Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Based on a tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne, here retold in verse. Black and white drawings and silhouettes by Marc Brown. Dust jacket with closed tear, edgewear at top of cover.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 49 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 108 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Barry Moser. Dust jacket with spine fade, light edgewear. Clean, tight copy. Stories of the trickster hero Jahdu retold by Virgina Hamilton.
Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman, 5th pr., 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with color illustrated pastedown on front cover. Color illustrations by Lindman. Ex-lib with light stamping, marking, residue to end papers. Mild red stain to left bottom corner of cover plate.
NY, DK Ink, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. Fold out poster of a monster. Sticker on front cover. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 64 pages. Pictorial boards with black cloth spine. Full color and black & white illustrations by Marguerite Kirmse. Faint foxing along hinges on preliminary pages. Rubbing along cover edges and spine, upper right corners with shallow bump. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Arabelle Wheatley. Great book for young folks to enjoy about our seashores and how to enjoy the treasures found there. Includes how-to instructions for things such as sand lanterns, sand painting, making shell mosaics, storing shells, making a beachcomber's collage and many, many more. Recipe for a clambake and how to do it. Shell identification and index included.
New York, Simon & Schuster , reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Hillary Knight and SIGNED BY KNIGHT on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Chicago, Scott, Foresman and Company, Reprint, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Keith Ward and Eleanor Campbell. "Public School 201, 155 St. & 65 Avenue, Flushing, N. Y." stamped at top right left corner of title page. Light rubbing, surface soiling to covers. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. NY, Julian Messner, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black. 62 pages illustrated in b&w by Jules Gotlieb. The story of ten year old Jody from Provincetown Massachusetts and his first trip aboard the trawler, The Flying Codder, to Georges Bank and, afterwards, to New York's Fulton Fish Market. Two small smudges to front cover otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 48 pages. Color illustrations by Lobel. Clean. Lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription in a fine hand along top edge of inside front cover dated 1939. Full color and black & white illustrations by Barbara Latham. Rubbing to edges and corners of covers. Degree of age toning to page edges. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. Fifty-two stories and rhymes inspired by the myth of the Old West, illustrated by the Swedish-American illustrator who remains best-known for his work on the Walt Disney movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. A Giant Golden Book, 9-3/4 by 13 inches. 96 pages. First edition (4th printing, with code "D195195" on the inside front cover). There is a child's name on the blank page opposite the title page. NOTE: the spine cover has chipped away exposing the staple paper binding otherwise the pages are fresh and bright and the binding is tight.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 28 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by Alice and Martin Provenson. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages, b & w and color lithographs by Kurt Wiese, slight wear to edges of cover, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Woody Guthrie spent his life putting into words and music what the rest of America was thinking. He roamed from coast to coast and captured the despair of those displaced by the Great Depression and the dust bowl, eulogized workers, and celebrated the great natural beauty of America. This is an introductory biography presented as a picture book with a brief lyrical text and powerful, hand-tinted, woodcut-like illustrations by the author. It includes the complete lyrics to "This Land Is Your Land" and excerpts from his other songs.
Hardcover. New York, Bedrick, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Fiona French. Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, color illustrations by Brown, very clean, tight copy, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 5th pr., 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in red, large format. A square, bright copy of this vintage classic dictionary for children. Color illustrations by Gertrude Elliott. No marking.
Hardcover. New York, McElderry, 3rd, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Color illustrations by Helen Oxenbury. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.
Hardcover. NY, Phyllis Fogelman Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket lightly scratched. Color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue-green cloth stamped in black. 89 pages, b&w illustrations by Anderson. A horse story for young people. Through patience and gentle handling, Judy and the jumper Fair Lady both recover their nerve. No dust jacket, no marking. Back cover with water stains to cloth,
Hardcover. USSR, Raduga Publishers, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 25 pages. Translated from the Russian by Irina Zheleznova. Black & white illustrations by Ivan Bilibin. Minor soiling to covers.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Blue cloth covers with gilt titles, acetate-protected dust jacket, lovely full page color illustrations. Spine crisp and tight, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. Bronx NY, Child Guidance Books, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. "Cut-out, stiff paper characters move on top of the illustrated page as the opposing page of text is turned. The characters are covered by a thin sheet of plastic [which protects from damage] and they move under the plastic." The five action scenes show pigs dancing, a wolf huffing and puffing to blow down a straw house, Mr. Wolf's paw moving to knock on a pig's door, pigs riding a merry-go-round, and a pig in a barrel rolling downhill chasing after the wolf. No dust jacket, as issued. Color illustrations by David K. Stone.
Hardcover. Chicago, M. A. Donohue, 1st , 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket except tattered front panel of dust jacket laid-in. Illustrated in color, B&W by Gruelle. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Covers and spine faded. Tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Behind the scenes story of "Tales of Beatrix Potter," the ballet-film. Dark brown boards with gilt titles to spine, color illustrated dust jacket with protective acetate covering, profusely illustrated with lovely color and b&w plates. Slight edgewear to covers, very mild rubbing to dust jacket, pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, circa 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards with a black cloth spine. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak in b&w. A beautiful reprint of the classic 1960 edition. No dust jacket, clean. (Imprint is Harper & Row, so not a first. No ISBN so mid-or late 1960s).
