Hardcover. New York, Peter Bedrick Books, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Foreman. Price sticker on rear panel of dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a red cloth spine. Original unclipped color and gilt pictorial dust jacket ($1.75). Illustrated in color, gilt, and black-and-white throughout by the D'Aulaires, with color pictorial endpapers and color and gilt pictorial title page. 32 pages. The Protestant Edition. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 42 pages. hardcover with dust jacket. Color and black & white illustrations by Bryan. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.
Hardcover. New York, Four Winds Press, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Pictorial boards, 32 pages. A poem for springtime with color illustrations by Joyce Powzyk, Dust jacket has significant tear in back that has been nicely mended with tape on reverse side.
Softcover. NY, Platt & Munk Co., 1st thus, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A fresh, clean, well bound copy. 6 leaves (12 pages) including the cover. Color illustrated front cover with interior of alternating spreads of color and black and white. Illustrations by Eulalie Banks. Stapled binding. Pages are clean and bright.
Chicago, M. A. Donohue, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong brown cloth with a color pastedown on the front cover. Color illusrations. by Richardson. previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf. A reprint of the 1923 Volland Ed. Crease to last page.
Hardcover. New York, World Publishing Co, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY ED YOUNG ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Light blue cloth covers with gilt embossed graphic of swan to front and titles to spine, pictorial dust jacket, gorgeous full-page color illustrations. Very mild rubbing to dust jacket, price-clipped; overall a beautiful, clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Book is very good, blue boards stamped in black. Lovely b&w photos by the author illustrate this volume celebrating the wildlife found in a brook. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Nashville, Abingdon Press , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover ina bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color and 2-colors by Jane Snyder. Because nobody else in town likes pet alligators, the lady who owns one decides the best place to keep him is the zoo.
Hardcover. Chicago, Book House For Children, 30th printing, 1954, Book: Very Good, Textured blue-purple cloth covers with gilt titles, set-in circular color plate to front with embossed border, decorative illustrated endpapers, profusely illustrated with color illustrations by Katharine Sturges. Slight edgewear and rubbing to covers, spine stiff and tight, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a beautiful clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, white boards stamped in red, 25 pages. Dust jacket poor, chunks missing, tape repairs. Illustrated in color by Flavia Gag. Pencil name on half-title page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York , G. P. Putnams, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Diana Cain Bluthenthal. Unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, SeaStar Books, revised edition, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Laminate illustrated covers, beautiful color illustrations throughout by Aliki. Slight rubbing to covers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
NY, Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Descriptions of twenty-six (one for each letter of the alphabet) unfamiliar but everyday foods from around the world include couscous, rijsttafel, goulash, kebabs, and Welsh rabbit. Color art by author. Clean.
Hardcover. New York , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Hilary Knight. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrations by Bill Crawford, minor corner and edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Racine WI, Golden Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed cardboard covers, 93 pages illustrated in color by Disney artist Al Dempster. Small name on blank page opposite title page. Otherwise a clean, bight copy.
Hardcover. NY/London, Thames and Hudson , 1st U.S., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Maroon cloth covers with small gilt embossed emblem to front, gilt titles to spine, lovely color illustrations by Stanley Baron. Extremely slight rubbing to covers, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight book in great condition.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 126 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith. The story of an orphan boy making his way westward from Budapest. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Purple toning to top text block edge. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman and Co , 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown boards with a large color label on the front cover. Translated from the German of Elizabeth Morgenstern. Lovely color plates by Marigard Bantzer. Mild soil to covers, inside bright and clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a pictorial embossed gold-foil dust jacket with minor wear. 307 pages, a collection of stories from 17 famous Disney animated films, told in synopsis form and illustrated with color scenes from the movies. Snow White, Peter Pan, Cinderella, Pinocchio, 13 others. Clean copy.
Softcover. Brooklyn, NY , Kane Miller, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Philip Hopman. Illustrated cardboard covers.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. Color illustrations by Victoria Chess. Five brief episodes in which Stanley Kane and his friends, the dog, pig and two cats, explore the use of their senses. INSCRIBED BY GOLDBERG on the front fly leaf. Dust jacket with a small chip, closed tear, Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Little Simon, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. View Brooklyn's famous past and present landmarks--including the Prospect Park Carousel, Coney Island, and the Brooklyn Bridge--in this lively pop-up book. Brooklyn Pops Up" celebrates the diverse borough of Brooklyn with 8 pop-ups by the world's best illustrators and paper engineers. In this dimensional tour of Brooklyn icons you will find Brooklyn Children by Maurice Sendak * Brooklyn Brownstones by David A. Carter and Tor Lokvig * Grand Army Plaza & Brooklyn Public Library by Bruce Foster * Brooklyn Museum of Art & Brooklyn Children's Museum by Robert Sabuda * Brooklyn Botanic Garden by Ken Wilson-Max and Keith Finch * Prospect Park & the Carousel by Biruta Akerbergs Hansen * Brooklyn Bridge by Iain Smyth * Flavors of Brooklyn by Kees Moerbeek and Carla Dijs * Coney Island by Chuck Murphy.
