New York , Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrated by Marjorie Priceman. Fans of Poems of A. Nonny Mouse will rejoice in this effervescent sequel containing more than 50 wittily illustrated short verses. In an introductory letter, Ms. Mouse acknowledges that since the successful publication of her first volume, she's "been able to afford the occasional wedge of imported cheese" and "put away something for her old age." Along with traditional offerings, tongue twisters, limericks and four unlabeled poems by Prelutsky--identified as the editor of Ms. Mouse's scribblings--the book includes the familiar poem about infamous "Ooey Gooey," the worm who ends up squashed on a railroad track, and a subversive rendition of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" that concludes with "Throw your teacher overboard / And listen to her scream." Priceman's watercolors, like those she executed in Prelutsky's For Laughing Out Loud , are frolicsome and frisky, mischievously expressive.
Softcover. NY, Wonder Books, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Joe Oriolo. Illustrated cardboard covers with minor edgewear, otherwise very good, clean.
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. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Murdoch, an only mouse, learns to play croquet in this disarmingly sweet little picture-book tale with enchanting b&w pointillist drawings by D.H. ("a well-known artist who wishes to remain anonymous" reads the jacket flap.) Clean copy.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, 90 pages. Boards. Tri color illustrations by Josef Wenig. Tales of the devil being outwitted at every turn. Dust jacket very worn and tape repaired along spine and flaps.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color Illustrations by Michael Hague. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The beautiful Keeper of the Forest helps a gentle, reclusive youth when he most needs it and gives the world a bird with a beautiful voice.
Hardcover. San Diego/NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In simple words and radiant collages, Debra Frasier celebrates the earth and extends an exuberant welcome to each member of our human family. Travel across our round planet as the moon pulls, the tides rise, the rain falls, and then a baby is born.
Hardcover. Somerville MA, Templar, 1st US, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Winner of the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book Award. Glorious artwork, on each and every page.
Softcover. San Francisco, COLOR, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 173 pages. Softcover with light edge wear to paper wrappers. Color illustrations. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, New York Review Of Books , reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format in pictorial boards. Peewee the dog doesn't know any tricks, 'not a single one not even how to roll over not even how to shake hands but never mind he is so teeny weeny that everybody loves him,' the clown, the fat lady, the thin man, the huge tall giant, the strong baby, the acrobats, the elephants, and all the other amazing performers in the wonderful circus of the man with the quite tall red hat. A classic picture book first published in the 1930s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 108 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Barry Moser. Dust jacket with spine fade, light edgewear. Clean, tight copy. Stories of the trickster hero Jahdu retold by Virgina Hamilton.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st Edition, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages. Hardcover. Clear, transparent, decorated dust jacket, has some scratches to front cover. Decorated cover boards. Vivid color illustrations throughout. Beautiful condition, pages clean. Binding good. Spine straight.
Hardcover. Chicago, Johnny Gruelle Co., reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, illustrated in color and b&w by Gruelle's son, Worth Gruelle. Color illustrated cardboard covers with blue cloth spine, light edgewear, back panel with rubbing and white spotting to blue color. Inside front cover has some wrinkles to pastedown. Internally clean, very good.
Hardcover. NY, R. Worthington, 1st, 1877, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with green cloth spine, 412 pages with many Victorian-era b&w engravings. Color frontis, color plate of boy with snowballs, loose and laid in. Page 397 also loose, laid in. Binding shaken but holding. No markings.
Hardcover. San Diego, Gulliver Books/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrations bu Michael Hague. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Z, Walck, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, illustrated in 3-colors by Walter Erhard. Villagers try to please a giant on his birthdays with various gifts. This is an ex-library book but in great condition with stamping to endpapers and title page and a price-clip to the dj flap. Appears unread.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 64 pages. Yarbrough weaves a beautiful story in picture-book format about the role of music in the lives of Africans and shows how it was transformed on American and Caribbean soil. The tale revolves around a "Roots of Rhythm and Blues" concert attended by a sister and brother and their parents, great grandmother, and elderly neighbor. At the park, the father tells his children about slavery and the "culture baggage" the slaves carried with them from Africa. With a compelling delivery that echoes the rhythmic chanting of the griot, the man speaks about concepts such as spirit power and the tree of life that at first are hard for his young son to grasp. The performance begins with a song of praise for the strength and endurance of a transplanted people. By the end, the youngsters understand more about their heritage and the role spirituals played and continue to play in it. Geter's pencil-and-charcoal illustrations are richly imaginative, evoking images of Africa, slavery, roots, and soaring trees. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London/New York, Viking/Kestrel, Revised Ed., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 408 pages, illustrated in b&w by Antony Maitland. Edited by Brian Alderson with his notes on the stories in the rear. Previous owner's handwritten note inside front cover otherwise clean with a bright dust jacket with light edgewear.
Softcover. La Jolla CA, Green Tiger Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, has very little wear. The title on the title page is: The History of Photogen and Nycteris (A Day and Night Marchen). Illustrated wit h b & w drawings and 15 tipped-in color plates by Lyn Teeple. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Mary Chalmers. An I Can Read Book. Charming tale of little Davy & how he makes perfect gift for mother's birthday. Bright, clean copy of a book first published in 1962.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, rep., 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. End paper map, color illustrations by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge, pictorial boards with light edgewear & chip (about 1/2") to top of spine.
