Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG on title-page. Color illustrations by author. Dust jacket with light edgewear, rubbing and price clipped.
New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 60 pages, illustrated in color by O.D.V. Guillonnet. Large format in a edgeworn, lightly chipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering and color pastedown illustration. B&w drawings and 10 full-page color illustrations by James McCracken. NOTE: 8 of the first smaller drawings have been colored in crayon. Front endpapers with library stamp, otherwise clean. Appears to be a 1925 reprint of the 1918 edition.
NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anita Lobel. "One of the greatest pleasures of this impressive collection of 12 Russian fables is Lobel's sophisticated artwork. She outdoes herself with watercolor-and-gouache paintings that are brilliantly colored and wonderfully composed. The details are just right....Heins' prose retellings of poems by Ivan Andreevich Krylov, "Russia's greatest fabulist,' are elegant." Clean copy.
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. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st UK, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Color illustrations by Janina Domanska. In a lightly edgeworn, price-clipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Parragon, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This is a mix between a picture book and I Spy book. Each page features a simple sentence like "Find Little Bo Beep's lost sheep." or "Find the dish that ran away with the spoon." The pictures are beautifully illustrated and it is a perfect book to read at bedtime. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Bedford, Applewood Books, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Pop ups in very good condition. Tight copy.
NY, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Michael Hague. 162 pages, in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with mild edgewear. A little boy & girl enjoy all of nature- a field, a cow, a fence, a kittycat. Wonderful color art by Weisgard. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 59 pages, illustrated in 2-colors by Alden A. Watson. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Dorling Kindersley, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, large format. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Full-color artwork, including cutaway illustrations and exploded views, explores some of the world's most famous architectural landmarks, including the Paris Opera, the Taj Mahal, and Grand Central Station. Clean copy.
Chicago, Follett, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Sylvie Selig. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Soil and light edgewear to dust jacket. Through Elephant's greediness, Hare and his family lose the magic spoon that makes life easy for them and acquire in its place a magic stick that makes life miserable but also brings them revenge on Elephant.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. All manner of cute animals fall into the water in this colorful picture book illustrated by Dennis Panek. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 3rd, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by the author. Hardcover with dust jacket. non-paginated. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st thus, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jean Claverie. Corners rubbed.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2005, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A poetic interpretation of the summer evenings of childhood. Seizing their moment, the children steal away from the dinner table to play out of doors, until it's too dark to see the ball and their mothers call them home. Finely wrought oil paintings, beguiling and dreamlike in their detail, give a free-spirited interpretation of the poem. Together, words and pictures evoke the lush scents, sounds, and feel of the full lingering days of summer, when outside and inside is lost in the doorways. INSCRIBED BY ILLUSTRATOR WITH A SKETCH on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Wonder Books, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Non-Paginated. Full color illustrations by Jane Flory. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Young Scott Books / William R. Scott, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by David Stone Martin. Story of a chicken who survived a hurricane and became a pet to a young boy and his father who helped him.
New York, Hyperion, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 31 pages. Color illustrations by Michael McCurdy.A baby boy, left alone in the African jungle after the deaths of his parents, is adopted by an ape and raised to manhood without ever seeing another human being.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-Paginated. SIGNED BY NANCY WILLARD AND JERRY PINKNEY ON TITLE PAGE. 1st edition/1st printing. Full color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Not ex-library. A bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing Company, 1st illust thus, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt with color pastedown on front cover. Color frontis and cover plate, 5 b&w plates by Manning deV. Lee. Name on front fly leaf, light scuff to cover otherwise very good, clean.
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. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Full color illustrations by Ashley Wolff. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, T. Y. Crowell , 5th pr., 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth covers. Small picture book with color illustrations by Lois Lenski. Endpapers have child's crayon marking, interior is clean.
NY, Pantheon, 2nd pr., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards. Color illustrations by Cyndy Szekeres. Unpaginated. Cover has minor wear to spine edge and corners. Doctor Rabbit finds an abandoned tadpole and raises her to froghood. The cast of characters, including Nurse Mouse and others, is irresistable. The ending is bittersweet, because even orphaned tadpoles grow up one day, but this ending is one of the things that makes this such a special story for a parent to read with their still-small child.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing Co., 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a green cloth spine. An alphabet and number book illustrated in reds and blacks, with dashes of yellow and blue. Illustrated by Nerman. Spine has fraying to top and bottom of spine. Pencil name inside front cover otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 42 pages. hardcover with dust jacket. Color and black & white illustrations by Bryan. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, Reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Full color illustrations by James Marshall. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Caldecott Honor sticker on front.
Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing Co., 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and soiled dust jacket. Illustrated cloth covers. This is the library binding edition (NOT ex-lib) and has tape residue on outside covers and inside endpapers where brodart was once attached. Ink name on front fly leaf, interior clean.
Chicago, M. A. Donohue, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong brown cloth with a color pastedown on the front cover. Color illusrations. by Richardson. previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf. A reprint of the 1923 Volland Ed. Crease to last page.
Hardcover. Natick MA, Picture Book Studio, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Lisbeth Zwerger. Light foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket with light wear along edges, tape repaired tears. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY/Cleveland, World Publishing Company, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. First American edition 8.25 x 7.75". Unpaginated [52 pages]. Essentially an artists' book created by the noted Italian futurist, Munari, widely regarded as one of the most influential book-designers of the 20th century. Illustrations feature translucent overlays and brightly colored pages with die cut edges and windows. Voted the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book 1969 winner. Previous owner;s inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Nashville, Abingdon Press , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover ina bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color and 2-colors by Jane Snyder. Because nobody else in town likes pet alligators, the lady who owns one decides the best place to keep him is the zoo.
Hardcover. Orlando, Harcourt, Inc., 2nd Printing, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 36 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR ON BOOKPLATE ("AN AUTOGRAPHED EDITION FROM CHINABERRY" BOOKPLATE). Full color illustrations by Ivan Bates. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, price-clipped. Here is a story of Salem and the frightening time of the Witch Hunts emphasizing the role of John Alden, one of the unjustly accused "witches." Beautiful b&w illustrations throughout by Charles Mikolaycak.
Hardcover. New York , G. P. Putnams, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Diana Cain Bluthenthal. Unclipped dust jacket.
Softcover. New York, Workman Publishing Company, First Edition, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Softcover. Light wear to covers including toning, folds to edges, small chip to rear corner. Light foxing to preliminary pages & edges. Photographs by Robert Doisneau. Otherwise clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Hilary Knight. Clean, tight copy.
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. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Joey loves to fold thing so he becomes fascinated when he sees a friend making a paper crane doing origami. Pretty soon he's trying to do origami but is having a hard time. Witty book on sticking with crafts until you succeed. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Bristol, UK, White & White , 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, B&W illustrations by Lotte Reiniger after the1935 Silhouette Film. Limited to 300 copies. 8 stills from the movie, plus other B&W drawings in Silhouette. Dust jacket chipped, edgeworn, chunk missing.
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.