SHADOW OF A BULL
1964
Lovely first edition of this Newbery Award winner about the son of a famous bullfighter in Spain.
Newbery
GAY-NECK: The Story of a Pigeon
(1928)
Signed limited "John Newbery Medal Edition," issued to celebrate this early Newbery Medal winner — and the first winner written by an Asian American author.
MRS. FRISBY AND THE RATS OF NIMH
1971
First printing of the Newbery Award Winner that mixes science fiction with fantasy, in which lab rats gain incredible abilities.
MILLIONS OF CATS
1928
Signed limited first edition, with the original additional wood engraving signed by Gág.
THE SECRET RIVER
(2011)
Signed first Dillons-illustrated edition of the Newbery Award-winning magical realism tale of a young Black girl's efforts to feed her community during the Great Depression – the final book the Dillons illustrated together before Leo's death in 2012.
YOUNG FU OF THE UPPER YANGTZE
(1973)
Signed fortieth anniversary edition of this Newbery Medal-winning story of a boy's journey to adulthood in tumultuous 1920s China.
Advertising Standee for ROLLER SKATES
[1937]
Original bookshop advertising standee for ROLLER SKATES — which uses the work's 1937 Newbery Medal win as a selling point.
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.
AUDUBON
(1936)
First printing of this account of the famed naturalist, with 12 beautiful color plates reproduced from his famed elephant folio BIRDS OF AMERICA — a 1937 Newbery Honor book.
DEAR MR. HENSHAW
1983
First printing of this charming epistolary novel that illuminates the struggles of growing up, through letters between young Leigh Botts and his favorite author.
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 VOYAGES OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE
1922
First US edition of the second Doctor Dolittle book, which finds our animal-conversant hero on a a number of ship-based adventures – winner of the second Newbery Medal ever presented.
IN THE BEGINNING: CREATION STORIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
(1988)
Inscribed early printing of this Newbery Honor-winning collection of 25 stories of beginnings, with vibrant and evocative illustrations by Barry Moser.
IN THE BEGINNING: CREATION STORIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
(1988)
First printing of this Newbery Honor-winning collection of 25 stories of beginnings, with vibrant and evocative illustrations by Barry Moser – with autograph note from Virginia Hamilton laid in.
THE CAT WHO WENT TO HEAVEN
1930
First printing of the winner of the 1931 Newbery Medal winner, an example of Lynd Ward's more delicate brush illustrations.
TALES FROM SILVER LANDS
1924
First printing of "one of the first children's books to feature South American folktales from indigenous peoples" (Library of Congress) — inscribed by multiple-Pulitzer-winner Carl Sandburg, to whom the book is dedicated.
STRAWBERRY GIRL
(1945)
First printing of this Newbery Medal-winning portrait of life in rural Florida, touching on the hardships of the poor residents of a small town and the ongoing conflict between farmers and ranchers.
WHEN YOU REACH ME
(2009)
First printing of this Newbery Medal-winning tale of time travel, mystery, and friendship in 1970s New York.
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 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.
JACOB HAVE I LOVED
(1980)
First printing of this Newbery Medal-winning novel, warmly inscribed to fellow author Barbara Elleman.
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.
EVERYTHING ON A WAFFLE
(2001)
First edition, first printing of this Newbery Honor book.
THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND
(1986)
First printing of the Moser-illustrated edition of this Newbery Award Winner, first published in 1958.
