Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages, illustrated in color by Klassen. Laszlo is afraid of the dark. The dark lives in the same house as Laszlo. Mostly, though, the dark stays in the basement and doesn't come into Lazslo's room. But one night, it does.This is the story of how Laszlo stops being afraid of the dark. With emotional insight and poetic economy, two award-winning talents team up to conquer a universal childhood fear.
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. London, Allen & Unwin, 5th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 78 pages. Black & white illustrations. by Roger Garland. Small stain to back of cover.
New York , Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color Illustrations by James Stevenson. Dust jacket with light wear at spine. Janetta enjoys her visit to her grandfather, including such highlights as listening to the night insects make music and admiring his cat's new kittens.
NY, Bloomsbury, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Tim Raglin.Poor Bill! He is a bull with a passion for fine china. But, as we all know, bulls and china don't really go together too well - or is that just prejudice? In fact, Bill is a perfect collector of the most charming china cups, and only starts to break things when he is made to feel nervous. This is a delightful book about a bull, a china shop and three very kind old ladies. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 5th pr., 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in red, large format. A square, bright copy of this vintage classic dictionary for children. Color illustrations by Gertrude Elliott. No marking.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial covers, 314 pages illustrated in color by the Berestains. Six Berenstain Beginner Books in one volume: Bears in the Night, The Bears' Vacation, The Bears' Picnic, The Spooky Old Tree, The Bike Lesson, and The Missing Dinosaur Bone. Clean copy.
NY, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in pictorial cloth.3-color illustrations by Quackenbush. Short closed tear to dust jacket. otherwise very good. Miss Mallard runs into danger when she unwittingly uncovers a smuggling operation while on a bicycle trip across Holland.
Hardcover. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, rep, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by the Rands. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Foreword by Herman W. Liebert. First publication of a manuscript illustrated ABC by Edward Lear. Letters in red and blue, art in black. Orange cloth with black lettering. Mild chipping to dj spine. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harpercollins;, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An illustrated edition of the libretto for Handel's popular choral work, color plates by Barry Moser.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glazed pictorial boards, 40 pages. Brilliant, vibrantly colored pictures by Bruce Degen illustrate this story. 'With her reluctant student, Arnold, the Friz slips through a mysterious trap door and ends up in the Middle Ages. There, they explore a medieval castle, meeting the people who live there and learning about everyday life within the castle walls.' Sicker residue on rear cover, crease to front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Larousse, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated cloth covers, no dustjacket. Translated by Anthea Bell. Color illustrations by Svend Otto S. Some foxing to covers. Otherwise very good.
Hardcover. New York , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Hilary Knight. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. San Francisco, COLOR, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 173 pages. Softcover with light edge wear to paper wrappers. Color illustrations. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Based on a tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne, here retold in verse. Black and white drawings and silhouettes by Marc Brown. Dust jacket with closed tear, edgewear at top of cover.
Hardcover. NY, Silver, Burdett and Company, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth, 146 pages plus glossary. Illustrated in color and b&w by Constance Whittemore. Children's reader to introduce children to Switzerland through adventures with Anton and Trini. The World's Children Series. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR WENDELL MINOR ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.
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. Racine WI, Albert Whitman & Co., 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with a paste-down cover illustration, 127 pages illustrated with 2-color drawings by Hazel Fraser. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean and bright copy.
hardcover. NY, American Heritage Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Color illusat. by Masha. Light musty odor to book. Dust jacket with light wear, soil to rear panel.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, reprint, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, cartoon illustrations by Syd Hoff. Light soiling to covers. Book Club edition, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston , Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY JOHNSON. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w by the author. Tan cloth covers with dark brown illustration, lettering. End paper map by De Angeli. Stated first edition. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. Three-tone illustrations by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Foxing to endpapers. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Dust jacket with light edgewear, foxing.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Watson. Clean, tight copy. SIGNED BY WATSON ON TITLE PAGE.
NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by S.D. Schindler. A young boy obsessed with speed and skateboarding thinks that his visit with Great-aunt Ida and her Great Dane, Doc, will be boring, but he finds some surprises in store, in a colorfully illustrated tale featuring a rhyming text. Small closed tears, sticker residue and light edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. B&W drawings by C. Walter Hodges. 189 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF WITH A SKETCH OF DR. BIRD on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Kestrel, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations by Kalman. Nighttime is the best time for stories. And Lulu is the best storyteller. She knows about the three cross-eyed dogs at a fancy restaurant, about blue and green mountains where fish fly, about the family party where Maishel Shmelkin forgot to wear his pants, and of course about the noodle woman the pointy red nose. The stories, told by a sister to her little brother, are short and sweet and make you remember things and forget things. Maira Kalman paints a wondrous and humor-filled world in a child's-eye view. It is full of wild invention, people familiar and outlandish, bittersweet moments and flights of fancy. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. SIGNED BY DUVOISIN on half title-page. Color illustrations by Roger Duvoisin. Light wear to cover. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BLUEMIE on title page. Color illustrations by C. Brian Karas. The clouds are gathering above a city street and soon -- tap, tap, boom, boom! As a thunderstorm rolls in, people of all stripes race down to the subway to get away from the crackling rain and wind. With quirky wordplay and infectious rhymes, Elizabeth Bluemle crystallizes an unexpected moment of community, while G. Brian Karas's warm illustrations show the smiles to be had when a storm brings strangers together as friends.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, BC Ed., nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in 3-colors by William Lipkind and Nicholas Mordbinoff. NOT ex-library. Weekly Reader edition. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 6th pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Mary Azarian. A early printing of the Caldecott Winner (without the sticker on the dust jacket ). This copy INSCRIBED BY AZARIAN on title page. Two original color photos of Azarian pasted to front end papers with previous owner's inscription under both. Also a local newspaper interview with Azarian folded into envelope pasted to rear end paper. Dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Pictorial boards in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. 28 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Rounds. Later printing, from the Story Parade Picture Book series, "selected from the most popular stories that have appeared in Story Parade Magazine." Whitey sets out to get a job as a cat skinner at a lumber camp, Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Look! An elephant eats. Look! Giraffes drink. Look! A warthog digs. A gorilla hides, wild dogs listen, zebras run, monkeys sit, hippos splash, and a rhino naps. Each line of text is illustrated by a two-page spread with a beautiful painting of an animal Ted Lewin has seen on his journeys to Africa. At the end of the story, a boy reads, plays, and dreams, surrounded by toy animals that represent each of the real ones. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Little Rock AR, August House, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Little Johnny must outwit a witch who's always trying to steal his milk when he takes it to market. Illustrated with charming color art by Jennifer Mazzucco. Based on an old English folktale. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Abingdon Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in 2-colors by the author. Clean, tight copy. Sticker on dust jacket. Light fraying to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Walker Books, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A woman tells her grandchildren about an ugly hat she once had as a young girl and what happened when she accidentally lost it. In soft pencil and watercolor, Milne's art nicely evokes the South African setting in its many details, including Papa's general store. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadephia, Penn Publishing, 1st, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covered boards with applied color cover art of pirates storming ship. 4 b&w plates and chapter decorations by Lee, 315 pages. Light shelf wear, no marking.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton Children's Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. SIGNED BY PAUL O. ZELINSKY ON TITLE PAGE. Caldecott Winner for 1998. 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. First printing. no sticker.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with gray cloth spine. Color illustrations by Masha. Small name on front fly leaf, light edge and corner wear to boards.
Hardcover. NY, Rand McNally & Company, 4th pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Lovely story based on the true life of a baker's boy and the legendary Lipizzan stallion Borina, who performed a record ten courbettes in a row. Many b&w illustrations by Wesley Dennis, 2 double-page spreads and endpapers in color.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. A book about Edward "Chubby" Elephant and his friends at the circus in this appealing book w/color illustrations on almost every page by John Dukes McKee. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Sandy Creek, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly edgeworn dust jacket. 64 pages in full-color. The is an enlarged and re-colored edition of Hoff's 1968 I Can Read Book for Harper & Row. Oliver has always wanted to be a dancing elephant, but what will he do when he discovers the circus already has enough elephants? Beginning readers will laugh out loud as they follow Oliver's adventures and find out how this elephant of unique charm and talent finally achieves his dream.
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