Hardcover. NY, Versify/Houghton, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. a poignant and powerful ode to the resilience and strength of black life and history in America. Originally performed for ESPN's The Undefeated in 2016, the poem adopts a picture book format with a new title, accompanied by stunning oil paintings in Nelson's trademark photorealistic style. The evocative illustrations stand out against stark white backgrounds and vary in their composition. On some spreads, the focus is on a single expressive portrait; others feature collages of African American icons from various disciplines, or refer to significant historical moments. The art functions in perfect harmony with the poet's spare, striking verse to electrify the Black American experience, and to celebrate black athletes, writers, musicians, activists, and heroes. Clean copy. Caldecott Winner 2020
Hardcover. NY, Schwartz & Wade, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages. Newbery Honor-winning author McKissack and Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Pinkney have outdone themselves in this heart-warming picture book infused with humor and the true spirit of Christmas. Christmas always comes to Nella's house, but Santa Claus brings gifts only once in a while. That's because it's the Depression and Nella's family is poor. Even so, Nella's hoping that this year she and her two sisters will get a beautiful Baby Betty doll. On Christmas morning, the girls are beside themselves with excitement! There is Baby Betty, in all her eyelash-fluttering magnificence. "Mine!" Nella shouts, and claims the doll for herself. But soon she discovers that Baby Betty isn't nearly as much fun as her sisters. SIGNED BY PINKNEY.
Hardcover. Seymour CT, Greenwick Workshop Press, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 100 pages illustrated in color by Gustafson. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Pied Piper, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by author. Clean, tight copy with minor to moderate wear on dust jacket spine.
Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth covers with pink lettering. Lacks dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by Gerstein. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 34 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Clean, tight copy with only minor rubbing to edges.
Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 36 pages with color art by Ati Forberg. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Illustrations by Donald Carrick. Clean, tight copy with minor wear on edges.
Hardcover. San Diego/NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, reprint, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards illustrated in 3-colos throughout. Ex-library but fairly clean with light stamp to front fly leaf and envelope residue to inside rear cover. First published in 1951 and a winner of a Caldecott Medal.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st US, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gilt decoration of peacock on front. Moderate wear to edges. Tight copy. Illustrations by C. Lovat Fraser.
Hardcover. NY, Walker Books, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A woman tells her grandchildren about an ugly hat she once had as a young girl and what happened when she accidentally lost it. In soft pencil and watercolor, Milne's art nicely evokes the South African setting in its many details, including Papa's general store. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Albert Whitman & Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white and color illustrations by Berta and Elmer Hader. Shows some wear but mostly clean and nice. Hardbound, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NJ, Prentice Hall, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover, pictorial cloth, 56 pgs, illustrated in color by Dumas, no dj issued.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton Children's Books, BC Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Paul Zelinsky. Caldecott Winner for 1998. No dust jacket.
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.
Hardcover. Paris, Hachette, 1st Canadian, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, illustrated boards, Illustrations in line & 12 color plates by Maurice Boutet de Monvel. Small water stain to top of covers, w/ mild wrinkle to paper covering boards o/w bright & clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 2nd printing, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover in glossy boards. Color illustrations by color. SIGNED WITH DRAWING OF A LION BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by George Booth. Clean, very tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Lancelot Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color Illustrations by Tomi Ungerer, Illustrated cloth covers with light soil. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with mild edgewear. Color illustrations by Leonard Weisgard. An attractive copy of this first edition, unclipped with $2.00 on flap. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Green cloth covers with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, acetate-protected, profusely illustrated with full-page color plates by Uri Shulevitz. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, price-clipped.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, J. M. Stoddart & Co., 1st, 1878, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 326 pages. Hardcover. Scarce, early Frost work. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations throughout. Back endpapers have a mended rip at gutter. Cover boards bound in orange. Covers have some age wear. Pages are age-yellowed with a touch of foxing in places. Does not affect text or illustrations. In very good shape for its age.
Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright orange cloth with black lettering and design, 126 pages. No dust jacket. Full color and sepia illustrations. A visual feast as well as an informational book on cowboys, written for young people. Each page margin is filled with illustrations depicting scenes of cowboy life, cowboy equipment, illustrations of animal anatomy and cowboy techniques, and more. Also included are 6 color plates which depict the west in all its glory. Maps on endpapers. Inscription on first blank page, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Putnam, 1st , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.SIGNED BY MCCULLY opposite title-page.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins , reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A reissued edition SIGNED BY SENDAK on the half-title page. Originally published in 1956. We follow a dream of a boy named Kenny. He must go on an adventure completing riddles given to him in order to stay in the magical land. Little does he know, these are actually life lessons we ourselves can take from the book while growing up in the real world. Illustrated in 2-colors by Sendak.
