Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in b&w by the author. Tim is so discouraged and bored by life at home and school that he seizes a chance to join a circus, not knowing what really awaits him. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Seymour Chwast celebrates the daily routine of getting dressed in this fittingly whimsical and satisfyingly unique novelty book. Unlike more traditional books on this topic that deal with the how of getting dressed, Get Dressed! instead tackles the why. The text "Get dressed to read about dragons" accompanies an illustration of a boy dressed in a makeshift knight costume. A girl in full floral garb stands in a garden alongside the text "Get dressed to hide." The book features half and full gatefolds, which foreshadow the items of clothing to be seen and provide surprise reveals on each spread. With a die-cut magnetic closure, even the cover invites readers to peek inside!
Hardcover. Boulder CO, Bala Kids, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, gorgeous color art by Wen Hsu. Two sisters discover the power of love and the true meaning of compassion in this princess-adventure story based on an ancient Chinese tale. Miao Shan isn't your typical princess. She likes to spend her time quietly meditating with the creatures of the forest or having adventures with dragons and tigers. Miao Shan's heart is so full of love that her dream is to spread happiness throughout the land and help people endlessly. But her father has other plans for her--he intends to have her married and remain in the palace. With the help of her little sister Ling, Miao Shan escapes and begins her journey to discover the true meaning of compassion. Clean copy.
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. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good, unclipped dust jacket, 110 pages. Illustrated throughout with b&w pictures by Maurice Sendak. Blue boards with silver embossed birds and vines on the front board. A fanciful story about a young princess being cursed by her older sister at her christening and the adventurous aftermath of that curse. Dust jacket lightly sunned
Hardcover. Kansas City, MO, Tell-Well Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped and in protective brodart. Color illustrations throughout. decorated endpapers. Dust jacket has some age-yellowing. Cover boards decorated in same design as dust jacket. Small superficial tear to top of front cover at spine. Clean inside. In beautiful condition for its age.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR with a tiny sketch. Another graphically minimalist yet utterly effective picture book for the very young. "Snug inside her warm den, a polar bear cub wakes. Something in the moonlit stillness quietly beckons. What is it?" The tug of this gentle mystery will draw children into Thompson's simple bedtime story, and the hypnotic ebb and flow of her alliterative lines (on a night that's "keen and cold," little cub "sets out for the snow and sky and sea and ice") will keep children immersed as the young explorer encounters floating, dreaming sea creatures, and witnesses a meteor shower that further transforms the already exotic nighttime surroundings. As arresting as Thompson's language are Savage's powerful linocuts, which beautifully reference the textures and forms of Inuit stone carvings and evoke the arctic landscape in a few elemental colors per spread: glacial blues, grays, and sea greens; the pinks and lavenders of the aurora borealis.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum Books, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. Color art by Haley. Discover how an African trickster god made it possible for people to tell stories in this brightly illustrated, Caldecott Medal-winning picture book. Long, long ago there were no stories on earth for children to hear. All stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. Ananse, the Spider man, wanted to buy some of these stories, so he spun a web up to the sky to bargain with the Sky God. The price the Sky God asked was Osebo, the leopard-of-the-terrible-teeth, Mmboro the hornet-who-stings-like-fire, and Mmoatia the fairy-whom-men-never-see. Can Ananse capture these sly creatures and give the children of earth stories to tell? No dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully and SIGNED BY MCCULLY on front fly leaf. A childhood move in the life of Willa Cather to the plains of Nebraska, brings initial unhappiness, then appreciation and love for her new surroundings. Inscribed, with a sketch by the illustrator.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Rumford. According to Herodotus, an Ancient Greek historian, a Phoenician named Cadmus brought the alphabet to Greece. In the ancient myths, Cadmus was a hero who fought a ferocious monster and founded the city of Thebes. Cadmus was so famous that his deeds were told and retold throughout the ancient world. In this modern retelling, James Rumford uses the alphabet that Cadmus brought to Greece to recount the hero's own story. Part truth, part fancy, this different kind of alphabet book takes its reader on a journey to the distant past, when our letters were not just marks to record sounds but were pictures of eyes and hands, doors and fences, giant teeth and . . . monsters.
Hardcover. NY, Little Simon, 2nd pr., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover board book with 5 colorful interactive spreads. Featuring brilliant hands-on lessons for curious readers who are preparing for Pre-K, this oversized busy book lets little ones discover, learn, and play with first concept surprises. Includes a memory game with simple shapes hidden under flaps and introduces colors, counting, clocks, and more. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Parents Magazine Press , 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Charles Mikolaycak. Bottom corners slightly bumped. Light rubbing to corners, spine. Minor soiling to covers. Library binding. No dust jacket.
Softcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield Publishing Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with moderate soil and fraying to corners. Paper wrappers lightly darkened. Previous owner's name written on front wrapper. Illustrated by Diane Thorne.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee and Shepard, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Adrienne Adams. Weekly Reader Club Ed. Name on inside front cover, light wear to bottom of spine, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by David A. Johnson. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket.
hardcover. New York, Dutton, 6th PR., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ZELINSKY on title-page. Newbery Honor Book Sticker on front of dust jacket, cover and dust jacket completely illustrated, gorgeous full-page color illustrations. Very minor rubbing to dust jacket, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a beautiful children's book in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and an illustrated, color paper label on the front board. The top edge of the text block is gilt. 273 pages of text and illustrated with end sheets, color title page, and 14 color plates by N. C. Wyeth each separated with printed tissue guards. This is the first Wyeth illustrated edition with the 1911 date on the title page in Roman numerals. Front hinge tender, rear hinge cracked. NOTE: Most descriptions call for a map proceeding Chapter 1. Missing here, but no sign of extraction. Previous owner's bookplate on a blank prelim page Despite map issue, a good plus copy of this scarce first printing.
Hardcover. NY, Coward McCann, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Nice color and black & white illustrations by Hodges. Dust jacket shows minor wear and chipping, some soiling to foredge, clean.
Hardcover. London, Frances Lincoln Children's Bks, reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Some wear and light bumping to corners, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards.
Hardcover. Philadelphia , Penn Publishing, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 309 pages, color frontispiece, b&w plates and drawings by Manning deV. Lee. In a scarce, lightly edgeworn but bright dust jacket with price-clip.
Hardcover. NY/Tokyo, Weatherhill, 3rd pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Delightful illustrations depict the imaginative and illogical world of a fantasy circus where the musicians' instruments are matchsticks and kitchenware, and fierce lions turn into wooden toys.
Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In rural Quebec in the 1830s, Jenny is hired to help a family by cooking and cleaning after her predecessor, the beloved Emily, has died, but Jenny is mysteriously prevented from completing one of her chores. Color illustrations by Lydia Dabcovich.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED WITH AN ILLUSTRATION by author on title page, minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Here, gathered together by Reeve Lindbergh, are 77 treasured poems and prayers from many cultures and faiths. With fresh, bright, and joyous illustrations by acclaimed artists from four different countries. Clean copy.
New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Uri Shulevitz. Writing in pen on front end paper and rear fly leaf. Dust jacket with light soiling, browning, edgewear.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, reprint, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards with light tan stains. 60 pages illustrated in color by Burningham. Previous owner's name on blank page opposite title page. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. With Mama Cactus-Eared Rabbit down with the flu, her mischievous twins, Munchit and Crunchit, and their friends--Rufus Coyote and his grumpy sister, Greyer, and cousin Arnold the Armadillo--set out to cook Mama a perfect get-well meal. Color illustrations by the author. Clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black silhouetted illustrations by Ed Young. Clean, tight copy with light wear to dust jacket and covers.
Hardcover. NY, Kestrel / Viking, 1st thus, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. Six pop-up scenes unfold to show children visiting the elephants, lions, tigers, fishes, monkeys, and bears, during a day at the zoo. This is a 1980 reproduction of an antique book originally published in 1890 by J. F. Schrieber of Esslingen, Germany. It unfolds into one long panorama, showing different animals in their zoo cages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth covers, no dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Tasha Tudor. No markings.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st Ed, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Unpaginated; color illustrations by Garth Williams throughout. Full-color cover with black-cloth binding, exhibits some edgewear. Bookplate on front endpaper and some pencil marks. Interior text clean. Dust jacket has edgewear, damp wrinkling, as well as soiling around edges, unclipped, but with adhesive marks from tape on top edges. Otherwise, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, unk., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.INSCRIBED BY OSBORNE on title page. Wood engravings by Michael McCurdy
Hardcover. NY, Astor-Honor, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lionni. Light soil, wear to boards.
Softcover. New York, Harry Abrams, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with matching dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Tight, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 42 pages. Cloth with giltdesign printed on front; dust jacket. Color plates by George Gershinowitz. "Her sister's love saves Laura from the poison of the fruit she bought from the goblins in the haunted glen." Clean copy.
NY, North-South Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Dorothee Duntze. Six unfortunate young men were turned into swans by their stepmother. Their heart-broken sister vows to release them from the spell by sewing six shirts from starflowers and not utter a word, or laugh, for six long years.
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, Dutton Children's Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. INSCRIBED BY JEAN CRAIGHEAD GEORGE ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Full color illustrations by Wendell Minor. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nice condition, some wear to cover but mostly new-looking. Color illustrations by Tony Chen. Hardbound, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 55 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrated by author.
hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Reg Cartwright. Clean, tight copy. Fourteen carefully constructed rhymes begin with a mouse in a quiet house and end with a farmyard full of animals that runs directly into the middle of two armies having a battle in the hills.
New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 144 pages. Contains black & white and 2-color illustrations by Ardizzone. Remainder dot on top edge. Dust jacket with edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with bright illustrated boards. Gutter crack on title page and last page "Z" is for Zebra. The "z" page has a closed tear about two inches long on bottom of page. Mild soil to top cover boards. Vibrant color illustrations. A gorgeous copy of a firsr printing of this iconic children's classic. Title page dated 1923.
Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY THATCHER HURD ON TITLE PAGE. Pictorial covers, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, spine stiff and tight, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.
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