New York: Harper & Bros. 1954. FIRST. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. The dust jacket is complete with no chips, tears or rub. The spine of the jacket shows hints of browning as. Internally there is a brief previous owner gift inscription, printed, with the date of 1954 on the front free endpaper. Beyond that.....
London: Macmillan, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy. Wrap-around cover art and interior illustrations by Gertrude Howe.
London: Collins, 2004. First edition. Fine / F. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page. Author's first novel.
Custer: Orca Books, 1998. FIRST. F. Wrappers. As new. Illustrated by Victor Bosson.
London: Orion, 2002. FIRST. F / F. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed, with "volare" added by the author on the title page.
London: Orion, 2007. FIRST. F / F. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed and dated by the author on the title page alond with a brief line........."vita brevis."
New York: Greenburg, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original orange decorated cloth. Elaborately decorated endpapers. Illustrated beautifully by Tony Sarg. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1946. Hardcover. Near Fine. Green cloth lettered and illustrated in gilt. Color illustrated endpapers. Second Impression. Very light pencil inscription states this copy was a gift in 1946. Newbery Award winning title.
Mankato: Creative Editions, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. A fine copy in all respects. Illustrated by Roberto Innocenti. The book is a bit too large for my scanner.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1902. FIRST. NF. A story of Viking Days. Six color plates, including the frontispiece, by Troy and Margaret West Kinney. Illustrated boards, lettered in gilt.
Chicago: Albert Whitman, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated paper on boards. Illustrated endpapers. Cover moderately soiled but the color illustration remains bright. Internally the book is fine. A nice copy of the second edition.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. An extremely clean, bright and attractive copy. Author's first juvenile book.
New York: Doubleday, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A Tale of Smuggling in the time of Scarlet Capes & the Red Tricorne. A very clean bright and solid copy. A Cavalcade Book. Just a hint of rubbing at the spine edges.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. A lovely copy. Illustrated by Douglas Hall.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. A clean, bright and solid copy of this Caldecott Award winning book. Illustrated throughout. Previous owner book-plate on the front paste-down, else fine.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Small folio. As new. Unopened and unread. Illustrated throughout.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Illustrated by L. Brooke McNamara. A very clean and bright copy.
New York: Harmony Books, 1984. FIRST. F / F. As new. First thus. Illustrated by Alan B. Herriot.
New York: Walker and Company, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Fine copy in all respects. Six artists ant their paths to the Caldecott Medal. As new. Unopened and unread.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. FIRST. F / F. As new. A lovely copy in all respects.
London: University of London Press, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. This book was awarded The Swedish Library Association's Nils Holgersson Plaque for the best children's book of the year. A young boy waits for his father to come home from the sea - after eight long years.
London: Orion, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. Book two of the Doomspell Trilogy. A little sun fading to the spine with impact on the front panel, else fine. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page.
London: Orion, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page. Part two of the Silver Sequence.
USA: Platt & Munk, 1936. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Illustrated wrappers. A very clean, bright and solid copy.