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, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Kael, a black timber wolf, is captured & performs for a circus, until he has the opportunity to escape. Haunting story of a wild Wolf & the gentle man who trains him. Clean copy.
Softcover. Aakron, OH, Saalfield, 1st Edition, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Softcover, textured pages. Vivid, full-color illustrations. Some chipping to wrapper at spine and crease to top right corner of front cover and top left corner of back cover. Some light tanning to covers and pages from age. Staple bound. Adorable childrens book with sheet music included in illustrations.
Hardcover. Boston, D. C. Heath, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 102 pages illustrated in color by the Disney Studio. A clean copy of this vintage Mickey Mouse story book.
New York, Simon & Schuster , Reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Illustrated in 2-colors by Hilary Knight. SIGNED BY KNIGHT on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Candlewick , 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glazed boards, 16 pages. The first in a series spotlighting Marvel superheroes, this trapezoid-shaped offering combines comic-book excerpts with action-packed pop-ups to introduce the web-slinging wonder. Four foldout comic-strip sections spread throughout the book relate Peter Parker's story: the bookish teen's fateful encounter with a radioactive spider; his testing of his new powers at a wrestling match and donning of the familiar costume; the murder of his beloved Uncle Ben; and his capture of the perpetrator and transformation from self-absorbed media star to justice-serving hero. Colorful 3-D sculptures leap out at readers with every turn of the page as they meet seven of Spider-Man's most ferocious foes, including the Green Goblin, Doc Ock, and the Vulture. These spreads feature a storyboard retelling of how each villain gained his superhuman abilities; a slide-out tab listing his vital statistics, skills, weapons, and cool gadgets; and, in most cases, an encounter between the bad guy and Spidey. Additional pull-out files highlight other key characters. The pop-up images, many embellished with bright metallic paper, retain the nostalgic appeal of the retro comic-book art while injecting an element of movement and excitement. After
Hardcover. Ny, Doubleday, Doran, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in dark gray. No dust jacket.Color endpapers design, line illustrations by Rhea Wells. 70 pages of advice for young gardeners. Small bump to bottom corner of book, otherwise very good, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Clean, tight hardcover. In the summer of 1851, the clipper Flying Cloud made the journey from New York City to San Francisco in a record-breaking 89 days and 21 hours despite several setbacks and dangers along the way. Much of the credit for that voyage goes to Ellen Prentiss Creesy, the ship's navigator. Based on the true story of that voyage, this book expertly describes Prentiss's early life, her love for the sea and the science of navigation, her marriage to Captain Perkins Creesy, and their remarkable accomplishment. Readers will find this fictionalized account gripping and inspiring. McCully's excellent watercolor illustrations include a number of period details and add a sense of movement and drama to the already exciting text. An author's note gives the factual background for the story, and a brief glossary serves to familiarize readers with nautical terms.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. SIGNED BY KALMAN on title-page. Illust. in color by Kalman. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear to covers.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 223 pages, 250 color illustrations. Betsy Beinecke Shirley, one of the great collectors of American children's literature, gathered a peerless collection of books, original illustrations, manuscripts, and ephemera. This gorgeously illustrated book presents over 200 selected original artworks from the enchanting collection she bequeathed to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University. Artists whose works are represented include many beloved favorites, among them Ludwig Bemelmans, Maurice Sendak, A. B. Frost, Wanda Gag, Peter Newell, N. C. Wyeth, Tony Sarg, Robert Lawson, and Johnny Gruelle. From variant illustrations for Goodnight Moon and Where the Wild Things Are to little-known sketches for nineteenth-century periodicals that delighted generations of children.
Hardcover. Boston, William Guild, 1st, 1850, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gilt lettering and decorations on front and back cover. 84 pages, b&w illustrations, cloth spine missing. Short pieces on various subjects: The Poultry Yard, Ruth the Gleaner, The Squirrel, My Grandmother, etc. Each decorated with wood engravings and a decorative border treatment. Introduction by Forrester who published a monthly magazine for children. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
NY, DK Ink, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. Fold out poster of a monster. Sticker on front cover. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Jump At The Sun/Hyperion, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY ANN GRIFALCONI AND JERRY PINKNEY ON TITLE PAGE. 1st edition/1st printing. Full color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. A bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 96 pages. Color and black & white photography. Color illustrations. Book illustrators discuss their art w/examples throughout: Victoria Chess, Pat Cummings, Leo & Diane Dillon, Richard Egielski, Lois Ehlert, Lisa Campbell Ernst, Tom Feelings, Steven Kellogg, Jerry Pinkney, Amy Schwartz, Lane Smith, Chris Van Allsburg & David Wiesner. Clean copy.
NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Michael McDermot. Dust jacket price clipped. Carmina is afraid of her great-grandmother until the old lady plays the piano and Carmina discovers that the music makes a special bond between them. Clean copy.
NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with mild edgewear. B&w photos and illustrations by the author. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Seven entertaining stories for young readers by Moore with Lobel's zany illustrations throughout in 2-colors. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Nice color illustrations by Lobel. Minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, Floris Books, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color, black & white illustrations by Anastaiya Archipova. Color illustration on front of glossy boards.
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.
Hardcover. New York , North-South, 1st US, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 20 pages illustrated in color by Zwerger. SIGNED BOOKPLATE by Zwerger laid in.
Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, Kane Miller, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in color pictorial boards. Translation from German by Laura McKenna. Color illustrations by Renate Seelig. A young giantess discovers that being so big doesn't hinder her from having good friends in this delightful children's tale, originally written in German. Gorgeous artwork. Clean copy.
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, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. While Ol' Jake is thinking about how rich he is going to be after he catches and sells a hare he is stalking, the hare runs away into the forest. A Russian fable illustrated with lovely watercolors by Ivanov. Library binding but NOT ex-lib.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Fourteen gods and goddesses of the ancient Norse legends are examined in detail, including their accomplishments, their parentage, their deeds, and their powers and strengths. Color illustrations by Leonard Everett Fisher. Clean, bright copy.
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.