NY: Junior Literary Guild, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Story of boy facing the harshness of nature and becoming a man, by German children's author (and noted pro-Nazi, ant-Semite) Waldemar. Translated for American publication by Whittaker Chambers who at the time, ironically was a Commie and Soviet spy before he spilled..... More
NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unused copy, internals as new. Yellow cloth a bit spotted. Unclipped dustjacket modest wear along folds and spine tips. A collectibel copy. A seafaring childrens/ juvenile title. More
NY: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Publsher's green cloth with titles in gilt and pictoirial stamped in green, white and black. Owner inscription dated 1904, year of publication, on the ffe. Solid copy of the first edition. More
NY: The Macmillan Company, 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Beautifully preserved copy in worn and used dustjacket. Lovely illustrations, including dustjacekt pictorial and pictorial endpapers by Walker Bluie cloth stamped in yellow white and balck pictorial in soiled dustjacket (especially at spine) with obvious chips and loss to edges and spine..... More
NY: The Macmillan Company, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1928 printing after the first of 1925. An unusually well preserved copy in worn dustjacket. Exuberant cover design, decorations and pictures by Russian-born Artzybasheff ingeniously partnered with Irishman Colum in this retelling of Medieval fable. Internals almost as new, Dustjacket soiled, especially..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Solid copy, save some loss to the right bottom corner front cover in uncommon dustjacket that missing some pieces about edges. Story of Native North American boy living on the Canadian Government reservation at Bear Lake. NATIVE AMERICAN JUVENILE. More
NY: Robert M McBride & Company, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two titles by the same authors on aviation for the juvenile reader. In uncommon dustjackets. GROW UP (1930, first edition) dustjacket is printed in stark red, white and black, rendering a primitive but bold Art-Deco style. Solid book. Dustjacket is..... More
NY: Coward-McCann, 1930. Hardcover. Brown pictorial cloth in scarce dustjacket, with pictorial by Cheney, who did pictorial endpapers and text drawings. Book near fine, dustajcket moderately worn at edges, soiled/ chipped at spine, . Juvenile adventure set in French colonization of Canada; young man seeks missing father in Canadian wilderness..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1932. Hardcover. Scarce juvenile title retelling tale of David and Esther. Orange cloth stamped in black in pictorial dustjacket chipped about edges, spine browned. Review copy, with slip laid-in. More
NY: A. S Barnes & Co, 1867. Soft cover. 5 penmanship or drawing units, same size and formats, from diferent publishers executed in well-schooled juvenile hand.1) No.1 National Drawing Book Elementary Studies After Designs by Tomas Monk. AS Barnes NY copyright 1867 2) Spencerian System of Penmanship American Educational Series..... More
NY: Stepping Stone/ Random House, 2008. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Galley pages for #40 in Osborne's Merlin Mission series, with her line edits in pencil and inscribed in ink by her on the title page. Also included is a prototype for the cover (tan ice?) that was discarded in favor..... More
NY: Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Impressively well preserved copy in period decorated cover, light blue cloth stamped on gilt, black and white with photo pastedown, 8vo, 397 (6), with 51 duotone photographs of all manner of US fishing and whaling. A hard-to-find title in the publisher's..... More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth, oval pictorial pastedown, titles in gilt. Narrow stain running along bottom edge of leaves first grouping of pages not affecting text. Solid copy. With 100 drawings by author Seton, More
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A solid first edition copy, modestly worn on bottom edge in pictorial unclipped dustjacket matching book covers that is worn around all edges with some shallow edge loss here and there. Clean internals, no names, inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus. More