Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrate in 3-colors by Lobel. Author/illustrator's first book is the story of a watchman on a drawbridge near a village full of friendly people. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

1986, Coffee House Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Spine lightly faded on dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Rhonda McClun. A dandelion in the garden of an autocratic rose-fancier triumphs over the threat of extinction.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Tony Auth. Dust jacket price clipped. Jason is upset that he has to move for the third time in five years, but he gains comfort from his favorite tree and from the gift of a young tree that he can take with him to his new home

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. 32 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Duvoisin. Veronica is bored on Mr. Pumpkin's farm, but it turns out there is plenty to do, and adventures to be had. Library bindindg NOT ex-lib. Small stamp on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 127 pages; black and white illustrations. Discusses American birds of prey, such as eagle, hawk, osprey, and falcon, giving technical information as well as anecdotes of the author's experience with them. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, 2nd pr., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Scott Cook. Nettie Jo is eagerly anticipating her cousin's wedding until she is told that her beloved doll and constant companion, Annie Mae, is too "scraggly-looking" to go. Nettie Jo's mother manages to find a scrap of leftover lace to make a new dress for the doll, but no one in the busy family has a spare sewing needle. Determined to go to the wedding and to take her doll, Nettie Jo sets out in search of a needle. Dust jacket with small repaired tear to rear.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oversize glossy pictorial boards with gray cloth spine. A lovely reprint of this Babar title, first published in 1938. Bright, clean copy, no dust jacket. One of Jean de Brunhoff's five original Babar stories, Babar and His Children tells how the royal elephant and Queen Celeste await the birth of their first child... and discover to their surprise that they have three! The loyal townsfolk bring gifts, and the babies are named before being weighed by wise Dr. Capoulosse (he of the stern expression and pince-nez). Then it's time for young Flora, Pom, and Alexander to get into a series of scrapes and be saved by the bravery and good sense of either their parents or other animals.

New York, William Morrow & Company , 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket.. Illustrated by Janet McCaffery. Cloth spine has small frayed/chewed area at top. Dust jacket has same, minor chipping along edges. Otherwise, clean, tight.

Hardcover. San Diego, Gulliver Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Laura Forman. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion Books for Children, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Publishing, BC Ed., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages illustrated in color and two-colors by Parkin. A wild motorcycle chase after a runaway, unfolding, red carpet ends in an unexpected welcome for a visiting foreign dignitary. Originally published in 1948, this is the 15th Children's Choice Book Club printing. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Schwartz & Wade, 1st, 2013-04-09, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, NYR Children's Collection, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with red cloth spine. "Once upon a time, in fact it was Tuesday," the Bear went into the woods to settle in for his long winter nap. But when he awoke what had happened? The trees were gone, the grass was gone, the flowers were gone, and in their place were buildings, cars, a fenced-off courtyard. The Bear had no idea that he was in the middle of a factory. "Get back to work!" a man yelled out of the blue. "I don't work here," said the Bear, "I'm a bear." The man laughed and laughed. "Fine excuse for a man to keep from doing any work--saying he's a bear." And so it began and so it went, with the Bear protesting his bearness all the way from the Third Vice President to the First, and no one willing to believe that he wasn't just a silly man in a fur coat who needed a shave. How the bear endured and how he finally prevailed are the subject of this delightful modern fairy tale--beautifully illustrated with the author's inventive line drawings--about sticking up for yourself, no matter how many Foremen, General Managers, Vice Presidents, or even Company Presidents stand in your way. Reprint of this classic originally published in 1946.

Hardcover. NY, Blue Ribbon Books, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, illustrated boards, in a fair dust jacket with chipping, closed tears. Original $1 price still on front flap. Previous owner's inscription on half title page otherwise clean and tight. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white.

Hardcover. New York, Rand McNally and Company, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Hardcover with cloth covers. Light wear on edges. Internally clean, except last page glue torn. Illustrations by Ruth Mary Hallock.

Hardcover. Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, reprint, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A lovely reprint of the classic and Caldecott Medal winner first published in 1942. This edition comes with window stickers on a rear page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Brilliant color illustrations by Stanley. Clean.

Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers. Color illustrations by Nonny Hogrogian.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset and Dunlap, 2nd, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light soil to dust jacket. Moderate wear to cover edges. Illustrated by Glen Rounds in color and b&w.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Dust jacket price clipped. Tight copy. A collection of poems about Biddy Early, the Wise Woman of Clare, and her animal, human, and supernatural associates.

NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Rockwell. When a poor grasscutter uses his life savings to buy a gift to honor beauty, he starts a seemingly endless chain of gift-giving. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, Book Club, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. 60 pages illustrated in 3-colors. A Parisian birdseller's pet turtle Rosalie goes missing, and Gaston the talking blackbird must help find her. Weekly Reader Edition. Clean, bright copy.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Laszlo Gal. Peel risks his life to save his brother Pome's new bride from her father's evil curse.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright dust jacket with a short repaired tear. Color illustrations by Winter. As a young girl growing up in Kenya, Wangari was surrounded by trees. But years later when she returns home, she is shocked to see whole forests being cut down, and she knows that soon all the trees will be destroyed. So Wangari decides to do something and starts by planting nine seedlings in her own backyard. And as they grow, so do her plans. . . . This true story of Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is a shining example of how one woman's passion, vision, and determination inspired great change. Stiker on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Augener Ltd., First Edition, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Blue cloth boards with oval paste down illustration. Toning to board edges & spine. Oval full color illustrations by H. Willebeek Le Mair throughout, most in very good condition. Light foxing & fingerprints to a few pages. Moderate foxing to preliminary pages. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, Revised Ed., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A new edition of the 1969 book, this one with new color art by Alexander.

Hardcover. UK, Transedition Books, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 400 pages. Large type, beautiful illustrations, various authors. Grimms, Andersen, Perrault, etc. Beauty and the Beast, Tom Thumb, Cinderella, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and many more. Book is very clean & tight.

New York, Morrow, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Hudson Talbott. Unpaginated. Tape repair to title page. As a lad of only sixteen years, Arthur pulled the sword from the stone and thus became High King of all Britain. But scarcely has he begun to arrange his court when twelve of the country's lesser kings, jealous of Arthur's glory, declare war on him. Culminating in the Battle of Bedegraine, this war is fateful in more ways than one--for not only does it secure Arthur's place among his people, it also unites his destiny with that of Lady Guinevere. In this, the second volume of his Tales of King Arthur series, Hudson Talbott masterfully retells the saga of Arthur's early days as leader of Britain, his building of Camelot, and the dedication of the Round Table--a unique brotherhood of knights devoted to unity and peace.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 48 pages illustrated in color by David Small. Annabelle Bernadette Clementine Dodd, Belle for short, is the child of wealthy parents who have no time for her. Even before the story begins, readers see her climbing down the stairs to kiss them good-bye, her father glancing at his watch all the while. But Belle has Beatrice Smith, a kindly housekeeper with whom she spends her days sharing Bea's chores (creating more havoc than help). While they have specific chores each day of the week, they always make time for delightful excursions to the beach. Then one day, Belle decides that she can go alone, with nearly disastrous results. The rhyming text describes the loving relationship between Bea and Belle, and the woman's infinite patience with her young charge. Small's cartoon watercolor-and-crayon illustrations, most of them spreads, depict a mansion on a hill overlooking the sea, Belle's grand bedroom, ornate parlors, and a time when wringer washing machines, clotheslines, and electric fans were the last word in luxury. The pictures of Bea hugging the little girl to her breast after nearly losing her, the woman's grief at what might have happened, and Belle's efforts to cheer her up are especially poignant.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st Edition, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 83 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations by Reginald B. Birch. Brown cover boards with black, brown, and gilt design on spine and front cover board. Spine has some wear to top and bottom. Gutter split in a few places throughout, binding still good. Some light tanning to pages from age, a few spots/smudges throughout. In very good condition for its age.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins , reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 81 pages illustrated with color woodcuts by Bowen. SIGNED BY BOWEN opposite the title page. Publisher's promo sheet laid in. Clean, bright copy.

