Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages. In this 1917 addition to the Oz series, L. Frank Baum delights readers of all ages with a spellbinding mystery that involves nearly every one of the amazing cast of characters that populate America's favorite fairyland. This handsome new edition--featuring all twelve of Oz artist John R. Neill's beautiful color plates and nearly one hundred black-and-white drawings--is the perfect way to join Dorothy and her friends on this exciting journey through the endlessly intriguing Land of Oz. Afterword by Peter Glassman.

Hardcover. Camden ME, Down East Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Dawn Peterson. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

New York, McLoughlin Brothers, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 186 pages. Beige cloth boards, with color illustration of two children on front. Gold lettering front, black on spine. Color and b&w illustrations by May Audubon Post. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, Haymarket Books, 1st US, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Two-color illustrations by Laura Barrett. Greta lives with her brother Hansel on the edge of a great forest - a forest in danger of destruction. GreedyGuts, their aunt, doesn't appreciate Hansel and Greta's plans to replant trees and save the forest. In fact, she thinks they're horrible little vegetarians. GreedyGuts doesn't give two hoots about nature. She favors luxury and living it up: eating, shopping and partying hard and so she hatches a plan to get rid of the meddling, do-gooder kids deep in the woods. With her trademark subversive and comic eye, Jeanette Winterson retells the classic tale of Hansel and Gretel.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by dePaola.

Hardcover. London, S.P.C.K., 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, 52 pages, color frontispiece and sepia line drawings throughout by Randolph Caldecott. Light cover wear, clean.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. Very clean and tight copy. Babar, King of the Elephants, receives an invitation to meet with the President of the United States- the perfect excuse for a family vacation! None of the elephants have been to America before, so Babar packs up his family and sets off to see the sights. From the hustle and bustle of New York to the wide open spaces of the Grand Canyon, from riding streetcars in San Francisco to fishing on Lake Michigan, Babar and his family experience America in all its glory and splendor.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 48 pages with b&w illustrations by Ian Ribbons throughout. Slight dust jacket edge wear and price clipped, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Stephen longed for a parrot but on a visit to his grandmother he found an injured sea gull that he nursed back to health. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on opposite title page. Illustrated by Michael J. Deraney; a retelling of a Yom Kippur story. Heavy age toning to text block edges. Moderate soiling, staining, and rubbing to dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription to front endpapers. A tight copy.

Hardcover. Bedford MA, Applewood Books, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. 22 pages, pictorial boards. 3 pop-up pictures help illustrated the story of "Strange Adventures in the Spider Ship". Reprint of the 1935 edition with artwork by Dick Calkins who did the original comic strip. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Savage. Little Tug may not be very tall or very fast, but when the big ships in the harbor need help, they know they can count on him to be there with a push, a pull, and a ride to safety.

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, Macmillan, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Front of dust jacket is cut out and glued onto title-page. Nicely done. Blue cloth covers with mild shelf wear. Translated from Russian by Tatiana Balkoff Drowne. Nice color illustrations by Vera Bock. No markings.

Hardcover. New York, The Viking Press, 1st illust., 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 131 pages. Illustrated by Wesley Dennis. Covers slightly soiled, endpages illustrated, edges stained blue.

Hardcover. Applewood, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Laminated boards, a reprint of the classic pop-up book from 1934. An illustrated collection of familiar nursery rhymes, including "Old Mother Hubbard," "Sing a Song of Sixpence," and "Three Little Kittens" each with color pop-up spreads.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee Shepard/Morrow, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Jim LaMarche.The story is about a mother who tells her son the story of Little Oh, a girl made of paper who becomes separated from her human mother. Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Gestalten, 1st US, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 40 pages illustrated in color by author. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by David Small. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR on title page.Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Brothers, 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Moderate soil on cover boards. Fraying and edgewear to spine cloth. Gutter is loose, but not cracked. Overall, a moderately worn copy.

Hardcover. New York , Atheneum, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with red ribbon decoration. Unpaginated. Illustrated with color pictures by Ron Barrett throughout on yellow background. Several pages with dog-ear crease at top corner, otherwise clean, very good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Simon $ Schuster, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by C. F. Payne. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell , reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, illustrated in color throughout with Tasha Tudor's charming paintings of life in Corgiville. "In Corgiville, the biggest event of the year is the Fair. And the most exciting thing at the fair is the goat race. Caleb Corgi has spent many months training his goat Josephine for the big event..." Appears to book club edition with no price on dj. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. Color illustrations by Charles Bragg. Previous owner's signature, address on front paste-down endpaper. Dust jacket with tape repaired tears to corners, back top edge.

Hardcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, blue cloth covers with dark blue design. Illustrated in b&w by Lawson. . Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, not price clipped ($2.50).

