Hardcover. London, Whizzard Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket depicting Alice stretching to put an envelope into a red cast iron Victorian postal box, illustrated with philatelic color images (stamps and covers mainly) relating to Alice by Tenniel, pictorial end-papers with B&W images of Lewis Carroll & Sir John Tenniel, 48 pages. An unusual reprise of postal images relating to Tenniel's classic illustrations of Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass. Bookplate on dedication page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. SIGNED BY WILSON with note to previous owner on front end paper. Color illustrations by Wilson. Cover shows some wear. Bump and abrasion on bottom rear cover. Rear cover slightly warped.
Hardcover. Twirl, 1stEnglish Ed., 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. What's out in space? Can we travel to other planets? What do astronauts do? Children can find out the answers to these questions and more in this accessible and interactive guide. The multilayered 3-D scenes leap off every page, allowing young readers to experience space in a unique way. 10 big multilayered pop-ups, one on every spread! Descriptive text and labeled illustrations for quick and easy learning Built-in elastic bands that allow readers to display their favorite scenes on a bookcase or desk Sturdy construction that's perfect for at-home or on-the-go From exploring the planets and landing on the moon to planning future space missions, this first title in the new Pop-Up Guide series brings to life dramatic settings that capture children's imagination and encourage them to find out more. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset and Dunlap, 2nd, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light soil to dust jacket. Moderate wear to cover edges. Illustrated by Glen Rounds in color and b&w.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Good+ clothbound hardcover with a color plate mounted to the front with overall light soiling to the covers, blunting to the tips, and light signs of handling; lacking dust jacket. 1970 Caldecott Honor book.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ROSEMARY WELLS ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. HY, Beginner Books/Random House, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards, 61 pages illustrated in color by P.D. Eastman. Originally published in 1962. A delightful ode to winter. Brrrrr--it snowed! From snowball fights and skiing to fort building and snowman-making, P. D. Eastman and Roy McKie's Snow will have young readers eager for the kind of fun only a wintry-white day can bring. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 72 pages. A true masterpiece of book design and illustration for beginning readers, this collection pairs well-known nursery tales with uniquely beautiful period illustrations that look as fresh and vital today as they did six decades ago, when the book was first published in Great Britain. Never before published in the United States, My First Nursery Book features four beloved stories: "Who Killed Cock Robin?," "The Gingerbread Man," "Three Little Pigs," and "The Three Bears." Franciszka Themerson, a Polish avant-garde artist and filmmaker who returned to children's book illustration as a refugee in London in the 1940s, is regarded as one of the great talents in classic children's book illustration. Finally, American children can experience and enjoy this remarkable volume, filled with stunning illustrations that will bring a new audience to Themerson's genius.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Hardcover board book illustrated by Marla Frezee. Every day, everywhere, babies are born. They're kissed and dressed and rocked and fed and completely adored by families that love them. With an irresistible rhyming text and delightfully endearing illustrations, this book is an exuberant celebration of playing, sleeping, crawling, and, of course, very noisy babies doing all the wonderful things babies do best. Clean copy. No "Baby on Board" window cling. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Golden Books/Random House, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Yaccarino. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR opposite title page. Famed illustrator Dan Yaccarino brings his unique style to the familiar realm of Mother Goose. His witty, bold graphic scenes take place in the city, which give the rhymes a fresh perspective. In this book, Mary's little lamb hails a cab to school!
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, Long ago in Italy, a mighty asparagus grew smack-dab in front of the king's castle. Was the king happy about it? No. The asparagus had to go. But how does a king reason with an asparagus of such stature? With tongue planted firmly in cheek, Vladimir Radunsky tells the uproarious tale of an almost immovable vegetable. Drawing on Italian Renaissance art, the esteemed artist creates a breathtaking magical kingdom, where it's easy to imagine that such an asparagus existed. His artwork is as gorgeous as it is funny. Although the old masters may turn over in their graves, readers of all ages will clamor for more of The Mighty Asparagus.
