Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. SIGNED BOOKPLATE LAID IN. Illustrations by author.

Hardcover. Sydney, Austalia, P.I.C., 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Robert Ingpen. Clean, tight copy. This children's picture story, a detective mystery, is about a Siamese white elephant, en route from Siam to Britain as a gift to the Queen, and which disappears in New Jersey. This is one of the author's most hilarious, but overlooked, masterpieces for any child or adult to enjoy. The life-like illustrations are by international illustrator, Robert Ingpen. The literature classic was originally published in 1882 as a short story.

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing Co., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages illustrated in color by Schulz. In the scarce dust jacket.

Hardcover. Seymour, CT, Greenwich Workshop Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gustafson, SIGNED BY GUSTAFSON on half title page. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. New York, P.F. Volland Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover in decorative box. Color illustrations throughout. In good condition considering its age. Previous owner's dated inscription on title page. Bright yellow covers with illustration. Touch of foxing to covers and a few pages, but doesn't affect text or illustrations. Binding still quite tight. Beautiful old children's book.

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.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 121 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY ILLUSTRATOR CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG. A clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 31 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated with an alligator on front. SIGNED BY KINNELL on title page. Previous owner's sticker on front paste down. Color illustrations by Lynn Munsinger.

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Row, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by the author. Dust jacket with minor wear, bright, unclipped.

Softcover. New York, McLoughlin Brothers, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 pages, un-numbered. Softcover with stapled binding. Light wear to paper wrappers. Illustrated in full color on all pages. Previous owner's name in pencil on front wrapper.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by David McPhail. Dj with small closed tear.

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.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages, illustrated in color by Klassen. Laszlo is afraid of the dark. The dark lives in the same house as Laszlo. Mostly, though, the dark stays in the basement and doesn't come into Lazslo's room. But one night, it does.This is the story of how Laszlo stops being afraid of the dark. With emotional insight and poetic economy, two award-winning talents team up to conquer a universal childhood fear.

Hardcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield, 1st , 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 11 color plates by Diana Thorne (one repeated on cover). Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Spine loose, light soil to front cover.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , BC Ed,, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages illustrated in b&w by Garth Williams. No price on dust jacket so assumed Book Club Edition.

Hardcover. NY , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards with black cloth spine. 32 pages illustrated by Chalmers in shades of pastels and b&w. Presumed first printing of this scarce title. Charming story of Kevin Rabbit who likes to garden, visits the city, makes friends with a white cat and some seagulls and has adventures. The boards have light tan spotting or foxing. Previous owner's inscription on first page, otherwise clean.

NY, Holiday House, 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Color illustrations by Tomie dePaola. Dust jacket with short tears, chipping.

Hardcover. New York , North-South Books, 1st US, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 24 pages illustrated in color by Lisbeth Zwerger, Dust jacket tanning at edges, price-clipped. Otherwise very good, clean.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. While Susan sleeps in this mesmerizing bedtime book, crickets, owls, raccoons, bread bakers, and saxophone players enact their nighttime activities.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st revised ed., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by and SIGNED BY CARLE on half-title page. Orig. pub. in 1972 by Knopf. Bright, clean hardcover in a similar dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, short, repaired tear. Twelve pages with 6 color spreads featuring flaps, pull tabs and other moveable parts. The spine has a red plastic binding inside the covers.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion, 1st, 1992, hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color paintings by Ted Lewin. A ten-year-old Lebanese boy balances his life in a war-torn city. Lewin's watercolor illustrations capture contemporary Beirut with stunning clarity and drama.

hardcover. NY, Coward McCann & Geoghagan, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Sepia-toned illustrations by Stephen Gammell. Dust jacket with edgewear, closed tears.

Softcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 24 pages featuring color illustrations by Rey with flaps that fold-out revealing baby animals with text on the opposite site. This is the original 1943 edition with the green cloth spine, heavy uncoated paper,copyright on front cover. Light soil, shelf wear otherwise sound copy

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman Company, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with lllustrated paper label on front. 110 pages, color and b/w illustrations throughout by the author. Dust jacket chipped, worn. A collection of eleven stories: Mrs. Spider's Surprise, The Mystery in the Bake Shop, Captain Caddis' Adventure, April Fool Raindrop, The Dreamland Toys, The Hallowween Brownie, Wee Willie Winkie and others.

hardcover. NJ, T.F.H. Publications, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. How to care for hamsters told in comic strip form. 32 pages. All in color.

Hardcover. New York, Platt and Munk, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with pictorial label. Beautiful full page color plates by Eulalie, Victor G. Becker and Arthur O. Scott. Corners worn, cloth spine with a short tear. Previous owner's color sticker on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, reprint, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue buckram with gilt spine titles and corner decorations, maroon endpapers, 259 pages, b&w drawings by Oliver Herford. Timothy, age ten, sets out to rescue his two year old foster "sister" with his dog Rags. Clean copy, slight cock to spine. Originally published in 1891.

