Young Adult Literature

Babar and Father Christmas (Babar et le Pare Noel). By Jean DeBrunhoff. Childrens Book. Random House 1st Edition, 1940 FIRST EDITION. In RARE original, unclipped dust jacket that shows price 1.00/1.00. Used. Very Good/Good. A nice clean copy. Please see our photos.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1951. Circa 1951 8vo size blue clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 248 toned pages with black and white illustrations by Vera Neville throughout An early, but not a first edition While copyright 1947, this edition is circa 1951 as it includes on the list of the author's other titles The Trees Knee at Christmas which was published that year. Please note: we see many other sellers "misrepresenting" this title. This title has been reprinted many times and this particular jacket design was used for more than 20 years. If the book has an ISBN number, it's not the First Edition. If there is an ISBN number on the spine of the jacket; it's not the First Edition. If, as we have explained above, there are titles listed that were published years after the first edition of this one; it is not the First Edition. Author Maud Hart Lovelace (1892-1980) is best known and beloved for her Betsy-Tacy Series of children's books. This is… Read More

Nancy's Mysterious Letter: Keene, Carolyn. Copyright 1932, Grosset & Dunlap. RARE Nancy Drew #8, 1939 issue thus. Includes original "HEADLINE BOOKS FOR GIRLS" DUST JACKET. RUSSELL H. TANDY COVER ART. Since the dj Back panel authors are: Faith Baldwin through Ann Spence Warner and titles listed were published in 1931, this may be a first state unclipped dust jacket. Price on front flap is 5050. USED. Good Condition/ Good Condition DJ. Summary: "By mistake Nancy Drew receives a letter from England intended for an heiress, also named Nancy Drew. When Nancy undertakes a search for the missing young woman, it becomes obvious that a ruthless, dangerous man is determined to prevent her from finding the heiress or himself."

Wilder Laura Ingalls: The Long Winter. 1953 Harper & Brothers Uniform Edition. Pictures by Garth Williams. BIOGRAPHY. Used. VG/Acceptable $2.95 Original Snowball fight Dust Jacket. Back panel of jacket is water- stained. The story of the hard winter of 1880-1881 in the Dakota Territory with the pioneer Ingalls Family. Little House on the Prairie series. 335 pages. 6 X 8 ¼.

Wilder, Laura Ingalls. By The Shores Of Silver Lake,1953 Harper & Brothers Uniform Edition. Pictures by Garth Williams Little House on the Prairie series. Used. VG-/G- unclipped $2.95 dust jacket. 1 inch loss at top of dj spine. The family moves from Minnesota and Laura and Mary take a thrilling train ride during which an attempted payroll robbery takes place.

U.K.: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1971 First thus paperback printed by Hodder & Stoughton (Knight Books) in 1971. First published 1928 as On to Oregon. Reissued by Heinemann in 1939 as The Splendid Journey. Scarce in this condition which is Very Good. There is edge wear and page toning, but no writing or reading creases. May be unread.Story of a boy who led his brothers and sisters down the Oregon Trail. Honore Morrow was an American writer and editor most noted for her Great Captain Trilogy centered around Abraham Lincoln. She was first encouraged by Theodore Dreiser and was married to publisher William Morrow. There are some black and white illustrations by Edward Shenton, who did many illustrations and covers, including the jacket for Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night which is worth looking up.

A 1st Spanish ed. good paperback, crinkles on both covs. & other signs of wear on cov. as in image, text/block tight clean. 59p. 18x11,5cm. 150gr.
Notice: This item ships from Hamburg, Germany. (Versand innerhalb Deutschlands, zu viel Porto wird zuruckerstattet).

Elliott, W. Gerald Treasure On The Broads. Herbert Jenkins, London Stated First Printing 1933. Signed and inscribed by British screenwriter Dorothy Greenhill, a co-writer of Mr. Elliott's. RARE THUS. USED. Good Condition/ No DJ is included. Orange boards with black titling. 5 X 7 1/2. 312 pages plus adverts. Summary: A mystery story about an ancient buried treasure trove located in Sussex, England.

Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines. Longmans Green & Co., London. No copyright date. States New Impression 1921 on the title page. USED. VG/ No DJ Included. Blue boards withdark red- orange titling. 274 pages plus adverts. 5 1/8 X 7 5/8. Summary "King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is one of the first English adventure novels set in Africa and is considered to be the genesis of the lost world genre."

Haggard, H. Rider. SHE. Longmans Green & Co., London. No copyright date. States New Impression, 1921 on the title page. Dedicated to fellow author Andrew Lang. USED. VG/ No DJ Included. Mallard Green boards with bright gilt titling on front board and spine. 310 pages plus adverts. 5 X 7 5/8. Summary: "A dying colleague gives Mr. Horace Holly at Cambridge University a locked box, the contents of which lead Mr. Holly to travel to Eastern Africa where he hopes to solve an ancient mystery, only to be captured by the savage Amhagger people who are ruled by a fearsome white queen, who is worshipped as "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed".

First Edition. Bloomsbury London 2007.
True First edition.Book very good plus. Boards clean. No bumping or rubbing. Internally clean. No inscriptions or markings. Leaves a little toned. Edges of text block a little yellowed in places. Else fine.
DJ is Fine. Not price clipped and has no loss. No chipping or creasing. Now in a protective removeable sleeve.

Du Bose Heyward. Mamba's Daughters, A Novel of Charleston. Grosset & Dunlap Reprint Edition. Copyright 1929 Du Bose Heyward. States 1929 on the title page. USED. Very Good Condition/ Very Good G&D dust jacket. 311 Pages. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾.

Priced high cause I'd like to keep. But the right numbers will make me sell.

A 1st Spanish ed. good paperback, crinkles on both covs. & other signs of wear on cov. as in image, text/block tight clean. 59p. 18×11,5cm. 150gr.

Dark green cloth with silver lettering on spine. Corners shows some bumping. B&W pictorial frontispiece. Pages very clean and tight. Back inside cover shows some light smudges. 171 pp