Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Wendy Watson. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to edges. Light gutter crack.

Hardcover. Colorado Springs, Chariot Victor, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Greg Dearth.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Floris Books, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color, black & white illustrations by Anastaiya Archipova. Color illustration on front of glossy boards.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Company, 2nd pr., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with a color pastedown of a collie and horse on cover. 28 pages illustrated in color by Lindman as well as endpapers. Both Jim and Bob love Snowboot, son of the beautiful mare Fire Eye. Which one will get to keep him? The Collile, Scottie, has the solution!

Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The most inventive and irresistible book of the year spans a mere 26 letters (don't they all!) and 112 pages. From an Astronaut who's afraid of heights, to a Bridge that ends up burned between friends, to a Cup stuck in a cupboard and longing for freedom, Once Upon an Alphabet is a creative tour de force from A through Z. Slyly funny in a way kids can't resist, and gorgeously illustrated in a way readers of all ages will pour over, this series of interconnected stories and characters explores the alphabet in a way that will forever raise the bar. In Once Upon an Alphabet, #1 New York Times bestseller Oliver Jeffers has created a stunning collection of words and artwork that is a story book, alphabet book, and gorgeously designed art book all in one.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with edgewear. A grandpa cat tells his grandkittens some pretty tall tales, enlivened by Searle's wonderfully expressive drawings.

Hardcover. NY, Whittlesey House, McGraw Hill, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 32 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Alain (the pen name of Daniel Brustlein, painter, book illustrator, magazine illustrator, and cartoonist). Stamp to front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Athenuem, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAHY on the title page by winner of 1982 & 1984 Carnegie Medal.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Peter M. Fiore. In new condition.

Hardcover. Chicago, American Colortype Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with red cloth spine. 96 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Dorothy Wagstaff. 22 short stories of a stereotypical black boy done in the style of the time. Chipping and wear to paper on the covers, interior clean, solid binding.

Hardcover. NY, Greenberg Publishers, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth spine, pictorial boards that are still bright. Hole is in front cover for finger to stick through as a puppet, not a defect. Pocket at back has separated from inside cover. Cut-out sheets from folder laid in. Pages are bright and clean.

Hardcover. Scarsdale NY, Bradbury Press, 2nd pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Paul Goble. Two young Sioux join in a raiding party to capture horses from some neighboring Crows. Front endpapers with stamp inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR WITH DRAWING OF AN AX OPPOSITE TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Deborah Nourse Lattimore. Light shelfwear to covers/dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Book House for Children, 28th pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red coth with gilt lettering and color paste-down on front cover,192 pages. Illustrated in color by Maude & Miska Petersham. Light soil to covers, internally VG.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1947, Hardcover, green cloth boards with illustrated paper label on front board and gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated throughout in color and black-and-white by Tudor, with her signature floral wreaths, dreamy landscapes, and playful children. SIGNED BY TUDOR on front flyleaf under her endpapers illustration. A bright, clean copy with a crease to front dust jacket flap, mild soil to rear panel. With Tasha Tudor's label on inside rear cover - indicating this copy was purchased at her outlet on Rt.1 , Contoocook, New Hampshire where she sold autographed books and Christmas cards.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st thus, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This ia a reprint of a 1954 book. Reformatted with color tints added to Peake's original b&w drawings. A game-like book where you can guess what the illustrations represent, answer key in rear. Clean copy.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 32 pages. Three-color illustrations by Wiseman. Small wrinkle in front cover. Edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Naomi Averill. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, lovely color plates by Pamela Paparone. INSCRIBED BY LINDBERGH on the half-title page. Born a century ago, Bessie Coleman worked in the cotton fields and dreamed of flying. As a young African-American woman in the 1920s, her chances of leaning to fly were slim. But Bessie never let her dream die and instead became the first licensed African-American aviator in the world. Written by the daughter of aviator Charles Lindbergh. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Friso Henstra; a Russian folktale about a cow who's magical milk brings back youth to her owners; very good in a very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jim McMullan. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR.

Hardcover. NY, David Mckay Company, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrations and instructions are presented for making holiday decorations, party favors, and a variety of gifts including patchwork pillows, advent calendars, sachets, mittens, and stuffed animals

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Suttonhouse Ltd, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 148 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color frontispiece, b&w illustrations by Grace Mallon. Spine faded. Light soil on covers. tight copy. Tales of a Tennessee family in Appalachia.

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's writing on front fly leaf. Moderate wear to covers and heavy fraying, chipping and abrasion to corners of laminate.

Hardcover. Engkewood Cliffs, NJ, Prenctice-Hall, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY LORENZ on title page. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to cover boards.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co, reprint, nd, 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. 4.

NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, color illustrations by Hughes. Hoping that a surprise birthday party will help to cheer up neighbor and store owner Mr. MacNally, Alfie plans an additional, extra-special surprise and fears he cannot keep his plans a secret.

Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering on spine and drawing of Charlie on front cover, 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. No dust jaclet.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. A pictorial essay on the citrus fruit industry circa mid-fifties. B&w photographs throughout. Small label on spine of dust jacket, otherwise clean.

NY, Holiday House, 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Color illustrations by Tomie dePaola. Dust jacket with short tears, chipping.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, color illustrations by Winslow Pels. The beautiful but cold-hearted Princess Turandot decrees that in order to win her, suitors must answer three riddles or be executed. A Persian prince, Calaf, smitten after one look at the young woman, determines to try his luck. Though he answers her riddles correctly, she still refuses to marry him. Because he adores her, he offers her a way out. If she can guess his name, he will leave Peking. This story was introduced by the Venetian playwright Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806), whose dramatized fairy tales were enormously popular during his lifetime. His version, said to be drawn from a tale he found in The Arabian Nights, widely impressed European romantics. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , Row, Peterson and Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Illustrations by John Holmgren. Dust jacket faded, front edge starting to fray. Some foxing on end papers, pages clean. Price sticker inside dust jacket. Adventures of Peter and Penny and their Newfoundland dog on Nantucket Island.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott , 1st , 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 212 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Cover shows wear. Stamped lettering on front. Spine faded and rear bottom by spine has light soil.

Hardcover. NY, Viking/Ariel, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 147 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Chris Van Allsburg. Like new in bright dust jacket. 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.

Chicago, Follett, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Sylvie Selig. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Soil and light edgewear to dust jacket. Through Elephant's greediness, Hare and his family lose the magic spoon that makes life easy for them and acquire in its place a magic stick that makes life miserable but also brings them revenge on Elephant.

Hardcover. New York, Universal Budget Systems, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations by Erika throughout. Decorated cover boards. Boards have a touch of agewear (see images). Pages are slighted tanned from age. Previous owner's inscription on title page.

Hardcover. Joliet, Volland, 1st , 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 94 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gruelle. Cloth spine separation from binding. Binding shaken, pages loose, but clean, bright cover & pages. Chipping to edges.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by James. Book and dust jacket in excellent condition. n this free retelling of an old Scottish ballad, Jan, who is convinced her friend Tam is not dead but has only disappeared, follows the advice of a wise old woman and with the help of a red cloak releases him from capture by elves.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 28 pages illustrated in color by Martha Castagnoli. Clean copy.

Softcover. Rochester, NY, Stecher Lith Co, 1st, 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with drawings throughout. Previous owner's watercolor paint residue on a few illustrations. Light musty odor. Light soil to wrappers.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, J. M. Stoddart & Co., 1st, 1878, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 326 pages. Hardcover. Scarce, early Frost work. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations throughout. Back endpapers have a mended rip at gutter. Cover boards bound in orange. Covers have some age wear. Pages are age-yellowed with a touch of foxing in places. Does not affect text or illustrations. In very good shape for its age.

Hardcover. NY, The Limited Editions Club, Ltd. Ed., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six hardcover volumes in a slipcase. Gathering all 168 stories together for the first time. Together making up the 10th and 11th release of the 18th Series. This being #1075 of 1500 copies. Signed and illustrated by Fritz Kredel, illustrations hand-colored by Yuster Studio. Further signed by the translator Jean Hersholt. Book design by George Macy and printed by Ferris Printing Company. 1292 pages and 6 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. Slipcase shows wear, starting to split at edges, clean set with a faint musty odor. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Illustrated throughout in full color by Ted Lewin. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages, illustrated in color by Klassen. Laszlo is afraid of the dark. The dark lives in the same house as Laszlo. Mostly, though, the dark stays in the basement and doesn't come into Lazslo's room. But one night, it does.This is the story of how Laszlo stops being afraid of the dark. With emotional insight and poetic economy, two award-winning talents team up to conquer a universal childhood fear.

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. NY, Rand McNally & Co., 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Illustrated in 2-colors by Dugald MacDougall. The story of a 6-year old Zulu girl who has many adventures when she goes to the store alone for the first time! Includes exotic setting & details of Zulu life. Author grew up in South Africa. Light wear to dust jacket.

New York , Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color Illustrations by James Stevenson. Dust jacket with light wear at spine. Janetta enjoys her visit to her grandfather, including such highlights as listening to the night insects make music and admiring his cat's new kittens.

Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, Reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial cardboard covers. Originally published in 1958. Color illustrations by Bud Sagendorf.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 56 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. "Horn Book" stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy.