Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Lettimore. In a carefully researched, lavishly illustrated original tale of long ago, Deborah Nourse Lattimore transports readers back through time to a land where Shoguns rule and mythical creatures abound. Focusing on one of her favorite periods in history--Japan's Edo period--Lattimore writes of a poor birdcatcher named Hideo who is banished from his village when he is accused of being the evil bandit who steals from Shogun and villager alike. Finding shelter under the boughs of a tree, Hideo hears a rustling and makes a catch beyond his wildest dreams. Painted in the art style of the Edo period, each spread is breathtaking in its detail; every page is awash in shimmering and vibrant color.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Color photos by Alfred A. Cohen. A Sonoran Desert nature primer told by a small Papago girl (note that Tohono O?odham is now the proper name for these native Americans). Unusual book in that full color photographs are used throughout, rather than illustrations.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.Color illustrations by James Stevenson. Janetta's Grandaddy lives on a farm with chickens and a mule, and when he comes to visit her in Baltimore, Janetta is worried that he'll find the city boring. Griffith's narrative is neatly paired with Stevenson's gently humorous, altogether winning watercolor-and-black-pen illustrations, which alternately depict the urban setting and the beloved, rustic home Grandaddy invokes frequently in his conversations with Janetta.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages, color illustrations by Paul Zelinsky. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. The huge but rather childlike character featured in Prelutsky and Zelinsky's Awful Ogre's Awful Day (2001) returns in a new volume of light verse accomplanied by full-page and double-page illustrations. Taking place during the one-eyed ogre's summer vacation, the first-person poems run the gamut from somewhat gross ("Awful Ogre Has Insomnia") to droll ("Awful Ogre Attends a Concert") to tenderhearted ("Awful Ogre Pays a Visit") to sublime ("Awful Ogre Goes Dragon-Watching"). Prelutsky shows his sure sense of rhythm and rhyme as well as his child-pleasing sense of humor in this series of 17 clearly written poems. Most appear on double-page spreads, accompanied by large ink-and-watercolor illustrations that reflect the tone of the verse. Highlighting the barely controlled chaos of this amiable ogre's world, the pictures create a visually imaginative setting where anything can happen and, in the fun-to-discover details, something often does.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 3-Color illustrations by Mildred Boyle. Light edgewear to covers. No dust jacket. Front and back hinges with tape re-enforcement. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Full color illustrations by Dr. Seuss. 19 Seuss-Songs for Beginning Singers - Piano Score and Guitar Chords by Eugene Poddany. Previous owners bookplate opposite title page. Quarter size abrasion at top right corner of front endpaper. Light wear to cover, corners. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 177 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illust. by Leo & Diane Dillon. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 2nd pr., 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards. Two-color illustrations by Sheila Greenwald. Ex-lib with stamping on front paset-down and endpaper. Edgewear to corners, spine edges of psper-covered boards.
Hardcover. New York , Henry Holt and Co., 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket. Signed with a sketch by McCarty. A young boy sees a plane overhead and imagines himself in it, traveling all the way to the moon. What does he see on his way? With characteristically spare prose, Caldecott Honor winner Peter McCarty invites readers along for an imaginary trip from the earth to the moon and back again, visiting trains, planes, and boats along the way. McCarty's luminous illustrations make the boy's fantasy into a dreamlike journey that ends in his mother's arms-a perfect way to end the day.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, oblong, 64 pages. Originally published in 1963. Color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. A charming tale about a lost child who encounters a turtle, with a very surprising ending. SIGNED BY SENDAK.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Co, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, pink, black and dark green pictorial design of crow on branch. Illustrated in color by Sanchi Ogawa. 80 pages, all with decorative borders, many with color illustrations. Shelf wear. front hinge partially cracked, sort tear to frontispiece at gutter, not affectin image. Otherwise clean, no markings.
Hardcover. New York , Abrams Books for Young Readers, 6th pr, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 40 pages illustrated in color. SIGNED by illustrator. The family in 365 Penguins finds a penguin mysteriously delivered to their door every day for a year. At first they're cute, but with every passing day, the penguins pile up--along with the family's problems. Feeding, cleaning, and housing the penguins becomes a monumental task. They're noisy and smelly, and they always hog the bathroom! And who on earth is sending these kwak-ing critters? Bright, striking illustrations with lots of opportunity for counting (and lots of laughs).
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR ROOT ON TITLE PAGE. Covers and dust jacket completely illustrated in color, acetate protective slip around dust jacket, lovely full page color illustration by Kimberly Root. No signs of wear, dust jacket, covers and pages clean, crisp and unmarked, spine stiff and tight: a beautiful book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st thus, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Barry Moser.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Raschka. SIGNED BY RASCHKA on the title-page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, NYR Children's Collection, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with pictorial boards. SIGNED BY LEVINE with sketch of bird on front fly leaf. no dj issued. Wickedly funny and delightfully sad, Three Ladies Beside the Sea is a tale of love found, love lost, and love never-ending. Edward Gorey's off-kilter Edwardian maidens are the perfect accompaniment to Rhoda Levine's lilting rhymes.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Pavilion Books / Chrysalis Book Group, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no dust jacket issued. A follow up to 'Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book'. . Marbled endpapers. Letters and envelopes all present; All about fairies. these letters contain everything from wisdom to suggestions to chastisement. Lady Cottington has made notes in the margins not to mention smashed fairies throughout (will she ever stop this nasty habit?!) And the fairies - they too have done their part. sprinkling magic and mayhem throughout. SIGNED BY FROUD.
