First printing of one of the most beloved modern children's books, inspired by the bedtime stories that Kenneth Grahame told his son.

Midcentury edition, printed from new plates and illustrated by Shepard with a completely new series of pictures specially for this edition.

First edition of this anthology of stories for German-speaking children in the US, published in St. Louis.

First editions, two signed, following three Black teenage girls growing up in Harlem, including the first YA novel to narrate a lesbian relationship and, in another, the heroine's choice to get an abortion.

Original large painted image of a circus monkey riding a pony, depicted exactly as these characters appear in the Haders' book CRICKET, but in a different pose not used in the final book.

First printings of the groundbreaking YA science fiction trilogy about a group of Black children in Ohio who learn that they have psychic powers.

First edition, first printing, recounting one girl's response to Orson Welles's famous broadcast, by the celebrated writer whose book M.C. HIGGINS, THE GREAT was the first by a Black author to win the Newbery Medal.

First American edition of this collection of stories of the Nyanza people of Kenya, owned and annotated by noted storyteller/folklorist Diane Wolkstein.

First edition of this Newbery Award-winning adventure story set on the high seas.

Early English-language adaptation/imitation of Hoffmann's STRUWWELPETER: the uncredited Anglophone interpreter produces a strong effort, with avaricious girls bitterly stung by furious bees, set on fire, and the like. Some of the children do live.

Early 20th-century children's book about the Pilgrims.

First edition of this Ameliaranne installment, in which the heroine tries out teaching.