Children from Great Northern Books

New York: Books of Wonder / William Morrow , 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. First printing. Selected and illustrated by Barry Moser with an afterword by Peter Glassman. Striking color illustrations by the distinguished artist Barry Moser, a collection of of stories by such authors as H.G. Wells, E. Nesbit and Arthur Conan Doyle. Slight… Read more about this item

New York: Disney Editions/Hyperion Books for Children, 2006. First edition. Pictorial Cover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on the title page. Illustrated by Greg Call. Follow up to "Peter and the Starcatchers." Slight edgewear to dustjacket, else a clean unmarked copy.

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Co., 1905. First edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good. Color illustrated frontis and numerous black and white illustrations. "Cloth. Half vellum with a gold pattern of leaves and spirals. Within the vellum are rectangles with the book name and the series name. On the right is an illuminated multicolor pictorial picture representing a biblical scene."… Read more about this item

New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2003. Uncorrected Advance Proof. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. The advance cover design is illustrated to look like a newspaper, very different from what was eventually published. A clean unmarked copy.

New York: Harper Collins, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. "Two traditional rhymes from Mother Goose, ingeniously joined and interpreted by Maurice Sendak. " [from dustjacket]. Sendak's somewhat controversial and socially conscious children's book. A clean unmarked copy.

New York: Harper Collins, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. "Two traditional rhymes from Mother Goose, ingeniously joined and interpreted by Maurice Sendak. " [from dustjacket]. Sendak's somewhat controversial and socially conscious children's book. A clean unmarked copy.

New York: Michael Di Capua/Hyperion Books, 2003. Advance Reading Copy. Pamphlet & Folder. Near Fine. An illustrated retelling of Brundibar (Bumblebee), the Czech opera, by Hans Krasa. Text by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner and illustrations by Caldecott-winning illustrator Maurice Sendak. An unusual advance issue, 24 page stapled pamphlet, issued in the same size as the book, and… Read more about this item

New York: Harper Collins, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. Story by James Marshall and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Illustrated endpapers. A clean unmarked copy.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. First edition. Cardboard Covers. Very Good +. First printing with "A" on the last page. Illustrations by Art Seiden. Cardboard covers bumped at lower corner, slight edgewear, else a clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Dutton Children's Books, 1999. First edition. Near Fine/near fine. First printing. The third book in the series that began with the Newberry Honor Book, "My Side of the Mountain." Illustrated by Craighead. Forward by John F. Kennedy, Jr. Aclean unmarked copy.

New York: Chicken House/Scholastic, 2003. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. The US edition (published October 1) preceded the UK edition by five days. First volume of the Inkheart trilogy and basis for the 2008 Iain Softley movie. A clean unmarked copy.

Cambridge: Candlewick Press, 2005. Special Advance Copy. Pictorial Boards. Fine. Charles Van Dusen. Uncorrected pages bound in pictorial covers "Not for sale for promotional purposes only." First book in the "Mercy Watson" series by the Newberry Medal author of "Because of Winn-Dixie." Illustrated by Chris Van Dusen. Pictorial board, no dust jacket, as issued.

New York: Orchard Books, 2005. First edition. Hardcover with pictorial covers. Near Fine. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR in gold ink on the title page. Author's first book. No dustjacket, as published. A clean unmarked copy.

New York: Delacorte Press, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing.SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a tipped in page. The second prequel book in "The Maze Runner" series and the fifth installment overall. "The Fever Code" is the second book, chronologically, set in between the events of "The Kill Order " and "The Maze… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [1965]. Bookstore Display. Stand up poster. Very Good +. A stand up bookstore display poster made of cardboard, measuring 10 1/2 inches by 13 1/2 inches. Includes the phrase, "Happy 25th Birthday to the Betsy-Tacy Books of Maud Hart Lovelace" with the Betsy-Tacy titles listed below.

New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1934. First English language edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good +. Translated by Merle Haas. True first edition, later republished by Random House after merging with Smith and Haas. The Babar books were noted for being some of the first oversized children's books, with the text printed in cursive writing and… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/fair. First printing. The third book in the Island Stallion series. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper. Illustrated by Harold Eldridge "Flame leaves his island home with Steve Duncan and races the world's fastest horses!" [from jacket]. Book cover edges rubbed, dustjacket is worn,… Read more about this item