Softcover. US, Boyds Mills Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated in color by Yaccarino. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Package contains everything that you need to construct your own house that will measure approximately 8 x8 1/2 inches when constructed. Name the familiar objects that appear on the cubes. Identify the musical instruments that the people are playing. Mimic the emotions that are portrayed on the cubes. Tell stories about the people and animals that live in The House of Fun! Create your own cubes (use an unconstructed cube as your pattern).
Hardcover. New York , Minedition/Penguin , 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Unpaginated, translated from Danish by Anthea Bell. SIGNED BOOKPLATE by Zwerger on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Joey "invents" a time machine so he can sneak off to see his best friend, Henry, who still lives in Joey's old neighborhood. Sitting in his machine, Joey suddenly begins flying around the attic of the new house, growing smaller and smaller, until he flies right into a label on an old fruit box and ends up in the land of the Great Kettles. He meet extraordinary residents, those who make the world go 'round, and some old friends too. A fascinating fantasy that has him trying to return home on the Time Elevator. This captivating story is wonderfully illustrated with paintings done by the author. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Holt Rinehart and Winston, 4th pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages, illustrated in color by Michael Hague. INSCRIBED BY HAGUE WITH A INK SKETCH OF RATTY on the blank page opposite the spot illustration in front. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co., 2nd pr., 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with a bright pictorial label on front cover. Five color plates by Paul Strayer (one repeated on cover label). 320 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated in color by Mitra Modarressi. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The well-known novelist's first children's book is a gently subversive fable celebrating the rewards of disorder. Princess Molly the Messy is deplored by her family: King Clement the Clean, Queen Nellie the Neat, and Prince Thomas the Tidy. Molly's domain is the castle tower, where she keeps the floor comfortably festooned with clothes and the bed is ``lumpy and knobby with half-finished books.'' Her parents are not pleased, but Molly is vindicated when a flood drives the whole family up to her room, where they find dry clothes and leftover food lying everywhere and a cozy bed to share while Molly reads aloud. When the waters recede, she even helps them tidy up downstairs. Without condescension, Tyler presents a child's-eye view of glorious muss in a witty, economical narrative, while--in a fine picture-book debut--Modarressi (Tyler's daughter) details the disarray in angular forms and flat, carefully structured compositions, with expressive, delicately modeled faces adding a subtler dimension to Tyler's message. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 4th pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 48 pages illustrated in colors and b&w by Margot Tomes. A lead statue of King George III relates the events leading to the American Rovolution through indignant ratings about what he observes. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Dutton Juvenile, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY JEFFERS on title page. Ever since it was published in 1978, the picture-book presentation of Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" has been an enduring favorite. For this special edition with a new design, trim size, and three new spreads, Susan Jeffers has added more detail and subtle color to her sweeping backgrounds of frosty New England scenes. There are more animals to find among the trees, and the kindly figure with his "promises to keep" exudes warmth as he stops to appreciate the quiet delights of winter. The handsome new vellum jacket will attract new and old fans as it evokes a frost-covered windowpane.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PINKNEY on title page. In the 1940s, as the world was at war, a remarkable jazz band performed on the American home front. This all-female band, originating from a boarding school in the heart of Mississippi, found its way to the most famous ballrooms in the country, offering solace during the hard years of the war. They dared to be an interracial group despite the cruelties of Jim Crow laws, and they dared to assert their talents though they were women in a ?man?s? profession. Told in thought-provoking poems and arresting images, this unusual look at our nation?s history is deep and inspiring.
Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth covers. 48 pages illustrated in color by Anne Rockwell. Minor wear to cover at edge of spine. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, oblong, 64 pages. Originally published in 1963. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. A charming tale about a lost child who encounters a turtle, with a very surprising ending. SIGNED BY SENDAK.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 94 pages, color illustrations by Peggy Turley. In this delightful children's tale, an American boy, Kenny Strange, moves to the quiet Mexican town of Taxco with his parents and strikes up a friendship with young Juanito Perez, a Taxco native. The two boys are brought together by an enchanting toy, the pasteboard bandit Tito. Chosen by Juanito at a town fair from among the other pasteboard toys, Tito, with his colorful clothes and bright eyes, becomes Juanito's and Kenny's constant companion, and the threesome share many adventures in and around the town's rolling green hills. The boys' growing friendship, Kenny's introduction to a culture unlike his own, and Tito's witty reflections on being a toy will be recognized instantly by anyone young or old who has ever made a friend or imagined that a toy might be real. Originally written in 1935, but never before published, The Pasteboard Bandit grew out of several trips Langston Hughes made to Mexico during his lifetime. Hughes first went to the town of Toluca at age 5 to visit his father, and again when he was older. During these visits, Hughes met many writers and artists, and it is their influence that informs the story of The Pasteboard Bandit--a story of two cultures meeting. When Hughes left Mexico for the last time, at age 32, he was carrying the first draft for The Pasteboard Bandit. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Hyperion Book , 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color. SIGNED BY BOTH author and illustrator on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Beach Lane Books, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Wolff. When night falls, the sweet and curious black bear cub and his mother go looking for food. Mama hunts and Baby Bear explores. "'Where, oh where, is Baby Bear?' calls Mama." Readers won't worry, because Wolff has hidden Baby Bear in the spread for them to find. "Here I am, Mama," he replies each time. The sky subtly darkens as they make their way through their world, each page featuring creatures that share the habitat with the bear family: the placid owl, a faun, raccoons, and otters. Here too are the mushrooms, ferns, and cattails of a woodland life, providing young viewers with a window into nature. The scope of their adventure is recalled at the end of the story, as Wolff shows the pair making their way back through the meadow, around the pond, across the river, between the birch trees, down the cliff, and into their den. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by RASCHKA. Raschka's and Radunsky's simpatico styles are at long last paired in this "doggy allegory" told in a hip-hop beat. Born into a litter of 16, the scruffy protagonist is the pup not chosen--the "saddest and the baddest." His solitude, however, facilitates his sensitivity to the sounds that permeate his urban environment, and while the "clatter makes him gladder," ultimately it's the strains of opera that motivate him to "bark it like Brunhilda." Raschka's musicality undergirds his street-savvy lingo, making the narrative fresh and lyrical. The font becomes bigger and bolder to indicate emphasis, a technique that is particularly helpful when the text spirals around the pages. "I'm the zoom-est and the boom-est, spread no gloom-est, say no doom-est. I'm the top-est, never stop-est, Boston Pop-est, be be bop-est. I jazzle dazzle like it as the Hip Hop Dog." Radunsky's caricatures of the moves of a canine version of Snoop Dogg manage to be convincing, poignant, and funny--no small feat. Loose lines, brushwork that allows the textured background to show through, and occasional bits of collage combine to create a gritty cityscape peopled with quirky personalities. This story of a neglected orphan who sings and struts his way to happiness will gladden the hearts of readers young and old.
Hardcover. UK, Transedition Books, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 400 pages. Large type, beautiful illustrations, various authors. Grimms, Andersen, Perrault, etc. Beauty and the Beast, Tom Thumb, Cinderella, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and many more. Book is very clean & tight.
Hardcover. London, Pavilion Books / Chrysalis Book Group, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no dust jacket issued. A follow up to 'Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book'. . Marbled endpapers. Letters and envelopes all present; All about fairies. these letters contain everything from wisdom to suggestions to chastisement. Lady Cottington has made notes in the margins not to mention smashed fairies throughout (will she ever stop this nasty habit?!) And the fairies - they too have done their part. sprinkling magic and mayhem throughout. SIGNED BY FROUD.
Hardcover. NY, Little Simon, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, First printing of this classic book by pop-up master David A. Carter. Includes original resealable protective plastic sleeve and descriptive page laid inside the sleeve.
Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, oblong format, color illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Energetic full-page pictures depict the old standard, written by Edward Bangs, who was a Minuteman at Lexington during his sophomore year at Harvard the year (1775) he adapted the song. Mild musty odor. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins Publishers, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color and black and white illustrations by Maurice Sendak. SIGNED BY SENDAK. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, David Mckay Company, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrations and instructions are presented for making holiday decorations, party favors, and a variety of gifts including patchwork pillows, advent calendars, sachets, mittens, and stuffed animals