Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 3rd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, turquoise cloth stamped in dark blue with a sketch of Madeline on a horse on the cover. 56 pages illustrated in color by Bemelmans. No dust jacket. Light wear to corners otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. San Diego , Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1st U.S., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 86 pages, B&W illustrations by Kathi Bhend.

Hardcover. New York, Hart Publishing Company, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 24 pages. Illustrations by Madeline Hall. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor fading on dust jacket spine.

Hardcover. New York , Dial Books, 10th pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 151 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color, B&W illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Tight copy. A retelling of the Afro-American tales about the adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends and enemies.

Hardcover. New York, Four Winds Press, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Pictorial boards, 32 pages. A poem for springtime with color illustrations by Joyce Powzyk, Dust jacket has significant tear in back that has been nicely mended with tape on reverse side.

Hardcover. London, John Lane, 1st thus, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with with 41 gold X's and 40 gilt butterflies stamped on the cover, no dust jacket, top edge gilt, untrimmed edges. With the date of 1900 on the title page, but with a John Lane Copyright 1899, The University Press U.S.A. on the CR page. With 18 Maxfield Parrish black & white plates. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , 1st , 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 111 pages. Color, B&W illustrations by Keith Ward. Light gray cloth with bright color label illustration. clean, tight.

Hardcover. New York, World Publishing Co, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY ED YOUNG ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Light blue cloth covers with gilt embossed graphic of swan to front and titles to spine, pictorial dust jacket, gorgeous full-page color illustrations. Very mild rubbing to dust jacket, price-clipped; overall a beautiful, clean, tight copy in great condition.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st thus, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 176 pages, yellow pictorial cloth covers. A collection of 4 classic Seuss titles, color illustrations throughout. Covers soiled, worn edges and corners. Interior bright and clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In this playful story inspired by the impossible buildings of the artist M. C. Escher, Mauk's master is building a grand Palazzo. When something strange and wonderful happens, Mauk is catapulted into a topsy-turvy world. The author draws us into an astounding world where the reader turns Mauk on his head and sends him all the way back to his story's beginning in a dazzling endless loop.

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Pale yellow boards with red titles to spine and red illustrated figure to front cover, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate protective covering, lovely tri-tone color illustrations by Margot Zemach. Light rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, with a few quarter-inch tears to edges, price-clipped, otherwise covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a neat, tight children's book in great condition.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped ($2.75) dust jacket. Ex-lib with light stamping to endpapers. Illustrated in 3-colors by Flora. No First Edition statement on copyright page, no other printings stated.

Hardcover. US, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy. A young boy named Bobby has the worst teacher. She's loud, she yells, and if you throw paper airplanes, she won't allow you to enjoy recess. She is a monster! Luckily, Bobby can go to his favorite spot in the park on weekends to play. Until one day... he finds his teacher there! Over the course of one day, Bobby learns that monsters are not always what they seem. Each page is filled with "monstrous" details that will have kids reading the story again and again. Peter Brown takes a universal and timeless theme, and adds his own humorous spin to create another winner of a picture book.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Part of the World of Tomorrow Series. Color-illustrated boards, blue cloth binding, color and b&w illustrations throughout by Sarah De Frehn. Edgewear and rubbing to covers, crisp pages, binding loose through all pages still attached.

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Elmore is a porcupine desperate to make friends. But it is hard to seek closeness with others when you're covered with spikes that shoot off your back every so often. Elmore suffers rejection and heartbreak, but the goodness of his forest community ultimately shines through as the animals find a way to connect with this prickly bundle of love. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Natick MA, Picture Book Studio, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 68 pages illustrated in color by Zwerger.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st thus, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Adapted by Allen Chaffee, illustrated by Lois Lenski. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, dust jacket edge wear and small tears along spine edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Mild musty odor.

