TOM SAWYER ABROAD
First printing, state A, of the continuing travels of Tom Sawyer, with authorial responsibility assigned to "Huck Finn, edited by Mark Twain."
First printing, state A, of the continuing travels of Tom Sawyer, with authorial responsibility assigned to "Huck Finn, edited by Mark Twain."
First edition of this scarce Bennett title, an inventive and humorous series of tall tales set during the unchronicled youth of Baron Munchausen.
First edition of this "tale for boys," a pioneering novel of juvenile adventure fiction.
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.
Beautiful first US edition of this collection of fairy stories by the Victorian woman of letters known for her depictions of middle-class life in the English countryside.
First edition of the third volume in Alcott's series of short stories for children, told from her nickname "Aunt Jo" that also refers to her beloved heroine in LITTLE WOMEN.
First edition of the second volume in Alcott's series of short stories for children, told from her nickname "Aunt Jo" that also refers to her beloved heroine in LITTLE WOMEN.
First edition of this little collection of moral tales by Mrs. Fenwick, an early number in the DUMPY BOOK series — a beautiful copy.
Intriguing US American fantasy story book, featuring fairies of various kinds.
First edition of this fantasy adventure set in Toyland, fetchingly illustrated in Art Nouveau style.
First edition of this Gilded Age semi-autobiographical work detailing the joys and struggles of being an American farm boy, a lovely copy.
First edition of this story that relates the adventures of a pig family: Tusko the father, Grumphy the Mother, and their three children Fusky, Snout, and Chunk.
Scarce first edition of this juvenile novel in the Alcott school, about an industrious and moral young woman – in a lovely pictorial cloth binding.
First Sendak-illustrated edition of MacDonald's classic tale of a princess who learns to love a man more than she loves a lake.
First edition of this Victorian piggy story for young people, partly told from the perspective of the pigs themselves – in an attractive pictorial cloth binding.
An early printing of the original edition of this children's biography of Benjamin Franklin as told by Amos the mouse.
First US printing of this nautical adventure story, in an attractive pictorial cloth binding.
Inscribed first edition of this juvenile novel based on the events of the Amistad.
First edition of this ghost story of the fictional 1820s ship "America," which the author claims to have assembled through manuscripts.