Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 56 pages, b&w illustrations by Jean Gralley. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 2nd, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illust. by Fred Marcellino. SIGNED BY MARCELLINO ON TITLE-PAGE. Tight and bright copy.
Hardcover. Springfield, McLoughlin Brothers, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped in red and dark green. 128 pages, color frontispiece, b&w drawings. No date, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf dated 1924. In the scarce dust jacket, light tan illustrated with 3-color design featuring two brownies, light edgewear, chipping.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2nd pr., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, illustrated in color by author.SIGNED BY DAY on the front fly leaf in her formal cursive style. No dust jacket issued. The rottweiler goes to a costume party.
Hardcover. New York, Dial, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. Non-paginated. Color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. SIGNED AND DATED BY PINKNEY ON TITLE PAGE. A sequel to the Patchwork Quilt. A bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st thus US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 73 pages, illustrated throughout in color by Beni Montresor. Light edgewear and soil to dust jacket with small chunk missing from rear cover top edge. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge England, Cambridge University Press, 1st UK, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards. Watercolor illustrations by Balzola. Light soiling to covers. When Munia wakes up in a bad mood and sees her well-behaved sister, she decides to spend the day being wicked. When she begins to worry that her family will not forgive her, she dons a hat and a new name. Mrs. Blincoand drops in on them to test the waters. Her discovery? They still love Munia but fear she no longer loves them. In a second story, Munia's teeth are falling out, and she is afraid that they won't grow in. That night, crocodiles snap at her in her bedroom and she feels defenseless until a little orange crocodile, also toothless, joins her.
Hardcover. New York, Antheneum Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY JERRY PINKNEY ON TITLE PAGE. 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.
Hardcover. NY , Random House Childrens Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Non paginated. INSCRIBED BY ILLUSTRATOR MICHAEL HAGUE with sketch of mouse opposite title page. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Some edge wear to dust jacket, light soil to rear panel, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages with color illustrations by the author. Dust jacket unclipped.
Hardcover. San Francisco CA, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ON TITLE PAGE. 104 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Full page color illustrations by Shawn Harris. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, chipped and price-clipped dust jacket. The adventures of a worm who devours words. Three-color illustrations by Arnold Roth throughout. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st US, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 32 pages illustrated in color by Browne. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Browne's wry fractured fairy tale sets the Goldilocks story in a contemporary urban neighborhood and tells it from the dual viewpoints of a lost little girl and a baby bear. The girl's story, shown on left-hand pages, is wordless; sepia-toned pictures show a bespectacled, blond kid who gets lost in the city streets, enters a house with an open door, eats porridge, breaks a chair, and snuggles up to nap. On each facing page, Baby Bear tells his parallel story, illustrated in full color, of walking in the park with Daddy and Mommy and then coming home to find his breakfast gone, his chair broken, and someone asleep in his bed.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 72 pages. Green cloth with flowers and birds. Cover slightly faded, soiled. Front hinge torn cracked. Back end pages stained. previous owner's signature. Color frontispiece of beavers building a dam, b&w engravings in text.
NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author.
Hardcover. New York, Pied Piper, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by author. Clean, tight copy with minor to moderate wear on dust jacket spine.
New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by Giselle Potter, very clean, tight copy, like new. Quentin Fenton Herter Third always does exactly what he should, from closing his mouth when he chews to putting away his toys. But Quentin Fenton has an awfully naughty shadow, who calls himself Quentin Fenton Herter Three. Three interrupts, stays up late, and never flosses. How do these two feel about each other? "They loathed each other cordially,/ did Quentin Third and Quentin Three." Strangely enough, though, they also envy each other "--a bit." And when good little Third has the opportunity to be bad one day, guess who steps in to take his place as a perfect gentleman?Amy MacDonald's clever rhymes are nicely complemented by Giselle Potter's unusual, naive-style illustrations.
Hardcover. Mineola NY, Calla/Dover Books, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 247 pages. The "Alice" stories have always been a favorite topic for illustrators. Amongst the dozens of illustrated editions of Alice published over the years, Harry Rountree's contribution may be the most remarkable. Luxuriously illustrated with 92 watercolors, many of which are full page, with the others carefully placed with textual wraparound, this is a marvelous evocation of Carroll's madcap world. Rountree's career as an illustrator was short lived, but this, along with his Aesop's Fables, are acknowledged masterpieces. The enduring popularity of all things Alice makes this both a timely and timeless edition.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam, Book Club Ed., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, illustrated in color and b&w by Gramatky. Number four in the Little Toot series- this time the tugboat sets out on a daring mission when the Mississippi River floods.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Armenian folk tale retold by Kherdian. Color illustrations by his wife, Nonny Hogrogian. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, 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." How Whitey became a full edgewear. Corner and edgewear to boards, top of spine with spit to paper. Clean internally.
Hardcover. Chicago, Donahue & Company, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with brown cloth spine. A collection of children's stories from the author of the Raggedy Ann books, including several Raggedy Ann and Andy stories. Other tales include: EDDIE EEPHANT, CHEERY SCARECROW, GOODLUCK CRICKET and many more. Illustrated cover showing Raggedy Ann and friends. Some edgewear to edges & corners.
Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick red cloth with white and black design on front cover. 219 pages, 8 b&w plates by Bertha Davidson. Rear cover rubbed, internally clean.
NY, Harmony Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 26 pages. Color illustrations by Coco Dupuy. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Phoebe's parents, who are magicians, forbid her to enter the magic room where they work, until an accident shrinks them to tiny size and they need her help in returning to normal.
