Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Bradbury Press, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Goble. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield Publishing, reprint, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 147 pages, illustrated by Arthur Debebian in b&w and 6 color plates. Blue cloth spine, color illustrated boards. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Fragile binding but all there and holding. Vol. 5 in this series.

Softcover. NY, Artists and Writers Guild, 1st US, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, color pictorial paper wrappers. 6 full-page three-color illustrations and several b&w illustrations by Aldin. Light worn at edges, some light wear to covers, else a clean, tight copy without dust jacket as issued. First US edition. A charming story of a young girl and her dog, a little black Scotch Terrier puppy named Smut, as they go about their lives, encountering other dogs, policemen, and even horses. Cecil Aldin was a British artist best known for his paintings and sketches of animals and rural life, all of which is magnificently captured in this delightful tale. Small worm hole to fore-edge, paper tanning, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by New Yorker Cartoonist Roz Chast. Small crease on front flap of dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, reprint, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Probable Second Printing, as an 1898 edition is mentioned on copyright page. 253 pages. Front cover is decorated with the boy and his grinning fiddling bear. With white lettering and design elements on pink-orange hardcover. Illustrated throughout with 35 b&w drawings by Frank Verbeck. White 'E" on cover faded as is spine lettering. Some fraying to bottom of spine. name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 32 pages illustrated in color and b&w by the Haders. Paper covered boards have light soiling, chipping and edgewear. Interior clean, very good.

Hardcover. New York , Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by Watson and SIGNED BY HER on the title page. This is the publisher's library edition, NOT EX-LIB, with no dust jacket. Clean, very good.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 64 pages illustrated in color by Adrienne Adams. Dust jacket worn with chipping, some tanning. Flap is price-clipped (has mandatory "A" on title page). Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, last page with dog-ear crease to top corner. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Delessert. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Doran , 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, color illustrations by the D'Aulaires. Dust jacket with chipping, repaired tears. Stated first edition.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Antonio Frasconi. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with illustrated yellow cloth. Vigorously brings to life the story of the western folktale hero. Dramatic two-color drawings by Watson. 177 pages. Only date is 1949 but titles listed in front were printed in 1950s so a reprint. Clean copy.

hardcover. New York, Hyperion, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 57 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w illustrations by Betsy Lewin throughout. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Small stain to fore edge. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 3rd pr, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Van Allsburg. Copyright page has the lowest number as 3, a third printing of this classic. Dust jacket has a $15.95 price, with no Caldecott Medal. The Caldecott Medal winner that inspired the animated film featuring Tom Hanks. Dust jacket protected in acetate wrapper. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Newport, R.I., Sheer Bliss Communications, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, illustrated by Seymour Chwast, very clean, tight copy, like new except for slight soiling to back of dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing Co., 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a green cloth spine. An alphabet and number book illustrated in reds and blacks, with dashes of yellow and blue. Illustrated by Nerman. Spine has fraying to top and bottom of spine. Pencil name inside front cover otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York , Parent's Magazine Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Wendy Watson. Cover with some markings, edgewear, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 10 color plates (including cover label), color illustrated title page, endpaper design and map by N.C. Wyeth. Gilt lettering on spine faded, previous owner's name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Unpaginated, color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Light edge wear to dust jacket, small scratches on rear. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Bros., 1st thus, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 31 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Marc Simont. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Sion & Schuster, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Ziegler. Having laughed at the friendly, talkative old man who tells comic stories, a group of children is shocked when the man is hurt in an accident and begins to accept him and laugh with him instead. Illustrations by the noted New Yorker cartoonist enliven this unusual intergenerational story.

Softcover. New York, King Features Syndicate, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 12 pages. Folio (9 1/2 x 13 1/8") flexible linen-like pictorial wraps, some cover soil, internally clean, overall VG. Illustrated on every page with large bright, vibrant color lithos featuring all of the familiar characters. There are 7 lines of text beneath each picture. with illustrations by E. C. Segar (his "cigar" logo printed on one of the illustrated pages). Story of Popeye and Wimpy's fishing trip. Clean.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth covers. Color illustrations by Lillian Hoban. Some light abrasions to cloth covers. Remainder mark on bottom. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with cardboard spine split along top. No dust jacket. Corners chipped and fraying. Previous owner's sticker on front fly leaf bottom.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated in color by the author. SIGNED BY MCPHAIL opposite half-title page. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A boy learns to read and becomes immersed in the adventures described on the pages of his books.

Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 25 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Sutherland. INSCRIBED BY SUTHERLAND opposite title-page.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MCCULLY opposite title page. With her sketchbook labeled My Inventions and her father's toolbox, Mattie could make almost anything - toys, sleds, and a foot warmer. When she was just twelve years old, Mattie designed a metal guard to prevent shuttles from shooting off textile looms and injuring workers. As an adult, Mattie invented the machine that makes the square-bottom paper bags we still use today. However, in court, a man claimed the invention was his, stating that she "could not possibly understand the mechanical complexities." Marvelous Mattie proved him wrong, and over the course of her life earned the title of "the Lady Edison."

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, Reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 pages. Hardcover, glazed boards with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edge wear. Six beautiful pop-up images by Jan Pienkowski throughout. INSCRIBED BY PIENKOWSKI on inside front cover. Library Association award sticker on front cove. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, 39 pages illustrated in color by Bernie Fuchs. No dust jacket. Clean, bright copy.

