Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages illustrated in color by O'Connor. SIGNED with a large sketch on front fly leaf by O'Connor, no dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. New York, Wonder Books, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictoria; glossy boards. Non-Paginated. Full color illustrations by Dick Stone. Faint musty smell. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Phaidon Press, 1st us, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Wonderful color illustrations by the master Ungerer. An old teddy bear recalls his life, beginning as a birthday present, later shared by two boys separated under European bombardment, companion to the daughter of an American soldier whose life he had saved, battered by nasty boys, trashed, and restored as a collector's item displayed in an antique shop. The moving denouement re-unites the two men, who as boys were separated by war's travails.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Mordicai Gerstein. INSCRIBED WITH SKETCH BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR OPPOSITE TITLE PAGE. Small surface abrasion to paper at bottom of copyright page and on opposite dedication page. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. New York, Holiday House, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR, Michael McCurdy. Illustrated with sepia wood engravings. Blind-stamped boards. Dust Jacket lightly faded. Clean, tight copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. New York, Saalfield Publishing Co, 1st, 1936, Book: Poor, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ve Elizabeth Cadie. Front hinge cracked. Long tears along spine cover. Wear to spine and corners. Soiling to covers.

Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons , reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations throughout by Christian Robinson. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

NY, Julian Messner, Inc., 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, black & white pictures by Donald McKay. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, Claster Enterprises, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 43 pages. Cardboard covers. No dust jacket. Full color illustrations by Gordon E. Nichols. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Soiling, rubbing to covers. Cracking at spine. Edgewear.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Mary Azarian. SIGNED BY AZARIAN on title page. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Boards. Illustrated in color by Tomi Ungerer. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 5th pr, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 47 pages. Black & white and two-color illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. INSCRIBED BY HYMAN on front end paper. Soiling, fading to covers.

Hardcover. NY, Young Scott Books, 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color decorated boards, 68 pages. B&w illustrations by Crockett Johnson. "All three stories are about Willie, a hardy independent young man, who meets the world open-eyed and unafraid." (jacket notes). Willie's Animal; Willie's Pockets; Willie's Walk. (Willie's Walk was previously published as a separate book in 1944). Light soil to covers, bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and faded dust jacket. Not only reluctant, a Siamese princess is very shy, especially around men. Retelling of a very old folk tale from Thailand. 62 pages illustrated in color by Sukit Chuthama. Alert for book banners: bare-breasted ladies! Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ALEXANDER half title-page. Color illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. Small tear to front dust jacket cover but otherwise lovely, new-looking, clean condition. States First Edition but number line starts with 2.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 32 pages, illustrated throughout in color by Elizabeth Cleaver. Light wear, rubbing to dust jacket edges and spine, small closed tear to front cover upper edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press , 1st Edition, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 36 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Decorated cover boards, clean (see images). A few pages have a touch of fingerprint soil, otherwise still bright and completely intact. Original owner's dated inscription on front flyleaf. Binding tight. Spine straight. Scarce. In beautiful condition. The animals share strategies to avoid throwing a temper tantrum.

Softcover. London, Faber & Faber, reprint, 1983 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color pictures by Jean Claverie, illustrated cardboard covers. No dust jacket issued

NY, Random House., 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, Color illustrations by Briggs. No dust jacket issued. From the beloved creator of The Snowman comes an enchanting big book featuring 124 beautiful pastel illustration panels. A huge, snowy white bear arrives mysteriously one cold winter night and crawls into bed with Tilly. The next morning, Tilly sets about making her polar bear friend welcome and excitedly reports her progress in "civilizing" him to her bemused parents. They are sure Tilly has an imaginary friend. But is he imaginary?

Hardcover. New York, Morrow Junior Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages, illustrated in color by Stanley. In an unclipped dust jacket with mild fading to spine.

Hardcover. New York, Dial, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Thomas Locker. INSCRIBED to the King Family and SIGNED BY AUTHOR CHRISTIANSEN. Clean copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. Pictorial boards, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Balzer + Bray, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ON TITLE PAGES. 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jim McMullan. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, 2nd pr., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Originally published as The Magic Word. Color illustrations by Eleanor Dart. Teaching kids to say the magic word: "Please!" Name blacked out on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages illustrated in color by Burningham. In a lightly edgeworn dust jacket that's unclipped.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2004, 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. Color illustrations throughout by Leo Dillon.

