Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Young Scott Books, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w drawings by Edward Gorey, dj w/ edgewear, closed tear at folds, chip on rear panel. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Kimberly Bulcken Root. INSCRIBED BY ROOT on title pg. Clean, tight signed copy.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY PRELUTSKY on front fly leaf. Color illustrations by Garth Williams. Tight, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. color illustrations by Nicola Bayley. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st US, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover. Color Illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Animals of all kinds take center stage in this unique exploration of a very unusual family. An older brother is strong and respected, just like an elephant. A mother is stately and beautiful, but she prefers not to stand out--a tall feat for a giraffe! How are animals like humans, and humans like animals? Readers of all ages will delight in Laurent Moreau's richly rendered, thought-provoking illustrations, and then they will entertain perhaps the most wildly illuminating question of all: What makes you special?

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 342 pages, illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith with color title page, 8 color plates, and blue endpapers drawing. Light tan cloth with blue and gilt design and color label on front cover. Top edge gilt.

NY, Atheneum, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Quentin Blake. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Unpaginated, illustrated in b&w by Robert Lawson. Color illustrated boards with yellow cloth spine. Corner wear to covers otherwise very good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing Co., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages illustrated in color by Schulz. In the scarce dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations James Stevenson. Dust jacket unclipped, very good.

NY, Random House, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A novelty alphabet book. Each letter has a flap that reveals who lives inside. A board book. Color illust. by Percy. Learning the shapes of all 26 letters of the alphabet has never been more exciting in this big fun-filled board book! Inside each letter-shaped house lives an appropriate person at work--from Andy the Astronaut in his "A"-shaped house to Zach the Zookeeper in his "Z." Peek inside the houses and see the sturdy board letters spring up from the page like magic! Preschoolers will love learning their letters in this ABC neighborhood.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Early board book with Garth Williams' charming illustrations, 24 pages, clean copy. Glazed boards. J125125 code on inside cover at bottom indicating a reprint.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Three-color pictures by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice color illustrations by Victor G. Ambrus. Dust jacket shows minor wear. Hardbound.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a black cloth spine. 36 pages illustrated by Ipcar. 1955 copyright, no indication of later printing. Bright, clean copy. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 1st, 2014-09-16, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A wordless picture book celebrates the power of art and imagination. A little boy reads about Africa and then creates his own adventures with his pencils and paints. Wordless books require readers to slow down and read the pictures, and careful children will see beyond the main storyline by looking at the whole illustration. Why is the boy in bed and not outside? The inhaler and bottle of medicine on the side table are hints. But binoculars and an umbrella on the other side of the table tell them that he is not always bedridden. As he draws, he falls deeply into the rich world of his imaginary Africa. First he draws an elephant, and then he rides away on it. He paints zebras, has a sandwich for lunch, records a giraffe stampede and shares one of his many other sandwiches with the gorillas. After a hair-raising encounter with an aggressive rhino, the little artist shares his pencils and food with other primates, who return the favor and sketch him. Colon's signature scratched-watercolor technique adds richness and emotion to this warm story, but it's the framing scenes at beginning and end that really sparkle here. Simple line-and-color washes put the young man at the center of the story and help readers identify with him.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Inc., reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages. Poems selected by Barbara Rogansky with illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Kokoko the hen announces she will keep house when Labourd, the old peasant, and his family leave the farmhouse but the hen and her animal friends find housekeeping harder then they thought. Illustrated in two-colors by Emma Brock. Small stamp on inside front cover, otherwise clean. Nice reprint of a book first published in 1933.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages, color illustrations by Day. Carl is finally back! Once again, Alexandra Day has concocted a very busy day for the amazing and all-around resourceful Rottweiler Carl. His owner believes Carl is at home taking a nap, when really he's making tracks all over town. He visits a bakery, makes a delivery for the pharmacist, helps out a veterinarian, and joins in a magician's act in the park. But in the most important event of the day, Carl becomes a real hero when he rescues a litter of puppies from a fire. With eight more pages of fun than in the previous Carl books, this captivating adventure, related mostly through pictures, will delight fans old and new.

