Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original dark blue cloth with medieval style lettering and illustrated paste down to front board. All pages illustrated with "illuminated" style borders and illustrations in color and B/W. Illustrated endpapers of winged horses and children in pale blue and white. Eleven full page color illustrations, two half page color illustrations, and many B/W. 56 pages. Small name on half-title page, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 48 pages with b&w illustrations by Ian Ribbons throughout. Slight dust jacket edge wear and price clipped, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Stephen longed for a parrot but on a visit to his grandmother he found an injured sea gull that he nursed back to health. Clean copy.
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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Preston and his wife, Ruth, own Ellington Lodge. Preston is a checkers-playing fiend and is known around the neighborhood as the greatest checkers player in the world. When a small dog named Marley shows up at Ellington Lodge, Preston at first thinks he's harmless, and Ruth is delighted because Marley helps out with chores that Preston has no time for, due to his checkers games. Ever-helpful Marley soon seems to cast a spell over everyone at the lodge with his cooking talent, amazing storytelling, speed painting, and magic tricks. Color art by Egan. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, book is clean.
Hardcover. Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Savage. Little Tug may not be very tall or very fast, but when the big ships in the harbor need help, they know they can count on him to be there with a push, a pull, and a ride to safety.
Hardcover. Chicago, Childrens Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 48 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w by Phoebe Erickson.
NY, Walker Childrens, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY KIMBLE opposite the title page. Warren Kimble, America's foremost contemporary folk artist, lets his favorite cats out of the bag in his first picture book for the very young. From fat cats to clean cats to curious cats, these clever word pairs capture familiar feline behavior and attitudes in all their quirky glory. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 double-page color pop-ups, engineered by Reinhart, text by Yorinks, art by Sendak. Like new condition, no dust jacket issued. While looking for his mother in a haunted house, a little boy plays pranks on the monster inhabitants.
Softcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 5th pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large softcover with pictorial wrappers. 26 full-page woodcuts by Mary Azarian. a beautiful clean, tight children's book in great condition. SIGNED BY AZARIAN on the title page.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illust. by Maurice Sendak, dj spine faded. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Oslo, Dreyers Forlag, 1st thus, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt titles in a bright dust jacket, 189 pages. Ever since they first appeared in translation more than a hundred years ago, the Norwegian folk tales collected by Asbjornsen and Moe have maintained unrivaled popularity on both sides of the Atlantic. The best of these tales are presented, with b&w illustrations by Erik Werenskiold and Theodor Kittelsen. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York , Atheneum, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with red ribbon decoration. Unpaginated. Illustrated with color pictures by Ron Barrett throughout on yellow background. Several pages with dog-ear crease at top corner, otherwise clean, very good. No dust jacket.
NY, Lothrop Lee Shepard, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lubin. Light edgewear to dust jacket..
Hardcover. NY, Dutton Books for Young Readers, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated throughout in color by Paul O. Zelinsky. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. Color illustrations by Charles Bragg. Previous owner's signature, address on front paste-down endpaper. Dust jacket with tape repaired tears to corners, back top edge.
Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne, reprint, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in gilt and black. Reprint edition of this charming tale of an adventurous toad who wished to see if the world were really round and found that it was the "Roundest place I ever was in". Four color and many b&w illustrations by Leslie Brooke. No date, but assumed 1930.
Hardcover. London, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Stasys Eidrigevicius.
Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The family busily prepares for Thanksgiving and has a grand feast with visiting relatives. Illustrated in color by Watson. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 34 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Clean, tight copy with only minor rubbing to edges.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick Warne, 1st, 2009, Pictorial boards, 16 pages with 8 interactive spreads, all using Barker's art from her Flower Fairies series. What happens when a little girl moves into a new house and discovers a tiny door? One day she manages to open it . . . and her world is forever changed when she gets her fi rst peek at the homes and the magical world of the Flower Fairies. As she starts to explore her neighborhood with a friend, they discover that there are more doors--all leading to the most secret of fairy places. Filled with gorgeous paper ephemera, pop-ups and special interactive features on every spread, this beautiful novelty book leads the reader to eight fairy doors to open and investigate. Each door has its own individual shape, color and characteristics-- some are decorated, others have little signs or notices, a set of footprints leading up to it, or magical fairy glitter at the doorstep. As the book progresses, more of the fairies and their world are revealed, culminating in an exciting and secret fairy nighttime ball.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacekt. Black & white illustrations by Salvatore Murdocca. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tears. Tight copy. Sticker on rear jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 40 pages illustrated in color by Tom Vroman. It was bedtime. Chris and his father sat down side by side on Chris's bed. They talked of Chris's friend Alexander, the red horse with green stripes. "Alexander was a pretty bad horse today," Chris said. "He wouldn't eat his cereal. He wouldn't sit up at the table and he spilled his milk." "That's too bad," said Chris's father. "What else happened?" The ensuing conversation of Alexander's bad day makes for an entertaining read, along with its priceless ending. Mild shelfwear. name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Softcover. New York , Neugebauer/North-South, 4th Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated, color illustrations, text in German and English. SIGNED BY ZWERGER on half title page. Softcover with an acetate dust jacket.
