Young Adult Literature

New York: Longmans, Green and Co., Inc., 1945. Third printing. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. Baker, Mary Lee. 146 pages, illustrated with black and white plates. A little girl with a vivid imagination discovers ghostly secrets in her attic. Tan cloth binding with brown titles on spine, illustrated green end papers. Cover soiled and spotted with edge wear, corners and spine ends bumped, stamp on front and back fixed end papers "The Board of Education of the County of Hampshire" with small ink notations on front end papers, interior pages a little tanned with minor soiling, no obvious writing or scribbles, binding tight.

New York, Greenwillow Books, 1989, hardcover library binding, First Edition stated, First Printing by numberline, Fine in Near Fine dustjacket, Signed by the Author on the dedication page "With best wishes Pat Hutchins, Germany 1991". Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, some fade to spine, in new Brodart sleeve. The light-hearted story about boy's obsession with having a rat for a pet over his parent's objections which does not turn out exactly as planned. Illustrated throughout with drawings by Laurence Hutchins. ISBN 9780688077761

1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Stated First Edition. 185 pages. Text unmarked . Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight shelf-wear and bumping to corners. Uncommon Los Angeles gang novel by the author of Sinbad and Me. First Edition, First Printing (full number line on CR page). Pictorial library binding. Well-preserved ex-library. Looks barely circulated or uncirculated. Dustjacket price-clipped. Pocket in front label on spine and expected (though minimal) ink stamps. Jacket glossy with small wrinkling at edges. Jacket in new Brodart protector. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 pounds. Category: Children's Books & Illustrators ; Inventory No: 026497. BZDB373 Children's Books & Illustrators ; Kin Platt The Doomsday Gang

Leicester: Brockhampton Press 1966, 1st edition. (Hardcover) 176pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. There is very light wear to the top and bottom of the spine and the dust jacket is price-clipped. "On the southern boundary of Nepal where it meets India there is a strip of marshy land which is known as the Terai. When Algy Lacey penetrates this jungle area on the trail of a gold-smuggling racket, why does he switch from an Auster aircraft to a Hunter fighter and disappear without trace so soon afterwards? Biggles loses no time in flying out in search of his friend, only to find himself confronted with a mystery as seemingly impenetrable as the Terai itself". Publisher series: Biggles 74 . Jacket design by Leslie Stead. (Juvenile, Adventure and Adventurers, Children's Books, Fighter Aces, Juvenile).

E. P. Dutton, 1967. Hardcover. Ex-library in good condition with usual markings, a missing inside cover page, and a covered dust jacket.. Mary Reardon.

Complete bound Volume 1 (Numbers 1-12) of Popular Flying, preserving the original covers. Edited by W.E Johns, with significant contributions including illustrations and writing by him. Includes the first appearance of Biggles in the story "The White Fokker" (as well as a further short story as 'William Earle'). A total of 10 of these 12 issues contain Biggles stories, the early stories under the pen-name "William Earle". Very Good condition internally (protected by the binding), with bumping to lower corners of pages, and early cracking to front hinge. Externally, there is significant scraping to the boards and chipping/discolouration to the spine label. It is most uncommon for bound volumes to preserve the glorious original covers of these magazines.William Earl Johns (5 February 1893 – 21 June 1968) was an English pilot and writer of adventure stories, usually written under the pen name Captain W. E. Johns. He is best remembered as the creator of the ace pilot and adventurer Biggles.

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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

Red on boards with black writing and design. Spot and some fading with little wear. Dedication inside from previous owner.

New York: Seven Stories Press, 2012. Three volumes in slip case. Very Good. Bindings are tight and interiors are bright and clean with no ownership marks. Exterior of each volume shows some bubbling of the binding material as well as abrasion and wear to edges and spines and some mild spine creasing. Slip case is worn away all along the top edges, has bumped corners, and is split along the top rear. Overall, solid, clean copies showing some signs of wear. Interiors beautiful! Photos are of the set we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

James Hilton. Good-bye Mr. Chips. For your Holiday reading. Little, Brown 10th Impression Thus, 1934. USED. VG/Good Condition original white, red and green Holiday motif price-clipped dust jacket. 126 pages. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾. Written by James Hilton, author of "Lost Horizon".

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. First Printing with complete number line 10-1. Near Fine, faint ink linr fore edge of page block in Fine dust jacket. Volume VI in The History of Middle Earth. . First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. First Printing with complete number line 10-1. Near Fine, faint rubs to cloth, 3 tiny spots front end pages in Near Fine dust jacket, tiny rubs at corners.Volume I in The History of Middle Earth. . First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Scholastic Press, 2008. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 6x1x8. Signed. SIGNED / STAMPED BY SUZANNE with the special stamp she designed for the Mockingjay book tour. As new and unread later printing in gorgeous, giftable condition with just a touch of tanning to the text. Looks terrific with a new mylar cover added to your dust jacket. Expedited and international shipping are welcome; signed by author.