Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, clothbacked pictorial boards with map endpapers, color and b&w illustrations by Tousey. Val lived at Robidoux Landing, on the Missouri River, when his family joined a wagon train to Astoria.

Hardcover. New York, Orchard Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY HENRY AND AMY SCHWARTZ on title-page. Color illustrations by Amy Schwartz. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Hungary, Petofi Printing House, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial laminated boards. Color illustrations by Emma Heinzelmann. Spine and corners rubbed. Translated by Judith Elliott. Covers slightly splayed. The Terrible Seven cats terrify nine dogs, all called Louis in what was perhaps the most frightful conflict since cat and dog wars began.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1998, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Meet Walter.And better yet, turn the pages and --meet his staff. The Gum Guy, who archives his chewed-up gum. His Homework Helper who does...well, you know. A complete Dream Team, to do his sleeping for him...And thats only the beginning!This laugh-out-loud picture book is a dream come true for any kid who has ever wanted someone else to kiss Aunt Winnie or eat their lima beans. Author Patricia Marx and illustrator Roz Chast prove with hilarity that anyone can have the staff they need, if they have enough imagination. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Marc Simont. Light edgewear and rubbing. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago IL, Albert Whitman & Co, reprint, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 160 pages. Color and black & white illustrations by Eleanore Mineah Hubbard. Previous owner's bookplate and signatures on front end paper and front fly leaf. Top corners bumped. Wear to covners and spine. Scribbling in pencil on rear endpaper. Some soiling to covers.

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. New York, Dutton, 6th PR., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ZELINSKY on title-page. Newbery Honor Book Sticker on front of dust jacket, cover and dust jacket completely illustrated, gorgeous full-page color illustrations. Very minor rubbing to dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a beautiful children's book in great condition.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, reprint, nd , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 147 pages. 12 color illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Red cloth covers with gold lettering and decoration. Spine faded. Rubbing to corners, spine. Light soiling to covers. Previous owner's stamp on front end paper.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Barefoot Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 96 pages. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on a tipped-in bookplate on the front fly leaf. Lovely color illustrations by Rebecca Guay. Let yourself be drawn into the magical world of the dance with this sumptuous anthology. Love, laughter, betrayal, adventure and tragedy intertwine to create stories that will reach deep into the heart and dreams of the reader. The story of "The Sleeping Beauty" will whisk you away to the thorny castle where Princess Aurora awaits her prince; the comedy and confusion of "Coppelia" will delight you, and the magical adventures of Clara in "The Nutcracker" will entrance you. Featuring a brief history of classical ballet, as well as historical details of each dance, composition, choreography and early performances, this book will captivate anyone with a love of this awe-inspiring art.

Hardcover. Atlanta, Turner, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by author. Clean, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Platt & Munk, 1st illustrated thus, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with light green stamping. Color and black & white illustrations by Eulalie. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Light soiling to endpapers.

Hardcover. NY, Penguin Publishing, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Illustrated in full color by David Cox. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

NY, Crowell, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Color illustrations by Aliki. Dust jacket price clipped. Aliki describes and illustrates the techniques and the reasons for the use of mummification in ancient Egypt.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages, 15 color plates and b&w drawings by Warner Carr. Green boards with color label, sharp, clean copy.

Hardcover. Stockholm, Albert Bonniers, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong pictorial boards with green cloth spine. Beautiful color plates by Beskow. SWEDISH TEXT. Small sticker on inside front cover, otherwise a clean copy.

Boston , Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Debby Atwell. In a humorous rendition of a famous Norwegian folktale, Hans challenges his wife, Gertrude, to exchange chores with him and soon learns how difficult housework really is.

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, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ormerod. Touring the zoo, two children pet, ride, and observe a variety of animals. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 2nd pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by the author. 109 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, rubbing and soil. Dust jacket price clipped.

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, Hyperion Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Kirk who spins out an extraterrestrial version of the familiar lullaby, featuring a four-armed father promising his banana-colored little one, among other prizes, a shooting star, an astronaut (against the astronaut's wishes, it appears), a laser rifle, tools to build a spaceship and, finally, a good-night kiss. Clean copy.

NY, Putnam, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ed Young. Delamination, edgewear, soil, and tape residue to dust jacket. Small pen markings on title-page. In this reinvention of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, images by Caldecott medalist Ed Young and new text by Eleanor Coerr come together to inspire children of all ages. In her novel Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Eleanor Coerr told the moving story of Sadako and her brave struggle against leukemia, the "atom-bomb disease," which she developed when she was twelve, just ten years after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The novel became a classic, and when Sadako's story was to be made into a film, Caldecott medalist Ed Young was asked to do the illustrations. With love and commitment, he created hauntingly beautiful pastels which bring to life the spirit of Sadako, her courage and her strength.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated boards. Color illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky. First published in 1949, this appears to be a 70s reprint, code letters inside rear cover stop at J. A big elephant leaves the circus, builds a house, helps the townspeople, and finds happiness. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Verses are accompanied by illustrations of unusual situations such as a dog taking a little girl for a walk, a bird scolding a cat for scaring his friends, and a boy sitting calmly while a sheep shears his head.

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. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and soiled dust jacket. (60 cents on flap). Color and two-color illustrations throughout by the Petershams.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

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, 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.

Hardcover. NY, DK Ink, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

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, 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. NY , L. W. Singer Co., 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 48 pages. Illustrated in color by Caldecott winner Jerry Pinkney. One of his early and scarce titles. Light wear, rubbing to edges, else a clean, tight 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. 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.

New York, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Color illustrations by Robert Quackenbush. 32 pages. No dust jacket. Pete Pack Rat must act quickly to save Pebble Junction's Christmas Eve celebrations when the Gila Monster Gang escapes from jail and steals the Christmas pinata. Owner's name on title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Non-paginated, hardcover. Color illustrations by Everett Shinn. Dust jacket with light wear and some chipping along edges. Large chunk missing from front dust jacekt. 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, Walker, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 40 pages. Color illustrations by author. Based on the true story of the English explorer in Antarctica.Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Holiday House, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Full color illustrations by Robert Rayevsky. Clean, bright copy. Above there are skyscrapers and sunshine, schools and families, pigeons and pets--but below the streets of New York there is a bustling world of tunnels, jazz clubs, subways, restaurants, and more.

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.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Amy Schwartz. Unpaginated.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Inc., 2nd, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY LEO AND DIANE DILLON ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Bright, clean copy. The numbers are on the loose--hiding and dancing, skipping and laughing through the rhymes of Mother Goose! It's a good thing Caldecott Medal-winning artists Leo and Diane Dillon have helped gather up all these mischievous numbers in a stunning celebration of counting, rhymes, and imagination.

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.

Englewood Cliffs NJ, Prentice Hall, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 64 pages. Black & white and 2-color illustrations by Joan Sandin. Cover and dust jacket have light edgewear. Ex-library with minor markings and stamping.

Hardcover. New York, Michael Di Capua/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Full color illustrations by William Steig. No dust jacket as issued. Bright, clean copy. No price on rear copy as true first calls for so assume reprint.

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. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated. Black & white illustrations by Leonard B. Lubin. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.