Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Frances Tipton Hunter. SIGNED WITH SKETCH BY MUNRO LEAF ON PAGE OPPOSITE OF TITLE PAGE. Previous owner's name on front end paper. Dust jacket has chipping and small tears. Covers have rubbing and chipping of laminate on edges. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dial, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MCCULLY on prelim-page. Color illustrations by McCully

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, BC Ed., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 56 pages Illustrated throughout in color by Freeman. Weekly Reader Children's Book Club Ed. A Saint Bernard that watches over children in a Swiss Alp skiing school, becomes a hero. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Bright color illustrations by Keith Haring. Clean, tight copy, minor wear to edges. Dust jacket has moderate wear on bottom edge, including small tear.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Brothers, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt and decorated in red and black, front cover stamped in black, red and gilt. Floral endpapers. 21 line drawings by W.A. Rogers. No date on title page, assumed late 1880s reprint.

Hardcover. NY, Blue Sky Press, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. With warmth, humor, and dazzling landscapes, award-winning writer Audrey Wood and acclaimed illustrator David Shannon team up to present the tall-tale beginnings of Niagara Falls, the Rocky Mountains, Old Faithful, and more. Meet the Bunyans - a family you'll never forget! Clean 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, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Paraskevas. In triumph and disaster, Junior Kroll has a comical way of altering the course of events. He plays in a kazoo quartet, frees the dinner party lobsters, steals one neighbor's roses as a present for another, and decorates Grandfather's birthday cake with "little chocolate flies." Michael Paraskevas's zany illustrations bring these offbeat, bittersweet poems to life.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. Brown boards, white cloth spine, color illustrated dust jacket, large full page color illustrations by Alice Provensen.

Softcover. Artcraft, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A novelty item that features a cardboard duck that stands-up with the help of a folding tab. Inside is a small paper pamphlet with a short story illustrated in color. The cardboard covers are like new, the tab that holds it up is excellent. The small two page "book" inside is very good still. 29 cent price; 675 code.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Non-paginated. Color illustrations. by Jerry Pinkney. SIGNED BY PINKNEY on title-page. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 58 pages, illustrated with 27 color plates by J.L.G. (Johnny Gruelle). Red cloth spine with gray boards and a color label on front cover. Dust jacket has edgewear, chipping, small holes in spine. Previous owner's signature on end papers.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light green boards, maroon cloth spine with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, beautiful full page color illustrations by Jim McMullan. Very slight wear to dust jacket; a beautiful children's book in excellent condition.

hardcover. Edinburgh, Floris Books, 1st illust. thus, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial glossy boards. Color illustrations by Katrien van der Grient. No dust jacket issued. Clean copy. The selfish giant drove the children out of his garden and built a high wall around it. Then the frost and the snow came, and after that it was always winter. Until one day the children crept back in through a hole in the wall.

Hardcover. New York, Platt & Munk, reprint, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 62 pages illustrated with 29 color plates by Ver Beck. Red cloth covers with color label on front, black lettering and design. A reprint of the 1926 Altemus book. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages, color illustrations by the author. Convinced that crossing the river on the back of Monty the alligator is too slow, the animals try to find a faster way to get their children to school.

Hardcover. NY, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Mendelson. Animal characters highlight a retelling of the story of two rascals who sell a vain emperor an invisible suit of clothes. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Platt & Munk, reprint, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 softcover volumes, 12 pages each, all illustrated in color and b&w by Eulalie. In the original cardboard box with a color design. There are tears to top edges of box and two small inked words otherwise very good. The 16 booklets are clean, stapled.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st thus, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Barry Moser.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.All 7 picture books in one volume. Introduction by Madeleine L'Engle. Afterword by Margaret Rey. Color illustrations by Rey. 405 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages, illustrated in color by 43 illustrators. SIGNED BY SIX OF THE ARTISTS ON PUBLISHER'S BOOKPLATE PASTED OPPOSITE TITLE PAGE: STEVEN KELLOGG, LANE SMITH, ALICE PROVENSEN, TRINA SCHART HYMAN, BARRY MOSER, NATALIE BABBITT. Wraparound cover band present.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor wear, color illustrations by Helen Craig. Robin Hood creates chaos in the palace, lures the king and queen and their soldiers into the forest, and is hailed as a hero by the poor.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman, 1st, 1936, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Ex-library. Cover paste-down very worn. Cloth Frayed on bottom edges. Usual markings.

Hardcover. London, Chatto and Windus, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages illustrated in color by Patricia Turner. Paper covered boards starting to fray, small fragile book, several early pages dog-eared. One of several titles in the Brown Burrows Series. Scarce.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrations by Brown throughout. Ex-lib with minor markings, paste residue on back end-paper. Light edgewear to bottom edges. First published in 1946.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 241 pages, pink cloth covers with blue and black design. End paper drawing and b&w illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Light wear, ex-library with residue on end papers, small ink price on front fly leaf, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in illustrated boards. Malachy Doyle's fanciful "small" tale, illustrated in delightful detail by Carll Cneut, will bring smiles to anyone who has ever missed the comforts of home. When Antonio visits his grandmother on a tiny island on the other side of the world, he has a whale of a time. But there's one slight problem: he seems to be getting smaller and smaller. Before long, he can't even throw jam sandwiches to the sea monsters because he's too small to see over the side of his grandmother's boat. "You're missing your mom," notes his granny, who tells him it's time that he headed for home. So he finds a job on a sailing ship - and then the increasingly small Antonio's big adventures really begin. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anthony Browne. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Random House/Beginner Books, BC Ed., 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages, hardcover, color illustrated cloth with bowed cover, color illustrations throughout by Richard Erdoes. Light verse by LeSieg (Dr. Seuss). Stated Book Club Edition opposite title page. Covers show edge wear, soil. Interior clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Retells stories from the Old Testament in humorous, less-than-reverent verses. Illustrated in b&w by her husband, William Steig.

NY, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 92 pages. The story of a little brown goat. Color, black & white illustrations by the Haders. (small number 3 on bottom of title-page signifying?). G+ with light corner wear, previous owner's lettering on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Bayley. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color pictorial Illustrated boards are lightly rubbed, worn at edges and corners. Front hinge is cracked, light finger smudges to a few pages, yellow paper on cardboard spine chipped. Illustrated in color throughout. A follow-up to The Adventures of Mickey Mouse Book 1, featuring a supporting cast and personalities that align more closely to the Mickey Mouse short films and comic strip of the time. Characters include Captain Church Mouse, Tanglefoot, Peg-Leg Pete, and Pluto along with Mickey and Minnie Mouse.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, reprint, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages illust. in color and black & white by Hope Dunlap. Red cloth spine with illust. cardboard covers. F-20 code suggests 1920 printing. Smudges to rear panel. Light edgewear to covers, previous owner's bookplate otherwise nice.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with color pastedown on front, gilt lettering, 126 pages. 16 color plates plus several line drawings by Arthur Rackham. Clean, bright copy with a trace of wear to top of cloth spine.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Clean. Andre, one of the finest chefs in the country, is honored by the Emperor's gift of a magnificently tall hat, until he finds out how many problems it causes in his life.

NY, Random House, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A novelty alphabet book. Each letter has a flap that reveals who lives inside. A board book. Color illust. by Percy. Learning the shapes of all 26 letters of the alphabet has never been more exciting in this big fun-filled board book! Inside each letter-shaped house lives an appropriate person at work--from Andy the Astronaut in his "A"-shaped house to Zach the Zookeeper in his "Z." Peek inside the houses and see the sturdy board letters spring up from the page like magic! Preschoolers will love learning their letters in this ABC neighborhood.

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. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Beautiful color illustrations by Ruth Heller. Clean. This is an enchanting and magical variant of the favorite fairy tale. Publishers Weekly noted that "the text is especially noteworthy for its instructive but unobtrusive incorporation of Korean words." Children's Literature pointed out that "it should be noted that all the illustrations--from those depicting Korean rituals to the smallest clothing details--are the result of the illustrator's extensive research and passionate interest in Korean culture."

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Kalman. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY/London, Overlook Duckworth, 2nd pr., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 93 pages, illustrated throughout in color by Ronald Searle. Light wear o pictorial dust jacket with small tear to lower edge of spine. 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. New York, Universal Budget Systems, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations by Erika throughout. Decorated cover boards. Boards have a touch of agewear (see images). Pages are slighted tanned from age. Previous owner's inscription on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Random House , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, llustrated by Beni Montresor, minor dust jacket edge wear and price clipped, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Jindra Capek. Light edgewear and soil to dust jacket. Illustrated end papers. Clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, Illinois, Albert Whitman & Company, 1st US, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Ex-library copy, minor stamping. Book shows some wear. Color illustrations by Bannon. Hardbound, bright, clean dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color art by Lionel Kalish. Clean copy. Three siblings have a bout with the chicken pox, and their father comes down with a bad case as soon as they recover. It's their turn to help nurse him back to health in a nicely done role reversal. He misses his daughter's ballet recital and has to bathe in oatmeal to help the itching. The kids are worried, but things pick up as he recuperates and all ends well.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Burchard. Dust jacket shows some wear and chipping at edges, price-clipped. Hardbound.