CHILDREN'S LIT from Barbara Bilson Books

New York: Viking, 1934. Very good (slightly cocked, a few light soil spots on the covers; tanned spine; page 32 is creased). No dust jacket. Beautiful illustrations.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Grace Paull.

Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1951. Very good+ (very slight cock; wear to cover edges and corners) in good- dust jacket (1 tear and small pieces missing at spine top and bottom; edge and corner wear; some black spots on back cover which may be ink smudges). A children's story set in Mexico.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Richard Crist.

London: John Lane/The Bodley Head, 1942. Fourth printing. Very good (giver's inscription on ffep: "Denise, Christmas 1943, Auntie Dodo"; slight spotting on ffep and side edges; otherwise this is a very nice copy) in very good- dust jackiet (spine worn and faded with small piece missing at top of spine, edgeworn especially at corners). Good book to read aloud to… Read more about this item

Cleveland: World Publishing, 1955. Very good (tanned pages; bumped cover corners) in very good dust jacket (edge and corner wear with a few short closed tears; tiny spot on back panel). . 1st Edition. Hard cover. Illus. by Henry Pitz.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1980. Near fine in library binding (a few very light foxing spots on top page edges, barely discernible; bright and clean copy) in good+ dust jacket (corner wear, evidence of sticker removal at bottom of spine, closed tear; on the inside flap, the top corner has been clipped although the price still shows on the… Read more about this item

New York: Atheneum, 1986. First American edition. Near fine (a bit of soil on page edges, interior clean) in very good dust jacket (a small amount of edgewear along top). SIGNED by author on title page, and beautifully illustrated with intriguing watercolors.. Signed by Author. 1st American edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Michael Foreman.

New York: J. H. Sears & Co., 1926. Very good (dusty top page edges and faded spine, a few foxing spots on pages at the beginning and end; illustrations--including the front cover--are all in fine condition; there is a pocket on the back pastedown but no other signs of this being an ex-library book, so I suspect this pocket was… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1932. Black boards with gold lettering and gold figure of young man holding a Chinese character over his head. Very good (a few abrasions on the black covers, and one bumped corner; the gilt on the front cover and spine is complete with the exception of the author's name and one letter of the title;… Read more about this item

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. Fine in near fine+ dust jacket (tiny bit of edgewear, barely visible in the Brodart protective cover). With beautiful illustrations by Tom Pohrt--based, as the illustrator says in his note, on authentic Plains Native American artifacts--Lopez has invented a native American myth which is "written with respect for Native American values and oral tradition"… Read more about this item

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. Fine in very good dust jacket (some edgewear and one closed tear at front flap, protected now in Brodart cover). With beautiful illustrations by Tom Pohrt--based, as the illustrator says in his note, on authentic Plains Native American artifacts--Lopez has invented a native American myth which is "written with respect for Native American values… Read more about this item

Chicago: Children's Press, 1968. Very good (lightly bumped corners, some soil on the white portions of the covers; clean interior). No dust jacket. 94 pages including index. Intended for young readers.. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs.

New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1993. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Ten stories about the Magic Hare with Moser's terrific and often humorous watercolors. 49 pages, large format.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Barry Moser.

New York: Longmans, Green, 1912. Very good- (giver's inscription ("Anne Hof with love from Aunt Maria, October 1913") on first free endpaper. Occasional foxing or browning of pages. Worn corners and cover edges. No dust jacket. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Z. B. Comstock.

London: Orion Children's Books, 1994. Probable first edition (states "First published in Great Britain in 1994"). Near fine (one thin scratch on rear cover) in fine dust jacket. Inspired by Vikram Seth's libretto for the opera of the same name, first performed in 1994, Arion is a boy musician who rides on a dolphin's back. Beautifully printed in Italy. About… Read more about this item

New York: Philomel Books , 1984. Very good+ (quarter inch ballpoint ink mark on bottom page edges, slightly sun-faded top edge of covers) in near fine dust jacket (slight edgewear and some sunning that shows up only along the white inside top edges). Story of a teenager's search for her father. SIGNED by the author on the title page.. Signed… Read more about this item

New York: Crown, 1995. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. As new. Inspirational "dream" featuring the life and words of Martin Luther King. Focuses on Civil Rights Movement. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Faith Ringgold.

London: The Grovewood Press. No date given, but about 1940. 26 page soft cover book. Large print, suitable for new readers. Illustrated by author. Very good in decorated wraps (paperback covers) (1 tear at spine top; wear along spine).. Soft Cover.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Second edition, copyright 1914 but actual publication date unknown. Blue cloth binding with black printing. Good+ (one loose sheet -- four pages, otherwise tight and clean; worn and soiled covers with one wrinkle on front cover, previous owner's name on first free endpaper). Illustrated. No dust jacket. Very amusing children's story composed of short chapters focused on… Read more about this item

New York: Golden Press, 1948. A Little Silver Book. Very good (small cracks radiating from wraps spine edge, undoubtedly from being slightly bent in a child's hands; some edgewear; a spot on rear cover that has bled through to the last two pages; pages otherwise completely clean). 19 cents price on cover. Edition not stated.. Soft Cover. Illus.… Read more about this item

New York: Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1979. Fine in near fine+ dust jacket (very slight edgewear at spine). Book about origins of dance that describes different traditional dances and a variety of basic dance movements.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.