Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books;, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. As he did for frontier children in his enormously popular Children of the Wild West, Russell Freedman illuminates the lives of the American children affected by the economic and social changes of the Great Depression. Middle-class urban youth, migrant farm laborers, boxcar kids, children whose families found themselves struggling for survival . . . all Depression-era young people faced challenges like unemployed and demoralized parents, inadequate food and shelter, schools they couldn't attend because they had to go to work, schools that simply closed their doors. Even so, life had its bright spots--like favorite games and radio shows--and many young people remained upbeat and optimistic about the future. Drawing on memoirs, diaries, letters, and other firsthand accounts, and richly illustrated with classic archival photographs, this book by one of the most celebrated authors of nonfiction for children places the Great Depression in context and shows young readers its human face. Endnotes, selected bibliography, index.

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Tuttle Publishing , reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards with a red cloth spine, 24 pages illustrated in color. A beautiful reprint of the German classic, usually found in slovenly condition. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. Join Tik-Tok, the Shaggy Man, and a host of other friends--both old and new--on an exciting, imaginative journey through the world of Oz. Capturing all the fun are twelve color plates and nearly eighty black-and-white drawings by Oz artist John R. Neill, as well as a facsimile of Neill's full-color map endpapers of Oz and the enchanted realms that surround it--the first maps of Oz ever published. Tik-Tok of Oz is the eighth Oz novel and the first to bring a girl other than Dorothy to Oz. Now, in this beautiful reproduction of the rare first edition, a whole new generation can discover the enchantment and joy that have made the Oz series such an enduring favorite. Afterword by Peter Glassman.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a badly chipped dust jacket, 73 pages. Illustrated in b&w and two-colors by Marc Simont. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean and bright inside.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 179 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Cloth covers with gilt stamped decoration on front. gilt lettering on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In rural Quebec in the 1830s, Jenny is hired to help a family by cooking and cleaning after her predecessor, the beloved Emily, has died, but Jenny is mysteriously prevented from completing one of her chores. Color illustrations by Lydia Dabcovich.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1073, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light wear on top edge dust jacket. Bright illustrations by Paul Galdone. Clean, tight copy. Scarce.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, reprint, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated with Peggy Bacon's delightful drawings of the cat's adventures. Ex-lib with writing on inside front cover, light reside to rear endpapers. Clean interior.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 2nd printing., 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. 1st edition, 2nd printing, no white dots on page 28. Clean, tight copy with light chipping to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Schwartz & Wade, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, no dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated by the author in b&w and two colors. When Mini finds a small moppet of a dog, with fluffy ears, no collar, and wearing yellow booties, she understandably wants to take it home. Despite Mom's insistence that the dog probably already has a family, Mini gets attached and is awfully proud of her new pal, who can sing, sit, and give both paws. But when the pup runs off one day at the park, Mini comes to understand how someone else out there might be missing the little guy too.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 177 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Paul Galdone. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In rural Quebec in the 1830s, Jenny is hired to help a family by cooking and cleaning after her predecessor, the beloved Emily, has died, but Jenny is mysteriously prevented from completing one of her chores. Color illustrations by Lydia Dabcovich.

Hardcover. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, rep, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the Rands. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 8th pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Macaulay. Lavishly illustrated Caldecott Honor book about the construction of an imaginary French Gothic cathedral. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 56 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w drawings by Simont. Light edgewear to cover boards.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Kael, a black timber wolf, is captured & performs for a circus, until he has the opportunity to escape. Haunting story of a wild Wolf & the gentle man who trains him. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Devin Adair, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 86 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR (Robert Frost's Daughter) on half title page. Heavy wear to edges. Dust jacket clipped. Dust jacket has heavy chipping on spine. Illlustrated by Robin Hudnut.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Iceland, Mal Og Menning, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by Pilkington. Clean copy.

Softcover. US, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with light to minor wear to paper wrappers. Abraision to front cover. Illustrated by H. Cady. Previous owner's markings on some pages.

Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, 11th, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Color, b&w Illustrations by the Hollings, big tears to 2 pgs but repairable as everything present. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color art by Max Ginsburg. A biography of the fifteen-year-old Iowa teenager who helped avert a train disaster in 1881 and became a national heroine. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Sam Gabriel Sons, 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with minor wear to paper wrappers. Illustrated by author in color. Wrappers show chipping and fraying. tight copy. Previous owners markings on front end paper.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color Illustrations by Michael Hague. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The beautiful Keeper of the Forest helps a gentle, reclusive youth when he most needs it and gives the world a bird with a beautiful voice.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 140 pages illustrated in color by Benvenuti. Presents "The Elves and the Shoemaker," "The Donkey Cabbages," "The Witch and the Children," "The Bold Little Tailor," "Rapunzel," "Jack and the Beanstalk," and "The Wee Man of the Moors."

