Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. London, George Routledge and Sons, unknown , nd., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A small book, illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Soiling to spine & covers. Edgewear. Corners rubbed, bumped. Previous owner's bookplate and booksellers label front pastedown. Some soiling throughout, otherwise good. Spots on spine.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, short, repaired tear. Twelve pages with 6 color spreads featuring flaps, pull tabs and other moveable parts. The spine has a red plastic binding inside the covers.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Z. Walck, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 32 pages, illustrated throughout in color by Elizabeth Cleaver. Light wear, rubbing to dust jacket edges and spine, small closed tear to front cover upper edge, else a clean, tight copy.

New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Alexander Koshkin. SIGNED BY PATERSON on title-page.

NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Bruce Degen. The scarce first printing (all numbers starting with 1 present) of the first Jesse Bear book. Also Carlstrom's first book. Minor edgewear in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

NY, Random House., 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, Color illustrations by Briggs. No dust jacket issued. From the beloved creator of The Snowman comes an enchanting big book featuring 124 beautiful pastel illustration panels. A huge, snowy white bear arrives mysteriously one cold winter night and crawls into bed with Tilly. The next morning, Tilly sets about making her polar bear friend welcome and excitedly reports her progress in "civilizing" him to her bemused parents. They are sure Tilly has an imaginary friend. But is he imaginary?

Hardcover. New York , Dial, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages, color illustrations by Jerry Pickney.

Hardcover. New York , Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 147 pages, illustrated throughout in red and black. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on prelim page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. Pictorial boards, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY PINKNEY ON TITLE PAGE. 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Full page color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages illustrated in color by the author. This is a facsimile of the original 1933 0versized edition that introduced the iconic elephant to American audiences. In a bright dust jacket that matches the laminated boards.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages illustrated in color by Burningham. In a lightly edgeworn dust jacket that's unclipped.

Hardcover. NY, R & S Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. One evening when Boris is watching television, he notices that the picture looks blurry. The repairman who comes over tells him that the problem is not the television but, rather, Boris's eyesight. A trip to the eye doctor confirms the diagnosis - Boris is an astigmatic. How important this sounds! When he gets his glasses, a whole new world unveils itself to him. Boris decides to get a job with his "talent" and starts work at the radio factory as a foreman. However, nothing turns out as Boris expects in this sweet story enlivened by Olof Landstrom's sprightly cartoon-like illustrations.

Hardcover. Natick MA, Picture Book Studio, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Lisbeth Zwerger. Light foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket with light wear along edges, tape repaired tears. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust dacket with light fading to spine. Jeremiah, a middle- aged proboscis monkey feels life is passing him by. Wonderful black and white illustrations by the author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Say. Luke and his father, who is disgusted by the tourists surrounding the once secluded lake of his childhood, hike deeper into the wilderness to find a "lost lake" of their own. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Heavy fraying to cover boards and gutter fragile throughout. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and one page.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with green bards stamped with silhouette design, beige cloth spine. No dust jacket. Winner of the Caldecott Medal in 1980. Color illustrations by Barbara Cooney. Short inscription on front fly leaf otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Hoban. One morning Silly Tilly Mole wakes up and smells jelly beans. She thinks she forgot to remember Easter. She wants to ask the Easter Bunny in for a cup of tea, but where are her glasses and Easter bonnet? Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Whittlesey House, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription in pencil on front endpaper. Full color illustrations by Donald McKay. Dust jacket with some chipping and paper loss along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 30 pages illustrated in color by Wiseman. Someone is stealing Sam Squirrel's nuts. Bloodhound Detective is on the case. Cute juvenile mystery told in rhyme. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield, 1st , 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages. Pictorial boards with no dust jacket, blue cloth spine. 12 gorgeous color animal plates by Diana Thorne. Light edgewear to covers, frontis with mild creasing, some crayon marking to the reverse side. Plates ate bright, binding solid.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color art by Lionel Kalish. Clean copy. Three siblings have a bout with the chicken pox, and their father comes down with a bad case as soon as they recover. It's their turn to help nurse him back to health in a nicely done role reversal. He misses his daughter's ballet recital and has to bathe in oatmeal to help the itching. The kids are worried, but things pick up as he recuperates and all ends well.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Good+ clothbound hardcover with a color plate mounted to the front with overall light soiling to the covers, blunting to the tips, and light signs of handling; lacking dust jacket. 1970 Caldecott Honor book.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Vermont folk art artist, Warren Kimble. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Orchard Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 26 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Amy Schwartz. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Lane and SIGNED BY LANE. From the creator of the national bestseller It's a Book comes a timeless story of family history, legacy, and love. Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farmboy and a kid with chickenpox and a soldier and, most of all, an artist. In this captivating new picture book, readers follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson into a garden he created, a fantastic world where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten. In his most enigmatic and beautiful work to date, Lane Smith explores aging, memory, and the bonds of family history and love; by turns touching and whimsical, it's a stunning picture book that parents and grandparents will be sharing with children for years to come.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR AT TOP OF TITLE PAGE. Color illustrations by Joseph Low. 1" tear at bottom edge of page 47. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Joliet IL, Volland, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan and beige pictorial boards with a brown cloth spine, 96 pages. Decorations and designs by Ellery Friend. Wilbur Dick Nesbit (1871-1927), also known by the pen name Josh Wink, was an American poet and humorist. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Sis.

