Young Adult Literature

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. Book. Illus. by Charles E. Brock, Illustrator. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Holiday Edition.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. Holiday Edition. Very Good+/no dustjacket . Charles E. Brock, Illustrator. Two matching volumes, one of them (Volume II) inscribed and signed by author Kate Douglas Wiggin. VOLUME I: Penelope's English Experiences. Date on title page MDCCCC (1900). Olive green cloth decorated and lettered in gold on cover and spine, blind-stamped decorative border on rear board. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Light wear to spine corners. Pages and edges are clean, with gilt page edges. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Frontis illustration with clean tissue guard. Fifty-three illustrations by Charles E. Brock. 176 pages. VOLUME II - Penelope's Progress - Being Such extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton as relate to her Experiences in Scotland. Olive green cloth boards with gold decoration and… Read More

Philadelphia, The John C. Winston Company, 1959, hardcover, 201 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight, bright, and clean with no markings, slight spine end and corner wear. Very brightly-colored, first state dustjacket with thirty-one titles on the rear panel, unclipped and bearing original price, tiny chips to spine-ends and corners, short closed edge tears to top front, and bottom rear panels, in new Brodart sleeve. A high school senior joins an Air Force expedition attempting the first circumnavigation of the solar system to determine the cause of the sudden dimming of light and drop in temperature around the world.

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

PRESS COPY in blue boards with the dust jacket folded and secured to the front pastedown. Boards are very lightly soiled, somewhat faded at the spine, and the top of the book block is dusty. There is a label on the rear board: "PRESS COPY/Dodd, Mead & Company/Issued 'May 5, 1942.'" See & Brooker. A young adult novel featuring two young girls attempting to break into Hollywood movies. The dust jacket features a pen & ink illustration of a young woman in a cocktail dress lit by a kleig light with various filmmaking figures around her; and three 'stars' with aspects of filmmaking highlighted within the stars.

Double Star. By Robert A. Heinlein. Doubleday & Company, Inc. BCE. 1956, Doubleday Science Fiction. CLASSIC SCI-FI. Used. VG/Good- original dust jacket. Summary: Lorenzo Smythe, an out-of-work actor, finds himself shanghaied on a spaceship bound for Mars and big trouble. 190 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ½.

JONES, Diana Wynne. A Tale of Time City. [London]: Methuen [1987]. 12mo, 285pp. Grey boards with spine stamped in dark red. Pages a bit yellowed (as always), else a fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket. Signed by the author, Diana Wynne Jones.
First edition. It's London in 1939. Vivian Smith thinks she is being evacuated to the countryside, because of the war. But she is being kidnapped – out of her own time! Her kidnappers are Jonathan and Sam, two boys her own age, from a place called Time City, designed especially to oversee history. But now history is going critical, and Jonathan and Sam are convinced that Time City's impending doom can only be averted by a twentieth-century girl named Vivian Smith. Too bad they have the wrong girl. A thrilling, and often funny, story from this master of children's fantasy.

JONES, Diana Wynne. The Lives of Christopher Chant. NY: Greenwillow [1988]. 8vo, [x] 230pp. Red quarter-cloth stamped in gold with navy boards decoratively stamped in blind. Red endpapers. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket. Signed by the author, Diana Wynne Jones.
First US edition. The fourth of Diana Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci series, but the first chronologically, being the story of the childhood of Christopher Chant, who was first introduced in the author's Charmed Life as the powerful nine-lived enchanter, Chrestomanci. Young Christopher's father and uncles are enchanters, his mother a powerful sorceress, yet nothing seems magical about Christopher Chant except his dreams. Night after night, he climbs through the formless Place Between and visits marvelous lands he calls the Almost Anywheres. Then Christopher discovers that he can bring real, solid things back from his dreams. When others begin to recognize the extent of his powers, Christopher's life is turned upside down as… Read More

Tan on boards with black and red design of Indians in a boat with sunset. some wear and loosening binding.

Set of three Red Cross girls books with some wear and spots and one has loosening binding. Two brown on boards with red and black with nurse on front. One white on boards with red and black with nurse on front. Book 1 - With The Russian Army, Book 2- In the British Trenches, & Book 3- On the French firing Line.

Light Green on boards with dark green print and design. Some fade and corner bend. Small tear in spine near bottom.

New York, Perennial, 2002, trade paperback, 208 pp, First Perennial Edition stated, First Printing by numberline, Signed and inscribed by the Author "for Jim, hope you enjoy the read! yours, Rebecca" on the title page, Good condition, no dustjacket as issued. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, 1" tear to backstrip at heel of spine. A teen girl in search of something risky and real finds possible salvation in the willowy, mysterious outlaw girl in the torn skirt. But when her new friend goes missing she must embark upon a daring odyssey into an underworld of sex workers and johns, addicts and thieves, runaway girls and skater boys and, ultimately, into a violent tragedy. ISBN 9780060094850

Beautifully illustrated hardcover in very good condition. No DJ. Very little wear to the boards--bottom spine and bottom ends are bumped. That's it. no other wear. No names. Pages are clean, not torn and the corners are not bent. Spine is tight. Nonsmoking.

Doyle, A. Conan. The Land of Mist. 1926, Hodder & Stoughon/ George H. Doran 1st US Edition. A PROFESSOR CHALLENGER ADVENTURE. RARE. Used. Very Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Apple green cloth boards with large black titling on front board and spine. Bright pages. 285 pages with appendix. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾.

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.

Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade. By Patrick Dennis. Vanguard Press 1959 First Edition, Stated Third Printing Thus. "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!" Used. VG/VG Unclipped $3.50 ORIGINAL DJ is now protected in a mylar wrap. Former owner names on front free endpaper. One of the funniest books ever written, this story was also a made into a play, a film, and a musical with the incomparable Rosalind Russell and Lucille Ball. Rare/quite scarce in a nice dj. Please see our photos. 280 pages. 5 5/8 X 8 3/8.