Structure, Verses, Agency Books

The First of Everso

Boleman-Herring, Elizabeth · 2005

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.95 | ¥3,577)

Teaneck, New Jersey, The Literate Chigger Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. SIGNED by the author, the panhellene and poet Elizabeth Boleman-Herring, at title page but also with a warm and loving inscription by her at first free endpaper. Brightl...

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Dahl, Roald · 1972

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

New York, Random House Children's Books, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, less tha...

Incident at Hawk's Hill

Eckert, Alan W. · 1971

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Boston, Massachusetts, Little, Brown and Company, 1971. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the mustard-colored buckram cloth, bright interior, unmarked, seemingly unread. Bright and shiny dust ...

A Lot of Four (4) the Royal Diaries Books: Kaiulani: The People's Princess, Hawaii, 1889; Lady of Ch'Iao Kuo: Warrior of the South, Southern China, A.D. 531; Jahanara: Princess of Princesses, India, 1627; Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595; Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544

White, Ellen Emerson; Kathryn Lasky; Patricia McKissack; Kathry Lasky · 2001

$30.40 (€27.58 | £23.01 | ¥4,855)

New York, Scholastic Books, . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcovers, a lot of five (5) contributions to the The Royal Diaries series, each showing little discernible wear, with bright interiors, unmarked. Pictorial paper over...

Jacob Have I Loved

Paterson, Katherine · 1980

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 1980. 11th Printing. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Remainder mark along bottom edge, light abrasion to gold Newbery Award-winning medal sticker to front cover, else a tightly bound, attractive exemplar in two-tone hardcover format. Bright a...

The Dangerous Book for Boys

Iggulden, Conn and Hal Iggulden · 2007

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the red cloth over boards, black lettering to front cover and spine, stamped gilt lettering, too, br...

The Vineyard Book

Johnson, Jack · 2005

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Westminster, Maryland, Acme Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the glossy pictorial covers. Bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. ...

That Pup

Butler, Ellis Parker · 1909

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format exemplar of a beloved vintage children's book, one that originated in short story form in the American Magazine, clean, lightl...

The Runaway Pigs

Reichman, Edith · 1940

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Kenosha, Wisconsin, Samuel Lowe Company, 1940. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of a classic children's book from 1940, tall, skinny, measuring 13" tall x 9 1/2" wide, with unfurled tips, tight staple-binding, and clean int...

Supplication of the Black Aberdeen

Kipling, Rudyard · 1927

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1927. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Stated First Edition, First Printing, not the edition published in the U.K. Green string-sew...

Apalachicola

Saunders, William Lawrence · 1920

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)

, William Lawrence Saunders, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Exceedingly scarce work of self-published poetry by a Florida and New Jersey-based industrialist and eventual politician, in First Edition, with no date of publication, but 1920. Simple paper...

Rolito

Armando, Jeanne · 1961

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Radio City, New York, Leeds Music Corp., 1961. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Big, tall, quarto-sized, staple-bound softpaper format, with illustrated card stock wraps, very lightly soiled, moderately worn, mostly at spine. paper over boards with red clot...

Stuart Little in the Classroom

White, E.B. · 1945

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, Harper & Row, . First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Very Good condition Harper & Row keepsake probably from the mid-'60s but drawn from the 1945 Christmas season, sans dust jacket. Garth Williams is the illustrator of the fanciful images of the beloved...

Anschauungsbuch

Anonymous · 1900

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

, , . First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Unpaginated, but an eight-page children's book, appears to be a facsimile, with no date, author, publisher or place of publication. Appears to be roughly 1900. Sturdy cardboard, with chromolithographic illustrations an...

Kate Greenaway

Spielmann, M.H. and G.S. Layard · 1905

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.35 | ¥8,305)

London, Adam & Charles Black, 1905. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A lovely and due homage of the beloved English illustrator. Reprinted, with minor alterations, 1905. Nice-looking, structurally sound exemplar of the First Edition, augmented with 52 colo...

Rollo's Journey to Cambridge (Memorial Edition)

Wheelwright, John T. and Frederic J. Stimson · 1926

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York and Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. Memorial Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete. Moderately worn and mildly soiled covers, peeling of illustrated paper over boards at spine, cracking...

Master Henry's Rabbit

The Milner Toys · 0

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,027)

Troy, New York, Merriam & Moore, . . Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of yet another exemplar of the The Milner Toys stable of cute, hand-colored children's books; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, hand-sewn, foxing to covers and inte...

Hopalong Cassidy and His Young Friend Danny

Crowe, Jack · 1950

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

Kenosha, Wisconsin, John Martin's House, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. An apparent First Edition, though not so stated. Unpaginated, but [24] pp. Paper-covered, illustrated bo...

Toddy Romper Tales

Todd, Edwin · 1996

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

Sebastopol, California, Patrick Reagh, 1996. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Special Limited Edition, limited to 300 copies, presented to members of the Roxburghe & Zamorano Clubs in a joint membership dinner attended by the former owner, Robert A...

The Godmother's Tales

Anonymous · 1917

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

London, Printed for J. Harris, 1917. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Stated Fifth Edition. Penned anonymously, but by the author of A Cup of Sweets and other children's tales, some say Elizabeth Sandham, others, Elizabeth Semple. Numerous works published by...