Hardcover. Chicago, Follett Pub. Co., 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cream color cloth stamped in brown. Color illustrations by Bill Barss. Tight, clean condition. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Co, 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by the author. Translated from the German by Elizabeth Crawford. A man acquires a hat that grants his every wish. Clean copy.

New York , Macmillan , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Dennis Nolan. Romantic tale about family & tribal devotion, which captures the spirit of the gypsy people. Rich, classical paintings complement this captivating tale. Savina, the Gypsy dancer, captivates everyone with her remarkable dancing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Couderc. Determined to become famous and escape his parents' fate as clothes washers, ambitious raccoon Raoul tries his hand at various careers, including that of a sailor, a pilot, and a New York City police officer.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Illustrated by Richard Egielski in color throughout. Very clean and tight copy.

Chicago, M. A. Donohue, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong brown cloth with a color pastedown on the front cover. Color illusrations. by Richardson. previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf. A reprint of the 1923 Volland Ed. Crease to last page.

Hardcover. NY, Grossett & Dunlap, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, dust jacket with tear and tape repair to rear panel. Color illustrations by Pelagie Doane. Clean internally.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG on title-page. Color illustrations by the author. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 32 pages. Three-color illustrations by Wiseman. Small wrinkle in front cover. Edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. US, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1ST, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. A young boy named Bobby has the worst teacher. She's loud, she yells, and if you throw paper airplanes, she won't allow you to enjoy recess. She is a monster! Luckily, Bobby can go to his favorite spot in the park on weekends to play. Until one day... he finds his teacher there! Over the course of one day, Bobby learns that monsters are not always what they seem. Each page is filled with "monstrous" details that will have kids reading the story again and again. Peter Brown takes a universal and timeless theme, and adds his own humorous spin to create another winner of a picture book.

Hardcover. Owings Mills MD, Stemmer House, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with mild fading to spine. INSCRIBED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR on the front fly leaf. A collection of fifteen Brer Rabbit trickster tales from the Afro-American culture of Central and South America and the Caribbean. Color illustrations by Clinton Arrowood. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Friso Henstra; a Russian folktale about a cow who's magical milk brings back youth to her owners; very good in a very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Rand McNally and Company, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Hardcover with cloth covers. Light wear on edges. Internally clean, except last page glue torn. Illustrations by Ruth Mary Hallock.

Hardcover. New York , Duell Sloan and Pearce, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover, library binding. 62 pages illustrated in color by Palazzo. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Suttonhouse Ltd, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 148 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color frontispiece, b&w illustrations by Grace Mallon. Spine faded. Light soil on covers. tight copy. Tales of a Tennessee family in Appalachia.

Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers. Color illustrations by Nonny Hogrogian.

Hardcover. Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A wild duck narrator looks at the past when the environment was bountiful, searches through today's polluted environment for a home, and encourages saving and restoring the environment for the future

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co, reprint, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 88 pages. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color and black and white by Randolph Caldecott. Dust jacket has minor wear. No. 4.

NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Rockwell. When a poor grasscutter uses his life savings to buy a gift to honor beauty, he starts a seemingly endless chain of gift-giving. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Toronto, Groundwood Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 85 pages, color plates by Luis Garay. The Mayans have long fascinated modern readers with their complex written language, sophisticated mathematics, and advanced astronomy. In Guatemala in 1558, a young Mayan Kiche man transcribed what he called a sacred book that we can no longer see. This was the Popul Vuh, the Mayans' written account of the creation of the universe, the gods and demi-gods who occupied that universe, and the story of how man was created by them. Furthermore, it traced, generation by generation, the lineage of the Mayan lords down to their imprisonment and torture by the Spanish invaders. Considered the Mayan bible, the Popol Vuh appears here in an authoritative, gorgeously illustrated version by noted Maya anthropologist Victor Montejo, who has captured all the drama and excitement of one of the worlds great creation stories. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. A pictorial essay on the citrus fruit industry circa mid-fifties. B&w photographs throughout. Small label on spine of dust jacket, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Laszlo Gal. Peel risks his life to save his brother Pome's new bride from her father's evil curse.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in laminated boards, color illustrations by Manning de V. Lee. The front board has an illustration of Andy Archer holding Bugle with Yorktown, VA waterfront in the background.

