Search Results: Children from Black Cat Hill Books

Pismo Beach, CA Simple Wisdom Press, 1995. Paperback First Ed, unstated. Fine in Wraps: binding square and secure; text clean. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. Oblong 8vo. 32pp. Illustrated by Peaches Olson. First Ed, unstated. Paperback: Pictorial Wraps.

New York, NY Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1916. Hardcover First Ed thus; unstated. First Ed thus; unstated. Very Good: shows light wear to extremities; slightest spine lean; 4” line, looks like crayon at rear face; faint soiling; sparse foxing at endpapers and outside edges. Binding secure; text clean. Despite these flaws, remains clean, sturdy, and quite presentable. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 306pp. Illustrated with 12 full-page color plates by T.H. Robinson. Red cloth over boards, with gilt coat of arms. Hardback: Lacks DJ.

New York, NY Bantam Press, 1990. Hardcover First Ed, unstated. First Ed, unstated. Fine in Very Near Fine DJ: Book shows binding square and secure; text clean. Dustwrapper shows just a hint ot edgewear along top edge; mylar-protected. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 192pp. Hardback with DJ. The story of Frankie, a cold hungry boy living in darkness at the top of a huge old house, while his mother pursues her own mysterious life in a warm, bright room downstairs. Frankie knows she will summon him, perhaps today, perhaps tomorrow and he awaits her call with dread and longing.

New York, NY Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Hardcover First Ed, so stated. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Ed, so stated. Fine in Fine DJ: Book shows binding square and secure; text clean. Dustwrapper shows price intact. 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. Not a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 257pp. Hardback with DJ. A moving novel of a close-knit family disrupted by a sudden, tragic death. The remarkably true voice of eight-year-old Via Mahoney Revere is Minot's triumph here, as the stunned child tries to absorb the fact that her beloved mother has died in a car accident. The reader's emotional response rises as the chapters progress toward the moment when Via's life will suffer the irrevocable blow. In its poignant denouement, this narrative of domestic happiness and heartrending grief culminates in a radiant vision of eternal love INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR.