Children's Illustrated

Softcover. NY, Dover, reprint, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, The original edition faithfully reproduced with 120 two-color illustrations and 23 color plates, all by Denslow. Mild wear, soil to covers. Clean internally.

Hardcover. Chicago, M.A. Donohue & Co., reprint, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, unpaginated, color illustrations by Gruelle. Illustrated cardboard covers with edge and corner wear, but clean and bright, black cloth spine. unmarked. Two pages with short tears, small tape repair, some creases.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 2nd pr., 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket chipped, with moderate amounts of wear and tearing, now covered in plastic. Lithograph illustrations. Cover boards show minimal wear, light rubbing. Caldecott medal sticker on front of dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 44 pages illustrated in color by Burton. Since it was first published in 1939, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel has delighted generations of children.Mike and his trusty steam shovel, Mary Anne, dig deep canals for boats to travel through, cut mountain passes for trains, and hollow out cellars for city skyscrapers. But with progress come new machines, and soon the inseparable duo are out of work. Mike believes that Mary Anne can dig as much in a day as one hundred men can dig in a week, and the two have one last chance to prove it and save Mary Anne from the scrap heap. What happens next in the small town of Popperville is a testament to their friendship and to old-fashioned hard work and ingenuity. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Blue Sky Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR. Crisp, bright copy with minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Mcloughlin Bros., 1st, Book: Good, Hardcover, 9 1/2 X 12", paper-covered boards. Title on cover is The Wonderful Story of a Little Bear. Five color plates and many other two-color illustrations by Sarah Noble-Ives. No date found but early 1900s. Approx. 48 pages. Covers are fair only with paper chipping, edgewear, rear cover with paper covering loose. Bottom quarter of blue cloth spine missing. But the inside is complete, bright and clean.

Hardcover. Boulder CO, Bala Kids, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, gorgeous color art by Wen Hsu. Two sisters discover the power of love and the true meaning of compassion in this princess-adventure story based on an ancient Chinese tale. Miao Shan isn't your typical princess. She likes to spend her time quietly meditating with the creatures of the forest or having adventures with dragons and tigers. Miao Shan's heart is so full of love that her dream is to spread happiness throughout the land and help people endlessly. But her father has other plans for her--he intends to have her married and remain in the palace. With the help of her little sister Ling, Miao Shan escapes and begins her journey to discover the true meaning of compassion. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crowell/ Jr. Lit Guild, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated in 2-colors by Leslie W. Lee. Light wear, rubbing to edges and spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne and Co, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 76 pages, seven color plates & numerous b/w illustrations by L. Leslie Brooke. No date, probably 1950s. Small ownership stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good, unclipped dust jacket, 110 pages. Illustrated throughout with b&w pictures by Maurice Sendak. Blue boards with silver embossed birds and vines on the front board. A fanciful story about a young princess being cursed by her older sister at her christening and the adventurous aftermath of that curse. Dust jacket lightly sunned

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY JOYCE on front end paper. Color illustrations by Joyce. Nice condition, some wear to dust jacket but mostly clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover. Color title page plus 23 full-color plates by Smith. Beige cloth spine with paper covered boards, color illiustration on cover. Hinge shows stress just after front fly leaf, otherwise very good with minor nicks to cardboard edges.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum Books, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. Color art by Haley. Discover how an African trickster god made it possible for people to tell stories in this brightly illustrated, Caldecott Medal-winning picture book. Long, long ago there were no stories on earth for children to hear. All stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. Ananse, the Spider man, wanted to buy some of these stories, so he spun a web up to the sky to bargain with the Sky God. The price the Sky God asked was Osebo, the leopard-of-the-terrible-teeth, Mmboro the hornet-who-stings-like-fire, and Mmoatia the fairy-whom-men-never-see. Can Ananse capture these sly creatures and give the children of earth stories to tell? No dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Crowell, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated with color paintings by Wendell Minor and SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY MINOR on front fly leaf. Dust jacket has some light sunning to front edge, clipped.

Hardcover. New York , Holiday House, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Lobel. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Little Simon, 2nd pr., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover board book with 5 colorful interactive spreads. Featuring brilliant hands-on lessons for curious readers who are preparing for Pre-K, this oversized busy book lets little ones discover, learn, and play with first concept surprises. Includes a memory game with simple shapes hidden under flaps and introduces colors, counting, clocks, and more. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Arthur A. Levine Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. SIGNED BY EMILY ARNOLD MCCULLY ON BLANK PRELIM PAGE WITH ILLUSTRATED SKETCH. Acetate-protected dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations. No sign of wear, dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A Giant Golden Book - Deluxe Edition. 1,500 items illustrated in color by Cornelius DeWitt. Bright, clean copy in a chipped & edgeworn dust jacket.

Hardcover. Great Britain, Abelard-Schuman Limited, Reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Decorated cover boards (see image). Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean, bright and unmarked. In beautiful condition. the classic Grimm tale of the origins of the moon is brought back to life.

Hardcover. Honesdale, PA, Wordsong Boyds Mills Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Minor wear to dust jacket. Light rubbing to covers. Illustrations by Wendy Watson.

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. Rutland VT, Tuttle Publishing , reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards with a red cloth spine, 24 pages illustrated in color. A beautiful reprint of the German classic, usually found in slovenly condition. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st illust. thus, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 8 color, 4 b&w plates by E. Boyd Smith. Brown cloth covers with gilt and black design. Front endpaper split at hinge, otherwise very good.

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. NY, McGraw-Hill, BC Ed., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 35 pages illustrated in color by Galdone. Adapted from the Brothers Grimm tale. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Walck, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 47 pages. Color illustrations by Tasha Tudor.Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket has edgewear, chipping.

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. NY, Parents' Magazine Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Color illustrations by Boche Kaplan. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Chanticleer Press Inc., reprint, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 288 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. With drawings throughout by Mervyn Peake. Moderate fading and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight chipping to dust jacket spine. Light soiling to dust jacket. Unmarked. A 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. New York, Harper & Row , 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, ex-lib with stamping, residue to rear endpapers. Color illustrations by Uri Shulevitz. Mr. Fanshaw and his grandson Will have a kitten show up at their door. Can the kitten help to solve the mystery in their woods?

Softcover. NY, Platt & Munk Co., 1st thus, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A fresh, clean, well bound copy. 6 leaves (12 pages) including the cover. Color illustrated front cover with interior of alternating spreads of color and black and white. Illustrations by Eulalie Banks. Stapled binding. Pages are clean and bright.

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. 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. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with mils shelf wear. A wordless work of nautical imagination, with charming illustrations in blue by award-winning artist Peter Sis. Hans Christian Andersen Medal-winning artist Peter Sis's entrancing, joyful, and detailed illustrations mix technical prowess with a love for the medium.

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. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Small closed tear to dust jacket. Black & white woodcut illustrations by the author.

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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 27 pages Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black & white illustrations by Michael McCurdy.

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.

Softcover. Boston, Expression Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 40 pages illustrated in b&w and colors by Edmonds. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover.

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.

Chicago IL, Albert Whitman & Co., 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color and black & white illustrations by Margaret Ayer. 128 pages. Orange cover with green writing. Mild soiling to covers, edgewear. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 2nd, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Color illustrations. Light edge wear, rubbing to covers and spine. Covers and end papers slightly soiled; else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Illustrations by Nola Langner. 'Library Edition' specification printed on back cover of book. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Milan, A. Mondadori, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 6 unnumbered pages including the inside of both covers. Publisher's thick pictorial boards backed in white cloth-patterned paper & saddle stapled Lightly soiled, edges slightly rubbed, otherwise very good. A nice example with all flaps and concealed color illustrations in perfect working order. Laid in is a typed English translation of the text. Bruno Munari was "one of the most celebrated names in twentieth century Italy in graphic designing who fundamentally altered the landscape of many fields of visual arts, futurism and modernism He is credited for his contribution to industrial design, sculpture, painting, literature, film and concrete art." A collector's copy of this scarce title.

Hardcover. Mankato, MN, Creative Editions, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gary Kelley. Like new, clean and tight.

Hardcover. New York , Doubleday, Doran, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 43 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color, B&W by Tousey. Illustrated cardboard covers. Light chipping to papers on corners.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 2nd pr., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MORRISSEY on title page. Tight copy. When Father Christmas pays a visit on Christmas Eve, Sam's busiest time of the year gets even busier. The problem, as Father Christmas explains, is that he's running behind schedule and wants Sam to help him out. For Sam, who's facing the closing of his ramshackle shop, the task seems impossible. After all, he has no sleigh or reindeer. But that's where a little magic comes in. Before the wonderful night is past, Sam and his young friend Joey get the chance to make some unusual deliveries and, most importantly, share in the true spirit of Christmas.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with light edgewear. Thirty full-color reproductions of paintings by a world-famous artist provide the basis for an allegory of love involving the quest of the white tiger for the tigress of his dreams. Clean copy.