Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Kessler. An I Can Read Book all about swimming. Clean, bright copy.

NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Foreman. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Illustrated end papers.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Waber. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dominic Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial glossy boards. When a jazz-loving kitten named Nicky meets a legendary trumpet player, he learns how to play jazz and word travels fast--soon all the top musicians hear about this jazz cat and want to play with him. This charming story is illustrated with photographs of Nicky with jazz greats Roy Eldridge, Lionel Hampton, Lena Horne, Quincy Jones, Abbey Lincoln, and Gerry Mulligan as they meet and make friends. The colorful graphics and rhyming text--call and response conversation between Nicky and his new musician friends--reflect the humor, rhythm, and spirit of jazz itself. Nicky the Jazz Cat teaches children about the magic of jazz, the value of friends and mentors, and the power of imagination and originality. Children and adults alike will delight in his journey from curious jazz kitten to acclaimed jazz cat. This is the true first edition published 2 years before the poerHouse edition.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion, 2nd pr., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Winner of the Caldecott Medal. Color illustrations by the author. Clean, tight copy. Second printing, without the Caldecott sticker.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Board covers, 76 pages. Color illustrations by Nordell. Writing on rear cover. Rubbing to edges. Seven chapters with paper doll cutouts, ONLY 5 REMAIN INTACT. Heavy chipping to coer boards.

Hardcover. NY, Schwartz & Wade, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Illustrated in color by Chuck Groenink. This simple nonfiction picture book about the beloved American poet William Carlos Williams is also about how being mindful can result in the creation of a great poem like 'The Red Wheelbarrow'--which is only sixteen words long. In this lovely picture book, young listeners will see how paying attention to the simplest everyday things can inspire the greatest art, as they learn about a great American poet.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Reg Cartwright. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Wonder Books, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictoria; glossy boards. Non-Paginated. Full color illustrations by Dick Stone. Faint musty smell. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in color by Glen Rounds. A comical tale of unlucky Felix and his continuing catastrophes. Clean, no dust jacket issued.

New York, Clarion, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 42 pages. Color illustrations by Dirk Zimmer. Even after his magical godfather sends him home from the Black Forest with a sackful of coins, a young man refuses to listen to his mother and be content with his simple life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Kenosha WI, John Martin's House, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards. Non-paginated. Full color illustrations. Each die-cut page features a bunny profile, which collectively creates the whole bunny family. Chipping to top 5" of front cover hinge. Light wear overall.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, original price intact (5050). A retelling of an African folk tale with wonderful color and b&w artwork throughout by Feodor Rojankovsky. One of four of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories published by Garden City in 1942, all illustrated by Rojankovsky. The other three were: The Elephant's Child; How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin; and How the Camel Got His Hump. Unpaginated [28 pages]; full-color, 2-color, and b&w illustrations throughout.

NY, Viking Kestrel, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Phillippe Dupasquier. Visiting a museum with his father and younger sister, a little boy wonders if the Roman sandal on exhibit was lost by another little girl just like his sister.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY KEVIN HENKES ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, color illustrations by Charlotte Voake. Little Elsie Piddock is a born skipper. When she is scarcely five, she can outskip anyone in her village. By the time she's six, her name and fame have spread to all the villages in the county. And by the time she's seven, the fairies have heard of her. When Master Skipper Andy-Spandy summons the sleeping little girl to Mount Caburn for a contest, the tireless Elsie outskips even the fairies and is rewarded with a gift of rare and lasting value. Can she use it later to save the fabled skipping grounds of Caburn? Or will a greedy lord build a factory where children have played for centuries? First appearing in 1937, it is published here for the first time as a picture book (pen and watercolor).; 10 x 11".

New York, Morrow, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Hudson Talbott. Unpaginated. Tape repair to title page. As a lad of only sixteen years, Arthur pulled the sword from the stone and thus became High King of all Britain. But scarcely has he begun to arrange his court when twelve of the country's lesser kings, jealous of Arthur's glory, declare war on him. Culminating in the Battle of Bedegraine, this war is fateful in more ways than one--for not only does it secure Arthur's place among his people, it also unites his destiny with that of Lady Guinevere. In this, the second volume of his Tales of King Arthur series, Hudson Talbott masterfully retells the saga of Arthur's early days as leader of Britain, his building of Camelot, and the dedication of the Round Table--a unique brotherhood of knights devoted to unity and peace.

