Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st thus, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Adapted by Allen Chaffee, illustrated by Lois Lenski. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, dust jacket edge wear and small tears along spine edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Mild musty odor.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 2016, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 306 pages. Everyone's favorite bear family is back in this collection of seven classic Berenstain Bears Bright and Early books. Written and illustrated by the beloved husband and wife team of Stan and Jan Berenstain, this one-of-a-kind treasury--featuring a story that has been unavailable for fifteen years--includes The Berenstain Bears on the Moon; The Bear Detectives; Bears on Wheels; He Bear She Bear; Inside Outside Upside Down; The Bear Scouts; and Old Hat New Hat. A perfect addition to your collection for those just learning how to read . . . or those just starting to read all on their own.

Hardcover. Kansas City, Hallmark Children's Editions, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a die-cut revealing boy inside. Three-color illustrations by John Overmyer. A third grader finds himself in a lot of trouble after he learns all about exaggeration from a wily alley cat.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully (1994 Caldecott winner). Minor wear to dust jacket, mostly nice condition.

New York, Harcourt Brace/Gulliver, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Brian Pinkney.The true sweat-and-dirt tale of the feisty cowboy-child who became the most famous black rodeo performer who ever lived. Includes a note about the history of the black West and a bibliography.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart & Winston,, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Eric Carle. Ex-library with stamping and residue to endpapers and title page.

Hardcover. New York , North-South, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 20 pages illustrated in color by Zwerger. SIGNED by Zwerger on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with white lettering. 90 pages illustrated in b&w by Slobodkin. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow pictorial cloth, illustrated in color by Kahl. A boy named Christopher sets off from his village to find real giants. Weekly Reader Edition. Bright, clean copy.

Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated with 2-color drawings by Jerry Joyner. Clean copy. Everything you need and don't need to know about mud including 'how mud acts'. Clean copy (no mud).

Hardcover. Cleveland/NY, World Publishing Co., 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, red cloth covers with eagle logo on front cover, 319 pages, spectacular color illustrations by James Daugherty "The Rainbow Book of American History" is a storybook, written in a narrative format with the author telling his children the story of our country. The book covers the time period from Leif Erickson to the dropping of the atomic bomb of World War II. To enhance the text James Daughtery has created memorable illustrations which are gorgeous and enhance the text. Dust jacket has light chipping to edges, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

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. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 180 pages. Hardcover with a bright dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Schocken Books, 1st thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 58 pages. Black & white sketches for illustrations by Greenaway. Nice condition, minor wear and chipping to dust jacket but internally completely clean.

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.

Boston, Little Brown & Co , 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A farmer's son, enslaved by an evil wizard, is aided by the man's lovely daughter in freeing the whole land from the wizard's spell. Beautifully illustrated by Conover. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 5th printing, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY PATRICK MCDONNELL WITH DRAWING OF A MONKEY OPPOSITE TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Minimal wear. Clean, tight copy. Caldectt Honor Book. McDonnell is creator of internationally syndicated comic strip Mutt & has won many awards. This is the inspiring story of the young girl who would grow up to be Dr. Jane Goodall.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 2nd pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 42 pages illustrated in color by Anno. The reader, with the help of two children, Tom and Hannah, two white hats, and three red hats learns about logic. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Young Scott Books, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Jean Charlot illustrations in colored lines. Almost new-looking, no dust jacket. The story of a Mexican Ghost named Teodoro and his adventures in his life with gold and with those who follow him in their earthly pursuit of it. The value of life and living and how greed of Gold Fever and what is really imporant in life is the story.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott , 3rd, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 177 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w Illustrations by Lenski. Dust jacket w/small chips, light edgewear. Previous owner's sticker on bottom rear end paper.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 92 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color, black & white illustrations by Helen Sewell. Previous owner's bookplate. Dust jacket chipped, worn with two chunks missing.

Hardcover. New York, North-South Books , 1st U.S., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lisbeth Zwerger. A lover of roses with most of her kingdon made into a rose garden, Princess Rosalina makes a pact with an old enchantress to obtain the most beautiful rosebush of all.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY GENNADY SPIRIN opposite title page in gold ink, and SIGNED BY JULIE ANDREWS EDWARDS in blue felt pen ink in title page. Tight copy with minor wear to cover boards.

Softcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield, Unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with blue cloth spine. Tipped-in color frontis (by Frances Partridge). B&W drawings by Helene Nyce. Blue

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated throughout in color by Paul Rogers. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st thus, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a award sticker. An illustrated edition of the classic poem, in which a British soldier recalls his experiences in the army in India and pays homage to the courage of the Indian water carrier Gunga Din. Lovely watercolor art by Robert Andrew Parker. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cleveland OH, World Publishing Co, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated by the cowboy/author/artist with sixty five b&w illustrations; red cloth lettered in bright gilt with a sketch of a horse on front cover. The Chapters: The cowboy today; The cowboy's work and outfit; The critter; All in the Day's riding; On the drift; The cowboy calendar; The rodeo; For a horse; Tom and Jerry; Scattered tracks; Folks west; Horseflesh. Clean copy.

