Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. This is a pictorial memoir of Melisande, a most uncommon dog who becomes a famous opera singer. B&w cartoon illustrations by Roy McKie. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dial, 1st , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY JEFFERS on title page. and illustrated in color by Jeffers. There is a production flaw to the corner bottom paste-down in front (hidden by the dust jacket flap) otherwise VG.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace & Company, 3rd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by David Diaz. Really nice, new-looking condition. Hardbound, dust jacket. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur turns his sharp eye to the noble alphabet and imagines what life would be like without these twenty-six little--but powerful--letters. Packed with humor and subtle wit, the verse in this captivating picture book is splendidly matched by Caldecott Medal winner David Diaz's hilariously clever illustrations.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. Juliette and her parade of stuffed animals prepare for this special holiday by choosing a tree, decorating the house, and baking cookies. Juliette explains that Santa will bring gifts for everyone, but when Christmas day arrives, she is so excited about her new presents she forgets all about her friends until she receives a special present that reminds her that friendship is the best gift of all. This delightful story, perfectly suited for the board book audience, captures the anticipationof Christmas and gently underscores the true spirit of the season. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Domanska. Dust jacket shows wear, chipping, some small tears. The author's lively color drawings enhance the story of a family's worry about a little girl's whereabouts.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 7th pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial glossy boards. "With the same delightfully irreverent spirit that he brought to his retellings of Little Red Riding Hood, Marshall enlivens another favorite. . . . The illustrations are fraught with delicious humor and detail." Clean copy, no dust jacket. Top of spine has a small tear.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Calef Brown throughout. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illust. by Montresor. Light edgewaer to covers, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Star Bright Books, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, color illustrations throughout. First published in 1966, Brian Wildsmith's stunning art is the backdrop to this newly revised selection of Robert Louis Stevenson's wonderful poetry for children. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Putnam, 1st , 2002, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Susan Jeffers. SIGNED BY JEFFERS, with a small sketch. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Kokila/Penguin, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. One winter morning, Lina wakes up to silence. It's the sound of snow -- the kind that looks soft and glows bright in the winter sun. But as she walks to her grandmother's house to help make the family recipe for warak enab, she continues to listen. As Lina walks past snowmen and across icy sidewalks, she discovers ten ways to pay attention to what might have otherwise gone unnoticed. With stunning illustrations by Kenard Pak and thoughtful representation of a modern Arab American family from Cathy Camper, Ten Ways to Hear Snow is a layered exploration of mindfulness, empathy, and what we realize when the world gets quiet. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 8th pr, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 103 pages, illustrated in color by Anno. Glossy boards, no dust jacket issued. Clean, tight copy. Picture puzzles, games, and simple activities introduce the mathematical concepts of multiplication, sequence and ordinal numbering, measurement, and direction.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 44 pages, color illustrations by de Brunhoff, translated from French by Merle Haas, very clean, tight copy, previous owner's inscription, slight edgewear to top right corners. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Whizzard Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket depicting Alice stretching to put an envelope into a red cast iron Victorian postal box, illustrated with philatelic color images (stamps and covers mainly) relating to Alice by Tenniel, pictorial end-papers with B&W images of Lewis Carroll & Sir John Tenniel, 48 pages. An unusual reprise of postal images relating to Tenniel's classic illustrations of Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass. Bookplate on dedication page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New Milford, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Full color illustrations by Ross MacDonald. Clean, bright hardcover in a dust jacket. Jack was having another perfect day. In fact, you could say that his whole life was perfect, except that he wanted someone to share it with. That someone arrives in the form of a new baby sister who keeps growing...and growing...until she's about ten stories tall, wreaking havoc with every step she takes. Of course, Jack gets the blame. Full of the sly, raucous humor that marked Ross MacDonald's previous books, this is the ultimate book about sibling rivalry.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Michael Hague. Nice, clean condition. .

Hardcover. NY, Golden Book/Western Publishing, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards, 32 pages illustrated by Scarry. Harry and Larry go fishing for the Cat family's dinner, but all they catch is trouble. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Charles Miklolaycak. Dust jacket price clipped.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 32 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Bridgman. In a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1951, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, paper-covered boards, 32 pages illustrated in color by Florence Sarah Winship. (A Tell-A-Tale Book) The subject is a fire truck. Covers are chipped, worn at edges, fragile condition.

Hardcover. NY/London, Thames and Hudson , 1st U.S., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Maroon cloth covers with small gilt embossed emblem to front, gilt titles to spine, lovely color illustrations by Stanley Baron. Extremely slight rubbing to covers, pages clean, crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight book in great condition.