Hardcover. NY, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Amy Schwartz. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Blue Sky, 1st pr, October 1, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Unpaginated, color illustrations by the Dillons.A very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY NORMAN on the half-title page. Color illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. like-new condition.

NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Charles Mikolaycak. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Burningham. Dust jacket, very clean and tight copy. With a few words and clear, spacious line-and-watercolor pictures, award-winning British author-artist Burningham expresses a small child's rebellion against overwhelming grown-ups. Edwardo is sometimes a little untidy, cruel, clumsy, noisy, and rude. But when adults overreact and tell him he is the roughest and nastiest of boys, he becomes much, much worse. Then one day, completely by accident, he starts to make good things happen, and everyone loves him.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BLUEMIE on title page. Color illustrations by C. Brian Karas. The clouds are gathering above a city street and soon -- tap, tap, boom, boom! As a thunderstorm rolls in, people of all stripes race down to the subway to get away from the crackling rain and wind. With quirky wordplay and infectious rhymes, Elizabeth Bluemle crystallizes an unexpected moment of community, while G. Brian Karas's warm illustrations show the smiles to be had when a storm brings strangers together as friends.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Burningham. Illust. library binding - end papers with stamp, minor marking otherwise very good, clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New Milford CT, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Illustrated throughout in full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Caldecott nominee for his beautiful illustrations, Lewin knows of what he writes- he was a professional wrestler before taking on writing and illustrating children's books. This book is about the great gym at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge that was the home of Jake LaMotta and Muhammed Ali and is the place nine year old Sugar Boy goes for training and inspiration.

Hardcover. Joliet IL, P.F.Volland Co, 5th pr., 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, unpaginated (94 pages), illustrated throughout in color by Gruelle. Wear to edges of spine, mild crease to rear panel of covers. Previous owner' s signature to prelim page and half title page. Otherwise clean.

NY, Scholastic, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jean and Mau-Sien Tseng. Honesty and resourcefulness triumph over greed and evil as a boy takes desperate measures to save himself and his neighbors from the malevolent magic of the dreaded ku snake. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Illustrated throughout in color. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light soil to dust jacket.

NY, Philomel, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Learn to count with the #1 New York Times bestselling artist of The Day the Crayons Quit and his hilarious cast of Hueys!"Is none a number?" you might ask. I'm glad you did. The answer is Yes! For example, how many lumps of cheese do you see next to you? The answer, depending on where you are, is likely "none." Counting with the reader all the way up to ten, the Hueys explain numbers as only they can. Such as: The number 4 is the number of tantrums thrown by Dave every day. 7 is the number of oranges balanced on things. And 9 is the number of seagulls who attacked Frank's French fries. Together they make quite a spectacle. But when you take away all of these fun illustrations in the book? You're left with none!

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 92 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color, black & white illustrations by Helen Sewell. Previous owner's bookplate. Dust jacket chipped, worn with two chunks missing.

hardcover. New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Susan Jeffers. Clean, unmarked copy with light fading and minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. Pink & black & white illustrations by Geisert. Dust jacket shows very minor wear, mostly nice condition. A follow-up to the artist's Oink. More adventures of his favorite pig family. A wordless picture-book.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, reprint, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages illust. in color and black & white by Hope Dunlap. Red cloth spine with illust. cardboard covers. F-20 code suggests 1920 printing. Smudges to rear panel. Light edgewear to covers, previous owner's bookplate otherwise nice.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A set of Three Little Books in a slipcase. Slipcase a bit warped but otherwise very good condition and books excellent condition. No dust jackets as issued.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, color illustrations by Dee Huxley, dust jacket covered with acetate, very clean, tight copy.

hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 368 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Alice Barber (Stephens) - not credited. Decorated green cloth, gilt lettering. Light edgewear, rubbing to covers, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 64 pages illustrated in color, black & white by Kurt Wiese. Two discreet library stamps to both endpapers, previous owner's ink name, light edgewear to covers, otherwise very good overall.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barbara Garrison and SIGNED BY GARRISON on the title page. Like new. When an apple-shaped birdhouse is placed in the tree, a curious frog thinks that it may be a home meant just for him and so moves in, but other animals have the same idea and soon the frog has a whole cast of interesting visitors dropping on by his unique abode.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Kimberly Bulcken Root INSCRIBED BY ROOT on title pg. Clean copy. Story of 1919 family moving to homestead near Yuma, Arizona. Larger, oblong book, beautiful color illustration of old car crossing desert, color-illustration on back of family and car at destination.