Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. Garden City, Garden City Publishing, 1st thus, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated boards. 28 pages illustrated in color and 2-colors by Rojankovsky. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Mineola NY, Calla Editions, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with a bright gilt decoration on cover and spine. A re-issue of an edition first published in England in 1911. Golden Age artist Charles Robinson provides nearly 200 illustrations including 34 full-page images -- 12 in full color, 16 in black and red, and 6 in black and white -- in addition to scores of smaller line drawings. A beautiful production in like-new condition.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, laminate boards with dust jacket wraparound illustrated in color. Beautiful watercolors by Ted Lewin. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy of a lovely children's book.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 3rd PR., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 60 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Adapted by Van Dyke Parks and Malcolm Jones.

Softcover. Joliet, P. F. Volland, 3rd Ed., 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated in color by Maginel Wright Barney. Stated Third Edition. Color illustrated cardboard covers. Bright, very nice condition for this fragile volume.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AVI on front fly leaf., Black & white illust. by C.B. Mordan and SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY MORDAN laid-in. In the early years of the twentieth century, a Swedish family encounters separation and other hardships upon immigrating to New York City until the son is cast in a silent movie. Bold b/w illustrations, inspired by Charlie Chaplin's soulful expressions.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 14th printing, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 46 pages, color illustrations by Marshall, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Wonder Book, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards, color illustrations by Wilde. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 37 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated in black & white by Joan Berg Victor. Dust jacket shows light wear at edges and sun fading on spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Walker Books Ltd, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Taro Miura throughout. Some soil to front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.

NY, Dutton, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations with flaps by author. Remainder mark on bottom-edge. No dust jacket as issued.

Hardcover. NY, Sea Star Books, 1st, n.d. (2001), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barbara Cooney. A re-issue of a book originally published in 1984. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Unpaginated (46 pages), color illustrated boards with blue cloth spine. Illustrated with color and b&w lithographs by the D'Aulaires. True first with $2 on front flap. Dust jacket is poor with big chunks gone, closed tears. Spine of the book has fraying to top and bottom. Previous owner's inscription on illustrated front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Color illustrated end papers. Light edgewear and sticker residue on dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt , 1st Thus, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Susan Jeffers. A young readers version of Knight's 1938 classic. SIGNED BY JEFFERS.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

NY, Harry Abrams, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author and SIGNED BY DE BRUNHOFF on title page. Pull-out poster in rear.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Company, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 32 pages. Hardcover. Illustrations by Seymour Fleishman. Some minor spots (less than pea size) to a few pages. Overall, clean, tight copy. Dust jacket worn, with soiling, chipping along edges.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. A little fieldmouse strays into a world of giants, in this case a classroom, and lives to tell the tale. B&w illustrations by Garry MacKenzie. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. A traditional British ballad retold in an American setting. Color illustrations by Moser. Clean. tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpagenated hardcover with dust jacket. Laminated boards SIGNED BY ERIC CARLE on copyright page. On rear end paper there is a sound button. Slight rippling to paper, sound button works. Bright color illustrations by author. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Newark NJ, Charles E, Graham, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Gilt letters with mild fading on purple, ribbed cloth. The front board has a color pastedown illustration. 87 pages; color illustrations by C.M. Burd, 12 of the rhymes have music arranged by Joseph Knecht and color plates. B&w illustrations by Grace Irwin. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, bookplate on prelim page.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Helen Sewell. Dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, rubbing and soil.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Behind the scenes story of "Tales of Beatrix Potter," the ballet-film. Dark brown boards with gilt titles to spine, color illustrated dust jacket with protective acetate covering, profusely illustrated with lovely color and b&w plates. Slight edgewear to covers, very mild rubbing to dust jacket, pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Hardcover. Springfield Mass , McLoughlin Brothers , reprint, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages. Hardcover. 12 full page color illustrations and smaller black & white illustrations throughout. Illustrated chapter headings. Center double page illustration with old clear tape over binding staples. Edge wear to top and sides. Some pages with short closed tears. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Johny Gruelle Co. , 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color, B&W illust. by Gruelle. Color illustrated cardboard covers, red cloth spine. Previous owner's sticker front end paper. Otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York , Doubleday, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Small, much in the style of Ben Shahn. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 48 pages, color illustrations by Brian Selznick.SIGNED by illustrator Selznick. No dj as issued. The pioneering team that brought you Caldecott Honor Book The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins lends their vision, flair, and unique style to Walt Whitman--poet, American icon, Civil War hero.Did you know that poet Walt Whitman was also a Civil War nurse? Devastated by his country dividing and compelled to service by his brother's war injury, Walt nursed all soldiers--Union and Confederate, black and white. By getting to know them through many intense and affecting experiences, he began to see a greater life purpose: His writing could give these men a voice, and in turn, achieve his highest aspiration--to capture the true spirit of America. Dramatic, powerful, and deeply moving, this consummate portrait of Whitman will inspire readers to pick up their pens and open their hearts to humanity.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 108 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY OPIE on front fly leaf. SIGNED BY WELLS on title-page. Color illustrations by Rosemary Wells. Corners a bit bumped. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Dial Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Kellogg. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED WITH A SKETCH OF A SHARK on front fly leaf by Kellogg. The McTavishes, their seven children, and Granny McTavish take their old rattlebang of a car on a picnic up Mt. Fogg and have an exciting adventure.