Hardcover. New Milford CT, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR AMY SCHWARTZ ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrators. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Company, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Humorous drawings of a possum in the city. Frank Tashlin, also known as Tish Tash and Frank Tash, was an American animator, cartoonist, children's writer, illustrator, screenwriter, and film director. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Walck, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 47 pages. Color illustrations by Tasha Tudor.Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket has edgewear, chipping.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Diane Goode. Dust jacket with light wear, tape repaired closed tear at top edge rear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated by Paul Galdone. The 50th Anniversary edition of this classic children's book. In bright dust jacket, like new.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpagenated hardcover with dust jacket. Laminated boards SIGNED BY ERIC CARLE on copyright page. On rear end paper there is a sound button. Slight rippling to paper, sound button works. Bright color illustrations by author. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.. Full color illustrations by Nancy Winslow Parker. Clean, tight copy. Preparing for a Halloween party, a little girl pulls together various articles of clothing to come up with a suitable costume. Each item is depicted in rebus fashion in cumulative lines of verse. She ends up with two different costumes using the same garments, but, in the end, she receives a ready-made witch's outfit from Grandma.

Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black. Color and two-color illustrations by Marjorie Hartwell. 56 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , Bantam Little Rooster, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Simont. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, Book Club, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by the Petershams. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Some tape stains on front and rear endpapers. "Parents' Magazine's Read Aloud Book Club" seal on back cover and jacket. Fading along front top edge of dust jacket. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Boston, The Peterkin Papers, 1st illust. thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with color paste-down on front cover. Four color plates by Harold Brett, many b&w drawings in text, not credited. 219 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Plattsburgh, NY, Tundra Books, 1st , 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Clean, tight copy. Fragments of a handwritten letter have been discovered. Their author's name is Margaret, and in the letter she describes her memories of a summer of her girlhood long ago when the dippers came up from the Don River.It was 1912, and a summer full of odd happenings. The letter tells of Margaret's first encounter with her father, of her mother's worry that she might lose her job as a maid, and of her little sister's being overtaken by paralysis and disease. And, of course, there were the dippers moving up from the river to inhabit the neighbourhood - furry, ungainly, dog-like creatures with leathery wings - creatures unnerving but not dangerous, yet another fact of life to become adjusted to.

Softcover. Hanover NH, Dartmouth College, First Thus, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 149 pages. Softcover published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the graduation from Dartmouth College of Theodor Seuss Geisel. Grey cloth covers with silver titles to cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, reprint, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Reprint edition, "printed in large, easy-to-read type." B&w illustrations by Harrison Cady. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Konigsburg. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, board book, unpaginated, color illustrations by Magda Moses, very clean, tight copy. Die-cut boards that show a smiling Hopsi as her surroundings change throughout the day.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with some short closed tears to edge. The tales of Camelot, including those of King Arthur, Merlin the Magician, Excalibur, Lady Guinevere, and more, are retold in a clear, concise, and exciting style with the addition of full-color, comic-strip-style art by Williams to enhance the legendary adventures. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY SMITH WITH QUICK SKETCH OF PINOCCHIO. Covers and dust jacket compelely illustrated, beautiful full-page color illustrations by Smith. Spine stiff and tight, dust jacket, covers and pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, 4th printing, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by Brad Sneed, very clean, tight copy, like new. Jean Van Leeuwen has written a simple, poignant, yet powerful story about how such a little thing as acknowledging a mistake and saying "I'm sorry", can change the course of lives forever. Her expressive text with its gentle message and air of sadness, is beautifully complemented by Brad Sneed's bold, rich watercolor illustrations, full of wonderful farm life detail, that pull you into the story and the brother's lives.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, Book Club Ed., 1965, Book: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Early Weekly Reader Edition, 32 pages illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Sea Star Books, 1st , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Pinkney and SIGNED BY PINKNEY on title-page.