New York, Dutton, 3rd pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with yellow stamping, 142 pages. B&W illustrations by Elinore Blaisdell. A wealth of simple, authoritative information about America's greatest nature lover written for the junior age student. 12 full page illustrations about Audubon's early life.Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Inc., 1st, 2007, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Fine, SIGNED BY DIANE GOODE ON TITLE PAGE. Green boards with embossed graphic of alligator to front, white glossy dust jacket with color illustration, lovely full page color illustrations by Diane Goode. No wear to book or dust jacket; a beautiful book in excellent condition.
New York, Harcourt Brace/Gulliver, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Brian Pinkney.The true sweat-and-dirt tale of the feisty cowboy-child who became the most famous black rodeo performer who ever lived. Includes a note about the history of the black West and a bibliography.
Hardcover. New York , Abelard-Schuman, reprint, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Light blue cloth cover, some wear to corners and edges. Many color illustrations throughout. A bright, clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st US, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Color and b&w illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Edgewear to boards, minor soil, no markings.
Softcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield, Unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with blue cloth spine. Tipped-in color frontis (by Frances Partridge). B&W drawings by Helene Nyce. Blue
Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., 1st, 1882, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Hardcover with lightly rubbed boards. Previous owner's inscription. Boards have wear and chips to the top and sides. Corners lightly bumped. Partially detached front board and nearly detached back board. A fragile copy. Gutter cracked in several places. Unmarked, bright illustrations throughout by noted illustrator George Cruikshank.
NY, Random House Beginner Books, Book Club Ed., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 63 pages illustrated in color by Richard Erdoes. The text is written by Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) under his lesser know pseudonym of Theo. Lesieg.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Anita Lobel, Caldecott Honor Book. Folded poster laid in. All in nice condition, including unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Blackie and Son, Ltd., 1st, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated (about 24 pages). Hardcover. Undated, assumed it's a 1st edition. Fun, engaging, color illustrations with text below throughout. Stitch binding with a few stitches missing, but still intact with no pages missing. The gray paper-covered boards are bound at the spine in gray cloth, and the front board has a full coloured pictorial panel pasted to it, with a scene of the Ark on a white background, with red and black lettering. Red cloth spine. Back cover's illustration has been romoved from board. Back cover board has been previously torn off and repaired with tape. Previous owner stamp on preliminary page with a crayon decoration. Some stray makes made with pencil on back cover board. Pages clean inside. In good condition for its age.
Hardcover. Chicago, P. F. Volland Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, part of Volland's Sunny Book Series. Color illustrations throughout by Kay, including endpapers. No other printings or editions mentioned so assume first printing. No box, signature and date on title page and half-title page. Light chipping to paper on spine.
San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in bright pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Sylvia Long. Small stamp, scribble to front fly leaf, otherwise Very Good. A fairy tale poem written at the turn of the century takes place in a medieval bunny kingdom where knights win prizes for proving their fear and leave it to the princess to rule.
Hardcover. New York, Crowell, 1st , 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Rockwell. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Glazed cardboard covers, no dust jacket issued. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Winter brings out the snowball-throwing worst and snowman-building best in Leo, Zack and Emmie as they argue about the existence of Santa Claus and catch chicken pox one by one. But no amount of snowballs and spots on their faces can come between friends. Bookplate on front fly leaf, no markings.
Hardcover. NY, Random House Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Most pets are cats and dogs, but what happens when a boy wants a different kind of pet, one that doesn't meow or bark? Bob Staake's exuberant tale of a little boy and the pet of his dreams will appeal to anyone whose best friends are . . . books! Books make the perfect pets, the boy decides, and chooses a bright red one. When it goes missing, a lively adventure is in store for readers who love a happy ending. Soon kids everywhere will wish for a pet book of their very own.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robin Preiss Glasser. Clean copy.
New York/London, North-South Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 103 pages, illustrated in color by Lizbeth Zwerger and SIGNED BY HER on title page.
Softcover. Paris, Des Deux Coqs D'or , reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 12 pages stapled. Illustrated in color by Richard Scarry. French language book, art probably lifted from Animals of Farmer Jones published in the US in the 1950s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. US, Piggy Toes Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Clean, tight copy. In this technical tour de force, father and daughter combine origami-style figures and intricate pop-up effects into six spreads and a double gatefold of paper magic. The art evokes common materials, from a whirl of newspaper doves or passport pages made into sailboats to legal-pad-paper ducks swimming in a desktop "pond" of spilled coffee and, for a spectacular finish, an array of Chinese take-out menus and cartons falling prey to a hungry dragon's attack. The figures are mostly made of precut and glued pieces, but many of the beaks and noses, at least, are actually folded.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Running Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Purple cloth with pictorial pastedown, green endpapers, bright and unmarked copy, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. A glorious, full-color collection of Mother Goose rhymes, featuring the classic Blanche Fisher Wright illustrations. 136 pages.
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