Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Michael Hague. 162 pages, in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A collection of tales including "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "The Little Match girl," "Thumbelina," "The Elfin Hill," "Little Ida's Flower," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Wild Swans," and "The Emperor's New Clothes."

Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nonpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by the author. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with red and blue stamping. Color and black & white illustrations by Brock. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Small tear to rear endpaper. Rubbing to corners and spine. No dust jacket. Tale of Mrs. Fiddlefinger, of the three chins and many aprons, and her private island that flew off over Blue Kettle Lake on its own during a wind storm, to land on the other side.

Hardcover. Joliet, P.F. Volland Company , 4th Ed., 1927, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 94 pages. Illustrated in color by Marie Honre Myers. Illustrated endpapers.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by James Stevenson. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anita Lobel. Previous owner's inscription on front paste-down endpaper. Price blacked out on dust jacket front flap. "In this fine book in which text and illustration build upon each other...cumulative verse unites with watercolor illustrations to convey the simple story of a garden's solitude being overturned by a fieldmouse, a cat, and a once-slumbering bee."--School Library Journal.

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.

Racine, Wisconsin, Whitman Publishing Co., 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 62 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Frances Tipton Hunter. Dust jacket with major edgewear, chipping and soil. Pieces missing from edges.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Henry C. Pitz. Water stain to front cover. Light rubbing to spine, corners. Dust jacket with edgewear, soiling.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color cartoon illustrations by Quentin Blake.

NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Maria Cristina Brusca. Light edgewear to dust jacket. When a handsome city slicker shows up at the Z-Bar Ranch to borrow a horse, the cowboys there decide to make him the butt of a joke, offering him Zebra Dun, the meanest bucking bronco they have, in a colorful version of a traditional cowboy song.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with dark green decoration. Color illustrations by Eric Von Schmidt. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Flying Dolphin Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The acclaimed entertainer and bestselling author Steve Martin and the wildly clever New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast team up in a weird, wonderful excursion through the alphabet. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY JIM AND KATE MCMULLAN on half title-page. Color Illustrations by Jim McMullan. TIght copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Les Editions du Cerf, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Boards. Illustrated in color by D'ingrid Vang Nyman. Text in French.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st US, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with gray cloth spine. Rojan (Rojankovsky) illustrations in color and black and white. A baby rabbit's experience. Delicate landscapes of woodland and meadow, some labeled diagrams, black and white lithos in text. Corners bumped, worn.

NY, Harper Collins , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author. Book review laid in. SIGNED BY JOYCE WITH A DOODLE OF AN ELF'S FACE. "Art Atchinson Aimesworth--inventor, crime fighter, and all-around whiz kid--receives a mysterious summons from Santa Claus and shares a Christmas adventure with his sister Esther that brings them closer together." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Green cloth covers with gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, dust jacket acetate-protected, profusely illustrated with full-page color plates by Uri Shulevitz. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, price-clipped.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Catharine O'Neill. A zany tale about a woman trying to knit a sweater surrounded by meddlesome pets. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Photos and illustrations by the author. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Rhee. Clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in laminated boards with illustrations on both the front and rear boards and not the Guild edition with only an illustration to the front cover. The first printing had blue covers, they were changed to red for later printings. " Assumed second or 3rd printing with rear cover illustration. In this Caldecott Honor-winning picture book, join Bartholomew Cubbins in Dr. Seuss's classic tale of one king's magical mishap. Bored with rain, sun, fog, and snow, King Derwin of Didd summons his royal magicians to create something new and exciting to fall from the sky. What he gets is a storm of sticky green globs called Oobleck, which soon causes a royal mess. But with the assistance of the wise page boy Bartholomew, the king (along with young readers) learns that the simplest words can sometimes solve the biggest problems." Clean, no markings. Light wear to corners and top of spine.

