Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated with color photos by Larry Carrara. INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND AUTHOR on front fly leaf. A Moose for Jessica is a non-fiction book about a moose named Josh that spent some time in Shrewsbury, Vermont with a hereford cow called Jessica. Josh was attracted to Jessica and stayed in the vicinity for 76 days.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, Illustrated with nine full page color plates and the color title page by Frederick Richardson. 219 pages. Pictorial endpapers. Original pictorial black cloth with color pictorial paste-down to front cover and spine stamped in gilt. In a tan chipped dust jacket with a color paste-down. No top edge gilt so probably second issue. Book is clean and tight with some mild foxing to pages opposite color plates.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st thus, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 176 pages, yellow pictorial cloth covers. A collection of 4 classic Seuss titles, color illustrations throughout. Covers soiled, worn edges and corners. Interior bright and clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co , reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, The squirrel family leaves their home in the woods, which is threatened by woodsmen, and seek refuge in a nearby garden. 64 pages with eight color plates and additional b&w drawings by Frances Beem. Several of the drawings have been colored by a child.

Hardcover. US, Prydwen Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 32 pages illustrated in color. Terrence Lawlor has cut and pasted together all things beautiful, strange and colorful to create this wicked story of three vain sisters and their "dos." Lawlor's collaged illustrations are a delight and you'll find yourself oohing and ahhing as you recognize pots, scissors, cups, ships, cakes, baubles, flowers and fruits that play hide and seek on every beautifully composed page. The sisters, Carlotta, Whilhelmina and Delight, have true fashion attitude.

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, Viking Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in beige cloth stamped in red. Black & white illustrations by Gay. Previous owner's bookplate. Ex-lib, with light stamp to front fly leaf, residue to rear end papers. Humorous poetry for young readers.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 28 pages. Color illustrations by Alice and Martin Provenson. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Hardcover. NY, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. The book opens up to a 'pop-up' of a goliath beetle (paper engineering by James Diaz), illustrated by Wendy Smith-Griswold, and then opens on either side, again with pop-ups and sliders. A book on Beetles, in a three-dimensional and 'pop-up' format for children, discussing the life cycle and lives of the insects. All in great shape, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color art by Parnall. All about different types of mammal feet. Illustrated in color, with a guide at the end of the text which explains the type of feet depicted in the artwork. Clean copy.

Softcover. Racine, WI, Whitman Publishing Company, 1st, 1937, Non-paginated. Softcover with age discoloration to pages. Light soil to paper wrappers. Tight copy. Color illustration by Bruce Norwood.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with gilt and dark green design. Being the Histories of a Cat, A Dog, A Pigeon, A Lynx, Two Wolves and a Reindeer and in Elucidation of the Same. With over 200 drawings by Ernest Thompson Seton. 363 pages. Stated First Printing on copyright page. A very good plus copy with some fading to the spine but internally a clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers , Prob 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 65 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. No dust jacket. Cardboard cover corners show wear otherwise very good.

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. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped with orange lettering. 64 pages of b&w photos of kittens at play by Spillman, words by Paul Dehn. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Clean, tight copy. This hilarious book manages to illustrate a fact or two about shapes while providing a three-dimensional stomping ground for best friends Moose and Zebra. What will happen? Who will save the day? It's all up in the air until the final page, where Moose and Zebra (and Cat, too) create a perfect--and perfectly heartwarming--ending. This stand-alone companion to Z Is for Moose features a multilayered story told through text, asides, conversation bubbles, and pictures. Themes of friendship, exploration, and conflict resolution--and of course the concept of shapes, including the shape of a book--make this an ideal read-aloud for the elementary school classroom and for home!

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. Chicago, IL, Albert Whitman & Company, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light bump to corners. Gutter lightly cracked in rear. Light soil on rear cover.

Chicago, Rand McNally, Rep., 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of earlier Nursery favorites by Brice reprinted here in a larger format. Covers worn, botton 2" of cloth gone from spine.

