Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. New York, Little Brown and Co., 5th pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color by Nolan and INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on the title page. Dust jacket with light edgewear, unclipped.

Hardcover. New York, Morrow Junior Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Illustrated by Diane Stanley. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Schwartz & Wade, 4th pr., 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth, color art by Hills. Learn to read with this New York Times bestselling picture book, starring an irresistible dog named Rocket and his teacher, a little yellow bird. Follow along as Rocket masters the alphabet, sounds out words, and finally . . . learns to read all on his own! Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Dennis Dobson, 1st thus, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, b&w and color illustrations by Janosch, very clean, tight copy, small taped tear and slight foxing to dust jacket. White cover boards.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gennady Spirin. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee and Shepard, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Adrienne Adams. Weekly Reader Club Ed. Name on inside front cover, light wear to bottom of spine, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Cupples and Leon, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Richard Hudson. In the scarce dust jacket with mild soil, edgewear.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by author. Greenwillow Library Edition sticker on dust jacket spine, otherwise clean. Dust jacket price clipped. Unpaginated.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and an illustrated, color paper label on the front board. The top edge of the text block is gilt. 273 pages of text and illustrated with end sheets, color title page, and 14 color plates by N. C. Wyeth each separated with printed tissue guards. This is the first Wyeth illustrated edition with the 1911 date on the title page in Roman numerals. Front hinge tender, rear hinge cracked. NOTE: Most descriptions call for a map proceeding Chapter 1. Missing here, but no sign of extraction. Previous owner's bookplate on a blank prelim page Despite map issue, a good plus copy of this scarce first printing.

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.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Drahos Zak. A retelling of the classic story finds the town of Hamelin plagued by rats until its citizens hire a piper to play a sweet tune that will lure away the pests, but when the people refuse to pay him, he also lures away their children. This magnificent picture book--originally published in Australia--is as tall and creepy as illustrator Drahos Zak's personification of the Pied Piper himself. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages illustrated with tinted photos of actual Eskimo carvings. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

New York, Blue Sky Press, 4th pr. , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY BANG Laid-in. Color illustrations by Bang. Caldecott Honor Book and Charlotte Zolotow award winner, no award medals on dustjacket.

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, Platt & Munk, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers stamped in black. The kindness and determination of the Little Blue Engine have inspired millions of children around the world since the story was first published in 1930. Cherished by readers for over ninety years, The Little Engine That Could is a classic tale of the little engine that, despite her size, triumphantly pulls a train full of wonderful things to the children waiting on the other side of a mountain. Illustrated in color by George and Doris Hauman. Clean, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., 1st, 1882, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Hardcover with lightly rubbed boards. Previous owner's inscription. Boards have wear and chips to the top and sides. Corners lightly bumped. Partially detached front board and nearly detached back board. A fragile copy. Gutter cracked in several places. Unmarked, bright illustrations throughout by noted illustrator George Cruikshank.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, illustrated in color and b&w by Roger Duvoisin, pattern of little vignettes in blue frames on endpapers. Gutter split at endpapers, spine reinforced with black tape. Internally the book is very good with bright art by Duvoisin, a scarce early work by the illustrator.

Hardcover. Honolulu, Tongg Publishing, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with a color pictorial paste-down on the front cover. 48 pages, color illustrations by Cornelia MacIntyre Foley. True first edition of 1940 from original Hawaiian publisher (the 1952 reissue is often mistakenly identified as the first). A little Hawaiian girl explores the crater of Kilauea in search of the legendary Madame Pele the Fire Goddess; she meets a mysterious old woman living in The Green Cottage (Madame Pele herself??) who gives her a basket of flowers. Some discoloration to the maroon cloth on front, inscription on front endpaper, light bump to top corner.

Hardcover. Chicago, Benefic Press, reprint, 1964, Hardcover, 61 pages illustrated in color by Jack Merryweather. Library stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Story of a skunk who makes friends with cowboys on a western ranch. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Seymour Chwast. "What do you do when the moon comes to your window and offers to take you on a night ride? You say yes, of course! And so begins a night of surprising travel around a city that never sleeps. Seymour Chwast has spent many evenings exploring New York City after dark. Harriet Ziefert adds to the fun with a text that is both humorous and offers sound advice to any child going on a trip." Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st US, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated with color paintings by Bradley done in a primitive style similar to Grandma Moses. Ex-lib with some light stamping, bookplate on inside front cover.

Hardcover. Boston, The Peterkin Papers, 1st illust. thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with color paste-down on front cover. Four color plates by Harold Brett, many b&w drawings in text, not credited. 219 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light to no wear on edges. Red Ribbon marker.

Hardcover. Boston, Joy Street/ Little Brown , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by the author. Tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1st, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. With color title-page, fourteen leaves of color plates, and b&w drawings by Hopkins. Covers worn at edges, corners, paper spine gone. There is some pencil marking to front endpapers but interior pages and all color plates are bright and clean.

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. Philadelphia, Edward Stern & CO., 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 16 full color plates, black & white line drawings by V. Floyd Campbell. 180 pages. Color plate of bears on front cover. Heavy wear to green covered cardboard covers. Pages browning.

