Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Barbara Cooney. Moderate foxing to cloth covers. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards, 64 pages. Illustrated throughout in color and b&w by C. Walter Hodges. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Thacher Hurd and SIGNED BY HURD on dedication page. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, McCall Publishing, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Ronni Solbert. INSCRIBED/SIGNED BY AUTHOR JEAN MERRILL, ILLUSTRATOR RONNI SOLBERT, AND COMPOSER GWYNETH WALKER on front endpaper. Program from original performance laid-in. Price clipped dust jacket with a few tape repaired tears along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. A poem in celebration of the special love between parents and their children around the world. Pictures adapted from Faith Hubley's awqrd-winning film Step By Step. Clean copy.

New York, North-South Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF with a SKETCH OF A ROOSTER on half-title page.

Hardcover. New York, Whittlesey House, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription in pencil on front endpaper. Full color illustrations by Donald McKay. Dust jacket with some chipping and paper loss along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st US, 1969, Book: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards, slim volume of 20 pages. Notable for its remarkable illustrations by a Belgian artist, Iliane Roels.Mild soil to covers.

New York, Blue Sky Press, 4th pr. , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BOOKPLATE BY BANG Laid-in. Color illustrations by Bang. Caldecott Honor Book and Charlotte Zolotow award winner, no award medals on dustjacket.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. Color illustrations by Say and SIGNED BY SAY WITH A THUMBNAIL SKETCH on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. When the first mate of the good ship Sea Urchin does battle with the bloodthirsty Ghost Pirate and his spooky horde, he meets these ghostly figures in 9 excellent holograms by illustrator Brian Lee that can be seen on almost all the pages and through die-cut windows.

Hardcover. Indianapolis/NY, Bobbs-Merrill , 1st U.S., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Werner Maurer. very good in unclipped, very good dust jacket.

New York, Dial Books, 1st U. S., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, illustrated by Graham Philpot, very clean, tight copy, like new. Introducing a whole new generation of readers to this timeless classic, an inventive giftbook edition transforms the story of a wooden puppet, who desperately wants to be a real boy, into a hilarious adventure.

Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, color illustrations by Kerr. The charming story of a cat who's always getting into trouble. He later redeems himself by helping to catch a burglar. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Anita Lobel, Caldecott Honor Book. Folded poster laid in. All in nice condition, including unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's and Sons, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Illustrated by Katherine Milhous. Book club edition as per dust jacket and spine, but copyright page shows "A." Green cloth covers with orange creche design on front and orange lettering on spine. Dust jacket back cover lightly soiled, top edges worn. Boards are slightly bowed. End papers lightly foxed, pages in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Minneapolis MN, Carolrhoda Books, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated in b&w by Sally King Brewer. Pictorial orange cloth binding with stamping to front inside cover. Otherwise clean.

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, Harcourt Barce & Co, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR TO FRONT ENDPAPER. Dust jacket and covers completely illustrated, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in embossed green boards with a yellow cloth spine. No dust jacket, but both flaps glued nicely to front fly leaf, the rear one with a photo of Tudor. Ageless poems selected by Tudor, and interpreted artistically and charmingly in many pencil and charcoal drawings, and five color plates. 119 pages, over 50 poets are represented. Color card art by artist pasted to inside front cover.

Hardcover. New York, Crowell, 1st , 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Rockwell. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Glazed cardboard covers, no dust jacket issued. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Orange covers, dust jacket completely illustrated in color and protected with acetate-covering, lovely full-color illustrations by the author. Very light edgewear to dust jacket, very small area of sticker residue to upper right corner of acetate dust jacket covering, pages and covers clean, crisp and unmarked; a lovely children's book in great condition.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original dark blue cloth with medieval style lettering and illustrated paste down to front board. All pages illustrated with "illuminated" style borders and illustrations in color and B/W. Illustrated endpapers of winged horses and children in pale blue and white. Eleven full page color illustrations, two half page color illustrations, and many B/W. 56 pages. Small name on half-title page, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Most pets are cats and dogs, but what happens when a boy wants a different kind of pet, one that doesn't meow or bark? Bob Staake's exuberant tale of a little boy and the pet of his dreams will appeal to anyone whose best friends are . . . books! Books make the perfect pets, the boy decides, and chooses a bright red one. When it goes missing, a lively adventure is in store for readers who love a happy ending. Soon kids everywhere will wish for a pet book of their very own.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, Book Club Ed., 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 44 pages. Laminate dust jackets illustrated to appear as classic b&w composition notebook, blue dust jacket with b&w illustration, mylar protective covering, lovely b&w illustrations by Amy Schwartz. Price-clipped, previous owner's short ink inscription to front endpaper, clean boards, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy of a lovely children's book.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Beautifully illustrated scenes from the world's jungles teem with hidden life. Can you spot the wonderful selection of camouflaged creatures? Test your powers of observation to find the answers and more information about them. Includes intricate die-cut gatefolds. John Norris Wood is a renowned wildlife artist who has exhibited at London's Royal Academy of Arts, Natural History Museum, and Victoria and Albert Museum. He lives on his own nature reserve in England with his boa constrictor.

New York/London, North-South Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 103 pages, illustrated in color by Lizbeth Zwerger and SIGNED BY HER on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 85 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear, small closed tear to dust jacket. Stamp on front fly leaf. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Front of dust jacket is cut out and glued onto title-page. Nicely done. Blue cloth covers with mild shelf wear. Translated from Russian by Tatiana Balkoff Drowne. Nice color illustrations by Vera Bock. No markings.