Softcover. London, Raphael Tuck & Sons, reprint, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages, illustrated with 5 color lithographs (including cover) and several line drawings. Heavy paper covers, nice clean condition. No date, appears circa 1890-1900.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust dacket with light fading to spine. Jeremiah, a middle- aged proboscis monkey feels life is passing him by. Wonderful black and white illustrations by the author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glazed pictorial boards, 47 pages. Black & white illustrations by Lillian Hoban. Darkening to spine. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. The Maple Street Club is putting on a play. But Seymour refuses to kiss the sleeping princess.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by the Dillons. SIGNED BY THE DILLONS on title page.This gorgeous picture book by Newbery Honor winner Patricia C. McKissack and two-time Caldecott Medal-winning husband-and-wife team Leo and Diane Dillon is sure to become a treasured keepsake for African American families. Set in West Africa, this a lyrical story-in-verse is about a young black boy who is kidnapped and sold into slavery, and his father who is left behind to mourn the loss of his son. Here's a beautiful, powerful, truly unforgettable story about family, memory, and freedom.

Hardcover. Chicago/NY, Rand McNally, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. The story of how the well ordered life of Mrs. Peabody Fitch is disrupted when her niece and favorite pet come to stay. Wonderfully fanciful illustrations by Lubell on every page. INSCRIBED BY LUBELL on the front fly leaf (signed WINNIE).

Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards. Non-Paginated. Full color illustrations by Friso Henstra. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket. An enormously fat Sultan is told he will die in 40 days, so he frets his poundage away. Delightful story about losing weight, eat less & you'll do it!

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 3rd printing, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages, illustrated throughout in full color by Ted Lewin. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 30 pages illustrated in color by Wiseman. Someone is stealing Sam Squirrel's nuts. Bloodhound Detective is on the case. Cute juvenile mystery told in rhyme. Clean copy.

NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white and color illustrations by the author. Each page shows us angels romping through the celestial alphabet. All around them in glorious profusion are line drawings of butterflies, ladybugs and rabbits, all utterly charming and rendered with equisite detail. Clean copy.

Softcover. Brooklyn, NY , Kane Miller, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Philip Hopman. Illustrated cardboard covers.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in decorated cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Mahood. Enjoying the last few days of summer,The Emperor of Japan was about to eat his morning egg when suddenly out jumped a little smiling dragon. He seemed very friendly, so the Emperor decided to call him Hojo and keep him as the Imperial Pet. Hojo soon became a great favorite with everyone by making himself useful around the palace. He made delicious soups, had a very light hand with pastry, and the Emperor loved his pancakes. In addition he was always gay and cheerful, could sing, play chess, enjoy a joke, and his hot breath kept the palace warm, which was a great comfort to the Emperor who suffered from cold feet. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean and bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Longman's Green and Co, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Moderate soil on covers and end papers. Illustrations by author.

Hardcover. New York , Hyperion, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 63 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrated by Brian Selznick. SIGNED BY BOTH WELLS AND SELZNICK. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Lane and SIGNED BY LANE. From the creator of the national bestseller It's a Book comes a timeless story of family history, legacy, and love. Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farmboy and a kid with chickenpox and a soldier and, most of all, an artist. In this captivating new picture book, readers follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson into a garden he created, a fantastic world where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten. In his most enigmatic and beautiful work to date, Lane Smith explores aging, memory, and the bonds of family history and love; by turns touching and whimsical, it's a stunning picture book that parents and grandparents will be sharing with children for years to come.

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. NY, Callaway Editions, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Long, long ago, in a land far, far away, a little boy named Abdi was given a very big task -- to deliver the most precious necklace in the world to the queen. Color illustrations by Olga and Andrei Dugina.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A cat finds himself up a tree and won't come down until supper (in the form of a fisherman's catch) passes him by. A wordless picture book with amazing b&w drawings by Young. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in lightly worn pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in color by Lopshire. A tale of two competitive lizards trying to outdo each other. An I CAN READ Book. Clean, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Z. Walck, reprint, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color, b&w illustrations by Ardizzone. Ex-library copy with residue to end papers. Nice, bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with a maroon and gilt design on cover and spine. Tales and studies of outdoor life, hunting, fishing, living in the wilderness, etc. Profusely illustrated with wonderful engravings by the Harper stable of artists: Shepard, W.A. Rogers, Rinehart, Abbey, others. No date on title page so assumed an early reprint. No markings but the rear cover is badly scuffed, light corner wear to corners. Rear endpapers soiled. The interior of the book is tight and clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman, 5th pr., 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with color illustrated pastedown on front cover. Color illustrations by Lindman. Ex-lib with light stamping, marking, residue to end papers. Mild red stain to left bottom corner of cover plate.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Pohrt. Coyote-a creator, a messenger, and, above all, a trickster-is at his mischievous best in these adventures retold from Native American sources. Brilliant illustrations depict the playful character in four tales: "Coyote Creates a New World," "Coyote and Mice," "Coyote and Woodpecker," and "Coyote and the Buffalo Bull."

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robin Preiss Glasser. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated. Watercolor art by Joe Servello. End papers also illustrated. Dust jacket has minor wear and soil, cover lightly soiled.