Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Low. In a bright, unclipped dust Jacket.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Price Stern Sloan, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages. Color illustrations by author. The comic misadventures of a group of cats at summer camp.

Softcover. Chicago, Reuben H. Lilja , 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 16 pages including covers, verse and color illustrations by Milo Winter. Charming die-cut polka dot "bow tie" is featured on every page, taking different forms with different animals, which include Rabbit, Kitty, Puppy, Duck, Mouse, Chicks, etc. The "bow tie" becomes a sash, package decoration, dress sash, etc.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages. Color illustrations by Ashley Bryan. Musical arrangements by David Manning Thomas. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Devin Adair, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 86 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR (Robert Frost's Daughter) on half title page. Heavy wear to edges. Dust jacket clipped. Dust jacket has heavy chipping on spine. Illlustrated by Robin Hudnut.

Hardcover. Morton Grove IL, Albert Whitman & Co, 1st US, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. When Tom, a young panda, goes to his very first day of kindergarten, his whole family stays and plays and wishes they could be in kindergarten too. David Legge's fun-filled watercolors are as infectious as Australian author Wild's lively tale about adults rediscovering the satisfaction of creative play.

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. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 46 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings by William Pene Du Bois. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-Paginated. SIGNED BY NANCY WILLARD AND JERRY PINKNEY ON TITLE PAGE. 1st edition/1st printing. Full color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Not ex-library. A bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 3-color illustrations by Don Bolognese. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Edgewear and chipping and a piece torn on dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, reprints 4 classical tales: "Harold and the Purple Crayon," "Harold's Fairy Tale," "Harold's Trip To The Sky" and "Harold's Circus." Illustrated throughout in two-colors by Johnson. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in black. 135 pages illustrated by H.C. Millard. Wonderful drawings of prehistoric creatures, many full page on beige color background. Scarce. Light stains to cover, inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Greenberg, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Tony Sarg. Piece gone from page 1, top right corner. light edgewear, chipping and soil to covers.

Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by the Sandbergs. Glazed boards with red cloth spine. Originally published in Sweden in 1973. Corners of boards show wear, otherwise clean, very good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Willia Morrow and Company, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 142 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrated by Mary K. Okheena.

Hardcover. NY, Phaidon Press, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by Ungerer. A reprint of the 1980 tale of an eight-legged hero who has twice as much courage and four times as many legs as most people - except, of course, other octopuses. When deep-sea diver Captain Samovar is attacked by a ferocious shark, Emile comes to his aid. Grateful to his rescuer, the Captain invites him to stay at his home, where Emile sleeps in a bathtub full of salt water. Emile turns out to be a fantastic octopus: he is a gifted musician (able to play three instruments simultaneously) and a great lifeguard, teaching children to swim and saving people from drowning. One day, Emile and the Captain, who works on a police launch, encounter a suspicious-looking boat in the ocean, with a dangerous group of smugglers on board... Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 2nd pr., 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in blue, in an edgeworn dust jacket. After many birthdays, Robin gets the gift he's been wishing for - a dog.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 44 pages illustrated in color by Cyndy Szekeres. This wonderful children's story is a tale of a backwoods family hearing-tell that their Uncle Skinny is sick. Mrs. Clumpet, the best soup-maker around whips up a batch to be carried downstream by their makeshift boat. But they all fall asleep and are being carried toward the waterfall! What will become of the Clumpets? What will become of Uncle Skinny's soup? Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York , Neugebauer/North-South, 4th Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated, color illustrations, text in German and English. SIGNED BY ZWERGER on half title page. Softcover with an acetate dust jacket.

Hardcover. Sydney AU, John Sands, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards. No date. Color illustrations by Margaret Senior.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages illustrated in colors by Giulio Maestro. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition. Bright, clean copy. Story about a duck and bear who are faced with a new neighbor, a chipmunk. Can they all be friends?

New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey. A little mouse runs away from home to find a "nicer" family, but when darkness comes, he misses them and realizes how much he loves them.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Little Bear, whose family performs in the Papagini Circus, longs to take part, and one night, through a series of accidents, he becomes featured in a way he never imagined. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , Parent's Magazine Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Illustrated in color by Wendy Watson. Cover with some edgewear, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover,192 pages. SIGNED BY MARGUERITE DE ANGELI ON TITLE PAGE. Light tan cloth covers, 16 full-page color plates, profusely illustrated with b&w illustrations. Mild rubbing and soiling to cloth covers, crease and faint erased-pencil marks to half-title page, otherwise page crisp and unmarked, tight binding. No dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, Children's Universe, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A package that contains scored heavy paper for constructing blockhead characters. Cardboard covers. These are the blockheads, a wacky crew that includes a pirate, clown, space cadet, cowpoke, baseball player, and lifeguard. This punch-out activity book is in As New condition, complete, unused, and never opened. It contains six heads on figures that you assemble yourself.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the Dillons and SIGNED BY THE DILLONS. Tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges.

