Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Claverie. Really nice, new-looking condition. Light soil on rear.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Color illustrations by Browne. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Alice Provensen. In this illustrated "family album," Caldecott medalist Alice Provensen offers a unique glimpse of the people who shaped America, from Pocahontas to Edgar Allan Poe to Martin Luther King Jr. This 60-page, oversized hardcover is rich with portraits of artists, enduring icons, outlaws, radicals, visionaries, composers, writers, inventors, and reformers. On the "Naturalists and Ecologists" page, Rachel Carson is joined by water analyst Ellen Swallow Richards, painter and ornithologist John James Audubon, and agricultural chemist George Washington Carver. While quotations from famous Americans mark every page, the book's focus is purely pictorial. The visual montages present an interesting jumping-off point for further exploration of some of America's rogues and luminaries. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous bookdealer's small sticker front end paper. Color illustrations by Barbara Cooney. Shows some wear but mainly nice condition. Hardbound, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Mankato, MN, Creative Education, 1st thus, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Georges Lemoine. Laminated paper covered boards with color illustration on front cover.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Thin 4to, white linen, with circular pictorial label. Dj price-clipped and 10/70 on dust wrapper flap, 7 titles on the back flap. and the silver Caldecott Honor Book sticker on the front. Probable second printing as the first didn't have the sticker which was awarded in 1971.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's inscription opposite title-page. Color and black & white illustrations by Disney. Cover shows some wear. Hardbound, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 125 pages. Illustrated with color stage and costume designs by Maurice Sendak. New english translation by Tom Stoppard. Both endpapers illustrated with Sendak's storyboard scenes. Linen binding illustrated front and back with red illustrations, gold lettering on spine.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Reynold Ruffins. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Oxford, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Nice color illustrations by Hodges. Dust jacket shows minor wear, mostly clean. Hardbound.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, reprint, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with decorated cover, 284 pages. Black & white illustrations by C. W. Ashley. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Corners and spine rubbed.

Hardcover. NY , Doubleday, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial cloth in a worn and chipped dust jacket. Spier's illustrations accompany the words to our national anthem. Endpapers design shows evolution and various designs of American flag. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Junior Literary Guild, reprint, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 69 pages. Hardcover with illustrated cloth, no dust jacket. Color and black & white illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Shows some wear and age.

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. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1958, Hardcover, illustrated cloth covers, no dust jacket. Color and black & white illustrations by WarrenChappell. Rubbing to corners and spine. Light soiling to covers.

Hardcover. New York , Putnams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 74 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY DE PAOLA on title-page. Illustrated in B&W by De Paola. Clean, tight copy.

New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Uri Shulevitz. Writing in pen on front end paper and rear fly leaf. Dust jacket with light soiling, browning, edgewear.

Softcover. Boston, Expression Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 40 pages illustrated in b&w and colors by Edmonds. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover.

Hardcover. New York , Parent's Magazine Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Wendy Watson. Cover with some markings, edgewear, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Pop-up color diorama with punch-out characters from the animated TV show. Adventures in which Batman encounters his arch enemies - Two-Face, Poison Ivy and The Joker in order to rescue Catwoman. It opens up into four separate play areas - the Bat Cave, the Joker's secret headquarters, Two-Face's hideout and Poison Ivy's greenhouse.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards, illustrated in 2-colors by Mordicai Gerstein. When the words Werewolf Power mysteriously appear on the school blackboard, all the children are frightened. Only days before Halloween there are terrifying screams and haunting sounds surrounding the classroom. Jill and Gwen know there's something queer happening. This is their spookiest case ever. What will the detectives discover? Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia , Penn Publishing, Reprint , 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 9 color plates By George Wharton Edwards, first published with these Illustrations in 1916. This is a very bright and attractive copy. Illustrated cover label, gilt decorated blue cloth. previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Small bump on rear fore edge.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Emma L. Brock. Decorated blue cloth with shelfwear, light soil to end papers. Mild water stain to front end- paper. Review copy stamp to blank prelim. page.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Three-color pictures by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky. Rubbing Edgewear and soil to covers. Illustrated end papers. Scarce 1st edition.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Illustrated in color, b&w by the authors. In a lightly chipped dust jacket with fading to spine.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket with a small chunk gone from rear panel, unclipped. Harry, a little rabbit, does not know how to help his family prepare for winter but succeeds when he brings a summer song. An inspired picture book by an award winning author-artist. The charming, full-color art was produced from watercolor paintings. Unpaginated (approx. 28 pages).

