Hardcover. New York, Derrydale Books, reprint , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 88 pages. Retold from the stories of Joel Chandler Harris. Color illustrations by Harry Rountree and Rene Bull. Soiling, scratching to covers. Corners rubbed. Spine a little bumped.
Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Paul Galdone. A droll rendition of the old English ghost story about the teeny-tiny woman who found a teeny-tiny bone in the teeny-tiny churchyard.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 31 pages. SIGNED TWICE BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR ETIENNE DELESSERT. Clean, bright copy. Tobias is a very special mole. He collects shiny round pebbles and hides them down in his burrow where they re safe . . . or are they? When a friend warns him about robbers on the prowl, Tobias begins to worry.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, BC Ed., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Kahl. An adventurous boy is warned about giants when he sets out to see the world that lays beyond his home in the forest. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Compnay, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ALLSBURG ON TITLE PAGE. TIght copy. Illustrated by author.
Hardcover. Garden City NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket and covers completely illustrated, acetate-protected dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations by Ed Young. Dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige cloth with blue lettering on spine and drawing on front cover, 96 pages illustrated in color and b&w by the author.
Hardcover. NY/Cleveland, World Publishing Company, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. First American edition 8.25 x 7.75". Unpaginated [52 pages]. Essentially an artists' book created by the noted Italian futurist, Munari, widely regarded as one of the most influential book-designers of the 20th century. Illustrations feature translucent overlays and brightly colored pages with die cut edges and windows. Voted the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book 1969 winner. Previous owner;s inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
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, Whittlesey House, 2nd pr., 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with small closed tears, 68 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w. Part of the Teenie Weenies series. "The Teenie Weenies is a comic strip created and illustrated by William Donahey that first appeared in 1914 in the Chicago Tribune and ran for over 50 years. Small inscription on front endpapers.
Hardcover. New York , Greenwillow, 1st , 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.Illustrated in color by Anita Lobel. SIGNED BY LOBEL on title page.
Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, non-Paginated. Full color illustrations by Rhoda Chase. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Dust jacket shows light wear.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 4th pr, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 40 pages. INSCRIBED BY PRELUTSKY on dedication page. Black & white illustrations by Arnold Lobel. Dust jacket with edgewear, some residue, clipped.
hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 321 pages. A Swallows and Amazons adventure. Black & white illustrations. Previous owner's inscription on prelim page. Spine faded. Light soil to front cover.
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. NY, Arthur A. Levine Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped ($29.99) dust jacket. B&w Illustrations by Mary GrandPre. Black half-cloth, purple boards with diamond embossed design, Year 6 printed at top of spine. First American edition, July 2005, printing line: ''10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 05 06 07 08 09 USA 23''. Error on page 100: ''eleven 'Outstanding' O.W.L.s.'', in later editions this was changed to ''ten'' O.W.L.'s'. Clean, collectible copy.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Gay. Library Edition (NOT ex-lib.). Dust jacket flap clipped. A cheerful story about a baby penguin and his arctic friends.
Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, a story by the author of Ironweed and his son, Brendan. Illustrated in color by Glen Baxter. Through ingenuity, determination, and sheer grit, Charlie Malarkey and his friend Iggy must stop Ben Bubie and his diabolical machine from stealing belly-buttons in Albany, New York. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice, clean, almost new-looking condition. Color illustrations by Donald Carrick. Hardbound, dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Platt & Munk, reprint, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with pictorial label on front cover. Illustrated in color and b&w by Eulalie. Unpaginated but 28 pages. Light soil to covers, binding fragile, shaken.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 4th pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Stories adapted by Van Dyke Parks. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Paris, E. Plon, Nourrit et C., unknown, n/a, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. French text, 48 color pages, illustrated by M. B. de Monvel. Cover edge wear and light soiling, and spine cracked at front fly leaf, and page 17 but all pages intact. Overall, clean. Covered in plastic protecter that is torn on bottom.
