When You Reach Me by Stead, Rebecca - 2009

Phillips & Van Orden Co. San Francisco, CA, 1919. HBDJ, 1919, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, VG-/VG-, AS-IS, Beige Blue & Red Dustjacket with Small Chips Extremities & Edges light Rub, Wear, Back DJ Staining Extremities & light Soil, Spine DJ light Stain Top Edge & Tiny Extremities chips, Last 21 pgs light Stains Edges , Interior nice tight clean light Wear Rub, 120 pgs, Cloth Cvr bright Grey , black and a touch of red on tan Illustrated cover light rub, Wear . Whimsical Account of Strange Adventures of Johnnie Bob in the schools of Animals, Frogs, & Fishes. Fascinating to the young & refreshing to the Old.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1961 (500 gram rate) unclipped dust jacket with light wear, gift inscription to fep has been blacked out, SECOND IMPRESSION of first edition, clean with minor age spotting to closed edges, light handling soiling to jacket, 120pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Denys Watkins-Pitchford. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

GARRARD PRESS CHAMPAIGN, IL, 1958. HBDJ, 1958, 1ST EDITION, GOOD++ / GOOD+, AS-IS, EX-LIBRARY USUAL WEAR, Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Good slight wear to pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Exlibrary. SPINE DJ FADE, Brown & YELLOW ILLUSTRATED Cloth HB. 64 pgs, DOLCH FIRST READING BOOK for 1st Grader, Stories are Shep, the Dog Susan chicken & Mother Cat who had kittens raising them together, Mary?s Pony, Dan, who fell in well ETC. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by Don and Midge Robertson,. Ex-Library.

J.B. Lippincott Company, , 1955. HBDJ, 1955, STATED 1st edition, Very Good/ VG, in new mylar Protector. The picture on the jacket is the Dolls lying around with Bandages.. Grey cloth Hardcover with Red Outlined Doll with Hat Ttiled on Spine cvr in Red. 12mo, Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Book is clean and tight with just a little foxing on end pages. This is NOT ex-library. The dust jacket is shelf worn at corners and spine, surface rubbed in spots and one tiny tear about a 1/4 IN. on top back . First edition.,SPOOKY HALLOWEEN PARTY REVEALS THE SECRET of the Beautiful OLD FRENCH Doll, Judith was Happy about Visiting Grandmother Hollis, who ran a Doll Hospital. She had a Twin Brother, Jonathan, At Nite strange Things began to Happen, . Shifty Stranger Lurks Outside.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Velma Ilsley..

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, FIRST ISSUE. New York, Frederick A Stokes Co., 1937. A Rare First Edition of the WINNER OF THE FIRST CALDECOTT AWARD for Best Illustrated Children's Book in 1938. First Issue with Lathrop's name misspelled "Lathop" on both the spine of the book and the spine of the dust jacket. This copy is Signed by Dorothy Lathrop on the blank page opposite the title page. The Book is in Very Good+ condition with mild toning and foxing on the endpapers and paste-downs, a dark spot on the first 4 pages. No writing or other marks. Gilt lettering on front board and spine Bright, no wear. Edges and corners show slight wear. Dust Jacket Very Good+ with small chips, light edge wear, and a red stain on the rear panel, the front is clean. Not price-clipped, "$2.00" on the top front dj flap. No medal or mention of Caldecott Award on the dust jacket. Helen Fish wrote the introduction and selected passages from the King James Bible to accompany the beautiful drawings of Dorothy Lathrop.… Read More

New York: John H. Eggers [1922]. (stiff paper covers) Not paginated. Very good. Color illustrated cover, black and white and color illustrations. Previous owner's inscription. Illustrations by Harrison Cady. Main character: Buster Bear. (Juvenile).

1924. 1924 Ostrander, Major Alson B AN ARMY BOY OF THE SIXTIES; A STORY OF THE PLAINS Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Company, 1924 272pp, illus b/w 8vo cloth over illus paper-covered boards Fine bright, looks unread hardcover.

New Haven, Conn: S. Babcock, 1840. Paperback. Good +. 16 p.: wood-engraved title vignette and 9 full-page wood-engraved illustrations; 11 cm. Pale pink wrappers printed in black with illustration on front wrapper; elaborate borders on both front and back wrappers. Publisher's advertisements on back wrapper. Front wrapper illustration is of an elephant's trunk; title vignette is of an elephant with its trunk around a tree. Inside of front and back wrapper contain full-page engravings of elephants within borders. Each page, both text and illustrations, is printed within decorative borders. One illustration also contains a rhinoceros; two show scenes of people tiger hunting with elephants. In Good+ Condition: wrapper just starting to separate at tail of spine; wrapper lightly soiled; staining/foxing throughout. A solid copy of this scarce children's book.

New York: John Martin's House, 1922. Hardcover. Very Good. [12] p., 10 leaves containing 6 bookplates each; 27 cm. Blue cloth spine with illustrated paper over boards. Illustrated fixed endpapers. The text talks about the importance of books and the use of bookplates, including a list of 60 recommended books, with space to record when and from whom each was acquired, and a list of 60 questions about those books. Each leaf of bookplates is perforated so that the bookplates can be removed and used. Each leaf is headed with a quote about books. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: corners lightly rubbed; cover very lightly soiled; lacking quote section from the head of the first leaf of bookplates; otherwise, complete, clean, and tight.

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, FIRST ISSUE. New York, Frederick A Stokes Co., 1937. A Rare First Edition of the WINNER OF THE FIRST CALDECOTT AWARD for Best Illustrated Children's Book in 1938. First Issue with Lathrop's name misspelled "Lathop" on both the spine of the book and the spine of the dust jacket. This copy is Signed by Dorothy Lathrop on the blank page opposite the title page. The Book is in Very Good+ condition with mild toning and foxing on the endpapers and paste-downs, a dark spot on the first 4 pages. No writing or other marks. Gilt lettering on front board and spine Bright, no wear. Edges and corners show slight wear. Dust Jacket Very Good+ with small chips, light edge wear, and a red stain on the rear panel, the front is clean. Not price-clipped, "$2.00" on the top front dj flap. No medal or mention of Caldecott Award on the dust jacket. Helen Fish wrote the introduction and selected passages from the King James Bible to accompany the beautiful drawings of Dorothy Lathrop.… Read More