Hardcover. Chicago, Volland, 19th pr., 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards are good with missing paper on spine and loose hinge. Internally very good. Previous owner's name on half title page. Color illustrations by Gruelle.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 2nd pr., 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in brown with a prancing colt on the cover. Picture book story of the colt Chip and all the mischief he causes just because he wants a friend and partner to swish at flies like the big horses. Illustrated in color and b&w by Diana Thorne. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clea, Binding is a tad loose, light shelfwear.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated in color by the Petershams. A clean, crisp baby book with nothing written in. In a poor slipcase wih some partial splitting to 2 edges, and heavy chipping to edges.

Hardcover. New York, Gulliver Books/Harcourt, Inc., 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ASHLEY WOLFF ON FRONT ENDPAPER WITH INSCRIPTION "FOR A VERY SPECIAL SOMEBODY!" AND ILLUSTRATED SKETCH. Lovely full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Chicago, Haymarket Books, 1st US, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Two-color illustrations by Laura Barrett. Greta lives with her brother Hansel on the edge of a great forest - a forest in danger of destruction. GreedyGuts, their aunt, doesn't appreciate Hansel and Greta's plans to replant trees and save the forest. In fact, she thinks they're horrible little vegetarians. GreedyGuts doesn't give two hoots about nature. She favors luxury and living it up: eating, shopping and partying hard and so she hatches a plan to get rid of the meddling, do-gooder kids deep in the woods. With her trademark subversive and comic eye, Jeanette Winterson retells the classic tale of Hansel and Gretel.

Hardcover. Chicago, Children's Press, 1st , 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lillian Owens. Ex-school library, but only one stamp, light notation, otherwise very good. Light abrasions on cover with white residue on rear cover.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Book Club edition, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Translated from Yiddish by author and Elizabeth Shub. Covers and dust jacket completely illustrated, dust jacket with acetate protective covering, lovely large, full-color illustrations by Margot Zemach. A retelling of a classic tale pits Mazel, the debonair spirit of good luck, against Shlimazel, the wicked spirit of bad luck, in a confrontation that enables a poor but honest lad to win and marry a king's daughter. Rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, foxing to covers, especially at edges, pages clean, crisp and unmarked.

Hardcover. NY, Enchanted Lion Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Drawn from life, Arthur Geisert's Pumpkin Island is the fantastical story of a real life town brought to a halt by a profusion of pumpkins. Elkader, Iowa, is the perfect picture of small town life that is, until the pumpkins arrive. One pumpkin? Fine. Two pumpkins? Okay. But with pumpkins growing around every street corner, and over every building, what's a town to do? Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Co. , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on half title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. As a boy, Edward Hopper knew exactly what he wanted to be when he grew up: on the cover of his pencil box, he wrote the words EDWARD HOPPER, WOULD-BE ARTIST. He traveled to New York and to Paris to hone his craft. And even though no one wanted to buy his paintings for a long time, he never stopped believing in his dream to be an artist. He was fascinated with painting light and shadow and his works explore this challenge. In this striking picture book biography, Robert Burleigh and Wendell Minor invite young readers into the world of a truly special American painter (most celebrated for his paintings "Nighthawks" and "Gas").

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR EMILY ARNOLD MCCULLY ON TITLE PAGE. Red laminate covers and white laminate dust jacket with color illustration, lovely full page color illustrations by McCully. Clean covers and dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy of a beautiful children's book.

Hardcover. NY, Little Simon, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards. Big, dynamic pop-ups bring to life such legendary prehistoric creatures as the saber-toothed tiger and the woolly mammoth, as well as a number of lesser-known beasts. Each of the seven bold and dramatic spreads includes clear and informative descriptions of each animal. Paper engineering by Ruth Mawdsley. Clean working copy.

Hardcover. New York , North-South, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 20 pages illustrated in color by Zwerger. SIGNED by Zwerger on title page.