Hardcover. NY, Wonder Books, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards. 20 pages illustrated in color. Casper, the Friendly Ghost and Wendy, the Good Little Witch starred in animated cartoons in the 1950s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. SIGNED BY SUSAN JEFFERS ON TITLE PAGE.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st Illust. U.S., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Irene Haas and SIGNED BY HASS on title-page. Book has bump to bottom lower corner of front cover. Light rubbing on rear dust jacket.

Softcover. Racine, WA, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Light musty odor. Illustrations by Ruth Newton.

Hardcover. NY, Green Tiger Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Chi Chung.

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In rural Quebec in the 1830s, Jenny is hired to help a family by cooking and cleaning after her predecessor, the beloved Emily, has died, but Jenny is mysteriously prevented from completing one of her chores. Color illustrations by Lydia Dabcovich.

Hardcover. New York, Lippincott, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 63 pages. Boards. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Previous owners inscription at top of front endpaper. Price clipped dust jacket is worn at edges with some red marking and smearing on front cover.

Hardcover. Natick, MA, Picture Book Studio, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lisbeth Zwerger. Translated from Danish by Anthea Bell.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Donald Sultan. Light edge wear to covers. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Algonquin Book, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 39 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Color illustrations by author. Previous owner's marking in front and rear. Moderate chipping to spine with chunk missing from bottom. Loose page block.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Full-color illustrations follow a day in the life of a country veterinarian as he deals with examinations, innoculations, and emergencies at his office; makes rounds in his truck; and returns to his office to check his patients. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY SPIRIN ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, color illustrations by Steig. Pete is a young boy who is in a bad mood because it's a rainy day so he decides he would like to be a pizza. His parents play along with his make-believe game until the sun comes out and "the pizza" decides it's time to go out to play with his friends.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with glazed boards. Color illustrations by Ehlert. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Top Cat rules the house until an unexpected box from the humane society arrives with someone new--and cute--inside. At first, Top Cat doesn't want to share his house and favorite things, but soon he learns that two cats can be lots more fun than one.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Gwen Millward. What may appear to be an abandoned garden is actually home to an unusual array of insects. Meet a ladybug who prefers making mud angels to acting like a lady, a roly-poly bug who loves to roll ("wa-hoo!"), a cricket who dreams of grand adventures, and a whole neighborhood of bugs gazing up at a fireworks show of flowers bursting into bloom. These inviting vignettes are sure to have readers seeing bugs in a whole new light. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , reprint, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, Remains of Caldecott sticker on front panel. No date on title page so assumed early reprint. 1953 Caldecott winner. A delightful story about Johnny and the bear he finds as a cub. Illustrated in soft brown tones by the author.

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st , 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Diane de Groat. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Features more than 80 of Tasha Tudor's favorite family recipes accompanied by her wonderful illustrations, book and jacket are in excellent condition, there are no significant flaws, the original price is present ($26.99). Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Pale yellow boards with red titles to spine and red illustrated figure to front cover, color illustrated dust jacket with acetate protective covering, lovely tri-tone color illustrations by Margot Zemach. Light rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, with a few quarter-inch tears to edges, price-clipped, otherwise covers and pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a neat, tight children's book in great condition.

Hardcover. DK Publishing, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A thickly sentimental tale, told in graphic-novel-style frames, of a dying boy's metaphorical quest for courage.

Hardcover. New York, M. Evans & Company, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, red cloth covers with black lettering and illustration of an aardvark on front. Pictures by Wendy Watson. Front hinge shows light tearing.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated in color by Marc Simont. Bravery, wit, and clear thinking all give the boy Wally the edge when Hogbone the thief and bully, with his 15 other bad guys ride into town. Clean copy.

NY, Pantheon, 2nd pr., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards. Color illustrations by Cyndy Szekeres. Unpaginated. Cover has minor wear to spine edge and corners. Doctor Rabbit finds an abandoned tadpole and raises her to froghood. The cast of characters, including Nurse Mouse and others, is irresistable. The ending is bittersweet, because even orphaned tadpoles grow up one day, but this ending is one of the things that makes this such a special story for a parent to read with their still-small child.