Hardcover. London/NY, Thames & Hudson, reprint, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Originally published in Sweden in 1953. 24 pages illustrated in color by Poul Stroyer. The most maddening crow in world history is out to cause trouble! He can't resist the farmer's cherries - and one day he gets caught. The farmer tries to punish the crow with hard labor, but the crow only causes a lot of bother. Then the farmer tries to sell the crow at the market, but who wants to buy a troublesome crow? Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards with black cloth spine. Color illustrations by Garth Williams. Early but not a first. Previous owner's name on end paper, otherwise clean, very good. Lacks dust jacket.
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, Harcourt, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, Long ago in Italy, a mighty asparagus grew smack-dab in front of the king's castle. Was the king happy about it? No. The asparagus had to go. But how does a king reason with an asparagus of such stature? With tongue planted firmly in cheek, Vladimir Radunsky tells the uproarious tale of an almost immovable vegetable. Drawing on Italian Renaissance art, the esteemed artist creates a breathtaking magical kingdom, where it's easy to imagine that such an asparagus existed. His artwork is as gorgeous as it is funny. Although the old masters may turn over in their graves, readers of all ages will clamor for more of The Mighty Asparagus.
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. 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, Harper and Row, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Arnold Lobel. Flap price of $1.95, four I Can Read titles on rear of dj, reverse side of dj lists other titles in the series. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED BY BOTH SCIESZKA AND SMITH ON DEDICATION PAGE. Bright, clean copy.
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, Versify/Houghton, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. a poignant and powerful ode to the resilience and strength of black life and history in America. Originally performed for ESPN's The Undefeated in 2016, the poem adopts a picture book format with a new title, accompanied by stunning oil paintings in Nelson's trademark photorealistic style. The evocative illustrations stand out against stark white backgrounds and vary in their composition. On some spreads, the focus is on a single expressive portrait; others feature collages of African American icons from various disciplines, or refer to significant historical moments. The art functions in perfect harmony with the poet's spare, striking verse to electrify the Black American experience, and to celebrate black athletes, writers, musicians, activists, and heroes. Clean copy. Caldecott Winner 2020
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by John O'Brien. Clean, tight copy.
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, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, no dust jacket. Decorated endpapers. Adapted from the original opera libretto by Leigh Dean. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st , 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 95 pages. Black & white line drawings by Bianco. Light soil to title-page. Light soil to book covers, stain to spine,
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, 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. NY, Random House, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards, 64 pages. Illustrated throughout in color and b&w by C. Walter Hodges. Clean, bright copy.
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. Portland ME, Home Ice Productions, 2nd pr., 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Laura Winslow. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. What would YOU wish for? That's the question a thoughtful chickadee named Dirigo asks his friends who have traveled from all over Maine's woods, waterways and wilderness to celebrate his birthday. Gathered around the dandelion birthday candle, each animal offers Dirigo a special wish as they take turns telling stories about their own Maine birthdays. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, circa 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards with a black cloth spine. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak in b&w. A beautiful reprint of the classic 1960 edition. No dust jacket, clean. (Imprint is Harper & Row, so not a first. No ISBN so mid-or late 1960s).
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.
Softcover. Walt Disney Enterprises, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, heavy linen-like pages, color art throughout. Some white paper residue stuck to front cover over the title. Rest of book is clean with minor wear.
Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.Color illustrations by the author.
 "A. Nonny Mouse Writes Again!by: Prelutsky, Jack")
 "Wind in the Willows, The (SIGNED WITH A SKETCH)by: Graham, Kenneth and Michael Hague")
 "Legend of the Veery Bird, Theby: Hague, Kathleen and Michael")
 "Jemmy Buttonby: Uman, Jennifer")
 "From Mother Goose To Dr. Seuss - Children's Book Covers 1860-1960by: Darling, Harold")
 "All Jahdu Storybook, The by: Hamilton, Virginia/Barry Moser")
 "Alice in Wonderlandby: Carroll, Lewis")
 "Raggedy Ann in the Magic Bookby: Gruelle, Johnny")
 "Poor Shaydullahby: Artzybasheff, Boris")
 "Chatterbox 1877by: N/A")
 "Green Fairy Bookby: Lang, Andrew")
 "The Son Of The Day And The Daughter Of The Nightby: George Macdonald")
 "The Happy Birthday Present by: Joan Heilbroner/Mary Chalmers")
 "White Bunny and his Magic Nose, Theby: Duplaix, Lily")
 "Boomba Lives in Africaby: Singer, Caroline & Cyrus Leroy Baidridge")
 "Bedtime for Francesby: Hoban, Russell")
 "The Mighty Asparagus by: Vladimir Radunsky")
 "Christmas Storyby: Mencken/Bill Crawford, H. L.")
 "Sorotchintzy Fairby: Gogol, Nikolai and Gennady Spirin")
 "Lion and the Stoat, Theby: Zelinsky, Paul O.")
 "This Is Baseballby: Blackstone, Margaret and John O'Brien")
 "Pied Piper Of Hamelin, Theby: Holden/Drahos Zak, Robert")
 "Playtime in Cherry Streetby: Bianco, Pamela")
 "Cabbage Moth and the Shamrock, Theby: Marbach, Ethel and Michael Hague")
 "The Pied Piper of Hamlinby: Browning, Robert/Roger Duvoisin")
 "Moonrideby: Ziefert / Seymour Cwwast, Harriet")
 "Open House for Butterflies by: Ruth Krauss/Maurice Sendak")
 "Little Kit Or, The Industrious Flea Circus Girlby: McCully, Emily Arnold")
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