Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY KAUFMAN on front endpaper. 32 pages illustrated in color by Kaufman and inscribed by him with a large b&w drawing on front fly leaf. Nothing seems to be going right for poor Farmer Foster, who has lost everything he has except for a strange rock that suddenly develops a crack from which milk keeps bubbling.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lois Ehlert. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Parker. Light edgewear to dust jacket, residue from a sticker to front flap.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price=clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Kilmeny & Deborah Niland. The dream of a lowly store clerk in Sydney comes true when a huge balloon arrives from France to promote an advertising campaign, but without a balloonist. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket. ABC book illustrating words that contain "ant" in them.

Hardcover. NY, David McKay Co., 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Illustrated in b&w by Phillips. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket with the 295/295 flap price (2nd state). 1955 stated on copyright page and the list of books on rear cover and rear dj from Horton Hears a Who to And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street. Binding and hinges are strong. Illustrated endpapers are clean, no marking. Several small tape repairs to verso of dj. If you think the alphabet stops with Z, you are wrong. So wrong. Leave it to Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell (with a little help from Dr. Seuss) to create an entirely new alphabet continuing from Z! This rhyming picture book introduces twenty new letters and the creatures that one can spell with them. This book was recently withdrawn from publication by the steward of Geisel's literary legacy, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, due to certain stereotypes featured in one of the images in the book. One of six now-banned Dr. Seuss titles, this one for its portrayal of The "Nazzim of Bazzim" a human of apparent Middle-Eastern origin, mounted upon a Camelid Dromedary called a Spazzim.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. Dust jacket with light edgewear. As the irrepressible Simpkin goes from warm to chilly, from sensible to silly, young readers can only be sure that he is up to no good..

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w by the author. Tan cloth covers with dark brown illustration, lettering. End paper map by De Angeli. Stated first edition. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Little Simon, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Every Robert Sabuda pop-up book is a marvel, but America the Beautiful is singularly remarkable for its inspired interpretation of the classic American anthem. Each page presents a magnificent pop-up featuring a line from the first (and best known) verse of "America the Beautiful." Sabuda has included the song in its entirety, featuring mini pop-ups, in a small booklet on the final page. Beginning with the Golden Gate Bridge, and ending with a spectacularly regal Statue of Liberty, Sabuda's America the Beautiful is a lovely keepsake that also serves as a patriotic primer for teaching young ones about America. Clean with all pop-ups in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Orchard Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with laminated boards. Color illustrations by the author. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover, illustrated in color by Bruce Ingman. Clen, tight copy.

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Vladimir Radunsky. Light edgewear to dust jacket. A never-before-published poem for children by the Nobel laureate:In the beginning there were just waveshammering at the obstacles . . .So begins a lovely, thought-provoking poem that Joseph Brodsky wrote in 1995. It is about the first discoverers of America -- fish, birds, then man. But it is also about a land that even today is full of secrets waiting to be discovered. Illustrated in collage and gouache by Vladimir Radunsky, this poem is, finally, a celebration of our world -- a world open to possibilities.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear and rubbing to covers. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Row, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Ben Shecter. Library stamps on front fly leaf, otherwise unmarked. 32 pages.John's best friend tells everything he knows about John, the secrets they share, their likes and dislikes, and the fun they have as friends.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth spine with color pictorial boards, 248 pages. Illustrated in color and black/white by Anne Anderson and Alan Wright. Edges of cover chipped, paper tanning, chipping to paper on rear cover. hinges tender. No date.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.Color illustrations by the author.

Hardcover. New York, Barse & Hopkins, Reprint, 1915, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cloth boards wth color label on front showing two bears dressed in top hats and long coats. 60 pages plus ads. Full color frontis with Traveling Bears meeting Buster Brown and Tige. Foxing to borders of front endpapers. Most pages clean and bright. Front hinge cracked top to bottom. Rear hinge paper intact but weak. Covers worn with bumped corners and chipping to paper in spots.

Hardcover. NY, McLoughlin Bros., reprint, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, paper-covered boards with blue cloth spine. This is the Pirated edition published by McLoughlin in NY with no date but believed to be 1880s. Illustrated with Kate Greenaway chromolithographs. Covers worn, soiled, previous owner's inscription. Fair only.

New York, Dutton, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF on half title-page. In the rhyming follow-up to Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten, the students celebrate one hundred days with their teacher with projects made from one hundred popsicle sticks, beads, stickers, blocks, and more.

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ILLUSTRATOR DAVID WIESNER ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy. 2002 Caldecott Winner. First printing with no sticker.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. Illustrated with full colour paper collage by Leo Lionni. The story of Theodore the mouse, and his three friends: a lizard, a turtle, and a frog. When frightened, Theodore takes cover under a strange blue mushroom, which leads to Theodore learning a lesson about rising above his station. Dust jacket with some closed tears, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages. Color illustrations by Rick Brown. Dust jacket price clipped. Remainder mark on bottom edge. While enjoying a summer vacation traveling with her best friend, Lucy, through Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona, Kate writes a series of letters home.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. INSCRIBED BY JEAN CRAIGHEAD GEORGE ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Co., 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 229 pages,color frontis, endpapers art plus many b&w drawings by Diana Thorne.

