Childrens Fiction from Jans Collectibles: Vintage Books

Prentice Hall, 1962 Book and dust jacket in very good condition. Not priced clipped. A loose full page original signed drawing by Eric Gurney dated Feb 10/78 included. The inscription reads Very Best Wishes To_____ And Her Chorus Of Calculating Cats, From Your Friend Eric Gurney.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1966 Yellow cloth boards with red text. A few smudges and dirt but over all in good condition. No broken cloth, No dust jacket. The inscription was ripped out at some point and taped back in. The inscription sayes To our friend and neighbor Hope from Margaret and Hans June 12, 1974. A large original drawing of… Read more about this item

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1901 Red cloth boards with a gold silhouette of a cat in the center. Front board is very good, the back board has a faded bottom 1 1/2" corner tip. String binding.<p> Former owners book plate on the inside front board. Fourty-Two illustrations by John Tenniel. A chip and tear at the bottom of… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960 Nice looking tan cloth book with title in green text , the rest of the text in black. Illustrated cover. Ex library with two library discard stamps on the blank end papers, one on the front end paper and one on the back end paper.<p> In text illustrations. Solid binding.… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1973 An original storyboard illustration by Ben Shecter of a Cat and Rabbit for the book Across the Meadow. A book is included with the illustration for provenance of the illustrator and author.<p> The illustration is the original illustration for the book. The cat is so cute and a lot of… Read more about this item

Kansas City, MO: Tell-Well Press, 1946 Dust jacket is very good, not price clipped ( 1.00 on the inside dust jacket flap). Some clear tape on the backside of the dust jacket at the edges and seams.<p> The boards are very good, Inscribed by Bill Martin on the inside front end paper.<p> Really cute illustrations and very presentable.

New York: A. L. Burt, 1924 Book is in very good condition. A dedication on the front end paper Really nice boards . String binding, illustration on page 23 halfway loose. Page 15 spine cracked at the lower bottom, darkened edges. <p> Mylar covered dust jacket, inch off the bottom of the dust jacket spine, small piece missing at the… Read more about this item

Boston: Lee And Shepard, 1870 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland in good condition.<p> Front board cracked and coming loose from the book at the title page.. Front title page loose but in the book. Page three loose from the book , complete 192 pages.<p> Gold tipped edges. The second edition puiblished in the US after the 1869 edition Lee and Appleton… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1926 Tan and Red illustrated cloth boards in near fine condition, Dust jacket mylar covered in very good condition.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1945 Book and dust jacket in very good condition. Five full page color illustrations plus the color front piece.<p> Mylar covered dust jacket

New York: The Viking Press, 1969 Book and dust jacket in very good or better condition, signed by author.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1926 Book in very good condition and mylar covered dust jacket in good condition.<p> The dust jacket has a 2 1/2" piece missing on the back and an inch thin piece missing on the front middle edge of the dust jacket.

New York: The Viking Press, 1976 Book in very good condition. A Caldecott Honor Book sticker. Signed by the author.

New York: Charles E. Graham & Co., 1924 Brown cloth boards , silver text and large bottom illustrated paste down. String binding a little loose. No writing in the book, a few stains, but overall very presentable.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1941 Book covers very good, A black magic marker with a date and from for a birthday present on the front endpaper ( see pictures).<p> This book belongs to written with a green magic marker.<p> Copyright Date 1941, Fifteenth Printing.<p> Front inside flap corner tips clipped off, no price showing. Inch off the top of the spine and… Read more about this item

Frederick Warne & Co Peter Rabbit's Wooden brown vintage book shelf with complete 1-23 books with dust jackets in very good to fine condition. No copyright date.<p> The label on the books shelf has an inch surface removal, maybe a prior sticker? The label is coming loose on one corner.<p> A really nice complete set of books with their… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1922 Book has a center bottom illustrated paste down. Fading on the bottom inch of the red cloth spine. Some fading on the back board edges.<p> Dust jacket has some dirt and soil, no missing pieces. 29 full page color illustrations including the front piece.

New York: Platt & Munk Co. Inc., 1935 Red cloth boards with illustrated paste down in near fine condition, With 29 full page color illustrations.<p> Mylar covered dust jacket in very good condition.

Franklin Watts, 1958 Yellow boards in near fine condition,<p> Dust jacket in good condition. The dust jacket has no miissing pieces but does have a large tear on the back of the dust jacket, two inches from the top edge.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1924 Book in near fine condition, very nice, dust jacket very good. A small tiny piece missing at the top corner of the spine.<p> Five black and white illustrations and plus the frontpiece