Hardcover. New York, Blue Sky/Scholastic, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Covers and dust jacket completely illustrated in color, beautiful full page color illustrations by Diane Goode. Covers, dust jacket and pages crisp, clean and unmarked, spine stiff and tight; a beautiful children's book in great condition.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Kael, a black timber wolf, is captured & performs for a circus, until he has the opportunity to escape. Haunting story of a wild Wolf & the gentle man who trains him. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Dennis Dobson, 1st thus, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, b&w and color illustrations by Janosch, very clean, tight copy, small taped tear and slight foxing to dust jacket. White cover boards.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated in 3-colors & black & white by Herbert Morton Stoops. Cardboard covers, edges chipped, light marking to covers.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, reprint, nd , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 147 pages. 12 color illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Red cloth covers with gold lettering and decoration. Spine faded. Rubbing to corners, spine. Light soiling to covers. Previous owner's stamp on front end paper.

Hardcover. New York, Cupples and Leon, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Richard Hudson. In the scarce dust jacket with mild soil, edgewear.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Teague and SIGNED BY TEAGUE with a small sketch of dog's head.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, paper covered boards with a black cloth spine. Lovely b&w drawings by Bennett illustrate this tale about a young boy and his pet goat. Two-color endpapers illustration. Cloth spine reinforced with clear tape. corner and edgewear to covers. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Brothers and Company, 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. B&W Illustrations by Florence Scovell Shinn. Tissue guard over illustrated frontispiece. 223 pages. Light shelfwear, small blank sticker on rear end paper otherwise VG. Silver gilt lettering on cover spine.

Hardcover. NY, Schocken Books, 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stated second printing of this ingenious picture puzzle book with a hidden story told through the vibrant illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, BC Ed., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Kahl. An adventurous boy is warned about giants when he sets out to see the world that lays beyond his home in the forest. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition.

Hardcover. New York, Franklin Watts, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 83 pages. Black & white illustrations by Douglas Gorsline. Dust jacket has light edgewear. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Hardcover. New York, Derrydale Books, reprint , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 88 pages. Retold from the stories of Joel Chandler Harris. Color illustrations by Harry Rountree and Rene Bull. Soiling, scratching to covers. Corners rubbed. Spine a little bumped.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 96 pages illustrated in b&w by Lobel. Introduces various aspects of Indian life through such handicraft projects as masks, corn-husk dolls, and a tepee. Ex-lib with light stamping, residue to rear inside cover, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth stamped with red, black and gilt decoration, 258 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w line by Howard Pyle. Front hinge cracked, previous owner's bookplate on blank prelim page, otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing Co., 1st US, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Hardcover. Middletown CT, Xerox Education Publications, BC Ed., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, color illustrations by the author. Sloth plans a birthday party but is afraid no one will come because they don't like his messy house. Clean copy. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 101 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Serena Riglietti. SIGNED BY SUSAN COOPER on title page. Clean, tight copy with minor edge wear to covers.

Hardcover. Garden City NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket and covers completely illustrated, acetate-protected dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations by Ed Young. Dust jacket, covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book.

Hardcover. NY, Anne Shwartz/Atheneum, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 18 silly poems with full color illustrations done as collages by Kroninger. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, price-clipped. Here is a story of Salem and the frightening time of the Witch Hunts emphasizing the role of John Alden, one of the unjustly accused "witches." Beautiful b&w illustrations throughout by Charles Mikolaycak.

Softcover. New York, McLoughlin Bro, 1st, 1888, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 14 pages. Soft cover on linen, with moderate chipping to paper wrappers. Stapled booklet with rust. Moderate tears and paper wrapper almost detached from staple binding. Full page color chromolithographs.

Hardcover. London, Writers and Readers , 1st UK, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards. From two Italian authors, this tale of female baby elephants who rebel against their allotted role is an early example of challenging sexist stereotyping in children's books. 32 pages in color. Top 1" of spine worn, front fly leaf torn away. The rest of the book clean and tight.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 32 pages, boards. Story of a little black fish, the only one left from an entire school. 1964 Caldecott Honor Book. Color illustrations by the author. Small brown stain on front of dust jacket. Dust jacket edgewear and chipping.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, 1st illust thus, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 40 pages. Illustrated in 2 and 3-colors by Jacqueline Ayer.

Hardcover. New York, Putnam, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 28 pages. Color illustrations by author. Dust jacket has a large tear at spine. Based on the history and legend of Grania O'Malley.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, non-Paginated. Full color illustrations by Rhoda Chase. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Dust jacket shows light wear.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in red, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A nice reprint of a book first published in 1914. The story of Virgie Cary who helped rescue her father who was captured by the Yankee troops in the Civil War. Clean copy.