Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations by Carl Larsson. Dust jacket with rubbing along edges, areas of darkening. Clean, tight copy. A beautiful book featuring the full color watercolor artwork by Carl Larsson of his family in Sweden.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 6th pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages illustrated with spectacular watercolor-splashed pages by Meilo So. Here in one gloriously illustrated volume are 211 wonderful poems that represent the best this century has to offer. From sibling rivalry, school, monsters, food, and just plain silliness, to such ageless themes as the seasons, Who am I?, and the many moods of childhood, this is a collection that begs to be read aloud and shared with the whole family. The poems, from every decade of this century, showcase 137 famous poets.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ashley Wolff and SIGNED BY WOLFF on half title-page.

Hardcover. New York, Abelard-Schuman, Book Club, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Abner Graboff. "Parents' Magazine's Book Club for Beginning Readers" seal on back cover and back of dust jacket. Dust jacket with tape repaired tear at top left edge of front cover - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Two areas of minor staining on final page -otherwise, clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth covers, 66 pages, illustrated in b&w by Joe Servello. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages. Color illustrations by Rick Brown. Dust jacket price clipped. Remainder mark on bottom edge. While enjoying a summer vacation traveling with her best friend, Lucy, through Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona, Kate writes a series of letters home.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, First Edition, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. White cloth boards with bright Tibetan illustration to cover by Peter Sis. Translucent vellum dust jacket with light toning, silver dollar sized stain to back. Full page, full color illustrations throughout. Bright, clean & unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Barnes & Noble Books, 1st thus, 1990, Book: Very Good, 47 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author.

New York, Bedrick Blackie, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 30 pages. Color illustrations by author. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, England, Faber and Faber Limited, 1st, N. D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, unpaginated, in French, color illustrations by author, clean, tight copy, cover slightly warped, slight foxing. Not dated but from around 1945.

Hardcover. Zurich, North-South Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. After the hens refuse to help goose, would-be father Mr. Goose decides to take matters into his own hands and sets up a nest for a stray egg, but when it is born, he discovers that it is not a goose, but Mr. Goose is not bothered by the comments of others and remains as proud as ever of his new hatchling. Color illustrations by Alan Marks.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st US, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 47 pages. Color illustrations by Leonel Maciel. Cover has light edgewear. Dust jacket chipping.

Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st U.S., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by P. J. Lynch, DVD "Making Fairy Tales" inside front cover, very clean, tight copy, like new. Brought to new life with enchanting illustrations by award-winning artist P. J. Lynch, this comic American folktale concludes with a final, satisfying twist that says much about fate, identity, and the captivating power of bees.

Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield Publishing Co. , 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with spiral binding. A book with 8 moveable pages, where a mother animal can be folded out to reveal a train of little ones following her. Facing pages with a very short story about the particular animal. Art and animations designed by Vivienne Blake. Spine has chipping to paper, small ownership line on inside front cover at bottom.

Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Color illustrations by Mary Grand Pre. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1992, 69 pages. Gray boards bumped at bottom edge. Very good pictorial dust jacket. B&w engraved plates by Barry Moser.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY KROLL on dedication page. More than anything Mary wants to ride in the horse-drawn cart with Mr. Finnegan on her first St. Patrick's Day in America. A touching story of a young immigrant girl whose one and only wish really does come true. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co., reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 54 pages. "A Book of Old Rhymes With New Dresses. The Music by the Earliest Masters." 11 full page color plates. All pages color illustrated and decorated by Crane. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Decorated endpapers. Pages are lightly age toned and there is some minor smudging and discoloration to endpapers. Reddish brown pictorial cloth with b/w illustration. Matching brown, black, and white pictorial dust jacket. Minor edgewear and some age soil.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. SIGNED BY ROSEMARY WELLS 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. Bronx NY, Child Guidance Books, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. "Cut-out, stiff paper characters move on top of the illustrated page as the opposing page of text is turned. The characters are covered by a thin sheet of plastic [which protects from damage] and they move under the plastic." No dust jacket, as issued. Color illustrations by Tom O'Sullivan. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY ARNOSKY on title page. ALSO INSCRIBED BY ARNOSKY to children's book author and illustrator Edith & Clement Hurd WITH A SKETCH OF A JUMPING FISH on front fly leaf. Color, B&W illustrations by Arnosky.

Hardcover. New York, Callaway/Hyperion, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Covers completely illustrated in color, high-quality and stiff papers, gorgeous, bold, full-page color illustrations by Michael Roberts. Slight rubbing to covers, pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in great condition. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with fading to spine. 85 pages with full-page b&w illustrations throughout by Joe Servello. No markings.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st Illust. U.S., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Irene Haas and SIGNED BY HASS on title-page. Book has bump to bottom lower corner of front cover. Light rubbing on rear dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, laminate boards with dust jacket wraparound illustrated in color. Beautiful watercolors by Ted Lewin. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy of a lovely children's book.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 14th pr., 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright orange covers stamped with title and drawing of Freddy on front. Nice copy of the first in the classic series by Brooks. No dust jacket. Clean.