New York, Bedrick Blackie, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 30 pages. Color illustrations by author. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Full color illustrations by Dr. Seuss. 19 Seuss-Songs for Beginning Singers - Piano Score and Guitar Chords by Eugene Poddany. Previous owners bookplate opposite title page. Quarter size abrasion at top right corner of front endpaper. Light wear to cover, corners. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Michael di Capua Books/HarperCollins Publishers, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Olive green cloth covers with gilt titles to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, lovely full-page color illustrations by William Steig. Mild edgewear, soil to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st US, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 47 pages. Color illustrations by Leonel Maciel. Cover has light edgewear. Dust jacket chipping.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Full color illustrations by Brian Wildsmith. All pages intact. Dust jacket with tape repaired tears along edges, some shallow surface abrasion. Clean, tight.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co., reprint, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth with yellow titles and cover illustration, 288 pages. Thorkel and Helga and their family are in difficult times in late Viking times of old Norway, but work out a plan for a trading voyage to the London Fair; their story touches all phases of Viking life. Illustrated with over 100 color block illustrations by Margaret Iannelli of Iannelli Studios.

Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Color illustrations by Mary Grand Pre. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Hardcover. New York, Golden Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictoriak boards. Full color illustrations by Ben F. Stahl. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

NY, Random House, 4th pr., 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with minor chipping. Original price of $1.00 present on jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w by the Disney studio staff from original production drawings created during the two years the motion picture was in the making.

Hardcover. USSR, Raduga Publishers, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 25 pages. Translated from the Russian by Irina Zheleznova. Black & white illustrations by Ivan Bilibin. Minor soiling to covers.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 2nd Printing, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. 1980 Second Printing. Previous owners name at top left corner of preliminary page opposite title page, Also - INSCRIBED BY ILLUSTRATOR TOM FEELINGS on same page. Black & white illustrations by Tom Feelings. Faint foxing to endpapers, small moisture stain at very bottom right corner of pages. Dust jacket with short closed tears along edges, areas of rubbing - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Milan, Mondadori, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 6 unnumbered pages including the inside of both covers. Publisher's thick pictorial boards backed in white cloth-patterned paper & saddle stapled. Lightly soiled, edges slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. A nice example with all flaps and concealed color illustrations in perfect working order. Three stories of birds each with it's own open-the-flap text and graphic art. Laid in is a typed English translation of the text. Bruno Munari was "one of the most celebrated names in twentieth century Italy in graphic designing who fundamentally altered the landscape of many fields of visual arts, futurism and modernism He is credited for his contribution to industrial design, sculpture, painting, literature, film and concrete art." A collector's copy of this scarce title.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, First Edition, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. White cloth boards with bright Tibetan illustration to cover by Peter Sis. Translucent vellum dust jacket with light toning, silver dollar sized stain to back. Full page, full color illustrations throughout. Bright, clean & unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 48 pages. The classic fairy tale retold here with Goreys two-color illustrations throughout. Clean copy

Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF WITH A SKETCH OF DR. BIRD on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. London, England, Faber and Faber Limited, 1st, N. D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, unpaginated, in French, color illustrations by author, clean, tight copy, cover slightly warped, slight foxing. Not dated but from around 1945.

Hardcover. NY, Walker & Company, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 118 pages illustrated in b&w by Patricia Lynn. Details the early years in the life of the "frontier President," describing how the fatherless boy became a landowner at age three, a rebel scout at thirteen, and a lawyer at twenty. Clean copy.

New York, Dodd Mead & Co., 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a brigh, unclipped dust jacket. Ex-lib with light stamping, pocket on rear fly leaf. Endpapers scarred where dj was taped. B&W pictures by William Gropper.

Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st U.S., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by P. J. Lynch, DVD "Making Fairy Tales" inside front cover, very clean, tight copy, like new. Brought to new life with enchanting illustrations by award-winning artist P. J. Lynch, this comic American folktale concludes with a final, satisfying twist that says much about fate, identity, and the captivating power of bees.

Hardcover. London, George Routledge and Sons, Hardcover, Thin square 16mo, original pictorial boards with a green cloth spine. Orange endpapers. 80 pages illustrated throughout in color by Kate Greenaway. Printed by Edmund Evans. The front and backboard are illustrated with the same picture of two flower bearing girls, standing against a small fence that holds the title information. Underneath them a garland of roses is depicted. This beautiful little book is all about flowers and their meanings. No date but appears to be very early, if not a first printing. Clean with mild edgewear.

New York, Philomel, 1st U.S., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anno.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1992, 69 pages. Gray boards bumped at bottom edge. Very good pictorial dust jacket. B&w engraved plates by Barry Moser.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In these imaginative poems you'll find animals that nobody has ever hear of-but that certainly ought to exist. Each poem in this collection is paired with a striking painting by renowned artist, Leonard Baskin, and will inspire young readers to invent their own animals that ought to be. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Diego , Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1st U.S., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 86 pages, B&W illustrations by Kathi Bhend.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ROSEMARY WELLS ON TITLE PAGE. Acetate-protected dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.