Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. New York, Holiday House, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Rounds. Dust jacket with rubbing, minor chipping.

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. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Gay. Morrow Eagle Library Edition. Minor wear to dust jacket. Hardbound. Make-believe and reality are beautifully intertwined when a toddler invites first a butterfly and then others to go for a ride on his stroller. Clean copy.

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. NY, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with white lettering. 90 pages illustrated in b&w by Slobodkin. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott , 1st , 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 212 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Cover shows wear. Stamped lettering on front. Spine faded and rear bottom by spine has light soil.

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, Grosset and Dunlap, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Naomi Averill. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully (1994 Caldecott winner). Minor wear to dust jacket, mostly nice condition.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 2003, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Burningham. Very light soiling to covers. Georgie has got a new bed, but it's not like other beds. For each night, Georgie says the magic word and it whisks him away on a fantastic adventure. He loves his bed, but one day he and his family go on holiday, and when they come back, Granny has a big surprise for Georgie.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1947, Hardcover, green cloth boards with illustrated paper label on front board and gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated throughout in color and black-and-white by Tudor, with her signature floral wreaths, dreamy landscapes, and playful children. SIGNED BY TUDOR on front flyleaf under her endpapers illustration. A bright, clean copy with a crease to front dust jacket flap, mild soil to rear panel. With Tasha Tudor's label on inside rear cover - indicating this copy was purchased at her outlet on Rt.1 , Contoocook, New Hampshire where she sold autographed books and Christmas cards.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover,182 pages, green cloth covers with color illustration lpaste-down on front cover. illustrated in black & white by Milo K. Winter. Binding a little shaken, still a nice copy.

Hardcover. New York, Lothrop Lee Shepard , 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Cloth boards. Illustrated by Vladimir Bobri. Light wear to cover edges and corners. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy boards, illustrated in color and b&w by Gertrude Elliott Espenscheid. Copyright page states 1955 but ISBN tells us it's a probable 1970s reprint. Owner's signature on iside front cover, otherwise clean.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, scarce true first printing with b&w drawings by Clara Skinner. 113 pages, blue cloth covers.

Softcover. La Jolla CA, Green Tiger Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, has very little wear. The title on the title page is: The History of Photogen and Nycteris (A Day and Night Marchen). Illustrated wit h b & w drawings and 15 tipped-in color plates by Lyn Teeple. Clean copy.

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.

Softcover. Akron OH, Saalfield Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated in 2-colors, b&w by Elsa Goldy-Young. Illustrated cardboard covers, brown cloth spine. Rear end paper has a small piece gone. Light soil and wear.Previous owner's inscription in pencil on front end papers.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, no dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout by Reg Cartwright. A man who wants to live forever manages to hold out for several hundred years, but Death eventually tricks him into going away with him. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Helen Sewell. Dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, rubbing and soil.

New York, Viking Press, 1st ed, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Edgewear and wrinkling to covers. Dust jacket with chipping, rubbing, closed tear to front.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 137 pages. Drawings by Joan Berg Victor. Childrens book about a family of mice who move in and out of a summer home throughout the year as tenants move in and out. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Greenberg, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Tony Sarg. Piece gone from page 1, top right corner. light edgewear, chipping and soil to covers.

Softcover. Woodbury, NY, Barron's, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations with a fold-out poster by Michl. Glazed cardboard covers, issued without a dust jacket.

hardcover. Garden City, NY, Garden City, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Black & white and color illustrations by H.B. Vestal. Light chipping and edgewear to covers.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Color illustrations by Wendy Watson. SIGNED BY BOTH CLYDE AND WENDY WATSON on title-page. Dust jacket with rubbing, price-clipped. Minor wear on dust jacket.

Hardcover. Englewood Cliffs NJ, Prentice-Hall, 6th pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth cover with gilt design, mild wear at corners. Lacks dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Miller. Green endpapers. Clean, bight copy, no markings.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st Thus, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Roberto Innocenti. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 3rd pr., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Barry Blitt. Dust jacket unclipped.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY KAUFMAN on front endpaper. 32 pages illustrated in color by Kaufman and inscribed by him with a large b&w drawing on front fly leaf. Nothing seems to be going right for poor Farmer Foster, who has lost everything he has except for a strange rock that suddenly develops a crack from which milk keeps bubbling.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations Charles Mikolaycak. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st thus, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jean Claverie. Corners rubbed.

Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price=clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Kilmeny & Deborah Niland. The dream of a lowly store clerk in Sydney comes true when a huge balloon arrives from France to promote an advertising campaign, but without a balloonist. Clean copy.

NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white and color illustrations by the author. Each page shows us angels romping through the celestial alphabet. All around them in glorious profusion are line drawings of butterflies, ladybugs and rabbits, all utterly charming and rendered with equisite detail. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Wonder Books, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Non-Paginated. Full color illustrations by Art Seiden. Clean, tight copy. Ligth musty odor.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket with the 295/295 flap price (2nd state). 1955 stated on copyright page and the list of books on rear cover and rear dj from Horton Hears a Who to And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street. Binding and hinges are strong. Illustrated endpapers are clean, no marking. Several small tape repairs to verso of dj. If you think the alphabet stops with Z, you are wrong. So wrong. Leave it to Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell (with a little help from Dr. Seuss) to create an entirely new alphabet continuing from Z! This rhyming picture book introduces twenty new letters and the creatures that one can spell with them. This book was recently withdrawn from publication by the steward of Geisel's literary legacy, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, due to certain stereotypes featured in one of the images in the book. One of six now-banned Dr. Seuss titles, this one for its portrayal of The "Nazzim of Bazzim" a human of apparent Middle-Eastern origin, mounted upon a Camelid Dromedary called a Spazzim.

Hardcover. NY, Crowell, 2nd pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by the author. 109 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, rubbing and soil. Dust jacket price clipped.

Hardcover. Kenosha WI, John Martin's House, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards. Non-paginated. Full color illustrations. Each die-cut page features a bunny profile, which collectively creates the whole bunny family. Chipping to top 5" of front cover hinge. Light wear overall.

Hardcover. NY, Little Simon, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Every Robert Sabuda pop-up book is a marvel, but America the Beautiful is singularly remarkable for its inspired interpretation of the classic American anthem. Each page presents a magnificent pop-up featuring a line from the first (and best known) verse of "America the Beautiful." Sabuda has included the song in its entirety, featuring mini pop-ups, in a small booklet on the final page. Beginning with the Golden Gate Bridge, and ending with a spectacularly regal Statue of Liberty, Sabuda's America the Beautiful is a lovely keepsake that also serves as a patriotic primer for teaching young ones about America. Clean with all pop-ups in excellent condition.

NY, Putnam, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ed Young. Delamination, edgewear, soil, and tape residue to dust jacket. Small pen markings on title-page. In this reinvention of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, images by Caldecott medalist Ed Young and new text by Eleanor Coerr come together to inspire children of all ages. In her novel Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Eleanor Coerr told the moving story of Sadako and her brave struggle against leukemia, the "atom-bomb disease," which she developed when she was twelve, just ten years after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The novel became a classic, and when Sadako's story was to be made into a film, Caldecott medalist Ed Young was asked to do the illustrations. With love and commitment, he created hauntingly beautiful pastels which bring to life the spirit of Sadako, her courage and her strength.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY KEVIN HENKES ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Vladimir Radunsky. Light edgewear to dust jacket. A never-before-published poem for children by the Nobel laureate:In the beginning there were just waveshammering at the obstacles . . .So begins a lovely, thought-provoking poem that Joseph Brodsky wrote in 1995. It is about the first discoverers of America -- fish, birds, then man. But it is also about a land that even today is full of secrets waiting to be discovered. Illustrated in collage and gouache by Vladimir Radunsky, this poem is, finally, a celebration of our world -- a world open to possibilities.

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. New Milford CT, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR AMY SCHWARTZ ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrators. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated cloth covers, 64 pages illustrated in 2-colors and full color by Hoff. Believed to be first printing, only 2 title by Hoff opposite title page (Danny and the Dinosaur, Sammy the Seal), and no ISBN. No dust jacket. Light edgewear to covers.

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.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Tomi Ungerer. Tape repaired closed tears at edges of dust jacket - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1077, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The Catfish Bend series, set in Mississippi, is both a gentle comic satire and a fascinating tale of eccentric animals. Here after a lapse of eleven years, are a new band of silly creatures: a Sherlock Holmes type Bloodhound, the Prophet Crows etc. B&w drawings by Alice Caddy. No markings.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket.Color illustrations by Julie Vivas. When old Nurse Lugton falls asleep while sewing her multi-patterned curtain, the sky, huts, villagers, elephants, zebras, giraffes, penguins, and other animals on it come to life. Virginia Woolf's story, first in print in 1965 and republished here as a picture book, is indeed a small tale that flows with the rhythms of an accomplished prose writer. Vivas's watercolor illustrations flow across the pages like the prose, with parading animals and marching villagers costumed as if for Mardi Gras.