Children's Illustrated

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.

NY, Potter, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Helen Craig. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Lightly bumped corners. When Angelina Ballerina sees old Mr. Bell all alone at Christmastime, she decides to bring him some holiday cheer. Cousin Henry doesn?t want to help until he finds that there?s a real Santa Claus living in their town!

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY KIRK WITH Illustration on title-page. Color illustrations by the author. Tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges.

Hardcover. Chicago, Book House for Children, 28th pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red coth with gilt lettering and color paste-down on front cover,192 pages. Illustrated in color by Maude & Miska Petersham. Light soil to covers, internally VG.

Garden City, NY, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illustrations by the author. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, and light soil. Illustrated endpapers. First book written by the notable illustrator, who went on to create the Rosy Cole children's series. A delightful tale of romance and culture in the city.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1992, 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.

Hardcover. New York , John Day Co., 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 56 pages, illustrated in full color and 2-colors by the author. Blue cloth covers with dark blue decoration, lettering. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good. in a color dust jacket, that has the publisher's gold sticker on the front, light edgewear and chipping.

Hardcover. NY, Arthur A. Levine Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 25th Anniversary Edition. Unpaginated, color illustrations by the author. Light edge wear to dust jacket, small tear to top of spine. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, color illustrations by Charlotte Voake. Little Elsie Piddock is a born skipper. When she is scarcely five, she can outskip anyone in her village. By the time she's six, her name and fame have spread to all the villages in the county. And by the time she's seven, the fairies have heard of her. When Master Skipper Andy-Spandy summons the sleeping little girl to Mount Caburn for a contest, the tireless Elsie outskips even the fairies and is rewarded with a gift of rare and lasting value. Can she use it later to save the fabled skipping grounds of Caburn? Or will a greedy lord build a factory where children have played for centuries? First appearing in 1937, it is published here for the first time as a picture book (pen and watercolor).; 10 x 11".

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Inc., 2nd, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY LEO AND DIANE DILLON ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Bright, clean copy. The numbers are on the loose--hiding and dancing, skipping and laughing through the rhymes of Mother Goose! It's a good thing Caldecott Medal-winning artists Leo and Diane Dillon have helped gather up all these mischievous numbers in a stunning celebration of counting, rhymes, and imagination.

Hardcover. New York , Platt & Munk, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages, illustrated in color by Tasha Tudor. Glazed boards illustrated in color. Sharp, clean copy, no markings. No dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 177 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Paul Galdone. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Yellow cloth covers, green dust jacket with color illustration, dust jacket acetate-protected, beautiful large full-color illustrations by Watson. Light chipping to front top edge of dust jacket, price-clipped, pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a lovely children's book in great condition.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 94 pages, color illustrations by Peggy Turley. In this delightful children's tale, an American boy, Kenny Strange, moves to the quiet Mexican town of Taxco with his parents and strikes up a friendship with young Juanito Perez, a Taxco native. The two boys are brought together by an enchanting toy, the pasteboard bandit Tito. Chosen by Juanito at a town fair from among the other pasteboard toys, Tito, with his colorful clothes and bright eyes, becomes Juanito's and Kenny's constant companion, and the threesome share many adventures in and around the town's rolling green hills. The boys' growing friendship, Kenny's introduction to a culture unlike his own, and Tito's witty reflections on being a toy will be recognized instantly by anyone young or old who has ever made a friend or imagined that a toy might be real. Originally written in 1935, but never before published, The Pasteboard Bandit grew out of several trips Langston Hughes made to Mexico during his lifetime. Hughes first went to the town of Toluca at age 5 to visit his father, and again when he was older. During these visits, Hughes met many writers and artists, and it is their influence that informs the story of The Pasteboard Bandit--a story of two cultures meeting. When Hughes left Mexico for the last time, at age 32, he was carrying the first draft for The Pasteboard Bandit. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co, reprint, unk., 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. 3.

New York , Crowell-Collier Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 64 pages. One-color illustrations by Ray Prohaska. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf, light paper peeling to top of spine.

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, 1st illust thus, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with pictorial paper label to front cover, gilt stamping to spine. Six color plates, title page design and 2-color endpapers art by Peter Hurd. 279 pages. Some fading tospine gilt, light shelf wear, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations, map by Letizia Galli. A beautiful gown forms the focus of activity for the zany characters that introduce young readers to the Commedia del l'arte and the history of comic theater, along with a map, a list of stock characters, and historical notes.

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. NY, Golden Press , 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket, Two-tone illustrations by Hamilton Greene. 124 pages. A Fact-Fiction nature story for children and young adults. Authorized edition based on a Walt Disney film presentation. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Thomas Y Crowell, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 31 pages, illustrated in color by Michael Hague. Sticker residue, some wear to cover, otherwise in very good condition.Previous owner's notation on inside front cover, barely visible against blue endpapers.

