Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light yellow cloth stamped in blue. A humorous look at life from a baby's/toddler's point of view. Part of The Boston Children's Medical Center's Publications for Parents series. Illustrated throughout in two-colors with Marc Simont's humorous drawings. Clean, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt design and titles. 66 pages with b&w illustrations by Dorothy Lathrop. First winner of The Caldecott Medal for chlldren's book illustration. Front hinge partially cracked, name of summer camp printed on front fly leaf with mild soil, otherwise clean.

NY, Harmony Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 26 pages. Color illustrations by Coco Dupuy. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Phoebe's parents, who are magicians, forbid her to enter the magic room where they work, until an accident shrinks them to tiny size and they need her help in returning to normal.

Hardcover. Joliet IL, P. F. Volland Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color pictorial boards, illustrated throughout including endpapers by Gruelle. No other printings or editions mentioned so assume first printing. One page with a mild smudge, some chipping to top & bottom of spine. A pencilled name on front fly leaf.

Softcover. US, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with light to minor wear to paper wrappers. Illustrated by H. Cady. Previous owner's markings on some pages.

Hardcover. Joliet, Volland , 2nd, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gruelle. 2 pages have tears. Small loss of paper & type, illustrated cardboard covers. Cover boards have edge wear and fraying to spine.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. With twelve glowing color plates and over one hundred black-and-white drawings by Oz artist John R. Neill, this is a beautiful reproduction of the rare 1915 first edition. Afterword by Peter Glassman.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Co, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Paul Brown. Fading to spine. Previous owners stamp on half title page. Foxing to spine. Foxing to front and back cover and end papers. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by author. Alice tells her mother about her special room, where she can play with her cat who died, enjoy the warm beach in January, go sledding on a hot summer day, and do anything she has already done in the past.

Hardcover. New York , Calla Editions, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. Louise Saunders, talented wife of legendary editor Max Perkins, teamed with one of the most popular illustrators of all time to create this unforgettable fable. Known for his beautiful coloring and humorous touch, Maxfield Parrish's work is iconic -- and The Knave of Hearts is his ultimate achievement. Filled with 22 colorful images and lavishly finished with a full-color endpaper painting, this hardcover edition is a collector's classic to treasure.

Hardcover. NY, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations. SIGNED BY SMITH.

Hardcover. NY, Windmill/Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover, blue cloth covers with black lettering. Full color illustrations by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Brown cloth covers with gilt lettering, color label on front. Color and b&w illustrations by Eulalie and Lois Lenski. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Edith and Little Bear try to clean up New York City. Illustrated with black and white photos by Wright, endpapers are a panoramic of NYC which includes the Twin Towers. Light musty odor, sun fading to spine edge, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 2nd pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Robin Preiss Glasser. Determined to be as perfect and neat as her older sister Olivia, Sophie tries to be tidy, but the more she tries the messier she becomes while her sister watches in exasperation, in a delightful book that keeps readers amused as they follow Sophie's funny and appealing antics. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. White Plains NY, Peter Pauper Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Soothe little ones' nighttime fears with this unique bedtime book! Shine the beam of a light (not included) through the page ''windows'' to cast pictures on the wall as you read with your child. It's a fun and comforting way to end the day and experience a book together. PUBLISHER'S NOTE: For best results, use this shadow book with a small, single-bulb light source. A small pen light, other single-LED light, or the light on the back of a smartphone is recommended. Multi-LED flashlights are not recommended. If you have trouble getting a clear image, try moving your light closer to or farther away from the page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Dust jacket with 2 closed tears to rear panel.Light edgewear. Homer and his dog Sophocles have a magical trip during a snowstorm. Author's first book who is the son of famed author John Updike w/lovely watercolor illustrations by Parker. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 112 pages. Sepia-toned drawings by James Pearsall. In this intimate autobiography, a gorgeous Siamese feline pours her heart out to Douglass Parkhirst, who digs cat lingo purr-fectly. As the cat matures and goes out on her own, she describes her adventures in a bachelor's apartment, her jealous fits over one of her master's female admirers, her first encounter with a mouse, plus many other newsy tidbits that will delight sophisticated cat lovers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards, 56 pages, illustrated in color by David Roberts. A tyrannical teacher gets her just due in a delightfully subversive, outrageously funny tale by Newbery Medal winner Paul Fleischman. Miss Breakbone hates kids. Especially the time-squandering, mindwandering, doodling, dozing dunderheads in her class. But when she confiscates Junkyard's crucial find, she finally goes too far. Enter Wheels (and his souped-up bike with forty-eight extra gears), Pencil (who can draw anything from memory), Spider (look up and you'll find him), and their fellow misfits in a spectacular display of teamwork aimed at teaching Miss Breakbone a lesson she won't soon forget. Roberts' drawings are hilariously appropriate. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Low. In a bright, unclipped dust Jacket.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Price Stern Sloan, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages. Color illustrations by author. The comic misadventures of a group of cats at summer camp.

