[moderate shelfwear, slight bumping/fraying to bottom corners, top rear corner also lightly bumped; jacket has several small tears and light wear along top edge, minor chipping at bottom of rear panel, a little paper loss at top of spine, spine sunned]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED, apparently by the author, on the ffep. The inscription reads "To _______ / del autor con todo mi respeto[?]," which translates roughly to "with all the respects of the author." The signature reads "Robert R. Horry, alias Ricardo de Enacienda" [sp?]. I have uncovered no known pseudonyms for this author, but everything a... View More...
[nice tight clean copy, no discernible wear, NO remainder or other marks; jacket shows faint surface wear]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. "It's bad enough that Ariadne's family has just moved to a tiny boring town in the middle of nowhere. What's worse is that she's far away from her best friend. The kids in the new town seem nice enough, yet none of them really understand how lost and unhappy Ariadne feels. None, that is, but May Butler. She's an odd, quiet person who wears the strangest old-fashioned clothes and has a spooky habit of appearing and disappearin... View More...
[nice tight copy, very faint soiling to top page edges; jacket shows the tiniest trace of handling wear]. A sequel to the author's earlier book "The Shakespeare Stealer," this Elizabethan-era adventure has its young hero, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy, go on the road with Shakespeare's troupe as an apprentice actor. View More...
[sharp-looking copy, clean and tight with just the most minimal shelfwear; jacket virtually as new but with a small black spot near top of front panel (sorta blends in with the cover design, but still--there it is)]. View More...
[nice tight copy with very slight wear at base of spine; jacket shows a bit of wear along top edge, one teensy-tiny nick at top of front panel, browning to rear panel and top edges of jacket flaps]. (Morrow Junior Books) Series Juvenile novel about two sisters who work together in a New York market research office, with Kate, the younger, always coming up second best romantically to "her beautiful but occasionally addlepated older sister" Peggy, who "wanted to get married more than anything else in the world." They live with their widowed mother in an Upper East Side apartmen... View More...
(price-clipped) [moderate shelfwear, bottom corners lightly bumped; jacket dog-eared at a couple of top corners, one small tear and some associated wrinkling/edgewear at top of rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The story of two girls -- one wealthy and one poor -- whose worlds collide when the poor girl's mother, the maid and only friend of the rich girl, dies suddenly. "An honest and powerful story about two young women who find that, in spite of the pressures of society and of family, they have the courage to take responsibility for their own lives and... View More...
[bottom corners bumped (more severely at rear cover), otherwise a tight clean copy; jacket shows light surface wear]. "With their father in Australia looking for work and their mother wrongfully imprisoned in Ireland, Clarrie and her brother, Will, are forced to live with their Uncle Len in England. Uncle Len works as a ventriloquist in the nearby music hall, and even though he and his dummy, Frozen Billy, put on a good show, Uncle Len is constantly drinking away the profits. ... In this chilling tale set in Edwardian England, [the author] brings to life a wooden stage dummy who may just... View More...
(bottom corner clipped, but printed price is at top corner) [very nice book, no discernible wear; jacket shows just a trace of wear at corners, faint soiling to rear panel, one tiny closed tear at top edge of rear panel]. (line drawings) Juvenile fiction about a careless, daydreaming 11-year-old girl who likes to take her horse to "her favorite clearing deep in the woods to think things out." There she meets and makes friends with "a beautiful and mysterious woman who came to play a little wooden pipe under the trees," and together they teach the horse to do a special "da... View More...
[moderate wear to extremities, spine very slightly turned, extremely light bumping and a teensy bit of fraying to bottom corners, bookplate affixed to ffep; jacket a little edgeworn, a couple of tiny chips at top edge of rear panel, tiny closed tear at bottom front hinge, small surface-damaged area and slight paper loss at bottom right corner of front panel]. (B&W illustrations) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "All good wishes for / one who understands -- / Lorenz Graham / May 17, 1973." (The inscribee is probably the individual whose bookplate is on the same page, te... View More...
[nice tight copy, bookplate on front pastedown, bottom corners mildly bumped; jacket has a few small edge-tears (mostly in rear panel), one tiny piece missing at top right- hand corner of front panel, a bit of rubbing/soiling, but still attractive]. (color frontispiece + 3 color plates) Adventures of a young French boy who joins the Children's Crusade in the 13th Century. Today we send 19-year-olds. View More...
