Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PINKNEY on title page. In the 1940s, as the world was at war, a remarkable jazz band performed on the American home front. This all-female band, originating from a boarding school in the heart of Mississippi, found its way to the most famous ballrooms in the country, offering solace during the hard years of the war. They dared to be an interracial group despite the cruelties of Jim Crow laws, and they dared to assert their talents though they were women in a ?man?s? profession. Told in thought-provoking poems and arresting images, this unusual look at our nation?s history is deep and inspiring.

Hardcover. NY, Dorling Kindersley, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, large format. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Full-color artwork, including cutaway illustrations and exploded views, explores some of the world's most famous architectural landmarks, including the Paris Opera, the Taj Mahal, and Grand Central Station. Clean copy.

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. New York, Random House, reprint , 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Contains black & white and red illustrations by Seuss. Some edgewear. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, creasing, small tears.

Hardcover. New York , Hyperion Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages illustrated by Nelson. SIGNED BY NELSON on title page. Featuring nearly fifty iconic oil paintings and a dramatic double-page fold-out, an award-winning narrative, a gorgeous design and rich backmatter, We Are the Ship is a sumptuous, oversize volume for all ages that no baseball fan should be without. Using an inviting first-person voice, Kadir Nelson shares the engaging story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through its evolution, until after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Moderate to heavy soil on covers. Spine ripped on top and small stain on front bottom corner and rear.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice color illustrations by Cooney. Lovely, new-looking condition. Hardbound, dust jacket. A young girl from Brooklyn, New York enjoys her summer at the beach where she can paint and listen to the wild waves.

Hardcover. NY, Lion Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 46 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 2-color wash drawings by Palazzo. Ink price on front paste-down. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY ROSENTHAL with sketch of monkey drinking from coconut. Ahoy, landlubbers, prepare yerselves for a rip-roaring adventure . . . with a shipwrecked monkey, a sweet-singing ibis, a ferocious tiger, and a band of rough, smelly, no-good pirates! Coconuts fly, danger lurks, and only one clever monkey can save the day: Archie!

Hardcover. New York, Blue Sky, 1st pr, October 1, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Unpaginated, color illustrations by the Dillons.A very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , HarperCollins, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From Caldecott Medalist Arnold Lobel (1933-1987) comes another brand-new collection of rhyming stories-this time featuring a unique assortment of owls and pigs. Discovered by his daughter, Adrianne Lobel, Odd Owls and Stout Pigs: A Book of Nonsense is full of the same humor and wit that is found in Lobel's beloved Frog and Toad stories. This new collection will tickle kids once more and create another generation of Arnold Lobel devotees.

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. New York , Hyperion Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY EGIELSKI. No dust jacket issued. Paper engineering by Gene Vosough. 16 pages, 8 two-page pop-ups, all tight with crisp edges and in working order. Clean cover, solid binding.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Mordicai Gerstein. INSCRIBED WITH SKETCH BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR OPPOSITE TITLE PAGE. Small surface abrasion to paper at bottom of copyright page and on opposite dedication page. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins Publishers, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color and black and white illustrations by Maurice Sendak. SIGNED BY SENDAK. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Saalfield Publishing Co, 1st, 1936, Book: Poor, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ve Elizabeth Cadie. Front hinge cracked. Long tears along spine cover. Wear to spine and corners. Soiling to covers.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Junior Books - Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated cardboard covers with red cloth spine. Illustrated endpapers. Fade marks front cover Corners worn and bumped. Spine bumped. Rubbing to covers.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages, Illustrated in color by Mary Azarian, SIGNED BY AZARIAN & AUTHOR.

NY, Julian Messner, Inc., 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, black & white pictures by Donald McKay. Clean 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, Doubleday, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Illustrated in b&w and three-colors by Edward Sorel. Illustrated library cloth binding, dust jacket with light edgewear, soil, publisher's library edition sticker. (NOT ex-library). Internally clean and tight.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Boards. Illustrated in color by Tomi Ungerer. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice, almost new-looking condition. Black & white illustrations by Chorao. Hardbound, dust jacket. Author/illustrator's first book.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Ib Ohlsson. Remainder mark on bottom-edge. Colorful facts about Stetson's life in this account of a man whose legacy includes more than a hat.

