Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 92 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Pene du Bois. Page 58 has a child's ink scribbling with a few marks on opposite page. Covers worn, soiled. Otherwise the book is tight and clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, 28 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Rounds. Later printing, from the Story Parade Picture Book series, "selected from the most popular stories that have appeared in Story Parade Magazine." How Whitey became a full edgewear. Corner and edgewear to boards, top of spine with spit to paper. Clean internally.

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. New York, Dial Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardbound with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Robert Weaver. Edgewear. Dust jacket with light soiling.

Hardcover. NY, Franklin Watts, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color pictorial cloth. Great illustrations by Wildsmith where children try to find hidden items. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf , 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black stamping. Black & white illustrations (plus color frontis) by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Shows some wear and age, soiling to back cover, weak binding. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaged hardcover. Color photos. Like new.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Book, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 72 pages illustrated in color by Tenggren. No dust jacket issued. Like new.

Hardcover. New York , Rinehart & Co, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 76 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Christine White. dust jacket chipped, edgeworn, price clipped. Large chip off of top corner.

Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth covers. Delightful color illustrations by Mercer Mayer. The stewpot Sherman carried on the stage proved a nuisance until the wickedest robber, outlaw, and highwayman in all of England came along. Clean copy

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.

New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Corners and spine slightly bumped, otherwise very good. Unhappy with their father's plan to remarry, a brother and sister have their wishes fulfilled by a stableboy who knows magic and are turned into a fox and a kingfisher.

NY, Villard, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 86 pages + paintings from Botkin's portfolio. Illustrated with black & white photos and color paintings by Botkin. Text compiled by Botkin's daughter Marina Schweitzer. Foreword by Greg King. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, St Martins Press, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Peter Barrett. Gyp, a cheerful but always silent sheep dog, startles everyone with uncharacteristic behavior during the championship sheep dog trials. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hawthorn Books, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrations in 3 colors By Wells. Library binding and discard stamp to both end papers. otherwise clean and bright with no other markings.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations, map by Letizia Galli. A beautiful gown forms the focus of activity for the zany characters that introduce young readers to the Commedia del l'arte and the history of comic theater, along with a map, a list of stock characters, and historical notes.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Michael Hague. 162 pages, in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A collection of tales including "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "The Little Match girl," "Thumbelina," "The Elfin Hill," "Little Ida's Flower," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Wild Swans," and "The Emperor's New Clothes."

Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nonpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with red and blue stamping. Color and black & white illustrations by Brock. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Small tear to rear endpaper. Rubbing to corners and spine. No dust jacket. Tale of Mrs. Fiddlefinger, of the three chins and many aprons, and her private island that flew off over Blue Kettle Lake on its own during a wind storm, to land on the other side.

Hardcover. Joliet, P.F. Volland Company , 4th Ed., 1927, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 94 pages. Illustrated in color by Marie Honre Myers. Illustrated endpapers.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by James Stevenson. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anita Lobel. Previous owner's inscription on front paste-down endpaper. Price blacked out on dust jacket front flap. "In this fine book in which text and illustration build upon each other...cumulative verse unites with watercolor illustrations to convey the simple story of a garden's solitude being overturned by a fieldmouse, a cat, and a once-slumbering bee."--School Library Journal.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. This is a pictorial memoir of Melisande, a most uncommon dog who becomes a famous opera singer. B&w cartoon illustrations by Roy McKie. Clean copy.

Racine, Wisconsin, Whitman Publishing Co., 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 62 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Frances Tipton Hunter. Dust jacket with major edgewear, chipping and soil. Pieces missing from edges.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Henry C. Pitz. Water stain to front cover. Light rubbing to spine, corners. Dust jacket with edgewear, soiling.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color cartoon illustrations by Quentin Blake.

NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Maria Cristina Brusca. Light edgewear to dust jacket. When a handsome city slicker shows up at the Z-Bar Ranch to borrow a horse, the cowboys there decide to make him the butt of a joke, offering him Zebra Dun, the meanest bucking bronco they have, in a colorful version of a traditional cowboy song.