New York, Philomel Books, 1st imp, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ron Lightburn. Farm boy Robin loves to watch the eagles soaring over his father's farm but one day, he finds a badly injured eagle and tends to it's wounds rather than put it to sleep. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Brookfield, Connecticut, Roaring Book Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, SIGNED BY MACDONALD WITH ILLUSTRATED SKETCH TO GREEN PREVIEW PAGE. Color illustrated covers and dust jacket, acetate protective covering to dust jacket, beautiful full page color illustrations by MacDonald. No signs of wear, pages, dust jacket and covers clean, crisp and unmarked; a lovely book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with mild edgewear. A story in the best Norse fairy-tale tradition, in which the youngest of three brothers rescues the others,with fiddle. Illustrated in color by award-winning Swedish author/artist Nygren. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Inc., 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 64 pages. SIGNED BY WILLARD on the title page. An A-to-Z gift collection of angels presents a celestial character for every occasion, such as a wish-delivering angel of Knapsacks and a dew-faced angel of Morning. Willard has assembled a collection of photographs of angel statuettes- ceramic, cloth, wood, or metal; blond, darkskinned, Oriental, or gnomish. Ingeniously arranged against backgrounds of light and shadow, posed against painted settings or among flowering plants, the full-page pictures offer a gallery of portraits. Some of the winged dolls are guardians of the mundane (eggs, flowers, ink, and vegetables), while others are more imaginative or visionary, associated with dreaming, night, planets, and "yonder." Rhyming couplets link the letters of the alphabet to the scenes and seek to make sense of the sometimes mystifying choices of settings.

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, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Anita Lobel. Dust jacket price clipped. Light fade to spine. Once upon a time a cruel King decided to betroth his motherless daughter to an Ogre in exchange for fifty wagons filled with silver. When the Princess learns what her father has done, she is horrified. But she is as clever as she is beautiful. Quickly, the Princess devises a plan to escape and, relying on her own spunk and good sense, ultimately marries the man she chooses for herself.

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. Edinburgh, Floris Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong glazed boards, color plates throughout by author. Christopher meets the spirit of September in the garden, and is introduced to all the harvest folk: the Gooseberry girls and boys, old man Black-Currant, the misses Plum and the proud Strawberries. First published in Sweden in 1920, this is the first English language edition. Clean, bright 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. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , BC Ed,, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages illustrated in b&w by Garth Williams. No price on dust jacket so assumed Book Club Edition.

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 , G. P. Putnam and Sons, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Kalman and SIGNED BY KALMAN. This is the inspiring true story of the John J. Harvey--a retired New York City fireboat reinstated on September 11, 2001. Originally launched in 1931, the Harvey was the most powerful fireboat of her time. After the September 11 attacks, with fire hydrants at Ground Zero inoperable and the Hudson River's water supply critical to fighting the blaze, the fire department called on the Harvey for help. There were adjustments--forcing water into hoses by jamming soda bottles and wood into nozzles with a sledgehammer--and then the fireboat's volunteer crew pumped much-needed water to the disaster site. The John J. Harvey proved she was still one of New York's Bravest!Maira Kalman brings a New York City icon to life, celebrating the energy, vitality and hope of a place and its people.

Softcover. New York, J.L. Shilling, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with light wear to edges. Accordian style "binding" . Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY HILLARY KNIGHT. What's this--a new Eloise, never before seen or published? News doesn't get better than that. Kay Thompson first wrote Eloise Takes a Bawth in Italy in the 1960s with Hilary Knight and pal Mart Crowley; it has been marinating until now for a release with all-new drawings by Hilary Knight. Of course, this time Eloise is not in Moscow, not in Paris, she is simply in the bawth at home in the Plaza Hotel. With Eloise, though, nothing is simple. Perhaps especially the notion of taking a bath, where you have to "skibble into the bathroom and take off all your clothes," then strike a pose and look in the mirror, and splawsh, and sing, and bathe with turtle Skipperdee and dog Weenie. And pretend to be the "loosest cannonball in all the Caribbean" and "Little Miss Mermaid but let's keep that between us." But what's this? Could Eloise's bathtime shenanigans be causing a drip that "has begun to drop within the walls and hallowed halls of the stately old Plaza?" Drenching the elite at the Venetian Masked Ball in the Grawnd Ballroom, no less? Fabulously decadent scenes of Eloise enacting wild battles and undersea dives in the bathtub on the "tip top floor" of the Plaza contrast deliciously with the resulting swampy splendor of the ballroom. Extended fold-out cross-sections of the hotel's plumbing system and a spectacular, colorful, double gatefold illustrating the underwater ball ("the sensation of the social season" thanks to Eloise!) add drama and silliness as well.

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. NY, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney's wordless adaptation of one of Aesop's most beloved fables, an unlikely pair learn that no act of kindness is ever wasted. WINNER OF THE 2010 CALDECOTT MEDAL SIGNED BY PINKNEY.

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. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers with blue label on cover. "1" on copyright page. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. 54 pages illustrated in color by Doris Lee. Mild soil to covers. In this charming story Quillow, a tiny toymaker, defeats a ferocious giant, Hunder, saving his town from destruction.

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, Beach Lane Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon and SIGNED BY BOTH DILLONS. In a time long past, in a land far away, a family has suffered an unspeakable loss. But a lonely goblin has been watching. And he knows what to do to help them heal. From internationally acclaimed picture book masters Mem Fox and Leo and Diane Dillon, here is a rich and moving original fairy tale about family, friendship, and the power compassion has to unite us all.

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.