CHILDREN'S from Nooks Of Books

New York: Scribner's, 1931. In Very Good+ condition. Bound in full black cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt (still brilliant). Large full-color front panel pastedown illustration. Quarto. Full-color pictorial endpapers. [viii] + 322pps., with 14 color plates (all present). First illustrated edition (with Scribner's 'A'). No dustjacket. There is light rubbing wear to the extremities and the cloth is… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1997. In Fine condition. Bound in colorful hardboards with the full numberline on the rear board. Square octavo. There is a mild bump to the lower rear tip, otherwise as new with all pop-ups working well.<b><font color=#003366><br><br> "A mouth-watering book of lavish surprises -- a baker's bounty of ten… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full green cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in gilt. Square quarto. Gold endpapers. 31pps., with illustrations by Allsburg. There is a faint soilmark -- as if of a watercolor -- in the margin of page 23,… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson, 1993. Very Good+ in a Near Fine dustjacket. Purple boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 375pps. First Printing (full numberline). There is a bit of faint dustspotting to the closed page-edges and the text is slightly and uniformly yellowed due to the acid content of the paper (endemic to this title). Otherwise clean, square, and tight.… Read more about this item

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Albert Whitman, 1940. Very Good+ in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full beige buckram with a large, full-color pastedown label on the front panel. Quarto. Pictorial endpapers. Unpaginated, with a full-color illustration on the recto of each sheet. There is a tidy gift inscription near the top of the ffep. and there is a 2" tear,… Read more about this item

New York: David Fickling Books, 2004. As New in an As New dustjacket. Mauve boards with a blue, silver-stamped backstrip. Octavo. 448pps. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is equally fine; the original price is intact. ".A gritty and captivating story of… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson, 1992. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Gray boards. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 391pps. An excellent copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. No previous ownership markings. The price-clipped dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, is lightly crinkled at the extremities with a small nick at the upper rear tip.<b><font color=#003366><br><br> "When the mountain… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1997. First Printing. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Dark blue boards quarterbound in navy-blue cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 326pps. There is very mild rubbing to the lower board-edges and a small remainder dot atop the textblock, otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. Yet to be… Read more about this item

New York: Dillingham, 1904. (1904). Very Good in the publisher's pea-green cloth. Both the spine and the front board are stamped in green. Decorative gray, black, and orange endpapers. 239pps., with numerous gray, black, and orange illustrations, plus 16 full-page, full-color plates. Modest rubbing wear to the board-edges and light soiling and rubbing to the paste-label, which is in very… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Hyperion, 1997. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Glossy brown and gold boards. Unpaginated, with numerous photos. There is a small bump to the spine and some crinkling to the laminate in that area, otherwise excellent: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No reading wear. The dustjacket… Read more about this item