Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 108 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Barry Moser. Dust jacket with spine fade, light edgewear. Clean, tight copy. Stories of the trickster hero Jahdu retold by Virgina Hamilton.

Hardcover. NY, Derrydale, reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Richard Doyle. Edited and with a Foreword by Cary Wilkins. Dust jacket shows some wear and minor soiling. The King and Queen of the country next to Fairyland are blessed with a daughter whom Prince Comical rescues in the land of magic Mushrooms. Originally published in England in 1869.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Junior Books - Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Illustrated cardboard covers with red cloth spine. Illustrated endpapers. Fade marks front cover Corners worn and bumped. Spine bumped. Rubbing to covers.

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st UK, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. A young male bear awakens in Spring to discover that his mother is gone, as is normal for adolescent males, and he must learn to survive on his own in the wilds. Handsomely color illustrated by the Caldecott winning author.. No dust jacket. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nice color illustrations by Goode. Stories compiled by Ann Durell. Great condition, clean and new-looking. Hardcover, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound. Black & white and color illustrations by Wiese. Dust jacket with brown mark front cover, edgewear, light chipping, closed tears. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BOTH TAN AND SHIELDS on the half-title page. On a rainy afternoon, a woman shares with three restless granddaughters her "earliest memory" from her childhood in China. Adapted from Tan's The Joy Luck Club , the haunting tale that unfolds is worthy of retelling--and of repeated rereading. The narrator, Ying-ying, recalls waking up at the age of seven on the morning of the Moon Festival; it was a steamy day, and "the sun drove rays through the bamboo curtains like knives." Filled with similarly vivid images, Tan's lilting text conveys Ying-ying's contagious excitement about the festivities. These include the appearance of the Moon Lady, who can fulfill one's secret wish. Later, celebrating with her family on a "floating teahouse," Ying-ying loses her balance and falls into the lake, where she is caught in a fisherman's net. He returns her to shore, where her secret wish is granted: she is found by her family, and thus learns a lesson about which kind of wishes come true. Tan has done a superb job of distilling this incident for young readers, who will be as mesmerized by the expressive narrative as by Schields's ornately detailed paintings, ablaze with luminous color.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY KONIGSBURG title-page. Color illustrations by Konigsburg. Nice, clean condition. Hardbound, dust jacket.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lane Smith. Unpaginated. With complete number line. A 1993 Caldecott honor book - delightfully illustrated parodies of children's fairy tales. The entire book, with its unconventional page arrangement and eclectic, frenetic mix of text and pictures, is a spoof on the art of book design and the art of the fairy tale. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 9th pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY MACAULAY on the half title page. Black & white illustrations by Macaulay. Lavishly illustrated Caldecott Honor book about the construction of an imaginary French Gothic cathedral. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 5th pr., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light beige cloth stamped in blue, 40 pages. Illustrated with two-color drawings and endpapers art by Corydon Bell. A young boy's life living ia a log cabin home with his family. Randy Reed's oudoor adventures with his dog Trace along with a spelling lesson.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice, price-clipped dust jacket. 64 pages, Black & white illustrations by Donald Carrick. In a library binding, but NOT ex-library. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. A book of prayers for children. 96 pages, color illustrations by John Rae. Spine faded, deckled foredge.

NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated with color watercolor pictures by Ted Rand. This slim volume includes 19 poems about nature, including 8 about birds, all of which are illustrated with bold, realistic watercolor paintings. The poems describe animal appearance and behavior in natural, clear images that any nature-watcher can understand. The cardinal, for example, ``Tries not to look conspicuous/ In red, but doesn't quite know how,'' and the spaniels have ``Periscope tails and hairy feet.'' Several poems such as ``The Beaver, Alas'' are wry commentaries on human attitudes toward nature. The few poems which try for an arch tone (``Slothful the sloth is certainly noth'') are less successful. Rand's detailed close-up paintings of individual birds and animals and his more humorous montages of animals for poems such as ``At the Zoo'' balance beautifully with the text.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Peter M. Fiore. In new condition.

Hardcover. New York , Dutton Children's Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF WITH A SMALL SKETCH on front fly leaf. In very good condition.

NY, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth covers. Color, black & white illustrations by Brook. No dust jacket.

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.

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Velma Ilsley, 93 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket and light soil. Small tear to back pastedown. Story about Christmas giving and the true meaning of Christmas. Mr. Frisco isn't on his corner selling newspapers. So Charlie buys him a pair of gloves for a Christmas present and goes looking. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Racine, WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, 40 pages. Color, black & white illustrations by the staff of the Walt Disney Studios. Previous owner's inscription on front paste-down endpaper. Tanning to pages. Color illustrations on front and back of paper covered boards. Light edgewear to bottom edges, corners. 4" separation of back spine paper.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with De Mejo's fantastical primitive color paintings. Clean copy.

NY, Warne, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Author in color. A young girl dreams of the fun she could have if there were two of her. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY SCHWARTZ on title-page. Color illustrations by Schwartz. Dust jacket with light edgewear, minor chipping at top of spine.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Wonderful introduction to different styles of architecture. Illustrated in color by Devlin. Related notes & articles to various landmark houses laid-in. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean copy.