Hardcover. New York, Georgia University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.SIGNED BY LOPEZ on half title-page. Color illustrations by Tom Pohrt.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. 44 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Two-tone illustrations by William Pene du Bois. Writing in colored pencil on front end paper. Light soiling. Tear to rear end papers. Fade marks to covers. Discoloration to top edge of book. Dust jacket with chipping, chunks missing from top and bottom. Significant rubbing and wear. Price clipped.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated throughout in color by Paul Rogers. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

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. NY, David McKay Co., 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Illustrated in b&w by Phillips. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Child Guidance Books, 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Includes five pages with moving figures under cellophane (figures move automatically as book is opened or pages are turned.) Illustrated by Liz Dauber. Oblong format. Very good in glossy illustrated boards. No markings. No date but appears to 1970s.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacekt. Color illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully and SIGNED BY MCCULLY on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, HardcoverColor illustrations by Martha Alexander. Dust jacket with light soil, edgewear.

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. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Blue boards, green cloth bound spine with gilt titles, dust jacket completely illustrated in color with acetate protective covering, gorgeous full-page color illustrations by Small. Covers, dust jacket and pages clean, crisp and tight, spine stiff and tight, no signs of wear: a lovely children's book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. New York, Harry Abrams, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated throughout in color by Froud. SIGNED BY FROUD on title page. No dust jacket issued. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman, 5th pr., 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with color illustrated pastedown on front cover. Color illustrations by Lindman. Ex-lib with light stamping, marking, residue to end papers. Mild red stain to left bottom corner of cover plate.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-pahinated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Illustrated end papers. Review slip laid-In. In the summer of 1940, a young English boy whose family is separated by the war has a dream that he saves his father's life. Poignant tale with outstanding watercolors by a Caldecott artist.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated boards and color illustrations throughout by Karen Barbour. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Arabelle Wheatley. Great book for young folks to enjoy about our seashores and how to enjoy the treasures found there. Includes how-to instructions for things such as sand lanterns, sand painting, making shell mosaics, storing shells, making a beachcomber's collage and many, many more. Recipe for a clambake and how to do it. Shell identification and index included.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Alan E. Cober. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping and spine a bit sunned.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, Reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Color illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky. Ex-library copy with minimal stamping on endpapers. Library tape strip at bottom of dust jacket. Clean, bright copy. A modern European story with the flavor of folk tale, wonderfully illustrated. Set in a Russian country village where peasants still live by habits and traditions. Two orphans, 12-year-old Anna and younger brother Peterkin live on their own. One day they look for cranberries in Wandering Swamp, and they argue about which trail to take. Their one day becomes a tapestry of experiences past the Blind Break Quagmire.

Hardcover. NY, Julian Messner, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black. 62 pages illustrated in b&w by Jules Gotlieb. The story of ten year old Jody from Provincetown Massachusetts and his first trip aboard the trawler, The Flying Codder, to Georges Bank and, afterwards, to New York's Fulton Fish Market. Two small smudges to front cover otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Hyperion, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 159 pages. Black & white woodcut illustrations by Michael McCurdy.

Hardcover. New York, Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED WITH DRAWING BY PETER SIS ON COPYRIGHT PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. Fifty-two stories and rhymes inspired by the myth of the Old West, illustrated by the Swedish-American illustrator who remains best-known for his work on the Walt Disney movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. A Giant Golden Book, 9-3/4 by 13 inches. 96 pages. First edition (4th printing, with code "D195195" on the inside front cover). There is a child's name on the blank page opposite the title page. NOTE: the spine cover has chipped away exposing the staple paper binding otherwise the pages are fresh and bright and the binding is tight.

Hardcover. NY, Michael di Capua Books, unk, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 piece puzzle with a book of clues to help solve the mystery. As new in box in original shrink wrap. 16 3/8'' x 11 1/8''

Hardcover. New York, Morrow Junior Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Illustrated by Diane Stanley. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Woody Guthrie spent his life putting into words and music what the rest of America was thinking. He roamed from coast to coast and captured the despair of those displaced by the Great Depression and the dust bowl, eulogized workers, and celebrated the great natural beauty of America. This is an introductory biography presented as a picture book with a brief lyrical text and powerful, hand-tinted, woodcut-like illustrations by the author. It includes the complete lyrics to "This Land Is Your Land" and excerpts from his other songs.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated. Color illustrations by Browne. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Einar Norelius. Text by Nils Bohman. Areas of staining/darkening to illustrated covers. Interior pages clean, unmarked.

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. 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.