Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.Black & white illustrations by Michael McCurdy.

Hardcover. Mankato MN, Creative Editions, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. In 1949, SPORT magazine published Lineup for Yesterday, a collection of poems by Ogden Nash celebrating the greatest big-league baseball players of the 1800s and early 1900s. Using an alphabetical approach, the famous wordsmith paid entertaining tribute to 24 legends of the diamond, encapsulating each in just 4 clever lines. Creative Editions is proud to present this masterpiece to a new generation of fans, reintroducing icons from the formative years of professional baseball. The masterful mixed-media illustrations of C. F. Payne portray these heroes of summer in their athletic primes in this, the first-ever picture book publication of Nash s classic. Clean copy.

Softcover. Berkleley, CA, Berkeley, CA, 1st wraps, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages. Clean, tight copy. Color, black & white illustrations by Gahan Wilson. French fold flaps. Paperback.

Hardcover. London, Windmill Books, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket covered in protective plastic. Small chips on rear of dust jacket. Light rubbing to edges of cover boards. Color illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Covers bound in blue cloth with gilt title on spine and cover with decoration and pastedown art. Beautiful b/w illustrations throughout by Seton. Bump to top corner of cover, small scrape to cover label otherwise clean, very good. The aim of this well-illustrated work is to picture the life of a Grizzly Bear with the added glamour of a remarkable Bear personality (from the Preface). Presented in 16 chapters, Seton considered this work as an historical novel of Bear life.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, BC Ed., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. 32 pages illustrated in color by Chess. As he encounters animals from A to Z, Alfred learns the letters of the alphabet. Book Club edition, clean copy.

NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Maria Cristina Brusca. Light edgewear to dust jacket. When a handsome city slicker shows up at the Z-Bar Ranch to borrow a horse, the cowboys there decide to make him the butt of a joke, offering him Zebra Dun, the meanest bucking bronco they have, in a colorful version of a traditional cowboy song.

Hardcover. NY, Viking/Ariel, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 147 pages, color plates by Van Allsburg. Inscription on half-title page.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st illust. thus, 1930, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in yellow, 214 pages. This is a first printing of the edition with the two Gertrude Kay color plates, many b&w spot drawings and endpapers illustration. The original edition was published in 1882. A collection of stories and songs the author learned from growing up among slaves in the antebellum South. The green spine is faded otherwise a clean, sharp copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Thomas Allen. A pioneer girl sees pieces of her life sewn into the quilts she, her sister and her mother make. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Greenwich, CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color and illustrations by Beni Montresor. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping and soil.

Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 224 pages. B/w illustrations by Walter Bobbett. Scarce. Brown pictorial cover with spine slightly cocked. Light edgewear to top and bottom spine, internally very good. A collection of stories told by natives on the East Coast of Africa. Translated from the Swahili by the author.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Color illustrations by Dale Gottlieb. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, and rubbing.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Illustrated throughout in color. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light soil to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Random House Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The classic work by Dr. Seuss analyzed and dissected. Red cloth, beige spine. 10 1/2" X 10 1/4" in size. IIllustrated, color drawings, black & white photos. Notes galore.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR JULES FEIFFER. Originally pub. in 1969 but this edition newly illustrated by Feiffer in color.

Hardcover. NY/Oakland, Triangle Square, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Ed Young. Told in haiku-based American Sentences and pictures, Yugen is the story of a boy and his mother, inspired by the profound concept of "yugen," a Japanese word for the mystery and beauty of the universe and of human experience. The second collaboration between Caldecott-winning illustrator Ed Young and Mark Reibstein after their award-winning 2008 debut, Wabi Sabi, Yugen is a book of longing and remembrance that is unequaled in its beauty and poetic simplicity.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 1st illust. thus, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with color illustration on cover label, 274 pages. Two-color and b&w illustrations by Robert Lawson. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 239 pages, with b&w drawings by Kurt Wiese. Minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

NY, Philomel, 1st illust. thus, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Alicia Austin.

Hardcover. San Diego and New York, Gulliver Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1991- Parents' Choice Award. Dust jacket shows some very minor wear, otherwise clean and nice. Color illustrations by Chwast. Hardbound.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Seymour Chwast. Fold-out format. Color illustrated laminated covered boards. The book unfolds into a long strip from which one can read of all the adventures Sister missed by sleeping during a boat ride.

