Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Testa. Clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 48 pages. Color illustrations by Lynd Ward. Rubbing, edgewear, fade marks to dust jacket. Brodart cover.

New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st U.S., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Mary Wormell. Peter the spotted pig tries everything he can think of to remove his spots, from fading them in the summer sun to freezing them off in the winter snow, until he makes a new friend who helps him realize that his spotty look is something of which he can be proud. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Books for young Readers, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with illustrations by Wendy Anderson Halperin.

Hardcover. New York, P.F. Volland Company, 1st, 1918, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Previous owner's name on title page. Front hinge cracked and separated from pages. Covers show heavy wear to edges and has chipping and frayed corners. Illustrated by Johnny Gruelle in color. Previous owner's sticker in rear end paper.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, NA, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Black & white illustrations. Pink endpapers. Preliminary page missing. Inscription at top of title page. Cover features image of girl and boy near a tree; decorated in red, blue, black, and gold. Some light rubbing at top and base of spine, and corners. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Philomel Books, 1st U.S., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Clean, tight copy. Color illustrations by Anno. Adapted from the translation by Ursula Synge. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers stamped with blue design, 60 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Leonard Shortall. Mild soil to yellow boards, no markings. Six-year-old Stephen discovered a new sign on the Museum, "Animal Lending Library," a place which lent animals to children who were at least seven years old. During the next few weeks, Stephen thought about nothing except how he could borrow a small, brown rabbit.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, reprint, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color label on cover, orange cloth. 149 pages Illustrated in color and b&w by Katharine Sturges. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Covers show light edgewear.

Hardcover. Philadelphia , Penn Publishing, Reprint , 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 9 color plates By George Wharton Edwards, first published with these Illustrations in 1916. This is a very bright and attractive copy. Illustrated cover label, gilt decorated blue cloth. previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Small bump on rear fore edge.

Hardcover. Seattle WA, The Innovation Press , 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Daniel Rieley. Growing up in a family of immigrants, Ellen dreamed of becoming a professional flutist, but all of that changed when she discovered engineering in college. Though she was told that field of study wasn't for girls, the bright young scientist refused to give up--ultimately becoming a NASA astronaut who shattered barriers and rocketed to success!

Hardcover. New York, Georgia University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. SIGNED BY LOPEZ on title-page. Color illustrations by Tom Pohrt.

Hardcover. Milwaukee, Bruce Publishing, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Evans. Cardboard edges worn. The story of Mexican wood carver who creates a wooden Christ Child for the village church. Minor wear to spine.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 4th pr, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 40 pages. INSCRIBED BY PRELUTSKY on dedication page. Black & white illustrations by Arnold Lobel. Dust jacket with edgewear, some residue, clipped.

Hardcover. New York, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 32 pages, color illustrations by Booth. Illustrated boards in an edge worn dust jacket with closed tears. Previous owner's markings on inside flap of dust jacket and front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards, illustrated in 2-colors by Mordicai Gerstein. When the words Werewolf Power mysteriously appear on the school blackboard, all the children are frightened. Only days before Halloween there are terrifying screams and haunting sounds surrounding the classroom. Jill and Gwen know there's something queer happening. This is their spookiest case ever. What will the detectives discover? Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. Illustrated with full colour paper collage by Leo Lionni. The story of Theodore the mouse, and his three friends: a lizard, a turtle, and a frog. When frightened, Theodore takes cover under a strange blue mushroom, which leads to Theodore learning a lesson about rising above his station. Dust jacket with some closed tears, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Gay. Library Edition (NOT ex-lib.). Dust jacket flap clipped. A cheerful story about a baby penguin and his arctic friends.

Hardcover. Honesdale, Boyds Mills Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 31 pages. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR BARRY MOSER ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice, clean, almost new-looking condition. Color illustrations by Donald Carrick. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 55 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrated by author.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 4th pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Stories adapted by Van Dyke Parks. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 224 pages. B/w illustrations by Walter Bobbett. Scarce. Brown pictorial cover with spine slightly cocked. Light edgewear to top and bottom spine, internally very good. A collection of stories told by natives on the East Coast of Africa. Translated from the Swahili by the author.

hardcover. New York, Harcourt Childrens Books , 1st, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 44 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Katie Thamer Treherne throughout. Illustrated title page. Silver gilt titles on spine, red gilt decoration on cover. Reminder mark to top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illust. by Lewin. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Dirk Zimmer. The monster family portrait on the cover sets the tone of comic exaggeration in this Ukrainian-Hutzul version of an age-old story. When a traveler is lost in the woods, the witch Three Eyes agrees to help him find his way back if he agrees to give her his most precious possession. Only when he gets home does he realize that he has bargained away his beloved daughter, Larissa.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcvoer with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Van Allsburg. SIGNED by Van Allsburg. Tight copy. Light rip on back of dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, illustrated with b&w drawings by Trina Schart Hyman. Dust jacket with edgewear, short tears, price-clipped. Book is clean, very good.