New York , Harcourt, 2nd pr., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by J. Otto Seibold. A PIG in a spigot? An AX in a taxi? An ELF in a belfry? It can mean only one thing. . . . Richard Wilbur has been playing with his words again! Aided and abetted by illustrator J.otto Seibold, Richard Wilbur reveals that words must be used carefully--because you never know what you'll find in them!
Hardcover. Chicago, Benefic Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with Squeaky on front cover. Illustrations in 3-colors by Edward Miller. Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey. Light edgewear and chipping to dust jacket.A charming story about a friendcship between a mongoose and spotted green snake.
Hardcover. San Marcos CA, Green Tiger Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color and black and white illustrations by classic illustrators of the past selected by Cooper Edens. Dust jacket with mild edgewear. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, 1st thus, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Two titles reprinted and combined in one book. Little Peewee illustrated by J.P. Miller, Sylvester illustrated by N.M. Bodecker. Name on title page otherwise clean. Weekly Reader Edition.
New York, Abelard Schuman, Book Club Ed., 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Weiss. Light soiling to covers. Light rubbing to extremities. Dust jacket with light edgewear, soiling.
Hardcover. NY, McElderry Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Erik Blegvad. Little Sister, a tiny girl who grows from an apple seed, helps her brother get home safely each time he strays on an errand in the wide world. Small paper scar to rear panel of dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY KIRK WITH Illustration on title-page. Color illustrations by the author. Tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges.
Hardcover. New York, Morrow Junior Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY STEVEN KELLOGG WITH SKETCH ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, spine stiff and tight, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.
Softcover. La Jolla CA, Star and Elephant Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A small book illustrated in color by Michael R. Hague. Softcover. Spine sunned. Hague's first illustrated book.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG on title-page. Color illustrations by the author. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by McCully.
Hardcover. NY, Clarkson N. Potter, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 128 pages. Charmingly attired antique Steiff bears, presented and photographed as characters in the memoirs of Ophelia, a stuffed bear who worked in a Paris shop.
Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 2nd pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 42 pages illustrated in color by Anno. The reader, with the help of two children, Tom and Hannah, two white hats, and three red hats learns about logic. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 24 pages. Rich linocut artworks portray ten key chronological moments from the story in shadowbox-style pop-ups that reward time spent poring over the details and offer fresh perspectives on the classic. Each spread is accompanied by select quotations from the book, while brief page notes provide additional context for the depicted plot moments. Clean
Hardcover. Natick, MA, Picture Book Studio, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lisbeth Zwerger.
Softcover. Chicago, Merrill Publishing Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 12 pages, 13" x 9 1/2" heavy paper covers and pages. Covers show light soiling with slight wear at spine and corners. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Great art by Milo Winter.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY GENNADY SPIRIN opposite title page in gold ink, and SIGNED BY JULIE ANDREWS EDWARDS in blue felt pen ink in title page. Tight copy with minor wear to cover boards.
Softcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 64 pages, 3-color cartoon illustrations by Stevenson. In the first of two easy-to-read stories a turtle and a snail make some friends with the help of a skateboard. In the second a mouse and a snail learn, through trial and error, how to be friends.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 170 pages. During her first term at boarding school, fifteen-year-old Flanders tries to cope with a variety of unusual people and situations and come to terms with her conflicting emotions about her recently separated parents. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 6th pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages illustrated with spectacular watercolor-splashed pages by Meilo So. Here in one gloriously illustrated volume are 211 wonderful poems that represent the best this century has to offer. From sibling rivalry, school, monsters, food, and just plain silliness, to such ageless themes as the seasons, Who am I?, and the many moods of childhood, this is a collection that begs to be read aloud and shared with the whole family. The poems, from every decade of this century, showcase 137 famous poets.
 "The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A Child's Storyby: Robert Browning/Hope Dunlap")
 "Issun Boshi: The One-Inch Boyby: Icinori")
 "Sing a Song of Sixpence - A Favorite Mother Goose Rhymeby: Lubin, Leonard B.")
 "Man Who Kept His Heart In A Bucket, Theby: Levitin, Sonia and Jerry Pinkney")
 "Flower Fairies Magical Doorsby: Cicely Mary Barker")
 "Have You Seen Wilhelmina Krumpf?by: Chasek, Judith")
 "Art of Lisbeth Zwerger, The (SIGNED BY ZWERGER)by: Zwerger, Lisbeth")
 "Marie Louise And Christopheby: Carlson, Natalie Savage")
 "Cabbage Moth and the Shamrock, Theby: Marbach /Michael Hague, Ethel")
 "Crossing the New Bridgeby: McCully, Emily Arnold")
 "Selfish Giant, Theby: Wilde, Oscar and Lisbeth Zwerger")
 "Boom Town Boyby: Lenski, Lois")
 "Simeon's Gift (SIGNED BY JULIE ANDREWS & SPIRIN)by: Edwards, Julie Andrews; Hamilton, Emma Walton")
 "Angel Hide and Seekby: Turner/Lois Ehert, Ann")
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