Hardcover. Stockholm, Albert Bonniers, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong pictorial boards with green cloth spine. Beautiful color plates by Beskow. SWEDISH TEXT. Small sticker on inside front cover, otherwise a clean copy.
Boston , Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Debby Atwell. In a humorous rendition of a famous Norwegian folktale, Hans challenges his wife, Gertrude, to exchange chores with him and soon learns how difficult housework really is.
Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing, reprint , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Tunis.160 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, unclipped.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ormerod. Touring the zoo, two children pet, ride, and observe a variety of animals. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 2nd pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by the author. 109 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, rubbing and soil. Dust jacket price clipped.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W illustrations by Victoria Chess. Illustrated library cloth binding. Clean and tight. The author has taken a favorite biblical legend and fashioned it into a dramatic story-poem. Chess's vigorous, exciting illustrations chart the hero's unusual journey.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Kirk who spins out an extraterrestrial version of the familiar lullaby, featuring a four-armed father promising his banana-colored little one, among other prizes, a shooting star, an astronaut (against the astronaut's wishes, it appears), a laser rifle, tools to build a spaceship and, finally, a good-night kiss. Clean copy.
NY, Putnam, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ed Young. Delamination, edgewear, soil, and tape residue to dust jacket. Small pen markings on title-page. In this reinvention of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, images by Caldecott medalist Ed Young and new text by Eleanor Coerr come together to inspire children of all ages. In her novel Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Eleanor Coerr told the moving story of Sadako and her brave struggle against leukemia, the "atom-bomb disease," which she developed when she was twelve, just ten years after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The novel became a classic, and when Sadako's story was to be made into a film, Caldecott medalist Ed Young was asked to do the illustrations. With love and commitment, he created hauntingly beautiful pastels which bring to life the spirit of Sadako, her courage and her strength.
Hardcover. Philadelphia , David McKay, 1st US, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover.Torquoise cloth with gilt design, gilt dulled on spine. 30 color plates by Harold Copping. B&W frontispiece portrait of Dickens partially loose. Top edge gilt. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated boards. Color illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky. First published in 1949, this appears to be a 70s reprint, code letters inside rear cover stop at J. A big elephant leaves the circus, builds a house, helps the townspeople, and finds happiness. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Verses are accompanied by illustrations of unusual situations such as a dog taking a little girl for a walk, a bird scolding a cat for scaring his friends, and a boy sitting calmly while a sheep shears his head.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by David Christiana. SIGNED BY BOTH YOLEN AND CHRISTIANA on bookplate pasted to front end paper. Like new in dust jacket.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and soiled dust jacket. (60 cents on flap). Color and two-color illustrations throughout by the Petershams.
Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Grand Rapids MI, Eerdmans, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Hall. A native Alaskan folktale tells about a raven who punishes humans for destroying nature by blocking out the sun to make Earth cold and dark, but a woman finds a feather from the bird that may have the secret to saving the planet.
Hardcover. NY, Cupples and Leon, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, small format, gray boards printed in navy with color cover plate by John B. (Johnny) Gruelle, plus color frontis and 7 additional plates and line drawings by the artist. Mild soil along spine cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, DK Ink, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Wendy Watson and INSCRIBED BY WATSON WITH A SKETCH OF A MOUSE on the half title page. Bright unclipped dust jacket, hardcover.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a chipped, edgeworn dust jacket, B&w drawings by Rita Fava. Collection of 9 French Canadian folk stories, told to told to children at the LeBlanc summer picnic in Vermont to remind them of their ancestors in French Canada; in the beginning they lived near Quebec city and wore long red sashes and later some moved to Montreal where the color was blue. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY , L. W. Singer Co., 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 48 pages. Illustrated in color by Caldecott winner Jerry Pinkney. One of his early and scarce titles. Light wear, rubbing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Brookfield, Connecticut, Roaring Book Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, SIGNED BY MACDONALD WITH ILLUSTRATED SKETCH TO GREEN PREVIEW PAGE. Color illustrated covers and dust jacket, acetate protective covering to dust jacket, beautiful full page color illustrations by MacDonald. No signs of wear, pages, dust jacket and covers clean, crisp and unmarked; a lovely book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Front cover slightly bowed, otherwise clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges. Color ullustrations by Wendy Watson.
