Hardcover. NY, Sea Star Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illust. by Kinuko Y. Craft. Tight copy with only minor wear to cover edges.
Hardcover. New York, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1943 , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardbound. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Edgewear, corners worn. Light soiling throughout book. Dust jacket with soiling, large chunk missing from front cover. Closed tears. Brodart cover.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated from the Russian by Whitney. Color illustrations by Nonny Hogrogian. Minor wear to dust jacket, clean copy.
NY, Hyperion, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket Color illustrations by Jim La Marche. A delightful fantasy about the passenger pigeon.
New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardbound in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Wood. Dust jacket with light edgewear. The great Detective Valentine has his work cut out for him when the snow queen's crown is stolen two days before the contest and the mayor's wife, a famous actress, and the detective's good friend are all suspects.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, illustrated in color and b&w by Roger Duvoisin, pattern of little vignettes in blue frames on endpapers. Gutter split at endpapers, spine reinforced with black tape. Internally the book is very good with bright art by Duvoisin, a scarce early work by the illustrator.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Kimberly Bulcken Root. INSCRIBED BY ROOT on title pg. Clean, tight signed copy.
NY, Doubleday Doran and Co., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt title on spine, 96 pages. Color frontispiece by John Rae. B&w illustrations by Henry Pitz, Harold Sichel. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Adelaide AUS, Rigby Limited, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 79 pages illustrated in color and b&w. A collaboration between artist Ainslie Roberts & anthropologist Charles Mountford, who combined Ainslie Roberts outback paintings with his knowledge. Previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st Edition, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages. Hardcover. Clear, transparent, decorated dust jacket, has some scratches to front cover. Decorated cover boards. Vivid color illustrations throughout. Beautiful condition, pages clean. Binding good. Spine straight.
Chicago IL, Albert Whitman & Co., 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color and black & white illustrations by Margaret Ayer. 128 pages. Orange cover with green writing. Mild soiling to covers, edgewear. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st illust., 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red embossed covers with gilt decoration of two children in profile. One volume from the publisher's 10 volume series, 508 pages. Notable for the full color plates by H.I. Bacharach, 16 in all. Illustrated endpapers of young children in field of flowers (by another artist). Interior clean, very good.
Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace & Company, 3rd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by David Diaz. Really nice, new-looking condition. Hardbound, dust jacket. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur turns his sharp eye to the noble alphabet and imagines what life would be like without these twenty-six little--but powerful--letters. Packed with humor and subtle wit, the verse in this captivating picture book is splendidly matched by Caldecott Medal winner David Diaz's hilariously clever illustrations.
NY, Viking Press, 3rd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black and white drawings by Harold Berson. The story of Camilla, a camel who dances.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. A story about a child's love for her favorite rag doll. Clean copy.
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. 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.
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.