Hardcover. New York, Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins Publishers, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. SIGNED BY BOTH KATE AND JIM MCMULLAN ON TITLE PAGE. Pictorial covers, acetate-protected dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, spine stiff and tight, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.
New York , Hastings House, Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Adapted from an old French Legend and illustrated in color, B&W by Cooney. SIGNED AND DATED (1987) BY COONEY on title-page. Dust jacket price clipped.
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. New York, NY, G. P. Putnam and Sons, 2nd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages. Color illustrations throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ARTIST. Pictorial dust jacket with very slight wear. Overall, a clean, tight 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, Dutton, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white photos by Harold Burdekin. Light shelfwear to covers.
Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 28 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by David Small. Remainder mark on bottom-edge.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Brett Helmquist. SIGNED BY HELMQUIST on title page. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Watts, 4th pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR BRIAN WILDSMITH on front fly leaf. Color illust. Light wear, rubbing to edges of dust jacket, closed tear to front cover.
Hardcover. Marshall Cavendish , 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations. SIGNED by Spirin on the half title page. Gennady Spirin has taken a favorite childhood tale and imbued it with charm, dressing his bears in Renaissance costumes and providing whimsical and charming furniture designed for their country dwelling. Each spread-painted in watercolor, pen, and ink-brings renewed life to this endearing children's classic in a way that only a master illustrator can. No wonder Goldilocks want to sample the bears' porridge, sit on their chairs, and rest on their beds!
Hardcover. New York, Platt & Munk, Co., reprint, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue cloth covers, front cover completely illustrated with pasted color plate, orange endpapers, profusely illustrated with color and b&w plates. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to covers, previous owner's small black ink signature to front endpaper, spine lightly faded and soiled, crisp and unmarked; overall a neat, tight copy of a lovely children's book
Boston, Little Brown , 1st , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color paintings by McPhail. Edward, who learned to read in Santa's Book of Names, and fanned his passion for adventure in Edward and the Pirates, is off on another storybook-inspired flight of fancy, this time with none other than the Lord of the Jungle himself, Tarzan! Losing himself in a book one day, Edward suddenly and most urgently requires the services of Tarzan. After being whisked away from the jaws of an enormous crocodile, Edward takes a few lessons from his hero, and soon has an opportunity to put his new skills to use. David McPhail's thick, jungle-hued paintings of apes, giraffes, lions, and antelopes will capture the imagination of young readers, as will his thrilling tale of the power of reading.Clean copy.
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. Charlottesville VA, Thomasson-Grant, Inc., 1st thus, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by the author, clean, tight copy. A much-loved Danish illustrator, a 1972 Andersen medalist, takes up a problem that seems to be world-wide: kids who feel abandoned by their busy parents. Caroline, realistically pictured in the book's first half during a typical lonely day, wakes up next morning to transcribe a dream: the children band together to build a parent trap that's baited with films, videos, and free popcorn--once caught, an adult would ``never run away'' but, rather, be available for companionship and solace. In the end, Caroline's friends admire her story and do help build a playhouse-trap--with the happy implication that some adults may get the point.
Hardcover. New York, Parents Magazine Press , 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Jane Miller. Corners bumped. Wear to corners, spine. Dust jacket with light edgewear.
New York, Lothrop Lee Shepard, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 30 pages. Color illustrations by Alexi Natchev. A long-suffering man who tries to please his crabby and demanding wife is bested by a sly fox in this Hungarian folktale. In the dead of winter, an old peasant woman insists that her husband rustle up some succulent fish to eat. Obsessed, she embroiders fish patterns on the napkins and hums fish songs until she drives her husband batty. In June he finally embarks on a fishing expedition and hauls in a great catch. Outfoxed by a fish-loving fox, the man returns home empty-handed, surely to endure more henpecking. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London/New York, Faber & Faaber, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Errol Le Cain. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.
Hardcover. New York , The Macmillan Co., 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 200 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated in black & white by Helen Sewell. Dust jacket with small chips, tears.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, 4th printing, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by Brad Sneed, very clean, tight copy, like new. Jean Van Leeuwen has written a simple, poignant, yet powerful story about how such a little thing as acknowledging a mistake and saying "I'm sorry", can change the course of lives forever. Her expressive text with its gentle message and air of sadness, is beautifully complemented by Brad Sneed's bold, rich watercolor illustrations, full of wonderful farm life detail, that pull you into the story and the brother's lives.
Hardcover. Garden City NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth spine with illustrated boards. Unpaginated (50 pages) illustrated in color & b/w throughout with preliminary sketches and actual scenes of the movie. The title page spread has a long, closed tear on the left side. The book's cardboard edges show wear. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.