New York, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Color illustrations by Robert Quackenbush. 32 pages. No dust jacket. Pete Pack Rat must act quickly to save Pebble Junction's Christmas Eve celebrations when the Gila Monster Gang escapes from jail and steals the Christmas pinata. Owner's name on title page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Non-paginated, hardcover. Color illustrations by Everett Shinn. Dust jacket with light wear and some chipping along edges. Large chunk missing from front dust jacekt. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st UK, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, unpaginated (approx. 64 pages), illustrated in b&w by Irene Haas. This is a picture book that introduces young readers to a variety of useful French phrases by describing the trip of two intrepid young travellers by sea to France, by boat train to Paris, and then through sight-seeing adventures. Each phrase is accompanied by a detailed, witty, black and white pictures showing when it might be used. A wonderful picture-book for the young French language learner. Clean. No dust jacket.
New York, Walker, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 40 pages. Color illustrations by author. Based on the true story of the English explorer in Antarctica.Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Holiday House, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Full color illustrations by Robert Rayevsky. Clean, bright copy. Above there are skyscrapers and sunshine, schools and families, pigeons and pets--but below the streets of New York there is a bustling world of tunnels, jazz clubs, subways, restaurants, and more.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Amy Schwartz. Unpaginated.
Chicago, M.A. Donahue & Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. Color and b&w illustrations by Gruelle. Light corner wear to covers. Clean copy. First published by Volland in 1925, this is most likely a 1930s reprint.
Hardcover. New York, Scholastic, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 72 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by David Shannon. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Full color illustrations by Dr. Seuss. 19 Seuss-Songs for Beginning Singers - Piano Score and Guitar Chords by Eugene Poddany. Previous owners bookplate opposite title page. Quarter size abrasion at top right corner of front endpaper. Light wear to cover, corners. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Carlos Merida. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Lothrop, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Color illustrations by Shirley Hughes. Dust jacket has closed tear at spine and is faded. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Full color illustrations by Brian Wildsmith. All pages intact. Dust jacket with tape repaired tears along edges, some shallow surface abrasion. Clean, tight.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Thomas Allen. A pioneer girl sees pieces of her life sewn into the quilts she, her sister and her mother make. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Johny Gruelle Co. , 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color, B&W illust. by Gruelle. Color illustrated cardboard covers, red cloth spine. Previous owner's sticker front end paper. Otherwise very good.
Hardcover. New York, Golden Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictoriak boards. Full color illustrations by Ben F. Stahl. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.
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. New York , Hyperion, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 63 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrated by Brian Selznick. SIGNED BY BOTH WELLS AND SELZNICK. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 2nd Printing, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. 1980 Second Printing. Previous owners name at top left corner of preliminary page opposite title page, Also - INSCRIBED BY ILLUSTRATOR TOM FEELINGS on same page. Black & white illustrations by Tom Feelings. Faint foxing to endpapers, small moisture stain at very bottom right corner of pages. Dust jacket with short closed tears along edges, areas of rubbing - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked pages.
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).
Hardcover. New York , Doubleday, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustratrd glazed boards, no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Spier. Clean copy.In 1687, young Sietze Hemmes helps rescue a vessel foundering off the Dutch coast, and three hundred years later, another Sietze Hemmes takes part in a similar rescue, in parallel stories that explore the themes of heroism and selflessness.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 79 pages. Hardcover facsimile copy of the original 1937 edition in full color. Black boards with white titles to spine. Full page, full color & bw illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with light marginal wear to edges. Tight bindng, sharp corners, illustrated endpapers, clean & unmarked pages throughout.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket.Color illustrations by Atwell. Debby Atwell does a lovely job of conveying the sweep of history. The book's two narrative threads--the histories of the United States and of six generations of Pearl's family--intertwine neatly. The pictures are a delight, and their folk art style lends a nice sense of continuity to the book.
New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by William Steig, very clean, tight copy, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust dacket with light fading to spine. Jeremiah, a middle- aged proboscis monkey feels life is passing him by. Wonderful black and white illustrations by the author. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap , 1st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a blue cloth spine. Color, B&W illustrations by Masha. Light cover wear, a couple of small stains to 2 pages. A fragile book, but still sound.