New York, Mill-Morrow, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 147 pages. Black & white photography. Dust jacket has light edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2005, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A poetic interpretation of the summer evenings of childhood. Seizing their moment, the children steal away from the dinner table to play out of doors, until it's too dark to see the ball and their mothers call them home. Finely wrought oil paintings, beguiling and dreamlike in their detail, give a free-spirited interpretation of the poem. Together, words and pictures evoke the lush scents, sounds, and feel of the full lingering days of summer, when outside and inside is lost in the doorways. INSCRIBED BY ILLUSTRATOR WITH A SKETCH on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jackrt. Illustrated by Ardizzone. Tim rows out to rescue his careless friend Ginger from the rising tide, but their small boat is caught in a storm and dashed upon the rocks before they reach safety. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Blue cloth covers with silver titles to spine, dust jacket completely illustrated in color, acetate protective covering, lovely full page color illustrations. Slight rubbing to dust jacket with small brown marking to dust jacket at the right edge, otherwise covers and pages crisp and unmarked; a lovely children's book in great condition.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Amy Schwartz. Unpaginated.

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Reprints two charming tales in one book: "Spring Story" and "The High Hills". Illustrated by the author. Clean copy.

hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illust. by Gary Kelley. Small hole in dust jacket spine. Short tear starting in gutter on title-page.

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Bound in green paper boards with red lettering on spine and front board and a circular picture of Hare holding a bag of shopping. A story of 63 pages with 14 charming illustrations in full color plus cover illustration. Edges and corner wear. Two thin red line on front cover, lightly worn overall. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 49 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Warm, expressive paintings make this picture book a joyful experience. A human mother (Mama Inside) elaborates on the days that she spends awaiting the arrival of her baby, while a bluebird (Mama Outside) awaits her little ones. The author relates the similar experiences of the two expectant mothers-and fathers-as they prepare for the days ahead. When the babies arrive, there is time for song, food, rocking, and a good deal of growing. This heartwarming look at families is irresistible. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Unpaginated, charming color and b&w illustrations by Lillian Obligado. Illustrated cloth covers, previous owner's bookplate on inside cover, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Anita Lobel, Caldecott Honor Book. Folded poster laid in. All in nice condition, including unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Evan Turk. As an observant child growing up in Lithuania, Ben Shahn yearns to draw everything he sees--and, after seeing his father banished by the Czar for demanding workers' rights, he develops a keen sense of justice, too. So when Ben and the rest of his family make their way to America, Ben brings both his sharp artistic eye and his desire to fight for what's right. As he grows, he speaks for justice through his art--by disarming classmates who bully him because he's Jewish, by defying his teachers' insistence that he paint beautiful landscapes rather than true stories, by urging the US government to pass Depression-era laws to help people find food and jobs. In this moving and timely portrait, award-winning author Cynthia Levinson and illustrator Evan Turk honor an artist, immigrant, and activist whose work still resonates today: a true painter for the people.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Mary Azarian. SIGNED BY AZARIAN on title page. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by French. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Green boards with small black embossed graphic illustration to front, bright red cloth spine with gilt titles, pale green textured dust jacket with a large b&w woodcut and red titles, acetate protective covering to dust jacket, 26 full-page woodcuts by Mary Azarian. Article on Mary Azarian from the periodical New England Monthly dated August 1984 included, protected in plastic. Very light rubbing to dust jacket; a beautiful clean, tight children's book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous bookdealer's small sticker front end paper. Color illustrations by Barbara Cooney. Shows some wear but mainly nice condition. Hardbound, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 178 pages. Black & white illustrations by Leo & Diane Dillon. Dust jacket shows some wear and chipping at edges.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co., reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 54 pages. "A Book of Old Rhymes With New Dresses. The Music by the Earliest Masters." 11 full page color plates. All pages color illustrated and decorated by Crane. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Decorated endpapers. Pages are lightly age toned and there is some minor smudging and discoloration to endpapers. Reddish brown pictorial cloth with b/w illustration. Matching brown, black, and white pictorial dust jacket. Minor edgewear and some age soil.

Hardcover. NY, Arthur A. Levine Books, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, oblong format. 32 pages with gorgeous watercolors by McCully. Mingyi, a desperate woman who does not want to marry the no-good Soong Ling, seeks the help of Master Wu Mei, the "beautiful warrior" who teaches Mingyi the philosophy and techniques of kung fu to defend herself against her suitor. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Henry C. Pitz. Water stain to front cover. Light rubbing to spine, corners. Dust jacket with edgewear, soiling.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The famous tale in which the leaders of Hamelin Town renege on an agreement with a piper who rids the town of rats & the dire consequences. Stunning color illustrations by Russian born Anatoly Ivanov, the illustrator of a number of children's books. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, reprint, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with color pictorial label, 72 pages. A book for children about what it takes to be a Boy Scout. Encourages younger children to do good deeds and help others. Uses the example of the grandfather, a veteran of the Civil War. Beautifully illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Art not credited. Appears to be a reprint of a book printed in 1916. Page 37 with a quarter-size scar to paper over text, several pages with mild creases, name on front fly leaf.