Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1987. Third Printing. Slim Quarto. Cloth boards in dust jacket; unpaginated. Stated first edition, third printing. Illustrator inscription to title page. Faint rubbing to top edge of boards, else a tight, clean, new-appearing copy. Small tape remainder to rear cover of jacket. Trivial shelf wear..... More

Richmond: Johnson Publishing Company, (1901). First Edition. 12mo. Gray pictorial cloth; 255pp; illus. Straight and tight, with just mild external wear; thin crack at gutter of final text leaf; still Very Good or better. A volume of biographies and historical vignettes, aimed at Texas primary school students. Rich in Confederate..... More

London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (20.25cm.); original purple decorative cloth, purple topstain; [16],199pp.; two-toned frontispiece and endpapers, black and white illus. throughout. A few dampstains to upper cover, else Very Good. Collection of "folk tales" by the Baltimore-born imposter Joseph Howard Lee, who made a career out..... More

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1948. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Original orange cloth stamped in black, printed paper onlay to front; blue, yellow, and white pictorial endpapers; xii,366pp; color frontispiece, b&w line drawings by Lofting throughout. Lacking dust jacket. Square and tight, spine faded, corners bumped, minor soil to cloth..... More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. First Edition. Posthumously-published work, collecting 10 of London's adventure stories for young readers, and notably including the only book appearance of his first story written for publication, "Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan." With a preface by Charmian London. WOODBRIDGE 164; BAL 11985. First..... More

New York: Hampton Publishing Company, 1925. First Edition. Large octavo. Red cloth hardcover with applied pictorial onlay; 399pp; frontispiece and five unnumbered leaves of color plates after original illustrations by Frank Schoonover. Faint spotting to cloth on front cover; gift inscription dated 1995; Very Good. A biography of George Washington..... More

New York: Viking Press, 1971. First Edition. Young adult novel centered around a nine-year-old name Lilly Etta, who plots and schemes to prevent her best friend's family from getting evicted from their inner city apartment. Illustrated throughout with black and white drawings by Harlem, NY artist Leo Carty. A Council..... More

[Moscow]: OGIZ - Molodaia Gvardiia, 1931. Third Edition. One of the last children's books by Vladimir Mayakovsky - poet, playwright, actor, and among the foremost representatives of early 20th-century Russian Futurism. Kem Byt'? is presented in the form of staggered verse, presenting children in a variety of professions, and providing..... More

New York: Baen Books, 1989. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial wrappers (softcover); 333pp. Light external wear, internally fine. Advance Uncorrected Page Proofs, preceding the first printing. With publisher's publicity letter laid in, signed in facsimile by both McCaffrey and Moon. More

New York: Hurst & Co., [ca 1903]. Small octavo (19cm). Publisher's pictorial green cloth; dustjacket; 184,[10]pp. Straight, tight and clean, very near to Fine in the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly soiled and with a few marginal chips; Very Good. In Hurst's "Home Series For Girls." A typically wholesome girl's book..... More

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1965. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); taupe pictorial cloth, stamped in red, in color pictorial dustwrapper; 7-187pp. Dustwrapper spine and leading edges tanned, extremities slightly chipped, edges rolled; mild soil and wear. Textblock clean and sound. Very Good overall. Stephen W. Meader presents another..... More

New-York: D. Appleton & Co., 1849 [c. 1848]. First Edition. Compiled by "Grandfather Merryman" for his granddaughters while residing on his "country-seat in New York State, from which, by looking at the title [engraving], you will see I have a fine view of the high bridge across the Harlem River"..... More

London: Stanley Paul & Co., 1925. First, Limited Edition. Folio. White linen boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover. One of 500 copies, signed by A.A. Milne on limitation page and printed on fine wove paper. Boards a trifle spotted; mild foxing to endpapers; small engraved bookplate to..... More