Hardcover. New York, North-South Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. From the gospel of Luke, illustrated by Eleonore Schmid. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster , 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. A combination photo and art picturebook. Color art by William Steig, photos by Paul Colin & author. SIGNED by YORINKS On TITLE PAGE. Tight copy.

Hardcover. San Diego CA, Gulliver Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 52 pages. signed by both author and photographer on the dedication page. Beginning with an eloquent introduction to the Everglades, this collection of 20 poems transports readers to that unique place and challenges them to look at it intently, often through the eyes of creatures living there. Striking, full-color photographs by Ted Levin provide glimpses of a wide variety of animals, plants, and landscapes. Each poem appears on a double-page spread along with one full-page photo and one or more smaller ones. The voice of the verse varies. Some are in third-person narration: "Some rivers rush to the sea. They push and tumble and fall / but the Everglades is a river / with no hurry in her at all." Other poems are from the animals' viewpoint, like this from the otter: "But there are gators where I swim. / My life is not all play. / Sometimes I am the hunter. / Sometimes I am the prey." Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Compnay, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ALLSBURG ON TITLE PAGE. TIght copy. Illustrated by author.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st , 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illust. by Hague. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Blue Sky Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Caldecott Honor artist Molly Bang celebrates the many wonders of the sun, with radiant words and images that illuminate the myriad ways in which the sun gives us energy and power from its light. Often taken for granted, the sun gives us more than its light. Here, Molly Bang presents a celebration of the wonder and power of the sun and its radiance. With dazzling paintings and a simple poetic text, MY LIGHT follows the paths of the sun's rays, showing the many ways in which we obtain energy from its light. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Frances Tipton Hunter. SIGNED WITH SKETCH BY MUNRO LEAF ON PAGE OPPOSITE OF TITLE PAGE. Previous owner's name on front end paper. Dust jacket has chipping and small tears. Covers have rubbing and chipping of laminate on edges. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illust. by Cooney. Eleanor Roosevelt as a little girl. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1st US, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a green cloth spine with fraying to top and bottom. Decorative endpapers with lots of elephants against a marbled blue background, no dust jacket. Oversize, 14 1/2" tall. The 3rd Babar book. Babar and Celeste build a city for the elephants. Imaginative and rich color artwork throughout 48 pages with hand-lettered text. Covers with edges and corners worn, light soiling. Several pages with mild soil, stain to edges, margins. One page loose. No markings. Overall a good copy of the scarce first American edition.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Bright color illustrations by Keith Haring. Clean, tight copy, minor wear to edges. Dust jacket has moderate wear on bottom edge, including small tear.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with glazed boards. Color illustrations by Ehlert. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Top Cat rules the house until an unexpected box from the humane society arrives with someone new--and cute--inside. At first, Top Cat doesn't want to share his house and favorite things, but soon he learns that two cats can be lots more fun than one.

Hardcover. Joliet IL, Volland, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large format, 48 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Rae. Illustrated cardboard covers worn along edges and at corners. Some soiling or darkening to areas of cover. Paper chipping to spine. Internally very good.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. To mark the fortieth anniversary of Paddington's appearance in America, Houghton Mifflin put out this huge treasury, containing chapters from eleven of the Paddington Bear books published between 1958 and 1979. Thirty five adventures in all. There's a new Introduction by the author. The original black & white drawings of Peggy Fortnum were hand-colored by her step-granddaughter, Caroline Nuttall-Smith. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Burningham. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 125 pages, illustrated with 8 color and 8 b&w plates plus a decorative title page by Alice Carsey. Green cloth covers with color pastedown on front (repeated as a plate inside). Previous owner's inscription on a blank preliminary page. Page 9 (the first page of text) has a small paper scar to about an inch square which caused the previous owner to hand-letter the text in the area. Otherwise clean.

Softcover. Artcraft, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A novelty item that features a cardboard duck that stands-up with the help of a folding tab. Inside is a small paper pamphlet with a short story illustrated in color. The cardboard covers are like new, the tab that holds it up is excellent. The small two page "book" inside is very good still. 29 cent price; 675 code.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Review slip laid-in. Black & white drawings by Rounds. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st illustrated thus, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages illustrated in color by Michelle Wiggins. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light green boards, maroon cloth spine with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, beautiful full page color illustrations by Jim McMullan. Very slight wear to dust jacket; a beautiful children's book in excellent condition.

hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, glazed boards. Color illustrations by Mark Entwiste. A tall tale about a Big Lie Contest at which a tale about a giant catfish becomes true and swallows its teller.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color by author. This copy SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG on the title page. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages, color illustrations by the author. Convinced that crossing the river on the back of Monty the alligator is too slow, the animals try to find a faster way to get their children to school.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Tomie de Paola. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Bodley Head, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in brilliant color by Wiese. Dust jacket has soil, edgewear, chipping. Book itself is near fine with color illustrated boards very bright.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st thus, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Barry Moser.