Softcover. Paris, Des Deux Coqs D'or , 1st thus, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 12 pages stapled, illustrated in color by Richard Scarry. A French language edition (edited) of My Little Golden Book of Manners published in the U.S. in 1962. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random Library, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 32 pages illustrated by Milion Glaser. Mocked throughout the jungles of India due to his small size, the smallest elephant in the world--no bigger than a house cat--has decided enough is enough. After all, if he's no bigger than a house cat, then a house must be where he belongs! After a long journey in the hold of a ship, this smallest elephant in the world finds himself a home with a nice little boy inside. But he must disguise himself as a cat to satisfy the boy's mother, and disaster strikes when he is confronted with his first mouse... Little does he know that the perfect home is waiting for him, in a circus where differences are celebrated, not scorned. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Chanticleer Press Inc., reprint, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 288 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. With drawings throughout by Mervyn Peake. Moderate fading and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight chipping to dust jacket spine. Light soiling to dust jacket. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 3rd pr, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Van Allsburg. Copyright page has the lowest number as 3, a third printing of this classic. Dust jacket has a $15.95 price, with no Caldecott Medal. The Caldecott Medal winner that inspired the animated film featuring Tom Hanks. Dust jacket protected in acetate wrapper. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY/Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED with a little sketch of a badger by Begin.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 40 pages illustrated in color by Nola Langer. Humorous tale told in rhyme by the noted poet. Library binding, NOT ex-library. Ownership stamp inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York , HarperCollins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Kellogg and SIGNED WITH A DRAWING of an alligator by Kellogg. A funny and energetic picture book portrayal of one of America's most famous frontiersmen and larger-than-life heroes. Mike Fink was king of the keelboatmen--the strongest, rowdiest bunch of fellows ever to work on the Mississippi. Mike was a whole lot more than a keelboater--yes, sir! He was a crack shot and the best grizzly and gator wrestler on the river. They don't make 'em like Mike these days, now do they? But what will Mike do when the larger, faster, smoke-spewing steamboats attempt to take over the rivers?

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. Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated by Schwartz and SIGNED by her on title page. On her way to market Jenna makes four new friends. Along with Baby Elephant, there's Robin, who thinks Jenna has a very silly beak; Fly, who wonders where her hundred eyes are; and Goldfish, who thinks she has very goofy gills. Kirkus has written that "the power and grace in Schwartz's spare style and language lies in the fact that she never condescends to young readers-she just compares notes." Here she once again completely and convincingly captures the world of a child in a beautiful and winning picture book about . . . a beautiful girl.

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, HarperCollins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Marshall's zany humor with Sendak's color illustrations. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY SENDAK on copyright page.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 25th Anniversary Edition. Unpaginated, color illustrations by the author. Light edge wear to dust jacket, small tear to top of spine. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by New Yorker cartoonist George Booth. The other hens in Farmer Brown's Tennessee henhouse think that Starlight LaPoule - (hush! Her real name is Ethel Fae Klucksworth) - is short a few feathers. They may be right. For Starlight is a chicken with a ridiculous dream. She wants to become a high-fashion model in Paris or Milan. And with the surprise help of her very own chicken fairy godmother, anything is possible. Or is it? 

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color pictorial boards. At the moment, all Lola can talk about is dogs. She says she would like one more than anything you could think of. "More than a squirrel or an actual fox," she says. Sometimes she pretends to be a dog. And sometimes she pretends that her brother, Charlie, is a dog. The two of them love to talk about what sort of dog they would choose if Mom and Dad didn't always say, "ABSOLUTELY NO DOGS!" Dad says he'll take Lola to the pet store to choose a rabbit, but Lola insists that she only wants a dog, an extremely furry dog with a wiggly nose, a puffy tail, and nice ears. . . . Fans old and new will cotton to this humorous Charlie and Lola adventure sure to please any child who ever longed for the ideal pet. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY SIS on copyright page with bird sketch. Madlenka has a brand-new soccer ball and aspirations to be a soccer star. As she dribbles it around her urban neighborhood, she encounters plenty of opponents willing to play with her: A mailbox, a dog, and a parking meter. She plays with a group of cats at the local park with a tree acting as a goal, of which she easily scores. Goal!! The crowd goes wild! She meets of with Cleopatra who also wants to play. "Are you ready?" Madlenka asks and off they go. The author's thin black line illustrations give a an overhead perspective of the soccer field surrounded by tall buildings as other neighborhood children come to join the game.In the back of the book, Sis gives a history lesson about the early versions of soccer along with how soccer is pronounced by countries all over the world because "The whole world wants to play soccer!"

hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st thus, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, first printing with all numbers present, no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Taback. Winner of the 2000 Caldecott Award. Clean, unmarked copy with with the die-cut holes in pages. Joseph begins the story with a little overcoat but when it gets old & shabby he cuts it down into a jacket. The bright and delightful artwork is done in watercolor, gouache, pencil, ink & collage and aided by die-cuts throughout. Taback did a book about this song in 1976 and re-illustrates it here.