New York, Philomel, 1st U.S., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anno.

Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk Co., 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, orange cloth with black stamping, in a worn and tape-repaired dust jacket. 62 pages with color illustrations by Bess Goe Willis. Several early pages with mild chipping, wear to fore-edge, name on inside front cover.

Hardcover. London, Augener Ltd., First Edition, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Mustard cloth boards with oval paste down illustration. Fraying to spine edges. Dime sized damage to spine top edge. Oval full color illustrations by H. Willebeek Le Mair throughout, most in very good condition. Light foxing to a few pages. Moderate foxing to preliminary pages & endpapers. Previous owner's date written to title page. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 92 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Pene du Bois. Page 58 has a child's ink scribbling with a few marks on opposite page. Covers worn, soiled. Otherwise the book is tight and clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in red cloth with black titling and upper cover illustration, 128 pages, endpapers art and four 2-color plates by H. S. Barbour. Clean copy.

NY, McElderry Books, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ian Wallace. Light edgewear to dust jacket. The story of a grandfather who tells his granddaughter about the time the whole county caught fire and burned for a year. Gorgeous pen, ink, and watercolour illustrations by award winning artist Ian Wallace.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 46 pages. Illustrated in four colors by Wiesner. Dust jacket price-clipped, minor fading. Brodart cover. Stories of a rascally thief, set in olden times, who finally gets his comeuppance.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Newly translated by Ralph Manheim. Bookplate on inside front cover, owner's inscription opposite.

Hardcover. NY, Little Simon, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Every Robert Sabuda pop-up book is a marvel, but America the Beautiful is singularly remarkable for its inspired interpretation of the classic American anthem. Each page presents a magnificent pop-up featuring a line from the first (and best known) verse of "America the Beautiful." Sabuda has included the song in its entirety, featuring mini pop-ups, in a small booklet on the final page. Beginning with the Golden Gate Bridge, and ending with a spectacularly regal Statue of Liberty, Sabuda's America the Beautiful is a lovely keepsake that also serves as a patriotic primer for teaching young ones about America. Clean with all pop-ups in excellent condition.

New York, Callaway, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket 32 pages, color illustrations by Gennady Spirin, very clean, tight copy, like new. Yakov, the kindly cobbler, and his wife, Olga, are heartbroken because their son, Mikhail, is very ill. They seek advice from a wise old man, who enlists the help of seven thieves and proves that miracles can occur if we do good deeds.

Hardcover. NY, Treasure Books, 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 28 pages illustrated by Chad after the character created by Terry-Toon animators. Front cover with lightscratches, rubbing.

Hardcover. New York, Julian Messner, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated green boards, 16 pages, Illustrated by Sally Tate. Printed in brown and red on green paper. Green paper over boards printed in brown and red and with fuzz on the bear, both upper and lower boards. Decorated endpapers, also with fuzz on the bears. The illustrations feature the bear on every other page, each depiction of him with brown fuzz. Light soiling to covers and the paper is starting to peel at top of spine, top corner worn.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 48 pages with color and b&w illustrations by Slobodkin. Ex-library but with minimal stamping and remnants of tape where dust jacket was attached to cover.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR with a color drawing of a lamb by Morgan on the front fly leaf. After her grandmother dies, a little Tuscan girl cannot stand the sound of bells until the good-hearted schoolmaster introduces her to some belled lambs. Morgan's bright, folksy illustrations evince a hearty rusticity perfectly suited to the sweet and compassionate story. Small tear to dj at top of spine, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a chipped, edgeworn dust jacket, B&w drawings by Rita Fava. Collection of 9 French Canadian folk stories, told to told to children at the LeBlanc summer picnic in Vermont to remind them of their ancestors in French Canada; in the beginning they lived near Quebec city and wore long red sashes and later some moved to Montreal where the color was blue. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 51 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Paintings by Mark Podwal. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Tight copy. A collection of poems about Biddy Early, the Wise Woman of Clare, and her animal, human, and supernatural associates.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by author. The authors 2nd book. Sticker on the spine of dust jacket. SIGNED BY SCHWARTZ ON TITLE PAGE. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Calla Editions, 1st thus, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages, color plates by Detmold. Facsimile reprint of the 1909 edition. Clean, tight copy.

New York, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Color illustrations by Robert Quackenbush. 32 pages. No dust jacket. Pete Pack Rat must act quickly to save Pebble Junction's Christmas Eve celebrations when the Gila Monster Gang escapes from jail and steals the Christmas pinata. Owner's name on title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Berlin, Union Deutsche, 4th printing, n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 105 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Capek. White cloth spine with color illustrated boards. No date listed. German text. Cover edges with light wear.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations throughout by Brian Floca.