Hardcover. New York, David McKay Company, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright, unclipped dust jacket. 118 pages. "But, somehow, store-bought presents do not always convey the warmth we hope will accompany the gifts. The thoughts and feelings behind the giving, not the grandness of the gift, are the important ingredients." - Foreword. lncludes handmade craft ideas and recipes. Illustrations in color and b&w by Tasha Tudor. ALSO INCLUDED: A packet of related ephemera- cards, catalogs, articles and clippings, etc.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black and white and yellow illustrations by Hilary Knight. Light soil on cover boards. Previous owner's name opposite title page. Spine shows moerate wear and bumping.
Hardcover. Joliet, Volland , 2nd, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gruelle. 2 pages have tears. Small loss of paper & type, illustrated cardboard covers. Cover boards have edge wear and fraying to spine.
Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. For the first time in more than eighty years, the most spectacularly illustrated of all the Oz books is available again with the metallic "emerald" green ink that illuminated the color plates of the original edition. This deluxe new edition features ninety black-and-white pictures and sixteen dazzling five-color plates by Oz artist John R. Neill. Afterword by Peter Glassman.
Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday Doran and Company, Inc., 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Illustrations by Jeanne Bendick. Dust jacket with light fading to spine, short closed tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by author. Alice tells her mother about her special room, where she can play with her cat who died, enjoy the warm beach in January, go sledding on a hot summer day, and do anything she has already done in the past.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue boards with color pictorial label on front cover. 36 pages with b&w sketches and drawings by Newberry. A charming story of the author's Persian cat and young son by a writer/artist who was very popular and loved cats. No dust jacket. bright. clean copy.
Boston, Little Brown, 1st thus illus., 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Color illustrations by Tenggren. Chunk gone from half-title page and title page - not affecting text or illust.
Hardcover. NY, Windmill/Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover, blue cloth covers with black lettering. Full color illustrations by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Winter brings out the snowball-throwing worst and snowman-building best in Leo, Zack and Emmie as they argue about the existence of Santa Claus and catch chicken pox one by one. But no amount of snowballs and spots on their faces can come between friends. Bookplate on front fly leaf, no markings.
Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, board book, unpaginated, color illustrations by Magda Moses, very clean, tight copy. Die-cut boards that show a smiling Hopsi as her surroundings change throughout the day.
Softcover. Keene, NH, J. A. Wright & Co., 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Full-color pictorial wrappers. Stapled binding. Thin, unpaginated pamphlet. Color illustrations by Vernon Grant, the artist who first designed Snap, Crackle and Pop for Kellogg's Rice Krispies. Tells the true story of a boy who saved a cow from a bog, and in doing so discovered a rare mineral ideal for cleaning silver.
Hardcover. Templar, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Wonderfully quirky illustrations in color by the Australian artist. An enormous black dog and a very tiny little girl star in this offbeat tale about confronting one's fears. When a huge black dog appears outside the Hope family home, each member of the household sees it and hides. Only Small, the youngest Hope, has the courage to face the black dog, who might not be as frightening as everyone else thinks. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, P.F. Volland Company, 1st, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Spine shows heavy wear, chipping and tearing with exposed cardboard under fabric. Light musty odor. Clean internally. Color illustrations by Rachael Robinson Elmer.
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.
Softcover. Paris, Des Deux Coqs D'or , 1st thus, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 12 pages stapled, illustrated in color by Richard Scarry. A French language edition (edited) of My Little Golden Book of Manners published in the U.S. in 1962. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, Revised Edition, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Adapted from the Russian by Babette Deutsch and Abrahm Yarmolinsky. Black & brown & white illustrations by Janina Domanska. Dust jacket shows minor wear and chipping.
Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st Edition, 2021, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 210 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages and edges clean and bright. Full color Illustrated cover boards, excellent. When Uncle Scrooge decides to seek out a safe new place to store his money, he sets his sights on an asteroid. But the asteroid he chooses holds a secret that he wasn't counting on! With insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts. In beautiful condition, looks nearly new.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1st , 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 color plates, black & white illust. by John R. Neill. Reddish cloth with bright cover label, illustration. Top quarter inch of spine cloth chewed otherwise nice. Yellow edges.
Hardcover. US, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy. A young boy named Bobby has the worst teacher. She's loud, she yells, and if you throw paper airplanes, she won't allow you to enjoy recess. She is a monster! Luckily, Bobby can go to his favorite spot in the park on weekends to play. Until one day... he finds his teacher there! Over the course of one day, Bobby learns that monsters are not always what they seem. Each page is filled with "monstrous" details that will have kids reading the story again and again. Peter Brown takes a universal and timeless theme, and adds his own humorous spin to create another winner of a picture book.
Hardcover. New York , The Viking Press , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 83 pages, black & white drawings by David Hockney. Cover slightly stained, otherwise a very good copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED WITH SMALL ILLUSTRATION ON TITLE PAGE BY STEVEN KELLOGG. Clean, tight copy with light edgewear to covers.
Hardcover. New York, Richard Jackson Book/Antheneum Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Covers and dust jacket completely illustrated in color, acetate protective covering to dust jacket, lovely full page color illustrations by Schwartz. Very slight rubbing to acetate covering, otherwise dust jacket, covers and pages crisp and unmarked, spine stiff and tight; a beautiful book in superb condition.
Hardcover. US, Simply Read Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Retold by Elizabeth James. Color illustrations by Gennady Spirin.Clean copy.
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.