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Super Cilantro Girl / La Superniña del Cilantro
First Edition
San Francisco: Children's Book Press, 2003. A children's picture book illustrated by Honorio Robledo Tapia. The story, about a fifty-foot tall green girl, becomes an parable about immigration and national borders. Herrera recently finished a two-year term as the Poet Laureate of the United States. Rather uncommon in the book trade. ISBN: 9780892391875.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 220342More details Price: $75.00 -
Inkspell
First Edition
Frome, Somerset, England: The Chicken House, 2005. The second volume in Funke's Inkheart trilogy. Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. ISBN: 9781904442721.
Signed by the author on half-title page. First British edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 119493More details Price: $40.00 -
Man and Power: The Story of Power from the Pyramids to the Atomic Age
First Edition
New York: Golden Press, 1961. 189 pages. Roughly 8 by 11 inches. Illustrated throughout, with many paintings by Alton S. Tobey. The noted science fiction author writes about science. ISBN: B0007DXI22.
First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. The Goldencraft library binding, a printed cloth as opposed to the paper covers of the trade edition. One of the publisher's file copies, with a small "Library" stamp on the front free endpaper. This is NOT an ex-library copy. As nice as you'll find, especially in this binding.
Book ID: 107737More details Price: $40.00 -
Time Stops for No Mouse: A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure [two volumes]
First Edition
Portland: Terfle Books, 1999. "Writer's first proof edition," preceding the trade edition by four years. Two volumes, ring-bound in cardboard covers, 137 and 163 pages. ISBN: B000TNBHVE.
First edition (first printing). Both volumes fine, in the original plastic bag, beginning to split along one seam and repaired with a small piece of clear tape.
Book ID: 106643More details Price: $30.00 -
Flyte (Septimus Heap, Book 2)
First Edition
(New York): Katherine Tegen Books, 2006. 532 pages. The American edition, published 8 days after the British. ISBN: 9780060577346.
First American edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author with a line from the book. CD fine.
Book ID: 126317More details Price: $25.00 -
The Kindergarten: An Uplifting Social Influence in the Home and the District
First Edition
New York: Printed by The De Vinne Press, 1903. 22 pages. Separate printing of an address delivered before the National Educational Association, Boston, July 10, 1903, and printed in the Kindergarten Review, September, 1903. Pamphlet also includes a poem, "The Child-Garden" by the author. Gilder was a founder and first president of the Kindergarten Association. He was also the editor of Scribner's Monthly, later, Century Magazine. ISBN: 281AIB1029758.
First edition thus. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback), sewn.
Book ID: 136007More details Price: $20.00 -
Free Lance and the Lake of Skulls
First Edition
(London): Hodder Children's Books, 2003. First book in a series about a "freelance" knight-for-hire. By the authors of The Edge Chronicles; to date, not published in the US. ISBN: 9780340874080.
First Edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by both authors.
Book ID: 5734More details Price: $20.00 -
Cloud Wolf (Edge Chronicles)
First Edition
Berkshire, England: Corgi Books, 2001. 72 pages. ISBN: 9780552547499.
First British edition (first printing). A fine, unread, as new copy in wrappers (a fancy bookselling term for paperback). Signed on title page by both authors.
Book ID: 43906More details Price: $20.00 -
Bread and Roses, Too
First Edition
New York: Clarion Books, 2006. 275 pages. A chapter book by the author of Bridge to Terabithia. ISBN: 9780618654796.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author.
Book ID: 126321More details Price: $20.00 -
Tomas and the Library Lady
First Edition
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. A picture book for children based on an incident in the life of Tomas Rivera, an acclaimed Chicano writer who served as the Chancellor of the University of California, Riverside. ISBN: 9780679804017.
First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Mora.
Book ID: 220331More details Price: $20.00 -
Tomas and the Library Lady
First Edition
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. A picture book for children based on an incident in the life of Tomas Rivera, an acclaimed Chicano writer who served as the Chancellor of the University of California, Riverside. ISBN: 9780679804017.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author.
Book ID: 220324More details Price: $20.00 -
Bone: Crown of Horns
First Edition
New York: Graphix, 2009. 212 pages. Volume 9 of the color edition of the award-winning graphic-novel series about the adventures of the Bone cousins. Collects issues #52-59 of the originally self-published comic-book series. ISBN: 9780439706315.
First color edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 119908More details Price: $20.00 -
Bone: Ghost Circles
First Edition
New York: Graphix, 2008. 150 pages. Color volume number 7 in the 9-book award-winning graphic-novel series. Collects issues #40-45 of the originally self-published series about the Bone cousins. ISBN: 9780439706292.
First color edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 119905More details Price: $20.00 -
Bone: Treasure Hunters
First Edition
New York: Graphix, 2008. 136 pages. Color volume 8 in the award-winning graphic-novel series about the adventures of the Bone cousins. Collects issues #46-51 of the originally self-published series. ISBN: 9780439706308.
First color edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 119907More details Price: $20.00 -
The Loud Silence of Francine Green
First Edition
New York: Clarion Books, 2006. 225 pages. A coming-of-age novel set in Hollywood in 1949. Cushman won the Newberry Award for her book The Midwife's Apprentice. ISBN: 9780618504558.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author.
Book ID: 182978More details Price: $20.00 -
Hawks of Chelney
First Edition
New York: Harper & Row, 1978. 245 pages. A novel for children, illustrations in black-and-white by the Caldecott-winning Gammell. ISBN: 9780060230579.
First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to unnammed recipient; "For my new but good friend with love -- Adrienne Jones / October 1981"
Book ID: 168790More details Price: $20.00 -
Young Merlin
First Edition
New York: Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 1990. 26 pages. Children's picture book with illustrations in color. 11.25 x 9 inches. ISBN: 9780385248006.
Inscribed by the author and dated, October 24, 1992. on half-title page. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Book corners are bumped. Dust jacket with 1/2" closed tear on bottom front panel.
Book ID: 96718More details Price: $20.00 -
Young Merlin
First Edition
New York: Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 1990. 26 pages. Children's picture book with illustrations in color. 11.25 x 9 inches. ISBN: 9780385248006.
First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Short tear to one edge. Inscribed by the author at length in the year of publication.
Book ID: 98357More details Price: $20.00 -
Skippyjon Jones, Lost in Spice
New York: Dutton Children's Books, 2009. One in the popular children's picture book series about a Siamese cat who thinks he's a Chihuahua. ISBN: 9780525479659.
Third printing. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author with a drawing of a cat in bandages. Includes CD, as issued.
Book ID: 220345More details Price: $20.00 -
Drum, Chavi, Drum! / ¡Toca, Chavi, toca!
First Edition
San Francisco: Children's Book Press, 2003. 32 pages. A bilingual English-Spanish picture book for children. Illustred by Tonel. The author and artist are both immigrants from Cuba. ISBN: 9780892391868.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 220343More details Price: $15.00