New York, Dodd Mead & Co., 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a brigh, unclipped dust jacket. Ex-lib with light stamping, pocket on rear fly leaf. Endpapers scarred where dj was taped. B&W pictures by William Gropper.
Softcover. London, Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 190 pages, pictorial wrappers. Now the world's foremost blues, rockabilly, soul and rock 'n' roll reissue label, Ace Records has been responsible for unearthing lost classics and neglected pioneers for over three decades, and provided some of the finest and most influential records of the post-war era. Illustrated with many unseen archive photographs dating back to the 1920s, rare artwork and newspaper clippings. Written by established music journalist and author David Stubbs.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 43 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ronald Himler. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , 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. NY/London, Frederick Warne and Company, reprint, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in blue cloth covers stamped in black with a color pastedown illustration. Fabulous color plates (all present) and b/w drawings by Brooke. Originally published in 1935. Dust jacket with light edgewear. tanning to edges. Book is clean and bright.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by Babbitt on title page. Babbitt ( Tuck Everlasting ; Knee knock Rise ) has created some extraordinary children's books, and this one is no exception. It is, quite simply, Babbitt at her best. In a medieval castle, a king and queen argue a crucial question: what is the "best thing" for their young prince? The king insists that his wife gives the child too many toys ("If this keeps up, he'll turn out soft and silly"); she retorts that he gives him too many lessons ("If that keeps up, he'll turn out dry and dusty"). The king resorts to his books to find the answer, whereas the queen polls everyone she meets. The responses run the gamut from "vegetables" (the day nursemaid) to "sunshine" (the gardener) to "a song" (the court musician). But it is the cook's daughter who points the perplexed parents in the right direction, instructing them to ask the prince himself. "Bub," replies the toddler, which translates into the inarguably "very best thing": love. This splendid story is matched by exquisite artwork, which offers a refreshingly realistic depiction of the medieval setting and featuring the royal dog (patiently sporting a court jester's cap), who is entirely devoted to the very lovable prince.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Marc Simont. Light edgewear and rubbing. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, NYR Children's Collection, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, reprint of the classic title, SIGNED by Marc Simont on title page, no dj issued.
Hardcover. NY, Flying Dolphin Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The acclaimed entertainer and bestselling author Steve Martin and the wildly clever New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast team up in a weird, wonderful excursion through the alphabet. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages illustrated in color by O'Connor. SIGNED with a large sketch on front fly leaf by O'Connor, no dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. Mankato, MN, Creative Education, 1st thus, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Georges Lemoine. Laminated paper covered boards with color illustration on front cover.
Hardcover. New York , Phaidon Press, 1st us, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Wonderful color illustrations by the master Ungerer. An old teddy bear recalls his life, beginning as a birthday present, later shared by two boys separated under European bombardment, companion to the daughter of an American soldier whose life he had saved, battered by nasty boys, trashed, and restored as a collector's item displayed in an antique shop. The moving denouement re-unites the two men, who as boys were separated by war's travails.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 30 pages. Color illustrations by author. Dust jacket chipping lightly at corners and spine edge. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Holiday House, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR, Michael McCurdy. Illustrated with sepia wood engravings. Blind-stamped boards. Dust Jacket lightly faded. Clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 42 pages. Hardcover. Features 6 full color and black & white illustrations in text by Edwin Willard Deming. Short separations of preliminary pages from interior hinge at top and bottom. Areas of foxing and abrasion to title page. Printers unusual binding method has created creasing before the page margins. Short closed tears on some pages. Front cover pastedown intact with some surface abrasions. Scarce.
Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons , reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations throughout by Christian Robinson. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Browndeer Press/Harcourt, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. No dust jacket. Color illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully. Monsieur Lapin and Monsieur Blanc own the Spinach Main, a restaurant in the south of France famous for its fresh vegetables and excellent cuisine. Business is good until the day Monsieur Reynard, the fox, walks in. "Such tasty patrons--I mean portions," he says. "I plan to eat here often." The restaurant empties. What can Monsieur Lapin and Monsieur Blanc do? They have given up their pirate ways and are now rabbits of peace, but the fox is not easily discouraged. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 7th pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Mary Azarian. A early printing of the Caldecott Winner (sticker on the dust jacket ). This copy INSCRIBED BY AZARIAN on title page.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., Reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color, black & white illustrations by Caldecott. Decorative stamped front cover. Clean copy in a nice dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages, pink cloth covers with blue and black design. End paper drawing and b&w illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Light wear, ex-library with residue on end papers, small ink price on front fly leaf, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, reprint, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue buckram with gilt spine titles and corner decorations, maroon endpapers, 259 pages, b&w drawings by Oliver Herford. Timothy, age ten, sets out to rescue his two year old foster "sister" with his dog Rags. Clean copy, slight cock to spine. Originally published in 1891.