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Ray Cruz. Shows minor wear, otherwise nice condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Stasys Eidrigevicius.

Birmingham AL, Crane Hill, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ernie Eldredge. Dust jacket with light edgewear.In this fantasy tale Billy Bobbity banishes his brother from their messy room but soon regrets his action and begins the search for the missing Henry. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Abingdon Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white and color illustrations by Susan Perl. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick Warne, 1st, 2009, Pictorial boards, 16 pages with 8 interactive spreads, all using Barker's art from her Flower Fairies series. What happens when a little girl moves into a new house and discovers a tiny door? One day she manages to open it . . . and her world is forever changed when she gets her fi rst peek at the homes and the magical world of the Flower Fairies. As she starts to explore her neighborhood with a friend, they discover that there are more doors--all leading to the most secret of fairy places. Filled with gorgeous paper ephemera, pop-ups and special interactive features on every spread, this beautiful novelty book leads the reader to eight fairy doors to open and investigate. Each door has its own individual shape, color and characteristics-- some are decorated, others have little signs or notices, a set of footprints leading up to it, or magical fairy glitter at the doorstep. As the book progresses, more of the fairies and their world are revealed, culminating in an exciting and secret fairy nighttime ball.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations by Victor G. Ambrus. Boards show some minor wear and very light soiling. Hardbound. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages illustrated in colors by Leonard Weisgard. Ex-lib but internally clean with light residue and markings to endpapers.

Softcover. New York , Neugebauer/North-South, 4th Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated, color illustrations, text in German and English. SIGNED BY ZWERGER on half title page. Softcover with an acetate dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st UK, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. A young male bear awakens in Spring to discover that his mother is gone, as is normal for adolescent males, and he must learn to survive on his own in the wilds. Handsomely color illustrated by the Caldecott winning author.. No dust jacket. Clean.

Hardcover. Minneapolis, Lerner Publications, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, 32 pages illustrated in 2-colors by the author. How a small boy climbs the tallest tree and has to be rescued. Name stamped on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Light edgewear to covers.

New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey. A little mouse runs away from home to find a "nicer" family, but when darkness comes, he misses them and realizes how much he loves them.

Hardcover. New York , Macmillan, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages , illustrated in color by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey. Clean, bright copy. Probably a Book Club as the dust jacket has no price.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Co., reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Wiseman. Weekly Reader Book Club Ed. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover,192 pages. SIGNED BY MARGUERITE DE ANGELI ON TITLE PAGE. Light tan cloth covers, 16 full-page color plates, profusely illustrated with b&w illustrations. Mild rubbing and soiling to cloth covers, crease and faint erased-pencil marks to half-title page, otherwise page crisp and unmarked, tight binding. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion Books, Book Cub Ed., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Showing compassion for one's neighbor brings bountiful reward in this original tale based on Guatemalan folklore. Gently imparts a timeless message.--Publishers Weekly. Illustrated in bright, crisp colors of Hispanic folk art by Czernecki.

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrated by Richard Egielski. SIGNED BY EGIELSKI with a sketch of a rat on front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Woody Guthrie spent his life putting into words and music what the rest of America was thinking. He roamed from coast to coast and captured the despair of those displaced by the Great Depression and the dust bowl, eulogized workers, and celebrated the great natural beauty of America. This is an introductory biography presented as a picture book with a brief lyrical text and powerful, hand-tinted, woodcut-like illustrations by the author. It includes the complete lyrics to "This Land Is Your Land" and excerpts from his other songs.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 44 pages. Color illustrations by Don Freeman. Green cloth with black monkey on cover, spine lettering in pink and black. Minor corner wear.

Hardcover. US, HMH Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Gardiner ME, Tilbury House, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w by the author. As twelve-year-old Sarah prepares for the town's annual sailboat race, working on the boat her grandfather has given her and learning the secrets of navigation, readers are schooled in tacking, coming about, compass reading, and other maneuvers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 39 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Minor wear to covers, otherwise clean, tight copy. Light soil. Black and white line drawings by Jerome Synder.

Hardcover. Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, reprint, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A lovely reprint of the classic and Caldecott Medal winner first published in 1942. This edition comes with window stickers on a rear page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 59 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Lambert Davis. Light edgewear to dust jacket , else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Michael Di Capua Books/Harper Collins Publishers, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR TO TITLE PAGE. Dust jacket and covers completely illustrated, acetate-protected dust jacket, color decorated endpapers, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset and Dunlap, 2nd, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light soil to dust jacket. Moderate wear to cover edges. Illustrated by Glen Rounds in color and b&w.

Hardcover. Greenwich CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, red cloth covers in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Menotti's own narrative version of his opera of the same name. The full color and b/w drawings are based on the set designs for the Metropolitan Opera's production. Photo of both author and illustrator appear on rear of jacket.