Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nice condition, some wear to cover but mostly new-looking. Color illustrations by Tony Chen. Hardbound, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 59 pages. Hardcover with chipped pictorial boards. Previous owner's scribbled markings on a few pages, end papers. Pages 39-42 have chunk torn from pages on bottom about an inch wide.

hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Reg Cartwright. Clean, tight copy. Fourteen carefully constructed rhymes begin with a mouse in a quiet house and end with a farmyard full of animals that runs directly into the middle of two armies having a battle in the hills.

New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 144 pages. Contains black & white and 2-color illustrations by Ardizzone. Remainder dot on top edge. Dust jacket with edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with bright illustrated boards. Gutter crack on title page and last page "Z" is for Zebra. The "z" page has a closed tear about two inches long on bottom of page. Mild soil to top cover boards. Vibrant color illustrations. A gorgeous copy of a firsr printing of this iconic children's classic. Title page dated 1923.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY THATCHER HURD ON TITLE PAGE. Pictorial covers, 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.

NY, North-South Books, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Lisbeth Zwerger. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Templar Books, 1st US, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in an elaborate cloth binding with embossing, gilt and a multi=colored design. This is a stunning book about a little paper boat on an adventure to see the ocean. The illustrations by Victoria Semykina are gorgeous. No dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 94 pages, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, Paul O. Zelinsky, on half-title page, collected and with a foreword by George Hendrick, illustrated throughout in color. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright copy.

NY, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 92 pages. The story of a little brown goat. Color, black & white illustrations by the Haders. (small number 3 on bottom of title-page signifying?). G+ with light corner wear, previous owner's lettering on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Claverie. Really nice, new-looking condition. Light soil on rear.

New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated. Whimsical 19th-century inspired illustrations. Red dust jacket shows some edgewear, including rubbing and creasing to top back cover. Dust jacket spine faded. Otherwise good. Internally very good.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Alan E. Cober. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping and spine a bit sunned.

NY, G.P. Putnams, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Over 200 Illustrations, 218 pages includes a bibliography of the writer and illustrator's book

Hardcover. NY, Blackie & Son Ltd. , 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jean Claverie. Toy book with cut-outs, pop-ups, movable parts. Bright laminated illustrated boards.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman, 1st, 1936, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Ex-library. Cover paste-down very worn. Cloth Frayed on bottom edges. Usual markings.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Orange covers, dust jacket completely illustrated in color and protected with acetate-covering, lovely full-color illustrations by the author. Very light edgewear to dust jacket, very small area of sticker residue to upper right corner of acetate dust jacket covering, pages and covers clean, crisp and unmarked; a lovely children's book in great condition.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Corinne Malvern. Appears to be 5th printing with "E" on last page. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st illust. thus, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. A short story first published in 1946, here illustrated in color by Ralph Steadman. Clean, tight copy.

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. New York, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 60 pages. Color-illustrated boards, lovely color illustrations in margins, decorated endpapers. Edgewear to covers; a very neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. 2-color illustrations by Helen Sewell. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Closed tear on rear dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Tells of the true adventures of Ibn Battuta, a fourteenth-century traveler who, like Marco Polo, set forth on a seventy-five thousand mile journey of discovery through many lands, including Tanzania, China, Russia, and Morocco. Rumford's simply written adaptation is often surprisingly eloquent. For example, Ibn Battuta comments on his voyage: "Traveling-it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller." "Traveling-it had captured my heart, and now my heart was calling me home." On each page, a portion of the text appears within its own bright white narrow road crossing elegantly bordered illustrations that shine with generous amounts of gold, red, and deep blue. This text also flows into and out of larger frames. The artist adorns many of these illustrations with Arabic and Chinese calligraphy, providing translations for the longer phrases at the end of the book. A few maps are included and they are executed with the same attention to presentation. A glossary of names, places, and important words provides essential information in an accessible format.

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. New York, G.P. Putnams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. SIGNED BY TALBOTT on title page.

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, Toon Books/ Raw Junior, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR. Lilly is a spunky little girl who delights in the unexpected pleasures of each season, peering inside shells in the summer and tasting different kinds of apples in the fall. In this charming and subtle book by one of France's premier children's book authors, Lilly learns more about the outdoors, and introduces the youngest readers to the colors, words, and shapes that arise in nature. Silly Lilly's intimate monologues deftly capture a child's sense of wonder, in five whimsical episodes that cycle through the calendar from Spring back to Spring again

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. New York , NYR Children's Collection, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, a reprint of a classic. SIGNED by illustrator Marc Simont on half title (page 15). No dj issued.

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

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. A history of slavery in America, written for children, and focusing on those who escaped slavery and on the Underground Railroad. Includes stories of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Josiah Henson, and others.

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. 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. NY, Clarion, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ted Lewin. Clean, tight copy.

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. NY, Lippincott , 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrated by Reinhard Michl. Describes the animal life at a secluded pond during spring and summer days.

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. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing Company, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with color paste down on front cover with gilt lettering, 303 pages. Color frontispiece, 4 b&w plates and numerous line drawings by Henry Pitz. "This is the story of the experiences of two boys in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Lassen and Plumas Counties, California. Their adventures take them from Jamesville, a small mining town, up over Old Baldy to Eagle Lake and that spur of the range in which the lake is held."Clean copy.

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. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with a dust jacket. Appears to be a special Christmas gift to friends of Doubleday. Inside flap says "With Best wishes from Doubleday / Christmas 1967. Dust jacket with closed tear, front fly leaf has top corner triangle cut away.

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. Paris, Hachette, 1st, 1936, Hardcover Copyright page date of 1936. Printed by Buttner, Saint-Ouen. Large format edition. 40 pages. Book in very good condition. Original Pictorial boards with Ivory cloth spine. Pages in nice condition with bright colors, French text in calligraphy. Charming large color art on almost every page to accompany the story. Yellow endpapers illustrated with a long chain of gray elephants. Title page illustrated with vignette of a monkey family sitting at their dinner table. Some wear to edge of boards, especially corners. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, some spotting to rear cover, otherwise clean.

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.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers decorated in gilt, 251 pages. Edited by Tiffany Thayer. Black & white drawings by Robert Ball. Excellent condition.

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. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 125 pages. Illustrated with color stage and costume designs by Maurice Sendak. New english translation by Tom Stoppard. Both endpapers illustrated with Sendak's storyboard scenes. Linen binding illustrated front and back with red illustrations, gold lettering on spine.

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? 

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Ben Williams. A Whitman Tell-a-Tale book #2615. Winsome vintage children's book about a young helicopter that saves the day when he rescues a shipwrecked doctor. Wear and chipping to paper at spine, otherwise clean.

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.