Hardcover. US, Piggy Toes Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Clean, tight copy. In this technical tour de force, father and daughter combine origami-style figures and intricate pop-up effects into six spreads and a double gatefold of paper magic. The art evokes common materials, from a whirl of newspaper doves or passport pages made into sailboats to legal-pad-paper ducks swimming in a desktop "pond" of spilled coffee and, for a spectacular finish, an array of Chinese take-out menus and cartons falling prey to a hungry dragon's attack. The figures are mostly made of precut and glued pieces, but many of the beaks and noses, at least, are actually folded.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st US, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 63 pages, illustrated throughout by Edward Ardizzone. Light edgewear to dust jacket with tiny hole on front cover and small chip missing from lower edge of rear flap. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Blitt. A fresh approach to fractured fairy tales: take one small child's insatiable demand for Just one more story and add a sleepy parent's wish to get the bedtime ritual over with as quickly as possible. The result is this collection of eight condensed folktales. For example, Goldilocks and the Bears begins, There were some bears;/It doesn't really matter how many./There was a bunch./Let's get to the point: and ends, When the bears came back,/They found her asleep./She woke up, screamed, and ran home/So she could sleep in her own bed./Just like you. A few nursery rhymes (Hickory, dickory, dock,/A mouse ran up the clock./The clock struck eight./Oh, my, it's late!/So the mouse went straight to bed) and jokes round out the book. Blitt's ink-and-watercolor illustrations are amusing, with fine lines and soothing colors underscoring the comedy in the characters and situations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st thus, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by McCully. SIGNED BY MCCULLY. Delightful wordless tale about a curious little mouse who decides to find out what school is all about. This story about a curious young mouse's first visit to school was published nearly two decades ago. Now featuring text and larger illustrations in Caldecott Medalist Emily Arnold McCully's signature ink-and-watercolor style, this read-aloud edition will capture the hearts of a new generation of picture-book readers.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1st , 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages, hardcover. Decorated red boards. Classic children's book. Translated by Margaret Bloom. Illustrated by Harold W. Hess. Light rubbing and edgewear to boards. Light bumping to corners. Fading to spine. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. A tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black. 135 pages illustrated by H.C. Millard. Wonderful drawings of prehistoric creatures, many full page on beige color background. Scarce. Light stains to cover, inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York , Clarion Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Emily Arnold McCully and SIGNED BY MCCULLY on title page. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. What do leprechauns do? They bury a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, of course. But as Mrs. Bally Bunion's ox, Miss Maude Murphy's hen, and Old Jamie soon find out, they can't resist having a little fun along the way. For, besides burying pots of gold, mischief is what leprechauns do!

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a black cloth spine. 36 pages illustrated by Ipcar. 1955 copyright, no indication of later printing. Bright, clean copy. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. SIGNED BY MCCLINTOCK on title page. When Simon's older sister, Adele, picks him up from school, he has his hat and gloves and scarf and sweater, his coat and knapsack and books and crayons, and a drawing of a cat he made that morning. Adele makes Simon promise to try not to lose anything. But as they make their way home, distractions cause Simon to leave something behind at every stop. What will they tell their mother?

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Kokoko the hen announces she will keep house when Labourd, the old peasant, and his family leave the farmhouse but the hen and her animal friends find housekeeping harder then they thought. Illustrated in two-colors by Emma Brock. Small stamp on inside front cover, otherwise clean. Nice reprint of a book first published in 1933.

Hardcover. New York , Golden Books, 1ST, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY WAHL on copyright page. Color illustrations by Erik Blegvad. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Glazed cardboard covers.

Hardcover. London, Cresta House, 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards in color, 24 full page color illustrations by Angi Petrescu Tiparescu with the story printed in black on half-size sturdy yellow paper & bound in the center of the book. Printed in Romania. No date but appears to be 1970s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Abrams Books for Young Readers, 6th pr, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 40 pages illustrated in color. SIGNED by illustrator. The family in 365 Penguins finds a penguin mysteriously delivered to their door every day for a year. At first they're cute, but with every passing day, the penguins pile up--along with the family's problems. Feeding, cleaning, and housing the penguins becomes a monumental task. They're noisy and smelly, and they always hog the bathroom! And who on earth is sending these kwak-ing critters? Bright, striking illustrations with lots of opportunity for counting (and lots of laughs).

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A retelling in story form of five of Shakespeare's works: The Tempest, As You Like It, Othello, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Julius Caesar. Colour and black and white illustrations by Hungarian-British artist Victor Ambrus.

Hardcover. San Francisco, McSweeney's, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Very good hardback bound in publisher's shaped boards cut in the shape of a house and issued without a jacket. SIGNED in black marker by Barnett and Horowitz on the rear board.

Hardcover. NY, Barron's , 4th pr., 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, color illustrations by Mayhew. Join Ella Bella Ballerina as she twirls into the enchanting, festive world of The Nutcracker ballet with its dancing snowflakes, swirling sweets, and beautiful Sugar Plum Fairy. But can Ella Bella help the Nutcracker defeat his archenemy, the wicked Mouse King? Clean copy. One in a series of six Ella Bella titles.

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. NY, Viking/Ariel, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 147 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Chris Van Allsburg. Like new in bright dust jacket. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New Gloucester ME, Islandport Press, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages, color illustrations by Ipcar. This is a reprint of the classic published by Young Scott in 1945.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue-green cloth stamped with brown decoration, 68 pages. Author's text illustrations throughout.. From the German of Wilhelm Busch by Charles T. Brooks. This book is printed throughout in red on pale green paper. First published by Roberts Brothers in 1883. Binding shaken, spine re-enforced with tape.

Hardcover. New York , Atheneum, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Marc Rosenthal.