Hardcover. no place, Whitman, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non Paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Full color & one-color illustrations by Pettee. Previous owner's name on half-title page.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Megan Lloyd. In 1841 in Pennsylvania, Pippin Biddle, determined to get his three orphaned sisters out of the poorhouse, tries to earn a living as an itinerant painter, but he returns empty handed, only to find that he is not the only one in the family with artistic talents. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Adapted by Leigh Dean from the original opera libretto. illustrated in color by Milton Glaser. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, Reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 65 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY HILARY KNIGHT ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover,182 pages, green cloth covers with color illustration lpaste-down on front cover. illustrated in black & white by Milo K. Winter. Binding a little shaken, still a nice copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Juvenile, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 318 pages, illustrated throughout by Bemelmans. Very clean and tight copy. Includes Madeline; Madeline and the Bad Hat; Madeline's Rescue; Madeline and the Gypsies; Madeline in London; Madeline's Christmas, and The Isle of God (or Madeline's Origin.)

Hardcover. NY, Knopf , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth covers, Illustrated with b&w photos by Sy Katzoff. Seven year old Amy takes her broken doll to the doll hospital. Small ink price on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Austin, Texas, Steck-Vaughn Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 30 pages, Illustrated in color by Frank O'Leary. Small note in pencil on back fly leaf. Dust jacket has several tears, placed in protective plastic cover. Describes the physical characteristics and habits of the peccary, or javelina, that inhabits the southwestern United States.

Softcover. McLoughlin Brothers, 1st, 1911, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover mounted on linen. Illustrations by Noble Ives. Linen wrappers have moderate chipping and wear. Heavy soil with light musty odor. Moderate creasing.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR ON TITLE PAGE. 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Illustrations by Loren Long. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY PRELUTSKY AND ZELINSKY ON TITLE PAGE. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Doubleday , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-Paginated. Boards. Illustrated in color by Ian Beck. Minor wear to top edge of dust jacket. A nice bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd pr., 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth titled in gilt on the front cover and the spine with a vignette in black on the front cover. Scribner seal on copyright page but no "A", copyright 1933, so assumed 2nd Printing. 'The trio of adventurous riders whose exploits are recorded in this novel of life on the Western cattle ranges are 'bad-men,' but 'bad-men' such as the reader has never met before in stories of the West. They are real, human, warm-blooded men, not the triply dyed blood-and-thunder villains of the movies, but men who were 'raised in outlaw country, amongst outlaw men, and they growed with that as natural as a hawk grows with wings.'' Spine faded, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean tight copy.

NY, Hart Publishing, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. A reprint of a 1890's book. 6 color plates + black & white drawings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 392 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in a bright price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lillian Hoban. Dust jacket with chipping, small closed tears. Publisher's gold sticker across spine. Clean copy of the Hobans' classic tale of goodnight fears and the way to put oneself to sleep.

New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 144 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by the Petershams. Edgewear, chipping, soiling to dust jacket. Brodart cover.

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. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Beautiful color illustrations by Ruth Heller. Clean. This is an enchanting and magical variant of the favorite fairy tale. Publishers Weekly noted that "the text is especially noteworthy for its instructive but unobtrusive incorporation of Korean words." Children's Literature pointed out that "it should be noted that all the illustrations--from those depicting Korean rituals to the smallest clothing details--are the result of the illustrator's extensive research and passionate interest in Korean culture."

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st pub in 1960, this edition probably early 70's, dust jacket with light edgewear, chips.

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth boards stamped on front and spine with a black and gilt design. 288 pages with b&w engraved illustrations. Artists include Frank Merrill, Henry Fenn, A.R. Waud, A.B. Shute, E.H. Garrett. others. All edges gilt. Hinges cracked. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.

NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white and color illustrations by the author. Each page shows us angels romping through the celestial alphabet. All around them in glorious profusion are line drawings of butterflies, ladybugs and rabbits, all utterly charming and rendered with equisite detail. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Joliet IL, P.F. Volland Co., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover with tattered dust jacket with most of rear panel and half of spine gone. The book itself is in exceptional condition. gilt-lettered with gilt decorated golden cloth, nice, clean, bright copy, with title vignette and 10 full page color plates and endpapers by John E. Perkins. Publisher's Inglenook Series. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in embossed green boards with a yellow cloth spine. No dust jacket, but both flaps glued nicely to front fly leaf, the rear one with a photo of Tudor. Ageless poems selected by Tudor, and interpreted artistically and charmingly in many pencil and charcoal drawings, and five color plates. 119 pages, over 50 poets are represented. Color card art by artist pasted to inside front cover.

Hardcover. New York, Longman's Green and Co, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Moderate soil on covers and end papers. Illustrations by author.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in a edgeworn dust jacket, unclipped (1.00). Notable for the illustrations by Ralston Crawford. Ralston Crawford (1906-1978) was an American abstract painter, lithographer, and photographer. Clean copy.