Hardcover. New York , Row, Peterson and Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Illustrations by John Holmgren. Dust jacket faded, front edge starting to fray. Some foxing on end papers, pages clean. Price sticker inside dust jacket. Adventures of Peter and Penny and their Newfoundland dog on Nantucket Island.

Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, Revised Ed., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A new edition of the 1969 book, this one with new color art by Alexander.

Hardcover. NY, Viking , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Max Stravinsky, the poet dog hero of Max Makes a Million , realizes his dream of going to Paris in Kalman's latest high-spirited high jinks. In the City of Light he goes to museums and clubs, meets like-minded suffering artists and falls in love with Crepes Suzette, "that divine dalmatian." Visual and literary jokes abound--a Parisienne wears strategically placed bananas a la Josephine Baker; a hunchback crouches atop Notre Dame; a man's hat is marked "this is not a hat"--while lighthearted digressions offer amusing first lessons in art appreciation. The exuberant text imports French words and other vocabulary that rely heavily on context but convey a rousing musicality ("I am Fritz from the Ritz / which I quit in a snit / when the chef in a fit / threw escargot on my chapeau / and hit my head / with a stale French bread")--sophisticated fare indeed, but children and the uninitiated alike will find plenty of amusement nonetheless. Painstaking design integrates text and pictures, turns type upside-down or sideways, shrinks or expands type size--whimsical touches in perfect keeping with this fluid work. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with a drawing of baby elephant on front cover. Illustrated in blue and black by Leonard Weisgard. Baby Elephant & his mother imagine traveling to France where he uses lots of new French words that he has learned. Text includes many French words/phrases. Covers show wear and soil. Inside front cover with an inscription, otherwise interior is bright and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 48 pages illustrated in color by David Small. Annabelle Bernadette Clementine Dodd, Belle for short, is the child of wealthy parents who have no time for her. Even before the story begins, readers see her climbing down the stairs to kiss them good-bye, her father glancing at his watch all the while. But Belle has Beatrice Smith, a kindly housekeeper with whom she spends her days sharing Bea's chores (creating more havoc than help). While they have specific chores each day of the week, they always make time for delightful excursions to the beach. Then one day, Belle decides that she can go alone, with nearly disastrous results. The rhyming text describes the loving relationship between Bea and Belle, and the woman's infinite patience with her young charge. Small's cartoon watercolor-and-crayon illustrations, most of them spreads, depict a mansion on a hill overlooking the sea, Belle's grand bedroom, ornate parlors, and a time when wringer washing machines, clotheslines, and electric fans were the last word in luxury. The pictures of Bea hugging the little girl to her breast after nearly losing her, the woman's grief at what might have happened, and Belle's efforts to cheer her up are especially poignant.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. O. Henry's classic tale of the wisest gifts of Christmas, brought to life by P.J. Lynch's extraordinary art, is itself a gift to share and treasure. In a shabby New York flat, Della sobs as she counts the few coins she has saved to buy a Christmas present for her husband, Jim. A gift worthy of her devotion will require a great sacrifice: selling her long, beautiful hair. Jim, meanwhile, has made a sacrifice for Della that is no less difficult. As they exchange gifts on Christmas Eve, the discovery of what each has done fills them with despair, until they realize that the true gifts of Christmas can be found more readily in their humble apartment than in any fine store. The sepia-toned watercolors have an authentic period look; the details present in the New York City street scenes and the couple's rather shabby apartment add a strong feeling of time and place to the story. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Donohue, Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginanted. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Heavy chipping on edges. Color illustrations throughout by Gruelle. Black cloth spine with illustrated cardboard covers. Tight copy.

NY, Golden Press, Reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards. Color illustrations by Leonard Weisgard. Corners of laminated board edges and top spine edge with light wear.