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. NY, Doubleday & Co, 8th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. Winner of the Caldecott Medal, (with printed image of medal on dj) an ALA Notable Children's Book, and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year, Peter Spier's Noah's Ark has been the iconic edition of this tale for over 40 years, in print continuously since its debut in 1977. In Spier's imaginative retelling, readers witness the danger and the grandeur of the terrifying flood but also the lighter moments: Noah's wife jumping on a crate to avoid the rats; Noah shooing all but two bees from a busy hive; and all the animal babies being born in the spring. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. Previous owner's inscription front paste-down. Color illustrations by Marc Brown. Dust jacket shows some soiling and a small tear, unclipped.

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, Doubleday, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Ray Cruz. Very minor wear to dust jacket. Hardbound.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow Junior Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Diane de Groat. Nice condition: clean and new-looking.

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, Random House/Beginner Books, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards, illustrated in color by the authors, 60 pages. Daddy Bear tries to show his son how to use the sled, skis and skates he got for Christmas - with disastrous results. Fist published in the early 70s. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 8 black & white drawings by George Foster Barnes. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise excellent condition, illustrated cover with gilt lettering on spine.

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, Crown Publishers, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 40 pages illustrated in color by the author. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Natick MA, Picture Book Studio, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 68 pages illustrated in color by Zwerger.

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. Boston, Little, Brown, reprint, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 52 pages illustrated in b&w by Erik Blegvad. Weekly Reader Edition. Dusty Hopkins was worried because it looked like he wouldn't be able to attend the Old-timer's picnic, all because of an argument his Pa and Mr. Folly had about who played the best fiddle. A delightful Miska Miles children's tale of little Dusty Hopkins, his friend Viola Folly and how they manage to resolve a silly feud involving the pride of their families and neighbors. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF WITH A SKETCH OF DR. BIRD on front fly leaf.

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. Champaign IL, Garrard Pub. Co , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial yellow cloth, 40 pages illustrated in color by Tom Eaton. Kara Kangaroo tries several cures for sleep-jumping until she finally devises a method to weight herself down. Clean copy.

NY, Viking Press, 3rd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black and white drawings by Harold Berson. The story of Camilla, a camel who dances.

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. New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ROSEMARY WELLS ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In these imaginative poems you'll find animals that nobody has ever hear of-but that certainly ought to exist. Each poem in this collection is paired with a striking painting by renowned artist, Leonard Baskin, and will inspire young readers to invent their own animals that ought to be. Clean copy.

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. NY, Doubleday & Company, 2nd pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages. Illustrated with Dare Wright's b&w photos featuring a doll with her teddy bears and a live duckling. No dust jacket, Clean and bright, no markings.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color pictorial Illustrated boards are lightly rubbed, worn at edges and corners. Front hinge is cracked, light finger smudges to a few pages, yellow paper on cardboard spine chipped. Illustrated in color throughout. A follow-up to The Adventures of Mickey Mouse Book 1, featuring a supporting cast and personalities that align more closely to the Mickey Mouse short films and comic strip of the time. Characters include Captain Church Mouse, Tanglefoot, Peg-Leg Pete, and Pluto along with Mickey and Minnie Mouse.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, First Edition, 1936, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Hardcover with illustrated endpapers. Rear board detached with tender cloth connection to spine. Tender front board. Spine full length exposed, with frayed original cloth. Sunfading to covers. Full color illustrations by Bemelmans are clean, unmarked with toning to edges. A couple pages have foxing, fingerprints to last page.

Hardcover. Boston, David R Godine, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. From The Tale of Rabbit (1901) to Last Stop on Market Street (2015), each of the one hundred books is presented with fascinating stories of its publication history and biographies of the creators. On the facing page, a cover and inside spread will bring back memories of the time when, sitting in a classroom or on a lap, someone read you a book and opened up your world. A sumptuous celebration of 100 best-loved and acclaimed picture books-ones you'll remember and new gems to discover.

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson Potter, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, unpaginated. Hardcover laminated boards with matching dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Wendy Watson and INSCRIBED BY WATSON WITH A SKETCH OF A MOUSE on the half title page. Bright unclipped dust jacket, hardcover.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 30 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Vintage Children's Picture Book with stories and poems about horses and beautifully illustrated throughout by Feodor Rojankovsky.

NY, Philomel Books, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Patrick Benson. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Five episodes featuring Hob, a goblin, and the family he lives with and protects, though only the children can see him.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, two-color pctorial boards. 2-color illustrations by Rockwell. Clean copy.