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. Brookfield CT, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, First Edition; First Printing; Signed by Author. Hardcover. A beautiful first edition/first printing in unread very good condition in alike dust-jacket, SIGNED by author/illustrator Mordicai Gerstein. In 1972, French aerialist Philippe Petit stole into the nearly completed construction site of the World Trade Center, strung a tightrope between the two towers, and the following morning gave the city of New York an incredibly daring and long remembered performance. Gerstein was awarded the 2004 Caldecott award for his illustrations, with the two fold-out panoramas that capture the drama, excitement, and anxiety of the historic death defying feat. Like new. No sticker.

New York, Greenwillow Books, revised ed., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lobel. Sven, a respected watchman on a drawbridge, finds his work disrupted when a thoughtless king blows the bridge up. This ia a revised edition of Anita Lobel's first book, published in 1965.

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 159 pages. Black & white woodcut illustrations by Michael McCurdy.

Hardcover. Buffalo NY, Annick Press, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, laminated pictorial boards. No dust jacket. Color illustrations by Bernard Oberdieck. No dust jacket. A rare white owl who has always lived in a cage in a travelling circus is bought by the gardener at a nearby castle, who lets her out of her cage in the attic to scare the mice. When the opportunity for escape presents itself, the owl hesitates. Freedom means taking responsibility and risks. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Penguin, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 5 3/4" X 4 3/4". Bantock trains his hilariously skewed 3-D vision on Mother Goose. At Bantock's hand, Solomon Grundy is spared nothing, his six-day life described as a wicked downward spiral, complete with a running gag and a haunting finale. 6 full-color pop-ups, all working perfectly.

Softcover. New York , Abrams, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Eight colorful plates by Chwast to cut out, fold and assemble. Still in publisher's shrink wrap. Presents instructions for making a menagerie of paper animals, from Apollo the dog to Lana Banana the monkey.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, color illustrations by Ted Lewis - their first collaboration. The Lewins trek through the heat, humidity, mud, and dense vegetation of the Impenetrable Forest of southern Uganda to visit mountain gorilla families and observe the gorillas in their natural habitat.

New York, Golden Press, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Belinda Lyon. 61 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Small. So you want to be an explorer? What does it take, you ask? To find out, take a look at Judith St. George and David Small's witty collection of some of the best explorers the world has ever known.You know Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus, but what about Mary Kingsley, who studied cannibals in Africa, or cowboy Jim White, who, by mistake, found Carlsbad Caverns? Full of boundless energy and illustrations you won't forget, this historical jaunt will inspire the explorer in all of us, young and old.

NY, Philomel, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Learn to count with the #1 New York Times bestselling artist of The Day the Crayons Quit and his hilarious cast of Hueys!"Is none a number?" you might ask. I'm glad you did. The answer is Yes! For example, how many lumps of cheese do you see next to you? The answer, depending on where you are, is likely "none." Counting with the reader all the way up to ten, the Hueys explain numbers as only they can. Such as: The number 4 is the number of tantrums thrown by Dave every day. 7 is the number of oranges balanced on things. And 9 is the number of seagulls who attacked Frank's French fries. Together they make quite a spectacle. But when you take away all of these fun illustrations in the book? You're left with none!

Hardcover. Cleveland OH, World Publishing Co., 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound. A top-flip book rather than side-flip. Color illustrations by Ed Young. Soilng to covers. Spinewear.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Mild wear, tiny pinhole to dust jacket. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Arthur A. Levine Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Updated and filled with enchanting new illustrations by Caldecott Medalist David Small, a story first published in 1967 follows a toy mouse and his son, discarded because they are broken, as they try to find a place to call home. Signed bookplate by Small.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Jaques. Story of a wooden doll's search for her teddy bear friend. Foxing on half title page. Slight odor.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY SHULEVITZ on title page. In a sleepy sleepy house everything is so sleepy - until music drifts in through an open window. Chairs begin to rock, dishes begin to dance, and a sleepy boy opens his eyes to the revelry of the once-sleepy house. Then, softly, the music drifts out, and everything is sleepy sleepy once more. With his soothing text and gentle, whimsical illustrations, Uri Shulevitz has created the ultimate sleepy sleepy bedtime story. So Sleepy Story was a 2006 New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year.

Softcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible stiff cardboard pictorial covers. Red cloth spine. Wonderful color cover & b/w art by Walt Disney artists. Early 1933 Disney publication issued when the song "Who's Afraid of The Big Bad Wolf?" topped the Hit Parade in the Great Depression. Bottom front corner of cover with chipping to paper, otherwise very good, clean.

Softcover. London, Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 190 pages, pictorial wrappers. Now the world's foremost blues, rockabilly, soul and rock 'n' roll reissue label, Ace Records has been responsible for unearthing lost classics and neglected pioneers for over three decades, and provided some of the finest and most influential records of the post-war era. Illustrated with many unseen archive photographs dating back to the 1920s, rare artwork and newspaper clippings. Written by established music journalist and author David Stubbs.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Board covers, 76 pages. Color illustrations by Nordell. Writing on rear cover. Rubbing to edges. Seven chapters with paper doll cutouts, ONLY 5 REMAIN INTACT. Heavy chipping to coer boards.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by New Yorker cartoonist George Booth. The other hens in Farmer Brown's Tennessee henhouse think that Starlight LaPoule - (hush! Her real name is Ethel Fae Klucksworth) - is short a few feathers. They may be right. For Starlight is a chicken with a ridiculous dream. She wants to become a high-fashion model in Paris or Milan. And with the surprise help of her very own chicken fairy godmother, anything is possible. Or is it?