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, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with a drawing of baby elephant on front cover. Illustrated in red and black by Leonard Weisgard. A Christmas tale featuring Baby Elephant's secret wishes for the holidays. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped with design and title. Worn dust jacket with a small sticker on front. Calligraphy and silhouette drawings by the author showing children's adventures in NY city. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A reprint collection of the first four books featuring the mice from Brambly Hedge, charmingly illustrated in color by the author. Clean copy.

hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 368 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Alice Barber (Stephens) - not credited. Decorated green cloth, gilt lettering. Light edgewear, rubbing to covers, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 4th pr., 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boars with green cloth spine. Unpaginated. Charming color illustrations by Diana Thorne throughout. Soiling to spine and light edgewear to cover boards. Internally very good.

Hardcover. NY, Dover Publications, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 48 pages illustrated in color by Gorey. A new approach to the ancient fables of Aesop features charming rhymes and winsome images by a beloved illustrator. Artist Edward Gorey sets the scenes for poet Ennis Rees's modern interpretation of Aesop's verses, which recount how animals with all-too-human failings receive their just desserts. Memorable renderings of familiar and lesser-known vignettes include the fable of the industrious ant, who prepares for the hardships of the coming winter, and the feckless grasshopper, whose laziness proves fatal. A mighty lion is amused at the notion of a tiny mouse coming to his rescue, a naive young crustacean admires the bright red shell of a boiled lobster, and a swarm of flies are undone by their attraction to a pool of spilled honey. These and other timeless tales provide humorous insights into the folly of greed and vanity and the rewards of virtuous behavior. Originally published in 1971 by Young Scott.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 double-page color pop-ups, engineered by Reinhart, text by Yorinks, art by Sendak. Like new condition, no dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Encino Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Illustrated in black & white by Pat Oliphant, the award-winning editorial cartoonist. SIGNED BY OLIPHANT with his pequin sketch. Quarterbound w/green lined paper covered boards w/dark green cloth covered spine, no dj issued.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick Warne & Co., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, padded covers in color with gilt stamping and attachments. Book has very little wear. All color illustrations. Barker's early 20th century classic on fairies is here recreated in pop-up form with paste-downs and fold-outs. Clean and bright. No dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED by illustrator Loren Long on title page. Illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. New York, North-South Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. From the gospel of Luke, illustrated by Eleonore Schmid. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Marcia Sewall. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Tape and tape residue on covers. Dust jacket with edgewear, small tears and spine sun fade.

hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt and black decoration. 315 pages, includes index. Descriptions of more than 400 games written in language that children can understand. Black & white illustrations by Jessie Gillespie. Light edgewear to covers.

Hardcover. US, Beach Lane Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Could it be true that mice are...nice? That's certainly what the cat thinks in this after-dark romp just perfect for young children. Featuring whimsical, comforting poetry and vibrant collage illustrations from Caldecott Honor medalist Lois Ehlert, this engaging story puts a fresh spin on the classic cat-and-mouse dynamic.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth, illustrated in colors by Johnson. An attractive ex-lib copy of this story of a boy who requests advice from the animal kingdom as to what he should be when he grows up. Minor stamping and residue to endpapers. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Peter Bedrick, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Peter Dennis. 64 pages, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 126 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith. The story of an orphan boy making his way westward from Budapest. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Purple toning to top text block edge. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages, hardcover, illustrated boards with green cloth spine. Twenty-fifth anniversary edition. mild shelf wear, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Ward, Lock and Co., 1st, 1885, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Heavy wear on spine, fraying and loose fabric. Gutter cracked on front and rear end paper. Corners bumped, page block loose in binding. Pages lightly ripped near gutter in the beginning.

Grand Rapids MI, Eerdmans, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Hall. A native Alaskan folktale tells about a raven who punishes humans for destroying nature by blocking out the sun to make Earth cold and dark, but a woman finds a feather from the bird that may have the secret to saving the planet.

Hardcover. London, Constable, reprint, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in black on spine and front cover, 567 pages. Over 500 drawings by author, whose life work is the development or revival of Woodcraft, that is outdoor life in its greatest sense, as a school for manhood. He defends Indians and their traditions, as he sees them as a model for outdoor life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, Reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Full color illustrations by James Marshall. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Caldecott Honor sticker on front.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Adapted by Leigh Dean from the original opera libretto. illustrated in color by Milton Glaser.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. Artist Alex Beard brings to life an African savanna filled with humor and misunderstandings.When Bird mixes up something Turtle says, he accidentally starts a rumor about the watering hole drying up. One misunderstanding leads to another, with animals making their own hilarious assumptions. No one is hearing anything right, and soon the animals are in an uproar from one end of the jungle to the other. Elephant is trumpeting, Croc is snapping, and the Flamingos are fleeing! Beards story will have every child wondering if peace can ever be restored in the animal kingdom. No dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Color Illustrations by William Pene DuBois. Dust jacket price clipped, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, England, Faber and Faber Limited, 1st, N. D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, unpaginated, in French, color illustrations by author, clean, tight copy, cover slightly warped, slight foxing. Not dated but from around 1945.