New York: The Dial Press (1976), 1976. First American edition. Hardcover. 4to. [3], 4-96 pp. Pictorial boards. Price of $6.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by Yoran Cazac. This is the first American edition (preceded by the British first). Bottom of the front flap clipped by the publisher (to..... More
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. Unpaginated. Green cloth with black lettering on the spine, pictorial front board. Colorfully illustrated endpapers and pastedowns with several in-text illustrations (both in color and in black and white). A picture book meant for preschool-age readers. A Good+ book..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton [1912], 1912. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 5-211, [1] pp. Tan cloth lettered in gold on the front board and spine. Illustrated by a color frontispiece and ten additional full-page illustrations. Color illustrations by A.C. Michael. Name of Edna Lawrence, with Christmas 1912 written on the half-title..... More
Scarsdale, New York: Bradbury Press [1974], 1974. First printing. Hardcover. 153 pp. A moving story of bullying and its negative effects upon children. Although this copy shows a fair amount of wear, the first is (as with most of Blume's titles in the 1970s) quite difficult to find. A near..... More
New York: Orchard Books, 1993. First printing. Hardcover. 196 pp. Price of $14.95 on front flap of jacket. Remainder spray on small portion of bottom textblock. More
New York: Dutton Children's Books, 2002. Reprint. Hardcover. 138 pp. Price of $15.99 on front flap of jacket. More
New York: Delacorte Press, 2007. First printing. Hardcover. (2007) 108 pp. Price of $12.99 on front flap of dust jacket. More
Scarsdale, NY: Bradbury Press (1977), 1977. First printing. Hardcover. 298 pp. Very Good with scattered foxing to the textblock in a Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket with some mild age-toning and a few hints of wear to the extremities. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1983. Alan Tiegreen. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 133, [3] pp. Blue paper-covered boards quarter-bound in white cloth with dark blue lettering on the spine. Price of $8.50 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by Paul Zelinsky. First printing of the first edition. A...... More
New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1990. First printing. Hardcover. 179 pp. Price of $11.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by Kay Life. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1982. Alan Tiegreen. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 11-160 pp. Quarter blue cloth over pale green boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $8.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky. A Very Good+ book with..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1981. Alan Tiegreen. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 11-190, [2] pp. Quarter beige cloth over orange paper boards with black lettering on the spine. Price of $7.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with in-text and full-page drawings by Alan Tiegreen. A sharp..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1974. Early Printing. Hardback. 253 pp. Price of $8.95 on front flap of jacket. Some light foxing to the textblock; mild fading to spine panel, few spots of discoloration on rear flap of jacket. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. 41 pp. Price of $3.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated by William Pene Du Bois. A handsome copy of an earlier printing (circa 1970) of Dahl's third book for children. More
New York: Viking, 1990. First American edition. Hardcover. 79 pp. Price of $14.95 on front jacket flap. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. First printing of the first American edition. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First edition thus. Hardcover. 43 pp. Price of $15.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. First printing of the revised edition which includes an interview with the author. More
New York: Viking, 1992. First printing. Hardcover. 24 pp. Price of $12.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Last name written on free front endpaper, else very near Fine in a very near Fine jacket. More
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press (2000), 2000. Eighth Printing. Hardcover. 182 pp. Price of $15.99 on front flap of jacket. Has the Newberry Honor sticker attached to the front panel. A very attractive copy of this Newbery Honor book, the author's first novel. A very near Fine book in a Near..... More
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press [2000], 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [7], 8-182, [8] pp. Teal cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $15.99 on front flap of jacket. A very attractive copy of this Newbery Honor book, the author's first novel. A Near Fine book slightly askew..... More
Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press (2009), 2009. First printing. Hardcover. 201 pp. Price of $16.99 on rear panel. Illustrated by Yoko Tanaka. Signed by the author on the title page. More
Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press (2009), 2009. First printing. Hardcover. 201 pp. Price of $16.99 on rear panel. Illustrated by Yoko Tanaka. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 11-377, [1], [1]-6 (pages of publisher's advertisements for other children's titles), [2] pp. Blue cloth with decorations stamped in red, black, and silver. Illustrated by a frontispiece and twenty additional black and white plates, with several in-text illustrations. Baumgarten 64..... More
New York: Random House [1960], 1960. First printing. Hardcover. 240 pp. Price code of 200/200 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated by Harold Eldridge. A Very Good book with a touch of foxing to the top textblock and minor offsetting to the free front endaper in a Very Good..... More