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by author. SIGNED BY LUCKE. Stories of adult bad behavior (and civil disobedience) throughout history done in a humorous vein. Colorful gouache paintings on each spread feature figures from Hannibal and Napoleon Bonaparte to Susan B. Anthony and Rosa Parks, in their "time-out" locations in jail or in exile.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd. Ed., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red leather stamped in gilt. Facsimile edition of a book that was first published in 1909 by Hodder & Stoughton. 152 pages. 23 full page illustrations in color by Detmold plus various line illustrations in black and white throughout the text. #337 of 500 copies as indicated on tipped-on plate inside front cover. All edges gilt. No slipcase.

Hardcover. New York , HarperCollins, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover reissue of a book first published in 1956 written by Jack Sendak and illustrated by his brother, Maurice. SIGNED BY MAURICE SENDAK. Flora, a little circus girl, wonders what the people who come to the circus do when they are not at the circus. Illustrated in black-and-white and pastel pink and green. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, illustrated in color by Dave Mottram. From acclaimed author (and cat lover!) Joyce Carol Oates comes a charming, heartwarming picture book. As the only cat in her house, Cherie is accustomed to being showered with treats and affection. So when her family brings home a new kitten named Cleopatra, Cherie resents that she's no longer the center of attention--and she can't believe all the trouble that the kitten gets away with! Is one home big enough for two kitties? Beautifully illustrated by Dave Mottram, this picture book will resonate for any reader who has--eventually!--found the joy in sharing the spotlight with a new family addition. Clean copy.

Softcover. Milwaukee, OR, Dark Horse, 1st, 2007, 216 pages. Softcover, color illustrations by John Stanley and Irving Tripp. Based on the character created by Marge Buell. Light edgewear to wrappers.

Hardcover. NY, Moffat, Yard and Company , 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 56 pages, illustrated endpapers. Beige linen cloth over boards. Previous owner gift inscription on verso of frontispiece. No bumping or soiling. Bright gold foil titling, and double circle with illustration pasted on front cover. images by Jessie Willcox Smith on each page plus a color frontispiece and six color plates all by Smith.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Kyrsten Brooker throughout. Illustrated endpapers and paste downs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, E P Dutton & Co., 1st US, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket with matching pictorial boards, Illustrated in color by Derrick Sayer. First American edition. Delightfully witty and utterly absorbing tales about Nichols' three cats, Four, Five, and Oscar. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Katherine Tegen Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ON TITLE PAGE. Otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne and Co, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 76 pages, seven color plates & numerous b/w illustrations by L. Leslie Brooke. No date, probably 1950s. Small ownership stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY PINKNEY ON TITLE PAGE. 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Full page color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 8th pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Moses. It is a silent, snowy December night. Shopkeepers and country folk in the tiny Vermont village are hurrying everywhere, lighting candles, wrapping gifts, baking pies--getting ready. But for what? For Christmas Eve? Or is there more? The Miller family knows there is! Pa and the boys, little Andy and Jamie, rush to the train station through the blizzardy twilight to pick up Grandma Stokes. Old Paul, the hired hand, rides to get Doc Herrick. Mama's quilty friend Tinker won't leave her side. They all know something truly wonderful is going to happen this Christmas Eve, snow or no snow, right here at Miller farm.In his unmistakable style, world renowned folk artist Will Moses brings Christmas to a Vermont village in an original story that the entire family--boys and girls, mothers and fathers, grandparents, aunts and uncles - can share by their own candlelight year after year.

Hardcover. Somerville, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st US, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy with color illustrations by author throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Known for her luminescent art, Barbara Helen Berger brings beauty and power to this memorable parable from Tibet. A young boy and his yak bravely overcome all odds to get to Lhasa, giving a wise and simple message that will inspire children of any age to dream and reach for a shining goal that may seem "very far." Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan , 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8-2-color plates, B&W line drawings by Dombrowski. With a nice dust jacket, only minor edgewear. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Silver,Burdett and Company, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth, 160 pages plus vocabulary. Illustrated in color and b&w by Constance Whittemore. Children's reader to introduce children to Germany through a trip with Karl and Gretel. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion Books for Children, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR IN FRONT FLY LEAF. Tight copy with little to no wear to covers. Winner of the 2006 Caldecott Medal.