Hardcover. NY, Walker Books, 1st thus, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 22 small hardcovers in a pictorial slipcase, a very clean set of books unread. All illustrated in color by Oxenbury. Set Titles in the Set Down The Rabbit-Hole, The Pool Of Tears, A Caucus-Race And A Long Tale, The Rabbit Sends In A Little Bell, Advice From A Caterpillar, Pig and Pepper, A Mad Tea-Party, The Queen's Croquet-Ground, The Mock Turtle's Story, The Lobster Quadrille, Who Stole The Tarts, Alice's Evidence, Looking-Glass House, The Garden Of Live Flowers, Looking-Glass Insects, Tweedledum And Tweedledee, Wool And Water, Humpty Dumpty, The Lion And The Unicorn, It's My Own Invention, Queen Alice, Queen Alice, Shaking Waking Which Dreamed It
Hardcover. Racine Wi, Whitman Publishing, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a red cloth spine. 28 pages with red and blue line illustrations and blue text inside. Stapled binding. A good copy of a fragile book. Light pencil marking.
Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. A rousing tale of suspense, magic, and adventure, Glinda of Oz is the fourteenth and final Oz book by L. Frank Baum. It's a grand conclusion to his chronicles of America's favorite fairyland. This deluxe gift edition features all twelve of Oz artist John R. Neill's beautiful color plates, along with his nearly one hundred black-and-white pictures,
Hardcover. London/NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st US, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. At the edge of the forest, Mrs. Fox looks out at her babies frolicking in the snow. Suddenly, the little ones stray too far away and in an instant Mrs. Fox loses sight of them. She embarks on a search for the missing kits, hampered by the dense trees and the deep snow. Can the reader help her find them? Mrs. Fox is a classic hide-and-seek story told through clever and beautiful paper cutouts and engaging illustrations. Young readers will enjoy finding the little foxes on the page as much as flipping through the large format, die cut pages. Illustrated in color throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages, color illustrations by Paul Zelinsky. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. The huge but rather childlike character featured in Prelutsky and Zelinsky's Awful Ogre's Awful Day (2001) returns in a new volume of light verse accomplanied by full-page and double-page illustrations. Taking place during the one-eyed ogre's summer vacation, the first-person poems run the gamut from somewhat gross ("Awful Ogre Has Insomnia") to droll ("Awful Ogre Attends a Concert") to tenderhearted ("Awful Ogre Pays a Visit") to sublime ("Awful Ogre Goes Dragon-Watching"). Prelutsky shows his sure sense of rhythm and rhyme as well as his child-pleasing sense of humor in this series of 17 clearly written poems. Most appear on double-page spreads, accompanied by large ink-and-watercolor illustrations that reflect the tone of the verse. Highlighting the barely controlled chaos of this amiable ogre's world, the pictures create a visually imaginative setting where anything can happen and, in the fun-to-discover details, something often does.
Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In rural Quebec in the 1830s, Jenny is hired to help a family by cooking and cleaning after her predecessor, the beloved Emily, has died, but Jenny is mysteriously prevented from completing one of her chores. Color illustrations by Lydia Dabcovich.
Hardcover. New York, Pied Piper, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by author. Clean, tight copy with minor to moderate wear on dust jacket spine.
Hardcover. NY, Schwartz & Wade, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, no dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated by the author in b&w and two colors. When Mini finds a small moppet of a dog, with fluffy ears, no collar, and wearing yellow booties, she understandably wants to take it home. Despite Mom's insistence that the dog probably already has a family, Mini gets attached and is awfully proud of her new pal, who can sing, sit, and give both paws. But when the pup runs off one day at the park, Mini comes to understand how someone else out there might be missing the little guy too.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Books or Young Readers, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY KELLOGG WITH ILLUSTRATION ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Tight copy. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In rural Quebec in the 1830s, Jenny is hired to help a family by cooking and cleaning after her predecessor, the beloved Emily, has died, but Jenny is mysteriously prevented from completing one of her chores. Color illustrations by Lydia Dabcovich.
Hardcover. New York, Harpers Collins, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrated by Roz Chast. Minor wear to edges.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 8th pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Macaulay. Lavishly illustrated Caldecott Honor book about the construction of an imaginary French Gothic cathedral. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 47 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows heavy chipping and wear. Illustrations by Louis Slobodkin. chipped laminated boards. Large chunk missing on rear dust jacket.
