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First edition of The Second Reader in the New Brunswick Readers series
New Brunswick Readers: The Second Reader.
Toronto: W. J. Gage & Company, 1900.
First edition of The Second Reader in the New Brunswick Readers series, prescribed by the Board of Education for use in the Schools of New Brunswick. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Very good in a very good dust jacket from Hall’s Book Store in St. John, New Brunswick. Ownership inscription to the front free endpaper.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 115364
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"If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky": First Edition Of THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF The Outsiders; Signed By S.E. Hinton
HINTON, S.E.
The Outsiders.
New York: The Viking Press, 2017.
First edition of the 50th anniversary edition of the author’s first novel. Octavo, original black boards. Signed by S.E. Hinton. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 47099
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"Everyone must smile, no matter how we feel": First Edition of Thanhha Lai's Inside Out & Back Again
LAI, Thanhha.
Inside Out & Back Again.
New York: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2001.
First edition of this moving book of verse detailing the story of a young Vietnamese girl who is forced to flee Vietnam before the fall of Saigon. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Zdenko Basie and Manuel Sumberac. Jacket photograph by Sloane Bosniak.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 115208
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"Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits": Bridge to Terabithia; Signed by Katherine Paterson
PATERSON, Katherine.
Bridge to Terabithia.
New York: Harper Collins, 1977.
First edition, later printing of the author’s first Newbery Award-winning novel. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Donna Diamond. Signed by Katherine Paterson on the title page.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 1299
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“Sometimes it's better not to look back": First Edition of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children; Signed by Ransom Riggs
RIGGS, Ransom.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2013.
First edition of this “tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel” (John Green). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Ransom Riggs on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 53027
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First edition of The Guiding Book; containing short stories by Rudyard Kipling, Katharine Tyman, Bella Sindey Woolf and many others; with illustrations by Edmund Dulac and W. Heath Robinson
[KIPLING, Rudyard] Edited by Ann Kindersley.
The Guiding Book: Dedicated to the Girlhood of Many Countries and to All Those with a Heart Still Young.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, nd.
First edition of this book for Girl Guides containing stories by Rudyard Kipling, Katharine Tyman, Bella Sindey Woolf and many others. Quarto, original publishers cloth with colored pictorial onlay to the front panel. With seven illustrations in color by Edmund Dulac, Margaret Tarrant, Lawson Wood, Heath Robinson and others on mounted plates. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 120349
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First Edition of Christopher Paolini's Eragon; Signed by Him
PAOLINI, Christopher.
Eragon.
London: Doubleday, 2004.
First British edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Boldly signed by Christopher Paolini on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Jude Palencar.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 118619
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Kenneth Grahame's The Golden Age; finely bound
GRAHAME, Kenneth.
The Golden Age.
London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, c. 1920.
Finely bound example of the author of Wind and the Willows, Kenneth Grahame’s collection of short stories for children. Small octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth covered boards with gilt tooling to the spine, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, engraved frontispiece, top edge gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 111086
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First Edition of Philip Pullman's I Was A Rat! ...or The Scarlet Slippers; inscribed by him
PULLMAN, Philip. Illustrated by Peter Bailey.
I Was A Rat! …or The Scarlet Slippers.
London: Doubleday, 1999.
First edition of Pullman’s classic adventure story. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated by Peter Bailey. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Eileen – greetings! Philip Pullman.” In fine condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 114586
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Signed by Tasha Tudor
TUDOR, Tasha.
A Tale For Easter.
New York: Henry Z. Walck, 1972.
First edition of the Walck reprint of this Tasha Tudor classic. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed on the title page, “greetings! Tasha Tudor.” Fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 2079
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Signed by Michael Rosen
MCGOUGH, Roger and Michael Rosen; Illustrated by Sara Midda.
You Tell Me: Poems by Roger McGough and Michael Rosen.
London: Puffin Books, 1981.
First edition of this collection of poems for children. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed and dated by the author on the front endpaper, “Michael Rosen 12/10/85.” In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 89125
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First edition of Felicia Lamport's Light Metres; signed by illustrator Edward Gorey
LAMPORT, Felicia. Drawings by Edward Gorey.
Light Metres.
New York: Everest House Publishers, 1982.
First edition of the author and illustrator’s third collaborative book of illustrated poems. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Edward Gorey on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Edward Gorey.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 115042
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Later Printing of Philip Pullman's The Tiger in the Well; Inscribed by the author
PULLMAN, Philip.
The Tiger in the Well.
London: Scholastic, 1999.
Early printing of Philip Pullman’s third book in his Sally Lockhart Quartet. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Inscribed by the author on the title page, “Best Wishes to Eileen, Philip Pullman Sept. 99.” In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 88118
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Fine collection of first editions by children's book author Philip Pullman
PULLMAN, Philip.
Philip Pullman Collection.
London: Various Publishers, 2000-2004.
Fine collection of first editions by children’s book author Philip Pullman. Quarto, 3 volumes, original boards and wrappers, illustrated. The collection includes a two first edition of Puss in Boots (London: Doubleday: 2000), a first Picture Corgi edition of Puss in Boots (London: Picture Corgi Books, 2000), and a first edition of Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp (London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2004). Each volume is in fine condition.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 117733
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First Edition of Egg and Spoon; Signed by Gregory Maguire
MAGUIRE, Gregory.
Egg and Spoon
Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2014.
First edition of this work by the author of Wicked. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Gregory Maguire on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 4522
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First Edition of Michael Rosen and Jane Ray's Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
ROSEN, Michael and Jane Ray.
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
London: Walker Books, 2004.
First edition of this retelling of the classic story. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 117699