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR JULES FEIFFER. Originally pub. in 1969 but this edition newly illustrated by Feiffer in color.
Hardcover. Brookfield CT, Millbrook Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, color illustrations by Peter Parnall. A rare insight into the world of bird anatomy and flight depicts the metamorphosis of a young boy whose human anatomy fades away as he begins to feel as a bird feels. Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Los Angeles/NY, Intervisual Communications/Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 6 pop-up spreads, illustrated in color by Scarry. All in good shape. Center spread has light wear to moving slots.
Hardcover. n.p., L.T. Myers, unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, 3 color lithographs, many black & white illustrations. Color label on decorated cover. No publisher indicated,(C) by L.T. Myers. Areas of cover show fading, soil.
Hardcover. New York, Richard Jackson Book/Antheneum Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Covers and dust jacket completely illustrated in color, acetate protective covering to dust jacket, lovely full page color illustrations by Schwartz. Very slight rubbing to acetate covering, otherwise dust jacket, covers and pages crisp and unmarked, spine stiff and tight; a beautiful book in superb condition.
Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Early board book with Garth Williams' charming illustrations, 24 pages, clean copy. Glazed boards. J125125 code on inside cover at bottom indicating a reprint.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Paraskevas. The mother (Author) and son (Artist) team present another adventure in the life of the poor little rich boy.
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. While looking for his mother in a haunted house, a little boy plays pranks on the monster inhabitants.
Hardcover. New York, Dodge Publishing Company, Reprint, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Deckled fore-edge. Tanning to pages and edges from age. Blue cloth bound cover boards, two-color illustration on front cover board, a good deal of paint has chipped off (see image), white title on spine, slightly faded. Some soil/wear to covers. A bump to front right bottom corner of cover board (see image). In beautiful condition inside, no pages missing, page 84 is partially disconnected. Illustrations by Bessie Pease Gutman) quite vivid.
Hardcover. NY, Grove Prress, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Tomi Ungerer. Transl. by Richard Seaver. Dust jacket with light edgewear, rubbing.
Hardcover. New York, Barse and Hopkins, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 184 pages plus publisher's ads, 4 color plates and many b&w drawings by uncredited artist (but appears to be Campbell). Appears to be collected material from earlier books so copyright date make be earlier than published date. Bright blue cloth covers with red lettering, color illustration label on front. Previous owner's gift inscription in pencil on front fly leaf with 1927 date. A clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. A history of slavery in America, written for children, and focusing on those who escaped slavery and on the Underground Railroad. Includes stories of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Josiah Henson, and others.
Softcover. Winchester, MA, Faber and Faber, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by author. No dust jacket issued, glazed cardboard covers. Three city friends encounter numerous adventures when they decide to enrich the lives of countryfolk with their superior scientific knowledge.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 44 pages, illustrated with color and b&w lithographs by Gannett. Red cloth spine faded, edges of cardboard covers show wear, light chipping to paper. Book is shaken, but solid with bright colors to covers, internally clean. Top and boom of spine bumped,frayed.
Hardcover. Honesdale PA, Boyds Mills, 2nd pr., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Luminous watercolor art by Ted Lewin. When Adam's family leaves Russia for America, Grandfather gives him an ancient prayer shawl that has been passed down from generation to generation, and in time, an older Adam passes the prayer shawl down to his own grandson.
Hardcover. Springfield MA, McLoughlin Bros., reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated (64 pages), illustrated with 6 color plates and many other b&w drawings by Chloe Preston (not credited). Color pictorial boards, end paper drawing. Clean, minor wear at corners, top and bottom of spine.
Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, illustrated throughout by Marc Simont in blue & black. Stated First Printing. In a lightly soiled dust jacket that's price-clipped. Small scar to front endpaper otherwise clean
NY, Knopf, 1st , 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in green cloth with a drawing of a monkey on a pole on the front cover. Illustrated in 3-colors and black & white by Meg Wohlberg. Previous owner's signature front end paper, light spotting to covers.
Hardcover. New York, Ariel Books, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 49 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Tasha Tudor. Bright yellow cloth with blue lettering and drawing of rooster on front. This copy SIGNED BY BOTH McCREADY & TASHA TUDOR on title page. Dust jacket with darkening to edges, chipped at top of spine, Book is clean, bright.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Ib Ohlsson. Remainder mark on bottom-edge. Colorful facts about Stetson's life in this account of a man whose legacy includes more than a hat.
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