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.
Joliet IL, P.F. Volland, 3rd pr., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover In an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket. Green cloth with colorful pasted down illustration on front cover. Illustrated in color and b&w by Beatrice Stevens. Last 20 pages have light tanning along bottom edge. Set in 1685 France, the story tells of a young boy Philip and the conflict between King Louis XIV and the Huguenots. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins/Books of Wonder, 1st thus, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 442 pages, color illustrations by Don Freeman. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Juvenile, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. After Mr. and Mrs. Armadillo are married, they decide to have children and lots of them, so their friends must scramble to get just the perfect gifts for the ten new additions to their friends' growing family. Radunsky finds a kooky, kicky way of counting to 10 while addressing pregnancy and birth. In effusive language and over-the-moon collages, he presents the love story of Mr. and Mrs. Armadillo, two thick-set creatures attired in sacklike body suits, form-fitting "tail stockings" and striped "ear socks. Always clean. Always in bright colors." (In case anyone objects that these bipeds cannot be real animals, Radunsky pictures a regular armadillo "naked, after taking a bath.") Each spread provides an episode in the newlyweds' fond marriage. They play in the park and ponder names for imaginary offspring, only to be surprised when a four-stage sequence shows Mrs. Armadillo's belly expanding to phenomenal size. "I think I am going to have a baby," she says.
Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. A macabre fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, illustrated by renowned photographer Cindy Sherman.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY KROLL on dedication page. More than anything Mary wants to ride in the horse-drawn cart with Mr. Finnegan on her first St. Patrick's Day in America. A touching story of a young immigrant girl whose one and only wish really does come true. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 2nd pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A Haitian story illustrated by Marc Tolon Brown.
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, Garden City, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 87 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Retold and illustrated in color by Palazzo. Dust jacket worn, chipped. Small paper scar to front fly leaf. Light soil. Light ripple to page block. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Callaway Editions , Reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 25 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gutter crack to front flyleaf. An otherwise very clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY KALMAN. From bestselling author Lemony Snicket and celebrated illustrator Maira Kalman comes an uproarious, whimsical word book like no other. Together, Snicket and Kalman present a strikingly beautiful journey woven from a practical introduction to thirteen wonderful words, featuring such marvels as Bird, Dog, Panache, and Haberdashery. Snicket, the notoriously clever and elusive New York Times bestselling author, pushes the boundaries of storytelling in the most fanciful of ways. Maira Kalman, renowned for her art and design, carries this madcap adventure to wondrous heights with her vision of a world populated with hats, song, and cake. This rollicking, surprising book is a true celebration of words.
Softcover. Burlington VT, Vermont Migrant Education Program, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The scarce 1st printing of this charming book for beginning readers. Paperback. B&W illustrations by Jane Clark Brown.
Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by author. SIGNED BY LUCKE. Stories of adult bad behavior (and civil disobedience) throughout history done in a humorous vein. Colorful gouache paintings on each spread feature figures from Hannibal and Napoleon Bonaparte to Susan B. Anthony and Rosa Parks, in their "time-out" locations in jail or in exile.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st illust thus, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in blue with prince on flying carpet on front, Black & white illustrations by Robert Lawson, 110 pages. Some wear and soiling to cover, but internally mostly clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Innovative color illustrations explaining the concept of weight and measurement. 32 pages.
Hardcover. New York, Blue Ribbon Books, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, 64 pages. Illustrated in color and B&W by the Walt Disney Sudios. Previous owner's inscription on half title, otherwise clean internally. Cardboard covers with edge & corner wear, spine has bottom 3rd of paper gone. The movie cartoon of The Three Pigs was released as part of its Silly Symphony series in 1933. The director of the cartoon, Burt Gillett, won an Oscar. This is the first edition of the Disney classic in storybook form, complete with the famous ditty, "Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf?"
Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Blind-stamped covers with light edge wear to dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy. Color illustrations (no words) on all pages by David Weisner. Sticker on front dust jacket " Best Illustrated Children's Book Award.
Hardcover. New York , Doubleday, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barbara Cooney.
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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, HARDCOVER. Illustrated in color by Mary Azarian, SIGNED BY AZARIAN & AUTHOR. Bright copy in an unclipped dust jacket.
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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Waber. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, reprint, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with decorated cover, 284 pages. Black & white illustrations by C. W. Ashley. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Corners and spine rubbed.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket shows very minor wear otherwise clean and nice. Color illustrations by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Hardbound.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations and SIGNED BY YACCARINO on title page with a small sketch.