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st UK, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover illustrated in color by Agee. Some wrinkling to the laminate on covers, Clean copy. Art imitates life in this hilarious, absurdist picture book--one of Jon Agee's most beloved titles. Outrageous the judges cried. Ridiculous! Who would dare enter a portrait of a duck in the Grand Contest of Art? But when Felix Clouseau's painting quacks , he is hailed as a genius. Suddenly everyone wants a Clousseau masterpiece, and the unknown painter becomes an overnight sensation.

Hardcover. NY, John Day Company, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong pictorial cloth, 64 pages illustrated in two-colors by William Arthur Smith. SIGNED BY BUCK on the title page. Originally published 1n 1942, this is the 17th printing and was most likely signed in 1969 by Buck in Danby, Vermont, where she lived in her later years. Bright, clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1sr, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "Come and enjoy the sequence of hilarious events that is set in motion when Mike holds one end of a rope for a clown at a circus. This imaginatively illustrated book is complete with tattooed man, acrobatic ladies and roaring lion." Clean copy.

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. NY, Playmore Publishers, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards with 4 pop-up spreads. Pages are very clean and bright with no markings. All pop-outs work fine. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Tangrams are ancient Chinese puzzles that are still used today by adults as well as children. Author became intrigued by the challenge of the puzzles and began making up her own tangrams and stories about them. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, oblong format. 32 pages illustrated in color. Ex-lib with light stamping, residue to endpapers.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 32 pages illustrated in a color cartoon style by David Goldin. INSCRIBED BY GOLDIN with a sketch of the cat and himself. In this ironic tale of beauty and the beholder, an anxious owner creates a flattering portrait of his missing cat, while the pet's rescuer takes an opposing view. As the owner races around town hanging "Lost Cat" posters, exclamation points of sweat shooting off his brow, he remarks that his affectionate pet "Loves to eat./ Shares your seat./ Snuggles tight around your feet." He doesn't know the cat has taken up residence at-where else?-"Le Cafe Chat Perdu," whose proprietor is at wits' end. "Swiped my dinner./ Knocked me flat./ Someone please/ COME GET THIS CAT!" . Funny stuff. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Kenosha WI, Samuel Lowe Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages, illustrated boards. Bonnie Book # 4132. A collection of puzzles, games and things to do for children. Unmarked with the little plastic toy intact on the cover. Bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 113 Pages. White cloth beautifully decorated in pale green and gilt to front cover. Pale green end papers. 10 tipped-in paper-guarded richly colored plates by Edmund Dulac. A tale from The Arabian Nights retold by Housman. Spine and corners bumped. Cloth is slightly grubby and the spine is a little bit browned. Previous owner's name on front end paper, previous owner's sticker on rear end paper. Light wood smoke odor. Tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperFestival, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 12" X 9 3/4". Interactive 3-D pop-out castle model measuring 8 1/4" X 16 1/2" X 8 1/4" is clean, functional, and unworn. Very mild shelf wear to 24-page story book. Includes 38 press-out figures that have not been punched out. Landscape mat is present and clean. A highly presentable and apparently complete pop-up castle playset of Baron Swarthy's Castle with accompanying fact-filled book that tells of a murder and invites readers to look for clues to discover the villain's whereabouts before the king arrives. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. US, Boyds Mills Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated in color by Yaccarino. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Package contains everything that you need to construct your own house that will measure approximately 8 x8 1/2 inches when constructed. Name the familiar objects that appear on the cubes. Identify the musical instruments that the people are playing. Mimic the emotions that are portrayed on the cubes. Tell stories about the people and animals that live in The House of Fun! Create your own cubes (use an unconstructed cube as your pattern).

Softcover. New York, Gabriel Sons & Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 8 page stapled booklet. Softcover with light soil to paper wrapper edges. Bright illustrations (not credited).

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Keats. Rear end papers with some crayon marks otherwise clean. Dust jacket worn with internal tape repair, chipping.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-Paginated. Color Illustrations by Brodsky. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, reprint, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated with Peggy Bacon's delightful drawings of the cat's adventures. Ex-lib with writing on inside front cover, light reside to rear endpapers. Clean interior.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket with $4.50 flap price, 0966 code on bottom of front flap. White cloth, gilt decorations border/front cover. 90 pages. A collection of short works from the from the winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature. Includes illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Small hole to spine of dust jacket, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Brown. Decorated library binding. Hardbound, no dust jacket. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Richard Egielski and SIGNED BY EGIELSKI. Tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 42 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Norman Rockwell. Dust jacket with rubbing, tape repaired tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.