Hardcover. New York, Rand McNally & Co., reprint, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated. Reprint of 1918 edition. B/W and color illustrations by Leroy Jackson. Dust jacket torn and taped. Pages very clean.
 "Tant Gron Tant Brun och Tant Gredelinby: Beskow, Elsa")
 "Day Hans Got His Way, Theby: Atwell, David Lewis")
 "Colonial Craftsmen - And the Beginnings of American Industryby: Tunis, Edwin")
 "When We Went To the Zooby: Jan Ormerod")
 "Tavern At The Ferry, Theby: Tunis, Edwin")
 "Ship in a Storm on the Way to Tarshish, Aby: Farber/Victoria Chess, Norma")
 "Hush, Little Alien by: Kirk, Daniel")
 "Sadakoby: Coerr/Ed Young, Eleanor")
 "Character Sketches from Dickensby: Matz (Ed.)/Harold Copping, B. W.")
 "Topsy Turvyby: Beisner, Monika")
 "Good Griselle (SIGNED COPY)by: Yolen, Jane")
 "The Story Book of Goldby: Petersham, Maud And Miska")
 "Farm Summer 1942, The by: Hall, Donald and Barry Moser")
 "Stolen Sun, The - A Story of Native Alaskaby: Hall, Amanda")
 "All About the Little Small Red Hen by: Gruelle, John B. (illust)")
 "Abel's Moonby: Hughes, Shirley")
 "Night Before Christmas, The (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR)by: Watson, Wendy and Clement Clarke Moore")
 "Sashes Red and Blue by: Carlson, Natalie Savage; Fava, Rita (Illus.)")
 "Shoes, Pennies, and Rockets - A Book of Singing Gamesby: Dale, Ralph Alan")
 "Achoo! Bang! Crash!/The Noisy Alphabet (SIGNED COPY)by: MacDonald, Ross")
 "Cats in Krasinski Square, Theby: Hesse/Wendy Watson, Karen")
 "Pete Pack Rat's Christmas Eve Surpriseby: Quackenbush, Robert")
 "Rip Van Winkleby: Irving, Washington and Everett Shinn")
 "There is a Dragon in My Bed and Other Useful Phrases in French and English by: Joslin, Sesyle/Illustrated By Irene Haas")
 "Trapped by the Ice! - Shackleton's Amazing Antarctic Adventureby: McCurdy, Michael")
 "Under New Yorkby: High, Linda Oatman/Robert Rayevsky")
 "Fenwick's Suitby: Small, David")
 "Yossel Zissel and the Wisdom of Chelmby: Schwartz, Amy")
 "Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebbleby: Gruelle, Johnny")
 "How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have? and Other Talesby: Lester, Julius and David Shannon")
 "Cat in the Hat Song Book, Theby: Seuss, Dr./Eugene Poddany")
 "The Birdby: Lowrey, Janette Sebring / Carlos Merida")
 "The Snow Ladyby: Hughes, Shirley")
 "Give a Dog a Boneby: Wildsmith, Brian")
 "Sewing Quiltsby: Turner, Ann /illust by Thomas B. Allen")
 "Raggedy Ann and the Golden Butterflyby: Gruelle, Johnny")
 "Wilma and the Water Pistol That Wouldn't Shoot Straightby: Bjorkman, Nancy Roth/Ben F. Stahl")
 "The Three Little Pigs. A Child Guidance Action Bookby: Stone, David K.")
 "Wingwalker (SIGNED COPY)by: Wells, Rosemary and Brian Selznick")
 "Something on My Mind (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR)by: Feelings, Tom/Nikki Grimes")
 "Open House for Butterflies by: Ruth Krauss/Maurice Sendak")
 "Father, May I Come?by: Spier, Peter")
 "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfsby: Disney, Walt")
 "The Adventures of Sammy Jayby: Burgess Thornton W/illustrated by Harrison Cady")
 "Pearlby: Atwell, Debby")
 "Alpha Beta Chowderby: Steig, Jeanne/William Steig")
 "The Strange and Exciting Adventures of Jeremiah Hushby: Shulevitz, Uri")
 "Peter Patter Bookby: Jackson, Leroy")