Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY/Oakland, Triangle Square, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Ed Young. Told in haiku-based American Sentences and pictures, Yugen is the story of a boy and his mother, inspired by the profound concept of "yugen," a Japanese word for the mystery and beauty of the universe and of human experience. The second collaboration between Caldecott-winning illustrator Ed Young and Mark Reibstein after their award-winning 2008 debut, Wabi Sabi, Yugen is a book of longing and remembrance that is unequaled in its beauty and poetic simplicity.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 95 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white line drawings by Uri Shulevitz. Library Binding Ed. (not ex-lib.) Light spotting on rear cover otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Arcade, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Introduction by Michael Patrick Hearn, Reprints 6 of Denslow's early picture books in one volume. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 45 pages, illustrated in b&w by the author. Green cloth spine with illustrated boards. Dust jacket with light edge wear, chunk gone from rear panel at top, smaller corresponding piece gone from rear board. Interior bright, clean.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Library edition. Lovely color illustrations by Tony Chen. Great condition, clean and new-looking. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Raul Colon. SIGNED BY COLON on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Bedrick, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Fiona French. Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Color Illustrations by the author. In very good condition. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Bantam, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Seymour Chwast. Excellent condition. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zurich, North-South Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. After the hens refuse to help goose, would-be father Mr. Goose decides to take matters into his own hands and sets up a nest for a stray egg, but when it is born, he discovers that it is not a goose, but Mr. Goose is not bothered by the comments of others and remains as proud as ever of his new hatchling. Color illustrations by Alan Marks.

NY, Garden City, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 64 pages, illustrated in color by Lee Ames. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Light tape residue where dust jacket was taped to covers.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Carlos Merida. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Dial, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Susan Jeffers. SIGNED BY JEFFERS. Bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, William R. Scott, 1st , 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 2-color illustrations by Symeon Shimin. 44 pages. Covers with light discoloration, fade otherwise very good.

Hardcover. NY, Bluesky/Scholastic, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 65 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Clean tght copy.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 89 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by George Sharp. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, Handprint, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with illustrated boards, 40 pages. n his magnificent interpretation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow s poem, Christopher Bing seamlessly weaves history and imagination into a rich portrait of an American hero. A meticulous researcher, Bing includes material that provides texture to history, maps that follow the British campaign to quell the rebellious citizenry, as well as the patriot s ride into the Massachusetts night of April, 1775. Documents firmly affixed into the book, including the British general s orders to his troops and Revere s own deposition relating the events, give the reader not only a visual experience but a tactile one as well. Far more than a brilliantly presented history lesson, this book represents a tour de force of coherent artistic vision. In an extraordinary series of rich and moody engravings, from the mysteriously shimmering rigging of the British sloop, The Somerset, looming in a moonlit Boston harbor to the taut urgency of a man and his horse galloping at a combustible moment in the American experience, this book illuminates our country s past unlike any other. Small inscription on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Geisert gives new meaning to the saying "Don't cry over spilt milk." This wordless tale begins when a pig child spills its milk in the house, which is cantilevered on the edge of a river valley. The milk sets off a complex chain reaction that ultimately destroys the home. Miraculously, no one is hurt, and the final scene shows the family together, surrounded by the shambles of their house, smiling at one another in a way that shows their happiness at just being alive.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. A TIME Magazine Top 10 Children's Book of 2015! Ducks growing out of bananas? A mouse catching a cat? What's wrong with this book from the creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar? Yes, there is something strange, something funny and even downright preposterous on every page of this book. But its not a mistake - its nonsense! And its also surrealism. Nonsense lies at the heart of many beloved nursery rhymes. Children readily accept odd statements like the cow jumped over the moon and the dish ran away with the spoon. This fanciful bending of reality is also basic to surrealism. In this book, nonsense and surrealism combine to spark creativity and imagination. No dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Albert Whitman & Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white and color illustrations by Berta and Elmer Hader. Shows some wear on edges. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated in color by Mitra Modarressi. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The well-known novelist's first children's book is a gently subversive fable celebrating the rewards of disorder. Princess Molly the Messy is deplored by her family: King Clement the Clean, Queen Nellie the Neat, and Prince Thomas the Tidy. Molly's domain is the castle tower, where she keeps the floor comfortably festooned with clothes and the bed is ``lumpy and knobby with half-finished books.'' Her parents are not pleased, but Molly is vindicated when a flood drives the whole family up to her room, where they find dry clothes and leftover food lying everywhere and a cozy bed to share while Molly reads aloud. When the waters recede, she even helps them tidy up downstairs. Without condescension, Tyler presents a child's-eye view of glorious muss in a witty, economical narrative, while--in a fine picture-book debut--Modarressi (Tyler's daughter) details the disarray in angular forms and flat, carefully structured compositions, with expressive, delicately modeled faces adding a subtler dimension to Tyler's message. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing, 2nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 20 pages illust. in color, black & white by Oscar Howard. Scarce in a nice dust jacket with moderate chipping to spine.

Hardcover. NY, Random Library, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 32 pages illustrated by Milion Glaser. Mocked throughout the jungles of India due to his small size, the smallest elephant in the world--no bigger than a house cat--has decided enough is enough. After all, if he's no bigger than a house cat, then a house must be where he belongs! After a long journey in the hold of a ship, this smallest elephant in the world finds himself a home with a nice little boy inside. But he must disguise himself as a cat to satisfy the boy's mother, and disaster strikes when he is confronted with his first mouse... Little does he know that the perfect home is waiting for him, in a circus where differences are celebrated, not scorned. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Ariel Books/Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Hardcover with dark blue covers. No dust jacket. Color illustrations by Chris Van Allsburg. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 109 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Vibrant color illustrations throughout. This retrospective volume is not intended to illustrate a particular story, but to display the full range of her abilities, and it is arranged according to the seasons she celebrates in her art. There are fifty of her hand-colored woodcuts in full color and an equal number in black and white. The book is large format because that is the way she works and that's what does her work justice. The text, written by her friend Lilias Hart, discusses not only her work, but also what life is like in the rigorous reaches of Northern Vermont.