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 28 pages. Hardcover ith price clipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by James Stevenson, his second children's book. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Z. Walck, 1st US, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color, b&w illustrations by Ardizzone. Ex-library copy with stamping, residue to end papers. Dust jacket with small spine sticker.

Hardcover. Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company,, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in worn dust jacket. First edition of Tony Palazzo's charmingly illustrated rendition of Aesop's Fables. 9 X 12 1/2" original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket with original price on flap ($2.50), chipped and short tears repaired on reverse. Clean, no marking.

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing Co., 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Marc Simont. Book store sticker on rear fly leaf. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Tight copy.

Softcover. Burlington VT, Vermont Migrant Education Program, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The scarce 1st printing of this charming book for beginning readers. Paperback. B&W illustrations by Jane Clark Brown.

Hardcover. Milwaukee, Bruce Publishing, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Evans. Cardboard edges worn. The story of Mexican wood carver who creates a wooden Christ Child for the village church. Minor wear to spine.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by New Yorker Cartoonist Roz Chast. Small crease on front flap of dust jacket.

NY, North-South Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Dorothee Duntze. Six unfortunate young men were turned into swans by their stepmother. Their heart-broken sister vows to release them from the spell by sewing six shirts from starflowers and not utter a word, or laugh, for six long years.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by author. Alice tells her mother about her special room, where she can play with her cat who died, enjoy the warm beach in January, go sledding on a hot summer day, and do anything she has already done in the past.

NY, Golden Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Color Illustrations by Garth Williams. Illustrated end papers. Edgewear and soil to covers. Bottom of spine torn.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrations by Geisert. Color illustrated laminated boards. No dust jacket. When the thieving Pigaroons steal a block of ice the River Patrollers had intended to carve into a sculpture for their ice festival, the Patrollers decide that they've had enough and devise a plan to teach their Pigaroon neighbors a lesson.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Megan Lloyd. In 1841 in Pennsylvania, Pippin Biddle, determined to get his three orphaned sisters out of the poorhouse, tries to earn a living as an itinerant painter, but he returns empty handed, only to find that he is not the only one in the family with artistic talents. Clean copy.

NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket. As they play video games inside, children miss out on a world of activity just outside their window.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth covers. 2 color, 8 tinted illustrations by Howard Pyle. Tissue guard over frontispiece. Lettering on spine a bit faded. Light edgewear and soil to covers, but gilt & design bright. Previous owner's sticker on inside front cover at bottom right. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover on a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by McDermott. SIGNED BY McDERMOTT with a sketch on front fly leaf. Zomo the rabbit, a trickster from West Africa, wants wisdom. But he must accomplish three apparently impossible tasks before Sky God will give him what he wants. Is he clever enough to do as Sky God asks? "The tale moves along with the swift concision of a good joke, right down to its satisfying punch line."--Publishers Weekly "Wildly exuberant, full of slapstick and mischief, this version of an enduring Nigerian trickster tale, featuring a clever rabbit, is a storyteller's delight."--Booklist

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st UK, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Edgewear, rubbing and sticker residue to dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light sticker residue, small closed tears to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, NA, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Black & white illustrations. Pink endpapers. Preliminary page missing. Inscription at top of title page. Cover features image of girl and boy near a tree; decorated in red, blue, black, and gold. Some light rubbing at top and base of spine, and corners. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial covers, 314 pages illustrated in color by the Berestains. Six Berenstain Beginner Books in one volume: Bears in the Night, The Bears' Vacation, The Bears' Picnic, The Spooky Old Tree, The Bike Lesson, and The Missing Dinosaur Bone. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Georgia University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.SIGNED BY LOPEZ on half title-page. Color illustrations by Tom Pohrt.

Hardcover. Seymour, Greenwich Workshop Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 100 pages. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR SCOTT GUSTAFSON ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright 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, Macmillan , 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 3-color illustrations by Don Bolognese. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Edgewear and chipping and a piece torn on dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY LANE SMITH WITH DRAWING OF A PAIR OF GLASSES OPPOSITE TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Lane Smith. Bright, clean copy.