Hardcover. New York, Levine, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Jean Claverie. Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Illustrated by the author throughout. Part of a series of publications for parents from the Boston Children's Medical Center. Dust jacket price clipped and minor wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Paris FR, E. Plon, Nourrit , unknown, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 47 pages. Color illustrations by the author. Red top edge. Lavender covers with green and gold decoration. Corners and spine rubbed. Light soiling to covers. Spine a bit loose.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Byron Barton introduces young readers to the fun of the airport in this bold and colorful book. From the excitement of arrival to the wonder of taking off, Airport captures all the magic of an airport with joyous and powerful images and simple text.

Hardcover. New York, Willia Morrow and Company, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 142 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrated by Mary K. Okheena. Remainder line to bottom edge otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield Publishing Co. , 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with spiral binding. A book with 8 moveable pages, where a mother animal can be folded out to reveal a train of little ones following her. Facing pages with a very short story about the particular animal. Art and animations designed by Vivienne Blake. Spine has chipping to paper, small ownership line on inside front cover at bottom.

NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ted Lewin, SIGNED BY TED LEWIN on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Bluesky/Scholastic, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Rylant. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt & Company, 4th, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Illustrated in color by the author. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page with a little sketch of a spider. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with small tear to upper edge of spine. Faint sunning to spine. Internally very good. Caldecott Honor Book with silver sticker on cover.

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing Co., 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Marc Simont. Book store sticker on rear fly leaf. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dodge Publishing Company, Reprint, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Deckled fore-edge. Tanning to pages and edges from age. Blue cloth bound cover boards, two-color illustration on front cover board, a good deal of paint has chipped off (see image), white title on spine, slightly faded. Some soil/wear to covers. A bump to front right bottom corner of cover board (see image). In beautiful condition inside, no pages missing, page 84 is partially disconnected. Illustrations by Bessie Pease Gutman) quite vivid.

Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs NJ, Prentice-Hall, 6th pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth cover with gilt design, mild wear at corners. Lacks dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Miller. Green endpapers. Clean, bight copy, no markings.

New York, Dial Press, 1st , 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping.

Hardcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield, 1st , 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 12 gorgeous color plates by Diana Thorne. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Spine loose, light soil to front cover. Abrasion on top covers corner.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Watson's interpretation of the classic fairy tale, with exquisite color illustrations in amazing detail. 11.25'' x 10''. Pictorial boards in color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Watson throughout in color. 30 pages. SIGNED with a color sketch by watson on title page

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st thus, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Story & pictures by Garth Williams. His original black & white drawings (from 1951's Adventure of Benjamin Pink) colored by Rosemary Wells.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover picture book, pictorial laminated boards. The Biblical creation story, retold and illustrated in color by Baynes. Clean.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by author.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st illust. thus, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth covers. Delightful color illustrations by Mercer Mayer. The stewpot Sherman carried on the stage proved a nuisance until the wickedest robber, outlaw, and highwayman in all of England came along. Clean copy

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by French. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 4th pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by Geoffrey Moss. 47 pages. K-13, the best spy in the secret service, must retrieve the deadly Crumble-Bomb from the world's greediest man who is holding it for ransom. Library Ed.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ted Lewin. The survival adventure tale gets a desert setting in this picture book about a boy lost in the Sahara. Author and artist have traveled in the area, and they tell the story of sizzling sun and lonely darkness in realistic detail. Lewin's watercolor paintings are rich with story.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated. Black & white illustrations by Leonard B. Lubin. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Hardcover. Boulder CO, Vernissage Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Natasha Voronina. This Christmas tale broadens a child's understanding of another culture as it introduces a few words of Russian. It is a story of self-discovery while it introduces readers (parents, as well as children) to some of the lore and language of a far-away country.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages. Adele and her younger brother, Simon, have just arrived in New York City to visit their Aunt Cecile and prepare for a grand train trip around America. "Please try not to lose anything on our trip," Adele tells her brother with a sigh. But how can Simon remember to keep an eye on his belongings when there are so many wonderful distractions and astounding sights to take in? The endearing team from Adele & Simon returns in a cross-continental adventure that reflects the vitality of early twentieth-century America, from the Boston Public Garden to San Francisco's Chinatown. Stunning pen-and-ink-and watercolor illustrations are filled with innumerable hidden treasures, and endpapers featuring a period map of America extend the fun. SIGNED BY MCCLINTOCK.

Hardcover. Woodstock VT, privately printed/Elm Tree Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 21 pages illustrated in red and black by Peg Schaeffer Gruver. An animal story set in rural New England. Illustrated gray boards in a glassine dust jacket that's tanned and chipped. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , North-South Books, 1st US, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 24 pages illustrated in color by Lisbeth Zwerger, Dust jacket tanning at edges, price-clipped. Otherwise very good, clean.