Hardcover. Boston , Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.SIGNED BY AUTHOR. B&W woodcut illustration by Michael McCurdy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 48 pages with b&w illustrations by Ian Ribbons throughout. Slight dust jacket edge wear and price clipped, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Stephen longed for a parrot but on a visit to his grandmother he found an injured sea gull that he nursed back to health. Clean 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.

Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, Revised Ed., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A new edition of the 1969 book, this one with new color art by Alexander.

Hardcover. London, Dorling Kindersley, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages, hardcover with an unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated technological narrative. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

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. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Teague and SIGNED BY TEAGUE with a small sketch of dog's head.

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price- clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by John Shelley. All the kids at school have amazing things--from a rabbit munching lettuce in a box, to a birthday cake hidden inside a desk--but no one can match Bobby Bell and the extraordinary surprise in his wardrobe.

Hardcover. Joliet IL, P. F. Volland Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color pictorial boards, illustrated throughout including endpapers by Gruelle. No other printings or editions mentioned so assume first printing. One page with a mild smudge, some chipping to top & bottom of spine. A pencilled name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st U.S. , nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color lithograph illustrations by Jane M. Dealy. Light wear to edges of covers. Front and rear hinge cracked and fragile.

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.

Topsfield, MA, Salem House, 1st U.S. , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, B&W, color illustrations throughout by Steadman. Light edgewear to dust jacket, minor rubbing to silver dust jacket. This book brings together in a single volume Steadman's three previous Lewis Carroll titles illustrated with his uniquely stunning drawings. In addition to the original published illustrations, Steadman has added many in color for the first time along with fourteen completely new illustrations.

Hardcover. Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A trio of misbehaving, mango-loving monkeys have a close call as the author/artist gives readers a taste of vicarious adventure. Three little monkeys and their big monkey are sitting high on a branch in the forest canopy. "OK, monkeys! I'm off," says the big monkey. "Remember . . . Whatever you do, do NOT go down to the mango tree. There are tigers down there." Brilliantly designed storybook by the award-winning Haughton. Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1ST, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. 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.

NY, Walker Childrens, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY KIMBLE opposite the title page. Warren Kimble, America's foremost contemporary folk artist, lets his favorite cats out of the bag in his first picture book for the very young. From fat cats to clean cats to curious cats, these clever word pairs capture familiar feline behavior and attitudes in all their quirky glory. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York , Neugebauer/North-South, 4th Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated, color illustrations, text in German and English. SIGNED BY ZWERGER on half title page. Softcover with an acetate dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Illustrated red paper covered boards over black cloth spine; illustrated endpapers. Illustrated stylistically in black and white by Richard M. Powers. 64 pages, "the exaggerated nonsense, the bellylaugh humor, and the colorful salt-water lingo of Miss Ritchie's story clearly stem from the well-loved American traditional tale. But it is also as modern as today, and Richard M. Powers has designed and illustrated it with the bold, freewheeling vigor of our times." Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Piggy Toes Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Clean, tight copy. In this technical tour de force, father and daughter combine origami-style figures and intricate pop-up effects into six spreads and a double gatefold of paper magic. The art evokes common materials, from a whirl of newspaper doves or passport pages made into sailboats to legal-pad-paper ducks swimming in a desktop "pond" of spilled coffee and, for a spectacular finish, an array of Chinese take-out menus and cartons falling prey to a hungry dragon's attack. The figures are mostly made of precut and glued pieces, but many of the beaks and noses, at least, are actually folded.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1947, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, 92 pages. 23 stories illustrated in color and b&w by Al Dempster and Bill Justice. Stated "First Printing" on the copyright page. Cardboard backstrip gone. Cover pastedown beginning to peel off, covers worn. Name on title page. The interior is bright and clean. No dustjacket.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st thus, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by McCully. SIGNED BY MCCULLY. Delightful wordless tale about a curious little mouse who decides to find out what school is all about. This story about a curious young mouse's first visit to school was published nearly two decades ago. Now featuring text and larger illustrations in Caldecott Medalist Emily Arnold McCully's signature ink-and-watercolor style, this read-aloud edition will capture the hearts of a new generation of picture-book readers.

Hardcover. Kansas City, Hallmark Children's Editions, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a die-cut revealing boy inside. Three-color illustrations by John Overmyer. A third grader finds himself in a lot of trouble after he learns all about exaggeration from a wily alley cat.

Hardcover. New York , Clarion Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Emily Arnold McCully and SIGNED BY MCCULLY on title page. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. What do leprechauns do? They bury a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, of course. But as Mrs. Bally Bunion's ox, Miss Maude Murphy's hen, and Old Jamie soon find out, they can't resist having a little fun along the way. For, besides burying pots of gold, mischief is what leprechauns do!

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Co., reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Wiseman. Weekly Reader Book Club Ed. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. SIGNED BY MCCLINTOCK on title page. When Simon's older sister, Adele, picks him up from school, he has his hat and gloves and scarf and sweater, his coat and knapsack and books and crayons, and a drawing of a cat he made that morning. Adele makes Simon promise to try not to lose anything. But as they make their way home, distractions cause Simon to leave something behind at every stop. What will they tell their mother?