Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing, reprint , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Tunis.160 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, unclipped.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with De Mejo's fantastical primitive color paintings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Blue Sky/ Scholastic, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by the Dillons. SIGNED BY LEO AND DIANE DILLON on title-page. In their fortieth picture book, two Caldecott Medalists bring to vivid life the most famous verses from the biblical book of Ecclesiastes through imaginative paintings reflecting the world's various cultures, accompanied by a full-color explanatory glossary.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Victoria Chess. Illustrated library cloth binding. Clean and tight. The author has taken a favorite biblical legend and fashioned it into a dramatic story-poem. Chess's vigorous, exciting illustrations chart the hero's unusual journey.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Wonderful introduction to different styles of architecture. Illustrated in color by Devlin. Related notes & articles to various landmark houses laid-in. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 3 color illustrations by Simont. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Illustrated end papers

Hardcover. Philadelphia , David McKay, 1st US, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover.Torquoise cloth with gilt design, gilt dulled on spine. 30 color plates by Harold Copping. B&W frontispiece portrait of Dickens partially loose. Top edge gilt. Clean copy.

NY , Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. 40 pages illustrated in b&w and color by De Angeli. Light edgewear to boards, previous owner inscription inside front cover. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginanted. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Fairy love story by the actor Richard Burton's Welsh father.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by David Christiana. SIGNED BY BOTH YOLEN AND CHRISTIANA on bookplate pasted to front end paper. Like new in dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY/Tokyo, Weatherhill, 3rd pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Delightful illustrations depict the imaginative and illogical world of a fantasy circus where the musicians' instruments are matchsticks and kitchenware, and fierce lions turn into wooden toys.

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

Grand Rapids MI, Eerdmans, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Hall. A native Alaskan folktale tells about a raven who punishes humans for destroying nature by blocking out the sun to make Earth cold and dark, but a woman finds a feather from the bird that may have the secret to saving the planet.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w drawings by Tony Chen. Describes the characteristics and habits of birds found in the city, country, and zoo, and at the beach. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 72 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Oxenbury. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Tight copy.

NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Wendy Watson and INSCRIBED BY WATSON WITH A SKETCH OF A MOUSE on the half title page. Bright unclipped dust jacket, hardcover.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gregory Manchess. In a risky plan to free her kidnapped lover, Oonagh cleverly solves the evil pirate king's riddles, unites the princess Ethne with her lover, and invents sails. Clean copy.

Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. In a timeless Swahili tale, Leopard and Sungura the hare unknowingly build houses on the same hill, and they eventually meet, and one outwits the other. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Brookfield, Connecticut, Roaring Book Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, SIGNED BY MACDONALD WITH ILLUSTRATED SKETCH TO GREEN PREVIEW PAGE. Color illustrated covers and dust jacket, acetate protective covering to dust jacket, beautiful full page color illustrations by MacDonald. No signs of wear, pages, dust jacket and covers clean, crisp and unmarked; a lovely book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Barrons, 1st thus, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color reproductions of Edmund Morin's 19th century Illustrations, very clean and tight copy. One of Perrault's most haunting fairy tales. Here, Josephine Poole's evocative new text accompanies the exquisite artwork of nineteenth-century French artist Edmund Morin, to make a captivating picture book for all ages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Cloth spine with pictorial boards. Black & white illustrations by Paul Flora. Light edgewear, chipping and soil to covers. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 33 pages. Full color illustrations by Ezra Jack Keats. Moisture darkening to cloth covers primarily along top edge to title, and along bottom edge Price clipped dust jacket shows light wear along edges and fading to spine. Interior clean, and bright.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket with 2.95 price on flap, blue cloth covers stamped in black with title and moose face on front. 40 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Seuss. Later issue, with the 7-line copyright notice. The story of a moose who was too hospitable for his own good told in humorous verse.

NY, Golden Book, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Color illustrations by the author. Step right up and see the dazzling displays and sensational sights of the brightest circus parade ever. From the golden calliope wagon to the proud pachyderms, each page of detailed delights will keep readers rapt. A treat for both young and old; no one will want to miss the clowns in cars and penguins in pools; ferocious felines and aerial artistry--everything that's marvelous and magical about the legendary big top! So get yourself some peanuts and cotton candy and settle in for the greatest parade on earth.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR WENDELL MINOR ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Caldecott Medal Winner for 2002. Gray covers with maroon cloth spine, gorgeous full page color illustrations. Small closed tear to bottom right corner of dust jacket, pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition. Wiesner's second book to win the Caldecott Medal after his earlier "Tuesday".

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR WITH DRAWING OF AN AX OPPOSITE TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Deborah Nourse Lattimore. Light shelfwear to covers/dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY PRELUTSKY AND ZELINSKY ON TITLE PAGE. Bright, clean copy.

