Original art from THE GOLDEN BASKET
[No later than 1936]
Original watercolor used in the Newbery Honor book, published in 1936 by Viking, with the first appearance of the famous Madeline.
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HITTY: Her First Hundred Years
1929
Inscribed first edition of this Newbery Award winner, in the original dust jacket.
MILLIONS OF CATS
1928
Signed limited first edition, with the original additional wood engraving signed by Gág.
JULIE OF THE WOLVES
(1972)
First printing of the Newbery award-winner, about a 13-year-old Inuit girl lost on the tundra.
LILY'S CROSSING
(1997)
Inscribed third printing of this Newbery Honor book.
M.C. HIGGINS, THE GREAT
(1974)
First printing of the first book by a Black author to win the Newbery Medal.
SWEET WHISPERS, BROTHER RUSH
(1982)
First printing of the Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King award-winner, with jacket art by Leo and Diane Dillon.
DARK FRIGATE
(1923)
First edition of this Newbery Award-winning adventure story set on the high seas.
MINN OF THE MISSISSIPPI
1951
First printing of the Newbery Honor book about a turtle's travels from the headwater of the Mississippi River to the Gulf, part of Holling's acclaimed series of geo-historical books.
EVERYTHING ON A WAFFLE
(2001)
First edition, first printing of this Newbery Honor book.
BETTER KNOWN AS JOHNNY APPLESEED
(1950)
Scarce first printing of this Newbery Honor, a set of nine biographical vignettes about the itinerant apple planter of US legend.
THE ANIMAL FAMILY
(1965)
Inscribed first printing of this Newbery Medal-winning story about a hunter, a mermaid, and the family they build on a deserted island.
THE TRUMPETER OF KRAKOW
(1929)
Signed early printing of the Newbery Award winner, set in fifteenth century Krakow and illustrated by native Polish artist Angela Pruszynska with. A Newbery Award Winner. This copy is signed by Eric Kelly.
THE VIEW FROM SATURDAY
(1996)
Signed first printing of this scarce Newbery Medal winner, the story of the intersecting lives of a quiz bowl team and their teacher.
A WRINKLE IN TIME
(1962)
First printing of the book that helped make science fiction stories for children mainstream, a beautiful copy.
THE FLEDGLING
(1980)
Inscribed first printing of this Newbery Honor book about a little girl who learns to fly with the help of a goose guide, with a charming original drawing of a goose by Jane Langton.
AN AMERICAN PLAGUE
(2003)
First edition, first printing of this Newbery Honor book about the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793.
JACOB HAVE I LOVED
(1980)
First printing of this Newbery Medal-winning novel, in the first issue jacket (without the award sticker), a coming of age tale set on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
JACOB HAVE I LOVED
(1980)
First printing of this Newbery Medal-winning novel, warmly inscribed to fellow author Barbara Elleman.
THE HIGHER POWER OF LUCKY
(2006)
First printing of this Newbery Medal-winning story of childhood set in a tiny Texas town, following 10-year-old Lucky as she seeks a "higher power" after hearing the phrase while listening in to an AA meeting.
THE WINTER ROOM
(1989)
First edition, first printing of the 1990 Newbery Honor book, following two brothers on a Minnesota farm as they work and listen to their uncle's stories.
THE DARK-THIRTY: SOUTHERN TALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL
(1992)
Signed first printing of this collection of original spooky stories set in the American South, the recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award and a Newbery Honor.
THE SECRET RIVER
(1955)
Scarce first printing of this Newbery Honor-winning work by the author of THE YEARLING, a magical realism tale of a young Black girl's efforts to feed her community during the Great Depression.
UPON THE HEAD OF THE GOAT
(1981)
First printing of this memoir of Hungarian Jewish childhood in the lead-up to WWII, detailing the author's family's forced move to a Ghetto and eventually to Auschwitz.
THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND
(1986)
First printing of the Moser-illustrated edition of this Newbery Award Winner, first published in 1958.
