Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by Babbitt on title page. Babbitt ( Tuck Everlasting ; Knee knock Rise ) has created some extraordinary children's books, and this one is no exception. It is, quite simply, Babbitt at her best. In a medieval castle, a king and queen argue a crucial question: what is the "best thing" for their young prince? The king insists that his wife gives the child too many toys ("If this keeps up, he'll turn out soft and silly"); she retorts that he gives him too many lessons ("If that keeps up, he'll turn out dry and dusty"). The king resorts to his books to find the answer, whereas the queen polls everyone she meets. The responses run the gamut from "vegetables" (the day nursemaid) to "sunshine" (the gardener) to "a song" (the court musician). But it is the cook's daughter who points the perplexed parents in the right direction, instructing them to ask the prince himself. "Bub," replies the toddler, which translates into the inarguably "very best thing": love. This splendid story is matched by exquisite artwork, which offers a refreshingly realistic depiction of the medieval setting and featuring the royal dog (patiently sporting a court jester's cap), who is entirely devoted to the very lovable prince.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. 2-color illustrations by Symeon Shimin. Dust jacket price clipped. Clen, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, NYR Children's Collection, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, reprint of the classic title, SIGNED by Marc Simont on title page, no dj issued.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. Color illustrations by Lillian Hoban. Covers with light rubbing, dime size area of darkening on front cover. No dust jacket. Clean, unmarked pages.

New York , Harper & Row, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, short, closed tears. B&W illustrations by Ronald Himler.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 54 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Shows some wear and age.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Tomi Ungerer. Tape repaired closed tears at edges of dust jacket - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Beach Lane Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Leo & Diane Dillon. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 56 pages. Two-color pictures by Trina Schart Hyman. Front endpaper bottom corner creased. Pictorial cover onlaid front and back on heavy paper covered boards.

Hardcover. New York, Michael di Capua Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Jules Feiffer. SIGNED BY NORTON JUSTER. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY PINKNEY ON TITLE PAGE. Acetate-protected dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney, CD of Billie Holiday singing "God Bless the Child" included. No sign of wear, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Pub. Co., 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Musty. Color illustrations by Einar Nerman. Paper covered boards with wear to back bottom edge. Last two pages with ink marks on bottom edge. (done in printing). Dust jacket with light edgewear closed tears. Light ripple to page block.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 7th pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Mary Azarian. A early printing of the Caldecott Winner (sticker on the dust jacket ). This copy INSCRIBED BY AZARIAN on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row , reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Silverstein. Code on flap is 1064 but rear flap features books by Silverstein from the 1970s. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Cardboard covers, illustrated endpaper. One-color illustrations by Walton Brashears. Some edgewear and soiling to covers.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, reprint, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue buckram with gilt spine titles and corner decorations, maroon endpapers, 259 pages, b&w drawings by Oliver Herford. Timothy, age ten, sets out to rescue his two year old foster "sister" with his dog Rags. Clean copy, slight cock to spine. Originally published in 1891.

Hardcover. no place, Whitman, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non Paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Full color & one-color illustrations by Pettee. Previous owner's name on half-title page.

Detroit, Wayne State Univ., 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white, color illustrations. 211 pages. This catalog was compiled to document the complete holdings of the Detroit Public Library's Kate Greenaway Collection. Over 400 items catalogued here. 9 color plates + numerous black & white illustrations. Selected bibliography. 10" high X 7" wide.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY NORMAN on the half-title page. Color illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. like-new condition.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, Reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 65 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY HILARY KNIGHT ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, bright pictorial boards in a worn, lightly soiled dust jacket. Spiral bound with 5 fold-outs with a width of 25"- farm, city, beach, circus & zoo scenes. Illustrations by Pauline Jackson.

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Really nice, almost new-looking condition. Previous owner's name front end paper. Color illustrations by Burningham. Hardbound, no dust jacket.

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, Philomel Books, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Ted Lewin. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illust. by James Stevenson. Unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR ON TITLE PAGE. 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Illustrations by Loren Long. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Kenosha WI, Samuel Lowe Co., 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated cardboard covers, a Bonnie Book, 16 pages illustrated in color. A novelty book with a die-cut and a moveable wheel. Turn it and all the animals get dressed up, changing the faces & clothing of the animals. Pirate animals & shipmates: Monkey, Lion, Bear & Tiger characters. Light soil, wear along top edge otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st US, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color by Browne. Browne's wry fractured fairy tale sets the Goldilocks story in a contemporary urban neighborhood and tells it from the dual viewpoints of a lost little girl and a baby bear. The girl's story, shown on left-hand pages, is wordless; sepia-toned pictures show a bespectacled, blond kid who gets lost in the city streets, enters a house with an open door, eats porridge, breaks a chair, and snuggles up to nap. On each facing page, Baby Bear tells his parallel story, illustrated in full color, of walking in the park with Daddy and Mommy and then coming home to find his breakfast gone, his chair broken, and someone asleep in his bed.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd pr., 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth titled in gilt on the front cover and the spine with a vignette in black on the front cover. Scribner seal on copyright page but no "A", copyright 1933, so assumed 2nd Printing. 'The trio of adventurous riders whose exploits are recorded in this novel of life on the Western cattle ranges are 'bad-men,' but 'bad-men' such as the reader has never met before in stories of the West. They are real, human, warm-blooded men, not the triply dyed blood-and-thunder villains of the movies, but men who were 'raised in outlaw country, amongst outlaw men, and they growed with that as natural as a hawk grows with wings.'' Spine faded, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR, WITH A SKETCH. Very little wear to cover and dust jacket. Beautiful color illustrations by Kirk throughout. A bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY WIESNER ON TITLE PAGE. Crisp, tight copy. Very good condition with only minor rubbing to edges.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in a bright price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lillian Hoban. Dust jacket with chipping, small closed tears. Publisher's gold sticker across spine. Clean copy of the Hobans' classic tale of goodnight fears and the way to put oneself to sleep.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by the Dillons. SIGNED BY THE DILLONS on title page.This gorgeous picture book by Newbery Honor winner Patricia C. McKissack and two-time Caldecott Medal-winning husband-and-wife team Leo and Diane Dillon is sure to become a treasured keepsake for African American families. Set in West Africa, this a lyrical story-in-verse is about a young black boy who is kidnapped and sold into slavery, and his father who is left behind to mourn the loss of his son. Here's a beautiful, powerful, truly unforgettable story about family, memory, and freedom.