Garden City, NY, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illustrations by the author. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, and light soil. Illustrated endpapers. First book written by the notable illustrator, who went on to create the Rosy Cole children's series. A delightful tale of romance and culture in the city.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne and Company, Reprint, 1970's, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with white cloth spine, 48 pages. Reprint. No date. Full color illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Cupples and Leon, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, small format, gray boards printed in navy with color cover plate by John B. (Johnny) Gruelle, plus color frontis and 7 additional plates and line drawings by the artist. Mild soil along spine cover, otherwise clean.

New York, North-South Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 61 pages. SIGNED BY HAGUE on half title-page. Color illustrations by Michael Hague.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday Doran and Company, Inc., 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Illustrations by Jeanne Bendick. Dust jacket with light fading to spine, short closed tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a chipped, edgeworn dust jacket, B&w drawings by Rita Fava. Collection of 9 French Canadian folk stories, told to told to children at the LeBlanc summer picnic in Vermont to remind them of their ancestors in French Canada; in the beginning they lived near Quebec city and wore long red sashes and later some moved to Montreal where the color was blue. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, NON-PAGINATED, HARDCOVER WITH DUST jacket. SIGNED BY SCIESZKA AND SMITH on dedication page. Color illustrations by Lane Smith. Designed by Molly Leach.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Front cover slightly bowed, otherwise clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges. Color ullustrations by Wendy Watson.

NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color and black & white illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Clean copy. A new era in the history of children's books began in 1878 when Kate Greenaway's first book of pictures and verse, Under the Window, was published. This was followed by her Birthday Book, A Day in a Child's Life, Mother Goose, Little Ann, Language of Flowers, and Marigold Garden. These and the many other enchanting volumes she illustrated, gained her a devoted worldwide audience of all ages. Today's great revival of interest in Kate Greenaway's work is understandable; as an illustrator of childhood she had no equal in her day, nor has she had since. The Kate Greenaway Book contains a short biography and selections from her best-known as well as little-known works: a collection of texts and pictures, some never even published before, charmingly arranged for readers of all ages to enjoy.

Hardcover. Westport, Rabbitt Ears Books, 2nd printing, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Henrik Drescher. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st UK, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, unpaginated (approx. 64 pages), illustrated in b&w by Irene Haas. This is a picture book that introduces young readers to a variety of useful French phrases by describing the trip of two intrepid young travellers by sea to France, by boat train to Paris, and then through sight-seeing adventures. Each phrase is accompanied by a detailed, witty, black and white pictures showing when it might be used. A wonderful picture-book for the young French language learner. Clean. No dust jacket.

New York, Clarion, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 42 pages. Color illustrations by Dirk Zimmer. Even after his magical godfather sends him home from the Black Forest with a sackful of coins, a young man refuses to listen to his mother and be content with his simple life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Augener Ltd., First Edition, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Blue cloth boards with oval paste down illustration. Toning to board edges & spine. Oval full color illustrations by H. Willebeek Le Mair throughout, most in very good condition. Light foxing & fingerprints to a few pages. Moderate foxing to preliminary pages. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

NY, Viking Kestrel, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Phillippe Dupasquier. Visiting a museum with his father and younger sister, a little boy wonders if the Roman sandal on exhibit was lost by another little girl just like his sister.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, color illustrations by Marshall, very clean, tight copy, dust jacket price clipped. Lolly wangles her way into Spider and Sam's new tree house by promising to tell the boys a story, and soon everyone is telling tales.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, and Company, 1st thus, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with cover decorated in 3-colors plus gilt. Frontispiece, black and white illustrations, 59 pages plus two pages of publisher's ads at end of text. Story of a niece who invites her friends to her aunt and uncle's home in Long Island Sound. The children observe how old age can be warm and wonderful, especially when the uncle and aunt reflect their homely, country ways. Clean, bright copy.

New York, Morrow, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Hudson Talbott. Unpaginated. Tape repair to title page. As a lad of only sixteen years, Arthur pulled the sword from the stone and thus became High King of all Britain. But scarcely has he begun to arrange his court when twelve of the country's lesser kings, jealous of Arthur's glory, declare war on him. Culminating in the Battle of Bedegraine, this war is fateful in more ways than one--for not only does it secure Arthur's place among his people, it also unites his destiny with that of Lady Guinevere. In this, the second volume of his Tales of King Arthur series, Hudson Talbott masterfully retells the saga of Arthur's early days as leader of Britain, his building of Camelot, and the dedication of the Round Table--a unique brotherhood of knights devoted to unity and peace.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Color illustrations by Brown. A stubborn little angel who refuses Gabriel's strict order to visit the newborn baby in the manger turns out to be a frightened little girl who has stage fright, in a magical holiday story that combines the gospel with traditional children's pageant fare.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Schuman, 1st, 1949, Book: Fair, Hardcover, pictorial boards. One of the great children's picture books that's never been reprinted. Ruth Krauss text with Marc Simont's exquisite color illustrations. The covers are edgeworn and the paper has peeled from the spine but the inside is clean and bright.

Hardcover. New York, Walck, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 47 pages. Color illustrations by Tasha Tudor.Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket has edgewear, chipping.