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.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Company, reprint, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. An early reader with 3-color illustrations throughout text. Fraying to spine and edges. Clean, binding slightly shaken.
Hardcover. Iceland, Mal Og Menning, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by Pilkington. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co, reprint, unk., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 88 pages. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color and black and white by Randolph Caldecott. Dust jacket has minor wear. No. 1.
Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with cardboard spine split along top. No dust jacket. Corners chipped and fraying. Previous owner's sticker on front fly leaf bottom.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Newly translated by Ralph Manheim. Dust jacket price-clipped otherwise bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jozef Wilkon. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 239 pages, with b&w drawings by Kurt Wiese. Minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 78 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Seuss. Here is the true story about the Godiva family, and the seven sisters who are each far too intelligent to waste time worrying about frivolous things like doing their hair, makeup, or you know, clothes. When their father is killed by a horse, they take it upon themselves to discover seven Horse Truths, one from each sister, before any of them will ever know true love. What follows is a clever, funny and sometimes touching story that is a little different from your average Dr. Seuss book. Originally published in 1939. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Green cloth covers with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, color illustrated endpapers, profusely illustrated with lovely color plates. Small clipped color illustrated article from unknown publication on Maurice Sendak included. Slight edgewear to dust jacket, very faint small brown stain to bottom right front corner of dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very nice, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Young Scott Books, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w drawings by Edward Gorey, dj w/ edgewear, closed tear at folds, chip on rear panel. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 28 pages illustrated in color by Blanche Fisher Wright. Copyright date is 1917, Lovely book of nursery rhymes. Paper chipping to spine covering. Binding is holding but fragile. No markings.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrations by Wnedy Watson. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by David Wiesner. SIGNED BY WILLARD. Light edgewear to dust jacket, dust jacket price clipped, remainder ink dot to top edge.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped with lettering and decorative art. 40 pages illustrated in 2 and 3-colors by Lenski. "Twenty-one original melodies composed by Clyde Robert Bulla capture perfectly the spirit of Miss Lenski's verse." No dust jacket. Faint pencil marks to cover, interior clean.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, unk., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.INSCRIBED BY OSBORNE on title page. Wood engravings by Michael McCurdy
Hardcover. NY, Viking Childrens Books, 1st US, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Magenta Fox. Meet Maud: a guinea pig who inexplicably wears a judo suit--and not everyone understands or approves. When Maud is thrown into a new and confusing situation, it takes brave decisions and serendipitous encounters for her to find her place and embrace her individuality. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, McLoughlin Bro, 1st, 1888, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 14 pages. Soft cover on linen, with moderate chipping to paper wrappers. Stapled booklet with rust. Moderate tears and paper wrapper almost detached from staple binding. Full page color chromolithographs.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Margot Tomes. Dj price clipped. Small closed tear to spine.
Hardcover. Chicago, Lyons & Carnahan, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Child-Story Program. Guidance in Reading Series. Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in blue and orange. State of Texas textbook. Illustrated throughout in color by Vera Stone Norman. 154 pages. Clean copy. Like Dick and Jane series. Both part of "look-say" (whole-word) method of teaching reading popular in 1930s -1960s.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrations by Seuss throughout. 19 songs for Beginning Singers. Piano score and Guitar chords by Eugene Poddany. 1st printing, with 1st group listed books ending with I Had Trouble & list for Beginning Readers ending with Fox in Socks on back cover, decorated cloth cover. Mild soil to rear cover, otherwise clean.
NY, Holiday House, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Sauber. Frolya, a talking dove, weaves a beautiful rug for the archer Frol, which leads to a series of exciting adventures for the archer when the wicked czar covets the dove, adventures that lead Frol to the magical Land of I-Know-Not-Where.
Hardcover. North South Books, reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with cover label, gilt title on spine. The appeal of The Wizard of Oz is universal. Published in every major language, it has been enjoyed by children the world over. Now the inter-nationally acclaimed Viennese illustrator Lisbeth Zwerger brings her exceptional artistry and singular vision to a new edition of The Wizard of Oz. Her unique perspective, her blend of whimsy and grace, charm and imagination offer readers a view of Oz that is fantastic yet familiar, startling yet strangely satisfying. Her vision of Baum's timeless classic is sure to be treasured by young and old alike. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.