Hardcover. New York, Seabury Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Clement Hurd. Dust jacket with darkening to spine, light wear to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Previous owner's inscription title-page. Nice color illustrations by Emma Chichester Clark. Lovely, new-looking condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. Illustrated by Erik Blegvad. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. John Harrison (1693-1776), an Englishman without any scientific training, worked tirelessly for more than forty years to create a perfect clock. The solution to this problem was so important that an award of 20,000 pounds sterling (equal to several million dollars today) was established by the English Parliament in 1714. Harrison won recognition for his work in 1773. Together with beautifully detailed pictures by Erik Blegvad, Louise Borden's text takes the reader through the drama, disappointments, and successes that filled Harrison's quest to invent the perfect sea clock.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Reg Cartwright. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nice color illustrations by Etienne Delessert. Great, new-looking condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton Children's Books, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Charming color illustrations by Chorao. SIGNED BY CHORAO on back of front endpaper. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Marc Simont. Light rubbing to dust jacket and some sticker residue on front.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The famous tale in which the leaders of Hamelin Town renege on an agreement with a piper who rids the town of rats & the dire consequences. Stunning color illustrations by Russian born Anatoly Ivanov, the illustrator of a number of children's books. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins Publishers, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. SIGNED BY BOTH KATE AND JIM MCMULLAN ON TITLE PAGE. Pictorial covers, acetate-protected dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, spine stiff and tight, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, Non-paginated. Color illust. by Elsa Eisgruber. In the scarce dust jacket with light soil and chipping. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. To mark the fortieth anniversary of Paddington's appearance in America, Houghton Mifflin put out this huge treasury, containing chapters from eleven of the Paddington Bear books published between 1958 and 1979. Thirty five adventures in all. There's a new Introduction by the author. The original black & white drawings of Peggy Fortnum were hand-colored by her step-granddaughter, Caroline Nuttall-Smith. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Review slip laid-in. Black & white drawings by Rounds. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, NY, G. P. Putnam and Sons, 2nd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages. Color illustrations throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ARTIST. Pictorial dust jacket with very slight wear. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by the author. Clean, tight copy.

hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black & white photos by Harold Burdekin. Light shelfwear to covers.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, NON-PAGINATED, HARDCOVER WITH DUST jacket. SIGNED BY SCIESZKA AND SMITH on dedication page. Color illustrations by Lane Smith. Designed by Molly Leach.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Brett Helmquist. SIGNED BY HELMQUIST on title page. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.

hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing Co., 1st, 1941, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 44 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gustaf Tenggren. Front fly leaf missing. Edgewear and chipping to covers. Spine coming off.

Hardcover. Marshall Cavendish , 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations. SIGNED by Spirin on the half title page. Gennady Spirin has taken a favorite childhood tale and imbued it with charm, dressing his bears in Renaissance costumes and providing whimsical and charming furniture designed for their country dwelling. Each spread-painted in watercolor, pen, and ink-brings renewed life to this endearing children's classic in a way that only a master illustrator can. No wonder Goldilocks want to sample the bears' porridge, sit on their chairs, and rest on their beds!

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, reprint, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 100 pages. Black & white illustrations by Garth Williams. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Bottom of front dust jacket flap clipped but no price clip. Soiling to dust jacket. Small chunk missing from top front & back. Brodart cover.

Softcover. Evanston IL, Row, Peterson and Co., 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Stapled softcover, 36 pages. Illlustrated by Florence McAnelly. in color. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black with gilt title on front and spine. No date on title page but states Twenty-First Edition. 416 pages. An early printing of the second Uncle Remus book, illustrated with frontispiece and 19 plates by Frederick Church. While working for the Atlanta Constitution in 1876, Harris "invented Uncle Remus" He published Uncle Remus pieces regularly in the Constitution, and they were extremely popular. In 1880 he collected them into his first book. Remus was a composite of three elderly slaves he had known, the stories themselves were his retellings of old African American tales. He rigorously researched his material, often collecting several versions of the same story until he felt he had the most authentic one. Hinges cracked, but generally a bright, clean copy of this title.