hardcover. New York, Harcourt Childrens Books , 1st, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 44 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Katie Thamer Treherne throughout. Illustrated title page. Silver gilt titles on spine, red gilt decoration on cover. Reminder mark to top edge. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Cloth spine with pictorial boards. Black & white illustrations by Paul Flora. Light edgewear, chipping and soil to covers. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Dirk Zimmer. The monster family portrait on the cover sets the tone of comic exaggeration in this Ukrainian-Hutzul version of an age-old story. When a traveler is lost in the woods, the witch Three Eyes agrees to help him find his way back if he agrees to give her his most precious possession. Only when he gets home does he realize that he has bargained away his beloved daughter, Larissa.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 121 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY ILLUSTRATOR CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, illustrated with b&w drawings by Trina Schart Hyman. Dust jacket with edgewear, short tears, price-clipped. Book is clean, very good.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a black cloth spine, 80 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Daugherty. Edge of paper covered boards chipped, corner wear, previous owner's stamp on endpapers, interior pages clean, two pages with small corner chips. Daugherty won a Caldecott Honor Medal in 1939 for this title, a modern retelling of the Androcles And The Lion common folktale about a young boy who loves to read about lions.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Cover boards clean and bright. Illustrated in color and b&w by Aldren Watson. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton Children's Books, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Charming color illustrations by Chorao. SIGNED BY CHORAO on back of front endpaper. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages. Color illustrations by Say. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, attractive copy. One morning eight-year-old Martin looks in the mirror and sees a stranger. Overnight, he has changed. His parents take him to one doctor after another, only to be told that there is nothing wrong with their son. At school his teacher asks, "What have we here, trick or treat?" His classmates will not play with him. At home his family tries to treat him as if he were the same child. But things now are different. Martin has grown very old in the space of one day. His world will never be the same again.
Hardcover. New York, North South Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Peter Kuhner. Clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn, unclipped dust jacket. An old story illustrated in color by William Wiesner. Retelling of an old Viennese folk tale about how two close friends learn to accept a new friend.
Hardcover. Boston, L.C. Page, rep, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 271 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A Book of animal life in the Guiana Wilds, 59 plates by Bull. Dj with wear, chunks missing from top and bottom spine, front bottom, and rear bottom. Gutter cracked in several spots.
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, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st thus, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Uri Shulevitz. Honor Book sticker on dust jacket. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated cardboard covers, illustrated throughout in color by Byrd, 48 pages. Famous in his time as a painter, prankster, and philosopher, Leonardo da Vinci was also a musician, sculptor, and engineer for dukes, popes, and kings. What remains of his work-from futuristic designs and scientific inquiry to artwork of ethereal beauty-reveals the ambitious, unpredictable brilliance of a visionary, and a timeless dreamer.Robert Byrd celebrates this passionate, playful genius in a glowing picture book replete with the richness and imagination of Leonardo's own notebooks. Twenty lavish spreads, including side drawings, supplemental texts, and quotes from Leonardo's writings, highlight distinct periods and make the master's art, jokes, explorations, and inventions wonderfully vivid and accessible. A striking tribute to an irrepressible mind and to the potential within all who are curious.
Softcover. Hollywood CA, Walt Disney Enterprises, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Folio, stiff pictorial linen-like covers, slight rubbing else very good. Illustrated by the Disney Studios with 12 almost full page color illustrations including covers. Donald Duck appears in large bill and Peter Pig is also featured. The number 888 appears on bottom of front cover. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Young Scott Books / William R. Scott, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. B&w illustrations by David Stone Martin. Story of a chicken who survived a hurricane and became a pet to a young boy and his father who helped him.
Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, 11th, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Color, b&w Illustrations by the Hollings, big tears to 2 pgs but repairable as everything present. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, illustrated with Ed Young's amazing paper collages. The young cat named Wabi Sabi wishes to understand the meaning of her name.
Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch/Little, Brown and Co, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Gold covers, blue cloth spine sith gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations. Mild rubbing to dust jacket; a beautiful clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York , NYR Children's Collection, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, a reprint of a classic. SIGNED by illustrator Marc Simont on half title (page 15). No dj issued.
Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 32 pages. Hardcover. Oxford University Press edition. INSCRIBED BY FRENCH AT TOP RIGHT CORNER OF FRONT ENDPAPER. Full color illustrations by Fiona French. Dust jacket with closed tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked pages.