Hardcover. New York, Platt and Munk, reprint , 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover. Edited by Watty Piper. Color illustrations by Eulalie. Dust jacket with edgewear, small tears, light soiling. Hinge lightly cracked.
Hardcover. New York, Ariel Books, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 49 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Tasha Tudor. Bright yellow cloth with blue lettering and drawing of rooster on front. This copy SIGNED BY BOTH McCREADY & TASHA TUDOR on title page. Dust jacket with darkening to edges, chipped at top of spine, Book is clean, bright.
Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY NORMAN on the half-title page. Color illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. like-new condition.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Non-paginated. Color illustrations. by Jerry Pinkney. SIGNED BY PINKNEY on title-page. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, P.F. Volland Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover in decorative box. Color illustrations throughout. In good condition considering its age. Previous owner's dated inscription on title page. Bright yellow covers with illustration. Touch of foxing to covers and a few pages, but doesn't affect text or illustrations. Binding still quite tight. Beautiful old children's book.
Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Really nice, almost new-looking condition. Previous owner's name front end paper. Color illustrations by Burningham. Hardbound, no dust jacket.
New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney, sticker residue at top right front of dust jacket, very clean, tight copy, like new.
Softcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 heavy paper sheets plus cover, bound together with blue cord in punched holes at top. One and two color illustrations by Shepard, verse for every month by Milne. Some light pin-size spotting to corner of cover, otherwise clean and bright.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illust. by James Stevenson. Unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. Full page color illustrations by Oliver Jeffers throughout. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color, black & white illustrations by Margaret Ayer. Color illustrated boards. Bottom edgewear, corner wear to boards
Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st US, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages illustrated in color by Browne. Browne's wry fractured fairy tale sets the Goldilocks story in a contemporary urban neighborhood and tells it from the dual viewpoints of a lost little girl and a baby bear. The girl's story, shown on left-hand pages, is wordless; sepia-toned pictures show a bespectacled, blond kid who gets lost in the city streets, enters a house with an open door, eats porridge, breaks a chair, and snuggles up to nap. On each facing page, Baby Bear tells his parallel story, illustrated in full color, of walking in the park with Daddy and Mommy and then coming home to find his breakfast gone, his chair broken, and someone asleep in his bed.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Books, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 92 pages. Color illustrations by Aldren Watson. Light soil to dust jacket. Otherwise very good. SIGNED BY ALDREN WATSON on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY WIESNER ON TITLE PAGE. Crisp, tight copy. Very good condition with only minor rubbing to edges.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, Reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Color illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky. Ex-library copy with minimal stamping on endpapers. Library tape strip at bottom of dust jacket. Clean, bright copy. A modern European story with the flavor of folk tale, wonderfully illustrated. Set in a Russian country village where peasants still live by habits and traditions. Two orphans, 12-year-old Anna and younger brother Peterkin live on their own. One day they look for cranberries in Wandering Swamp, and they argue about which trail to take. Their one day becomes a tapestry of experiences past the Blind Break Quagmire.
Hardcover. New York, Parent's Magazine, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacekt. Heavy soil on top and spine. Fraying to corners. Gutter crack in front, otherwise good copy.
Hardcover. Chicago/NY, Rand McNally, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. The story of how the well ordered life of Mrs. Peabody Fitch is disrupted when her niece and favorite pet come to stay. Wonderfully fanciful illustrations by Lubell on every page. INSCRIBED BY LUBELL on the front fly leaf (signed WINNIE).
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated from the Russian by Whitney. Color illustrations by Nonny Hogrogian. Minor wear to dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Full color illustrations by Helen Craig. Covers with some light abrasions, minor soiling. Some small spots on a few pages. Clean, unmarked text.
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.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. Color illustrations by Say and SIGNED BY SAY WITH A THUMBNAIL SKETCH on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York , Harper and Row, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by the author. Dust jacket with minor wear, bright, unclipped.
Hardcover. NY, NYR Children's Collection, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, a reprint of a classic. SIGNED by illustrator Marc Simont on half title (page 15). No dj issued.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Vermont folk art artist, Warren Kimble. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Orchard Books, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Schwartz and SIGNED BY SCHWARTZ on title-page. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum is the 7th novel set in the Land of Oz. Characters include the Woozy, Ojo "the Unlucky", Unc Nunkie, Dr. Pipt, Scraps (the patchwork girl), and others. The book was first published on July 1, 1913, with illustrations by John R. Neill, all wonderfully reproduced in this facsimile edition. Afterword by Peter Glassman.
Hardcover. Shawnee Mission KS, Autism Asperger Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 37 pages, illustrated in color. Like new in a bright dust jacket.
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