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.
Newbery
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 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.
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.
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.
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The Earthsea Trilogy [A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA; THE TOMBS OF ATUAN; THE FARTHEST SHORE]
1971-1973
Set of the first UK editions of the first three books in the acclaimed Earthsea series, about a boy who attends a wizard school decades before Harry Potter — the first two books signed by Le Guin.
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.
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.
THE BLUE SWORD
(1982)
Signed first printing of McKinley's influential young adult fantasy classic, for girls (and others) who would have arm-wrestled Peter O'Toole for the chance to play Lawrence of Arabia, and won.
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.
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.
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.
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.