NY, Golden Press, Reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards. Color illustrations by Leonard Weisgard. Corners of laminated board edges and top spine edge with light wear.

Hardcover. Chicago, Follett Publishing, 6th pr., 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 30 pages illustrated in color by Dagmar Wilson. Beginning to Read Series. Light school stamp to prelim page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cloth backed pictorial boards with illustrated end papers. Full page color & b/w pictures by Wiese. Two boys adopt a moose in 1930's Minnesota. 1936 Newbery Honor award winner and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. A few smudges to pages; corners a little rubbed; but a bright, very good copy.

Hardcover. NY, T. Y. Crowell , 5th pr., 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth covers. Small picture book with color illustrations by Lois Lenski. Endpapers have child's crayon marking, interior is clean.

Hardcover. NY, Dover Publications, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 48 pages illustrated in color by Gorey. A new approach to the ancient fables of Aesop features charming rhymes and winsome images by a beloved illustrator. Artist Edward Gorey sets the scenes for poet Ennis Rees's modern interpretation of Aesop's verses, which recount how animals with all-too-human failings receive their just desserts. Memorable renderings of familiar and lesser-known vignettes include the fable of the industrious ant, who prepares for the hardships of the coming winter, and the feckless grasshopper, whose laziness proves fatal. A mighty lion is amused at the notion of a tiny mouse coming to his rescue, a naive young crustacean admires the bright red shell of a boiled lobster, and a swarm of flies are undone by their attraction to a pool of spilled honey. These and other timeless tales provide humorous insights into the folly of greed and vanity and the rewards of virtuous behavior. Originally published in 1971 by Young Scott.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Company, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with a worn dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by Nicolas. Ex-library with stamping to endpapers. Dj taped to covers. After training the bear cub Alphonse to dress, march, and handle a sword like a soldier, Jeannot Vallar sends the bear off to fight Iroquois in French Canada. Alphonse and two friends inadvertently volunteer to enter the Iroquois village as spies, and through their bungling bring about peace with the Iroquois.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 128 pages. Red cloth over orange boards, paper labels to front cover and spine. 23 tipped-in color plates. Mild shelf wear, chipping to spine label.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick Warne & Co., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, padded covers in color with gilt stamping and attachments. Book has very little wear. All color illustrations. Barker's early 20th century classic on fairies is here recreated in pop-up form with paste-downs and fold-outs. Clean and bright. No dust jacket issued.

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. Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrated boards, unpaginated. Illustrated with full color drawings of Mickey Mouse and friends. Light wear to cover corners and 1 1/2" closed tear at bottom front hinge. Page 14 has a 1" closed tear on right margin - this does not effect text or illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Marcia Sewall. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Tape and tape residue on covers. Dust jacket with edgewear, small tears and spine sun fade.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with mild soil, corner wear. Color illustrations by ROFry. When a new little pony learns to say "Boo", he wants to tell everyone but he upsets them. They positively forbid him to say boo anymore! Main character looks like a super shaggy bay Exmoor or Dartmoor pony.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Paraskevas. In triumph and disaster, Junior Kroll has a comical way of altering the course of events. He plays in a kazoo quartet, frees the dinner party lobsters, steals one neighbor's roses as a present for another, and decorates Grandfather's birthday cake with "little chocolate flies." Michael Paraskevas's zany illustrations bring these offbeat, bittersweet poems to life.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth, illustrated in colors by Johnson. An attractive ex-lib copy of this story of a boy who requests advice from the animal kingdom as to what he should be when he grows up. Minor stamping and residue to endpapers. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 3rd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 9th pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY MACAULAY on the half title page. Black & white illustrations by Macaulay. Lavishly illustrated Caldecott Honor book about the construction of an imaginary French Gothic cathedral. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages, hardcover, illustrated boards with green cloth spine. Twenty-fifth anniversary edition. mild shelf wear, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Schwartz & Wade, 1st, 2013-04-09, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Illustrated in color by Staake.