Boston: Joy Street Books / Little, Brown and Company, 1989. Second Printing. Hardcover. Fourteen children recount their struggles with disease and adversity. Illustrated with Krementz's photographs. Krementz is Kurt Vonnegut's widow. Second printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Nicely inscribed to Stephen Jay Gould, with a posthumous.....
Price: $20
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. Later printing. Hardcover. A Caldecott Honor book about how the Gothic cathedral in Chutreaux was built in the 13th century. Illustrated with fine line drawings. Eighteenth hardcover printing. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy is nicely inscribed with a drawing.....
Price: $50
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882. Hardcover. A nice profile photograph of Jules Verne reproduced by Woodburytype tipped in as the frontispiece of a bound volume of G. A. Henty's Union Jack magazine. This is identified as Volume III on the title page, but includes vol. II, no. 49.....
Price: $85
London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dublin: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. [x], [11]-384, plus 32 pages of ads. "The story of two English lads who go to Holland as pages in the service of...Sir Francis Vere, who played so important a part in the freeing of the Netherlands.....
Price: $40
![Flowers for the Moon [Signed, Numbered]. Ralph Steadman](/pictures/thumb/306962.jpg?v=1600447729)
[Maidstone], Lexinton, KY and Tucson, AZ: Steam Press, Petro III Graphics, and Sylph Publications, 2004. Hardcover. A new edition of Steadman's 1974 sequel to his children's book The Little Red Computer. With a new introduction by Steadman. This book was published first in German translation, with a UK edition appearing.....
Price: $150
![The Little Red Computer [Signed, Numbered]. Ralph Steadman](/pictures/thumb/306961.jpg?v=1600447727)
[Maidstone], Lexinton, KY and Tucson, AZ: Steam Press, Petro III Graphics, and Sylph Publications, 2004. Hardcover. A new edition of Steadman's 1969 children's book about a personal computer. With a new introduction by Steadman, who writes that when he wrote the book, he had never actually seen a computer. The.....
Price: $150
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First US Edition. Hardcover. I love the Library of Congress summary of this book: "The misadventures of two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks and are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys." 76 pages. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. First US edition (stated.....
Price: $100
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. A classic adventure story with the popular and vibrant illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. 413 pages plus nine color plates and a color title page. First edition (first printing with MCXX on the title page and "Published October, 1920" on the copyright.....
Price: $200
![The Adventures of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle: The Thing Beneath the Bed [Signed, Limited]....](/pictures/thumb/306435.JPG?v=1597107865)
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. 232 pages. An illustrated short story, but not for children. Published in an edition of 400 signed and numbered copies. Rothfuss is best known for his Kingkiller Chronicle (Name of the Wind series). First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a......
Price: $125
New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 378 pages. A chapter book about the competition for dinosaur bones in the nineteenth century by a prolific writer of children's books. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author and dated in.....
Price: $25
London: Religious Tract Society, (n.d. ca. 1860s). Later printing. Hardcover. 94 pages plus an ad leaf. 3-1/2 by 5 inches. Short, insprirational stories, including one on fireworks. Illustrated with a handcolored frontispiece. A later printing, with ten subsequent volumes in the series listed in the ads at back. The first.....
Price: $15
![Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida [Library Issue]. Victor Martinez](/pictures/thumb/3893.jpg?v=1598298932)
(New York): Joanna Cotler Books, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 216 pages. A novel about a poor Chicano boy trying to find his way. Winner of the National Book Award. The late, great Victor Martinez was the first Latino to win the National Book Award. This is the uncommon library issue.....
Price: $20
![Buster Mesquite's Cowboy Band [Numbered, With a Watercolor]. Tony Hillerman, Ernest Franklin](/pictures/thumb/2929.jpg?v=1597107701)
Gallup, NM: Buffalo Medicine Books, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 31 pages. A children's picture book. This is one of 100 signed and number copies, each with an original watercolor illustration by Franklin. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. In a fine slipcase. Signed.....
Price: $250
![The Secret Garden [Penguin Designer Classics]. Frances Hodgson Burnett](/pictures/thumb/1269.jpg?v=1597090074)
London: Puffin Classics, 2010. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. One of 1000 copies in a binding designed by illustrator Lauren Child. For this volume published to mark the 70th anniversary of the Puffin imprint, Child designed an intricate and multilayered tree motif. The book is housed in a clear plastic case.....
Price: $600
![The Halloween Tree [Limited, Metal Slipcase]. Ray Bradbury, Jon Eller, Joe Mugnaini, Ray Bradbury](/pictures/thumb/306501.jpg?v=1597801965)
Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 495 pages. 11-1/4 by 9 inches. Oblong format. Includes Bradbury's 1967 screenplay, a draft of the novel from 1971, the final version with a tally of changes made from the galley proofs, a teleplay, and companion materials. Certainly the definitive version. Published.....
Price: $400