[lovely clean copy, no discernible wear, label affixed to ffep reading "A Gift from the Estate of the Author"; jacket has a touch of edgewear, a couple of minor surface nicks, two tiny closed tears at top of rear panel]. (B&W line drawings) "The children of an interracial marriage struggle to keep together after the sudden death of their parents." [NOTE that this is a stated "First Printing," but there is no price on the dust jacket.] View More...
[nice tight copy, appears unread, no discernible wear but a couple of itsy-bitsy spots on fore-edge; jacket shows only faint surface wear]. Laurel, a Chinese-American girl, worries about leaving the protective spirit of her great-grandfather behind when her family moves out of their old house; Jonathan, the son of the Jewish family that moves in, has his own family issues. "Laurel takes every opportunity to go back to her old house -- to try to communicate with her guardian spirit -- while Jonathan tries to get his family to let Uncle Jake come and live with them. After a series of frigh... View More...
[nice clean copy, mild wear to page edges; jacket a little browned at spine and along edges, a few insignificant edge tears, minor wrinkling along top edge of front panel, 1-1/2 inch split along lower edge of rear cover (hardly noticeable with jacket encased in Brodart cover), a few ink scribbles at top corner of rear panel, old price sticker on front flap]. This "first-class boys' book with a factual background" tells the story of young master Michael Windfield, who in 1667 joins "the Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay, on their first perilous voyage to se... View More...
[nice tight copy (review copy, with publisher's slip laid in), minor soiling to bottom edge; faint soiling to jacket as well, mostly to rear panel]. Novel about an 18-year-old Jewish girl whose older brother joins a religious cult, the "Church of the World," in Berkeley, California. "Other books about cults have shown the dark side of the subject. [This novel] shows that, too, but acknowledges that some young people find in cults something they have not found in their own homes, churches, or society. Whether the advantages outweigh the disadvantages is a question for the reader ... View More...
[nice clean copy, slight bumping at base of spine; jacket shows very minor wear along top and bottom edges, faint scuffing to rear panel]. (line drawings) INSCRIBED generically ("Keep 'em rolling!") and SIGNED by the authors on the half-title page. Story about a 15-year-old in Ancient Sumeria, whose invention of the wheel "is received less than enthusiastically. And when their enemies the Assyrians try to use Hubert's wheel to flatten the Sumerians into the world's first roadkill, it is up to Hubert to prevent history's greatest invention from ending civilization as he knows it!... View More...
[ex-school library book, heavy wear to bottom edge, front hinge cracked and crudely repaired, labels and pockets on front endpapers, etc.; the jacket, however, is fairly presentable, with just a bit of paper loss at the extremities, and a corner torn away at the bottom of the rear flap (taking a little bit of text with it)]. (pen and ink drawings) Juvenile adventure set in the jungles of the Amazon headwaters. One of a series of "boys in exotic locales" tales by this author ("Wu Han of Korea," "Pancho of Peru," etc.). The book's a bit of a mess, as noted, but the jacket would transfer well ... View More...
[ex-library book, but just barely, with minimal wear and with markings confined to a single library property stamp on the title page and a VERY tiny "discard" stamp on the ffep; there is also a small previous seller's price stamped in the upper corner of the front pastedown; the jacket is completely unmarked, with some moderate but even soiling]. "How do you convince your widowed mother that you must lead your own life? This is the pressing problem that faces eighteen-year-old Toni Weston. She finds some answers when she runs for her luck, hitchhiking to her aunt's home close to... View More...
[ex-library but just mildly worn and minimal markings, front hinge a little loose (but not separated), faint tape residue on front cover only, pocket on rear fep; jacket is quite nice, clean and bright, spine somewhat faded (except where the call number label used to be), and a 1" irregular closed tear at bottom of spine]. View More...
[nice tight clean copy, no discernible wear; jacket shows a tiny bit of wear at extremities]. About a starry-eyed 12-year-old misfit with dreams of becoming a stand-up comic, who hopes to make a spectacular debut at his junior high school talent show. One of my daughter's favorite books (ask her). View More...
[a solid clean book, moderate bumping to all corners, slight deterioration to cloth at top of spine; jacket edgeworn and age-toned (especially at spine), a bit wrinkled and soiled (not excessively), with a small black smudge on the spine, minor paper loss at base of spine]. Juvenile fiction about a girl "whose whole life is uprooted and transplanted by her mother's second marriage," which occasions a relocation from New York to a midwestern city just at the beginning of her senior year of high school. She isn't thrilled by her new step-siblings, "Babs, a glamorous girl Linda's age,... View More...
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