Children's Illustrated

Hardcover. New York, Oxford U. Press, 1st US, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 85 pages. Black & white and 2-color illustrations by Jones. Soiling to endpapers, covers.

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. NY, Creative Education, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Nice color illustrations by John Howe. Lovely, clean condition. Hardcover. No dust jacket.

Philadelphia, John Winston, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY ROBERTSON on front fly leaf. B&w illustrations by Taylor Oughton. Stated First Edition on copyright page. Light browning to endpapers otherwise very good. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Caldecott Medal Winner for 2002. Gray covers with maroon cloth spine, gorgeous full page color illustrations. Small closed tear to bottom right corner of dust jacket, pages crisp, clean and unmarked; a beautiful book in excellent condition. Wiesner's second book to win the Caldecott Medal after his earlier "Tuesday".

Hardcover. Chicago / Philadelphia / Toronto, John Winston Co., reprint , 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 274 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Four-color illustrations by Robert Lawson. Some wear, chipping and soiling to dust jacket, small tear to front cover, but internally clean.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth covers, 143 pages. Black & white pictures by Albert Levering. Tear to top of plate opposite page 24. Spine lettering faded. Some browning to pages. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In this amusing, eloquently told story, created by Katherine Paterson specifically for artist Vladimir Vagin to illustrate with his beautifully detailed watercolors, there was born a wise little princess who was different from everyone else. Miranda had been granted the gift of being wide awake all her waking hours. Thus, unlike those before her, she was able to see that the peasants of the kingdom were overworked and starving while the nobles lived in selfish luxury. Miranda, with confidence and determination, forms an innovative plan to help her people overcome their oppression, and in the process reveals the power of words to vanquish ignorance and bring about change.

Hardcover. New York , Morrow, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Color and two color illustrations by Simont. Clean, tight copy.

NY, Atheneum, 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket that is price-clipped. Color illustrations by Leslie Holt Morrill. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 44 pages. Color illustrations by Don Freeman. Green cloth with black monkey on cover, spine lettering in pink and black. Minor corner wear.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by the author. In almost new condition. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton Children's Books, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Charming color illustrations by Chorao. SIGNED BY CHORAO on back of front endpaper. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Scarsdale NY, Bradbury Press, 2nd pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Paul Goble. Two young Sioux join in a raiding party to capture horses from some neighboring Crows. Front endpapers with stamp inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Raschka. SIGNED BY RASCHKA on the title-page. Clean, tight copy.

NY, Doubleday & Co., 1st , 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 188 pages. New translation by Erik Haugaard. Color, black & white illustrations by Michael Foreman.

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, unclipped 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."

NY, Scribner's , 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Reynold Ruffins. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Brings together more than five hundred riddles on a variety of subjects, trivial and important.

Hardcover. Colorado Springs, Chariot Victor, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Greg Dearth.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner's , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Brown cloth covers with gilt titles, dust jacket completely illustrated in color and acetate-protected, lovely color illustrations by Uri Shulevitz. Slight wear to dust jacket edges, pages and covers clean, crisp and unmarked; a clean, tight copy in beautiful condition.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Lee Lorenz. Bottom corners and spine a bit bumped. SIGNED BY LORENZ on title page.

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial printed paper on the boards show some edge wear in the form of chipping and rubbing, 372 pages. Over 150 black & white engravings. Bottom front corner chipped, other wise a sound copy.

Hardcover. NJ, Silver Burdett, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Alfonso Ruano. Light soil to covers.

Hardcover. New York, Saalfield Publishing Co, 1st, 1936, Book: Poor, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Ve Elizabeth Cadie. Front hinge cracked. Long tears along spine cover. Wear to spine and corners. Soiling to covers.

Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black boards stamped with gilt lettering, brown buckram spine with gilt lettering on spine badly faded. Pastedown illustrated on upper cover a couple on a horse. Endpapers design by Nielsen in black and gold ink. 24 tipped-in color plates by Nielson plus the color frontispiece along with b&w drawings throughout. The binding is fragile and the boards have edge wear and spotting, but the brilliant plates are all present. This volume is a mystery as it does not conform th other books described on various sites with yellow buckram covers with red lettering. No date anywhere.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Laminate covers with completely illustrated in color, full-page color illustrations by Jay Hyde Barnum. Rubbing and mild edgewear to cardboard covers; a neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Andersen Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 30 pages, hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Illustrated in color by the author. While living in the underground stations during the war, Sammy helps the Raries rescue one of their children from the Rat Patrol. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Mankato MN, Creative Editions, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. In 1949, SPORT magazine published Lineup for Yesterday, a collection of poems by Ogden Nash celebrating the greatest big-league baseball players of the 1800s and early 1900s. Using an alphabetical approach, the famous wordsmith paid entertaining tribute to 24 legends of the diamond, encapsulating each in just 4 clever lines. Creative Editions is proud to present this masterpiece to a new generation of fans, reintroducing icons from the formative years of professional baseball. The masterful mixed-media illustrations of C. F. Payne portray these heroes of summer in their athletic primes in this, the first-ever picture book publication of Nash s classic. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MINOR ON half title-page. Color illustrations by Wendell Minor.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, 90 pages. Boards. Tri color illustrations by Josef Wenig. Tales of the devil being outwitted at every turn. Dust jacket very worn and tape repaired along spine and flaps.

Hardcover. Sandusky OH, The American Crayon Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 61 pages. A child's book on Elsie the Cow, the centerpiece of Borden's milk commercial advertising during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Two-color illustrations throughout by Walter Early. Edgewear, mild chipping to cardboard covers, name inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG on title-page. Color illustrations by author. Dust jacket with light edgewear, rubbing and price clipped.

New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 60 pages, illustrated in color by O.D.V. Guillonnet. Large format in a edgeworn, lightly chipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering and color pastedown illustration. B&w drawings and 10 full-page color illustrations by James McCracken. NOTE: 8 of the first smaller drawings have been colored in crayon. Front endpapers with library stamp, otherwise clean. Appears to be a 1925 reprint of the 1918 edition.

NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anita Lobel. "One of the greatest pleasures of this impressive collection of 12 Russian fables is Lobel's sophisticated artwork. She outdoes herself with watercolor-and-gouache paintings that are brilliantly colored and wonderfully composed. The details are just right....Heins' prose retellings of poems by Ivan Andreevich Krylov, "Russia's greatest fabulist,' are elegant." Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Three-color illustrations by Arnold Edwin Bare. Clean throughout. A Caldecott Honor Book.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

NY, Golden Book, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Color illustrations by the author. Step right up and see the dazzling displays and sensational sights of the brightest circus parade ever. From the golden calliope wagon to the proud pachyderms, each page of detailed delights will keep readers rapt. A treat for both young and old; no one will want to miss the clowns in cars and penguins in pools; ferocious felines and aerial artistry--everything that's marvelous and magical about the legendary big top! So get yourself some peanuts and cotton candy and settle in for the greatest parade on earth.

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st UK, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Color illustrations by Janina Domanska. In a lightly edgeworn, price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Parragon, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This is a mix between a picture book and I Spy book. Each page features a simple sentence like "Find Little Bo Beep's lost sheep." or "Find the dish that ran away with the spoon." The pictures are beautifully illustrated and it is a perfect book to read at bedtime. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Bedford, Applewood Books, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Pop ups in very good condition. Tight copy.

NY, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Michael Hague. 162 pages, in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with mild edgewear. A little boy & girl enjoy all of nature- a field, a cow, a fence, a kittycat. Wonderful color art by Weisgard. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Barry Moser. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 59 pages, illustrated in 2-colors by Alden A. Watson. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Dorling Kindersley, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, large format. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Full-color artwork, including cutaway illustrations and exploded views, explores some of the world's most famous architectural landmarks, including the Paris Opera, the Taj Mahal, and Grand Central Station. Clean copy.

Chicago, Follett, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Sylvie Selig. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Soil and light edgewear to dust jacket. Through Elephant's greediness, Hare and his family lose the magic spoon that makes life easy for them and acquire in its place a magic stick that makes life miserable but also brings them revenge on Elephant.

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

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. All manner of cute animals fall into the water in this colorful picture book illustrated by Dennis Panek. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 3rd, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by the author. Hardcover with dust jacket. non-paginated. Clean, tight copy.