Softcover. Chicago, Reuben H. Lilja , 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 16 pages including covers, verse and color illustrations by Milo Winter. Charming die-cut polka dot "bow tie" is featured on every page, taking different forms with different animals, which include Rabbit, Kitty, Puppy, Duck, Mouse, Chicks, etc. The "bow tie" becomes a sash, package decoration, dress sash, etc.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. Color illustrations by Ashley Bryan. Musical arrangements by David Manning Thomas. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Devin Adair, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 86 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR (Robert Frost's Daughter) on half title page. Heavy wear to edges. Dust jacket clipped. Dust jacket has heavy chipping on spine. Illlustrated by Robin Hudnut.

Hardcover. Morton Grove IL, Albert Whitman & Co, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. When Tom, a young panda, goes to his very first day of kindergarten, his whole family stays and plays and wishes they could be in kindergarten too. David Legge's fun-filled watercolors are as infectious as Australian author Wild's lively tale about adults rediscovering the satisfaction of creative play.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Bayley. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 46 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings by William Pene Du Bois. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

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. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 3-color illustrations by Don Bolognese. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Edgewear and chipping and a piece torn on dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, reprints 4 classical tales: "Harold and the Purple Crayon," "Harold's Fairy Tale," "Harold's Trip To The Sky" and "Harold's Circus." Illustrated throughout in two-colors by Johnson. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black. 135 pages illustrated by H.C. Millard. Wonderful drawings of prehistoric creatures, many full page on beige color background. Scarce. Light stains to cover, inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Greenberg, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Tony Sarg. Piece gone from page 1, top right corner. light edgewear, chipping and soil to covers.

Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by the Sandbergs. Glazed boards with red cloth spine. Originally published in Sweden in 1973. Corners of boards show wear, otherwise clean, very good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Willia Morrow and Company, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 142 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrated by Mary K. Okheena.

Hardcover. NY, Phaidon Press, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by Ungerer. A reprint of the 1980 tale of an eight-legged hero who has twice as much courage and four times as many legs as most people - except, of course, other octopuses. When deep-sea diver Captain Samovar is attacked by a ferocious shark, Emile comes to his aid. Grateful to his rescuer, the Captain invites him to stay at his home, where Emile sleeps in a bathtub full of salt water. Emile turns out to be a fantastic octopus: he is a gifted musician (able to play three instruments simultaneously) and a great lifeguard, teaching children to swim and saving people from drowning. One day, Emile and the Captain, who works on a police launch, encounter a suspicious-looking boat in the ocean, with a dangerous group of smugglers on board... Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 2nd pr., 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in blue, in an edgeworn dust jacket. After many birthdays, Robin gets the gift he's been wishing for - a dog.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 44 pages illustrated in color by Cyndy Szekeres. This wonderful children's story is a tale of a backwoods family hearing-tell that their Uncle Skinny is sick. Mrs. Clumpet, the best soup-maker around whips up a batch to be carried downstream by their makeshift boat. But they all fall asleep and are being carried toward the waterfall! What will become of the Clumpets? What will become of Uncle Skinny's soup? Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York , Neugebauer/North-South, 4th Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated, color illustrations, text in German and English. SIGNED BY ZWERGER on half title page. Softcover with an acetate dust jacket.

Hardcover. Sydney AU, John Sands, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards. No date. Color illustrations by Margaret Senior.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages illustrated in colors by Giulio Maestro. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition. Bright, clean copy. Story about a duck and bear who are faced with a new neighbor, a chipmunk. Can they all be friends?

New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey. A little mouse runs away from home to find a "nicer" family, but when darkness comes, he misses them and realizes how much he loves them.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Little Bear, whose family performs in the Papagini Circus, longs to take part, and one night, through a series of accidents, he becomes featured in a way he never imagined. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , Parent's Magazine Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Illustrated in color by Wendy Watson. Cover with some edgewear, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover,192 pages. SIGNED BY MARGUERITE DE ANGELI ON TITLE PAGE. Light tan cloth covers, 16 full-page color plates, profusely illustrated with b&w illustrations. Mild rubbing and soiling to cloth covers, crease and faint erased-pencil marks to half-title page, otherwise page crisp and unmarked, tight binding. No dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, Children's Universe, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A package that contains scored heavy paper for constructing blockhead characters. Cardboard covers. These are the blockheads, a wacky crew that includes a pirate, clown, space cadet, cowpoke, baseball player, and lifeguard. This punch-out activity book is in As New condition, complete, unused, and never opened. It contains six heads on figures that you assemble yourself.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the Dillons and SIGNED BY THE DILLONS. Tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges.

Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards. 20 pages illustrated in color. Casper, the Friendly Ghost and Wendy, the Good Little Witch starred in animated cartoons in the 1950s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. SIGNED BY SUSAN JEFFERS ON TITLE PAGE.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st Illust. U.S., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Irene Haas and SIGNED BY HASS on title-page. Book has bump to bottom lower corner of front cover. Light rubbing on rear dust jacket.

Softcover. Racine, WA, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Light musty odor. Illustrations by Ruth Newton.