NY, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Manson. A "mostly true" story based travels with the actual elephant sent as a gift from Haroun-al-Rachid to Charlemagne. The elephant lived until 810 when he was killed in battle. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Perry Mason & Co., 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 600+ pages. This is a children's periodical, all issues for the year 1899, bound together in black-cloth, gilt, edgeworn boards. Many b&w engravings. Large format, 11.5x16". Total of 50 issues or around 12-16 pages each. A treasure trove of old advertising and graphic images from that era. Perfect for a graphic artist, or collector, interested in Victoriana.
Hardcover. NY, Harpercollins;, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An illustrated edition of the libretto for Handel's popular choral work, color plates by Barry Moser.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 92 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color, black & white illustrations by Helen Sewell. Previous owner's bookplate. Dust jacket chipped, worn with two chunks missing.
Hardcover. New York , Roy Publishers, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 222 pages, b&w illustrations by C. Walter Hodges.In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Chicago/NY, Platt & Munk, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four linenlike books in a color illustrated box. The cardboard box is worn, corners reinforced with tape. One book (Three Bears) has 2 tape repairs to spine, otherwise all books are bright and sharp. Each with an inscription inside front cover. Stapled wraps, 10 X 12". Illustrators include Losis Lenski, Eulalie, Bachmann, Elizabeth Colburne.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Introduction by Milne. Music by H Fraser-Simson, decorations by E.H. Shepard. A bright copy in the scarce dust jacket that's edgeworn, chipped.
Hardcover. New York, Julian Messner, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated green boards, 16 pages, Illustrated by Sally Tate. Printed in brown and red on green paper. Green paper over boards printed in brown and red and with fuzz on the bear, both upper and lower boards. Decorated endpapers, also with fuzz on the bears. The illustrations feature the bear on every other page, each depiction of him with brown fuzz. Light soiling to covers and the paper is starting to peel at top of spine, top corner worn.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt design and titles. 66 pages with b&w illustrations by Dorothy Lathrop. First winner of The Caldecott Medal for chlldren's book illustration. Front hinge partially cracked, name of summer camp printed on front fly leaf with mild soil, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing, 2nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 20 pages illust. in color, black & white by Oscar Howard. Scarce in a nice dust jacket with moderate chipping to spine.
Hardcover. Springfield, McLoughlin Brothers, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped in red and dark green. 128 pages, color frontispiece, b&w drawings. No date, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf dated 1924. In the scarce dust jacket, light tan illustrated with 3-color design featuring two brownies, light edgewear, chipping.
Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber , 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Pictorial boards. Non-Paginated. Color and black & white illustrations by Irene Hawkins. Foxing to dust jacket and covers. Interior clean. Some numbers written in pencil on inside covers. Dust jacket price clipped with some tape repaired tears.
Hardcover. New York, Crowell, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY YOLEN on half-title pg. Color Illustrations by Mercer Mayer. Lovely copy.
Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st Am, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 28 pages, color illustrations by the author. A very clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Philomel Books, 1st U.S., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.Color illustrations by Anno. Adapted from the translation by Ursula Synge.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name written on front flyleaf. Dust jacket unclipped. Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean, unmarked. Very good condition.
Hardcover. New Milford, Conn., Roaring Brook Press, 2nd Printing, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Illustrated throughout by the author, clean, tight and bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 3rd pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Eric Carle. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Tape along the spine of dust jacket. The Bible Story of Noah as told by the great Jewish writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer. The illustrations are by the children's illustrator, Eric Carle. Singer is a Nobel Prize winner and Newbury winner. Carle's bright illustration set the mood of this Bible Story.
Hardcover. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Some very light wear to cover but internally clean and nice with beautiful illustrations in color and black & white, by Ambrus. Hardbound, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt & Company, 4th, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Illustrated in color by the author. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page with a little sketch of a spider. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with small tear to upper edge of spine. Faint sunning to spine. Internally very good. Caldecott Honor Book with silver sticker on cover.
Softcover. La Jolla CA, Star and Elephant Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A small book illustrated in color by Michael R. Hague. Softcover. Spine sunned. Hague's first illustrated book.
Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated throughout in color by Paul Rogers. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Ars Edition, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Approximately 5 3/4" x 4 3/4", 18 pages. English version by John Theobald. Bohatta was a Austrian writer/artist whose titles were republished in the U.S. in small printings. Charming color illustrations. Clean copy.
hardcover. New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Raul Colon. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color art by Parnall. All about different types of mammal feet. Illustrated in color, with a guide at the end of the text which explains the type of feet depicted in the artwork. Clean copy.
Softcover. La Jolla, CA, Star and Elephant Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A small book illustrated in color by Michael R. Hague. Softcover. Spine sunned.
Hardcover. NY, North-South Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Schmid.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrations in color and black & white by Goodenow. Shows minor wear. Dust jacket shows light soiling and chipping at edges. Hardbound.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound. Color illustrations by Rosemary Wells. Her second book. Dust jacket with closed tears, rubbing, sticker residue to front cover. Brodart cover.
Hardcover. NY, Harlin Quist, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a chipped and edgeworn dust jacket. B&w line cartoons by Stan Mack. "Violet, Slingsby, Guy and Lionel are the four little people who want to see their world. But what a world they see! Imagine the island of water surrounded by earth, and filled with veal cutlets and chocolate drops! Imagine the scroobious sound of the simultaneous sneezing of millions of mice! Imagine their boat bitten into fifty-five-thousand-million-hundred-billion bites by the ferocious Seeze Pyder!" Dj price-clipped. No markings.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott , reprint , 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Translated by Elisabeth P. Stock. Color illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Cover shows age and some wear. Hardbound, no dust jacket.
Softcover. London, T. C. & E. C. Jack, unknown, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Musical scores to 30 children's songs illustrated in color by Paul Woodroffe. Illustrated cardboard covers with white cloth spine. Endpapers illustration in yellow. Light wear to cover corners.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth covers, Illustrated with b&w photos by Sy Katzoff. Seven year old Amy takes her broken doll to the doll hospital. Small ink price on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Nice color illustrations by Lobel. Minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 41 pages. Color illust. by Beisner. Laminated boards with crisp finish, illustrated in color front and back.
Hardcover. NY, Platt and Munk, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. 12 color plates by Winifred Austen, many B&W drawings. Great cover design in 3-colors on orange cloth. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, with faded stain to spine. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st thus, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 117 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black and white drawings by J.M. Conde. A Hollow Tree Story. Cover label illustration in color by Conde. ( balloon is also misspelled with one L) previous owner's inscription front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY`, Child's Play Ltd., 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Meyrick. Laminated covered boards with color illustrations. Small dings on top edge.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 3rd, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by the author. Hardcover with dust jacket. non-paginated. Clean, tight copy.
New York, Simon & Schuster , reprint, 1998 (1955), Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. Two-color illustrations by Hilary Knight and SIGNED BY KNIGHT on front fly leaf. 65 pages plus scrapbook. In new condition. The original story and pictures of Eloise plus previously unpublished illustrations by Knight and photographs of Kay Thompson. Signed and dated by the illustrator, Hilary Knight, the year of publication. Scrapbook written by Marie Brenner.
Hardcover. NY, Astor-Honor, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lionni. Light soil, wear to boards.
Softcover. NY, Children's Universe, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A package that contains scored heavy paper for constructing blockhead characters. Cardboard covers. These are the blockheads, a wacky crew that includes a pirate, clown, space cadet, cowpoke, baseball player, and lifeguard. This punch-out activity book is in As New condition, complete, unused, and never opened. It contains six heads on figures that you assemble yourself.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Brothers and Company, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. B&W Illustrations by Florence Scovell Shinn. Tissue guard over illustrated frontispiece. 223 pages. Light shelfwear, small blank sticker on rear end paper otherwise VG. Silver gilt lettering on cover spine.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 192 pages illustrated in color by Loretta Krupinski. Collects fifty-six poems and stories by the author of Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny and includes entries arranged under such themes as Love and Friendship, Bedtime, For a Rainy Day, and Nonsense.
Hardcover. New York, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anita Lobel. An old Japanese man brags so much about his fine heifer, the master clog maker and his apprentice decide to teach him a lesson. Clean copy.
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 "YOUTH'S COMPANION: An Illustrated Weekly Paper for Young People and the Family. Volume LXXIII. - 1899. (Volume 73, Numbers 1 - 52) by: N/A")
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 "Animals of the Bible: A Picture Bookby: Lathrop, Dorothy P., text selected by Helen D. Fish")
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