Hardcover. New York, Calla Editions, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Forty full-page color plates by French artist and illustrator O.D.V. Guillonnet. A reformatted reprint of a classic.
Hardcover. NP, Enchanted Lion Books, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 48 pages, a reprint of Flora's book published in 1957. Whimsical b&w drawings with color by the artist.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday and Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 76 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by De Angeli. Color illustrated map on end papers, color boards with an edgeworn dust jacket with short, closed tears, price-clipped. Appears to be a 1960s reprint.
Hardcover. New York , Atheneum, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 40 pages illustrated in color by Bagram Ibatoulline.
Hardcover. New York, J.H. Sears & Co. Inc., 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 156 pages. Cloth boards with color paste-down illustration of Nip and Tuck on cover. Illustrated with black & white drawings and six full page color illustrations by Leila C. Freeman. Faint rubbing on front cover along spine approx. 1". Minor wear to spine top and bottom and corners. Printed bookplate has light crayon printing over letters. A beautiful book.
Hardcover. NY, Harpercollins Childrens Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Barry Moser.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, white boards stamped in red, 25 pages. Dust jacket poor, chunks missing, tape repairs. Illustrated in color by Flavia Gag. Pencil name on half-title page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 64 pages illustrated in color, black & white by Kurt Wiese. Two discreet library stamps to both endpapers, previous owner's ink name, light edgewear to covers, otherwise very good overall.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cream color cloth stamped in black and orange, 160 pages. A vintage school reader with 2-color illustrations throughout by Mary Spoor Brand. Near fine condition, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Kurt Wiese. Illustrated cardboard covers with black cloth spine. Light wear to corners otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket with the 295/295 flap price (2nd state). 1955 stated on copyright page and the list of books on rear cover and rear dj from Horton Hears a Who to And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street. Binding and hinges are strong. Illustrated endpapers are clean, no marking. Several small tape repairs to verso of dj. If you think the alphabet stops with Z, you are wrong. So wrong. Leave it to Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell (with a little help from Dr. Seuss) to create an entirely new alphabet continuing from Z! This rhyming picture book introduces twenty new letters and the creatures that one can spell with them. This book was recently withdrawn from publication by the steward of Geisel's literary legacy, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, due to certain stereotypes featured in one of the images in the book. One of six now-banned Dr. Seuss titles, this one for its portrayal of The "Nazzim of Bazzim" a human of apparent Middle-Eastern origin, mounted upon a Camelid Dromedary called a Spazzim.
Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations and SIGNED BY YACCARINO on title page with a small sketch.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, INSCRIBED BY FEIFFER on half title page. Illustrated in color.
Hardcover. New York, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ray Cruz. Shows minor wear, otherwise nice condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Egielski. Very nice, clean condition. Wittily sending up the "child prodigy'' (if not biography, history, and high seriousness itself), Yorinks and Egielski trace the course of Minski's genius. A child of the 18th Century, Minski prankishly ``discovers'' gravity and electricity, soon followed by his serene introduction of the telephone, airplane, automobile, aspirin, light bulb, etc. Leonardo da Vinci appears in 18th-Century Vienna to applaud Minski's ``noodle.'' But when Minski hears the (historical) Farinelli sing, he labors feverishly on a formula to transform himself from scientist to artist, and achieves a triumphant apotheosis as ``unequaled singer.'' Egielski's exuberantly detailed, warmly colored pictures make the most of the anachronisms, the caricatures, and the Old World setting.
Hardcover. Montreal?, Bedrick/Blackie, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Shows some very minor wear, but really, almost new-looking. Laminated boards, no dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 50 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Color illustrations by Karl Larsson. Dust jacket shows much wear, soiling, chipping, some small tears, one large tear at top left hand corner of back cover. Internally there is some soiling but mostly clean.
New York, Knopf, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 29 pages. Color illustrations by Nicola Bayley. Laminated boards, no dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan , 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8-2-color plates, B&W line drawings by Dombrowski. With a nice dust jacket, only minor edgewear. Tight copy.
Philadelphia, John Winston, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY ROBERTSON on front fly leaf. B&w illustrations by Taylor Oughton. Stated First Edition on copyright page. Light browning to endpapers otherwise very good. Lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Color illustrations by Brown. A stubborn little angel who refuses Gabriel's strict order to visit the newborn baby in the manger turns out to be a frightened little girl who has stage fright, in a magical holiday story that combines the gospel with traditional children's pageant fare.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Light edgewear and soil to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Young Scott Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 48 pages, illustrated in 3-colors by Fred Brenner. Illustrated cloth covers, no dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Novelty design with acetate pages that cover animals in snow. There's a musical computer chip which plays a melody when you push a button in back. Acetate dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Holiday House, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR on front flyleaf. Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. Slight bowing to front panel. Minor rubbing and chipping to dust jacket. Light age toning to text block. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Stockholm, R&S Books, 2nd pr., 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Olaf Lanstrom. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Wonder Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front end paper. Tight copy. Illustrations by Irv Gershen.
Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1975, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards, 61 pages. Color illustrations by Susan Perl. An educational book created from a series of award-winning magazine ads created by Health-Tex clothes for children that ran in the 1960s and 70s. Answers a variety of questions such as "What are freckles?", "Why am I ticklish?", and "How many countries are there?" Small sticker residue otherwise clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 48 pages, color illustrations by Kevin Hawkes, very clean, tight copy, like new.