.; black covered boards with blue lettering on spine and cover, hardcover; 282 pages; black and white illustrated title page; one corner of board is frayed else and about 10 pages have dog-ear creases on top corner else..... More
The Cruise of the Sally
Boston: L. C. Page & Co., 1928. First edition; Signed by author on front free endpaper; 12mo.; blue decorative cloth covered boards, hardcover; 325 pages; former owner’s name and address on front free endpaper else a very good clean tight copy in a poor dust jacket. More
Mustang Wild Spirit of the West
NY: Rand, McNally and Company 1966. 1st edition; stated First Printing; 8vo.; pictorial boards, hardcover, 223 pages; pictorial endpapers; color and black and white illustrations; a fine, clean, tight, unmarked copy in an edgeworn dustjacket with several closed tears and chipped spine ends. More
Does This School Have Capital Punishment?
NY: Delacorte (1981). 8vo., boards, very good in very good dust jacket. More
Books for Home Reading For High Schools Graded and Classified
Chicago, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1931. Stated third Impression; 8vo.; illustrated wraps, softcover; 111 pages; black and white and color illustrations; wraps are rubbed and soiled else very good. More
Saddle and Bridle
NY: The Macmillan Co., 1936. First edition; small 8vo.; brown cloth covered boards, hardcover; 214 pages; black and white illustrations; dusty page edges else very good in an edgeworn, sunned and soiled dust jacket. More
Just Juice
NY: Scholastic Press (1998). Stated First edition with a 1 present in the number line; Signed/Inscribed by Author on title page, “To the Children of St. Agnes School Keep Reading!, Karen Hesse”; small 8vo.; cloth backed boards, hardcover; 138 pages; black and white illustrations; very good in a very good..... More
Detectives, Inc. A Mystery Story for Boys
Chicago: The Goldsmith Publishing Company, Chicago (1935). small 8vo., orange boards, hardcover; 246 pages; light edgewear else a very good clean tight copy in a lightly edgeworn bright pictorial dustjacket. More
Exit from Home.
NY: Crown Publishers, Inc. (1977). 1st edition. 8vo. 277pp., very good in very good dust jacket. More
Shipwreck Season
NY, Clarion Books, 1998. First Edition. 8vo., cloth; 16 year old Daniel spends eight months with his uncle at a lifesavers’ station on Cape Cod; fine in fine dustjacket. More
Mustang A Horse of the Old West
NY: William Morrow & Co., 1942. Stated Second Printing October, 1942; small 8vo.; cloth covered boards with illustrated endpapers, hardcover; 247 pages; a very good clean, tight copy in an edgeworn and soiled dust jacket. More
Sixth-Grade Star.
NY: Holiday House (1992). 12mo, boards, very good in very good dust jacket. More
The Garden of Eden: Stories from the First Nine Books of the Old Testament
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1909. 8vo. pictorial green cloth covered boards, hardcover; 203 pages; color illustrations; lightly soiled and edgeworn covers, internally a very good, clean, tight copy. More
Self-will and Repentance Fatherland Series
Philadelphia: Lutheran Board of Pubication, 1875. 16mo.; decorative cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, hardcover; 189 pages; black and white illustrations; translated from the German; front hinge is cracked else a very good copy in wrinkled and edgeworn boards. More