San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in bright pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Sylvia Long. Small stamp, scribble to front fly leaf, otherwise Very Good. A fairy tale poem written at the turn of the century takes place in a medieval bunny kingdom where knights win prizes for proving their fear and leave it to the princess to rule.

Hardcover. San Diego, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY NORMAN AND LEO AND DIANE DILLON on title-page. Color illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. like-new condition.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Three-color illustrations by Myers. Sally and her father are inventors. They build their inventions out of scraps and old parts they find in junkyards. Dad mistakenly turns into a giant chicken. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ted Lewin. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1947, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, 92 pages. 23 stories illustrated in color and b&w by Al Dempster and Bill Justice. Stated "First Printing" on the copyright page. Cardboard backstrip gone. Cover pastedown beginning to peel off, covers worn. Name on title page. The interior is bright and clean. No dustjacket.

Hardcover. NY, Lippincott , 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrated by Reinhard Michl. Describes the animal life at a secluded pond during spring and summer days.

Hardcover. Creative Editions, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. A collection of whimsical creatures introduce the colors of the rainbow, identify the primary colors, and show how to create new colors.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing Company, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with color paste down on front cover with gilt lettering, 303 pages. Color frontispiece, 4 b&w plates and numerous line drawings by Henry Pitz. "This is the story of the experiences of two boys in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Lassen and Plumas Counties, California. Their adventures take them from Jamesville, a small mining town, up over Old Baldy to Eagle Lake and that spur of the range in which the lake is held."Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co., reprint, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 112 pages, 10" by 13" folio. Green cloth with color paste down on front cover. Gorgeous color illustrations throughout by Milo Winter. Clean, tight copy with only mild wear. Hinges are starting to crack slightly.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with a dust jacket. Appears to be a special Christmas gift to friends of Doubleday. Inside flap says "With Best wishes from Doubleday / Christmas 1967. Dust jacket with closed tear, front fly leaf has top corner triangle cut away.

Hardcover. Joliet, P.F. Volland Company , 4th Ed., 1927, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 94 pages. Illustrated in color by Marie Honre Myers. Illustrated endpapers.

Hardcover. New York , Lee & Low Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated throughout in color by Ted Lewin. SIGNED BY BOTH author and illustrator. Describes the Mongolian terrain, people, culture, and day-to-day activities while focusing on Naadam, the annual summer festival.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 64 pages. Pictorial boards with black cloth spine. Full color and black & white illustrations by Marguerite Kirmse. Faint foxing along hinges on preliminary pages. Rubbing along cover edges and spine, upper right corners with shallow bump. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. New York , Hyperion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. SIGNED BY JEFFERS. A small board book. A new installment in this engaging series follows the lovable Westie dog named McDuff who in this holiday tale falls asleep while waiting for Santa to arrive on Christmas Eve only to be awakened by a loud thump and a new arrival.

Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield Publishing, reprint, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth cover with pictorial design stamped in black and gilt. Color frontis plus b&w plates by Arthur DeBebian. Billy, our favorite goat, escapes from his comfortable farm home and causes absolute chaos in a travelling circus. Rescued by his master, he is then kidnapped and made to perform. Clean copy. Light shelf wear.

New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardbound, 40 pages. Color illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Rubbing to dust jacket. Small stain on back cover.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Green cloth covers with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, color illustrated endpapers, profusely illustrated with lovely color plates. Small clipped color illustrated article from unknown publication on Maurice Sendak included. Slight edgewear to dust jacket, very faint small brown stain to bottom right front corner of dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very nice, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Yellow cloth covers with red titles to spine and embossed graphic illustration of frogs to front, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate protective covering, numerous beautiful color plates by Margot Zemach, b&w illustrated figures throughout. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, light foxing to top edge, pages and covers crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight children's book in great condition.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated in 3-colors by Helen Sewell. Light edgewear and stains to covers. Illustrated end papers.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2010, Hardcover in a bright jacket. SIGNED with a little pig sketch by Guarnaccia on title page. In this quirky, artsy retelling of "The Three Little Pigs," the pigs and their homes are nods to three famous architects-Frank Gehry, Phillip Johnson, and Frank Lloyd Wright-and their signature homes. Each house is filled with clever details, including furnishings by the architects and their contemporaries. Of course, not all the houses are going to protect the pigs from the wolf's huffing and puffing. Which one will? The wolf, and readers, are in for a clever surprise ending.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Brown. SIGNED BY BROWN. While out exploring one day, a little boy named Liam discovers a struggling garden and decides to take care of it. As time passes, the garden spreads throughout the dark, gray city, transforming it into a lush, green world. This is an enchanting tale with environmental themes and breathtaking illustrations that become more vibrant as the garden blooms. Red-headed Liam can also be spotted on every page, adding a clever seek-and-find element to this captivating picture book.

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion Books for Children, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Shulevitz and SIGNED BY HIM. In this charming story about imagination and adventure, told with Uri Shulevitz's signature playfulness and style, a little boy learns how to be courageous, both on the high seas and at home. The tale is based on a childhood memory from the time when the author/illustrator and his family lived in Warsaw on the eve of World War II.

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.