Hardcover. NY, Joanna Cotler /HarperCollins, 5th pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Summary of the story: "A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world". Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 72 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Oxenbury. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Tight copy.

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. NY, Platt & Munk, reprint, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in green cloth with full color paste-down on front cover. 10" x 12", former owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise unmarked. Vivid color illustrations throughout along with b&w drawings by Eulalie, Lois Lenski and others.. Contains nine traditional stories: Little Red Riding Hood, The Story of Peter Pan, Dick Whittington and His Cat, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Three Bears, Puss in Boots, Tom Thumb and Jack and the Beanstalk.

Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. In a timeless Swahili tale, Leopard and Sungura the hare unknowingly build houses on the same hill, and they eventually meet, and one outwits the other. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Williams Collins , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 95 pages. Generously illustrated in color and black and white. Yellow endpapers and chronological list of Tudor's books. Good tight copy. Loving portrait of her mother by the beloved children's book illustrator's daughter offered in words, intimate family photographs, paintings, illustrations, & drawings from across their lives together in the New England countryside.

NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Four traditional Irish tales are woven throughout this touching story of Donal O'Donnell, who has kept his heart closely guarded since the death of his son, as he is unexpectedly captivated by the stories of three peddlers, which are filled with hope, healing, and magic. Color illustrations by Loren Long.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Cloth spine with pictorial boards. Black & white illustrations by Paul Flora. Light edgewear, chipping and soil to covers. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Jr. Literary Guild/ Albert Whitman, BC Ed., 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Bannon, 48 pages. Green cloth covers decorated in 2-colors. Tight, clean condition with a slight nick to front cover at bottom corner. Miss Bannon and her friend, Katherine Evans, also a children's book illustrator, were living in a small Mexican village. While painting, the two friends were beguiled by a little girl. When they found she wanted a special doll, they combined their talents to make a very unusual gift. Light pencil inscription on prelim page, otherwise clean.

New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket., 32 pages, illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully, very clean, tight copy, like new. From skiing in January, to surfing in July, to giving in December, two energetic piglets romp through the months of the year in this delightful calendar in verse.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear and chipping to dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped. Illustrated end papers.

Hardcover. NY, Little Simon, 4th pr., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Full-color illustrated pop-ups by Sabuda, special foils. Excellent condition. No dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glazed boards, with 6 pop-up image, illustrated by Jonathan Lambert. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Illustrated end papers. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color and b&w lithographic illustrations by the D'Aulaires. Bright dust jacket, unclipped but with inked price under printed price on flap $5.95.

Englewood Cliffs NJ, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Cartoon illustrations by Sam Weissman. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Barry Moser. Clean, tight copy.

hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated, color and b&w illustrations by Aldren A. Watson. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Several blank pages with childrens markings, internally clean. SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Kessler. An I Can Read Book all about swimming. Clean, bright copy.

NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Foreman. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Illustrated end papers.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Waber. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dominic Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial glossy boards. When a jazz-loving kitten named Nicky meets a legendary trumpet player, he learns how to play jazz and word travels fast--soon all the top musicians hear about this jazz cat and want to play with him. This charming story is illustrated with photographs of Nicky with jazz greats Roy Eldridge, Lionel Hampton, Lena Horne, Quincy Jones, Abbey Lincoln, and Gerry Mulligan as they meet and make friends. The colorful graphics and rhyming text--call and response conversation between Nicky and his new musician friends--reflect the humor, rhythm, and spirit of jazz itself. Nicky the Jazz Cat teaches children about the magic of jazz, the value of friends and mentors, and the power of imagination and originality. Children and adults alike will delight in his journey from curious jazz kitten to acclaimed jazz cat. This is the true first edition published 2 years before the poerHouse edition.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion, 2nd pr., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Winner of the Caldecott Medal. Color illustrations by the author. Clean, tight copy. Second printing, without the Caldecott sticker.