Hardcover. Chicago, Follett Publishing Co., reprint, 1963, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Lisl Weil. When Mr. Bear wakes up from his winter nap, he decides to go sightseeing in Boston, but why are all the people staring at him? Ex-lib with light stamping, shelf wear, scuffing to edges. More than decent reading copy of a scarce book.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Beautiful color illustrations by Ruth Heller. Clean. This is an enchanting and magical variant of the favorite fairy tale. Publishers Weekly noted that "the text is especially noteworthy for its instructive but unobtrusive incorporation of Korean words." Children's Literature pointed out that "it should be noted that all the illustrations--from those depicting Korean rituals to the smallest clothing details--are the result of the illustrator's extensive research and passionate interest in Korean culture."

Hardcover. New Milford CT, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Illustrated throughout in full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Caldecott nominee for his beautiful illustrations, Lewin knows of what he writes- he was a professional wrestler before taking on writing and illustrating children's books. This book is about the great gym at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge that was the home of Jake LaMotta and Muhammed Ali and is the place nine year old Sugar Boy goes for training and inspiration.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 2nd pr., 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in brown with a prancing colt on the cover. Picture book story of the colt Chip and all the mischief he causes just because he wants a friend and partner to swish at flies like the big horses. Illustrated in color and b&w by Diana Thorne. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clea, Binding is a tad loose, light shelfwear.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth boards with blue stamped titles and decorations. Illustrated in b&w and color by Adrienne Adams. Candy Floss has a very happy life with the carnival, helping the little dog Cocoa and a painted horse Nuts bring business into the "coconut shy" stall of their beloved Jack. This is an unusual story because Jack is a grown-up young man who cares for Nuts and Candy Floss just as much as he does for his real live dog, considering them all his "partners" and Candy Floss his "luck." It shows that some people can hear doll wishes, no matter how old they get on the outside.Then the family gets mixed up with a spoiled, unhappy little girl named Clementina Davenport. She wants to buy Candy Floss and naturally Jack will not sell her, but Clementina is not used to being refused, and she causes everyone a lot of trouble, as spoiled, unhappy people so often do. There is some wear, fraying to bottom edge of front cover, small ink date to front fly leaf, otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Watercolor illustrations by Ted Lewin. A red-tailed hawk teaches Matthew to open his senses to the natural world in a special meadow cleared by Matthew's grandmother so she could have a place in the forest where a she could see the sky. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Good+ clothbound hardcover with a color plate mounted to the front with overall light soiling to the covers, blunting to the tips, and light signs of handling; lacking dust jacket. 1970 Caldecott Honor book.

Hardcover. Joliet, P. F. Volland Co., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 94 pages. Color illustrations by Ve Elisabeth Cadie. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Color illustrated paper covered boards with top and bottom edgewear. Corners worn.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 47 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY KENNEDY on front fly leaf with a typed personal note to the inscribee, also SIGNED. Black & white illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Lane and SIGNED BY LANE. From the creator of the national bestseller It's a Book comes a timeless story of family history, legacy, and love. Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farmboy and a kid with chickenpox and a soldier and, most of all, an artist. In this captivating new picture book, readers follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson into a garden he created, a fantastic world where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten. In his most enigmatic and beautiful work to date, Lane Smith explores aging, memory, and the bonds of family history and love; by turns touching and whimsical, it's a stunning picture book that parents and grandparents will be sharing with children for years to come.

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated with color photos by Larry Carrara. INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND AUTHOR on front fly leaf. A Moose for Jessica is a non-fiction book about a moose named Josh that spent some time in Shrewsbury, Vermont with a hereford cow called Jessica. Josh was attracted to Jessica and stayed in the vicinity for 76 days.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue-gray cloth with embossed design of hippo on cover, no dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w by Duvoisin. The friendship between Candy, a small kitten and Veronica, a huge hippopotamus, causes a series of merry antics on the Pumpkin and Applegreen farms. H stamp on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

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. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co , reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, The squirrel family leaves their home in the woods, which is threatened by woodsmen, and seek refuge in a nearby garden. 64 pages with eight color plates and additional b&w drawings by Frances Beem. Several of the drawings have been colored by a child.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st U.S., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrated by Anthony Browne. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A trio of misbehaving, mango-loving monkeys have a close call as the author/artist gives readers a taste of vicarious adventure. Three little monkeys and their big monkey are sitting high on a branch in the forest canopy. "OK, monkeys! I'm off," says the big monkey. "Remember . . . Whatever you do, do NOT go down to the mango tree. There are tigers down there." Brilliantly designed storybook by the award-winning Haughton. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in beige cloth stamped in red. Black & white illustrations by Gay. Previous owner's bookplate. Ex-lib, with light stamp to front fly leaf, residue to rear end papers. Humorous poetry for young readers.