NY, Golden Press, 37th p.r, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated pictorial boards, 94 pages. Mild edgewear to covers. Color illustrations by Gertrude Eliott. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 5th pr, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 47 pages. Black & white and two-color illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. INSCRIBED BY HYMAN on front end paper. Soiling, fading to covers.

NY , Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. 40 pages illustrated in b&w and color by De Angeli. Light edgewear to boards, previous owner inscription inside front cover. No dust jacket.

hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white photos by Ylla. Light edgewear to dust jacket and rubbing. Shelf wear to covers.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Tony Auth. Dust jacket price clipped. Jason is upset that he has to move for the third time in five years, but he gains comfort from his favorite tree and from the gift of a young tree that he can take with him to his new home

Hardcover. NY/Tokyo, Weatherhill, 3rd pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Delightful illustrations depict the imaginative and illogical world of a fantasy circus where the musicians' instruments are matchsticks and kitchenware, and fierce lions turn into wooden toys.

Hardcover. NY, McElderry Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by James Watts. Clean, tight copy. Retelling of a wry Chinese folk tale, charmingly illustrated.

New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Symeon Shimin. Light edgewear. Dust jacket with edgewear, rubbing.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w drawings by Tony Chen. Describes the characteristics and habits of birds found in the city, country, and zoo, and at the beach. Clean copy.

NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Dust jacket pristine. Color illustrations by Brusca. A familiar folktale motif is that of the clever man who outwits the devil. In this zesty retelling, based on an Argentinian source, that man is Juan Pobreza, a poor blacksmith who reshoes a mule belonging to St. Peter and charges nothing for the job. Touched, St. Peter asks the man to name three wishes. Juan, sure that Peter is not who he claims to be, makes three seemingly senseless wishes that help him out later when he must deal with the agents of the devil. In the twist at the end, Pobreza finds himself barred from both heaven and hell.

Hardcover. New York , Little Simon, 1st, 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Full-color illustrated pop-ups by Sabuda. SIGNED BY SABUDA on first spread. First Edition with 1 in number row. Like-new condition. No dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gregory Manchess. In a risky plan to free her kidnapped lover, Oonagh cleverly solves the evil pirate king's riddles, unites the princess Ethne with her lover, and invents sails. Clean copy.

NY, Potter, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Helen Craig. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Lightly bumped corners. When Angelina Ballerina sees old Mr. Bell all alone at Christmastime, she decides to bring him some holiday cheer. Cousin Henry doesn?t want to help until he finds that there?s a real Santa Claus living in their town!

Hardcover. NY, Dorling Kindersley, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. As new in a dust jacket. After stealing a dead man's boots, a poor wandering bagpiper uses them to play a trick on an unfriendly farmer but then finds the trick turned back on him. Parker's watercolors rank with his finest. The blotted impressionistic colors and scrawled lines are both edgy and amusing, while the cool gray tones create an appropriately chilly backdrop for the spooky antics.

Hardcover. NY, Barrons, 1st thus, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color reproductions of Edmund Morin's 19th century Illustrations, very clean and tight copy. One of Perrault's most haunting fairy tales. Here, Josephine Poole's evocative new text accompanies the exquisite artwork of nineteenth-century French artist Edmund Morin, to make a captivating picture book for all ages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Diego, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY NORMAN AND LEO AND DIANE DILLON on title-page. Color illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. like-new condition.

Hardcover. Mankato, MN, Creative Education, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Seymour Chwast. Laminated boards, no dust jacket issued. Sticker on rear board.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket with 2.95 price on flap, blue cloth covers stamped in black with title and moose face on front. 40 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Seuss. Later issue, with the 7-line copyright notice. The story of a moose who was too hospitable for his own good told in humorous verse.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Victor G. Ambrus. Bright, clean copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color woodcut illustrations by Mary Azarian and SIGNED BY AZARIAN. Like new in a dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Caldecott Medal Winner for 2002. Gray covers with maroon cloth spine, gorgeous full page color illustrations. Small closed tear to bottom right corner of dust jacket, pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition. Wiesner's second book to win the Caldecott Medal after his earlier "Tuesday".

Hardcover. NY, Dial, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Color illustrated end papers. Light edgewear and sticker residue on dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Helquist and SIGNED BY HELQUIST on front fly leaf. Like new a dust jacket. Roger is too jolly to be a pirate. He does not scowl, growl, or strike fear into sailors' hearts like his pirate friends. So poor Roger is sent away whenever there is any real pirating to be done. Then one day, in the middle of a great battle, Jolly Roger cooks up a wonderful idea . . . and pirate ships will never be the same again!

Hardcover. NY, Parker P Simmons, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth stamped with a 2-color design of a little girl having tea with two bunnies, Illustrated throughout with b&w photos by Henry Whittier Frees. The rabbits are posed with dolls and dressed in costumes. Inscription on front fly leaf. Front hinge partially cracked but overall a very good, clean copy.

NY, McElderry Books, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ian Wallace. Light edgewear to dust jacket. The story of a grandfather who tells his granddaughter about the time the whole county caught fire and burned for a year. Gorgeous pen, ink, and watercolour illustrations by award winning artist Ian Wallace.